The camera killer

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The Cameraman is a novel by Thomas Glavinic . The book was published in 2001 and was awarded the Friedrich Glauser Prize in 2002.

The novel is written in the first- person narrative form, so the identity of the main character remains hidden. Sonja Wagner, the wife of the first-person narrator, is only referred to in the book as a "life companion", while Heinrich and Eva Stubenrauch are described as a nice host family. The author's writing style is very simple, hardly any punctuation is used.

action

The first-person narrator reports objectively, callously and in detail down to the smallest details about his Easter break from Thursday to Sunday. His minutes, which are completed without paragraphs and without chapters, deal with a stay with his "partner" Sonja Wagner in a tiny town in western Styria, where their friends, Heinrich and Eva Stubenrauch, live. The two couples eat an Easter snack together and undertake various amusements, such as going for a walk, they play badminton, table tennis and cards, whereby the reader is aware of the content of the respective meal, the points in the competition, even the toilet break and the number of wasps above the dining table learns.

However, the two couples' holiday season will soon be completely absorbed by the media, which cover a strange murder in a nearby town. A man there forced two children to jump from a tree to their death. He also videotaped the murder. The film was found in a parking lot. The recordings were then broadcast on a German private broadcaster. The nearby crime scene, the cruelty of the murder and the exciting media coverage, all of this evokes curiosity and fear in the protagonists, which is precisely why they cannot do without television.

The police investigators approach the area in which the two couples are staying until the house of the house smoke and the four protagonists standing in front of it appear on the television screen with live aerial images. The first-person narrator turns his gaze to the real world, in which several police officers crowd up to them, and to the screen transmitting this. In the end, a policeman comes to the narrator and arrests him for the murder of the two children. He closes his minutes with the sentence “I do not deny”.

literature

  • Thomas Glavinic: The camera killer . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-423-13546-7 .
  • Rafał Pokrywka: Violence and irritation: An attempt on the “ camera killer ” by Thomas Glavinic , “Colloquia Germanica Stetinensia”, No. 23, 2014, pp. 101–117, ISSN  1640-6818 | ISSN  0867-5791 ( PDF )
  • Eberhard Sauermann: Thomas Glavinic '"Cameraman" - but not a scandal? In: Stefan Neuhaus / Johann Holzner (ed.): Literature as a scandal. Cases - functions - consequences. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-20855-7 , pp. 666-677.

Dramatization

Directed by Eva Hosemann, a theatrical version of Der Kameramörder was staged at the Rampe Theater in Stuttgart. Actor Christoph Kail played the monologue version. The world premiere took place on February 12, 2010.

filming

The novel was filmed in an Austrian-Swiss-Hungarian co-production under the direction of Robert Adrian Pejo (Austria / Hungary). The adaptation of the literary model was made by Agnes Pluch , with the assistance of Robert Adrian Pejo and Günther Pscheider. The main roles are played by Andreas Lust (Heinrich), Dorka Gryllus (Sonja), Merab Ninidze (Thomas) and Ursina Lardi (Eva). The Hungarian premiere took place on February 7, 2010 in Budapest as part of the Hungarian Film Week , the Austrian premiere took place on March 16 as the opening film of Diagonale 2010 in Graz. The film was released in Austria from the age of 14.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jmkneu.bmbf.gv.at
  2. ↑ The camera killer in the IMDb