PHOTO: © Richard Schuberth

"Der Paketzusteller": Buchpräsentation

In the organizer's words:

Richard Schuberth reads from his new novel "Der Paketzusteller", another building block of his Comédie humaine, which this time alternates between digital and analog society. A wickedly frivolous tour de force through Vienna and the Internet with plenty of wit, LSD and linguistic fantasy.

Gerhild Pfister, 48, is a Facebook queen. And not a particularly nice person. As the head of her digital salon and a feared online mocker, the failed artist propagates a total social media existence. But Gerhild has cancer and will soon die. Knowing that Facebook won't memorialize her, she stirs up as much digital dust as possible - punished, rewarded, empowered, castrated.

However, an unexpected love affair with parcel delivery man Haydar brings her life back to analogue ground and shakes her "dying sovereignty" - stabilized with the help of all kinds of psychotropic drugs. When Haydar disappears and the evidence mounts that he was murdered by his boss, she seeks revenge. But the revenge fails, which unexpectedly gives her a new career and brings the novel to a turbulent and unusual showdown ...

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Location

Lettrétage e.V. Veteranenstraße 21 10119 Berlin

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