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Dierk Wolters
Dierk Wolters, born in 1965 in Frankfurt/Höchst, grew up in the Taunus hills. He studied German Studies, History and Philosophy in Heidelberg and Berlin, got his doctorate on Thomas Mann’s novel tetralogy »Joseph und seine Brüder« (Joseph and His Brothers).
Wolters worked as free-lancing journalist with numerous dailys in Berlin and Potsdam. He is Editor in Chief in the fields of Arts and Literature at Frankfurter Neuen Presse since 1999. His first novel »Die Hundertfünfundzwanzigtausend-Euro-Frage« (The Hundred and Fifty Thousand Euro Question) was edited in 2015 at Weissbooks publishers.
A nice first review: Eppsteiner Zeitung, 07.12.2023
Battle of The Wizards (Kampf der Zauberer)
A Reflection on »Mario and the Magician« (Eine Betrachtung rund um
»Mario und der Zauberer«)
- Softcover
- 96 pages
978-3-86638-478-1
The world has never been a safe, good place. But it was one where, at times, you could lull yourself into believing that everything would turn out for the better. For a few years now, this has no longer been the case. It is becoming increasingly clear that greed, megalomania, the preservation of vested interests, distribution struggles, enemy stereotypes, hatred, stupidity, and selfishness are gaining the upper hand. Those who do not consider human dignity and charity to be empty words, who focus on understanding and dialogue instead of division and hatred, have a difficult time. We are not doing well. We are stumbling, more than ever, once again.
Thomas Mann’s narrator in »Mario und der Zauberer« (Mario and the Magician) just wants to relax a little. But evil catches up with him. What can we do when hopelessness spreads like mildew over everything we believe in, everything we hoped for? What can we do? That is the big question of our time.
And then comes THIS:
I We are not doing well (I)
II Inflated national pride
III The inconspicuous, decisive “and”
IV The aversion to politics
V Where the world is, there can be no peace
VI Better to be apolitical?
VII Evasive maneuvers VIII So what to do?
IX We are not doing well (II)
X Consistently conservative
XI Consistently progressive
XII We are not doing well (III)
XIII Shadows and mirrors
XIV How are we doing now? A little better
Notes
Dienstag (Tuesday)
A Novel
- 200 pages
- hardcover
- with ribbon
- the eBook is available
- as ISBN 978-3-86638-320-3
978-3-86638-319-7
The clock is ticking, running through an apparently completely normal day, a Tuesday. From morning until evening jumps the clock hand of Dierk Wolter’s narration from one of the six members of the family to the next, voices in a family stream of consciousness what's on their mind. As with all of us. But Dierk Wolters does more than unearth a representative day of the week.
These voices reach from the grandfather to the pet of the family, from motherly worries to troubles in the retirement home, from leisure time sports to hardships in the job, and, of course, all the while poking fun at each other as well. No matter whether it is the splinter of a thought of one of the family members or an inner tirade which sometimes are amusing, sometimes deep, sometimes very familiar, sometimes quirky—most of all, it is interesting to overhear what is going on between the characters. Or not going on.
Because, in between the time for speech and thoughts which Dierk Wolters grants his characters, this novel becomes questionable in the sense of the word: It asks us to question how we try to manage our lives, how we mean to live »together,« while speculation and self-affirmation take the place of conversations; how strongly closeness and distancing, heteronomy and autonomy are virulent in our heads, yet stuck—and keep us distant from each other.
In the jumps, which Dierk Wolters counts for us on the clock of »Dienstag«, in between the recorded shreds of speech, this novel becomes a chronometer for lost or made worth living lifetime.—It is then Tuesday …
