Literatur zur Zeit: Marcel Beyer »30 Jahre ›Flughunde‹«

In the organizer's words:

An event as part of the special "Pop, Literature and Society - Mind
the Gaps" in the series "Literature on Time"
Mind the Gaps IV: A novel and its present / Moderation: Wolfgang
Frömberg
In 1995, Marcel Beyer's novel "Flughunde" was published, about which the literary critic
Sigrid Löffler wrote at the time that it made "the Third Reich as a media phenomenon, as a form of
phenomenon, as a manifestation of acoustic propaganda and mass suggestion, to
his subject, personified in the sinister figure of an acoustician ... Karnau, the
Karnau, the eavesdropping monster, is the most terrifying fiend in a novel since Patrick Süskind's
Süskind invented the olfactory monster Grénouille in his novel "Perfume", who
killed people experimentally in order to rob them of their smells."
We want to talk to the author about whether and how the novel has preoccupied him over the past
30 years and to this day - also in relation to the social developments of the time.
social developments of the time. Marcel Beyer was alive at the time
publication of "Flughunde" and wrote for the pop magazine Spex, among others.
The record player of the former Spex managing director adorns the original book cover
book cover - and may well be on stage that evening. Sponsored by the
Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, the Kunststiftung NRW and in cooperation with the Kölner
House of Literature.