Full on the mouth

In his debut work, Florian Göttler describes the bizarre experiences of the storyteller Paul Schmerz, who gets into one mess after another during his first literary attempts and readings and eventually has to learn: Nothing is harder than the stage floor. "Voll aufs Maul" is brutal but warm-hearted, silly yet clever, it disgusts and amuses at the same time. A wild and anarchic trip to the limits of what can be thought and written, a tour de force to exotic places such as Zwickau and Tuttlingen - and right into the heart of the cross-dangerous Bavarian Oberland. In short: Göttler takes his anti-hero where it hurts - and a little further.