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Stories about Hashish
An officer of the mercantile marine becomes a drug mule out of marital affection, a businesswoman from Hamburg buys an airport and discovers her »hashgreen« thumb, an up and coming small scale dealer gets mixed up with the wrong people during a big coup with the wrong product, and two pensioners with very different backgrounds get together in a rehabilitation facility to watch the sunset smoking a nice spliff…
Far from repeating common clichés on stoners, Bernd...
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An officer of the mercantile marine becomes a drug mule out of marital affection, a businesswoman from Hamburg buys an airport and discovers her »hashgreen« thumb, an up and coming small scale dealer gets mixed up with the wrong people during a big coup with the wrong product, and two pensioners with very different backgrounds get together in a rehabilitation facility to watch the sunset smoking a nice spliff…
Far from repeating common clichés on stoners, Bernd Cailloux’s gentle satires throw the spotlight on a world liable to corrupt the young: the world of weed – from the early days of clueless German customs officers and the golden age of cerebral rebellion to the long journey into embourgeoisement and the barely legal »wellnessjoint« of recent times. This may be the last exit before legalisation and VAT-taxation.
»Cailloux writes […] without glorification, without romanticising, without kitsch, but instead with subtle humour and beautiful clarity; […] a wonderfully relaxing read filled with enthusiastic yet delicate barbed remarks and linguistic elegance.« Zoë Beck, culturmag.de
»Cailloux writes […] without glorification, without romanticising, without kitsch, but instead with subtle humour and beautiful clarity; […] a wonderfully relaxing read filled with enthusiastic yet delicate barbed remarks and linguistic elegance.« Zoë Beck, culturmag.de
2016, 139 pages
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Bernd Cailloux
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Bernd Cailloux, born in 1945, is the author of novels, short stories, essays, and radio plays. His novel Das Geschäftsjahr 1968/69, in many ways a precursor to Gutgeschriebene Verluste, received outstanding reviews in the media. The author lives in Berlin.
Bernd Cailloux
Author
Bernd Cailloux, born in 1945, is the author of novels, short stories, essays, and radio plays. His novel Das Geschäftsjahr 1968/69,...
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Year of Publication: 2020
Bernd CaillouxYear of Publication: 2020
The American Son
How about you? Do you have children? – Yes, a son, in America. Silence ensues. The question, innocently asked on the periphery of a panel discussion, touches upon a trauma. The protagonist learned of his fatherhood thirty years ago, coincidentally, on a dancefloor.
The boy named Eno grew up in Jamaica and later in the USA. There was no contact. The mother, originally from Hamburg,...
Year of Publication: 2012
Bernd CaillouxYear of Publication: 2012
Allowed Losses
Bernd Cailloux looks back from the year 2005 to the 70s and 80s in West Berlin, when this part of the city was still leading an insular life and became a Mecca for nonconformists, conscientious objectors, revolutionaries, and bohemians.
He describes the hedonistic life of a colourful hippie community where buying a house, starting a family or saving up for retirement is out and...
He describes the hedonistic life of a colourful hippie community where buying a house, starting a family or saving up for retirement is out and...
Year of Publication: 2005
Bernd CaillouxYear of Publication: 2005
The Business Year of 1968/69
West Germany, 1965. Two young men meet at a training course for journalists, and right away they sense that there are big things in store for them. But for now, the dreariness of the times is still holding them back: first, they must crawl through the sludge of compulsory military service and then through the quagmire of bourgeois romantic relationships and the life of backwood reporters after...