On the last day of the Abitur exams in 2002, shots are fired at the Gutenberg Gymnasium in Erfurt. Our narrator experiences this day as an 11-year-old, is evacuated with his classmates, and in the following weeks registers the helplessness of the adults in the face of this act. More than twenty years later, the event unexpectedly breaks into his life again and triggers an obsessive preoccupation with the subject, which is to result in a novel project. But why reopen old wounds after so many years? Does he have the right to? What about his memories, which stories has he told so often that they became true?

Kaleb Erdmann's novel "Die Ausweichschule" is a skillful play with perspectives, a piece of autofiction that is both critically aware of the audience (how voyeuristic is our interest in processing acts of violence?) and self-reflective (what gives me the right to write about this day?). A pointed, personal, and disturbing text about a phenomenon that affects us worldwide.

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