"Der Paketzusteller"

Gerhild Pfister, 48, is the queen of Facebook. And not a particularly nice person. As the head of her digital salon and a feared online satirist, the failed artist propagates total social media existence. But Gerhild has cancer and will soon die. Knowing that Facebook will not erect a monument to her, she stirs up as much digital dust as possible one last time – punishing, rewarding, empowering, castrating.

However, an unexpected love affair with the parcel delivery man Haydar brings her life crashing down to analogue reality and shakes her ‘sovereignty over death’ – stabilised with the help of all kinds of psychotropic drugs. When Haydar disappears and evidence mounts that he was murdered by his boss, she seeks revenge. But her revenge fails, which, contrary to expectations, leads to a new career for her and a turbulent and unusual showdown for the novel...


Vienna-based author Richard Schuberth (born 1968) writes literature in various genres (novels, essays, short stories, aphorisms, poetry, plays), as well as academic texts, songs and socially critical satires. He has also been a cartoonist, cabaret artist, actor, music journalist, drug trial subject, sperm collector, director and founder of the Balkan Fever music festival.

His texts have appeared in konkret, Jungle World, nd, Welt, Merkur, Phase 2, Standard, Augustin, etc. The only awards he is proud of are the Theodor Kramer Prize for Writing in Exile and Resistance and the MigAward (awarded only by migrants). Recent publications: Lord Byron – der erste Anti-Byronist (Wallstein), Die Welt als guter Wille und schlechte Vorstellung – das identitätspolitische Lesebuch (Drava)


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