Studio LCB: Lutz Seiler

Lutz Seiler has a fondness for animals - foxes, goats, cockroaches appear as messengers of the surreal. In his new novel "Das tickende Herz" (Suhrkamp), we encounter Dodo again, the twilight-active, pasta-eating goat from "Stern 111", the emblem of the hero. But above all, it is about the shaman Aysha from Kazakhstan, who nearly drives Carl Bischoff mad: he follows her across half of Europe until he lands on the Kazakh steppe - on an atomic testing ground where Aysha's clan wants to make a sacrifice to save the world.

About this hero and his deep confusion, Lutz Seiler speaks with Sandra Kegel (culture editor of FAZ) and Peter Richter (culture editor of Süddeutscher Zeitung).

Broadcast dates: September 26, 2026, 20:05, Deutschlandfunk; September 27, 0:05, Deutschlandfunk Kultur.