A Warder's Tale

A Warder's Tale is a c. 135,000-word novel about Thomas Bernhard, Art, Nazis and Austria. It follows the journey of a translator of Thomas Bernhard who seeks to find out why his half-brother, a museum warder in Vienna, has committed suicide. Was it due to the conflicts within his family, the fact that he'd become a traumatised worker, a victim of neoliberalism, or on account of the corruption, incompetence and brutality of the system? In the course of the journey luminaries such as Peter Stein, Jutte Lampe, Peter Kubelka, Ulrich Seidl, Bill T. Jones, Franz West, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Emin, Tony Cragg and Sean Scully reveal the secrets of art.

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A Warder's Tale

A Warder's Tale is a c. 135,000-word novel about Thomas Bernhard, Art, Nazis and Austria. It follows the journey of a translator of Thomas Bernhard who seeks to find out why his half-brother, a museum warder in Vienna, has committed suicide. Was it due to the conflicts within his family, the fact that he'd become a traumatised worker, a victim of neoliberalism, or on account of the corruption, incompetence and brutality of the system? In the course of the journey luminaries such as Peter Stein, Jutte Lampe, Peter Kubelka, Ulrich Seidl, Bill T. Jones, Franz West, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Emin, Tony Cragg and Sean Scully reveal the secrets of art.

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A Warder's Tale

A Warder's Tale

by Michael Buergermeister
A Warder's Tale

A Warder's Tale

by Michael Buergermeister

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A Warder's Tale is a c. 135,000-word novel about Thomas Bernhard, Art, Nazis and Austria. It follows the journey of a translator of Thomas Bernhard who seeks to find out why his half-brother, a museum warder in Vienna, has committed suicide. Was it due to the conflicts within his family, the fact that he'd become a traumatised worker, a victim of neoliberalism, or on account of the corruption, incompetence and brutality of the system? In the course of the journey luminaries such as Peter Stein, Jutte Lampe, Peter Kubelka, Ulrich Seidl, Bill T. Jones, Franz West, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Emin, Tony Cragg and Sean Scully reveal the secrets of art.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940155818649
Publisher: Michael Buergermeister
Publication date: 09/20/2018
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
File size: 406 KB

About the Author

Born in Vienna in 1967 Michael Buergermeister was brought up in London. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Vienna and Max Reinhardt Seminar. A writer, filmmaker and video artist he lives and works in Vienna, Austria.

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