If in German Feuilletons, the outrage waves beat high, it’s always about the Holocaust. How can you write about how to talk about it, without running the slightest risk, to relativise either the crime against humanity par excellence “” or, currently, “to play Right in the hands.”
The recent wave is beaten on the 33-year-old Takis Würger, Editor of the “mirror” of 2017 at the zürich-based publisher kein&Aber as a writer, made his debut (“The Club” was with 70000 copies sold is a Bestseller). With his new novel the Strangler has become the Hanser-Verlag, the “Stella” as the top title of his spring program in Position.
in Vain: For a long time no German novel by the German literary criticism has been written in such a unanimously low. “An Annoyance, an insult, a crime,” was the verdict of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, “Nazi history for Dummies” the FAZ, “thoughtless and obscene”. With the invective, “don plant of the nastier variety,” and “Holocaust-Kitsch, in a new escalation step” came in the NZZ in German dam choir.
“Stella” is just a stylistically uncertain, often into cliché and Kitsch tipping love story set against a dark historical Background (that is you), would upset no one. But Shrike, the aims of how many “award winning” report colleague to the place where the largest Distinction prize, in the literature , wanted more. He has made one of the most evil consequences of the persecution terror of the Nazis: Jews, the tracking submerged the Jews and the Gestapo to betray, to rescue themselves or their relatives from Deportation.
In the Berlin of the 1940s, there were a number of such “grippers”, the most famous was Stella gold strike, known as “the blond poison”. She has delivered several Hundred Jews (their parents couldn’t save her anyway) and was sentenced after 1945 by a Soviet military court to ten years in prison.
What’s going on inside the head and heart of this Stella, don’t like to imagine about you also. Takis Würger’s smart enough not to do it; but the hot Story he wanted to, it is not to be missed. So he has moved the supposed moral Filter of a narrator from the neutral Switzerland, Friedrich from Geneva, very young, very naive, spoiled, comes, in 1942, in the midst of world war II, to Berlin, to “the strength of the German in me, skips,” and the forfeit instead, Stella.
The narrative perspective is often the edge of the cliff of literature. “Stella” crashes over you. Because Friedrich is such a Simple and historical-erotic-moral Drama, where the author abandons him, such a little grown, that he draws all highly sensitive material to the level of Sensationalism. There is also the built-in court protocols from the Stella does not help the process. You scream while penetrating “everything is true”. But in truth, in literature, created must not be shouted. (Editorial Tamedia)
Created: 23.01.2019, 17:22 PM