Hubertus Koch "Lost Boy"

In the organizer's words:

Hubertus Koch knows what it means to burn out. For years, he led a life as a high performer - his own hustle made him known to a wider audience. Whether political reports, interviews with musicians or videos about his own addiction story. In both his journalistic work and personal videos, he displayed a level of honesty that is hard to find in the media world.

Now the Bremen-based journalist is breaking new ground and publishing his first book: in LOST BOY, Hubertus Koch reflects on topics he has never spoken about before: the clichés of a media world, burnout and hustle culture, being overwhelmed by world-weariness, drug excesses and the difficulty of entering into real relationships. The themes of his life, wrapped up in the autobiographical story of a backpacking trip through Bosnia, Albania and Montenegro. In times of well-organized vacations and optimized lives, LOST BOY is both a harsh reckoning and a tender love song, an ode to chaos and analogue, unplanned journeys full of honest encounters. LOST BOY shows that this ugly world has so much beauty to offer: if you don't want anything from it and instead of working towards something, simply observe.