on the other hand, found on May 12, 2004, in SWR'S program Büchertalk: "Kunkel's provocation consists in the fact that the Third Reich is portrayed from an internal perspective. That means that the people who describe it to us are Nazis. [...] I read this book with great pleasure in a very quick time and found it a monstrous, horror-movie-like inside perspective of a system that is otherwise only ever portrayed from the perspective of the victims." Nevertheless, Kunkel never found Final Stage's reception justified. Kunkel's fourth novel Kuhl's cosm (original title: Kuhls Kosmos), was published in 2007. The well-known critic Volker Weidermann called the novel "sensationally funny" in the FAS. The Ärzte singer Bela B. also publicly commented on Kunkel's novel: "Rarely felt so good bad." Kuhl's Cosm as sequel of his first novel describes the dark side of disco culture and locates its beginnings in the criminal red-light milieu. Frankfurt DJ Sven Väth – father of German techno – also commented on these beginnings in the Süddeutsche, April 14, 2002: "You have to imagine it something like in Thor Kunkel's Frankfurt novel 'The Black Light Terrarium,' very semi-sexy and proletarian." In 2010, Kunkel followed up with the utopian grotesque Schaumschwester, in which Kunkel describes the conspiracy of cybernetic organisms. The taz praised the novel, calling it "compressed and restrained." From a 2009 radio play Subs written for WDR, Kunkel developed the novel of the same name, which was published in 2011. In his novel, Kunkel depicts the return of slavery in a private setting. A progressive-minded couple decides to settle "Balkan people" (meaning refugees) on their property in Berlin. The Austrian Standard wrote on June 3, 2011: "Thor Kunkel is and remains the German grand master of trash." The philosopher Peter Sloterdijk also commented on this novel: "Resist the beginnings!", Ovid once said. Thor Kunkel sets against it: Investigate the beginnings!" Spiegel magazine of December 12, 2011, considered this statement both a "knighthood and a declaration of honor." In his memoir Wanderful - My New Life in the Mountains, published in 2014, Kunkel describes his two-year-lasting sabathical in the Valais Alps. The text is a mixture of autobiographical vignettes and essays on natural philosophy, that unfold within the framework of a high-alpine hiking guide. Cicero magazine, No. 4 of April 2014 subsequently called Kunkel "the last outlaw of German literature." In addition to his literary work, Thor Kunkel