Bodo Kirchhoff

[2] In addition to writing literary fiction, he has worked on various projects for German television, such as long-runner Tatort, and has written movie screenplays.

[6] In 2010, Kirchhoff revealed in an article in Der Spiegel[7] that as a twelve-year-old schoolboy, he had been sexually abused by the choirmaster at his boarding school, which he began attending in 1959, after the divorce of his parents, by Lake Constance.

[citation needed] In a densely woven narrative, Kirchhoff succeeds in negotiating the great motifs of his literary oeuvre in a small space.

At the same time, he writes about our present and about how two melancholy seekers of good fortune encounter the people who, in this day and age, are setting out in the opposite direction, from South to North.

[13] A story that contains elements of male phantasies, which is sometimes painfully cheesy and desperately wants to include a current topic by connecting the refugee crisis of summer 2015 with tales of the last love.