Interview

 

Note: The following interview with the author was conducted in June 2025 by Lea Merten. It first appeared in a print magazine (not publicly archived) and is being made available online here as a secondary use.

❓1. Critics of swingers are just uptight and prudish, right?

No. Criticism of disinhibition is not the same as prudishness.

I don't criticize sexuality itself – but rather a culture that has turned sex into a commodity, degrading people to tools and talking about  “freedom” in the process. I also like to write about “fast food sex.” That's not progress, that's decline with false labeling.

❓2. Which is worse – violence in the club or indifference in the bedroom?

Both have the same foundation: dehumanization.

Whether someone thoughtlessly disregards feelings or strikes coldly – in both cases, something dies. In the club, the body dies. In relationships, the soul dies.

 

❓3. Better to have sex than war – right?

 

Only if sex itself is not a war.

What is often sold today as “free sex” is in reality a power game, bartering, self-destruction. Everyone fights against everyone else under the guise of tolerance. And hardly anyone notices.

❓4. Is “Amoklauf im Swingerclub” a book against sex?

No. It is a book against the abuse of sexuality as a substitute religion.

Against consumption without feeling. Against people who think they are free - but have long been prisoners of their urges.

 

❓5. Why so brutal? Why so direct?

Because you don't criticize a dead system with cotton balls.

If you use soft language, no one will understand you. I don't want to please. I want to hit home. In the head. In the gut. In the conscience.

 

❓6. Who would voluntarily read something like this?

People who are brave enough to question themselves.

Not every reader has to agree. But everyone who reads it to the end will change or at least think about the hypocritical sex addictions of swingers - and that's more than most books achieve.

❓7. Is your book a form of literary vigilante justice?

Perhaps. Perhaps it is a moral cry in a world that has lost all sense of proportion.

When the bourgeois middle class no longer feels anything, the novel must become loud. I write about what is otherwise kept secret.

❓8. Which is more perverse – group sex or moral blindness?

Blindness.

Group sex is a symptom. Moral indifference is the cause. It makes it possible for lust to turn into decadence or violence – and no one looks.

❓9. Would you ban your book from minors?

Yes – not because they can't handle it, but because it's not their time.

This book is for adults who know how wrong things can go – and have the courage to look in the mirror.

 

 

❓10. What would you say to someone who feels offended after reading it?

Then it worked.

A novel shouldn't be soothing. It should rub, burn, and stir things up. If you feel hurt, then maybe you were the target.