Who read Jon Krakauer's novel of the same name? Did you then imagine - if only for a moment after reading it - living in a lonely hut, somewhere out by a lake? I mean DRAUSSEN, not somewhere in Brandenburg near Berlin! Does it seem tempting to you to plant beans there and go hunting? A pure life. The fulfillment. The search for meaning. In the past this would have been interesting for me, too, and that's why I read Krakauer's novel with fascinated fear. In the centre, a twenty-year-old university graduate who dissolves his lawyer's fund in order to enter the "territory" (in the language of Mark Twain). He drives west until he can't go any further, then north into the wilderness of Alaska. In his luggage, a handful of books and edible wild plants. His role model seems to be Jack-London and yet I'm not sure if he really read it. This is followed by Sean Penn's fascinating film adaptation. Appearance Christopher (Emile Hirsch), an idealistic dreamer. He is the pride of his parents with good grades in law school. Why did he disappear from their lives? Why didn't he explain himself? In his diaries he describes himself in the third person as a heroic adventurer. A loner who renounces civilization and returns to the womb of nature(...)
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