Pretty Flamingo

Kurt von Allmen wanted to become famous as a drag queen. However, he became famous because a police vehicle rammed into him while he was chasing a thief and he lost his left leg. 14 March 2002 changed his life - and that of his fictional character Beverly Stardust. In the press he was branded a "police victim". But the young man started his new life with boundless optimism. But would his energy also be enough for Beverly? In the years before the accident, he celebrated his first successes. His gay friends wanted to see him on stage again and wrote him a revue for it! Revolving around the true events of twenty years ago, this novel tells the story of a man who didn't want to be a victim, in a tightrope walk of fiction and reality. Despite years of disputes with authorities and painful defeats, he did not think of giving up. Peppered with lively anecdotes from the gay scene, Thomy Schallenberger tells a little piece of Zurich history in his debut novel.