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Wolf Haas
Das Wetter vor 15 Jahren / The Weather Fifteen Years Ago
Hoffmann & Campe, 2006; dtv

The February German Book Club at the Goethe-Institut New York will read and discuss Das Wetter vor 15 Jahren by Wolf Haas, one of the finest contemporary Austrian writers.

A novel in a novel in an interview: In Das Wetter vor 15 Jahren, a journalist interviews an author named Wolf Haas about his new novel, Das Wetter vor 15 Jahren. Tongue in cheek, Wolf Haas guides his readers though the labyrinth of a complicated love story. With this novel full of romance and meta-levels, Wolf Haas continues to amaze and entertain the literary world.

“The ingenious invention of a genre […] a ludicrously funny masterpiece.” – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

The discussion will be in German. For more information, please visit www.goethe.de

Austrian writer Wolf Haas was born in Maria Alm in Salzburg in 1960 and studied linguistics and German at the University of Salzburg. He later worked in Vienna as a junior copywriter in various advertising agencies until he published his first detective story, Auferstehung der Toten (Resurrection of the Dead) in 1996. Since then, Wolf Haas has been working as an independent writer and he has become well-known particularly through his murder mysteries featuring private investigator Brenner. The humorous “Brenner whodunits,” set mainly in Austria, have been won several awards. For Auferstehung der Toten (1996), Komm, Süßer Tod (1999), and Silentium! (1999), he received the most renowned German crime literature awards and was awarded the Literature Prize of the City of Vienna in 2004.

His novels have been translated into several languages, and some of them have been adapted for the big screen. In 2009, he published the last part of his seven-part thriller series Der Brenner und der liebe Gott (“Brenner and Our Dear Lord”), for which he was also nominated for the German Book Prize.

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Goethe-Institut New York
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New York, NY 10012
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To register for this event, please email burney@newyork.goethe.org