Author reading with Willi Winkler

The appeal of the travelogue stems from the contrast between Winkler's educational background and the impositions of the present. Landfills, arterial roads, shopping centers, pick-up markets and highway feeder roads must be circumnavigated and overcome, and wrong paths must be taken back again.He jumps vividly from century to century and from scene to scene, pausing for a moment at Luther and quoting the Swedish poet and novelist Lars Gustafsson, who died in 2016, with a poem about the silence of the world before Bach (DLF Kultur).