Preko mora: Sirijci bježe u Europu

by Wolfgang Bauer, Nenad Popović (Translator)

Ako je nevolja koja ih mòri dovoljno snažna, ljudi će poduzeti sve ne bi li joj umakli; u očaju će predati i goli život – svoj i članova obitelji – u ruke beskrupuloznih grabežljivaca kojima je u konačnici stalo isključivo do njihovog novca. U bijegu pred zlom rata izložit će se zlu gramzivosti i brutalnosti onih koji se ne libe izvući korist iz stradanja bližnjih čija je egzistencija ugrožena.

U želji da se dokopaju temeljne sigurnosti, prepustit će se pripadnicima polusvijeta organiziranima u neproničnu hijerarhiju, krijumčarima koji će ih pod okriljem noći preko Sredozemnog mora u rashodovanim plovilima prebaciti – bude li sreće – do obala Grčke ili Italije.

Tu svojevrsnu kalvariju, prožetu tjeskobom, strepnjom i posvemašnjom neizvjesnošću u ovoj jedinstvenoj reportaži pratimo iz prve ruke: novinari Wolfgang Bauer i Stanislav Krupar, prerušeni u izbjeglice, priključili su se skupini Sirijaca koji se pokušavaju dokopati Europe. Zajedno s njima prošli su sve muke kojima su izložene tisuće žena, djece i muškaraca svih dobi i podrijetla koji bježe iz pakla građanskog rata koji u njihovoj domovini traje već godinama.

Bauerova knjiga svjedočanstvo je svega onoga što mediji i političari prešućuju.

103 pages, Paperback

Published November 1, 2016

About the author

Bauer was born in Graz, Styria. His breakthrough play was Magic Afternoon in 1967, in which he portrays four youths who interrupt their lazy and boring afternoon by unmotivated outbreaks of violence and aggression (Magic Afternoon was adapted for the screen most recently by Catherine Jelski in 2000 as The Young Unknowns). After two more successes, Change (1969) and Gespenster (Ghosts, 1973), Bauer's plays became increasingly surreal and experimental. Bauer though resisted any labelling by academia and critics alike until his death. Most of his plays during 1967 and 1990 were translated into English by Martin Esslin, remembered for coining the term Theatre of the Absurd. In the late 1970's and early 1980's San Francisco's Magic Theatre performed almost each season a play of Bauer, 1993 his play Tadpoletigermosquitos at Mulligan's was premiered at New York's Ohio Theatre. In 2015, Bauer's lost first drama Der Rüssel (The Trunk) was rediscovered and premiered at the Wiener Akademietheater in 2018.

Wolfgang Bauer was a heavy smoker and drinker. After a series of cardiac operations, he died in his native Graz of heart failure.