Literatur zur Zeit: Tobias Meincke

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An event from the "Literature on Time" series

Amorbach in the Odenwald forest, in front of the Hotel zur Post, where Theodor W. Adorno used to spend his summer holidays: this is where the novelist Thomas Meinecke and his characters gather for research purposes. Amorbach, it soon becomes clear, is also Adornobach, the exiled philosopher's dream place (where he often dreamed himself away from the Pacific coast). The Odenwald does not remain without influence on the research of the novel's characters; it is an Odenwald and a fairytale forest, a dark German forest in which, in addition to fairytale characters, forest farmers who have been dispossessed by the ruling prince also appear as robbers. Some of them were shipped off to Texas as early as the 19th century, so that the Wild West also inscribes its motifs into Thomas Meinecke's new novel.

In Odenwald, the writer-actor Meinecke and his main characters weave the threads of extensive research into a deconstructivist-feminist braid of discourse: Paul Preciado's speech to psychoanalysts in Paris is combined with gender-linguistically exciting medieval texts. The much-discussed return of the body, of the material, of materialism is negotiated - also in the private lives of the people involved. And above it all lies the concert music of the 20th century - this novel owes a debt to Adorno.

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