Klemens Renoldner

Klemens Renoldner

Born in 1953 in Schärding am Inn, he studied literature and music in Salzburg and Vienna. He then worked as a dramaturge at the Burgtheater, the Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen), as well as at various theaters in Switzerland and Germany. In addition, Renoldner worked as a theater director. From 2008 to 2018, he was the director of the Stefan Zweig Centre at the University of Salzburg. Today, he lives in Vienna as a freelance writer and publishes novels, short stories, plays, reportages, and essays.

Die Wolken von beiden Seiten gesehen

While researching in Paris archives for a TV documentary about Franz Schubert’s global influence, director Felix Tichy receives a letter from Brazil that demands his full attention. Florian Lothar, a friend from earlier years, has fled into the Brazilian rainforest and announces his intention to take his own life. In the letter, he asks Felix to give the speech at his funeral. However, there is no news confirming Florian’s actual death. Could he still be alive? Where is he? And who knows anything about him?

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