Blossmenschen

Everyone knows them: those situations where openness turns into exposure; where reality balances on the thin line between shame and vicarious embarrassment; where suddenly wormholes to madness open up and the universe holds its breath for a brief moment. People like you and me confess surprising intimacies in full measure. In the sauna, conversations delve deeper than naked bodies. Everywhere, such exposed individuals publicly display compromising material for all to see. And one thing that satirist, reading stage author, and poetry slammer Volker Surmann cannot do in such moments is look away. With precision, sarcasm, and a healthy dose of self-irony, he presents his stories of shame. Comedic stories of shame: After two novels, the Berlin satirist, slam poet, and reading stage author now presents his second collection of stories: A Best-o.