Village punks
Dorfpunks is the second novel by the German entertainer, singer, actor and presenter Rocko Schamoni and was published in 2004 by Rowohlt-Verlag .
On April 30, 2008, the play Dorfpunks - The Blossoms of Violence, staged by Studio Braun and based on the book, premiered at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg .
The film adaptation of the same name by Lars Jessen was shown at the 59th Berlinale and was released in the cinema on April 23, 2009.
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The protagonist of this autobiographical novel, written in the first-person narrative situation, has to spend his years between twelve and 22 in the fictional small town of Schmalenstedt (meaning Lütjenburg in Schleswig-Holstein) after his parents - both teachers - fulfilled a dream and lived there bought rundown farmhouse that they are renovating. As a newcomer, he has to fit into the life of the village. He and his friends found a punk band and, at the insistence of his parents, completed a pottery apprenticeship.
The 48 chapters of the episodically narrated novel, between half a page and eight pages, on average a good three and a half pages long, reconstruct in many concrete details and therefore understandably - but by no means without aloof or criticism - the attitude towards life of young people in the late seventies and early eighties. The novel begins in 1976, when the first-person narrator is on the threshold of puberty, and ends in the spring of 1986 when the first-person narrator - after a messed up school career and at the request of his mother - passes the vocational school examination as a potter, but without intending to ever do this job. Up to this preliminary biographical endpoint, Rocko has to break away from his parents' ideals of life and their notions of wellbeing, and above all from the overprotective care of his mother - a painful process that reaches to the point of complete alienation for both sides. Hard rock and then the punk and punk rock movement - “Broke out in England in 1975, ebbed here in 1981” act as an important tool in solving Rocko's parents. In U.S. A youth tsunami. "
Reviews
"Funnier than allowed in this country and more serious than desired in this country"
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Rocko Schamoni: Dorfpunks . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-499-24116-1