Walter Kempowski (1929-2007)
"Tadellöser und Wolf", roman (livre audio)

Walter Kempowski, récitant

One of Germany’s most popular writers reads the complete text of one of his most important and popular novels on an exclusive recording for the cpo label. The recording was produced during the summer of 2000 in an authentic location, Kempowski’s own home, the Haus Kreienhoop in Nartum, where the writer found the quiet and concentration necessary for the realization of this great project. Those who have heard Walter Kempowski reciting his own texts will know what an absolutely ideal symbiosis is formed by his entirely unique tone of Northern German coloration, the melody of his speaking voice, and his prose, which has always conveyed a musical quality to me. Kempowski was not only one of our very great writers and literary humorists – which is a rare combination in German literature and for me ranks him with Wilhelm Raabe and Arno Schmidt; he was also a gifted reciter. His prose is born of the spirit of storytelling, and we listen to it with interest and deeply felt suspense. It rejects any sort of pathos, is an art of quiet tones – just like Kempowski’s recitation style.