Rocko Schamoni, STAR MOMENTS OF INSIGNIFICANCE

Dumont - Novel - Hardcover - April 2007 - 256 pages

The village punk has become a city dweller. Not a happy one, though. An art student who hates art: poor, unemployed, superfluous. At night he roams the bars in the Hamburg neighbourhood, during the day he struggles with hangovers, writes poems or goes to a psychologist - life is an insult to him!
His only hope is the woman from across the street who makes frighteningly beautiful eyes at him. But when the sparks finally fly, he takes flight and goes on tour with a third-rate rock band. The only problem is that he has little chance as a roadie with the groupies.

"Star moments of insignificance" tells of everyday life in the waiting loop of life. The hero of the story is a loser that only Rocko Schamoni can invent. He has declared life to be his personal enemy and has a crazy duel with him. Between lovably broken characters, Rocko Schamoni drives his unbreakable hero into situations where nothing helps more than his desperately dry wit.