She pulled Das Kapital from the shelf. "I tried to read it once too. It's all well and good, but somehow I would have thought there would be more Indians in it..." The young woman interested in Marx is Kathrin Passig, an English literature student from Regensburg. Martin Schlosser meets her in the early nineties when she wins a competition he organized for the satire magazine Kowalski. He is now working there as a freelance contributor. And since his texts are also published in Merkur, Frankfurter Rundschau, and konkret, he can finally make a living from writing. From now on, he no longer stands behind the counter of a Frisian dive bar but travels as a reporter: for example, to a juggling festival in Oldenburg, to the reunification celebration in front of the Berlin Reichstag, or to an atheist congress in Fulda. In the meantime, he takes care of.