It comes from the author Ilona Hartmann. She spoke to my colleague Sheila Dierks about her new book. “Klarkommen” is about young people who, after their uneventful youth in the village, hope to experience the craziest things in the big city.
But what if things turn out completely differently: unspectacular, ordinary? The author seeks answers to this question in the interview. She also explains why we are constantly afraid of missing out. And how we find a break from the greedy expectations of ourselves and our lives.
I hope you enjoy reading
Markus Sutera
, editor of SPIEGEL Start
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Ilona Hartmann, born in 1990, lives in Berlin and works as a freelance author
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Lenny Rothenberg
Ilona Hartmann believes that anyone who thinks that life is a single adventure
will probably be disappointed. That's why she told a deliberately realistic story - which she would have liked to read even as a teenager.
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