Where the sky touches the land - Romberg, Erich
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The author lived in Ireland for about ten years in the 90s of the last millennium. During this time, the stories of the planned book series were written down. These stories mix fact and fiction. It is about the traditional storytelling of the old days in Ireland. The idea came to him at a storytelling festival in the small western Irish town of Kiltimagh, which he attended for the first time. However, he got his inspiration from the stories told by the people around the crackling peat fires, which conjured up a mystical atmosphere to accompany the stories.In this first volume of the planned…mehr

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The author lived in Ireland for about ten years in the 90s of the last millennium. During this time, the stories of the planned book series were written down. These stories mix fact and fiction. It is about the traditional storytelling of the old days in Ireland. The idea came to him at a storytelling festival in the small western Irish town of Kiltimagh, which he attended for the first time. However, he got his inspiration from the stories told by the people around the crackling peat fires, which conjured up a mystical atmosphere to accompany the stories.In this first volume of the planned series, there are three frame stories into which these tales are incorporated. It is about self-awareness and love, prejudice and courage as well as death and how to deal with it. Above all, however, it is about storytelling itself:The first story in this volume takes place in one of my two favourite pubs, Lil's Bar, by a crackling peat fire. Where else? As the only guest at that time of day, he is allowed to write a story at the regulars' table. The title story is born. It is about a strange encounter with an old man who expresses an equally strange wish. The attentive reader will not fail to notice that the narrator encounters himself.By the time he has finished the story, the pub has filled up with guests and the regulars invite him to stay at the pub to tell the story he has written down. Afterwards, the men at the regulars' table discuss the story and quickly guess its meaning. As they liked the story, they ask the storyteller if he can tell more stories.___The firebird the next story. It is a mythology of being. What happens when the evolutionary model "Homo Sapiens" fails. ___The third tells of the nomad girl Saóirse, who has just turned sixteen. At the start of a storytelling festival at the weekend, she is allowed to gain unaccompanied experience in the small town of Kiltimagh for the first time. It is a time full of stories and Saóirse learns about love. Watching over all of this is the wise old Méabh, who advises the girl to listen only to the call of her heart. This is not so easy, but as a result she ends up making a difficult and painful decision.___In the third story, an overtired driver is travelling west towards Galway along the sometimes-narrow roads. As he is about to fall asleep, he leaves the road to rest. In the darkness, someone knocks on the rear window and asks for a lift in accent-free German. During the journey, he recognises a former best friend from his youth in the person who got on the train, and a journey back in time to a repressed past begins.___Finally, the reader learns the story of a storyteller who has forgotten how to tell stories. Then the protagonist suddenly finds himself in the role of an executioner.
Autorenporträt
Erich Romberg was born in Essen in 1950 and grew up in the Ruhr region. He still remembers the bombed-out houses of the post-war period, which he visited with his father to collect roof beams for firewood. The family was barely making ends meet. Then came the economic miracle, and little by little the ruins disappeared from memory and the many empty fields were covered with new houses. All he remembered from primary school was that most of the teachers beat the children and that a trainee teacher read his essay about a walk in the woods out loud to the class as an example of how it should be done. It was his first A and a source of satisfaction, because his class teacher thought he was a boy who would never amount to anything. But he never had to repeat a year. There were still quite a few teachers like that back then. After completing a craft apprenticeship, the essay writer was drawn back to school, an evening school in the Ruhr area. Here he was amazed to discover the beautiful things of the mind. Although he actually wanted to do something completely different, he studied physics. As a physicist, he researched in various fields for a while and eventually became a consultant for air pollution control and local climate. Writing had always been a part of his life; he felt the need to express his personal insights and feelings in poetry and stories. He discovered the momentum that stories take on when you simply write them down. They develop a life of their own, and the writer doesn't know in advance what the end result will be - at least that was the case for him. Just as he wrote his stories spontaneously, he also ended his previous life and moved to Ireland, which he had cycled around on holiday for two years. He got to know Kiltimagh on his first holiday there. After his second holiday in Ireland, he rented a house in Kiltimagh for five years from an Irish friend from Germany. There he found time to write and windsurf, which he enjoyed equally. He also met his current wife through his online published literature. Today, the author lives with her and his young son in a village in Saxony-Anhalt. The idea of leaving books behind for his children became increasingly appealing to him. He himself knows very little about his father, as he told him very little about his past. It was probably the collective silence of that generation.