FH employee Dennis Burghardt was a guest on Bochum's "CT das Radio". Presenter Ben Zimmermann interviewed him about his fantasy novel "Sonne hinter dem Zenit".
During the day, Dennis Burghardt works in university communications, in the evenings he creates monarchs and peons, gods and demons, spins intrigues, forges bonds of love, designs life paths and destinies. In spring, he published his first work, which has now earned him an invitation to appear on the radio program "Melancholia".
In the show, presenter Ben Zimmermann asks him about the plot of his novel and the world of Eurys in which it is set. "The god Dios of the people of Eurys has lost faith in his creation," says Dennis Burghardt, outlining the initial situation, "and falls into a deep hole as a result.
His sister Syl'wana visits the head of the church that was founded in honor of Dios, and together they come up with the idea of finding people who can show the god that there are also good people among his creation." For example, the bourgeois Damian, son of a florist and a blacksmith, who meets the king's daughter - and falls in love with her, in defiance of all class distinctions.
Dennis Burghardt explains that he taught himself to write. In the beginning, it was a distraction from his illness "Duchenne muscular dystrophy". He wrote at random and simply followed his ideas dramaturgically.
Over the course of the six years he spent working on his book, he learned to work in an increasingly focused and structured way, which saved him a lot of time. He is therefore confident that the second volume could be ready by the end of 2025.