Buchpremiere mit Katja Lewina

In the organizer's words:

Admission: 7 pm

Start: 8 p.m.

On October 11, author Katja Lewina will be coming to the Colosseum at 7:30 pm to read from her new book "Wir können doch Freunde bleiben - Trennungsgeschichten aus der Hölle". The evening will be hosted by author Rebecca Maria Salentin.

How two people find each other is often easily told. But how do they break up? 'We can still be friends' brings together stories about one of the most painful experiences of our lives: the end of a love affair. There is Annette, who finds out that her boyfriend is an exhibitionist known to the police. Rayk, who now has to learn to cope with being alone after a thirty-year relationship. Or Maximilian, who married his girlfriend when their relationship was already at an end. The authentic anecdotes told here by Katja Lewina read like a rollercoaster ride of emotions. Because break-ups are naturally a wild thing. Fortunately, however, we can learn from the mistakes of others: about our own recklessness, our behavioral patterns or even how not to run into an open knife. Because if there's one thing that unites all these stories, it's probably this: In the end, you're always glad when what shouldn't last is over.

Katja Lewina's break-up stories are lively, funny and yet profound. Empathetically and intelligently, she explores how it works: breaking up well. Katja Lewina was born in Moscow in 1984 and studied Slavic studies as well as literature and religious studies. She worked as a freelance editor and in artist management. Today she is a freelance author for well-known media. DuMont published the SPIEGEL bestsellers 'Sie hat Bock' (2020), 'Bock. Männer und Sex' (2021), 'EX' (2022) and 'Was ist schon für immer' (2024).

Rebecca Maria Salentin was born in 1979 to a German mother and an Israeli father in the Eifel region, where she grew up. She has lived in Leipzig since 2003. Her debut "Background Knowledge of a Piano Tuner" was published in 2007. Her novel "Schuld war Elvis" was published in 2015. In 2019, she founded the literary show "Die schlecht gemalte Deutschlandfahne", which she hosted until 2023. In 2019, she walked the approximately 2,700-kilometre International Mountain Hiking Trail of Friendship EB from Eisenach to Budapest. She is officially only the 13th person to have completed this trail as a thruhiker since it was founded in 1983. The book about the tour, "Klub Drushba", was on the Spiegel bestseller list for several weeks. In 2022, she became the first person to conquer the 10,000-kilometre Iron Curtain Trail (Iron Curtain Trail/EV13 cycle route) from the Black Sea to the Barents Sea. The book on the tour "Iron Woman", published in 2023, also became a bestseller.

She writes regularly for various newspapers and magazines such as Spiegel, ZEIT, Stern, Globetrotter magazine Awards & scholarships

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Subtotal € 19.80 VAT (7%) € 1.39 Service charge € 0.53