Francis Nenik's thrilling slice of narrative non-fiction 'Journey through a Tragicomic Century' is about the life of the forgotten writer Hasso Grabner, told with great joy in language and love of absurdity. The journey takes us from the Young Communists in 1920s Leipzig to wartime Corfu, with Grabner falling from steelworks director to a vilified author banned from publishing his work in the GDR.
Francis Neniks 'Reise durch ein tragikomisches Jahrhundert' handelt vom Leben des vergessenen Schriftstellers Hasso Grabner - erzählt mit großer Freude am Fabulieren und Liebe zur Absurdität. Die Reise führt uns nebst anderen Stationen von den Jungen Kommunisten Leipzigs in den 1920er Jahren nach Korfu, ganz nah begleiten wir Grabner auf seinem wilden Ritt vom Stahlwerksdirektor zum verunglimpften Autor, dem es verboten war, sein Werk in der DDR zu veröffentlichen.
Francis Nenik ist ein Pseudonym, der Autor scheut die Öffentlichkeit. Er wurde Anfang der 80er geboren und lebt in Leipzig. Zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen in renommierten Zeitschriften wie Merkur, Edit und Words Without Borders, die zum Teil fürs Radio vertont wurden. Sein Debütroman 'XO' erschien 2012 in Form einer Loseblattsammlung, im selben Jahr erhielt er den 2. Preis im Essay-Wettbewerb der Literaturzeitschrift Edit. Der Essayband 'Doppelte Biografieführung' sowie der Roman 'Die Untergründung Amerikas' erschienen 2017. Im Januar 2017 startete Francis Nenik sein 'Tagebuch eines Hilflosen', in dem er online die Amtszeit von Donald Trump literarisch begleitet.
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Zusammenfassung
Francis Nenik's thrilling slice of narrative non-fiction Journey through a Tragicomic Century is about the life of the forgotten writer Hasso Grabner, told with great joy in language and love of absurdity. The journey takes us from the Young Communists in1920s Leipzig to wartime Corfu, with Grabner falling from steelworks director to a vilified author banned from publishing his work in the GDR.Francis Neniks Reise durch ein tragikomisches Jahrhundert handelt vom Leben des vergessenen Schriftstellers Hasso Grabner erzählt mit großer Freude am Fabulieren und Liebe zur Absurdität. Die Reise führt uns nebst anderen Stationen von den Jungen Kommunisten Leipzigs in den 1920er Jahren nach Korfu, ganz nah begleiten wir Grabner auf seinem wilden Ritt vom Stahlwerksdirektor zum verunglimpften Autor, dem es verboten war, sein Werk in der DDR zu veröffentlichen.
Leseprobe
No One Knows Any More
It is 14 September 1930. The world is in the midst of a great depression, the Weimar Republic in the midst of a Reichstag election, and Hasso Grabner still hasn't experienced a revolution. Instead, there is unemployment, a rise in votes for the National Socialists, and no sign of improvement on the horizon. These are, if you like, shitty times, and even the miraculous medium Mirabelli is at a loss: 'A chair moved in such a way that the front legs were lifted, banged against the floor and then turned in a circle.'
Hasso Grabner, meanwhile, does not want to turn in circles; Hasso Grabner wants to do something. Having joined almost every leftist organisation he could get his hands on (or that could get its hands on him) over the past few years, including the Communist Youth Federation back in 1929, he became a card-carrying member of the Great Communist Party of Germany, the KPD, in August 1930. And because merely being a communist on paper is not enough for him, he gets himself sent to Berlin to the KPD's Rosa Luxemburg Central Party School, where he is taught the theoretical basics of his new political homeland. For five whole months, he attends long lectures in the school's impressive villa on Kurze Strasse, studying dialectic materialism, political economy and communist tactics. By the time he gets back to Leipzig in November 1930, it is raining - and the Dominican Order also returns to the north of the city, having departed at the Reformation in 1539.
Perhaps it's a dream or perhaps only a memory short-circuited somewhere along its route through the mind; that is, its resistance to fictions abandoned and its reality value reduced to near zero - in any case, one night it seems to Hasso Grabner as though there are a thousand young communists in Leipzig, the cradle of social democracy. And he ought to know, seeing as he has been subdistrict secretary of the Communist Youth Federation since 1930 and thus familiar with the organisational work of youth recruitment. And yet that too is not enough for him: Hasso Grabner, the trained bookseller as restless as he is officially jobless, wants not just to administer communist ideas, but also to take them out of the party headquarters and into the city, into workplaces and homes and spiritually spoiled minds.
