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Dorn Examines the Trigger Effect |
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| 10/12/2010 |
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Wulf Dorn’s Trigger owes much to the New Wave culture of the late 1970s, David Bowie, noir films such as Cat People – both Jacques Tourneur’s 1942 version and Paul Schrader’s 1982 film starring Nastassja Kinski – as well as Frankenstein and David Lynch’s Lost Highway (1997), which Dorn always watches before sitting down to write a new book. All of these inspirations/influences, he says, he appreciates for their atmosphere, structure and metaphysical aspects.
Trigger delves into psychology because “I think that what scares us most are those subtle and vague thinks that come from within our conscience,” says the writer, who has worked for years in a psychiatric hospital.
The book’s very title belies a story of causes and effects: “I think that human nature is based exclusively on this mechanism. Every single thing triggers another. I’m not very interested in crimes. I like delving into the consequences for the people involved. We are never the same, we evolve, we are always unknown to ourselves. We undergo so many changes in life. That’s what I’m interested in. Understanding how we develop.”
This novel, his first, changed his life for practical reasons. “I had to cut down on work in order to be able to write, but I won’t quite my job. I want to keep my feet on the ground,” says Dorn.
His second novel, Cold Silence, like the third on which he is currently working, also touches upon the psychological realm. The writer thinks this theme is tied to the search for one’s identity, for one’s sense of being, which is a topical theme in Germany, and to other German writers, today.
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