Mr. Schamoni, your current book “Der Jaeger und seine Meister” tells of the largely forgotten Hamburg satirist and painter Heino Jaeger, who is nevertheless genuinely revered by a small group of initiates. In Hamburg, this group includes not only you, but also Olli Dittrich, Jacques Palminger and Heinz Strunk. You name your former record producer Ulf Krüger as the decisive impetus for approaching your very own Jaeger universe in the early 1990s. Was Kruger the preacher who wanted to convert everyone else to Jaeger disciples?
I do not believe that. That would probably have happened without Ulf. Rather, he suspected something like a fertile field in Wigald Boning, who was not yet known at the time, and also in me, in which he could plant these distant seeds. And that worked for me too. I listened to it at the time, in this case four radio plays. I had never heard anything like it before. There was actually nothing to laugh about, and you couldn’t even tell if that was funny. It was just dry and precise when he described work situations, for example in a bread factory. I understood that someone was doing something completely different.
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