The Possibility of a Miracle
An unheard-of adventure story
Munich, fin de siècle: The entire Bohème gathers at the séances of Albert von Schrenck-Notzing. The young baron eagerly explores mysterious phenomena, floating tables, knocking noises, but above all ectoplasm: structures that disappear as soon as they come into contact with light. Substances from the afterlife, visionaries say. Tangible off shoots of the unconscious, the baron says. Pure and simple fraud, scientists say. After the death of his wife Ella, the love of his life, the baron emigrates to Haiti and nearly loses himself in the unlit corners of world history. With a love of storytelling and subtle irony, Jan Schomburg brings an eerie anti-hero into our present.
- For readers of the novels of Christian Kracht and Daniel Kehlmann
- Based on the real life story of Baron Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, the ghost baron in Thomas Mann’s ‘The Magic Mountain’
- From bohemian, fin-de-siècle Munich to a Caribbean massacre in 1937 and the occult excesses of German fascism
Jan Schomburg
Jan Schomburg, born in 1976, is a filmmaker and writer who lives in Berlin. He is an award-winning director and has composed many screenplays, f. ex. Stefan Zweig. His debut novel 'Das Licht und die Geräusche' (Light and Sound) was published in 2017 – Helene Hegemann of Die Welt called it ‘special, truly contemporary’.
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