Fire for the great dragon
Fire for The Great Dragon is a novel of -ky from 1982. The Socio-crime appeared in the Rowohlt publishing house and in 1983 for television filmed .
content
Berlin in the early 1980s. Numerous foreigners live in the Kreuzberg district who endure the subliminal xenophobia of Berlin's citizens. Against this background, the lawyer Hanna falls in love with the Turkish engineer Tugrul who works there. After attacks by neo-Nazis, however, he and other Berlin Turks take up the organized fight against the right. All attempts by tolerant mediators fail. Internal disputes among the criminal police do not improve the situation, which has resulted in civil war-like conditions.
main characters
The main characters of the novel are
- Kochale, student and taxi driver
- Hanna, lawyer and fiancé Kochales, in love with Tugrul
- Tugrul, Kreuzberg Turk, engineer
- Hermann Hock, leader of the neo-Nazis.
construction
Fire for the great dragon , although divided into chapters, does not follow the usual novel structure, but rather presents itself as a "literary puzzle".
Author's intention
Horst Bosetzky wanted his book to be understood as a warning:
- “Xenophobia is in each of us; and the more wonderful our confessions sound, the more we should search for them and fight them effectively. "
The blurb of the novel concluded, “-ky don't know any way out either. He only shows us in snapshots of intentionally different sharpness how social structures, devised by people for people, begin to crumble, collapse here and there and destroy people - economically, psychologically and physically. "
expenditure
After its first edition by Rowohlt, the novel appeared in several editions in the series rororo Thriller from 1984 with a film photo from the film adaptation, which was published in the same year and shows the fighting organization from Kreuzberg Turks led by Tugrul.
The novel has been translated into several languages. In Denmark it was also published as an audio book.
Reception and effect
Killy Literaturlexikon names the novel, which deals with "racial hatred", as an example of the different topics of the author Bosetzky. For the Frankfurter Hefte “the novel takes the author back to West Berlin, the starting point for his crime novels. More precisely: in that Kreuzberg, in which, as a result of the enormous proportion of Turkish immigrants, socio-economic and socio-culturally specific opposing worlds and their everyday ways of life "collide. The literary magazine Kürbiskern also saw the criminal case in fire for the great dragon "increasingly pushed back" in favor of a real-historical representation of West Berlin.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.krimi-couch.de/krimis/-ky-feuer-fuer-den-grossen-drachen.html
- ↑ http://www.krimi-couch.de/krimis/-ky-feuer-fuer-den-grossen-drachen.html
- ↑ http://www.tvprogramme.net/80/1984/19840125.htm
- ^ Wilhelm Kühlmann, Achim Aurnhammer: Killy Literature Lexicon. Volume 2. de Gruyter, 2009, p. 101
- ↑ Frankfurter Hefte. Volume 39, p. 50