by Ralf Rothmann · Suhrkamp Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518466803
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«Im Frühling sterben» is the war novel by Ralf Rothmann, published by Suhrkamp Verlag in paperback (233 pages, in German).
February 1945: Walter Urban and Friedrich «Fiete» Caroli, two seventeen-year-old milkmen, are forcibly conscripted. Walter is assigned as a driver in a Waffen-SS supply unit, while Fiete is sent to the front. After deserting, Fiete is captured and sentenced to death, and Walter receives the order to execute him. The novel follows the last spring of the war in Hungary and the first days of a peace in which Walter no longer finds his place.
The work is published in the Suhrkamp Taschenbuch collection (number 4680) and was awarded the San Clemente Prize in 2018.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction about World War II and for those seeking a contemporary German postwar novel.
Ralf Rothmann is a German novelist, poet, and dramatist. His novels have been translated into several languages, with Knife Edge, Young Light, Fire Doesn't Burn, To Die in Spring and The God of that Summer being translated into English. The main subjects of his work are the bourgeois and proletarian realities of life in the Ruhr area as well as Berlin, with an autobiographically colored focus on alienation, the attempt to escape these situations, and common solitude. With the major novels Im Frühling sterben, Der Gott jenes Sommers and Die Nacht unterm Schnee, Rothmann goes back to the time of the Second World War and explores the horrors for the individual. The five volumes of short stories Ein Winter unter Hirschen, Rehe am Meer, Shakespeares Hühner, Hotel der Schlaflosen and Museum der Einsamkeit complete the author's extensive oeuvre.
