Egg salad - a woman goes his way

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Egg Salad - A woman goes his way is a novel published in 1999 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch ( ISBN 3-462-02815-4 ) by the Mülheim entertainer Helge Schneider . The book is to be seen as a parody of women’s novels and female emancipation . Schneider used the pseudonym Helga Maria Schneider to indicate the author .

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The story begins with the protagonist on the plane to Greece. The holiday is a gift from her husband, but she is not grateful for it. Her strong feminist streak, coupled with a penchant for uncompromising brutality against men, quickly becomes apparent. On the Mediterranean island she quickly tied up with an island resident, a surf instructor, and got pregnant by him. Back home, she takes the untidy apartment as an opportunity to part with her husband and throw him out. When her vacation friend comes to visit, she plans to kill him in a bathtub full of acid, but it fails. On the same day she gives birth to her child, a boy, and goes to the market without further ado. When she comes back, the surf instructor and their son have disappeared.

Helga Maria, who now lives in a shared flat for women, spends the next time writing books, founding a women’s club and meeting other male acquaintances. She becomes pregnant again. This time it is a girl, but she is soon rejected by her mother, having married at a young age.

There will be an international women’s meeting in Burundi next year. Helga Maria decides to travel there by motorcycle. Here, too, she starts a relationship with a local, who has not had a good fate either, as Helga Maria throws him off his motorcycle on the journey home and leaves him lying in the desert sand. A German family driving past saves him, however. When she arrives home, she finds her house burned down. The book ends with the protagonist emigrating to South America by ship.

Audio book

In 2000, an unabridged author's reading was published, accompanied by piano improvisations by Schneider.