Wonderful Years (book)

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Wonderful years. When we were still traveling the world there is a book by Sibylle Berg that was published by Hanser in Munich in 2016 .

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The book comprises 19 travel texts by Sibylle Berg, which have already been published elsewhere and which she has revised and rearranged. Among other things, they deal with Tel Aviv , London , Weimar , Bangladesh , the Mergui Archipelago and a trip on a container ship. Each of these texts is followed by a postscript that briefly summarizes what has happened at the visited location since it was first published, namely war, terror, repression, piracy and environmental disasters.

The book was illustrated by Isabel Kreitz .

style

Sibylle Berg uses different styles for the individual texts. Authoritative narration  and first-person narrators alternate with the sequence of brief main sentences or a script-like representation including camera instructions.

Reviews

  • Rose-Maria Gropp attested Berg in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on November 26, 2016, that she was "a moralist among us contemporaries, a great comedian, the member of a species that must not become extinct, among all the comedians in their constantly excited silliness."
  • "Sibylle Berg wrote a sad travel book there (...) beautiful, clever and infinitely sad," summarized Barbara Schäfer in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on December 4, 2016.
  • “The happiness of the trip is always somewhere on the edge, never in the fulfillment of clichés. Sibylle Berg's wanderlust always resonates with that wisdom of those who have traveled a lot, which is actually a routine expectation of disappointment, ”wrote Kathleen Hildebrand in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on October 18, 2016.
  • You read Sibylle Berg “because of her sound, this sensitive, snotty style, this way of letting things get to her very thin skin and hitting it with full verbal rage. Those who love that will also get their money's worth in these travel pieces. ”This is the verdict of Martin Ebel in the Tages-Anzeiger on September 30, 2016.
  • Annerose Kirchner from the Ostthüringer Zeitung said on October 15, 2016, Berg "entertainingly and critically grabs the reader with facts that convince."
  • Shirin Sojitrawalla commented on the illustrations on deutschlandfunk.de on October 12, 2016: “Another special feature of the narrow book are the illustrations by Isabel Kreitz, which adorn the volume like vignettes. They are pictures that know their way around the world. In doing so, they don't just depict the stories in a disgraceful manner, but continue to spin them gently and obliquely. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Hanser literary publishers: wonderful years. Retrieved September 10, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Kathleen Hildebrand: One travels to be able to complain . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of October 17, 2016.
  3. ↑ Martin Ebel: Suddenly the sea was just water . In: Tages-Anzeiger from September 30, 2016.
  4. ↑ Sibylle Berg: “Wonderful Years” - When traveling still helped . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed on September 10, 2017]).