Super Literature Bros. Wonder

Fellow writers Peter Waldeck and Lukas Meschik invite you to marvel together. They read from current and upcoming works—and talk about joint visits to the theater, video games and pickled cucumbers.
Lukas Meschik reads three-liners from his new poetry collection Form wahren [Preserve Form] and unpublished short prose. Peter Waldeck presents his latest novel All der wilde Unfug [All that Wild Mischief].

The Literaturhaus Wien [Vienna House of Literature] about Form wahren [Preserve Form]:
“Breathing new life into the three-liner: Lukas Meschik's latest volume Form wahren oscillates between haiku and headline trash, between bon mot and short essay. Reading for minutes—or hours.” (Marcus Neuert, 04.02.2025)

The Falter on All der wilde Unfug [All that Wild Mischief]:
“There is an author in Vienna who has read his Michel Houellebecq and Bret Easton Ellis, but doesn't leave it at mere imitation. Peter Waldeck is their local brother in spirit: a great stylist, but he doesn't have to show it on every page because he also gives free rein to his penchant for trash. In the finale of his latest novel, All der wilde Unfug, this is reflected in a memorable car chase. Only people who have grown up with films like Fantomas on television can write like this. The unreliable narrator Viktor is a former theater enfant-terrible with a penchant for booze and stupid pranks. One of these causes him to fall from grace. Waldeck's novel is far from being just a literary joke. Again and again, a deep melancholy breaks through that is touching.” (Sebastian Fasthuber, 20.12.2024)

Lukas Meschik, born in Vienna in 1988, is an Austrian author and musician. He made his debut in 2009 and writes novels, short stories, poetry and essays. In 2019, he took part in the reading competition for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize with an excerpt from his autobiographical Vaterbuch [Father Book]. From spring 2020, he ran a public notebook for one hundred days, which will be published by edition Faust in fall 2025.
Most recently, he published the novel Die Würde der Empörten [The Dignity of the Outraged ] (Limbus 2023) and Form wahren. Dreizeiler [Preserve Form. Three-liners] (Limbus 2024). After three albums with the band Filou, Meschik is now the frontman of the music project Moll. The two albums Musik [Music] (2020) and Sesseltanz [Chair Dance] (2022) were released by Problembär Records. Regular readings, concerts and musical-literary evenings.
http://www.limbusverlag.at/index.php/meschik-lukas

Peter Waldeck has been working in the field of literature, wrestling and comics with his theater group Casa Del Kung Fu since 1995. Between 1996 and 2006 he organized the film club series Otakoo Saloon and dedicated himself to writing comics. The melancholic comic series El Pablo versus El Diablo (with Jan Limpens) appeared regularly in the quality newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, the daily with the largest circulation in Latin America. The FALTER chose his play Fantomas – Das Action Musical (Fantomas – The Action Musical) among the 10 best theater productions of 2008. In winter 2012 his play Columbo Dreams with Manuel Rubey, Eva Maria Marold, Christian Dolezal, and Gerald Votava had its premiere at the Rabenhof Theater and celebrated great success with critics and audiences. In 2017, his debut novel Die 67 enttäuschendsten Sexfilme aller Zeiten (The 67 Most Disappointing Sex Films of All Time) was published by Milena Verlag, followed in 2019 by Triumph des Scheiterns (Triumph of Failure). In 2022, the new novel Spaß und Schulden am Neustifter Kirtag (Fun and Debts at the Neustift Kirtag) was published. Most recently, All der wilde Unfug [All that Wild Mischief] was released.
www.peterwaldeck.at

Lukas Meschik, Form wahren. Dreizeiler
96 pages, hardcover with ribbon marker, in German
ISBN 978-3-99039-257-7, Innsbruck/Vienna : Limbus Verlag, 2024
www.limbusverlag.at

Peter Waldeck, All der wilde Unfug
234 pages, hardcover with dust jacket and ribbon marker, in German
ISBN 978-3-903460-31-7, Vienna: Milena Verlag, 2024
www.milena-verlag.at