The hopeless, the writer Wilhelm Genazino joke of our civilization, described the but, the more success he had. Now he has died at the age of 75 years.
By Helmut Böttiger
Wilhelm Genazino the Seismograph for the soul landscapes of the old Federal Republic. And it occurred in the last few years, which is the consequence of the characters were in his novels, always lonely. In “The luck in the luck in distant times” (2009) ended up the Hero in psychiatry, “If we were animals” (2011), he found himself in prison. There are scenes that seemed to reflect the reality of the Federal German bedroom relentlessly came to sexual Intercourse – everywhere a “General Zerfetztheit made” noticeable, or, as another place called, “inner bottom”.
Genazino has published in the course of time, a lot of books, always handy with about 150 pages, always about every two years, and these books were beautiful, light and floating. But your hero had, every Time something Irritating. It started with a gentleman by the name of “Abschaffel”, with the 1943-born Genazino in the seventies was known. Abschaffel had no first name, he had actually nothing else and was employed in a freight forwarding company. He was so through and through a clerk, that you could recognize him. Quite at the beginning of the sentence: “Abschaffel turned on a small lamp, because he wanted to avoid the feeling, with the slow dark of the Evening will disappear.” This set did not necessarily indicate that an entire novel and then again, two would follow, but the secret Genazinos.
Interestingly, the woman’s name, which gave to recognize in the plant Genazinos more and more clearly as the secret solutions. Abschaffel, for example, combines with names like Margot, or Dagmar, certain hopes, ultimately of course in vain. In “A woman, an apartment, a novel,” from the year 2003, the childhood friend is then Gudrun – this is also a sound out of lost time.
He made the years in which the country was a little looser, mythical
In such name, the longing resonates with irrefutably to a remote and more elusive youth. Margot, Dagmar, Gudrun – which stems from a time that has something of innocence, a time in which something starts and the it goes slowly upward: the time of the Fifties and early sixties, when the Federal Republic was hesitating a bit looser. It is the time made by Wilhelm Genazino to a mythical. Here’s longings to be home, have a lot to do with location, action, and story to. The female characters in Genazino are due to the, you carry the name of purity.
The Central figures in Genazinos novels are of course men, but they are all grown up in this atmosphere. You can buy under considerable effort in their first suits made of Diolen or Trevira. It comes to blouses, Ironing, and Hoffmann’s starch powder. After that, it smells pretty often, especially on something slippery. The Hero without a name “A woman, an apartment, a novel” may take Gudrun “from the top of the blouse and the bra”, but, it is said: “It was not allowed, during the Kissing tip over sideways on the Couch and still continue to snog.”
Under these circumstances, it has started the early Federal Republic, their identity. Genazinos figures are the most credible witnesses to the spiritual development in the state structure, he wrote her psycho-history. His novels are, from the beginning, to the Unconscious on the track, which is the basis of this society. You pull the small, ever-closer circles. You crawl into the bowels of the Republic.
In the book with the “stain” in the title appeared for the first Time the figure in more detail, which will always happen: Franz Kafka. He is the key witness for the immeasurable, but hopeless Knowledge of the literature. Already Abschaffel buys in the train Station bookstore, before he departs with the train to the parents, a book by Kafka. In the train of the sentence: “While reading lonely Abschaffel quickly then falls.” And in the novel “A woman, an apartment, a novel,” the young Hero to his girlfriend once a fiery speech about Kafka. Then we learn: “just before the front door of the basement apartment of my today’s lecture ended. I went with Gudrun in the hallway and kissed her with excitement, we believed it was a sign of our love and our future. In truth, I knew that I was thanked by Gudrun through kissing and in the Background is Franz Kafka, he had again made me so alive.”
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has become Ever more hopeless, he is the joke of existence is described, the bigger In this way, Wilhelm Genazino slowly to the home of Secretary of social consciousness. This led him in 2004 to the büchner prize winner upgrade. He had to make, however, is a strange experience. The more he acute circled the realization that this world is not to be endured, the more the audience cheered him. The hopeless he is the embarrassment of being the but of a joke our civilization described, the more success he had. His summoning of the Void in the pedestrian areas and satellite cities has been more intense and all Concerned wanted to leave after the reading of his books to sign. Since Wilhelm Genazino took the escape to the front. In his novel, “The Love of timidity” from the year 2005, the Hero of the profession was “free-Horsemen can do”. As an expert for the Hopeless, he holds weekend seminars, it’s about the disaster that we are heading all, and the interest is overwhelming. Throughout the book they met in the professions such as “panic consultants”, “disgust speakers”, “shock to the researchers” or “the Indignant officer”. And there is a kaleidoscope of the post-industrial life of the soul, as it was created in the author’s earlier work for the satirical magazine Pardon maybe, but not yet differentiated.
All the seminar participants and part of the problem, be it a retired chemist like Dr. Gerberich, or Study leaders, from Bad Segeberg, such as Dr. Kuch, the economy, lawyers from Düsseldorf, as Dr. Krueger or nameless investment experts from Stuttgart – and we were all in Wilhelm Genazinos novels meant, and found ourselves in them again. This Wednesday, he died after a long illness at the age of 75 years.