Dracula - neu erzählt

Geschrieben von Bram Stoker

Erzählt von Andreas Pietschmann

Man kann sich heute kaum vorstellen, wie dieses Buch 1897 auf das Publikum gewirkt haben muss. Immerhin gab es seinerzeit noch keine Vampirromane oder -filme. Die Werbung für die deutsche Übersetzung 1908 kündigte "keine Lektüre für Schwachnervige" an.
Das schaurige Geschehen entrollt sich wie ein Tatsachenbericht Stück für Stück in Tagebuchaufzeichnungen, Gesprächsnotizen, Briefen, Telegrammen und Zeitungsartikeln. Nur schleichend kommen wir dem Geschehen auf die Spur.
Die Geschichte führt von Budapest durch die nächtlichen Karpaten nach Siebenbürgen auf das Schloss des Grafen Dracula, nach Whitby an der englischen Ostküste und nach London, bevor sie nach einer langen Verfolgungsjagd wieder in der Nähe des Schlosses endet. Bis dahin müssen natürlich nicht Wenige ihr Blut lassen.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: Zweitausendeins
• Erscheinungsdatum: 18. Nov. 2022
• ISBN: 9783963181610

Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish novelist. Born in Dublin, Stoker suffered from an unknown illness as a young boy before entering school at the age of seven. He would later remark that the time he spent bedridden enabled him to cultivate his imagination, contributing to his later success as a writer. He attended Trinity College, Dublin from 1864, graduating with a BA before returning to obtain an MA in 1875. After university, he worked as a theatre critic, writing a positive review of acclaimed Victorian actor Henry Irving’s production of Hamlet that would spark a lifelong friendship and working relationship between them. In 1878, Stoker married Florence Balcombe before moving to London, where he would work for the next 27 years as business manager of Irving’s influential Lyceum Theatre. Between his work in London and travels abroad with Irving, Stoker befriended such artists as Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Hall Caine, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In 1895, having published several works of fiction and nonfiction, Stoker began writing his masterpiece Dracula (1897) while vacationing at the Kilmarnock Arms Hotel in Cruden Bay, Scotland. Stoker continued to write fiction for the rest of his life, achieving moderate success as a novelist. Known more for his association with London theatre during his life, his reputation as an artist has grown since his death, aided in part by film and television adaptations of Dracula, the enduring popularity of the horror genre, and abundant interest in his work from readers and scholars around the world.