Im Gespräch mit Leif Randt: "Let's talk about feelings"

In the organizer's words:

An optimistic book about sad farewells: Leif Randt invents the coming-of-middle age.

Marian Flanders, 41, sells perhaps the most beautiful clothes in the world in his West Berlin boutique, but the Kenting Beach store is rarely financially successful. When his mother Carolina - a once iconic model - passes away after a long illness, Marian organizes an alternative funeral service for selected guests. On his father's former party boat, he delivers a disarming speech, co-authored by his best friend, and scatters his mother's ashes on the Wannsee. Marian believes that this event marks the beginning of the more joyless half of his life. But what follows is a year of transformation. Successful half-siblings and ambivalent flirtations take Marian to places such as Plaza Konami, Sapporo, New Delhi and Wolfsburg. False friendliness turns into warm-hearted defiance, undercooled sadness grows into quiet euphoria - let's talk about feelings.

The event will be moderated by Philipp Holstein (Rheinische Post) and takes place in cooperation with the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland and the Heine Haus Literaturhaus Düsseldorf.