![]() ![]() The cinematography pays homage to Cézanne’s Post-Impressionist style. įrench actor Omar Sy, known for his star-making turn as the irreverent nurse in The Intouchables, returns in Two is a Family (“ Demain tout commence”). 3 Examples include Akin's coming-of-age story cum road movie Tschick (2016) based on a bestselling German novel of the same title, and Kechiche's lesbian. He plays a ladies’ man handed a baby by a former girlfriend who says he’s the father and who decides to make a fresh start in London raising the girl himself. Wolfgang Herrndorf died in 2013.Hit German road movie Tschick centers on two eighth-grade misfits in Berlin who steal a neighbor’s Soviet-era clunker and set off on the open road, despite not really knowing how to drive or where to head. His last novel, Pictures of a Great Love, a sequel to Why We Took The Car, remained unfinished. It was published posthumously as a book in 2013 by Rowohlt Verlag. Having been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor in 2010, Herrndorf maintained an online blog, "Work and Structure," in which he shared the experience of living with the deadly disease. English translation: Tim Mohr.īefore Wolfgang Herrndorf became a writer, he studied painting and worked as an illustrator, especially for the satirical magazine, Titanic. Wolfgang Herrndorf: Why We Took the Car, Andersen Press (German title: Tschick, 2010). This is the power of fiction, with the novel destined to live on long after Wolfgang Herrndorf's untimely death aged 48. The story was inevitably a best-seller, with over a million copies sold following the author's death, a film adaptation was finally made by star director Fatih Akin in 2016, and the story has been performed as a play on dozens of stages. This time the Lada isn't going anywhere Image: Studiocanal GmbHĬritics compared Herrndorf's coming-of-age story to the great works of Mark Twain and J.D. It was after the first operation for the tumor that Herrndorf first began writing his bildungsroman while also conceptualizing the extremely funny political thriller, Sand, which awarded the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2012. He thus completed writing two breathtaking masterpieces while simultaneously fighting a likely fatal brain disease. He was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor in 2010 and ultimately died from suicide in August 2013. Wolfgang Herrndorf wrote the novel during the most difficult period of his life. As Herrndorf packed his key themes into fast-paced dialogues that are seasoned with smart situation comedy, he created once of the best books ever written in German for young people. Sure, it's a novel about wanderlust, searching for support and friendship, but Herrndorf had the rare gift of infusing his writing with authentic youth slang without it coming across as forced or artificial. But the strange thing was that on this trip, Tschick and I had run into almost only people from the one percent who weren't bad." And maybe it was true, maybe ninety-nine percent of people were bad. " My parents drilled that into me, my teachers drilled that into me, even TV drilled that into me.People were bad. Don't trust anyone, don't talk to strangers, all of that ," says Maik. ![]() There are tumultuous scenes, and yet it is more about inner yearning, about the beauty of every little moment. With Why We Took the Car, Wolfgang Herrndorf created a literary dreamscape and let two boys escape to Romania and find their own lives. Maik and Tschick drive east through corn fields in their old Lada, a scene portrayed in "Tschick," the 2016 film adaptation of the novel directed by Fatih Akin Image: Studiocanal GmbH It was the weirdest and most beautiful thing I'd ever experienced," describes the narrator, Maik. We were driving at a leisurely pace through pastures and fields as the sun slowly rose somewhere beyond Rahnsdorf. ![]() " I had hung my arm out the window and put my head down on it. They dance in the rain and meet people as odd as the alienated landscapes through which they journey. The duo leave alcoholic parents, prefab high rises and love sickness behind them as they travel through fields of wheat, landfills and lunar landscapes. They are soon heading east without a plan. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 videoīut then the summer holidays arrive and the two plunge into the adventure of a lifetime after Tschick arrives to pick up Maik in a badly beaten-up Lada Niva that he stole. ![]() 'Why We Took the Car' by Wolfgang Herrndorf ![]()
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