Reading: Gerrit Wustmann reads from “Nothing about it is funny”

A widower receives a visit from his dead previous tenant. A hypochondriac finds a cure for eternal health - but there's a nasty catch. A little girl has a new imaginary friend... with murderous intentions. An official wants to check whether a person exists - and has forms with fatal consequences in his luggage. A man hears a mysterious knocking sound over and over again, slowly driving him crazy. And a homicide detective gets lost in the middle of a terribly bad crime script. In

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Author reading: Gerrit Wustmann reads from “Nothing about it is funny”

A widower receives a visit from his dead previous tenant. A hypochondriac finds a cure for eternal health - but there's a nasty catch. A little girl has a new imaginary friend... with murderous intentions. An official wants to check whether a person exists - and has forms with fatal consequences in his luggage. A man hears a mysterious knocking sound over and over again, slowly driving him crazy. And a homicide detective gets lost in the middle of a terribly bad crime script. In the

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For a coffee with the writer Gerrit Wustmann: Nothing about it is funny!

"If one of my characters stands on the edge of a cliff, they should expect me to push them off just to see what happens...” In an interview with Madjid Mohit, Gerrit Wustmann talks about his short story collection “Nothing is funny about it”. In ten stories full of deep black humor, populated by the desperate, losers and other ghosts, Gerrit Wustmann uses all genres and turns the inside out. The perfect read for long, dark autumn evenings. Or for all those who are on the disused routes on the

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