Green times

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Green Times (first edition)

Green Times is a novel published by Walter Klier in 1998 . It shows the bizarre development of the green movement in a small Austrian town.

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In a residential community (WG) in the Innsbruck Gilmstraße occurs during the study year of the protagonists of a strong swelling of the so-called green movement, which eventually leads to destruction of the WG. In terms of narrative, the Green Year is halfway organized and held together by Martin Rauch, who is abseiling more and more from university into the mountains. When he discovers a dirty brook in the middle of the unspoilt landscape, it makes a green breeze for him. As a result, a green parliamentary group is established in Innsbruck. The identity depends on the quality of the knitted sheep wool for the campaign sweaters, the scouts provide the practical superstructure. Ironic comments are frowned upon in internal flat share use, even quoting the Austrian green myth of the occupation of the Hainburger Au can only be done in moderate terms. Things will soon go down in the shared apartment, the building is to be torn down, and even as they move out, the heroines and heroes have the impression that this year has been the highlight of their lives.

Structure, motifs, keywords

  • Chapter 1
Martin Rauch; First communion as a rare childhood memory; High school diploma; Military; Education; Cafe Thaler; Flat share; Method seminar; Dundee Year Abroad /
  • Chapter 2
Flat share; Architecture; social corners; Fluctuation; Terms as time buoys; Politics; Education; Refusal of parental home; Love as a pastime and a laboratory for real life /
  • Chapter 3
Ravenna as headquarters; Rockclimbing; Painter; Small child; Relationship problems; the taz as the politically valid body /
  • Chapter 4
PhD PhD for the Hainburger Au ; Oath in the meadow; Welt am Strom and Stromwelt /
  • Chapter 5
End of studies not in sight, creeping end; Walter Richard Langer as the nation's adult educator; potential position for Rauch in Augsburg; Climbing tour in France; A hundred years of solitude ; Climbing inventory; dirty river as a kick and sticking point /
  • Chapter 6
The fellow student's late summer ; Torment; Escape from the hot city to mountaineering; Problems with toilet seat in the shared apartment /
  • Chapter 7
Bad weather; Forecasts of forest dieback ; Third World; Start of the Greens with underground work; Posters, election campaigns; Election campaign fever, danger of eavesdropping; Basic features of parliamentarism and grassroots representation; Love hike; accidental visit at home with parents /
  • Chapter 8
threatened end of the flat share; planned demolition; Wavering between resistance and fate /
  • Chapter 9
Martin Rauch studies cohabitation with Peter Handke ; the black holes of the cultural budget; Stefan's budget speech in the local council; “The private is the political”; hot expectation of the profile (magazine) as order of the day; Longing for cohabitation; Sexual intercourse while intoxicated /
  • Chapter 10
the Au as a myth; Lyric poetry of nature; Hainburg as it lives and breathes; Brawl with executive branch; Pause for reflection /
  • Chapter 11
Judgment on the situation by those who stayed at home; the year one after Hainburg /
  • Chapter 12
TV reports from the Au; Return of the Au Warriors; Hiking guide as a concrete meaning in life; New Year's Eve in a shared apartment /
  • Chapter 13
New Year's visits to the various flat shares; Timber delivery to Hainburg; Started as a local cultural critic /
  • Chapter 14
Philosophy of poverty in the flat share; beginning dissolution; political dealings with ex-lover; State elections /
  • Chapter 15
threatening pregnancy Dorothees; Contraception and worldview; Contraceptive cream from the Munich train station pharmacy; Child planning; surprising offer to move in with the new wife /
  • Chapter 16
Resolution; definitive drop-out everywhere; Martin is secretly turning thirty; measly demonstration in front of the Wilten basilica ; Love tetanus /
  • Chapter 17
Dorothee is happy in Berlin

Quotations from the first edition

  • Thuijen overgrown and debt free (p. 16)
  • Watershed of all biographies (p. 39)
  • "I make leaders." (P. 40)
  • Surprise: your baby who is no longer completely new (p. 42)
  • one of those aerial photos for which you don't need a plane in Tyrol, just a two-hour walk (p. 56)
  • Institute with little gray men and women (p. 63)
  • The yellow-red rock was baking in the afternoon sun. (P. 65)
  • The black holes of the cultural budget (p. 132)
  • Upset is a form of intelligence (p. 135)
  • Pygmies do not hunt elephants (p. 142)
  • fully biological and yet one hundred percent sperm-killing diaphragm cream (p. 237)

expenditure

  • Initial release

Walter Klier: Green times. Novel. 269 ​​pages. Deuticke Verlag, Vienna 1998. ISBN 3-216-30373-X

  • Paperback

Walter Klier: Green times. Novel. Revised new edition. Paperback. 282 pages. Limbus Verlag, Innsbruck 2014. ISBN 978-3-902534-17-0

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