Thekla Kraußeneck (33) celebrated with the first two volumes of their "Cronos Cube"series a great success. In the autumn of part 3 appears.

Geretsried/Bad heilbrunn – including the debut of Kraußeneck was Shortlisted for the German literary award Seraph in the Fantastic Academy. In September, the third and penultimate part of the fourth splitter in the Oetinger publishing house will appear after the second now. About the editor Volker Ufertinger spoke with Science Fiction writer who has long lived in Geretsried.

wife Kraußeneck, congratulations on the completion of the third volume! He also has 560 pages, such as the first two volumes?

Thank you! No, he is a little longer. 620 pages.

In "Cronos Cube" is about two friends, Zack and Lachlan in a surveillance state by the year 2030. How is it the two in the third Band?

The second Band was pretty nerve-wracking to the end, and the crisis is not survived, in the third Band for a long time. Anyone who thinks that Lachlan and Zack are, as yet, gone through hard times, is in for a surprise.

The third volume has the subtitle "The free will". Very philosopher sounds Japanese. What's up with that?

The subtitle is very close to the action on it. Zack learns something about himself, which raises the question of whether he has ever made a free decision and whether he is capable of it. Lachlan is under the influence of a mental programming, which makes him a different person. For both will ask the question of whether there is free will and what is the meaning of individual responsibility.

The state claimed currently – keyword Corona – a lot of Power. We are on the road to the surveillance state you represent?

I see us definitely in a critical Phase, especially in Bavaria. The Prime Minister, Markus Söder, has long been proven that he has no Problem at all with the restriction of fundamental rights, keyword: police duties law. It just no one remembers anymore, because he now in the Corona pandemic is quite impressive. I therefore see a real risk that some of the measures that are now being arranged, with good reason, to survive the pandemic without a good reason. And that the acceptance in the population increase. This is very close to my fictional scenario.

As a writer you go through a development. What a writer you were at the beginning, what a writer you are now?

I've become much more relaxed. Wonder no more at any rate, whether I'm a complete loser, and I have found my style. In the meantime, I am nd Yes at the Agency Michael Meller Angela, I plan on using the Oetinger publishing house in the future, write my fourth book: all of This has made me in what I Do is much safer, and I think that you read out.

Are already planned readings? This is currently at all?

Difficult. In our Region, to take place in the autumn of two readings, one in Geretsried and in Penzberg. The extent to which Corona allows you to see changes. The readings should be, I will read, but definitely online. For this I have a small YouTube channel.

the fourth and last part of the "Cronos Cube"-quadrology still, he is to appear in the spring of 2021. You write about it? Is the end already?

Yes, I am currently writing every day, on the last tape, I know my Deadline in July. The end is been a long time since three years, because I plan ahead very far. And I'm sure that this is the end my readers will not let go so quickly.

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