Den Musil spreng ich in die Luft

It can’t be true – or can it? Incredibly credible stories by Dieter Kühn

It just can’t be true, what Dieter Kühn tells us in his new book – or is it? The German poet, artist and musician Johann Peter Lyser takes off in the Ceylonese jungle, visits Napoleon on St. Helena, assists Beethoven, drinks red wine with Goethe… An ethnolinguist hibernates in a weather station on the Greenlandic island of Kuhn… The Arabic peninsula sees a showdown between Lawrence of Arabia and Robert Musil’s cousin… An East Belgian painter forges Old Dutch paintings for which Reich Marshall Göring pays dearly… A retired Gestapo officer takes a sexagenarian Jewess to Krefeld on his bicycle…

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  • Publisher: S. FISCHER
  • Release: 07.10.2011
  • ISBN: 978-3-10-041516-5
  • 304 Pages
  • Author: Dieter Kühn
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Dieter Kühn

Dieter Kühn, born 1935 in Cologne, died in Brühl in 2015. His biographies, novels, stories, audio plays and critically acclaimed translations from Middle High German (the Medieval Quartet ) earned him many awards, including the Herman Hesse Prize, the High Literature Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Arts, and most recently the Carl Zuckmayer Medal. His works range from vast biographies (of Clara Schumann, Maria Sibylla Merian, Gertrud Kolmar, and perhaps most famously Oswald von Wolkenstein) and novels ( Geheimagent Marlowe ) to historical-biographical studies ( Schillers Schreibtisch in Buchenwald ) and volumes of stories ( Ich war Hitlers Schutzengel ). He most recently published two autobiographical volumes, Das magische Auge and Die siebte Woge .