Lesung aus dem Düsseldorf-Roman "Benjamin im Stroboskop"

In the organizer's words:

Düsseldorf author Bernard Hoffmeister presents his debut novel. He has been active in the fields of poetry slam, literature and university in Düsseldorf for 15 years and this novel is a preliminary highlight.

Why is the novel about?
Benjamin, 29, stocky and overwhelmed, is doing his doctorate on the poster boy of cultural theory: Walter Benjamin. As a permanently ironic intellectual, he stores his way through an alternative world of goods, plays the rogue at Heinrich Heine University and throws himself into a new form of cabaret. Only one thing is missing: meaning. Doro, his girlfriend of many years, despairs of him and stops trying to understand him. Interview excerpts with her comment on their time together in retrospect. Everyday academic life, partnership, Düsseldorf - nothing can fulfill Benjamin. When he fails to achieve success, his world begins to fall apart and he threatens to disappear for good in the quotation passages he has constructed himself.

The novel "Benjamin im Stroboskop" is like a literary feed to scroll through: absurd, fragmentary, over the top and you want to read on and on. An illustrious maelstrom of millennial fears, consumerism and the present day. Failure has never been as optimistic and entertaining as in Bernard Hoffmeister's debut novel.

The discussion will be led by Emily Grunert, Director of the Literaturbüro NRW.

Where?

In lecture hall 3B

When?

on 06,05,26 at 18:30

How much?

Free admission.