Time out of joint

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Time Out of Joint (German: time without borders , Timeless time , time out of joint ) is a science fiction - novel by Philip K. Dick . As in many other works by Dick, the apparent reality turns out to be a deception created by malevolent forces. The work originally appeared in English in 1959, the first German translation in 1962.

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Ragle Gumm is a simple citizen in a small American town in the 1950s, but who has a somewhat strange job. He solves a difficult guessing game in a local newspaper. For over 3 years he has been finding out every day from 2108 boxes the one on which a green man will appear in the next issue.

By chance, however, Ragle discovers that something is wrong with his familiar surroundings. Objects dissolve before his eyes and he discovers magazines that cannot be from the time in which he lives. With the help of a kind of radio, he overhears the radio traffic of unknown people who mention Ragle's name in their conversations and apparently everyone knows about him. Together with his brother-in-law Vic and his nephew Sammy, he gets to the bottom of the matter.

As it turns out, Gumm actually lives around the turn of the 21st century. There is war between Earth and renegade lunar colonists, and Ragle Gumm's job is to foresee the targets of rocket attacks from the moon. His shared responsibility for continuing the war has led to a nervous breakdown. As a result, the government rebuilt a small town from the fifties and, at great expense, returned Gumm to the ideal world of his childhood, where he continued to fulfill his task without his knowledge by solving the supposed guessing game.

background

The original title Time Out of Joint quotes Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet (act 1, scene 5): “The time is out of joint; O cursed spite! / That ever I was born to set it right! ”The novel was published in hardcover in 1959 and was not marketed as SF when it was first published. Dick hoped in vain for reviews in established literary criticism; Time Out of Joint sold poorly that issue and was eventually re-released as a paperback in an SF series in 1965 .

The first German edition appeared in 1962 under the title Time Without Borders . According to Uwe Anton and the bibliography by Michael Nagula in Lawrence Sutin's Dick biography, Heinz Bingenheimer was behind the translator's pseudonym Transgalaxis ; however, Heinz Zwack also claims to have done this translation. The second German translation is by Tony Westermayr and appeared in 1978 as Zeitlose Zeit . Only the third translation, by Gerd Burger and Barbara Krohn , first published in 1995, was given a title, Zeit aus den Fugen , which takes up the quote in the original title, in the translation by August Wilhelm Schlegel : “Time is out of the joint; Shame and grief / That I was born to establish it! "

A very similar premise is found in Orson Scott Card's science fiction novel Ender's Game ( Ender's Game ) by 1985. There are also some parallels in the movie The Truman Show .

In 2001, Bayerischer Rundfunk produced a radio play based on the novel. Editing and direction: Marina Dietz. Music: Thomas Bogenberger. Speaker: Martin Umbach (as Ragle Gumm) , Michael Tregor (as Victor) , Dominik Liesegang (as Sammy) , Christiane Roßbach, Tanja Schleiff , Thomas Meinhardt, Elisabeth Endriss and others.

In September 2019, the world premiere of Zeit aus den Fugen opened the season at the Hanover Theater, directed by Laura Linnenbaum .

expenditure

First edition:

  • Time out of joint. Lippincott, Philadelphia 1959.

German editions:

  • Time without limits. Balowa-Verlag / Gebrüder Zimmermann, Balve iW 1962. Translator: Transgalaxis (pseudonym of Heinz Bingenheimer or Heinz Zwack)
  • Timeless time. Goldmann, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-442-23269-4 (Goldmann-Science-fiction; 23269). Translator: Tony Westermayr.
  • Time out of joint. Haffmans, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-251-20186-7 . Translator: Gerd Burger and Barbara Krohn.
    • New edition: Time out of joint. Heyne, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-453-21730-6 . Translator: Gerd Burger and Barbara Krohn.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lawrence Sutin: Philip K. Dick - Divine Raids . Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt a. M. 1994, ISBN 3-627-10236-3 , pp. 149-150 .
  2. ↑ Uwe Anton: Philip K. Dick. Entropy and hope . Tilsner, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-910079-01-6 , pp. 235 .
  3. ^ A b Lawrence Sutin: Philip K. Dick - divine raids . Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt a. M. 1994, ISBN 3-627-10236-3 , pp. 512 .
  4. ↑ Heinz Zwack: "My" Science Fiction . In: SF loan book database . Retrieved October 13, 2019.
  5. ^ William Shakespeare: Shakespeare's dramatic works . tape 3 . Georg Reimer, Berlin 1867, p. 366 .
  6. ↑ World premiere: "Zeit aus den Fugen" based on the novel by Philip K. Dick at the Hanover Theater. Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Jan Fischer: Zeit aus den Fugen - Schauspiel Hannover - directorship kick-off with Laura Linnenbaum's staging of the novel by science fiction guru Philip K. Dick. Accessed October 12, 2019 (German).