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Kaltenburg

"Challenging, beautifully written "--Library JournalHailed by The New Yorker as one of the best young novelists and recipient of Germany's most prestigious literary awards, Marcel Beyer returns with a brilliantly wrought novel that brings to life both an individual and a whole world: the zoologist Ludwig Kaltenburg, loosely based on Nobel Prize-winner Konrad Lorenz, and his institute for research into animal behavior. Hermann Funk first meets Kaltenburg when still a child in Posen in the 1930s. Hermann's father, a botanist, and Kaltenburg are close friends, but a rift occurs. In 1945, fleeing the war, the Funks perish in the Dresden bombing, and Hermann finds his way to Kaltenburg's newly established institute. He becomes Kaltenburg's protege, embracing the Institute's unconventional methods. Yet parts of Kaltenburg's past life remain unclear. Was he a member of the Nazi Party' Does he believe his discoveries about aggression in animals also apply to humans' Why has he erased the years in Posen from his official biography'Through layers of memory and experience Hermann struggles to reconcile affection and doubt, to make sense of his childhood, even as he meets a woman with family secrets of her own.

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  • "The ornithologist Hermann Funke relates two histories: his own, and that of the zoologist Ludwig Katenburg. Born in 1903, Kaltenburg is working in Poznan when he first meets Hermann Funke, then still a child, in the late 1930s. After the collapse of the Third Reich, they meet again in Dresden, to where the first-person narrator fled with his parents in 1945. He has survived the bombings which killed his parents. In post-war Dresden, Ludwig Kaltenburg establishes a zoological institute that wins international renown. He becomes a kind of father figure to Hermann Funke, who is now the institute₂s most important employee. How do the two scientists ₆ one established, the other with his future before him ₆ experience in Dresden the founding and subsequent strengthening of the GDR, what unexpected turns do their lives take, why does Kaltenburg turn his back on the GDR, and how does Funke see the ultimate collapse of his state?"
  • "Une jeune interprète se rend auprès d'un vieil ornithologue afin d'apprendre les termes techniques de cette discipine pour pouvoir interpréter dans un congrès international d'ornithologie. Au fil de leurs conversations, le vieil homme jette un regard rétrospectif sur sa vie. Il se souvient de son enfance, de ses études et de son travail auprès du célèbre professeur Ludwig Kaltenburg."
  • ""Challenging, beautifully written "--Library JournalHailed by The New Yorker as one of the best young novelists and recipient of Germany's most prestigious literary awards, Marcel Beyer returns with a brilliantly wrought novel that brings to life both an individual and a whole world: the zoologist Ludwig Kaltenburg, loosely based on Nobel Prize-winner Konrad Lorenz, and his institute for research into animal behavior. Hermann Funk first meets Kaltenburg when still a child in Posen in the 1930s. Hermann's father, a botanist, and Kaltenburg are close friends, but a rift occurs. In 1945, fleeing the war, the Funks perish in the Dresden bombing, and Hermann finds his way to Kaltenburg's newly established institute. He becomes Kaltenburg's protege, embracing the Institute's unconventional methods. Yet parts of Kaltenburg's past life remain unclear. Was he a member of the Nazi Party' Does he believe his discoveries about aggression in animals also apply to humans' Why has he erased the years in Posen from his official biography'Through layers of memory and experience Hermann struggles to reconcile affection and doubt, to make sense of his childhood, even as he meets a woman with family secrets of her own."@en
  • "Het levensverhaal van de Oostenrijkse zoöloog en vogelkenner Ludwig Kaltenburg (een fictief personage, lijkend op Konrad Lorenz)."
  • "A story loosely based on the life and work of Konrad Lorenz follows the experiences of a brilliant zoologist's student, whose work at a newly established research institute reveals disturbing aspects about the zoologist's past."@en
  • "A story loosely based on the life and work of Konrad Lorenz follows the experiences of a brilliant zoologist's student, whose work at a newly established research institute reveals disturbing aspects about the zoologist's past."

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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Powieść niemiecka"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "De nacht dat het dode kraaien regende roman"
  • "Forme originarie della paura"@it
  • "Forme originarie della paura"
  • "Kaltenburg = Roman"
  • "Kaltenburg"@es
  • "Kaltenburg"@en
  • "Kaltenburg"
  • "Kaltenburg : Roman"
  • "De nacht dat het dode kraaien regende : roman"
  • "Kaltenburg Roman"
  • "Kaltenburg : roman"
  • "Kaltenburg : roman"@sv
  • "Kaltenburg roman"

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