One Clear Ice-cold January Morning at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Resumen del libro

One clear, ice-cold January morning shortly after dawn, a wolf crosses the border between Poland and Germany. His trail leads all the way to Berlin, connecting the lives of disparate individuals whose paths intersect and diverge. On an icy motorway eighty kilometres outside the city, a fuel tanker jack-knifes and explodes.

The lone wolf is glimpsed on the hard shoulder and photographed by Tomasz, a Polish construction worker who cannot survive in Germany without his girlfriend. Elisabeth and Micha run away through the snow from their home village, crossing the wolf's tracks on their way to the city. A woman burns her mother's diaries on a Berlin balcony.

And Elisabeth's father, a famous sculptor, observes the vast skeleton of a whale in his studio and asks: What am I doing here? And why? Experiences and encounters flicker past with a raw, visual power, like frames in a black and white film. Those who catch sight of the wolf see their own lives reflected, and find themselves searching for a different path in a cold time.

Biografía del autor

Roland Schimmelpfennig (Gotinga, 1967) es una de las voces más influyentes del teatro contemporáneo. Comenzó su carrera como periodista en Estambul y se formó en dirección escénica en la Escuela Otto Falckenberg de Múnich. Desde 1996 trabaja como autor independiente, y sus piezas, traducidas a más de cuarenta idiomas, han sido estrenadas en teatros clave de Europa como la Schaubühne de Berlín, el Deutsches Schauspielhaus de Hamburgo, el Burgtheater de Viena y el Deutsches Theater de Zúrich. En 2010 se le otorgó el Dramatikerpreis de Mülheim por Der goldene Drache (El dragón de oro) . Con Punto de Vista Editores ha publicado La grieta en el mundo. Diecisiete esbozos desde la oscuridad (2022).