Verzauberte Vorbestimmung

An Algerian soldier finds himself caught up in the first German poison gas attack, decides that someone has to put a stop to it, stands up, and walks away. In the Cairo of the future, a stand-up comedian watches an android laugh at her jokes. A Bohemian weaver is replaced by an automated loom, steals a hammer, and attacks the machine. What do we, the people of capitalism, dream of, and what do our machines—which are increasingly rising up against us—dream of? In the unique mirror world of this novel, no conflict is over, and every story is still possible. Clever and insane, funny and incisive, Jonas Lüscher tells this story at the height of his artistry.

Awarded the 2025 Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize.