Fiction | Fiction
Ludwig’s Room
Alois Hotschnig
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In “Ludwig’s Room”, a village in Carinthia is bound by an unspoken agreement not to expose the guilt of several members in the community who had been associated with a nearby forced labour camp during the Second World War. This knowledge and the collusion it provokes poisons the community for generations. When Kurt Weber inherits his great-uncle’s lakeside house, he finds traces of dark secrets in his family’s past. It is a story of love, betrayal, honour, and cowardice, of the burden of history and moral demands of the present.