Magma forms the fiery core of our planet, and without the eruptions of ancient times, there would be no continents, no mountains, no habitats, and no life. And yet volcanoes are threatening, not least because even with the most modern measuring instruments, their eruptions cannot be predicted with any precision in terms of time or location. Volcanism is one of those natural phenomena whose unpredictable geological force has always sparked new stories. These stories are about human hubris, fear, and the beauty of the sublime, and they ask the ultimate questions: where do we come from, and where is this world headed?
Lanzarote, Indonesia, Martinique, or Italy: Linn Penelope Rieger follows the manifold traces and abysses of numerous trembling sites of enormous, sometimes deadly, but also fertile eruptions in the vivid and eloquent descriptions of literature – with a pounding heart, a delight in fear, and fearless questions about the origin of life and death.
Non-fiction
Linn Penelope Rieger, born in 1992 in the Thuringian Forest, now works as an author, lecturer, presenter, and managing director of the literary magazine Edit and the association Netzwerk Lyrik e.V. in Leipzig. Together with Josef Braun, she talks about books, writing, and the literary world in her podcast Wasser und Buch (Water and Books).
