Karl-Heinz Ott: Die Heilung von Luzon

In the organizer's words:

Two German couples meet at a resort in the Philippines. It wasn't the desire to lie on the beach that drove them there, but sheer desperation.

"Incurable" was the medical diagnosis for one of them.
They seek salvation from a miracle healer who performs operations without a scalpel in an abandoned zoo. Bock, once a famous theater director, dreams of one last great production. Gela, his wife, has wanted to leave him for a long time. Tom and Rikka also wonder whether fate is the only thing keeping them together. The questions about the last things appear with a ruthlessness that resonates with a deeply human irony.

Karl-Heinz Ott has received several awards for his work, most recently the Wolfgang Koeppen Prize in 2014 and the Joseph Breitbach Prize in 2021. He writes non-fiction books, novels, essays and plays.

Martina Kothe works as a freelance illustrator and since 2000 as an author and presenter for ARD radio, primarily for NDR Kultur.