The Iron Marquis - Award to Thomas Willmann

Laudatory speech: Matthias Bieber

It gives me great pleasure to make music for my friend, the critic and immensely talented novelist, at the Tukan Award ceremony!

""For books like this, literature was once invented!

cheers the Tukan jury about Thomas Willmann's new novel. ""The Iron Marquis" (Liebeskind Publishing) tells the story of how a young watchmaker flees 18th century Vienna to chase through the wonders and horrors of half the continent, through wars and dark entanglements in pursuit of the greatest of all human dreams: overcoming one's own finiteness. After his furious bestseller ""The Dark Valley"", Thomas Willmann presents an epic about which the jury said:

"There is no historic dust on the lines here; rather, every page seems to burn - for the language, for the imagination."

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Organizer: Cultural Department of the City of Munich // In cooperation with the Literaturhaus Foundation