Lettekiez liest! - Lesung und Gespräch mit Katja Kullmann: “Stars”

In the organizer's words:

A brilliant, perceptive novel about the pleasure of seduction and the longing for cosmic order in times of crisis

Carla Mittmann, once a hopeful philosophy student, has parked her life in the service department of a furniture company. She runs a horoscope website on the side - for fun, as an extra income, believing in fate is far from her mind. But then a shoebox arrives on her doorstep, containing ten thousand dollars, sender unknown. She seizes the opportunity, puts all her eggs in one basket, enters the astro business in a big way - and there it is at last, success. She quickly becomes a sought-after star astrologer and moves into the highest social spheres until she is suddenly no longer sure: is she guiding the stars or are the stars guiding her?

Katja Kullmann, born in 1970, is a writer and journalist living in Berlin. For the bestseller Generation Ally. Warum es heute so kompliziert ist, eine Frau zu sein was awarded the German Book Prize in 2003. Her most recent book, Die Singuläre Frau, was published by Hanser Berlin in 2022.