Heinz Strunk reveals: melancholy and humor in No money, no happiness!

Heinz Strunk reveals: melancholy and humor in No money, no happiness!

Heinz Strunk is back and brings a new narrative band to the market that bears the provocative title "No money. No happiness. No fuel". On July 16, 2025, the plant will be released by Verlag Klett-Cotta for 23 euros and comprises 192 pages. The collection is made up of short and shortest stories that offer exactly what you can expect from stalk: a mixture of tragic melancholy and fine humor. Strunk's characters often come from everyday life and are mostly on the losing side of life, which gives him the opportunity to shed light on the topics of sadness, hopelessness and bizarre facets of human existence. As reports NDR, Strunk once again shows his great sense of human in the unsuccessful.

In his stories, steeper, who sees himself as an empathetic narrator, makes the inner struggle of his protagonists. So he spins stories about missed dates and bizarre everyday situations that extend far beyond one's own reality of life. In a particularly urgent story, a woman in Hamburg describes her unbearable everyday life, plagued by constant hiccups, which plunges into a crisis. For them, thoughts about suicide are an overwhelming reality - a topic that is also reflected in Strunk's book. The stories, as reports SR, deal with transience and dealing with one's own mortality.

tragicomic stories with wit

stories are not only sad, but often also provided with a humorous end. He illuminates life of socially weak losers as well as a complacent newcomer and packs this in language jokes and innovative metaphors. An example from the narrative band is the story of a man whose only ability to check the mailbox for mail. Such characters are the heroes of Strunk's world, who are also in the "Scampi Pan", a story about the bourgeoisie of package travelers, and the unfortunate couple, which appears in it, profoundly staged. In "Curtain up!" Performs a pensioner puppet theater for robots - a bizarre composition that is typical of Strunk's style.

Strunk's autobiographical stories also bring personal insights, such as the history of "stork farming", in which the first-person narrator thinks about his life situation. He often reflects on death, especially since his sixty birthday, and hopes to gain more joie de vivre in old age. The author himself sees his writer talent over the years and believes that he has gotten better today.

A look in Strunk's past

The background of Heinz Strunk offer an interesting dimension that also influence his current works. His father, a historian, was a father of five children with his mother. The two met only sporadically, which Strunk never particularly interests. The first encounter found how southern German magazine, was 15 years old, in a hotel room, where they had a smoking and beer drinking. An ambivalent relationship that probably shaped the writer. His experiences also flow into his current stories and make them all the more tangible.

With "No money. No luck. No fuel", Heinz Strunk brings out a work that will encourage readers: inside to laugh and cry. And as he says himself, life does not stop in the law - a message that resonates in every sentence of this narrative band.