Wolf Haas | Lesung: Wackelkontakt | Karlstorbahnhof Heidelberg

In the organizer's words:

The funeral orator Franz Escher has a problem. His socket has given up the ghost. While he waits for the electrician, he reads a few pages. The book is about Elio Russo, the key witness in the big mafia trial. Elio is in prison and is waiting to be released. He has betrayed so many people that he fears for his life. His fear keeps him awake in his cell at night, reading a book. It is about Franz Escher. Escher has been waiting half the morning for the electrician. His socket has a loose connection.

Wolf Haas' new novel ignites narrative fireworks: what begins as two fairly straightforward life stories swirls into a dizzying dance - with a dead craftsman, family entanglements and many unsolved mysteries, sparking and thrilling until the final short circuit.

Wolf Haas was born in Maria Alm am Steinernen Meer in 1960. His work has been awarded the Bremen Literature Prize, the Wilhelm Raabe Prize and the Jonathan Swift Prize, among others. He has published the novels Das Wetter vor 15 Jahren (2006), Verteidigung der Missionarsstellung (2012) and Junger Mann (2017) as well as nine Brenner crime novels, most recently Müll (2022). Hanser most recently published the novel Eigentum (2023), which was awarded the Erich Kästner Prize in 2024. Wolf Haas lives in Vienna.

Price information:

Box Office 33,00 € Advance booking 30,70 €