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Zibulsky oder Antenne im Bauch

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"Wie heißt ein Mensch, der noch Fragen stellt?"
"Zibulsky."
"Und einer, der keine mehr stellt?"
"Auch Zibulsky."
"Dann heißt ja jeder Zibulsky?"
"Richtig."

Zibulsky oder Antenne im Bauch spielt in unserer Gegenwart es ist eine verblüffende und witzige Auseinandersetzung mit den Verhältnissen in der Bundesrepublik und in Berlin. In realistischen Dialogszenen, die sich zu einer Groteske zusammenfügen, spiegelt sich eine absurde Realität. Da geht es um Adolf Hitler und die Berliner Mauer, um die Einsamkeit in Städten, um alte Nazis und die jüngere Generation auf der Suche nach einer neuen Identität, um die Gefahr des "Zukunftsterrorismus", um Gastarbeiter und Kriegerwitwen. Hilsenrath reduziert die Sprache auf ihren banalsten Ausdruck und ist doch präzise und hintergründig. Die unbewältigte deutsche Vergangenheit holt seine Figuren immer wieder ein.

160 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1994

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Edgar Hilsenrath

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Edgar Hilsenrath (born 1926) was a German-Jewish writer. His main works are Night, The Nazi and the Barber, and The Story of the Last Thought.

Hilsenrath was born in Leipzig. In 1938 his mother escaped with her two children to Siret (Sereth), in Romanian Bukovina, where they enjoyed a respite from persecution. At the time that he should have received an entrance card to higher education, he and his mother were interned in the ghetto of Cernăuţi (Czernowitz).

He began to write about the Holocaust after his liberation when he moved to Paris. Hilsenrath also lived in Palestine, Israel, and New York.

According to Dagmar C. G. Lorenz, Simon Wiesenthal Center, "Hilsenrath calls things by their proper names and portrays life first and foremost as physical existence, of whose details the reader is constantly made aware: birth, nursing, feeding, sex, and excretion accompanied by feelings of pleasure and pain. The rhetoric of politicians and political theory are shown to be the schemes of beings ultimately dependent on these bodily processes and subject to physical desires. Hilsenrath's very approach is a protest against disrespect toward the mortal body, against the tyranny of the mind over matter."

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