24.09.2025, Wed., 19:30
Steven Uhly. Death Valley. (Secession)
Author reading and discussion in the series: New German Literature

A hilarious and sad, crazy and wise book tells the story of how a certain Steven Uhly, an inveterate misanthrope, tries not to be. When he learns of his mother's fatal crash in California's Death Valley, he sets off from Germany to Las Vegas and then by car across the Valley of Death to bury his mother. At the same time, her partner's son, a certain Hans Butt, drives to the same place - because the couple crashed together. And almost incidentally, the author raises questions in the reader's mind as to whether what he is reading is autofiction or not and whether he can laugh at what is really happening or whether it is fictitious. Swept up in a virtuoso and highly entertaining game of feints and feints, Uhly poses questions about truth, lies and hasty judgments.

This new novel by Steven Uhly quickly establishes its own genre, notes reviewer Maximilian Mengeringhaus (Deutschlandfunk): "Autofaketion" instead of autofiction.

Steven Uhly, born in Cologne in 1964, lives with his family in Munich. After training as an interpreter and translator in Valencia, he studied German, Spanish and Portuguese literature and language in Cologne, Bonn and Lisbon. He has received several awards, including the Herrmann Hesse Literature Prize for Die Summe des Ganzen in 2022

Moderation: Philipp Holstein (Rheinische Post).

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