Das Wunder vom Lattenkamp" von Jurgen Pfuhl Fast hat sich der Bildhauer Harting mit der Einsamkeit der spateren Jahre abgefunden. Mit seiner Schaferhundin lebt er zuruckgezogen in seinem Atelier nahe des Hamburger Lattenkamps. Er hat sich daran gewohnt, nachts in den Bars von den jungen Mannern ubersehen zu werden. Doch dann begegnet Harting in einer Bar einem jungen Mann, der sich nicht fur die Aufreisser am Tresen, sondern fur ihn interessiert. Gabriel sei, wie er behauptet ein Engel, der eigens fur ihn auf die Erde gekommen ist, um ihm wieder die Freuden der Liebe zu offenbaren. Amusiert...

The lobby of a grand hotel, New Year's Eve. A snow storm rages. Minetti, a long-forgotten actor, arrives in great spirits to discuss his comeback as King Lear with a theatre director.
While he waits patiently in the hotel lobby, Minetti's obsessive personality reveals itself in a series of strange encounters with other guests. He rails against outrageous fortune and unfulfilled ambitions, often colliding with crowds of young hotel guests who frequently burst in to celebrate New Year's Eve. As with King Lear, the storm which rages outside reflects his turbulent emotions until he...

Thomas Bernhard is -one of the masters of contemporary European fiction- (George Steiner); -one of the century's most gifted writers- (Newsday); -a virtuoso of rancor and rage- (Bookforum). And although he is favorably compared with Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, and Robert Musil, it is only in recent years that he has gained a devoted cult following in America.
A powerful, compact novella, Walking provides a perfect introduction to the absurd, dark, and uncommonly comic world of Bernhard, showing a preoccupation with themes--illness and madness, isolation, tragic...

Over the course of three days in 1970, June 5, 6, and7, simply sitting on a white bench in a Hamburg park, Thomas Bernhard delivered a powerful monologue for Three Days (DreiTage), filmmaker Ferry Radax s commanding film portrait of the great Austrian writer. Radax interwove the monologue with a variety of metaphorically resonant visual techniquesblacking out the screen to total darkness, suggestive of the closing of the observing eye; cuts to scenes of cameramen, lighting and recording equipment; extreme camera distance and extreme closeup. Bernhard had not yet written his...