The Rosenbaum Doctrine

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The Rosenbaum Doctrine is a fictional interview by Wolfgang Herrndorf , which was published in 2007 in the series “ Beautiful Reading ” by the SuKuLTuR publishing house .

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The interviewer, who bears the name of the author, visits the fictional space pilot Friedrich Jaschke in a Berlin retirement home . Jaschke was born in Wismar in 1948 and died four weeks after the interview, on December 12, 2006. The conversation deals with the development of space travel after the end of the Second World War. Although the USA was able to rely on the entire know-how of Wernher von Braun and his team for its space program , the Soviets succeeded in gaining the upper hand with the Sputnik mission in 1957 and the Gagarin flight in 1961. Jaschke's explanations for these and other events are very bizarre. According to his own statements, he himself was trained together with Sigmund Jähn from 1977 , whereby his mental arithmetic skills were an advantage: “You had to be able to use the slide rule. Every astronaut had an elongated pocket for the slide rule on his space suit. "

Jaschke, who has never been in space himself, reports in the following about an alleged Rosenbaum doctrine named after the (fictional) Russian cyberneticist Leonid Rosenbaum. It regulates the handling of inexplicable and supernatural things that a cosmonaut may see in space:

“There is nothing inexplicable, specifically in Soviet jargon that means: If something inexplicable appears up there, whatever - extraterrestrial - we shoot it with the on-board cannon and pretend we hadn't seen anything. (laughs) That was the Rosenbaum Doctrine. "

Basically, this doctrine still applies today. The conversation ends with Jaschke being called to lunch by a foster sister.

After the original edition was published in 2007 by the SuKuLTuR publishing house, the text was also published on March 1, 2008 in the daily newspaper “ Die Welt ” and as a free supplement from the Hotel Römerbad in Badenweiler (both publications are related to the award of the first German Narrator Prize to Wolfgang Herrndorf ). An Azerbaijani translation of the Rosenbaum Doctrine was published in 2012 in the eighteenth edition of the literary magazine "Alatoran", a German-Azerbaijani thematic issue on contemporary German literature edited by Marc Degens .

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literature

  • Hartmut Hombrecher: The rationalistic worldview in the snack machine. Basics of Wolfgang Herrndorf's Die Rosenbaum Doctrine. In: Matthias N. Lorenz (Ed.): "Germanistenscheiß". Contributions to Wolfgang Herrndorf's factory policy. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-7329-0390-0 , pp. 71–90.

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  1. ↑ Hartmut Hombrecher: The rationalistic worldview in the snack machine. 2019, pp. 72–74.
  2. ↑ The Rosenbaum Doctrine. SuKuLTuR Verlag, 2007, p. 10.
  3. ↑ The Rosenbaum Doctrine. SuKuLTuR Verlag, 2007, p. 15.
  4. ↑ Alatoran. Number 18. ( Memento of December 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.5 MB)