There was a lot of vertebrae. His second novel “Fun” is only available for just a few hours and the analysis waves are already high, as its 368-page Schmöker can now be interpreted.
In a preliminary interview by the “Spiegel”, the reporter persistently caught up how much the incidents at another Berlin band have become for inspiration and story film for “Fun”. “You can’t read the book without having the Rammstein story in mind,” it says categorically. Finally, the Fantasy Rock Troop NBL/NBL spends young fans (formerly: Groupies) on backstage parties and hotel room orgies. These are supplied with “ASS” stickers by a recruiting system. A ambiguous gag, there is also plenty of complacent (and revealing) Chauvi humor in the further course.
Groupies and patriarchal structures
Media professional Bela B interprets his approach in the “Spiegel” conversation rather academically: Rather, he was about “patriarchal structures. The musicians, like most other men in my book, have a disturbed relationship to sexuality ”. So a kind of educational novel that is a kind of 40 years of touring and festival experience. After all, the doctors moved far beyond the indie segment, where backstage is mostly tied to boring, far beyond the indie segment.
However, only the daily newspaper “Münchner Merkur” is left to follow it on his mission of a completely correct rock’n` roll: “With” Fun “Bela B makes an important contribution to clarification about grievances in the music business. His book could help create a better understanding of the problems and to strengthen the role of men in combating sexism and abuse of power. The discussion is opened with the title – and it is necessary. “
Fun, but rather not subversive
The “FAZ” in turn does not believe in the (advanced?) Unveiling work after thorough reading. In conclusion, it says: “This is how you can keep your audience happy, but you are not subversive. Everything is “much too funny”. And even the scene with a double penetration of a young fan woman after alcohol and drug consumption would not hit the tone of a demarcation with the means of the literature. Instead, the voyeur is missing. In short: a trash. Rolling-Stone author Joachim Hentschel is a little more gracious in the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” with the “leathery hung rock star hine”. But here, too, it is ultimately diagnosed that Felsenheimer flies the self -chosen subject around the ears.
The Rammstein cover, which is strictly denied by the author, will then be taped at the “Tagesspiegel” from this afternoon (January 28th) as far as “Fun” could not be read/interpret: “It has not been two years ago that the anus -Show parties from Rammstein and their handling of groupies got into the twilight and allegations of abuse against Rammstein singer Till Lindemann were raised-and there is already a novel about it ”.
It will be shown whether Felsenheimer is happy about this festive nailing (because of a circulation) or whether he will soon withdraw in the off-the-go provincial realms, as in his first novel “Scharnow”.