Traumnovelle explores the incident in 1978 when Soviet physicist Anatoli Bugorski unwittingly stuck his head inside of a particle accelerator. While a work of fiction, Maierhofer explores the reverberating effects of this incident in the life of "Anatol," using the structural foundation of Wittgenstein, as well as Tarkovsky, alongside a variety of musical relationships, to result in a short novel as multifaceted and ambling as its proto-modern subject. In a manner reminiscent of Benjamin Labatut, Maierhofer provides a fictive reality for a scientific terrain whose pure information cannot otherwise unfurl.