Das Teemännchen

Heinz Strunk's Stories. Long, short, very short. Much of it feels familiar to the reader. But in the brevity, Strunk writes differently: always pointed, yet not always humorous; strange, dark, grotesque, such as the story of the East German citizen who is so broken by political persecution that he misinterprets the reunification as a perfidious act of subversion. In other pieces, small cars conspire to revolt, Axl Rose from Guns N' Roses experiences his hellish ride in Hamburg's nightlife, and a beauty queen transforms into an old hag through her work at a fast-food joint. A book in which Heinz Strunk, as an author, takes another step closer to himself.