The scarlet fighting chicken
The Scarlet Fighting Chicken is the second crime novel by Mülheim jazz artist Helge Schneider and was published in 1995 .
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On a farm, a man is torn apart by a guard dog in the middle of the night. During the investigation, Inspector Schneider witnessed a chicken attacking and killing a maid on the same farm. A few days later the farmer is also killed. He is killed by the commissioner in a scuffle. A tough nut to crack even for the best officer in the German police, namely Commissioner Schneider. But little by little, the superintendent uncovered a gruesome murder plan that centered on a mad scientist.
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The Kommissar-Schneider books are considered a successful parody of classic crime novels. Some of the characters' behaviors are extremely absurd and absurd and convey Helge Schneider's well-known anarchist humor.
For example, the commissioner behaves illegally at times and beats other, sometimes innocent, people who contradict him, sometimes brutally or even kills them for no real reason, while in other, far more dangerous situations he withdraws and behaves completely defensively. In the first case, the narrator dryly justifies the inspector's behavior as “necessary, he had no other choice”.
In the Schneider city, autopsies are not carried out by pathologists (“because Commissioner Schneider does not trust them”), but by the commissioner himself. The corpse lies on a trestle table in the garage of his house, which is usually where his company car, a stylish and modern sports car, is. Evidence, not only that the inspector could use, is also taken home and usually forgotten there, like a severed arm that the inspector kept under his bed and which he only remembered when it was completely decomposed and could no longer serve as evidence.
In addition, the inspector seems to be constantly on vacation and seldom stays in his office. People who want to speak to him there are quickly brought back outside with rude insults or serious physical assaults.
The other characters in the Schneider books also behave completely differently than you would expect them to. As Commissioner Schneider z. If, for example, a family man is literally knocked down in his office because he has complained about the commissioner, his children and wife are appalled by the behavior of the officer. But the bad mood evaporates when Inspector Schneider gives the children lollipops and offers the woman to eat the dead husband for lunch, so that everyone leaves the office satisfied.
Book editions
- Helge Schneider: The scarlet fighting chicken: Inspector Schneider's last case . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-462-02472-8 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- The moon stuck ass pale on the window ... , Die Kommissar Schneider Romane 1-4, Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2004 ISBN 3-462-03431-6
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Scarlet Fighting Chicken on the author's website. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 10, 2015 ; Retrieved July 8, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
