Remaining leave (novel)
Resturlaub (also: Resturlaub. The second book. ) Is the second novel by the German writer Tommy Jaud . The first edition was published in 2006 as a hardcover by Scherz-Verlag. The paperback edition was published in 2007 by Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag. The novel is also available as an audio book and an e-book .
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The 37-year-old brewery manager Peter "Pitschi" Greulich from Bamberg in Franconia is under pressure. Both his parents and his girlfriend ask him to settle down and finally start a family. In his job as head of the PR department of the family company Seppelpeter's, his suggestions never reach the boss, no matter how often he makes his presentations and asserts that the apostrophe has no place in the product name Seppelpeters's Spezial’s . His friends want to go to Mallorca for the tenth vacation with him .
At Nuremberg Airport , Pitschi spontaneously decides to break out of his travel group. He feigns a robbery, stays behind, quickly sends a farewell letter to his girlfriend in Bamberg and then sets off on a self-discovery trip to Buenos Aires in Argentina , dreaming of building a new existence away from the bourgeois constraints of his Franconian homeland. Instead of going to the Balearic Islands with his girlfriend in summer, he ends up alone in the wintry Argentine capital, where he stands out in his summery shorts. But this is only the beginning of a series of mishaps in Argentina in which everything goes very differently than expected for an emigrant without knowledge of Spanish . He sublet lives with an Argentine dog groomer, takes language lessons and falls in love with the attractive Spanish teacher Luna, with whom he actually has sex after a few setbacks; however, it turns out to be superficial and self-centered. With his girlfriend, who keeps calling him longingly on the mobile phone from the holiday resort of Mallorca and believes he is at his workplace in Bamberg, he gradually becomes entangled in a crazy building of lies.
In the end, Pitschi realizes that at home in Bamberg he actually had everything he was looking for in South America at the other end of the world. In the final, he tries to return to Germany by plane from Argentina and arrive there before his girlfriend's arrival, whose vacation on Mallorca has now come to an end, in order not to arouse suspicion and to avoid the letter he received before he left for Argentina had sent to them to destroy. But when Pitschi arrives back in Bamberg, his girlfriend has long been home. However, Pitschi's friend Arne had already set up everything in the apartment in such a way that it looked as if the apartment had been inhabited the entire time. Pitschi can destroy the letter before his girlfriend sees it. In the end he can hug his girlfriend again.
Audio book
Like Jaud's first book Vollidiot , the book was set to music as an audio book in 2006 . The speaker was Christoph Maria Herbst . In both of Jaud's books, Herbst gives the characters their own character by changing his voice.
reception
Verena Mayer from the Süddeutsche Zeitung describes the novel as a “male answer to Susanne Fröhlich or Ildiko von Kürthy ” and draws the conclusion: “This book doesn't want anything, it's not even particularly badly written or stupid”. Ursula March wrote in Die Zeit , "Jaud write very funny, but not that funny either". Alexander Leopold wrote a review for the daily newspaper that he felt entertained by the novel.
Wolfgang Höbel certified Tommy Jaud in Spiegel that he had revived the fallow genre of the German male novel with the novels “Vollidiot” and “Resturlaub”.
filming
The novel was filmed in 2010 at original locations in Bamberg, Nuremberg and Buenos Aires under the direction of Gregor Schnitzler with Maximilian Brückner in the lead role and was released in theaters in 2011. Tommy Jaud also wrote the script, which, however, has many deviations from the original.
Web links
- Tommy Jaud: Remaining vacation. The second book. at perlentaucher.de
- Remaining vacation on the official website of Tommy Jaud
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reviews at perlentaucher.de
- ↑ Wolfgang Höbel: Entertainment: Mouse bear on a long journey in: Der Spiegel , issue 30/2006, accessed on April 15, 2016