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»Going to Carus«: that is how the gynaecologist said goodbye to his two children when he set off for the Carl Gustav Carus Medical Academy each day. The man who gave his name to the institution died in 1869, he can be regarded as the prototype of the then self-evident multi-talented man: natural scientist, doctor and painter, author of humanities studies (including one on Goethe). It is therefore not surprising, when the father lures his two children into the independent art scene of Dresden...
»Going to Carus«: that is how the gynaecologist said goodbye to his two children when he set off for the Carl Gustav Carus Medical Academy each day. The man who gave his name to the institution died in 1869, he can be regarded as the prototype of the then self-evident multi-talented man: natural scientist, doctor and painter, author of humanities studies (including one on Goethe). It is therefore not surprising, when the father lures his two children into the independent art scene of Dresden and its hinterland – it’s the Carus Affairs that are on their minds and that instigate attempts to approach the undivided humanity
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Uwe Tellkamp was born in Dresden in 1968. He studied medicine in Leipzig, New York and Dresden. He then worked as a doctor. Now living as a writer in Dresden, his novel Der Turm, published in 2008, won that year’s German Book Prize. Der Turm has been translated into 15 languages.
Uwe Tellkamp was born in Dresden in 1968. He studied medicine in Leipzig, New York and Dresden. He then worked as a doctor. Now living as a writer...
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