![]() ![]() While Michael Kehlmann was alive, his son never considered writing for the theatre. But without knowing it, a baton had been passed. ![]() Daniel Kehlmann regrets that his father never got to read Measuring the World, as he was suffering from dementia and died two months after it came out. Michael Kehlmann went on to have a productive career as a TV and theatre director. Buy this book from .uk to support The Reading Agency and local bookshops at no additional cost to you. ![]() His father, Michael, was imprisoned in the Maria Lanzendorf concentration camp but was released about a month before the end of the war. By Daniel Kehlmann, and and, Ross Benjamin avg rating. His paternal grandparents were assimilated Austrian Jews who survived thanks to forged documents that disguised their identity. Part of this fascination also stemmed from the experiences of his family during the Second World War. “I was always captivated by stories of escape, especially escape by means of tricks and brilliance of the mind,” he says. He studied philosophy and German literature at the University of Vienna but was more interested in Latin American magical realists like Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. ![]()
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