Karl-Heinz Ott. Die Heilung von Luzon. (Autorenlesug)

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18.11.25, Tue., 19:30
Karl-Heinz Ott. The Healing of Luzon. (Hanser Verlag)
Author reading and discussion in the series: New German Literature

Four life stories, two relationships, one diagnosis - Karl-Heinz Ott's new major novel. 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. Karl-Heinz Ott confronts his characters and the questions about the last things with a ruthlessness that resonates with a deeply human irony. A courageous, stylistically virtuoso work (Rainer Moritz, NZZ) that the masterful author has developed. Karl-Heinz Ott places three German couples on a Philippine island, where they are torn between hope for healing, the desire for a new beginning and the burdens of their old lives. In the confines of the resort, illness, crises and unfulfilled longings collide, so that the journey becomes less a spiritual enlightenment than a chamber play about self-deception.

Karl-Heinz Ott, born in Ehingen an der Donau in 1957, has received numerous awards for his work, including the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize (1999), the Johann Peter Hebel Prize (2012), the Wolfgang Koeppen Prize (2014) and the Joseph Breitbach Prize (2021).

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