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Meinrad Braun
Meinrad Braun was born in Ulm in 1953. He studied ehtnology, folklore and paleaoanthropology in Freiburg since 1973, afterwards medicine. He worked as established psychotherapist in Bad Bürkheim. He lives in Mannheim, since 1986, is married and has a daughter and a son.
During his studies in Freiburg he was part of the free theatergroup (»Der Arme Konrad«) with self-written pieces and musical arrangements. Texst for journals and travel diaries were produced. Since 1996 he wrote three crime novels and narrations, such as »Casa dei Nani« with pictures (Cyanotypien) by Günther Wilhelm (2005).
In his debute novel »Winterreise« Meinrad Braun evokes a road movie, which lives through the many imbedded episodes. Dreamlike, which is how the entire voyage blends, the protagonist Brenner stumbles for example in the world of a nightly camping Circus and encounters aan equally unsetteling and enchanting performer: she was so close to him, that he could have, if their had not been a pane, kissed her on the mouth. Meanwhile he could not ignore the fact that she did not see him at all. This pane stays base moment of the novel. How Meinrad Braun enlaces his readers by trying to go through it, is a speciality of the book.
Winterreise
Novel
- 176 pages
- Hadcover
- Series Main Works (Reihe Die Hauptwerke)
978-3-933974-59-4
It is the years 1953. The pathologist August Brenner meets his emigrated friend from school Heinrich after fity years: His corps lays for him on the disection table.
Brenner looked up to the rows of students. The faces still formed a, through the steep rows of chairs graded, a harly readable, but homogenouse pattern, spellbound by the finality of death.
It was very silent, so the sounds of the dissection instrumentsruled over the lecture hall, the clicking of a pair of scissors, a gentle ring of glas. The unmoved faces blurred becore Brenners eyes. He looked somewhere else. »Professor« Meßner had the ridge-scissors in one of his hands, the left hand of the deceasedin his other hand. »Look at this.« He put the pair of scissors on the corps’ breast. »Strange bird«, commented Meßner and lifted the stiff arm of the deceased on the ring finger. Brenner bent forward. On the finger was a tatoo. A snake. A dark blue line, amateurishly made, but well recognisable. A snake that was twisted around the metacarpophalangeal joint of he finger, at the point, where rings are usually worn. »Professor?« Meßner still held the finger. Brenner looked at Meßner for a moment as if he did not recognise him ...
Shorly after this Brenner is gone missing. He has packed the gramophone record of Schuberts’ »Winterreise«, a pack of Veronal and a cardboard bag with Heinrichs’ last utensils and has began his journey. Brenner can not dissect a corps anymore, he is looking for the traces of his own live, maybe also the death.
On this journey through the wracked landscape of post-war Germany, he encounters hard-boiled participants in the war, a crazy performer, inventors and a charming thieve, a obsessive collector of junk and his former lover, who does not recognise him. Brenner is as old as the century – a witness of the utopias of his generation and their effects.In those years after the destruction and bevore the new improvement, the country itself, through which he is travveling, a dissected body, its cut open texture can be seen. At the end of the journey his vanishing will be explainable and Brenner maye be home again - but he has not returned.
