Irmi Horn
Irmi Horn reads from Andreas Varesi: THE COUNTESS BÁTHORY. Series Women empowerment.
The writer Andreas Varesi was born in Ingolstadt in 1964 and first studied electrical engineering in Munich. He completed his studies in 1989 as a graduate engineer and already developed a 3d editor, which was also sold as a 3D designer at universities. His Vita as a company founder includes a wide range of activities. From the entrepreneur, consultant, lecturer, speaker, inventor, book author, sculptor to extreme athlete. Seriously promoting all these interests requires a high degree of focus and perseverance. For him, however, this is not tiring work but fascinating inspiration. As a writer, he takes up topics that particularly concern him personally. Andreas Varesi worked on this novel, which was published in 2009, for ten years. In doing so, he adhered closely to the historical facts and trial files of the case of Erzsébet Báthory: Hungary around 1610: In the territory of Countess Báthory (1560-1614) countless young women and girls disappear. Have they fallen victim to a shadow wolf who is doing his mischief here? The population of the area lives in fear and terror. The viceroy is forced to personally go to the scene. But what you finally discover exceeds all fears. The chronicle of Elisabeth Báthory is the history of Hungary between the Middle Ages and the Thirty Years’ War – and a reflection of the 20th century. Century, as Báthory-Keresztur had to experience it: a parallel that is not a coincidence, as the author explains. Torn inside by feuds, religious unrest, corruption and popular uprisings, threatened from the outside by the Turks, Elizabeth’s Hungary is a country where fragile peace can turn into the most brutal war. Already as a child, the countess is confronted with the ubiquitous violence – and enjoys it. The external circumstances allow her to live out what is apparently already created in her essence: the psychopathic urge to dominate, torture and eventually kill the weak; an urge that is constantly growing, just as Elisabeth’s frustration becomes stronger as she, a highly intelligent woman, finds herself trapped in a purely passive role in her world dominated by men. Then a new war abducts Elisabeth’s husband to the front for years. She can now finally switch, wave – and torture – to her own taste. She quickly loses all self-control and eventually falls. While she languishes in her cell, she forges plans for a future in which her death is a fixed constant, but not an end point: Elisabeth wants to return, and this time she will not be caught again!
We compare the quality of the novel with the film adaptation.
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