The world's most prolific writer and award-winning 'magician of words' Stefan Schenkl, who has written 130 novels, 4,887 stories and short stories, 140 plays and 15,609 poems to date, celebrates a reading from his novel "Das Maskottchen der Ruderer".
In the sixteenth book by the internationally acclaimed wonder author, a fantastically mysterious horror thriller with a sophisticated aesthetic, French ambience and Proustian narrative flair, the richest young men in the picturesque town of Le-Pont-du-Moulin, with its Gothic cathedral and artists' colony, decide to form a rowing team. During one of their first training trips on a foggy winter's day, they come across a monstrous sabre-toothed tiger on the riverbank and decide to make it their mascot. When many bestial deaths occur in the town over the next few days, the
The inhabitants suspect the sabre-toothed tiger, but the rowers firmly believe in his innocence and try everything to prove it...