Jan Peter Bremer

Feuersalamander
2 D, 4 H
frei zur UA
“A book!” I called and laughed. “I promise you, I’ll never write a word again.”
A writer decides to invent a tragic character. But first, he has to leave the city, his wife and his infant son. He has to travel to a small village in the mountains, go to a café and take the lid off his fountain pen. He didn’t even leave a farewell letter to his wife, and he wants to face his son, who manages to make every big idea of the writer collapse with his little hands, as an influential and admired artist.
But first of all, he practises by writing a “Postcard to someone who doesn’t exist about things that never happened”. He touches the paper with his pen and begins: “my friend...” That is all he will write during the next, eventful day. A drifter comes to his table and asks who this friend is. Now, a fight starts about the “wonderful sentences that could follow now.”
Like Kafka and Robert Walser, Jan Peter Bremer manages to create abstract spaces in his award-winning novellas that show more of the tragedy of existing than some epic works .
Feuersalamander comes close to the mystery of creativity and lets the reader partake in the adventure of an idea that gets prevented from existing by a patient wife, the building blocks of the son, a cheeky waiter and a drifter. (Berlin Verlag about the novel)