Kategorie: Stories and excerpts
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Lidia Afanasyevna’s Dreams
Excerpts from Nadja Dietrich’s Novel Murder in the German Parliament! Investigations of a Cleaning Lady In a six-part series on Planet Literature, we will delve into the dreams of the protagonist of Nadja Dietrich’s novel Murder in the German Parliament! Investigations of a Cleaning Lady. What a shock for Lidia…
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II. Grandfatherly Smells
Nadja Dietrich:The Dead Man in the Reichstag and the Dreamy Cleaning Lady While cleaning the German Bundestag, Lidia Afanasyevna makes a terrible discovery – a discovery that will change her whole life. The Science Fiction Cocoon Lidia Afanasyevna had a great passion for science fiction stories. Above all, she was fascinated…
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I. The Seed of Evil
Nadja Dietrich:The Dead Man in the Reichstag and the Dreamy Cleaning Lady On the first stage of the new literary journey on Planet Literature, we get to know the protagonist of the novel, Lidia Afanasyevna. We learn about her work, her grumpy husband Igor and about Alyosha – the man…
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The Dropout
Conversation with Paula: Talk about Economic Growth „You mean we have to distrust each other in order to live together in peace? But what if we end up being devoured by the inner beast that we have to set free for our constant readiness to fight?“ Picture: aul Müller-Kaempff (1861…
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The Inter-Island Police. Talk about War and Military
Conversations with Paula 10 „Doesn’t your eternal growth lead you to live in a permanent provisional arrangement? And aren’t all the things that your growth produces actually a shackle for you? Wouldn’t you be happier without them?“ Picture: Arnold Böcklin (1827 – 1901): TheWar (1896); Staatliche KunstsammlungenDresden, Galerie Neue Meister…
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The Pulse of God
Talk about Animal Rights and Religion „The universe follows the logic of the divine spirit, which at some point withdraws into itself again in order to then spring out of itself once more. This is what we call the pulse of God.“ Picture: European Southern Observatory: Deep in the heart…
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