Small everyday stories made grand! News from one of the co-founders of the German reading stage scene: With a satirical eye and a fine sense for the curiosities of the moment, "Frühschoppen" veteran Andreas Scheffler weaves wonderfully laconic tales from the musings of his fellow humans or his own absurdities. When wandering retirees, overprotective mothers, or drunken football fans wreak havoc in a train compartment, when one of the buddies tries to set up a young, pretty girlfriend, or when Santa Claus goes on a rampage at the Christmas market; when you are disturbed on the toilet by Nora Roberts and in your dreams by Thomas Mann, you are left with either madness or gallows humor. Andreas Scheffler has chosen humor, because in the end, it is usually the one who has thought too far and too often outside the box who ends up being the fool.