Marc-Uwe Kling, 26, is a songwriter, author, and cabaret artist. He is a two-time German poetry slam champion and has won numerous prestigious cabaret awards. His kangaroo stories are broadcast as a weekly column on RBB Radio Fritz. Marc-Uwe Kling lives in Berlin.

"I am a kangaroo – and Marc-Uwe is my roommate and chronicler. Only some of what he says about me is true. For example, that I was once with the Vietcong. Most of it, however, is exaggerated, twisted, or a lie! But I can't complain. We go out to eat and to the movies together, and I don't have to pay for anything." Sometimes biting, sometimes quirky, and then lovingly ironic, the everyday life of an unusual duo is illuminated. Completely absurd and a great reading pleasure.