Dackerl is a c.40,000 word novella set in 1948 about the quest of a young man to avenge his father, a prominent writer who has been murdered by a Nazi named Dackerl. The young man travels to Vienna where he meets a variety of people, including a renowned physicist, a Jewish scholar, a famous film director and an aristocratic Russian refugee, in whom he falls madly in love. The young man enters a world of smoke and mirrors in which nothing is what it seems.

Born in Vienna in 1967 Michael Buergermeister was brought up in London. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Vienna and Max Reinhardt Seminar. A writer, filmmaker and video artist he lives and works in Vienna, Austria.