The Requiem is the last mass you can expect on earth: it is a liturgy for the end. But nowhere is it written that this serious matter cannot also be cheerful.
requiem is a captivating, poetic tale that becomes a lustful dream journey: from a flat with a view of the Teufelsberg, we fall through time, float over mountains and valleys, travel across the marrow and the seas. We reach the dolphins in the Landwehr Canal and Santa Catalina Beach in Californiia – before the gates of the underworld open at a completely unexpected place. And every now and then we blink across to paradise.
In a breathless story, Alexander Schnickmann shows what literature is capable of. requiem is a book for one night and for eternity.
“Schnickmann is a magician of voices and spirits, requiem a playful fraternisation with the world, a sung invocation of wonder and despair. What a renewal of literature!” – Felix Palent, bookshop owner of Knesebeck 11, Berlin
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Alexander Schnickmann, born in Lünen in 1994, grew up in Bergkamen in the Ruhr region, writes about plants and animals, machines and ghosts and was awarded the Leonce and Lena Prize in 2023. He has published in newspapers, magazines and anthologies. requiem is Alexander Schnickmann's debut.
