Markus Berges tells of freedom and its excesses, of being young as the place of the first, greatest happiness - and its price.
A shy nineteen-year-old on psychiatric duty; surprisingly boring psychoses, real risks and electric shocks. And then Anne Schmidt arrives on the ward. The patient is as dangerous as a storm, but she casts a spell over the young orderly. It is the days of the Chernobyl disaster in April 1986 when Anne runs away on a walk. When the boy catches her, she begs him to let her go, conjuring up her recovery in his arms. Against all the rules, he lets her go, only to see her again that very evening. The brief springtime of their forbidden love begins.
Markus Berges tells of freedom and its excesses, of being young as the place of the first, greatest happiness - and its price.
Markus Berges, born in Telgte in 1966, studied German and history. As the singer and songwriter of the band "Erdmöbel", he has been described as a "great contemporary lyricist" (taz) and narrator of "stories that seem lost in dreams" (Die Zeit). "Erdmöbel" have released fourteen albums to date, most recently "guten morgen, ragazzi". Markus Berges' first novel, "Ein langer Brief an September Nowak", was published in 2010, his second, "Die Köchin von Bob Dylan", in 2016. Markus Berges lives with his family in Cologne.
