Ror Wolf is an artist, an author of prose and poetry, and a writer of radio plays and 'radio collages'. His writing has earned him many awards, including Radio Play of the Year, the Kassel Literature Prize for Grotesque Humor, and the Literature Award of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.
Jennifer Marquart studied German and translation at the University of Rochester. She has lived, continued her studies, and taught in Cologne and Berlin.
"Wolf refuses to let readers find the stable hold of realist
fiction in his narratives, yet he does so without resorting to
surrealist trickeryfor that alone already the pieces are of
interest; it's not something one sees often."Ror Wolf, The
Complete Review
"Wolf's book is fast, sometimes outrageous, and always
surreal."Shaun Randol, World Literature Today
"Ror Wolf's miniature stories about everyday catastrophes undermine
traditional storytelling. They are extremely fresh and incredibly
funny."Martin Halter, Tagesanzeiger"Wolf takes familiar scraps
from crime, romance, and adventure stories, rearranges them and
glues them together with a melodious language that drives
everything to the extreme. The result is purely absurd and at the
same time magical."Peter Zemla, Buchjournal
"One of the most important contemporary German writers."Brigitte
Kronauer, Büchner Award recipient
"Ror Wolf has rejected every typical form of storytelling. What is
the reader left with? A particular lightness in one's head, a
bright glimpse into the madness of daily life."Deutschlandradio
Kultur
"I don't have a book to review by a surrealist German author and
poet who wrote forty-nine digressions that each barely spanned the
length of a single page. I've never read such a thing. I also don't
have a thing to report to you about the devastating effects of
firing a bullet into a person's urethra, because the author in
question has asked me not to relay this information. I have never
and most certainly not at a convention of plumbers lectured on the
duties of newly elected government officials to a packed audience
and then retold an anecdote about the experience later. I know not
a single thing about any Sound Expansion Plans and I've never
uttered a single bad word towards any of the members of the men's
choir of Nevada. Furthermore, it's patently false that I repeated a
story to multiple parties regarding the tremendous yawning of a New
York salesman who turned the corner of 82nd Street at nightfall.
That I have, at one time or another, placed sticks of dynamite on
my head and then attached their fuses to a kitchen timer, is
completely made up. It is not true. The only truth is that every
one of these events was not described by me, but by the author of
the aforementioned digressions which I've allegedly never read, and
which some seem to claim that I did not enjoy. But that is not the
point of this review."Aaron Westerman, Typographical Era
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