The time has now finally come for me to bid farewell to the genre of children's literature, as well as to poetry of any kind. My curiosity for stories, triggered by concrete experiences and real people from my everyday life, has found its place in my literary work. As I have aged, I have also become more irritable, which has given me a correspondingly different perspective on the fractures of life.

Hans Manz in an interview with Ricco Bilger. Introducing Hans Manz would mean ignoring a large audience that has been reading, appreciating, and loving the seventy-year-old master of language and virtuoso as a youth and children's book author for years. The "well-groomed yet disheveled gentleman," as he is admiringly described by the writer Thomas Kapielski in his latest book, has not only created a gem with "Nothing is as it is," featuring ten fatal everyday stories, but he is also at the beginning of his emerging late work. Far removed from all sentimentality, his stories thrive on a tragicomic view of the fine cracks from which abysses breathe. Tolstoy wrote the tale "How Much Land Does a Man Need" - Hans Manz attempts to answer this question.

Author: Hans Manz was born on July 16, 1931. He lives in Italy and Zurich. His extensive body of work includes a novel, poetry, and children's and youth literature.