In my little country
In my little country there is a book by the German author Jan Weiler from 2006 . Immediately after publication, the book landed at number eight on the bestseller list.
content
The book is a travel report that Weiler wrote from September 2005 to May 2006 on a reading tour that took him across Germany to 100 cities from Amberg to Wyk . In short chapters, Weiler describes his impressions of the landscapes, the people and the places as well as the respective zeitgeist phenomena he encounters or typical reading travel phenomena.
Among other things, one learns of the irritation of the reading author about the disciplined calm of his audience in a north German community, which initially led him to believe that one does not share his humor and the ambivalent appreciation of his real father-in-law, whom he in the form of Antonio Marcipane in Maria, he doesn't like it! had set a literary monument.
background
The cover photo was taken by Albrecht Fuchs in the Cologne bar “Dos Equis”.
Most of the texts initially appeared as blogs in the online offer of the time .
expenditure
- Jan Weiler: In my small country . rororo , Reinbek near Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-499-62199-4 .
- Jan Weiler: In my small country . Large print , rororo, Reinbek near Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-499-33281-4 .
Audio book
- In my little country . Reading by Jan Weiler. Der Hörverlag , Complete Reading, 3 CDs, 2006, ISBN 978-3899409550
review
- “Weiler mostly records his impressions with love and irony, often amazed in disbelief, then relentlessly revealing them again. Sometimes his stays are so short, his perceptions so short that he bolsters them up with comments on current events. His diary thus becomes a moral picture of Germany in the Merkel era , to document the changing sensitivities in this 'small country'. The realization that travel educates leads Weiler to recommend that all young people should be sent on a four-month get-to-know trip through their own homeland during their school days. 'In the end, anyone could say that they have seen their country from the Wadden Sea to the Alps . And everyone could decide for or against Germany because they know it. '"
- “Here the title says it all , and like his colleague Axel Hacke , Jan Weiler succeeds in extracting some involuntarily comical notes from everyday life and dressing them in extremely elegant, intelligent and entertaining-ironic sentences: As if it were his son Nick's children's birthday party, treatise closed gifted offspring or about the phenomenon of modern naming, the " Kevinism " vulgo " Chantalism " as well as satirical comments on more glamor in German politics - following the example of the French President Sarkozy ".
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.janweiler.de/start/index.php?whereami=KAUFEN%2FB%C3%BCcher%2F_In+meinem+kleinen+Land&language=d ( 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.
- ↑ http://www.janweiler.de/start/index.php?whereami=KAUFEN%2FB%C3%BCcher%2F_In+meinem+kleinen+Land&language=d ( 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.
- ↑ Review on hoertipps.de
- ↑ No German winter fairy tale Published in the title culture magazine on December 13, 2006. Accessed on July 15, 2018.
- ↑ Jan-Geert Wolff: On the way in my little country: Jan Weiler is leafing through his reading travel diary . 2008; In: www.frische-presse.de ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
