Actually, Mrs. Blum would like to get to know the milkman
Ms. Blum the milkman actually wants to get to know is a collection of 21 short stories by Peter Bichsel . The volume was published in 1964 by Walter Verlag in Olten . This is Bichsel's second book publication after the attempt on Gino, which was published as a private print .
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The very brief stories, between half a page and five pages long, sketch in a sober, laconic style excerpts from everyday life of simple people. The titles of the individual stories are:
- Floors
- The men
- Flowers
- Peonies
- November
- The Lions
- Music boxes
- Wood wool
- His evening
- The milkman
- Mr. Gigon
- Officials
- From the sea
- The knife
- San Salvador
- The card game
- The animal lover
- The aunt
- The daughter
- novel
- Explanation
reception
By Actually, Mrs. Blum would like to meet the milkman was Bichsel very quickly in the German-speaking world and beyond known. In addition, he was now allowed to take part in meetings of Group 47 , which awarded him its literature prize in 1965. The volume has been extremely successful to this day: 18 editions were published by Walter Verlag until 1991, followed by more by Suhrkamp Verlag (in 2012 the 9th edition in the Suhrkamp Taschenbuch series ). It has also been translated into Danish, English, French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Slovenian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish and Hungarian.
The stories San Salvador and The Daughter have been republished in various school books and are often dealt with in German lessons.
In 2015, Swiss radio and television produced a 43-minute audio collage from the stories on the occasion of Bichsel's 80th birthday.
literature
- Peter Bichsel: Ms. Blum actually wants to get to know the milkman. 21 stories . 9th edition Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 2012. ISBN 9783518390672
- Short review in Spiegel from November 25, 1964
- Review on Thomas Schmid's blog, published on March 24, 2015