Stille Welten: Neue Stimmungen aus Dingsda

audiobook

Stille Welten: Neue Stimmungen aus Dingsda

by Johannes Schlaf

DE·~2 hours

Chapters

Description

A collection of intimate, impressionistic sketches, this work invites listeners into a world where the ordinary is rendered with a dream‑like hue. The narrator drifts through rooms, streets, and quiet moments, turning colour, scent and sound into meditative reflections. Each fragment feels like a whispered observation, offering a gentle rhythm that rewards attentive ears.

The opening pieces set the tone: a bedroom bathed in sky‑blue paint becomes a sanctuary of quiet wonder, while the night‑lit house on a hill exudes a hushed, almost reverent stillness. In the kitchen, the aroma of simmering plums swirls through red‑tiled walls, merging domestic routine with a subtle, lyrical melancholy. The prose sings with vivid details, making everyday scenes feel both familiar and oddly enchanted.

Details

Language

de

Duration

~2 hours (142K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2015-01-27

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Johannes Schlaf

Johannes Schlaf

1862–1941

A leading voice of German Naturalism, this playwright, novelist, and translator helped bring a new plainspoken realism to literature at the end of the 19th century. His work also opened German readers to writers such as Walt Whitman and Émile Zola.

View all books