Wolfgang Scherreiks, „Goldberg“
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Berlin-based writer and journalist Wolfgang Scherreiks presents his novel Goldberg. In this sophisticated and atmospheric work, he weaves together the sad yet beautiful story of a “Hungarian” muse with the comfort of storytelling and nature writing.
Somewhere in Brandenburg: In a house by the lake surrounded by forest, Goldberg fulfills his long-delayed promise to write the story of Miléna Balogh. A woman torn between creative work and the crippling exhaustion of her day job in Neukölln in the noughties. At the same time, he observes the investigations of a young police officer: an unknown person is draping dead foxes in the nearby undergrowth.
Goldberg encounters Mitić, a butterfly collector who plants old pear trees; an eco-poet who considers her poetry unimportant in the face of nature's destruction; the local veterinarian, hunter, and amateur historian who declares hunting to be a fair, equal fight in a fairytale forest hut; and—a ghost.
Wolfgang Scherreiks
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Since childhood, Wolfgang Scherreiks has been reading his way through world literature and soon began writing his own short stories and novels. Initially, these were destined for his desk drawer. After occasional contributions to literary magazines (including the TORSO Literature Prize 2010), travel essays, a journalism scholarship from Post AG in 2012, and most recently a nature writing workshop from the Kunst & Natur x Matthes & Seitz Foundation in 2021, he wrote the Goldberg novel in a lakeside house in the Uckermark region, supported by the Neustart Kultur scholarship. Born in Bremen, the writer has lived in his adopted home of Berlin-Schöneberg since 1987.
