Res Sigusch reads from his debut novel "Essential Needs"
Art professor Benjamin Leiser has everything - money, status, relationships - and yet he is not satisfied. When he meets the student Konstantin, he chooses him as the son he never had but always wanted, and remembers the year '89, when his dreams still seemed achievable: To become a painter, to be a father, to find happiness. 30 years later, he tries to fulfill these "essential needs" in a creative way ...
Res Sigusch first studied general and comparative literature and philosophy, then literary writing and editing.
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