Militärmusik
Wladimirs Welt
"Nie etwas ausdenken, sondern dem Leben vertrauen" -- das war der erste Leitsatz des Wladimir Kaminer, als er uns mit dem herzerfrischend komischen Debütband Russendisko in den Alltag seines weit verzweigten Berliner Freundeskreises entführte. Was aber, so mag sich Kaminer gefragt haben, sind elf Jahre Leben im Nachwende-Berlin gegen 23 in der Sowjetunion?...more
"Nie etwas ausdenken, sondern dem Leben vertrauen" -- das war der erste Leitsatz des Wladimir Kaminer, als er uns mit dem herzerfrischend komischen Debütband Russendisko in den Alltag seines weit verzweigten Berliner Freundeskreises entführte. Was aber, so mag sich Kaminer gefragt haben, sind elf Jahre Leben im Nachwende-Berlin gegen 23 in der Sowjetunion?...more
Paperback, 222 pages
Published
June 1st 2003
by Goldmann
(first published 2001)
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More fun than Kaminer's shorter essays. Nice to hear about what happened before he wound up in Germany. I thought that some of the stuff had to be made up, but apparently not. My in-laws are in town and I asked them about the French singer he mentions towards the end. Yes, she was popular in Russia at that time. Perhaps not enough to send someone to a mental institution ruled by a cigarette-hoarding woman who wishes she were Italian, but still, there's some truth to it,
Good stuff and the best bi...more
Good stuff and the best bi...more
Funny! I read it on a train journey and just kept cracking up. He describes his youth in the Soviet Union with such a lightheartedness and slightly cynical humor, that it seems more absurd than threatening. Also, he seemed to have seen and done more in his teenage years in the USSR than I have in my whole life in the wide open world. I gotta get my hands on more books by Kaminer.
Divertentissimo, uno sguardo ironico e disincantato sugli ultimi anni dell'agonizzante URSS, con le piccole grandi assurdità quotidiane e i mille sotterfugi utilizzati per sopravvivere.
Really really funny, an ironic overlook at the last years of the agonizing Soviet Union, with all the daily absurtities and the many ways to survive through it all.
Really really funny, an ironic overlook at the last years of the agonizing Soviet Union, with all the daily absurtities and the many ways to survive through it all.
Meine erste Begegnung mit Kaminer hatte ich mit dem Hörbuch Wladimir Kaminer - Ich bin kein Berliner: Ein Reiseführer für faule Touristen welches man mal gratis bei bol herunterladen durfte. Ich war sofort begeistert von dieser witzig, trockenen Art, in welcher Kaminer die Realität punktgenau beschreibt.
Auch Militärmusik ist wieder gespikt mit Satire und schwarzem Humor, ein echter Kaminer und vorbehaltlos zu empfehlen, besonders weil der Autor selber es so wunderbar mit seinem russischen Akzent...more
Auch Militärmusik ist wieder gespikt mit Satire und schwarzem Humor, ein echter Kaminer und vorbehaltlos zu empfehlen, besonders weil der Autor selber es so wunderbar mit seinem russischen Akzent...more
Had the potential to be really good but just sligthly too vulgar and repetitive. Feels like I'm reading the same anecdotes over and over again...
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Russian-born German short story writer, columnist, and disc jockey of Jewish origin. Kaminer emigrated to Germany in 1990.
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