Into the Blue

The unemployed academic Kurt and his partner Trudi, a student teacher, can’t afford to take a trip this summer, and Trudi has to prepare for her teaching exam anyway. In the meantime, Kurt spends most of his time at the local bar with his best friend Feuerstein, an inhibited poet. One night, after countless glasses of Côtes du Rhône, Feuerstein convinces him to simply use literature to write his way to the vacation he yearns for. And so Kurt sits down at his typewriter and sets off with Trudi towards Marseille in the VW-minibus…

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  • Publisher: KiWi-Taschenbuch
  • Release: 22.08.2019
  • ISBN: 978-3-462-05296-1
  • 192 Pages
  • Author: Klaus Modick
Into the Blue
Klaus Modick Into the Blue
Stephan Meyer-Bergfeld
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Klaus Modick

Klaus Modick was born in 1951 and studied German language and literature, history and education in Hamburg. He completed his doctorate with a work on Lion Feuchtwanger and subsequently worked as a lecturer and copywriter, among other things. Since 1984, he has worked as a freelance writer and translator. He returned to live in his home city of Oldenburg after years of living and lecturing abroad. Modick has received many awards for his extensive work, including the Villa Massimo Fellowship, the Nicolas Born Prize, the Bettina von Arnim Prize, the Rheingau Literature Prize and the Hannelore Greve Literature Prize.

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