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King Rocko Schamoni

(Hamburg)

Five Holes in the Sky

Mousonturm Saal bestuhlt

Reading

In his dark, dramatic road novel, Rocko Schamoni describes Paul Zech’s search for himself and his life, which took a downward turn after early moments of happiness during school, when Paul was simultaneously in love with a classmate and his teacher Ms. Zucker. On the run after a robbery, Paul finds himself in a borrowed Datsun 24OZ. All that he has with him is his old diary from which he gleans the story of a great love. But the diary abruptly ends when a dramatic case of jealousy flares up between the protagonists. The story leads Paul back to North Germany, to Katharina, to old dreams and the question of how it all began.