Fetzen : Aus der abenteuerlichen Chronika eines Überflüssigen

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Fetzen : Aus der abenteuerlichen Chronika eines Überflüssigen

by Alexander Weicker

DE·~7 hours·54 chapters

Chapters

54 total

VORREDE

5:18

ERSTES KAPITEL

6:07

ZWEITES KAPITEL

8:04

DRITTES KAPITEL

6:25

VIERTES KAPITEL

3:52

FÜNFTES KAPITEL.

4:43

SECHSTES KAPITEL

11:37

SIEBENTES KAPITEL

7:08

ACHTES KAPITEL

11:44

NEUNTES KAPITEL

4:05

Description

In a tongue‑in‑cheek confession, a self‑styled “over‑flüssiger” narrator opens the tale with a strange delivery: a half‑read bundle of notes, a live frog wrapped in tin foil, and an ominous “destination – beyond.” He feels bound by a quirky oath to settle his late friend’s debts and to publish the bewildering manuscript that arrived with it. The prelude is a playful mix of melancholy, irony and legal‑sounding threats that set a uniquely off‑beat mood.

What follows is the friend’s lurid student diary, a collage of exaggerated archetypes, impossible weather calculations and absurd chance‑theory riddles. The entries juggle tragic humor with bizarre symbols, turning everyday campus life into a surreal laboratory of misfortune. Listeners are invited to wander through these fragmented pages, sharing the narrator’s reluctant stewardship of a story that is as much a puzzle as it is a tribute.

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Language

de

Duration

~7 hours (443K characters)

Release date

2025-06-15

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Alexander Weicker

Alexander Weicker

1893–1983

A Luxembourg writer and journalist with a brief but memorable literary career, he is best known for the 1921 novel Fetzen, a striking work linked to the postwar Munich bohemian scene. His life took him from engineering studies to taxi driving in Paris before he eventually returned to Luxembourg.

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