Between Literature and Journalistic Research
A photo album with 378 passport photos is found at the flea market: Jacob B’chiri photographed himself every day for a year in a photo booth in various disguises and poses. The first-person narrator now follows his tracks, from Paris to Rome and Marseille, to the cemeteries of Djerba and to the edges of the Israeli desert. In doing so, he explores The Lives of Jacob (Hanser 2023) – “the lives” because this word only exists in plural in Hebrew: a clever novel between literature and journalistic research, about the relationship between photography and identity, about the experience of war and exile, Jewish history, faith and the great tragedies of the 20th century.
Newspaper Breakfast
Matthias Krapf, one of the two editors-in-chief of the daily newspaper Tiroler Tageszeitung, discusses the current Saturday and Sunday editions of Tiroler Tageszeitung with the audience over a cup of coffee at the pastry shop Munding.
