"The gentle indifference of the world"
Swiss author Peter Stamm will be reading from his latest novel at the TIETZ on Wednesday, 6 November at 7 pm.
On Wednesday, 6 November at 7 pm, Swiss author Peter Stamm will be reading from his latest novel "Die sanfte Gleichgültigkeit der Welt" (The Gentle Indifference of the World) in the TIETZ Central Library: admission costs 12 euros, concessions 9 euros.
Relive your own life. Should you wish for that? Christoph meets the much younger Lena in Stockholm. He tells her that twenty years ago he loved a woman who was similar to her, even the same as her. He knows the life she leads and knows what lies ahead for her. Thus begins an unprecedentedly truthful game between the past and the present, from which no one will emerge unscathed. Can we escape our fate or must we resign ourselves to the gentle indifference of the world? Peter Stamm, the great storyteller of existential human experience, tells another story of the inexplicable closeness that separates us from who we used to be.
Peter Stamm was born in 1963 in Scherzingen in the Swiss canton of Thurgau. He initially trained as an accountant and later studied psychology in order to pursue his main interest, literary writing. After longer stays in New York, Paris and Scandinavia, Peter Stamm worked as a journalist for various newspapers in Switzerland and made his debut in 1998 with his novel "Agnes". This was followed by volumes of short stories, theatre plays, radio plays and other novels. "Die sanfte Gleichgültigkeit der Welt" was honoured with the Swiss Book Prize in 2018.