A Porcini Mushroom for Eternity – Taking Leave of My Father
We need to learn how to deal with finality
When the news that Hannes Ringlstetter has feared for years comes, he knows what to do: He wants to find a porcini mushroom and give it to his father on his “last journey”.
Thoughtfully and touchingly, the author grapples with the figure of his father, and seeks to deal with the finite nature of human life. Ringlstetter paints a multi-layered picture of his father as a “humanist Christian world explainer”, who also had a dark side. Ringlstetter writes about his father’s last will and words, about illness, death, taking leave, and what it feels like to witness the once so eloquent “old man”, hardly being able to express himself anymore.
A book full of warmth and affection.
- A book about a special father-son relationship, about closeness and strangeness, love and death
- Touching, conciliatory and thoughtful
Hannes Ringlstetter, born in 1970, grew up in Lower Bavaria, studied German and History, and toured with a band, first through the countryside, then throughout German-speaking Europe. He has his own TV show, works as an author and cabaret artist and appears as an actor. Hannes Ringlstetter lives far out in the countryside.
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