El teatro de la vida

By Siegfried Lenz

2009

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Hannes è un artista delle false contravvenzioni. Nei giorni di pioggia, con una paletta della polizia rubata e un giaccone impermeabile addosso, si appostava sulle strade di Amburgo e fermava le auto che avevano commesso qualche infrazione. Gli automobilisti pagavano la contravvenzione in contanti senza batter ciglio. Clemens "il Professore" era un vero professore. Le studentesse più brillanti e carine si laureavano puntualmente con lui col massimo dei voti, finché un giorno un'allieva invidiosa non ha posto fine alla sua onorata carriera accademica, svelando che le avvenenti candidate erano state tutte a letto con lui. Hannes e il Professore dividono ora una cella nella casa circondariale di Isenbüttel. Una mattina, però, nel cortile della prigione fa il suo ingresso un pullman azzurro. Su un'intera fiancata reca la scritta Landesbuhne, Teatro nazionale. Durante una pausa della rappresentazione allestita nel refettorio della prigione, Hannes e una dozzina di detenuti scattano in piedi, trascinano il recalcitrante Professore fuori in cortile, sequestrano il mezzo e scappano a tutto gas da Isenbüttel. E quando raggiungono Grünau, una cittadina parata a festa, vengono subito accolti con tutti gli onori e coinvolti nei festeggiamenti. Romanzo che celebra la forza e il potere dell'immaginazione e il suo indissolubile legame con la privazione e la mancanza, La compagnia dei teatranti svela il lato picaresco e irresistibile della scrittura di Siegfried Lenz.

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Siegfried Lenz

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Siegfried Lenz (1926 - 2014) was a German author who wrote twelve novels and produced several collections of short stories, essays, and plays for radio and the theatre. He was awarded the Goethe Prize in Frankfurt-am-Main on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth. Lenz and his wife, Liselotte, also exchanged over 100 letters with Paul Celan and his wife, Gisèle Lestrange between 1952 and 1961. Lenz was the son of a customs officer in Lyck (Elk), East Prussia. After his graduation exam in 1943, he was drafted into the navy. According to documents released in June 2007, he may have joined the Nazi party on the 12th of July 1943. Shortly before the end of World War II, he defected to Denmark, but became a prisoner of war in Schleswig-Holstein. After his release, he attended the University of Hamburg, where he studied philosophy, English, and Literary history. His studies were cut off early, however, as he became an intern for the daily paper Die Welt, and served as its editor from 1950 to 1951. It was there he met his future wife, Liselotte (d. February 5, 2006). They were married in 1949. Since 1951, Lenz worked as a freelance writer in Hamburg and was a member of the literature forum "Group 47." Together with Günter Grass, he became engaged with the Social Democratic Party and aided the Ostpolitik of Willy Brandt. A champion of the movement, he was invited in 1970 to the signing of the German-Polish Treaty. Since 2003, Lenz was a visiting professor at the Düsseldorf Heinrich Heine University and a member of the organization for German orthography and proper speech.