![]() While Michael Kehlmann was alive, his son never considered writing for the theatre. Danielewski 9,481 Paperback 99 offers from 11.49 What Moves the Dead T. Valente 888 Hardcover Editors' pickBest Mystery, Thriller & Suspense 32 offers from 7.95 House of Leaves Mark Z. But without knowing it, a baton had been passed. Daniel Kehlmann 938 Paperback 29 offers from 2.56 Comfort Me With Apples Catherynne M. Daniel Kehlmann regrets that his father never got to read Measuring the World, as he was suffering from dementia and died two months after it came out. Michael Kehlmann went on to have a productive career as a TV and theatre director. His father, Michael, was imprisoned in the Maria Lanzendorf concentration camp but was released about a month before the end of the war. His paternal grandparents were assimilated Austrian Jews who survived thanks to forged documents that disguised their identity. ![]() ![]() Part of this fascination also stemmed from the experiences of his family during the Second World War. “I was always captivated by stories of escape, especially escape by means of tricks and brilliance of the mind,” he says. He studied philosophy and German literature at the University of Vienna but was more interested in Latin American magical realists like Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. The German author Daniel Kehlmann, most recently of the novel Tyll, recommends books that explore the city’s painful past and dynamic present. ![]()
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