If you still have the crazy-enigmatic predecessor “Miakro” in mind, you can't believe on the first few pages that this is also supposed to be a novel by Georg Klein.
The story of the “popular sports reporter Addi Schmuck” and Monika Gottlieb, who has recently joined his regional newspaper, the “Allgemeine” and is almost exclusively called “MoGo” by its abbreviation, is very tangible, almost like a television film.
There is also a strange countess named Eszerliesl who owns the newspaper and a television station.
You can sense a media satire like from “Kir Royal” or, more recently, from “Laubaule & Erben”: Will Uwe Ochsenknecht be around the corner soon?
Jan Wiele
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Not that, but obviously someone is enjoying a genre story from the old newspaper world, in which reporters still drive an orange Ford Mustang, hand in their columns, talk in rock music quotes and constantly deliver caricatures of macho: " The ID that Schmuck took out was in an imitation leather case and was the largest, and the first press ID she'd ever seen that opened on two sides. "
Addi Schmuck takes MoGo on a five-day excursion with an initially unclear destination.
It's about a bird problem at the local football stadium.
To do this, they visit a scruffy friend Schmucks, who lives on an overgrown property with a dry toilet and is called "the connoisseur".
He wears army boots and cooks eerie stews, but is extremely empathetic.
There is also horror
There is a strange irony about the narrative that has to be figured out first. The simplest is that this irony is aimed at everything provincial, musty and especially a man's world, in which a "Doctor Feinmiller" shower in knee socks and a "maid" cleans apartments, while a "Doctor Kischel" as the chief editor supposedly does everything Outrageous edits out of MoGo's texts with patronizing praise: “Joke, yes! Erotic, absolutely! Sexy? Why not. But everything within the scope of what is easy to understand. The name of our paper is and will remain - as secretly as it is obvious - our program. "
There are also aspects of veritable horror, as one learns that the “General” departments will soon be dissolved and a new general department for “Sport, Culture and Life” will emerge.
"Sport and culture: For our Doctor Kischel these are a little differently colored, but ultimately knitted according to sisterly patterns," it once said.
Here it becomes clear that, even if the story takes place in Augsburg, it is about a much more general horror that has long been advanced worldwide.