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Der Hals der Giraffe Bildungsroman (original: 2011; edição: 2012)

de Judith Schalansky

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"Adaptation is everything. Inge Lohmark is well aware of that; after all, she's been teaching biology for more than thirty years. But nothing will change the fact that her school is going to be closed in four years: In this dwindling town in the eastern German countryside, there are fewer and fewer children. Inge's husband, who was a cattle inseminator before the reunification, is now breeding ostriches. Their daughter, Claudia, emigrated to the United States years ago and has no intention of having children. Everyone is resisting the course of nature that Inge teaches every day in class.When Inge finds herself experiencing intense feelings for a ninth-grade girl, her biologically determined worldview is shaken. And in increasingly outlandish ways, she tries to save what can no longer be saved"--… (mais)
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Título:Der Hals der Giraffe Bildungsroman
Autores:Judith Schalansky
Informação:Berlin Suhrkamp 2012
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The Giraffe's Neck de Judith Schalansky (Author) (2011)

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Anpassung ist alles, weiß Inge Lohmark. Schließlich unterrichtet sie seit mehr als dreißig Jahren Biologie. Daß ihre Schule in vier Jahren geschlossen werden soll, ist nicht zu ändern – in der schrumpfenden Kreisstadt im vorpommerschen Hinterland fehlt es an Kindern. Lohmarks Mann, der zu DDR-Zeiten Kühe besamt hat, züchtet nun Strauße, ihre Tochter Claudia ist vor Jahren in die USA gegangen und hat nicht vor, Kinder in die Welt zu setzen. Alle verweigern sich dem Lauf der Natur, den Inge Lohmark tagtäglich im Unterricht beschwört. Als sie Gefühle für eine Schülerin der 9. Klasse entwickelt, die über die übliche Haßliebe für die Jugend hinausgehen, gerät ihr biologistisches Weltbild ins Wanken. Mit immer absonderlicheren Einfällen versucht sie zu retten, was nicht mehr zu retten ist.
Nach dem gefeierten Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln schreibt Judith Schalansky einen Roman. Darin kämpft eine Biologielehrerin für die Einhaltung der Naturgesetze, verrenkt sich den Hals nach unerreichbaren Früchten und fällt am Ende vom Glauben an Gott Darwin ab. Schauplatz der Geschichte ist eine der irrwitzigsten Anstalten dieser Welt: die Schule. (Suhrkamp.de)
  Hoppetosse1 | Oct 7, 2023 |
Sehr hübscher Stil, sehr pointiert, sehr genau, sehr ruhig und präzise. Ich entwickelte (hatte von Anfang an) eine beschämte Sympathie für die Hauptfigur. Dieser Roman hat es nicht nötig, subtil zu sein, er ist scarf konturiert, ohne überflüssige Zwischentöne. Zu erwähnen, dass das Buch tatsächlich sehr, sehr gut aussieht und sich auch so anfasst, wäre eine Eule mit Fußtritten nach Athen zu schubsen. ( )
  Wolfseule23 | Aug 6, 2022 |
We are inside the head of an aging school teacher of biology. In a theoretical way, if asked, we know that life is about natural selection, evolution, the struggle to survive. But for Inge Lohmark it is far more than a theoretical by-the-way. It is life, it really is for her. Every thought, every observation, every relationship, every mouth of food, every moment of teaching, every coffee break, nothing exists without this conscious understanding of what is happening.

She sees teaching as something to survive in a Darwinian way. She is a disappointed person, but in a matter-of-fact way. Her take on her classes, on the behaviour of teenagers, on the Eastern German education system is hilarious in a bitter, dry sort of way.

I can't resist giving a couple of examples: if nothing else they will serve to reassure the reader that this book works in translation.

Here she is in front of her class.



Bull by the horns.

'There are cases when patients with Alzheimer's and dementia can't remember the names of their children or their partners, but they can remember their biology teacher's.' Bad experiences sometimes left more of a mark than good ones.

'A birth or a marriage may be an important event, but it does not secure a place in the memory.' The brain, a sieve.

'Never forget: nothing is certain. What's certain is nothing.'

Now she'd even started tapping herself on the head with her forefinger.

The class looked on in dismay.

Back to the book.

'There are about two million species in the world. And if environmental conditions change, they are endangered.'

Total lack of interest.

'Can you think of any species that have died out already?'

A handful of outstretched little arms.

'I mean - apart from dinosaurs.'

All the hands came down straight away. The nursery disease. The couldn't ell a blackbird from a starling, but they could rattle off the taxonomy of extinct large lizards. Sketch a brachiosaurus out of their heads. Early enthusiasm for the morbid. Soon they'll be playing with thoughts of suicide and haunting cemeteries at night. Flirting with the beyond. More death trend than death drive.


Rest here:

https://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2015/07/31/the-giraffes-neck-by-judi...

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  bringbackbooks | Jun 16, 2020 |
We are inside the head of an aging school teacher of biology. In a theoretical way, if asked, we know that life is about natural selection, evolution, the struggle to survive. But for Inge Lohmark it is far more than a theoretical by-the-way. It is life, it really is for her. Every thought, every observation, every relationship, every mouth of food, every moment of teaching, every coffee break, nothing exists without this conscious understanding of what is happening.

She sees teaching as something to survive in a Darwinian way. She is a disappointed person, but in a matter-of-fact way. Her take on her classes, on the behaviour of teenagers, on the Eastern German education system is hilarious in a bitter, dry sort of way.

I can't resist giving a couple of examples: if nothing else they will serve to reassure the reader that this book works in translation.

