Marco Wanda: The literary legacy and his new book inspire Vienna!

Marco Wanda: The literary legacy and his new book inspire Vienna!

Marco Wanda, singer and songwriter of the Wiener Kultschband Wanda, causes a stir with his new book "We have existed at all". The exciting title has already made it into the top ten of the Buchcharts and offers a deep insight into Wanda's career and the importance of its music. In the book, he reflects on his influences and role models from the literature, including some big names such as Michael Ende, Jack Kerouac and Ernest Hemingway.

Wanda has a special reference to Michael Ende's “The Infinite History”, which he read around 20 times. This book shaped him so strongly that he describes it as an anchor for his personal self -reflection. But Jack Kerouac's works also left their mark. In particular, "On The Road", Wanda motivated in its development as a writer and for personality finding. This trip to your own identity is a central topic in his work.

A look at Wanda's sources of inspiration

Another important influence is Ernest Hemingway. With his work "A Feast for Life", Wanda wants to set a monument to the artist generation in Vienna. Inspired by Hemingway's iceberg theory - the idea that good literature leaves essentials and leaves space for interpretation - Wanda has thought a lot about how stories should be told.

Nino from Vienna, whose "cookbook Take 16" he describes as a volume of poems, and Philip Norman with "John Lennon. The biography", which reflects Wanda's experiences in the music industry, are formative for him. Wanda repeatedly emphasizes how important it is to capture memories and experiences in literature.

Jack Kerouac and Ernest Hemingway, the two American sizes, which certainly also influenced Wanda's work. They revolutionized American prose and lived their own adventure on the street. While Hemingway, born in 1899, had a pronounced reference to traveling by wrote intensively about his experiences, Kerouac, born in 1922, was able to take a trip from his shade after a failed first book.

The legacy of the literary road trips

Hemingway revolutionized the image of the lost generation with his stories, while Kerouac described his experiences and the search for identity in "On the Road". Through his travels, among other things with a Ford over country roads, he started looking for the American dream and his own identity. These two authors are not only role models for Wanda, but also symbolically stand for freedom that the writing brings.

The paths of the two authors crossed thematically, even if they were shaped differently. Kerouac, whose passion for the adventure and the unboundness helped him to become the voice of his generation, found inspiration in Hemingway's stories and implemented their concepts in his own style. In this way, these literary sizes influenced each other over generations and left a lasting legacy that is still important to this day.

In his book, Wanda not only celebrates its own story, but also gives Vienna's artistic spirit a voice. Writing and the experiences associated with it are central elements in his life trip and invite readers to go on a recognizable journey into the world of literature and music. And as he says himself, it is crucial to preserve the memories of familiar things - for themselves and for the coming generations.