In the love stories by Gregor Schattschneider, Matthias Politycki portrays his generation. Immediately after its release in the summer of 1997, critics placed the novel about women at number one on the SWR bestseller list. A heated debate erupted about the generation depicted in it, which explicitly distanced itself from the 68ers for the first time – and the book became a bestseller. Politycki established his reputation as an "eminent humorist" and "acrobat of memory" with this work.