For his novel Benjamin und seine Väter (S. Fischer 1962, new Schöffling & Co. 2017), the young literary scholar Herbert Heckmann received the Bremen Literature Prize. Set in Frankfurt, the plot begins in 1919, when young Benjamin is born. His mischievous adventures are narrated by Benjamin, who is constantly searching for his true father, from his experiential perspective. From a family-historical perspective, Herbert Heckmann tells the same and similar Frankfurt stories in his novel Die Trauer meines Großvaters (S. Fischer 1994).
The Munich composer Moritz Eggert, Herbert Heckmann's son, 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. Talk with Moritz Eggert about his father's work.
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