LESUNG / Ralf Plenz / Die Ottensen-Trilogie »Großstadt-Oasen«

In the organizer's words:

The trilogy "Big City Oases"

Volume 1 (The little fairytale book)
On 152 pages, the reader experiences six young adults in the "oasis" of a major German city: a seemingly quiet idyll, untroubled by world events, a breeding ground for the left-wing alternative and green movement. The author, himself a participant in the scene, describes objectively and almost dryly why a book was written at this time in Hamburg-Ottensen and became a perennial bestseller throughout Germany with print runs of several hundred thousand. But why are the six protagonists so strange? Why the nightmares?

Volume 2 (Live wild and dangerous, Arthur)
On 272 four-color pages, the reader descends over
24 stories and can identify with some or all of the six protagonists who make up the secret society of the "chroniclers". Along the way, the reader experiences exciting and curious facts about music, culture, printing and publishing, making the reader a scene insider of the 1980s. Does Arthur really exist? What happened to the protagonists 34 years later?

Volume 3 (Arthur is dangerous)
Over 360 pages, the reader now learns what made 1984 so successful for the protagonists. They are all ill and seek help from therapists and doctors - without the hoped-for effect. Nevertheless, they recover - because they recognize the inestimable value of friendship. But why is Arthur dangerous? And what do the anagrams mean?
All the unanswered questions and storylines from volumes 1 and 2 are now resolved. The trilogy culminates in a psychogram of the green-alternative scene. The founding spirit of the wide-awake "chroniclers" is passed on to the children's generation, bringing the book to a positive conclusion in the present day.

Ralf Plenz, born in 1955, is a native of Ottensen. The media educator lived there from 1981 to 1986, then returned in 2010. He founded the Ottensen printing workshop and managed it for the first 8 years. It has existed for 43 years in the heart of Hamburg-Ottensen.
Since 1989, he has given numerous lectures and seminars at universities, for the German Publishers and Booksellers Association and various event organizers in Germany and Austria. Publisher of Input-Verlag from 1994 until now.

Comments on the trilogy:
"A psychogram of the scene. I often had flashbacks to volumes 1 and 2 - the end is like a warm rain."
Axel Quäckber, Germanist and sociologist

"This has to be a bestseller, because Ralf Plenz has hit a nerve of the times. Congratulations! Sensational both visually and in terms of content."
Georg Hauptfeld, historian

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