Normal Life

This book collects ten subtle stories that describe the everyday search for fortune in our present time. What is normal today when there are no binding forms of life but instead everyone is influenced by an overpowering demand to make the best of one´s life and to find one´s personal luck? Dieter Wellershoff takes a critical but sensitive look at this situation. Opposed perceptions lead to inconsistent and unstable relationships: passion and longing for security, dedication and privacy, wish for truth and self-delusion. The protagonists of Dieter Wellershoff´s stories believe they have successfully installed their lives but find themselves suddenly confonted with desires and yearnings that they have so far not admitted to themselves. All of a sudden their lives change. There is a female student for example wanting to free herself from an affair with an elderly art dealer, a couple realizing their estrangement during a visit to the opera or two sisters finding themselves as competitors during a summer party. Vividly and with silent nuances Dieter Wellershoff shows turning points in different people´s lives – chances, phantasies and escapes from reality.