Schantall, do wave your grandma!
Schantall, do wave your grandma! From the everyday life of an intrepid social worker is a book by the German author Kai Twilfer . The satire was published in February 2013 by Verlag Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf .
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The book is written from the perspective of Jochen, a social worker in the fictional small town of Bochtrop-Rauxel . He is transferred to the social service by the cultural authority. As soon as he started his new job, he was confronted with the chaotic, lower-class Pröllmann family. Your world is determined by chantalism . Daughter Schantall, 24 years of age, a school dropout, is raising their son Tschastin alone after her husband Ronny has left her. Jochen meets a previously unknown to him milieu that is tattoos on his back, tuned cars, glitters phones, solarium and Buses leave in Lloret de Mar turns. All of his attempts to provide education fail grandly.
reception
Kirsten Guthmann from Radio 91.2 says: “The Schantall's life is so exaggerated that no one feels trodden on the tie. (...) But that is precisely why Kai Twilfer's book is all the funnier. ” The Sächsische Zeitung notes, “ While the author Kai Twilfer assures that with this type of reading he wants to stop the wave of taste impoverishment in Germany, he has long been a part from that".
For several weeks in 2013, the book took first place in the Spiegel bestseller list of paperbacks, non-fiction.
In September 2014 came the second part with the title Schantall, tu ma die Omma Prost! - News from the everyday life of the intrepid social worker on the market; In August 2016 the third and last part followed with the title Schantall, call the Omma bye! .
Book info
- Schantall, do wave your grandma! From the everyday life of an intrepid social worker , Berlin: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86265-219-8 (with illustrations by Susanne Granas).
Web links
- Publisher information on the book , including a video interview with Kai Twilfer
Individual evidence
- ↑ Book tip: Schantall, wave your grandma! at Radio 91.2, April 14, 2013
- ↑ Schantall, wave your grandmother! , Sächsische Zeitung, February 24, 2013
- ↑ buchreport.de. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 12, 2013 ; Retrieved August 6, 2013 . 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.