Here she is in front of her class.



Bull by the horns.

'There are cases when patients with Alzheimer's and dementia can't remember the names of their children or their partners, but they can remember their biology teacher's.' Bad experiences sometimes left more of a mark than good ones.

'A birth or a marriage may be an important event, but it does not secure a place in the memory.' The brain, a sieve.

'Never forget: nothing is certain. What's certain is nothing.'

Now she'd even started tapping herself on the head with her forefinger.

The class looked on in dismay.

Back to the book.

'There are about two million species in the world. And if environmental conditions change, they are endangered.'

Total lack of interest.

'Can you think of any species that have died out already?'

A handful of outstretched little arms.

'I mean - apart from dinosaurs.'

All the hands came down straight away. The nursery disease. The couldn't ell a blackbird from a starling, but they could rattle off the taxonomy of extinct large lizards. Sketch a brachiosaurus out of their heads. Early enthusiasm for the morbid. Soon they'll be playing with thoughts of suicide and haunting cemeteries at night. Flirting with the beyond. More death trend than death drive.


Rest here:

https://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2015/07/31/the-giraffes-neck-by-judi...

( )
  bringbackbooks | Jun 16, 2020 |
Anpassung ist alles, weiß Inge Lohmark. Schließlich unterrichtet sie seit mehr als dreißig Jahren Biologie. Daß ihre Schule in vier Jahren geschlossen werden soll, ist nicht zu ändern – in der schrumpfenden Kreisstadt im vorpommerschen Hinterland fehlt es an Kindern. Lohmarks Mann, der zu DDR-Zeiten Kühe besamt hat, züchtet nun Strauße, ihre Tochter Claudia ist vor Jahren in die USA gegangen und hat nicht vor, Kinder in die Welt zu setzen. Alle verweigern sich dem Lauf der Natur, den Inge Lohmark tagtäglich im Unterricht beschwört. Als sie Gefühle für eine Schülerin der 9. Klasse entwickelt, die über die übliche Haßliebe für die Jugend hinausgehen, gerät ihr biologistisches Weltbild ins Wanken. Mit immer absonderlicheren Einfällen versucht sie zu retten, was nicht mehr zu retten ist.

Nach dem gefeierten "Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln" schreibt Judith Schalansky einen Roman. Darin kämpft eine Biologielehrerin für die Einhaltung der Naturgesetze, verrenkt sich den Hals nach unerreichbaren Früchten und fällt am Ende vom Glauben an Gott Darwin ab. Schauplatz der Geschichte ist eine der irrwitzigsten Anstalten dieser Welt: die Schule. (suhrkamp)
  Fredo68 | May 18, 2020 |
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Angewandter Darwinismus
Der Autorin Judith Schalansky gelingt mit ihrem jüngsten Werk Der Hals der Giraffe ein Bildungsroman auf den unterschiedlichsten Ebenen: Der Nukleus der Geschichte, verkörpert durch die Lehrerin Inge Lohmark, beeinflusst den Orbit des Lesers, der sich an die eigenen Jahre in der Institution Schule zurückerinnert. Er wird umkreist vom komplexen Zusammenhang der Evolutionsgeschichte und ist eingebettet im System sozialer sowie politischer Umbrüche und aktuellen, gesellschaftlichen Diskussionsthemen. Doch am Ende wird die hierarchische Ordnung in Frage gestellt.
 
Rezensionsnotiz zu Die Zeit, 06.10.2011
Als "Glücksfall für die deutsche Literatur" feiert Alexander Cammann die Autorin Judith Schalansky, mit der er sich zum Spaziergang durch Greifswald getroffen hat. Denn auch wenn Cammann gleich erzählt, wie er beim Orgelspiel in St. Marien "feuchte Augen" bekam, klingt seine Hymne auf diesen atheistischen Roman überzeugend, in dem Schalansky als studierte Gestalterin - nach ihrem "Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln" - erneut das Zusammenspiel von Bild und Text probt. Auch sprachlich und psychologisch findet Cammann den Roman meisterhaft, er erzählt die Krisengeschichte einer ostdeutschen Biologielehrerin um die fünfzig, die sich in Hasstiraden auch Schule, Kollegen und Schüler ergeht, ebenso wie die Krisengeschichte einer Region im Umbruch. Und wie Schalansky dabei den biologischen Jargon in Poesie umwandelt, das findet er fast so großartig wie Thomas Manns Musikexkurse im Doktor Faustus.

 
Rezensionsnotiz zu Die Zeit, 06.10.2011
Als "Glücksfall für die deutsche Literatur" feiert Alexander Cammann die Autorin Judith Schalansky, mit der er sich zum Spaziergang durch Greifswald getroffen hat. Denn auch wenn Cammann gleich erzählt, wie er beim Orgelspiel in St. Marien "feuchte Augen" bekam, klingt seine Hymne auf diesen atheistischen Roman überzeugend, in dem Schalansky als studierte Gestalterin - nach ihrem "Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln" - erneut das Zusammenspiel von Bild und Text probt. Auch sprachlich und psychologisch findet Cammann den Roman meisterhaft, er erzählt die Krisengeschichte einer ostdeutschen Biologielehrerin um die fünfzig, die sich in Hasstiraden auch Schule, Kollegen und Schüler ergeht, ebenso wie die Krisengeschichte einer Region im Umbruch. Und wie Schalansky dabei den biologischen Jargon in Poesie umwandelt, das findet er fast so großartig wie Thomas Manns Musikexkurse im Doktor Faustus.

 

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