For his novel Benjamin und seine Väter (S. Fischer, 1962) the young literary scholar Herbert Heckmann (*1930 in Frankfurt) received the Bremen Literature Prize. The plot, set in Frankfurt, particularly on Berger Strasse, begins in 1919, when the young Benjamin is born, whose mischievous adventures he subsequently narrates himself. Even when the lawyer Fritz Bernoulli, boss of Benjamin's mother Anna, becomes his surrogate father, Benjamin is constantly on the lookout for his real father, one day also discovering a photograph of him.
The Munich composer Moritz Eggert, son of Herbert Heckmann, has set a cycle of his father's poems - Laßt uns ungereimt sein - to music. The baritone Peter Schöne performs it, accompanied on the piano by Moritz Eggert. Michael Hohmann and Moritz Eggert read from Benjamin and his Fathers. Talk with Moritz Eggert about the novel.
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