One of the acts to which I attended last week in the interesting program of the Third Festival of novel Black detective Getafe bore the curious title the same as for this entry: "Novels of the Nazis" . The talk was held at the Municipal Cultural Centre in Getafe, a place of fond memories for me to recall some of the presentations I enjoyed last year, and had a cast exception: the Scottish Phillip Kerr, a of the current writers most important black genre throughout Europe; Rosa Ribas, English writer based in Germany, and Lorenzo Silva as presenter and host of the event.
Black Getafe organizers wanted to introduce two writers novel about a country than its own with different perceptions. Both write books set in Germany, but perspectives change. For the British writer is immersed in interwar Germany, through the first steps the Nazis to reach the National paroxysm and the advent of World War II. It does helped by the antics of Bernie Gunther, a policeman from the Weimar Republic which in turn acts as a private detective and the new police service of the Nazis to lead SS officer in the Ukrainian campaign. A character that has brought him great critical and commercial success, gathering including the International Award for Novela Negra RBA in 2009.
Rosa Ribas has a
points of view very different, at the same time modern. The author spent twenty years living in Germany, two years in Berlin and the rest in Frankfurt. In his writings he wanted to reflect that vision of the immigrant, the outsider who tries to integrate into a multicultural society has failed, as German leaders themselves, in a debate is on the agenda. The main character in his novels is Cornelia Weber-Weaver, a daughter of police commissioner Galician and German, which faces its own problems as part of a second generation does not know whether to be German or foreign citizens, investigating criminal cases in a society that has not changed much with the passing of the years. Phillip Kerr, in an accent quite closed that it was difficult to follow, says the attraction has always been by Germany. Since the early comic books or its adolescent stage, through the fascination he felt when watching the movie "Cabaret", until his graduation as a lawyer German law. Interest also focused on Berlin, a city that has always imported into the UK from a social, political and cultural. A city that is passionate about the Scottish writer, as well as Lorenzo Silva, Rosa Ribas but does not share this enthusiasm and opts more for your current city: Frankfurt, the modern city of skyscrapers, economic engine of the German locomotive and therefore of old Europe, although the city's Main gets its bourgeois character, citizen initiatives and the cultural mosaic that includes
, with one third of the foreign population and a similar percentage in terms of mixed couples. Participants discussed in the talk below about the main topic of the evening: Nazism, the experience of the German people in this tortuous period, causes the advent of absolute evil embodied by Hitler and his henchmen, and the feeling of guilt that the German people still carries on his back after all these years.
Kerr says the venture at that time with a character like Gunther can romanticize crime stories looking at the context of that society. You can talk about a serial murderer, or any other offender, taking into account that the biggest criminals in history in the service of the police and the German authorities at that time. A curious blend of characters and situations that help you write crime novels with a strong background of historical and social reality in which they are situated.
The story of the evening happened when Scottish writer asked about the causes of Nazism. Said without any doubt, and with that trademark humor well-known British
the world that the causes of this situation was excessive laws and lawyers. He said the current global recession has the same cause: too many laws (local, state, national or European), too many lawyers and too many politicians who in many cases are also lawyers. A curious point of view that ignited the debate around it. The young translator, a little nervous before the stage fright, she punctuated on occasion Lorenzo Silva, he did not want the public to lose some detail in the extensive interventions of Phillip Kerr. In reply to Rosa Ribas, the writer wanted to clarify that there were many causes that led to the infamous Nazi era: the severe economic crisis in the interwar period, corruption, humiliation in a country which is still paying the consequences World War I and the National efficiency when inflame and move the masses, ignoring terrible passages abochornarían the world for decades.
The two writers talked about the reasons to dive into the black genre. Rosa Ribas said that allowed him to penetrate and criticize from within German society, novels, detective stories heavily influenced by the environment in which they develop. Frames to be translated into German have won praise but also some criticism within that society. Some attracted to the way the English writer has to tell black genre using the vision of immigrants in a multicultural environment, and other topics alleging he abused. In short, different opinions will not influence the author to self-censorship.
A Kerr on the contrary, we have attracted more a good story than the crime itself
d which nourish their works. Thus readers choose the black genre, both enjoy a good story, and get away from other works with which they are so identified. Some novels that leaves no puppet head, ensuring that its author to speak ill of all (German, English, American, Russian or Argentine) known to receive criticism in different countries but does not mind too much. We then turn to an interesting question and answer from the audience that made the act was lengthened to almost two hours. Anyway this time was short, thanks to the fun of interventions and the clock ran almost without realizing it. Minutes later ended the conversation, since then was to take place another presentation in the same room. As a climax we greet Lorenzo Silva in the interval, sharing a brief chat with others attending the presentation, as the writer Paco Gómez Escribano or Lorenzo Rodriguez, Culturama magazine.
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