Inventory of Summer
How do you write about the fullness of the moment, life and the rapture of summer?
Lockdowns and wars have left gaping holes in the present. Raoul Schrott’s genre-bending poems ...
Raoul Schrott
Raoul Schrott was born in 1964. Most recent publications by Hanser: Tristan da Cunha oder Die Hälfte der Erde (a novel, 2003), Homers Heimat – his rendering of the Iliad (2008), Gehirn und Gedicht (2011, together with the brain researcher Arthur Jacobs), his translation of Hesiod`s Theogonie (2014), the volume of poetry Die Kunst an nichts zu glauben (2015) as well as Erste Erde (2016) and Politiken & Ideen (essays, 2018). In addition to his current publication, Raoul Schrott is working with the support of the Federal Cultural Foundation on the project Atlas der Sternenhimmel, which will be published in autumn 2022.
A History of the Wind
Storms, shipwreck, cannibals – the daring story of a world circumnavigator told by Raoul Schrott like no other
An adventure! A novel! And what an adventure novel it is: Hannes from ...
Politics & Ideas
Instructive, smart and stimulating: Raoul Schrott explains where ideas come from and how they end up in politics
Where do our values and ideas come from? Is a nation defined by its ...
First Earth. Epos
Raoul Schrott’s book is the result of an intensive exploration of today’s knowledge about the world: from the Big Bang to the formation of the planets all the way to humankind. What image of ...
moreThe Fine Art of Disbelief
After more than ten years, Raoul Schrott presents a new collection of poems: a celebration of life’s essential trivia. Conceived with the apparent effortlessness that is the hallmark of the ...
moreThe Silent Child
A man is sitting in a nursing home on the Swiss border. He is telling his daughter, who he hardly knows and will never see again, about the circumstances that led to her mother’s death. The man ...
morePoetry and the Brain
Why is it that some poems have such immediate appeal? In his new book, Raoul Schrott shows how basic literary stylistic devices reflect neural processes.
How is it that we can become ...