Debütpremiere mit Lukas Mi-Sa Nguyễn Egger und Miriam Zeh!

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We celebrate debut & premiere at the same time in the book box! Author Lukas Mi-Sa Nguyễn Egger and journalist Miriam Zeh talk about one of the most promising novel debuts of 2026: "Vielleicht im Sommer" is a ravishing and serious coming-of-age novel for all fans of Ewald Arenz, Christian Huber and Wolfgang Herrndorf.

Two outsiders, an unlikely friendship and seven summer days that change everything

"They stare at me outside. Like semi-detached houses seeing a prefabricated building for the first time."

Summer 2007: 15-year-old Kian, who grew up with his petty criminal father, ends up in a home after a serious stroke of fate. He knows immediately that he can't stay there. During a night-time escape attempt, he meets Marco, who has completely different reasons for running away. After lonely and hard years in the orphanage, he has found out that he has a half-sister on the North Sea. When the two dissimilar boys manage to break out together, an adventurous journey towards the sea begins. They become intoxicated by their new freedom. Above all, they discover for the first time what it means to have a family and to be there for each other.

Young, authentic, captivating - Lukas Mi-Sa Nguyen Egger is a new favorite author who has a lot to say.

Lukas Mi-Sa Nguyễn Egger grew up as the youngest son of a Vietnamese father and a German mother and experienced early on what it can mean to be culturally and financially on the margins of society. This motivated him to take a close look at the biographies of marginalized children and young people in Germany. The desire to give a voice to those who have none resulted in his debut novel.

Lukas Mi-Sa Nguyễn Egger, born in 2000 in Pforzheim, grew up as the youngest son of a Vietnamese father and a German mother and experienced at an early age what it can mean to be culturally and economically marginalized in society. His experiences working with children and young people from precarious backgrounds and his master's thesis on poverty in Germany awakened in him the desire to give a voice to those who have none. This is how this outstanding debut novel came about. Lukas Mi-Sa Nguyễn Egger lives and works in Karlsruhe.

Miriam Zeh, born in Hamburg in 1988, works as a literary editor at Deutschlandfunk Kultur. She studied music, German studies and philosophy in Cologne and St. Louis. She received her doctorate from Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in 2021.

Price information:

With Kiezkarte or discount on presentation of ID € 14. Only available in the stores, but can also be refunded at the Box Office/book table.