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Writers have their say, shift the fringes into the focal point, reflect upon tales of forced separation and adjacency, of the favored ones and the disadvantaged.

This work, edited by Alfred Pittertschatscher and published by Picus Verlag, turns our attention to the outskirts of Linz and spotlights existences in the shadows. The eight authors presented their texts in 2009 in numerous readings at venues including the Leipzig Book Fair and in 11 radio programs aired in Austria. The book, accompanied by a limited-edition CD, was reviewed by numerous German-language media outlets.

Anna Mitgutsch, born in 1948: Being different, in its multifarious expressions of refused submission, seemed to me to be a kind of freedom...
Erich Hackl, born in 1954: A tale from the edge, because it would also be a heroic tale, an act refuting the facile lie that there were no heroines in Linz in those days...
Eugenie Kain, born in 1960 in Linz: ...She didn’t inquire about the ring, nor about Râsvan’s past, about his life in the other country...
Walter Wippersberg, born in 1945: It was said that Franz Kain and Karl Wiesinger, two young authors then, were marginalized and even discriminated against...
Margit Schreiner, born in 1953: The old woman walks with tiny steps, stooped over, her eyes on the ground. Finally, she stops in front of Walchshofer’s Snack Bar & Gourmet Shop...
Ludwig Laher, born in 1955: I was young when I first met him in a park in Linz... Now, this stuff about Stelzhamer being an open book has to be taken with a grain of salt...
Robert Schindel and Martin Pollack were both born in 1944 in Bad Hall: Did Pollack’s biological father, a member of the Gestapo, interrogate Schindel’s mother? A reconstruction.


WHAT // Book presentation
WHEN // March 10, 2009
WHERE // ORF – Austrian Broadcasting Company’s Upper Austria Regional Studio

Available in leading book stores.