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Reading with Judith W. Taschler

It is only light at night: Elisabeth is the youngest of the four Brugger children. She worked as a hospital nurse during the First World War and studied medicine after the war. She marries the son of a long-established Viennese medical family who has returned from the southern front wounded. The two run a practice together. Elisabeth cannot close her eyes to the misery of the women who seek out an angel maker in their desperation. She has a particularly close relationship with her brother Eugen; she is the only one who knows about his affair with his twin brother Carl's wife. When Eugen hides a family from the SS, he himself becomes a wanted man.

My father's guiding principle was: Everyone is obliged to do the best they can in their lives to reduce suffering in their environment, to advance humanity, but always within the possibilities given to them. (from the novel Nur nachts ist es hell)

Judith W. Taschler, born in Linz in 1970, grew up with six siblings, lots of animals and books in a large, yellow house in the Mühlviertel. She now lives in Innsbruck. She was awarded the Friedrich Glauser Prize for her bestseller Die Deutschlehrerin (2013). Her novel Über Carl reden wir morgen (2022) was published by Zsolnay before her current novel. The author's oeuvre comprises nine books published since 2011.

Photo: (c) Maria Noi