"Jörg Schieke's poems pass by like cinematic plots in which astonishing worlds open up, as close to everyday life as they are surreal. The author is a master of the grotesque and the mysterious, playing cleverly with flashbacks to East German moods. He adapts trends with subtle shifts and allows spheres of life and work to merge into a linguistically brilliant wealth of facets.
There are faulty guest WLANs, pizza boxes to play frisbee with and the famous bicycle bear in the circus. But who is Silverman? Ungraspable, dazzling, silvery and yet abysmal, he laughs, he can take the password from us and attends the cultural program in the evening. He is the most beautiful creature since weather records began. Jörg Schieke's poetry collection is a subtle collage - or lyrical parody? - of our unhealed world." (publisher)