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, then the author has actually quickly lost his stamp. The heretic and prankster of the highest caliber, who moves confidently in the field of excessive exaggeration, is always to be taken seriously, but never completely seriously. With Herbert Somplatzki, one was always well advised to recognize the bitterly serious background of his seemingly funny to bizarre intellectual flights of fancy as such. It was often not far to the ground of sporting reality, writes Harald Pieper. Hence: Sports satires and more…. The stories, essays and over 120 graphic works by Herbert Somplatzki collected in this book are the sum of decades of unusual engagement with sport, which is unlikely to have an equivalent in the German-speaking world – and whose topicality is even at home in utopian dimensions; even if it tells of what it was like when Arnold Schwarzenegger came to Essen for a jump-off.