The sky beneath Berlin 2024|Labyrinth
Kateřina Kadlecová: Rudiš’s Sky underneath Berlin is alive once more
“Good day. That is Bém. Mr. Director, I wish to inform you that I can’t be coming to the assembly this afternoon. Properly… I will not even come tomorrow… The truth is, I’ll by no means come once more…” That is how my favourite literary hero, a thirty-year-old Prague trainer, proclaims the start of a brand new life to his superior. He rushes to Berlin, begins a U-Bahn band, finds Katrin… When Jaroslav Rudiš, then a journalist for the day by day newspaper Právo, revealed his debut novel The Sky underneath Berlin in 2002, all of us fell on our backs within the up to date Czech prose seminar on the Prague bohemian. That punk, that filth & underground, that nihilism, nostalgia for the GDR, Hrabalov figures, narrative construction, nice dialogues…
At the moment, Jaroslav Rudiš is (not solely) a literary superstar in Berlin, he writes in German and has simply revealed his first e book Labyrinth once more, much more superbly advised, extra colourful, a bit added by the creator himself. Concurrently Orten’s prize-winning “rock tales from the Berlin subway” can also be being revealed once more audiobook loaded by the creator himself (Supraphon), but additionally the eponymous, remastered EP of the band U-Bahn, one in every of Rudiš’s musical initiatives, which is able to come to life once more in live performance in September.
Berlin video for the one Gagarin Pop put collectively by Jaromír Vondrák alias Clad from photographs the author took in Berlin in the course of the covid isolation: “Town the place I principally reside at this time was fully empty and I used to be wandering the streets alone. Loneliness can also be the theme of the track, the lyrics of which I wrote greater than twenty years in the past on a cigarette pack within the Berlin subway. Someplace excessive above us, unusual planets are floating, Gagarin lives on one and Iggy Pop lives on the opposite. They’re misplaced in area and may’t come again to earth.” Let’s return to the sensation of The Sky Under Berlin – once we, just like the protagonist, have been “younger and hopeful”.
Jaroslav Rudiš: The sky above Berlin / new version, 2024, Labyrinth (2024)