Literature about horror: Martin Prinz reveals the last days of the Nazi era

Literature about horror: Martin Prinz reveals the last days of the Nazi era

Reichenau an der Rax, Österreich - In his new novel "The last days" Martin Prinz addresses the dark chapters of an Austrian People's Court of Justice between 1945 and 1948. The author, who dealt intensively with the horrors of the last days of the war, brings the minutes and testimony to the hearing. As early as 2014, Prinz was commissioned to research the brutal executions by the Nazi regime in the final phase of the war when the advance of the Red Army had reached the country. This need to deal with the conflict met the strongest when he came across the "language of irresponsibility", which not only reflects past crimes, but also contemporary social phenomena. As reports the small newspaper , he pulled parallels between the then and today's rhetoric of politicians like Herbert Kickl and the perpetrator, something at prince triggered a frightening knowledge of the continuity of manipulative language patterns.

Martin Prinz, the role of literature in our time heralds inevitably: it should critically question and differentiate. His examination of the protocols was not only a literary journey, but also led him to the abysses of human nature, he announced. The pursuit of the researched incidents left deep traces. She shows that there are often not only revenge or ideology behind crimes, but also a terrifying random principle. This is described particularly impressively, while he reflects on the fate of Elisabeth, the granddaughter Sissis. In Lovelybooks the complex relationship between Elisabeth's traumatizing experiences and her later change to the socialist is described how profoundly the historical circumstances can shape individual life.