Book: Olympic feelings or when Arnold Schwarzenegger came to Essen for stabbing

Olympic Feelings is a book that shows sports from a slightly different perspective than we are usually used to seeing in the press and on television.

“When utopias and visions reach the reader as satires, the author actually quickly has his stamp off. The heretic and jokester of high level, who moves confidently in the field of immoderate exaggeration, is always for full, but never to be taken completely seriously. With Herbert Somplatzki, one was always well advised to recognize the bitterly serious background of his funny to bizarre-seeming intellectual flights of fancy as such. It was often not far down to the ground of sporting reality, writes Harald Pieper. Therefore also: Sports satires and more…. The stories, essaystische works and over 120 graphics Herbert Somplatzki gathered in this book are the sum of a decades-long unusual occupation with the sport, which in the German-speaking world may have hardly an equivalent – and whose topicality is at home even in utopian dimensions; even if it is reported how it was when Arnold Schwarzenegger came to the stabbing to Essen.