Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker: Wilderer

"A book of quiet power" (Andreas Wirtensohn)

Jakob runs his parents' farm and fights against its decline. When the artist Katja offers herself as a trainee, things seem to take a turn for the better. Together they set up an organic livestock farm, get married and have a son. But Jakob can't find peace, his cruel anger erupts again and again. Has Katja deceived him, did she just want someone like him, a farmer?

The novel tells of origins and existential forlornness in a radically changing world and was awarded the Bavarian Book Prize 2022.

Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker was born in Kirchdorf an der Krems in 1982 and grew up in Upper Austria, where he now lives again after living abroad in South America. He runs a farm. "I see it as a kind of obligation to make the world I know tangible - to someone who doesn't know it."

Moderation: Arnold Maxwill

An event in cooperation with the Fritz Hüser Institute

Supported by the Dortmunder-Volksbank-Stiftung