Madness and garbage

Madness and garbage. Reports and Poems is a collection of essays by Jürg Federspiel . The book was published in 1983 by Limmat Verlag in Zurich.

content

Wahn und Müll consists of six short stories and nine poems.

The Destruction of Clarence Schmidt

By parodying the story of creation, Federspiel portrays the dropout Clarence Schmidt, who considers himself an artist and who has put together a hodgepodge of junk and other odds and ends on a private ranch. One day Schmidt's property burns down.

Vito, king of the hippies

Vito, the owner of a candy store, is a hippie and lives with his followers in a commune. He himself has given up his learned profession and returned to the USA after a trip to Greece. He lives according to an eclectic philosophy, which consists of simplified set pieces of Eastern teachings. Federspiel sees him as a bore and greedy philistine.

Varlin

The Swiss artist Willy Guggenheim , called Varlin, is described. Just like Federspiel, he is inspired by New York , which is both fascinating and repulsive to him. The biography of Varlin is reproduced and the question is raised whether a certain socialization is partly responsible for the career as an artist.

My report on the fire in the Ringtheater Wien

The ring theater fire is described in a fictional drama text. Here dive Kilroy and the fictional character Paratuga on. The event is to be reconstructed with black humor and Viennese local color .

Madame Tussaud - war profiteer

The story of Marie Tussaud from Switzerland, who comes from a family of executioners, is described. During the time of the French Revolution, she started making wax figures.

The biggest heap of rubbish under the moon

The downside of the American way of life is waste and overproduction with simultaneous poverty. Federspiel takes a look around New York's largest garbage dump.

literature

expenditure

• Jürg Federspiel: Madness and rubbish. Limmat, Zurich 1983 (first edition).