Rocko Schamoni, THE HUNTER AND HIS MASTER

hanserblau - Novel - Hardcover - August 2021 - 288 pages

In the sixties, Joska Pintschovius meets the eccentric Heino Jaeger while working at the Helms Museum. Joska soon recognises his new friend as a highly acclaimed artist and voice imitator. He introduces Heino Jaeger to Hamburg's bubbling scene, gets him a radio show, protects him. Jaeger gets worshipped as "master" but in the end, he burns up because of his mental vulnerability. The combination of genius and madness fascinates the narrator Schamoni, who shows himself more personal and vulnerable than ever before in his exploration of this unbridled life beyond bourgeois moral concepts.

Schamoni approaches with sensitivity and humor the legendary artist Heino Jaeger

• "Rocko Schamoni is a true universal genius across all art forms."- Brigitte

• "Jaeger is a great, important piece of German cultural history that this country has completely ignored." OLLI DITTRICH

• "How could it happen that Heino Jaeger remained an insider tip for 25 years?" LORIOT

• "It is not only an enrichment to read this book, but also to get to know Heino Jaeger." - Deutschlandfunk Kultur

• "Rocko Schamoni's novel 'The Hunter and His Master', as empathetic as it is personal, is an eye-opening and extremely entertaining read." - BR 2 Kulturwelt

• "Rocko Schamoni has written a touching and exciting book about Jaeger, his friend Joska Pintschovius and the sixties and seventies in Hamburg." Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung

• "Anyone who knows and likes Heino Jaeger will of course not get past this book. It is a very personal approach by Rocko Schamoni to the 'master', I especially like the great openness and tenderness. If you don't know Heino Jaeger, you certainly can't get past the biography of this German humour miracle!" - FLUXFM

• "Rocko Schamoni continues to write his personal subculture history. (...) He writes anecdotally, with a feel for the bizarre moments in the life of this great oddball." - Rolling Stone