Thomas Lehr

When a group of visitors emerges into the daylight from the CERN nuclear research centre in Geneva on a sunny August day, all of Europe has fallen into a deep sleep: time stands still. The 70 “chronified” characters find themselves in a traumatic situation of loneliness, helplessness and murderous conflicts, until after five years, world time suddenly ticks on again for three precious seconds. In “42”, Thomas Lehr goes in search of time, whilst also questioning the power – and the limitations – of science.


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Thomas Lehr was born in 1957 in Speyer and studied biochemstry in Berlin where he now lives as an author. The opening of “42” has already been awarded the Georg-K. Glaser Prize. Alongside his work as a writer, he is a computer specialist at the Free University of Berlin.