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Late summer, soon autumn 1977. The narrator Peter and his girlfriend Sibylle arrive in Frankfurt am Main. Together for three years and still in the process of telling each other their lives. Peter is working on his first book. A time of beginnings and departures. The time of the Schleyer kidnapping, roadblocks, raids. Peter has to get his friend Jürgen across the border to France. Later they want to meet in Paris. On the way there: border controls, a thunderstorm, and at night the car accident in Meaux. Then Paris, and the sky begins to glow. With it the bars, the nights, the markets, the food, French cigarettes, and life.
The novel "Frankfurt – Paris – Frankfurt" was completed by Peter Kurzeck in 1995; later he envisioned it as the tenth volume of the chronicle "The Old Century". It is the first completed manuscript from this novel cycle – and at the same time the last to be published. Thus a circle closes. As if the novel is an overture, a prologue that recounts the paths that are walked for the first time here.

With kind support from the publishing house Schöffling & Co.

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Peter Kurzeck, born in 1943 in Tachau, Bohemia, was a writer from Frankfurt am Main. His writing, strongly influenced by autobiographical experience and situational observation, has been awarded numerous literary prizes, including the Alfred Döblin Prize and the Robert Gernhardt Prize. He debuted in 1992 with the novel "Parisbuch", followed by other novels and radio play works. The novel cycle "The Old Century" with currently eight published novels is posthumously expanded by the work "Frankfurt – Paris – Frankfurt" presented in the literature forum.

Rudi Deuble, born in 1952 in Neuenburg, studied German studies and political science and supported Peter Kurzeck at the Stroemfeld/Roter Stern publishing house from 1990. Deuble lives in Frankfurt am Main.

Beate Tröger, born in 1973 in Selb, studied German studies, English studies, and theater, film, and television studies in Erlangen and Berlin. She is a freelance literary critic, moderator, and juror.

Photo (c) Erika Schmied

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