That same year, he founds a factory cell for young communists on the premises of one of Europe's largest cotton spinning mills, which soon becomes the most important communist cell in the entire city, and - at least in the eyes of its good three dozen members - has enough thread to dream of world revolution and spin a version of previous and future history all of its own.
Reality, however, looks different, and instead of mass uprisings and barricades, there are art afternoons and craft activities. The revolution needs preparing, after all. And so, Leipzig's young communists spend their weekends painting banners and pasting printed paper onto walls, organising meetings, publishing newspapers and promoting the communist cause outside the city's entertainment venues.
This is not particularly attractive and nor is it exactly profitable, and when tens of thousands do come - for instance at Easter of 1930, when the Communist Youth Federation of Germany holds its annual National Youth Meeting in Leipzig, with the local federation secretary pulling the strings in the background and the KPD chairman Ernst Thälmann speaking in the foreground - the police spoil the communists' revolutionary fun.
A tussle breaks out among the 80,000 demonstrators at the closing rally, two police officers shoot at the crowd, kill one participant - and get lynched themselves.
What may sound lik…
Francis Neniks 'Reise durch ein tragikomisches Jahrhundert' handelt vom Leben des vergessenen Schriftstellers Hasso Grabner - erzählt mit großer Freude am Fabulieren und Liebe zur Absurdität. Die Reise führt uns nebst anderen Stationen von den Jungen Kommunisten Leipzigs in den 1920er Jahren nach Korfu, ganz nah begleiten wir Grabner auf seinem wilden Ritt vom Stahlwerksdirektor zum verunglimpften Autor, dem es verboten war, sein Werk in der DDR zu veröffentlichen.
Francis Nenik ist ein Pseudonym, der Autor scheut die Öffentlichkeit. Er wurde Anfang der 80er geboren und lebt in Leipzig. Zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen in renommierten Zeitschriften wie Merkur, Edit und Words Without Borders, die zum Teil fürs Radio vertont wurden. Sein Debütroman 'XO' erschien 2012 in Form einer Loseblattsammlung, im selben Jahr erhielt er den 2. Preis im Essay-Wettbewerb der Literaturzeitschrift Edit. Der Essayband 'Doppelte Biografieführung' sowie der Roman 'Die Untergründung Amerikas' erschienen 2017. Im Januar 2017 startete Francis Nenik sein 'Tagebuch eines Hilflosen', in dem er online die Amtszeit von Donald Trump literarisch begleitet.
Francis Nenik's thrilling slice of narrative non-fiction "Journey through a Tragicomic Century" is about the life of the forgotten writer Hasso Grabner, told with great joy in language and love of absurdity. The journey takes us from the Young Communists in 1920s Leipzig to wartime Corfu, with Grabner falling from steelworks director to a vilified author banned from publishing his work in the GDR.
Francis Neniks "Reise durch ein tragikomisches Jahrhundert" handelt vom Leben des vergessenen Schriftstellers Hasso Grabner - erzählt mit großer Freude am Fabulieren und Liebe zur Absurdität. Die Reise führt uns nebst anderen Stationen von den Jungen Kommunisten Leipzigs in den 1920er Jahren nach Korfu, ganz nah begleiten wir Grabner auf seinem wilden Ritt vom Stahlwerksdirektor zum verunglimpften Autor, dem es verboten war, sein Werk in der DDR zu veröffentlichen.
Autorentext
Francis Nenik ist ein Pseudonym, der Autor scheut die Öffentlichkeit. Er wurde Anfang der 80er geboren und lebt in Leipzig. Zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen in renommierten Zeitschriften wie Merkur, Edit und Words Without Borders, die zum Teil fürs Radio vertont wurden. Sein Debütroman "XO" erschien 2012 in Form einer Loseblattsammlung, im selben Jahr erhielt er den 2. Preis im Essay-Wettbewerb der Literaturzeitschrift Edit. Der Essayband "Doppelte Biografieführung" sowie der Roman "Die Untergründung Amerikas" erschienen 2017. Im Januar 2017 startete Francis Nenik sein "Tagebuch eines Hilflosen", in dem er online die Amtszeit von Donald Trump literarisch begleitet.
