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Thomas Bernhard - First Edition

20 years after the death or a first edition: the case of Thomas Bernhard's all possible

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After the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard and his publisher, Suhrkamp head Siegfried Unseld 17 had met in January 1985 in Vienna, noted Unseld, whether "dazzling mood " been. Bernhard was not only gifted Provocateur, but not without problems in the personal. Some call such people choleric, making Unseld satisfied sigh of course.

Bernhard was working on his novel Old Masters, which he wanted to finish in a few weeks. The publisher held a publication request of his star authors: "Then he lay very still in a band, Goethe schtirbt '. It contained the lyrics, Goethe schtirbt '. - Bye. - Montaigne '. - And two pieces that still have no title. "

In life, there is nothing now with the publication of this book. Way too much Bernhard was clamped. This was also the public scandal, had to become his play Heldenplatz before its premiere 1988th Particularly so-called conservative circles would prevent the massive performance because the piece pollute the reputation of Austria. About four weeks before the premiere published the Neue Kronen Zeitung and weekly press unauthorized excerpts from the play. But that's not enough. It was probably a campaign against Bernard piece. For the newspapers printed dialogues of the protagonists from without this known to to make. Thus, the quotes were even attributed to Bernhard. In a huge wave of protests was the removal of the piece requires, among others, of Vienna Mayor Helmut Zilk, a former Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and the Vice Chancellor Alois Mock.

This book is now required by Bernhard appeared and ended the state of the inaccessibility of these pieces. schtirbt Goethe and Montaigne 1982 were published in the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit . reunion Bernhard wrote for the catalog of the International Art Exhibition Berlin 1982, and gone up in flames. Trip report to a former friend was published by the Schauspielhaus Bochum.

Bernhard reflected in these texts in all its linguistic playfulness . The initial sets of texts usually require a full page. The reader is drawn into the stunning - indeed breathtaking staccato pace of Bernard's brilliant tirades. Goethe schtirbt start with the first sentence:

"On the morning of the Twenty-second admonished me Riemer, during my scheduled for half two visits Goethe one hand, gently, on the other hand, do not yet speak too softly to the man, now what has now been told yet that he is the Largest in the nation and is also the greatest up among all Germans today, on the one hand he heard now an almost frighteningly clear the others, but almost not at all and no one knew what he was hearing and what is not, and although it was the most difficult in conversation with on his deathbed, lying all the time more or less motionless found in the direction of the window looking genius, the appropriate volume in his own speech, it is still possible, especially by the highest attention of the senses, this now really nurmehr nor sad-making conversation just to find that center, to the now visible to all of its Endpoint corresponds arrived spirit. "

course, is what the text on the relationship of Goethe to Wittgenstein. But Bernhard has performed with the nephew of the philosopher, Paul Wittgenstein, hours of talks on the terrace of the Hotel Sacher. Hans Veiga know in his book to report a loner and eccentric , both had " of their seats for hours hidden unsuspecting passers-known offending" .

Bernhard dismisses his readers in this posthumous work, not without a corresponding Austria-bashing:

"I dreamed of Austria with such intensity because I fled from it in Austria as of the ugliest and most ridiculous country in the world. Everything that people have in this country are perceived as beautiful and admirable, was only even more ugly and ridiculous, after all, only disgusting and I do not find a single point in this Austria, would ever have been acceptable (...) Just ghastly mutilated towns, a landscape not as a deterrent and in these cities and mutilated in this discouraging landscape mean and mendacious and wicked people. "

Thomas Bernhard, Goethe schtirbt. Narratives. Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin 2010, 103 pages, hardcover, € 19,90.

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