As Markus Werner had to imagine in 2002 as a newly-elected member of the Academy for Language and Literature in Darmstadt, he did so with exactly the same self-presentation to him almost twenty years before his publisher for announcing his debut novel “Zundel’s disposal” in the EPG had requested. This was no more than eleven short sentences, confessions as “I once wanted to be a hunter, now I am a teacher, what else” or “I smoke, write haltingly, live country”; but Werner it happened in Darmstadt, as if there is this “something defiantly watercolor little picture to paint little.” The fact that he had given up the profession as a teacher after his third novel, to at least the still complement, that pleased him downright.
Born in Eschlikon in the canton of Thurgau in 1944 Swiss writer Markus Werner has never had much of his person. Self-promotion was alien to him that he avoided public prefer, unaware strategically, but from shyness and related blockages. “I make it easy not to talk sense on command and when the microphone.” He once confessed in one of his few interviews. In which he referred to questions about his person most like on his books, which he then also did not say as much: “It’s definitely going too far if you asked me to also begackern the laid egg nog even. The need to have the reader to do. “
Seven novels only includes his work – but each has it
A mere seven novels including Werner’s work appeared in 1984″ Zundel’s departure ” 2004, his last, most successful and also filmed novel “Am Hang”. In it entertain two very different men, one a young divorce attorney, the other an aging Altphilologe on a hotel terrace on women in general, and two in particular, where it is increasingly likely that their conversation revolves around the same woman. Here, a Hesse-verse plays a role, “It must be the heart with every life calls / Ready his farewell and new beginnings”, and even at the end tries skeptical at once narrator, the young divorce lawyer to calm down: “Two Women who like the same little speech, why not turn into a “
As these two relationship incompetent each in their own way men are most of Werners heroes from life times, sometimes less damaged. Outsider like Zündel, who can not cope with his job as a teacher and at all of its environmental, unkempt and lands in psychiatry; as. in the novel “the cold shoulder” of the painter Moritz Wank, which threatens to despair at the death of his fiancee Or as heart disease preservationists Lorenz hat in the novel “soon”, waiting for a donor heart, and always difficult so did accept his coronary artery disease: “I do not trust my vigor over the doctors, I trust her more than the doctors (…) “
the abuse of the world given the powerlessness
They all have, although quite far flung out of the usual paths of life, problems with the farewell, the new beginnings or at least the self-add to their fate, and therefore they have to do exactly what Markus Werner has so reluctantly done, at least publicly: talk. But when they start, you follow them spellbound and curious inside their ego, the center of their intact neuroses. And there it goes, so it formulated a men “Am Hang” not least as a basic feature of the poetics of Markus Werner: to “. The insult in the world and the description of powerlessness in the transports us their reckless complex character”
on Sunday Markus Werner died at the age of 71 years in Schaffhausen.
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