GEZEICHNET MIT DEM ZEICHEN DES SEGENS
Scarred with the sign of blessing” (Interpretation of Eginald Schlattner’s Biography based on his early Story “Odem”)

Summary/Abstract: The author of the present article, occasioned by the 80th birthday of the pastor and writer Eginald Schlattner, endeavours to find permanent life subjects by tracing back the defining childhood and youth memories of Eginald Schlattner based on his early work “Odem”, written and printed in 1957, but published for the first time in 2012. The depiction of the life and early experiences of a youth in the story “Odem” is being interpreted as an unsuccessful attempt to find “redemption” from suffering, lovesickness and the obsessions of death. In contrast with the “anti-redemption story” of the young writer Schlattner, and by referring to a writing of Martin Luther and the novel “Demian’ by Hermann Hesse, the author of the present considerations, draws the “redemption story” of the later successful author of the three novels “ Der geköpfte Hahn” (“The decapitated rooster”), “Rote Handschuhe” (“Red gloves”) and “Das Klavier im Nebel” (The piano in the mist”). Up to this day Eginald Schlattner is living and working as a pastor and writer in Roșia/ Rothberg near Hermannstadt/Sibiu, acting also as a prison minister.

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