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Herr Faustini Takes a Trip
Herr Faustini lives alone in a small Austrian village close to the Swiss border. He is content to spend his days as he always has: in the company of his cat, his old armchair and two beloved potted plants in his little garden. A series of events cause Faustini to question the boundaries of his life. He finds himself trying to tie the little tricks of destiny into tighter knots that would give deeper meaning to his own existence. When his sister, who long before married and settled in sunnier southern Switzerland, celebrates a milestone birthday and invites him to visit, Herr Faustini initially hesitates. However, once he decides to take the trip, he discovers the thrill of loving and being loved in return. Herr Faustini feels tempted. But he finds himself unable to cope with the prospect of happiness so late in life. He decides to return to his former, quiet solitude. While travelling through this delightful book, we may wonder why we feel so strangely drawn toward this incredibly sensitive, unique character. The answer should be obvious: because somewhere, deep in all of us, a Herr Faustini breathes.
Paris Berlin New York - The Color of the City
In the age of Sex and the City, when Manhattan has been elevated to the Mecca of the world, Wolfgang Hermann prefers to wander through the red-light district, immigrant quarters, bad neighborhoods and the docks. Hermann’s readers are confronted with homeless people, immigrants and the poor. Other people and their stories abound in his writing, although Hermann’s poor flâneurs are not granted the privilege of merely strolling and observing, for encounters play a particularly pivotal role in his texts. With an introduction by Mark Miscovich.
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Paris Berlin New York - The Color of the City
In the age of Sex and the City, when Manhattan has been elevated to the Mecca of the world, Wolfgang Hermann prefers to wander through the red-light district, immigrant quarters, bad neighborhoods and the docks. Hermann's readers are confronted with homeless people, immigrants and the poor. Other people and their stories abound in his writing, although Hermann's poor flAneurs are not granted the privilege of merely strolling and observing, for encounters play a particularly pivotal role in his texts. With an introduction by Mark Miscovich.
Hermann and Dorothea
Hermann and Dorothea Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Hermann and Dorothea is an epic poem, an idyll, written by German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe between 1796 and 1797, and was to some extent suggested by Johann Heinrich Voss's Luise, an idyll in hexameters, which was first published in 1782-84.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His works include: four novels; epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; and treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour.
Museum Hermann Nitsch
The important Vienna Actionist Hermann Nitsch once said, ""Red is the color that people register the most because it is simultaneously the color of life and death."" Originally inspired by French Tachisme and American Abstract Expressionism, Nitsch began working with paint in the late 1950s and early 60s, putting on ""theatrical painting actions"" in order to produce large-scale spill paintings. Up until the very early 1960s, his canvases were often still stained with evocative rivers of red paint; over the ensuing years, he would gradually replace paint with blood and stretched canvases with unstretched bed sheets, bringing an assortment of new and highly charged ""materials"" into his practice, including internal organs, animal cadavers and human bodies. From the 1960s until the late 1990s, Nitsch staged nearly 100 ritualistic performance actions in his Theater of Orgies and Mysteries series. Through the complete set of these often incendiary actions, which included live slaughters, dance, music and other pagan gestures, Nitsch realized his concept for a total work of art that brings together painting, architecture and music with the catharsis of self-recognition.
Die Augenblicke des Herrn Faustini
In Herrn Faustinis Welt ist nichts mehr selbstverständlich. Seit es jenen Riss in seinem Inneren getan hat, sieht er sich selbst beim Leben zu. Herr Faustini beschließt, sich in Reparatur zu geben. Auf Frau Nussbächles psychotherapeutischen Rat hin lässt er den Finger über die Landkarte fliegen und landet in einem kleinen Ort an der Deutschen Weinstraße. Aber es wäre nicht Faustini, wäre seine Reise dorthin nicht voll von Ablenkungen und Umwegen. So geht er auf Einkaufstour mit Emil, dem Kleinbahnspezialisten, macht eine Rheinschiffsreise mit den van der Hoochs und folgt der Frau mit dem anmutigsten Gang der Welt. Jener Frau, die Faustini, ohne es zu ahnen, im tiefsten Inneren verwandelt. Mit seinen zwei Romanen rund um den liebenswürdigen Neurotiker hat Wolfgang Hermann die Leserherzen erobert. Nun verzaubert er mit einem neuen Faustini-Abenteuer - eine Geschichte voll zarter Melancholie und sinniger Heiterkeit, für all jene, die den Gott der kleinen Dinge lobpreisen.
Konstruktion einer Stadt
„Dieses Buch schrieb ich im Bauch von Berlin, als die Stadt noch ein ummauertes, gefesseltes Tier war. Wenn man die Augen schloss, konnte man sein trauriges Knurren hören. Wenn ich an meine Berliner Winter denke, umschließt mich ein körperloses Grau, in dem nichts leichter fällt als sich zu verlieren. Was ich schrieb, waren wohl Protokolle des Verlusts. Ich veröffentliche meine tastenden Protokolle vom Nichtbegreifen des Tiers der Stadt mit großer Verspätung, jetzt, wo das alte Westberlin als Chimäre am Horizont verdämmert.“ Wolfgang Hermann legt mit Konstruktion einer Stadt Versuche vor, eine Stadt - Berlin - flanierend, beobachtend, träumend zu vermessen. Hermann ist kein einfacher Beobachtender, er ist ein mäandernder Requisiteur poetischer Miniaturen, die er - selbst staunend - in den Fundus der Wahrnehmungen urbaner Alltäglichkeit aufnimmt und so zu bewahren hilft.
