Caroline Wahl | KulturImZelt Braunschweig

In the organizer's words:

Festival KulturImZelt 2025

📍 Bürgerpark, Braunschweig

🗓 August 21 - September 21, 2025

- More than 50 shows from the fields of live concerts, readings, cabaret & comedy. -

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Caroline Wahl, born in Mainz in 1995, became the literary discovery of the year 2023 with her debut novel "22 Bahnen" - awarded the Ulla Hahn Author Prize and the Grimmelshausen Promotion Prize. The follow-up "Windstärke 17" also became a bestseller. With "Die Assistentin", she now presents a novel whose quiet power will resonate for a long time.

A career as a musician - that is Charlotte's greatest wish. But now, after her final university exams, she first has to look for a job, not least because of her parents. She finds a job in a publishing house, which isn't bad either, and Munich is a beautiful city, especially in summer.

In the publisher's antechamber, Charlotte sits very close to the center of power. She soon realizes that he often changes his assistants. But she develops a good relationship with her boss, who recognizes her strengths and trusts her. And she has to put up with a lot, a lot, perhaps even fight hard herself, perhaps even risk her health. Maybe even lose Bo, with whom she has only just fallen in love ...

In a wonderfully laconic tone, with humor and depth, Caroline Wahl's new novel tells the story of a young woman who doesn't want to be victimized and yet finds herself in a situation that many people know: when your job becomes hell. An everyday tale of woe, a novel about resilience and survival.

Caroline Wahl writes about work, ambition and the quiet drama of everyday life with a clear view, subtle humor and great closeness to her characters. A story about having to function, about self-assertion and the little happiness that remains when you don't lose yourself.

"These are novels that captivate. Wahl has the ability to portray the emotional and mental worlds of her protagonists in language and imagery with such intensity and immediacy that you can't stop reading."

- Peer Teuwsen, Neue Zürcher Zeitung