Anthony McCarten is a New Zealand novelist, playwright and filmmaker. His most famous play is Ladies Night  (known as the film The Full Monty). Death of a Superhero was published in 2005, won the 2008 Austrian Youth Literature Prize and was filmed in 2010. (Recently in European cinemas). It is the story of 14-year-old Donald Delpe suffering from a life-threatening form of leukemia who finds that the only way to escape from this harsh reality is to draw his own comic book diary in which an invincible superhero, Miracleman, fights against ruthless villains. Donald´s family is devastated as he refuses to fight the cancer and so a famous psychologist, Dr King, is brought in to help and finally he is the one who helps Donald make his greatest wish come true. The book reads like a filmscript with changing scenes `inside, night´ and `outside, day´. Students attending the lecture should either have read the novel beforehand or they should at least be familiar with the extracts of the book provided by the Literaturhaus. There is teaching material available for those who would like to attend the literary talk and a cooperation with Arts teachers could be a possibility. (Moderator: Dr. Monika Tretter-Essl)

Ab 11. Schulstufe