In Philipp Tingler's literary diary Ich bin ein Profi, readers accompany the first-person narrator to a gathering of the highly gifted in Berlin and to the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt. The hero's everyday life in Zürich — marked by shopping sprees, party visits and writerly work — is also depicted. Readers encounter characters and places familiar from Tingler's debut novel Hübsche Versuche, the biggest debut success of summer 2000 in the Swiss literary scene.