Take off your clothes, you old hipster
Take off your clothes, you old hipster is the first crime novel by the Mülheim comedian and jazz artist Helge Schneider and was published in 1994 .
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In the town of Inspector Schneider, there is a cruel murderer who only targets women. With the sentence "Take off your clothes you old hipster" he attacks her and brutally murders her. Inspector Schneider, who is plagued by marital problems at the same time, is on the heels of the perpetrator. But there are several suspects: B. the cleaning lady of the police station or the mayor, who happens to always show up at the scene of the crime when Inspector Schneider investigates there. What role does the composer Beethoven play, who has apparently resurrected? On a mysterious lonely island near the coast in front of the city, Schneider finds the solution to the riddle. However, on the way there, more people are injured and killed by the commissioner than by the wanted serial killer himself.
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The Kommissar-Schneider books are, on the one hand, parody of classic detective novels. On the other hand, their utter unpredictability and an emphasis on creative use of language make them difficult to classify using common literary terms.
The characters' behaviors are extremely absurd and absurd and convey Helge Schneider's well-known anarchic humor. For example, the commissioner behaves lawlessly at times and beats other, sometimes innocent, people who contradict him, sometimes brutally or even kills them for no real reason, while in other, much 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”.
Book editions
- Pull yourself out you old hip , Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1994 ISBN 3-462-02384-5
- The moon stuck ass pale on the window ... , Die Kommissar Schneider Romane 1–4, Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2004 ISBN 3-462-03431-6