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Christoph Scheuring
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Synopsis
Albert lives with his introverted mathematician father in Hamburg's Blankenese district after his parents' separation, and spends his free time at the main train station photographing farewells, which he believes are the moments people are least able to fake. When he meets Kati, a girl who seems to practically live at the station, and shows her his favorite photograph, she insists it's a lie.
Determined to prove him wrong, Kati and Albert go looking for the two people in the picture — a man, and Kati's sister, who died by suicide, throwing herself in front of a train. The search draws Albert into a world of homeless, drug-dependent and prostituting teenagers living around the station, echoing the terrain of Christiane F.'s account decades earlier. Christoph Scheuring's novel won a jury nomination for the German Youth Literature Prize in 2015.
Genres
Characters
AlbertProtagonist
Sixteen-year-old who photographs farewells at Hamburg's main train station.
KatiSupporting
A girl who spends her time at the station and challenges Albert's belief in his own photograph.
Frequently asked questions
Was hat den Autor dazu inspiriert, über dieses Thema zu schreiben?
Christoph Scheuring hat als Journalist für Publikationen wie Der Spiegel und Stern gearbeitet, wobei er sowohl Zeit mit einflussreichen Persönlichkeiten als auch mit Menschen am Rande der Gesellschaft verbracht hat. Diese Erfahrungen mit dem Leben in sozialen Randgebieten flossen direkt in seine Arbeit als Jugendbuchautor ein.
Hat das Buch eine besondere Auszeichnung erhalten?
Der Roman wurde 2015 für den Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis in der Kategorie Preis der Jugendjury nominiert.
