Die kraftvolle Ruhe der Marie-Luise Kaschnitz, das Tempo von Thomas Bernhard, die Melancholie einer Gisela Elsner, die beeindruckenden Lesungen von Wolfgang Koeppen, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Siegfried Lenz, Alfred Andersch und Heimito von Doderer - Stimmen, die nicht aus dem Kopf gehen. Hajo Steinert, Leiter der Literaturredaktion beim DLF, sammelte herausragende Lesepremieren im Archiv des Deutschlandfunk - und setzt damit den Grundstein für eine Hörbibliothek.

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Born in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric grandmother and an adored grandfather. Tormented as a young student in rightwing, Catholic Austria, Bernhard ran away from home aged fifteen. At eighteen, he contracted pneumonia. Placed in a hospital ward for the old and terminally ill, he observed with unflinching acuity protracted suffering and death. From the age of 21, everything he wrote was shaped by the urgency of a dying man's testament - his witness, the quintessence of his life and knowledge - and where this account of his life ends, his art begins.