Five to twelve (Wohmann)

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Gabriele Wohmann (1992)

Five to twelve is a story by Gabriele Wohmann from 1982, which appeared in 1984 in the collection The shortest day of the year at Luchterhand in Darmstadt .

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Thanks to the art of the surgeon, Sonja is allowed to live on and already makes that well-known, self-satisfied, slightly opinionated impression on her husband Gerold, who visits her in her double room in the hospital after the operation. Gerold, on the other hand, was nervous about the excitement before the operation. He wants to hide his miserable condition from Sonja. Relatives and acquaintances at home - all callers exuding optimism - shouldn't notice anything either.

During the visit to the hospital the following day, his wife appeared to the husband Gerold as "quarrelsome and disgruntled" as usual. As always, Sonja deals with her environmental stuff - the so-called SOS calls; has the newspaper article "It's five to twelve" in the making. Gerold brings up his displeasure in front of Sonja.

Brooding Gerold is plagued by a question. Why were he and his wife so scared of the life-threatening operation? Gerold comes to the thought result: "... we are not looking forward to our death". He cannot write such a philosophical finding on the welcome poster - for his Sonja, right behind the apartment door. Gerold tears up the draft. He had already behaved badly with the above-mentioned expression of displeasure during the last visit to the sick. Gerold wants to wipe out the notch with a nightly call to Sonja in the hospital. Then the next strangeness slips out of him. During the phone call with his wife, this time listening in consternation, he quotes a five-minutes-to-twelve-SOS call from Brahms ' Four Serious Songs : “Because it is the same for people as cattle: as this dies, he dies too. .. "

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Used edition

  • Five to twelve , pp. 19–26 in Gabriele Wohmann: Bucklicht Männlein . Stories. 151 pages. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1984, without ISBN (still contains: Two women in the mirror. The best friend is in heaven. The glory of life. Frida's friend. Great love. White cardigans. On the ferry. Still waters run deep. That Mirage. On the sunny side. Penalty postage. That's it then. Infectious diseases. Average misery. No future )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Magirius, p. 9 and p. 22 and entry in WorldCat
  2. ↑ Bible , Old Testament , Ecclesiastes 3,19 LUT