Krausser can do it! About the strange behavior of sexually mature people during mating season – Helmut Krausser juggles the elements of a sophisticated soap opera in his new novel, creating literature with a magnetic pull: a metropolitan kaleidoscope full of wit and surprises shines a light on a variety of couples. There’s the archaeologist Fred Reitlinger and his wife Nora, her lover Arnie, and his wife. Then there are his doctoral students Leopold and Gerry, embroiled in a dispute over a university position. And Reitlinger’s children: Alisha, 19, has fallen for her classmate Caro, who secretly works as an escort. Her brother Ansger, on the other hand, has disappeared after a bankruptcy – a crime? Caro can’t shake off her lover Petar, whose father sells a yacht to the Reitlingers as a base for Nora’s romantic escapades. Everyone is connected to everyone else, and separations are on the horizon. There will also be burnouts, not just because a fire breaks out in the middle of Lake Wannsee. Krausser is a passionate storyteller, an artist of seduction. If Woody Allen runs out of ideas for a screenplay – he could take this novel as is, and we would get to see the best Woody Allen film of all time. Until its premiere, we are happy to hold such a clever and witty novel in our hands.