back cover text Y2K panic, debate about the introduction of a deposit on beverage cans, Michael Schumacher becomes world champion. And what about Martin Schlosser at the turn of the millennium? He's drawn to the big city, to Hamburg, where he and journalist Rayk Wieland launch the event series "Toter Salon" (Dead Salon), which is first performed at the Hamburg Schauspielhaus and then at the Thalia Theater. And his literary career finally takes off when he signs his first book contract with a certain Hamburg publisher called Hoffmann und Campe. But life isn't all work, as our hero knows, celebrating first his wedding and then the birth of his son. The 21st century promises to be a good one. Biography: Gerhard Henschel, born in 1962, was, among other things, an editor at the satirical magazine Titanic and now lives as a freelance writer near Hamburg. In 2012, he was awarded the Hannelore Greve Literature Prize and in 2013, the Nicolas Born Prize.