Aufzug

The story is set some time in the past or maybe some time in the future Given a timeframe we would say somewhere between the American moonwalk and Coca Colas serious ambition to turn the moon into an advertising logo Our central character the young lift operator is formed by experience into cynicism detachment and apathy The story builds to its crescendo of public outrage and state crackdown the banality of commercial interest and the monumental rape of nature Set in a large newspaper office the Lift is a place of relative safety But floor by floor with each passenger in his or her tableau the atmosphere of mayhem seeps in Finally our young character leaves the situation fargone in hopelessness and disinterest