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In front of Natural History Museum in Vienna, a tall man stands in a jacket that is abundantly thin for autumn wear and reads in a blotter. The words he forms emphatically, but silently. Perhaps his voice is only swallowed by wind that sweeps over place.
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The situation is not difficult to decipher: an actor who is just coming from rehearsal at nearby Castle Theatre is going through his text again. However, she is of a certain comedy, because she also means: The actor Joachim Meyerhoff, who is waiting for his interview, plays, that he is actor Joachim Meyerhoff, who is just coming from rehearsal at Castle Theatre and on his Interview time is waiting and minutes until n used to pass through text of past rehearsal in front of Natural History Museum. Perhaps with this scene, which oscillates somewhere between true and portrayed, is already relatively close to that which not only makes actor Joachim Meyerhoff, but above all author Meyerhoff, who now beckons nicely, apparently hardly disagrees with delay.
In novel cycle All Dead fly high – first part appeared 2011, fourth now comes into bookstores – tells Meyerhoff superficially his own life. But of course se books are also fiction. If you will: at same time, literature and work on your own biographical myth. There are insanely comical episodes about growing up on site of psychiatric clinic in Schleswig-Holstein Hesterberg, which his far led, about an exchange year in America, about time at Munich Otto-Falckenberg drama school, During which he lived with his capricious large bourgeois grandparents, in a pink room.
Wracking Double Life
Last but not least, Meyerhoff first three novels are affectionate farewells to family members. The middle bror dies in a car accident, followed by death of far, eventually that of grandparents. Bestsellers were all those books that originally emerged from a atrical project. The publishing house Kiepenheuer Heuer Witsch has been able to sell 1.4 million copies so far. Perhaps because Meyerhoff is above all a passionate narrator with a phenomenal sense of timing. And with a flair for joke, which can also lie and just in moments of mourning. “The painful messages,” says Meyerhoff on steps of museum, “y are always a bit oversugared. A bit draped as a meringue, that’s such a bit of pie bakery. “
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The solitaryness of Loners, fourth volume of all dead flies high, has meyerhoff first engagements in Bielefeld and Dortmund on subject, with first longer relationship with wonderfully unconventional student Hanna. This liaison, however, soon leads to a double life that is grueling for narrator. There is also attractive dancer Franka – practically ladies live in different cities. Meyerhoff Recent novel atones Some of ease and wit of predecessors. Consciously, of course.
Solo as a rat
Does this not also pose a certain risk? Especially since this man between two liaisons is not necessarily perfect sympathy bearer? Does Meyerhoff not fear that women could go to barricades? Yes! I hope! “, he watches enthusiastically, explaining change of narration but even more seriously. “This also has something to do with getting older. If narrator in first three books reports of his growing up, n of course it always has something of a marvel about world. Maybe he’s not necessarily naïve, but things are going to happen to him. Sometime, with mid-twenties, this naivety would only be silly. That’s why re must be unsympatic sides to it now, too. “
A visit to Natural History Museum with its collection of stuffed animals was actual plan for this afternoon. Without a doubt, this would have been funny: with Joachim Meyerhoff, look at strange beings and consider which of m could appear in next book, or, even better, how he would represent se animals on stage most convincingly. In intimacy of loner it is one of most oblique, but also strangest passages, as Meyerhoff as a young actor in his self-initiated solo plays a rat. Maximum realism, highlight of costume: a long tail made of outrageously expensive lear. The fact that evening was not a blockbuster is obvious. His new book, which has a substantial launch pad of 180,000 copies, will probably be different.
Unfortunately, museum has closed. Today re are no animals, n just furr through inhospitable Vienna, first to opposite Heroes Square.
