The life and work of the famous and controversial behavioral scientist Konrad Lorenz are full of contradictions. The author Ilona Jerger places them in a new novel – and is surprised at some of the behavior that it triggers to this day. A conversation about people and animals.
What does Konrad Lorenz still concern us today? The Austrian scientist (1903 – 1989) researched animals and wrote books in Germany for decades, including in Seewiesen in Upper Bavaria. The Munich author Ilona Jerger, who became known with the bestseller “And Marx stood still in Darwin’s Garden”, goes in search of clues in the novel “Lorenz” (Piper).