Mensching’s work serves as a "grandioses Kammerspiel" (grandiose chamber play), challenging readers to evaluate their own moral standing on global migration. By trapping the architect of a heartless system within that very system, Mensching illustrates that the "solutions" we design for others are often the ones we are least prepared to endure ourselves. Hausers Ausflug - Steffen Mensching | Wallstein Verlag
In his 2022 novel Hausers Ausflug (Hauser’s Outing), Steffen Mensching delivers a biting dystopian satire that transforms a technical solution for migration into a personal nightmare for its creator. Set in the near future of 2029, the narrative follows David Hauser, a cynical entrepreneur who has grown wealthy by developing "AIRDROP" capsules—high-tech "repatriation boxes" designed to air-drop rejected asylum seekers back into their home regions with clinical efficiency. Steffen Mensching Hausers Ausflug rar
: The title itself is a sardonic play on the term "asylum tourism," reframing a forced deportation as a mere "outing" or "excursion". Set in the near future of 2029, the
: The novel examines how quickly the "varnish of civilization" peels away when an individual is reduced to mere survival in an unwirtliche (inhospitable) environment. the narrative follows David Hauser