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Rolf Schönlau
Biography
Rolf Schönlau was born in 1950 in Paderborn and studied literature and psychology in Berlin and Munch, after he finished a pharmazeutical practical training. He worked as literary translator, university lecturer for German as a foreign language, published two children’s books and was invited in 2004 to compete for the Ingeborg-Bachmann prize, a reading competition held in Klagenfurt, where a leading critics confirms that he was a „type of an old lace“, while some others consider the screenable subject and figures.
Rolf Schönlau lives in the East Westfalian Schlangen.
Nölting or the torture of invention
Novel from the world of patents and inventions
- 80 pages
- Hardcover in linen
- Series Science-novels
978-3-86638-203-9
It is said that on the day the automobile was invented, the man, who had to register the invention, left his office and locked it, because according to him there was nothing more to invent.
So, Heinrich-August Nölting's civil service career ends at the patent office – and so starts a narrative about a figure, which in its ironic individualism could be an older brother of Robert Walser's Jakob von Gunten.
Nölting quits his service after 30 meticulous years: Carl Benz's invention unifies for him the two big inventions of human kind, the fire and the wheel, in the automobile's combustion engine. So far and no further! says Nölting and attends from then on retrospectively, but for his part in steadily increasing researcher-fever and in increasing inventor-eccentricity to a kind of generalized theory of inventing. – Rolf Schönlau lets his hero once again start at the scratch in searching for the blind spot, which harbors the unprecedented.
What did not pass his books? Seminal inventions like the telephone, the lightbulb, the typewriter, the dynamite. Mousetraps in such numerous varieties, that he long since stopped counting them. Then all the inventions from the type »sunshade for horses, which protects the animal from the heat and simultaneously generates an airflow above its head, which shoos annoying insects«. Our man registered everything with a straight face ... The last gross misjudgement occured to him in 1867, certainly not with the dynamite, which Alfred Nobel had patented in this year. It was that French gardener with his plant tubs – cement mortar, strengthened with continuous woven iron –, who back then misled him into one of his starkest misjudgements! He did not gave the monier-concrete any future perspective.
During this research program in the history of thought the big inventions of the 19th century defile in front of the reader. The inventors of sewing machine, lightbulb, dynamite, typewriter and much more are starting to shape the world.
