One day now or why, Elisabeth Schleifenbaum will change her life
One day now or why Elisabeth Schleifenbaum will change her life is a longer story by the Bulgarian- born German-speaking writer Rumjana Zacharieva , published in 1987 by Paul List Verlag .
action
The now 81-year-old Miss Elisabeth Schleifenbaum lives alone in her parents' house in the middle of a small town in the Rhineland . There the modest and largely needless Catholic achieves what little she needs without having to cross a street. She has only one-sided conversations with her budgie and the Pope . She gets her information about the outside world from television . A report on atomic importance interprets them according to their own values and is therefore frightened. This is where their idea of a nuclear bunker arises , which absolutely must be built.
Although her life is already taking place outside of time and reality, before its end it flows once more into absurd and grotesque entanglements that have all the elements of a tragic comedy . Because in the attempt to achieve this goal, she overshoots it by luring two girls to “save” them. This child abduction is solved by the police, but the old woman hangs herself knowing that her last fight against "the end" did not serve its purpose.
expenditure
- Rumjana Zacharieva: One day now or why, Elisabeth Schleifenbaum will change her life . Paul List Verlag, Munich 1987, 199 pages, ISBN 3-471-79209-0
- Rumjana Zacharieva: One day now or why, Elisabeth Schleifenbaum will change her life . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 978-3596123216
background
When describing her own writing workshop , the author highlights this story as a milestone, so to speak.
Reviews
- Anne Rose Katz : Slowly everything is going away. German narrative debut of Bulgarian Rumana Zachrieva . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 25, 1987.
- Günter Radtke: The old lady and the bunker . On the prose debut of the poet Rumjana Zacharieva: “One day now ...”. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , January 2, 1988.
literature
- Amrei Probul: Immigrant literature in German-speaking countries. A brief overview. RG Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-89501-472-9 , p. 68.
- Walter Schmitz (ed.): Handbook of Migration Literature in German-speaking Countries since 1945 . web Universitätsverlag & Buchhandel, Dresden 2009, ISBN 978-3-939888-8 (previously unpublished manuscript, which was available on the university server until the end of 2010)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.zacharieva.de/Veranstaltungen/Schreibwerkstatt/schreibwerkstatt.html ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
