Dung beetle (Wohmann)

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Gabriele Wohmann (1992)

Dung beetle is a short story by Gabriele Wohmann that was published in 1983 in the Goethe Collection ! appeared in the hermit press in Düsseldorf .

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The single woman Sturz - the father of her son Pit ran away from her thirty years ago - invites a married couple from the neighborhood to watch TV together. The third is a talk show with the journalist Pit Sturz.

The neighbors come of course. Ms. Sturz regrets her invitation for at least two reasons. First, an “Opernheini” attacked by Pit during the broadcast shoots back; calls the attacker a scarab , i.e. a dung beetle. Second, son Pitching makes one of his biological father's vices public in front of around two and a half million viewers. Pit blows his nose into his handkerchief more than once during the broadcast and then looks at the wet result of the extensive blowing of his nose .

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Used edition
  • Dung beetle , pp. 57–60 in: Gabriele Wohmann: Goethe help! Stories. With original offset lithographs by Klaus Endrikat . 104 pages. Eremitenpresse, Düsseldorf 1983. ISBN 3-87365-192-0 (also contains: Before going to bed. The best solution. Green March. I don't like it here. A guest dramatist. Little beginners. The rivals )

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  1. ↑ Magirius, p. 13