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The small, ancient house in Göttingen Gloomy Straße 6, where in the coming months, Gunter Grass archive is to be set seems, so many visitors as never having to provide space in its more than 700-years of existence on this Tuesday afternoon. Gerhard Steidl has loaded the book premiere of the latest Grass-book, the last that has been completed and durchkonzipiert until his death on April 13 of this year the Nobel. Nearly 100 media people have come to hear what Steidl and Grass lecturer Dieter pride in the presence of grass-widow Ute have to say about working with Grass – and to the freshly printed book lying on a table in large stacks in reception to . take
Standing in front of the manuscript pages and the originals hanging on the walls Grass drawings, tells Steidl, once not in a white coat, as usual when it in its publisher next door visitors receives in the gloomy road 4, as he had played with Grass certain extent Pingpong when working: on the one side of the table an idea, then they had arrived on the other side and been repulsed improved, and so back and forth <- inteaserpicposition:! 1 -> <- self.position: -1 -> <- classid: hcf inline-left -> <- text position: -> <- inisprint: false -> <- inhaspic:! true -> <- inteaserpicposition: 1 -> <- self.position: 2 -> <- classid:! hcf inline-left -> <- text position: -> <- inisprint: false -> <- inhaspic: true ->
Steidl is based under a glass table lined up in the middle of the room each page of the book, as it happened in the completion of “Vonne Endlichkait”: “Grass said: Is this red at the headlines not too bright? I suggested, then dark gray, he found the well, and it was finally done. Just as he always has the side-back and forth, he worked at the order of the drawings and texts. This is shaping the final hand, all very authentic. “
The outstanding feature of the book is its equipment
You can feel good this afternoon that not only individual, especially a famous writer, a star of German literature, was at work on his last work, but also another star, one of the letterpress and book design commercial, international acclaim and great success. Although Steidl repeatedly emphasized how Grass the specifications has made, is in the telling but also of himself as more than an equal partner very conscious. And in his element when it times the name of Andreas Gursky leaves here fall, with whom he worked just as hard on his photo books, as he says .
Or if he there a Karl Lagerfeld anecdote is the best: “The next collection is always the best, Karl Lagerfeld once said to me. So that’s when making books even that experience and new inventions in designing each book always benefit the following books. “No, he was not a collector, possession means nothing to him so Steidl. But as the so-stands in a dunkelkariertem shirt and a simple dark jeans, small in stature, he is probably already is a pretty obsessed. As “Magic Workshop” he referred to his publisher, together with printing and much more, had not been outsourced with him, but all under one roof.
In fact, the event scenes are to “Vonne Endlichkait”, like many Grass-releases of recent years, the anniversary edition of “dog years”, the poetry collection “ephemera”, the Brothers Grimm book, especially Features of the book: the large format, the cover made of cotton paper (who tatschelt only on iPads, kalauert Steidl will, be surprised!), the drawings, ever the interaction between text and design with the poems and prose alone, it is one of those. thing: you really have now been waiting for the last words of Grass, the last ink flow to stay in a Grass image, something extraordinary from the spring still expected
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Much thinks you know already, from Grass’s autobiographical books, from the band “ephemera”, to the “Vonne Endlichkait” is linked stylistically , Whereby the title on the very last poem refers that Grass wrote in East Prussian dialect. Steidl says that Grass had here “sometimes hilarious comic book” written at all ages melancholy, especially death consciousness, a. “Grass was not verbiesterter man, as many believe,” he was here accrued to “top form” especially in terms of humor, with real “leg knockers”. Presumably, Steidl and Grass knew too well: Grass’s humor must “Vonne Endlichkait” very, very subtle – it predominates but an elegiac tone, especially at the beginning of the book.
As it comes to the “self noise”, the questions of the age: “How much longer?”, “Why at all?” to the juice, strength and insomnia, the frustration about the fact that “walked him neither broken nor images strung words of his hand”. Especially the last tooth must it have done to the ancient writers. Several times he comes back to him, of course, so standing in relation to his false teeth. Witzig is at least the self-portrait that Grass has made of himself and shows him with just only that last tooth. But also is again: “Will – has long been short of breath – / now with last tooth / never say Yes and Yes / only No, No, no and no.”
A poem is a settlement with German Chancellor Merkel
So some Lamentiererei – and so some cultural pessimism. Because of course leaves Grass will be taking on the Internet, on the medial simultaneity, the “round-the-clock to be accessible-” to scold: “Deceive freedom before Incapacitated we experience ourselves floundering in the net..” And the very real policy is then not far, a few political statements of a general nature makes Grass Again: on the European financial management, in Greece, dealing with refugees. The latter poem introduces a kind of reversal, “xenophobic”, and proposes a nice, intellegenten arc from the past to the present. Perhaps Grass noticed at once that the permanent Alterslamento of evil is still too much, perhaps Gerhard Steidl should have gone to him in the mix intensively in the parade.
Because there are Grass still some beautiful miniatures succeeded. Memories of his first book of poems “The advantages of the wind chickens” and to Düsseldorf time alternate nicely with one or the other nature viewing. He sings about the beauty of the female body, to which one in turn could have done without, proving Wolf-Dietrich Schnurre or Jean Paul his respects, and finally stands there at once an Angela Merkel Poem, “Mutti”, a real Burner: very concise , very finely observed with lines like “What could interfere, will beschwiegen eloquently / she anyhow says wordy nothing.”
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Yes, but it also flashes of humor, so something can be read without shame, and for that you need then no hardcore fan or a bibliophile be. Only when Gerhard Steidl finally, before he invites next door to the library of his publisher, indicating that there still would be the reader of a certain newspaper and these would be held at the behest of her sheet of reading, you know again: We are us deep in Günter Grass country.
“Vonne Endlichkait” will be released on Friday, Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2015. 176 pages, 28 €.
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