„Wir sind alle da, um dem Menschen neben uns die Wirklichkeit zu bestätigen.“ Zum Verstellungsspiel im „Sommerroman“ von Otto Flake

The purpose of this article is to remind of a forgotten German novelist Otto Flake (1880–1963). The subject of the analysis is his Sommerroman (1927) — the novel is partly based on a true moral scandal, which took place in a South Tyrolean health resort in the early 1920’s. Flake refers to pretence and intrigue as a method of maintaining relationships in the closest family/society. The author also underlines Flake’s focus on strained political relations between the German- and Italian-speaking groups in Tyrol.