Hans Eppendorfer.The leather man.Attempt a biography
Author: François Maher Presley
1st edition 2018
Hardcover, 196 pages, A5 still,
approx. 30 black and white photos
Price: 19.80 EUR | Order
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"I was an easy-care Bleyle child. Bleyle is a fabric that doesn't break at all. I was brought up well ... I had trouble saying no anywhere. In boarding school I got into the same given, sterile choreography, and when I was seventeen then it has already happened. I killed a woman ... "
Hans Eppendorfer, born in 1942
For a long time the author François Maher Presley felt the need to work through the years of acquaintance with the murderer Hans Peter Reichelt, the later writer Hans Eppendorfer, to trace the facts of his life, to understand the "Eppendorfer system".
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Hans-Peter Reichelt's death, he has now succeeded in "attempting a biography", which in parts reads like a thriller. The book is not about the well-known stories about the writer Eppendorfer and his self-made résumé. Presley quotes for the first time from the files of the criminal case, quotes private correspondence, traces the life and career of a man who was considered re-socialized because he - even with dubious means - adhered to the German system of morality, was considered an example and im In return, demanded, received, and even thrown at him, in order to maintain the desired illusion in public.
Incidentally, the reader learns a lot about the German literature business, its machinations, violence, little art and a lot of sex. And yet Presley does not completely overturn the memory of Eppendorf, but demystifies it and shows that the person behind it is the monument himself, also the mirror of our society.
The book is bound with linen, has a dust jacket and is illustrated.
You can find a reading sample here.
Opinions
Your epilogue in the Eppendorfer book: Touching.Overall, the biography is very well formulated and in the relative brevity of the book you have brought Eppendorfer's life and work to the point. Eppendorfer, as you write, still lives in you ... mixed with your extraordinary personality, intelligence and your distinctly humanistic image of man.
Verena Lüthjen, blogger, Kiel
