All seven waves
All seven waves is an email novel by the Austrian writer Daniel Glattauer .
The novel was published by Deuticke Verlag in 2009 and is the continuation of Gut gegen Nordwind (2006), a modern letter novel based on emails. After the great success of Gut gegen Nordwind , Glattauer is reliving the story of Emmi Rothner and Leo Leike. Glattauer gives the two people a second chance to rebuild their relationship, which they had maintained over the Internet for a long time, but abruptly broke off, in order to find happiness. Like its predecessor, the novel became a bestseller and has been translated into over 35 languages.
content
Emmi and Leo could no longer write to each other because Leo moved to Boston and logged off his email account. Emmi cannot forget the intensive email contact with Leo and therefore tries again and again to contact him. For almost a year, Emmi only receives the same, automatically generated system response from the deactivated email address, until Leo finally replies again and the exchange of messages begins again. After initial restraint and distancing themselves, the two get closer again, report on their experiences from the past, tease each other as always, and express secret wishes and desires. However, the situation of the two protagonists seems to have changed. Emmi lets Leo and the reader believe that she is still married to her husband Bernhard, while Leo, who moved to Boston as a single, met Pamela, who now wants to move in with him. The fact that Leo now has a girlfriend puts Emmi and Leo's virtual - but emotionally intensive, sometimes voyeuristic - relationship to the test. In the end, however, the two find each other. The decisive event for this is that Leo finally confesses his love and no longer thinks about Bernhard. This is done by email, although the two have often met in person, but only on a friendly basis. Emmi and Leo become happy lovers, because Emmi divorced Bernhard a long time ago. The title of the novel refers to an episode from the book Papillon by Henri Charrière .
Subject
The central theme of the novel is the search for love as well as the act of trusting oneself, of living love. Readers always have the feeling that Emmi Rothner is responsible for ensuring that the two do not get together even though she is hungry for love. Leo, on the other hand, is presented to readers as a broken and at the same time responsible man because of his failed relationships. However, it is Leo who has to overcome himself in order to make love between the two possible, because Emmi, who divorced Bernhard, is free from social conventions. However, Emmi does not report the divorce to Leo in order not to relieve him of the most important decision of his life.
meaning
The continuation of the e-mail novel is in no way inferior to the previous e-mail novel Gut gegen Nordwind . Glattauer knows how to convey emotions and thoughts through emails in this book as well. Readers are torn between the often rapidly changing email conversations from Emmi and Leo. Funny, humorous, encouraging, serious and sad conversations between the two protagonists are presented to the readers with a pronounced tendency towards orality. Daniel Glattauer uses emoticons for the lively, spontaneous representation of his mail conversations, uses dots, exclamation marks, question marks and upper and lower case to better represent the feelings of the protagonists ("Leeeeeooooo! Please! Don't be silent again! Say it ! Write it! You can! You can do it! Dare to! You're so close! ").
For his novel, Glattauer leans on the tradition of the letter novel as we know it from Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther or from Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse . Arguably the most common theme in literature - love - is updated in a lively way in this e-mail novel. Glattauer thus opens the reader's eyes to the fact that love can arise anywhere in our society today, even via the Internet.
Audio book
In 2009 the novel was set to music by Daniel Glattauer. The roles are taken on by the two speakers Andrea Sawatzki (Emmi Rothner) and Christian Berkel (Leo Leike). The audio book was published by the Hamburg publishing house.
In 2010, ORF and NDR produced the novel as a radio play with Eva Herzig as Emmi and Michael Dangl as Leo. Editing and direction: Alice Elstner .
Performances
The world premiere took place on May 6, 2010 in the Josefstadt Theater . The play will be performed in the Schauspielhaus Graz and the Landestheater Linz (as of April 18, 2013). In the summer of 2013, performances at the K3 - Kitzkongress (in Kitzbühel ) will follow. Furthermore, the novel was performed in 2012 in the theater neuebuehnevillach .
admission
In cooperation with the Theater in der Josefstadt , ORF has released a DVD. The actors are Ruth Brauer-Kvam (Emmi Rothner) and Alexander Pschill (Leo Leike).
literature
Daniel Glattauer: All seven waves . Novel. Deuticke Verlag , Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-552-06093-7 .
Web links
All seven waves on Daniel Glattauer's website
Review by Sabine Lengauer
Review by Dieter Wunderlich
Individual evidence
- ^ Daniel Glattauer: All seven waves. Novel. Deuticke Verlag, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-552-06093-7 . Page 149
- ↑ Daniel Glattauer: All seven waves (book tip)
- ↑ oe1.ORF.at culture
- ↑ HörDat.de .
- ↑ All seven waves ( Memento of December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ ALL SEVEN WAVES (performances) - plays - Schauspielhaus Graz ( Memento from December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Landestheater Linz - piece info
- ↑ Tickets for All Seven Waves, Kitzbühel ~ K3 - KitzKongress ( Memento from December 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ "All seven waves" - neuebuehnevillach.at ( Memento from December 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ All seven waves ( Memento from October 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )