Jürgen lodemann fessenheim

Jürgen lodemann fessenheim
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publication date: february 20, 2013
more explosive than ever: fessenheim, the controversial, unsafe nuclear power plant in alsace, on the upper rhine. a stirring plea. il accuse: a piece of littérature engagée by the freiburg journalist, writer and geographer jürgen lodemann. his answer to fukushima.novelle comes from novelty: the tremendous novelty of this stirring and excitingly current novella is that it uses the example of fessenheim to demonstrate the sophisticated self-deception with which europe ignores and suppresses real, deadly dangers.
it's about the decaying double reactor fessenheim am rhein, france's oldest nuclear breeder in the border triangle, almost 25 kilometers southwest of freiburg, which has been in the slipstream of this scandal since 1971. it's about an imagined exploding breeder, it's about how difficult it is to bring men to a moment of truth, it's very specifically about a night with a geologist and about how the beautiful old city of freiburg could still save itself despite everything.
and it's about people who know the delicate geology of the high rhine and upper rhine and also the danger posed by the dilapidated kiln, but who talk about powerlessness in a clever, belittling manner and would rather advance and pursue a political career instead of rebellion. fessenheim and the final camp illusion become acute documentary fiction, a political alarm, a wake-up call to everyone...

press reviews
»panic literature, science fiction or the dark picture of an inevitable future? lodemann creates a partially oppressive scenario that cleverly and effectively balances enlightenment, political agitation and recommended entertainment.« (ekz)

»when fessenheim explodes: horror vision in book form. jürgen lodemann creates a dark vision: his book fessenheim describes the nuclear catastrophe on the upper rhine - and at the same time leads to a completely different topic that affects the body and stomach of the author, who lives in freiburg." (badische zeitung)

"lodemann's book is politically and ecologically highly topical: what happens if a tsunami from lake constance tears away the fessenheim nuclear power plant - triggered by an earthquake in the upper rhine graben? meticulously researched, with anger in his stomach and brilliantly written.« (swr 2)
about the author and other contributors
jürgen lodemann born in essen in 1936. studied philosophy, german and geography in freiburg for seven years, including a state examination and doctorate, and early on expressed his great admiration for the black forest in an autobiographical novel “the should boy”. 1963/64 newspaper traineeship in essen, hamburg and berlin. 1965 to 1995 as literary editor at the baden-baden broadcaster swf (südwestfunk), filming, editing and moderating the tv series “literaturmagazin” and “café großenwahn”, from 1975 with the anti-bestseller list “bestenliste”. documentaries, novels, essays. collaboration with zeit, fr, faz, taz. jürgen lodemann now lives in essen and freiburg, but until recently also lived in galway, ireland, for ten years. in the pen center of the federal republic of germany. 1983/84 bernt engelmann's deputy on the board of the association of german writers. teaching positions at the universities of stuttgart, frankfurt, marburg, freiburg, gainesville/florida. 1978 alfred kerr prize for literary criticism. 1987 essen dramatist prize. 1988 ruhr area literature prize. 2002 fantastic prize from the city of wetzlar. 2002 literature prize of the state capital stuttgart. 2005 “professor of the state of north rhine-westphalia”. 2008 “poet in residence” at the university of essen/duisburg. the author is happy to give readings.