Zusammenfassung
Francis Nenik's thrilling slice of narrative non-fiction Journey through a Tragicomic Century is about the life of the forgotten writer Hasso Grabner, told with great joy in language and love of absurdity. The journey takes us from the Young Communists in1920s Leipzig to wartime Corfu, with Grabner falling from steelworks director to a vilified author banned from publishing his work in the GDR.Francis Neniks Reise durch ein tragikomisches Jahrhundert handelt vom Leben des vergessenen Schriftstellers Hasso Grabner erzählt mit großer Freude am Fabulieren und Liebe zur Absurdität. Die Reise führt uns nebst anderen Stationen von den Jungen Kommunisten Leipzigs in den 1920er Jahren nach Korfu, ganz nah begleiten wir Grabner auf seinem wilden Ritt vom Stahlwerksdirektor zum verunglimpften Autor, dem es verboten war, sein Werk in der DDR zu veröffentlichen.
Leseprobe
No One Knows Any More
It is 14 September 1930. The world is in the midst of a great depression, the Weimar Republic in the midst of a Reichstag election, and Hasso Grabner still hasn't experienced a revolution. Instead, there is unemployment, a rise in votes for the National Socialists, and no sign of improvement on the horizon. These are, if you like, shitty times, and even the miraculous medium Mirabelli is at a loss: 'A chair moved in such a way that the front legs were lifted, banged against the floor and then turned in a circle.'
Hasso Grabner, meanwhile, does not want to turn in circles; Hasso Grabner wants to do something. Having joined almost every leftist organisation he could get his hands on (or that could get its hands on him) over the past few years, including the Communist Youth Federation back in 1929, he became a card-carrying member of the Great Communist Party of Germany, the KPD, in August 1930. And because merely being a communist on paper is not enough for him, he gets himself sent to Berlin to the KPD's Rosa Luxemburg Central Party School, where he is taught the theoretical basics of his new political homeland. For five whole months, he attends long lectures in the school's impressive villa on Kurze Strasse, studying dialectic materialism, political economy and communist tactics. By the time he gets back to Leipzig in November 1930, it is raining - and the Dominican Order also returns to the north of the city, having departed at the Reformation in 1539.
Perhaps it's a dream or perhaps only a memory short-circuited somewhere along its route through the mind; that is, its resistance to fictions abandoned and its reality value reduced to near zero - in any case, one night it seems to Hasso Grabner as though there are a thousand young communists in Leipzig, the cradle of social democracy. And he ought to know, seeing as he has been subdistrict secretary of the Communist Youth Federation since 1930 and thus familiar with the organisational work of youth recruitment. And yet that too is not enough for him: Hasso Grabner, the trained bookseller as restless as he is officially jobless, wants not just to administer communist ideas, but also to take them out of the party headquarters and into the city, into workplaces and homes and spiritually spoiled minds.
That same year, he founds a factory cell for young communists on the premises of one of Europe's largest cotton spinning mills, which soon becomes the most important communist cell in the entire city, and - at least in the eyes of its good three dozen members - has enough thread to dream of world revolution and spin a version of previous and future history all of its own.
Reality, however, looks different, and instead of mass uprisings and barricades, there are art afternoons and craft activities. The revolution needs preparing, after all. And so, Leipzig's young communists spend their weekends painting banners and pasting printed paper onto walls, organising meetings, publishing newspapers and promoting the communist cause outside the city's entertainment venues.
This is not particularly attractive and nor is it exactly profitable, and when tens of thousands do come - for instance at Easter of 1930, when the Communist Youth Federation of Germany holds its annual National Youth Meeting in Leipzig, with the local federation secretary pulling the strings in the background and the KPD chairman Ernst Thälmann speaking in the foreground - the police spoil the communists' revolutionary fun.
A tussle breaks out among the 80,000 demonstrators at the closing rally, two police officers shoot at the crowd, kill one participant - and get lynched themselves.
What may sound lik…
Titel
Journey through a Tragicomic Century
Untertitel
The Absurd Life of Hasso Grabner
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9783863912888
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Herausgeber
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17.08.2020
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