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Robert Rauch, Bianca & René Albrecht
The third realitiy

ISBN 978-3-939465-37-9
Printed by: amicus-Verlag, first Edition 2008
colour print with pictures, 272 pages
Availability: this book is not available at present
Language: german

Inspirated by a not published autobiography of Robert Rauch and the diary of her father Bianca Albrecht wrote this novel. Regarding its delicate content the novel- form was her clever way to approach the story as far as possible to the truth.

C o n t e n t
A heart is breaking into peaces. The owner escapes from the capitalistic western way of life hoping to cure his invisible indisposition with this decision. Searching his individual alternative lifestyle he finds what he ist looking for in the heart of Southamerica: A separate reality fitting to his idealistic dreams.
He has to tackle with a merciless but great nature. And with an ancient race: The proud Aymara- Indios. Step by step he is getting familiar with their sensitive self- image which is almost not capable to the tame civilisation intellect.
An apearing notorious criminal compatriot causes big trouble. His best friend id murdered. The compatriot tries to get rid of him as well.
Despite of all threads he gets settled and builds himself a nice home far away from the cities.
20 years later a disastrous civil war forces him to breathnecking escape high up to the Andes and down to the dense Amazonian rainforests. Either he fails and dies trying to survive or he finds his way through. In between there is no other option left.
Thanks to thousands of coincidents he stays alive and looses his beloved home.
If he wants to survive now he has to adapt to the western world again.
At zthe same time criminal spekulaters, economic declines and the absolute automatisation of production technques make millions of people jobless.
The returning civilisation weaned adventurer becomes overrunned by the new circumstances. It feels like beein hitten by a trucktrain. He hears from a legendary rich country at the feet of the Alps. The job hunter hopes to get work there. And, unbelievable, he finds a lousy but well paid job. Now his way leads through the satanic endless hunting grounds of capitalism. Close to abysmal precipices of a senseless life without a goal. An incredibly crazy travel begins.
Will his self resocialisation be succesful?
The three realities of the story that s us, the authors of the novel.

Robert Rauch
Bolt, Dynamic, Successless

ISBN 3-926807-48-2
Printed by: Panico Verlag, first Edition 1996
Hardcover, colour print with pictures
Availability: this book is not available at present
Language: german

C o n t e n t
Nicht um von oben in mein enges Heimattal zu blicken, sondern um über seinen beschränkten Horizont hinauszusehen, stieg ich auf die Berge.
25 Jahre lang habe ich versucht, mich von Zwängen zu befreien und dem sinnentleeren Tun der modernen Leistungsgesellschaft zu entfliehen.
Beim Kampf um meine Freiheit mußte ich einen starken Gegner besiegen. Mich selbst.
Der Weg hinauf war gewunden und steil, aber über unglaubliche Umwege führte er letztlich zu mir zurück.

Robert Rauch
Live Your Dream

ISBN 3-926807-99-7
Printed by: Panico Verlag, first Edition 2002
Language: german

C o n t e n t
>Es ist Heuchelei, nicht das zu tun, was man predigt, und genau so geheuchelt ist es, immer das zu predigen, was man gerade zufällig tut. Ich habe mir ein paar Träume erfüllt, um zu sehen, wie viel Wahrheit in ihnensteckt - ein Prediger, der anderen Vorschriften macht und neue Zäune der Unfreiheit aufstellt, will ich nicht sein.<
In einer von technischen Errungenschaften geprägten und von wirtschaftlichem Denken dominierten Gesellschaft stellt Robert Rauch fest, dass seine persönliche Freiheit verloren zu gehen droht. Er will nicht hilflos wie ein Korken im Strom der Zeit immer schneller mitgerissen werden und zieht es vor, sein Glück auf eigenen Wegen zu suchen. Dazu flieht er bis ans Ende der Welt, nach Sorrata, in ein kleines Goldgräberstädtchen am Fuße der bolivianischen Anden.

Robert Rauch
Timewalk, a bolivian journey

ISBN 3-936740-07-0
Self published, first Edition 2004
Printed by: Illampu Enterprises
Language: english

C o n t e n t
The book deals with a long, dangerous and tiring journey leading up to ice - capped andean peaks, descending down to a mystic Inca - fortress hidden by grassland and continuing down to the dense rainforests of the Amazon.
A true, fascinating story about a pathless and strange adventure with an unbelievable diversity of landscape, discoveries, climate and suffering, written from the viewpoint of a passionate walker.