The man who brought luck
The man who brought luck is a book by Jürg Federspiel . It was first published in 1966 by Piper Verlag .
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The Man Who Brought Luck is a collection of seven short stories .
The promised village
The story consists of two plot lines: One takes place at the time of the Battle of Austerlitz, in which a fleeing hussar crosses the frozen Lake Constance and seeks shelter with farmers to get to Barangain, which no longer exists. The other storyline takes place in France during the German occupation. The Jew Wyler tries to flee Paris with his daughter and to reach the Swiss border, but is caught by the police.
The man who brought luck
The inmate Herbert Rarstan is known as The Man Who Brought Happiness, DMDGB for short . Fellow prisoners puzzled over his strange nickname and discussed what luck was. Rarstan can break out just before Christmas.
In the woods of the heart
Baldach is a trained architect and passionate photographer. His dream was to leave something behind in the world. When he freed Franz Strau from a frozen pond, he received a lifesaver medal. Baldach's funeral is very simple, but when Baldach has to put the lifesaver medal on the coffin, a dispute breaks out. It turns out that he provoked him himself.
The survivor
An old man, de Raffenried, is sitting in the bathtub and asks a woman, Agnes, to read to him in the bathroom. He remembers a shipwreck that he witnessed as a captain.
The dynamitero
The story is about Guyan, a bomber in the Spanish Civil War. He now lives as a poacher and rabbit breeder in Switzerland. When a student gets tangled in an explosive bomb while on a hike, the teacher asks him for help.
The neighbours
In a boring Swiss village everything goes according to plan at the post office. Meanwhile, an American journalist who is visiting picks up his telegram every day. It is about a murder in the Bronx and stands in stark contrast to the everyday life of the villagers.
The wasps
In a literary competition, a participant writes a compelling story about a group of hikers, one of whom dies after a wasp attack. The audience is thrilled.
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- Jürg Federspiel: The man who brought luck . Piper, Munich 1966 (first edition)
- paperback edition 1996 ISBN 978-3518373910