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“The Literary Quartet” on September 15, 2023: Adam Soboczynski, Thea Dorn, Cara Platte and Juli Zeh © Svea Pietschmann/ZDF
Literature doesn't always have to come across as dry and pessimistic.
Rarely has there been agreement about a book like “Little Problems” by Nele Pollatschek.
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This doesn't change anything for you.
What if we could do everything in just one day that we have been putting off and not doing.
Not only cleaning the windows, filing taxes, making all the beds, but also quit smoking and write a novel that changes the world.
All of this and much more.
This is what the protagonist tries to do in Nele Pollatschek's novel “Little Problems” and thus sparked unanimous enthusiasm in “The Literary Quartet” (ZDF) on September 15th.
Juli Zeh in the Literary Quartet: “The best book of the show”
The writer Juli Zeh kicked things off in the edition of “The Literary Quartet” moderated by Thea Dorn.
She introduced Nele Pollatschek's novel “Little Problems” and immediately noted that it was the best book on the show.
In addition, the book launched an “attack on the laughing muscles” that can rarely last a book to the end.
“Little Problems” is the best book on the show!
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The “small problems” mentioned in the title gradually turn out to be really big problems for the main character, which each of them has experienced themselves at one time or another and was looking for a solution.
The humorous language in the book, which also explores philosophical questions, united the participants in the Literary Quartet like rarely before.
In the May broadcast, for example, Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre's “Still awake?” was labeled as a “children's book”.
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December 31.
Tax returns, cleaning the apartment, putting together a bed for his daughter, writing his life's work, quitting smoking - Lars, a forty-nine-year-old multi-thinker and aspiring writer, actually wanted to use the gap between the years to finally do everything that had been going on in the last few decades remained the route.
According to his plan, the new year should start with a tidy life.
The timing seemed perfect: the children were on a year abroad and the wife was traveling.
Nobody there to disturb.
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Nele Pollatschek “Little Problems”
2023 KiWi/Galiani, ISBN-13 978-3-869-71240-6
Price: Hardcover €23, 208 pages
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Nele Pollatschek
Nele Pollatschek
, born in Berlin in 1988, studied English literature and philosophy in Heidelberg, Cambridge and Oxford and received her doctorate in 2018.
For her debut novel “The Misfortune of Other People” (2016) she received the Friedrich Hölderlin Sponsorship Prize (2017) and the Grimmelshausen Sponsorship Prize (2019).
This was followed by the non-fiction book “Dear Oxbridge.
Love letter to England”
(2020).
Nele Pollatschek writes for the
Süddeutsche Zeitung
and received the German Reporter Prize in 2022.
“Damenopfer”: No agreement in the Literary Quartet of September 15th
The unity that existed at the beginning of the broadcast diminished with the remaining broadcast time.
Steffen Kopetzky's novel “Damenopfer” about the Russian writer and revolutionary Larissa Reissner was unable to achieve a consensus among the guests.
The main character was considered by some to be too ambivalent.
However, the moderator Thea Dorn agreed with the interviewees that “Damenopfer” was an exciting and entertaining book.
Here is a brief overview of the four titles featured in the current show.
Thomas Hettche's “Sinking Stars”, on the other hand, caused a lot of discussion.
For Juli Zeh, author of “Between Worlds”, the characters in the novel were too “woodcut-like” and therefore too clumsy.
The literary critic and author Adam Soboczynski (“Dreamland”) tried to defend the novel he presented.
After all, a novel by Thomas Hettche was also a journey into the poetic.
A successful program in which there was a lot of laughter and, despite the current topics, the power of humor in literature was retained.
In summary, all the major problems in the world can be summarized in the book “Small Problems”.
A lot is possible if you believe in it and take it into your own hands.