Tiny Stricker, pioneer of German pop literature, is also on the road in his new novel like Jack Kerouac, only in the Orient. “Hotel Amir Kabir or the Ways of the Hippies” is a wistful look back to the time of the ’68 – and at the same time a declaration of love.
How did he find his way through the maze and small alleys of Tehran to the Hotel Amir Kabir? With luck. And because he “walked senseless behind a boy who seemed to be still practicing his role as a tugboat and yet had recognized with childlike certainty that the newcomer belonged to a certain neighborhood.” The Hotel Amir Kabir – a place of longing, a safe haven in the Orient, “a kingdom of air”, a home abroad and ultimately also the hostel for many hippies who became a kind of family for Tiny Stricker.