Robert Löhr

To skakistiko automato

Als Hofrat Wolfgang von Kempelen 1770 am Habsburgischen Hof seinen Schach spielenden Automaten präsentiert, gilt der Maschinenmensch als großartigste Errungenschaft des Jahrhunderts. Doch tatsächlich verbirgt sich im Innern der Maschine ein Zwerg - und dieses menschliche Gehirn erweist sich als tödlich und sterblich zugleich. Von den Bleikammern Venedigs zum kaiserlichen Hof in Wien, von den Palästen des Preßburger Adels in die Gassen des Judenviertels - ein spannender historischer Roman um ein legendäres Täuschungsmanöver.

Roman um den brillantesten Betrug des 18. Jahrhunderts

Der Schachautomat

Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Alexander von Humboldt, Achim von Arnim und Bettina Brentano befreien den angeblichen Sohn Ludwigs XVI., doch dann stellt sich dieser als Schwindler heraus.

historischer Roman

Das Erlkönig-Manöver

Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen dazzles the public with the "creation" of an automated chess-playing machine that is secretly operated from within by an outcast Italian dwarf, until the mysterious death of a seductive countess places the machine under suspici

The Chess Machine

ANDRE DELMONTE

KRISTINA MICHAHELLES

No século XVIII, o barão Wolfgang von Kempelen encantou o continente europeu com sua invenção, uma máquina de xadrez. Um invencível boneco vestido de turco derrotava todos que o desafiassem. Ninguém suspeitava que um anão escondido sob as engrenagens da máquina fosse o responsável pelas jogadas geniais. Mas após a morte de uma bela aristocrata em circunstâncias suspeitas, o criador e sua criação envolvem-se em uma série de intrigas e traições.

A máquina de xadrez

Vienna 1770 - Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen unveils a strange and amazing invention, the Mechanical Turk, a sensational and unbeatable chess-playing automaton. But what the Habsburg court hails as the greatest innovation of the century is really nothing more than a brilliant illusion. The chess machine is secretly operated from inside by the Italian dwarf Tibor, a God-fearing social outcast whose chess-playing abilities and diminutive size make him the perfect accomplice in this grand hoax. But when a beautiful and seductive countess dies under mysterious circumstances in the presence of the automaton, the Mechanical Turk falls under a cloud of suspicion, and the machine and its inventor become the target of espionage, persecution and aristocratic intrigue. From the leaden dungeons of Venice to the imperial court in Vienna, from the palaces of the Pressburg nobility to the alleyways of the Jewish quarter, The Secrets of the Chess Machineis the breathtaking historical adventure, based on a true story, of a legendary invention.

Robert Löhr

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