BERLIN WEIRDOS

Or How I Broke the Chain of Shittiness

  • Ages 14+
  • Filiz Penkofer is a fresh new voice for the youth book. She writes in an amusing, clever and sensitive way about three very different teenagers who have to pull themselves together in times of crisis.
  • Topics: involuntary friendship, migration, multiculturalism, mental health, overcoming fear

In an involuntary Berlin flat-sharing community of "Assisted Living Herrmannplatz e.V." live:

a) Rabea, who likes to imitate bird calls during her frequent panic attacks, preferably cranes
b) Queen Tiger, a self-proclaimed Ebay voodoo witch who casts love spells in the flat with the help of gnawed chicken bones
and
c) Musti, a Syrian refugee who wants to spice up his German skills with (slightly off-key) phrases.

The three of them really have nothing in common until the grumpy house owner supposedly dies. And they are convinced that they have to get rid of the corpse together with her pug. It is inevitable that everything that can go wrong will go wrong. Why the three of them are finally celebrated as heroes and heroines of the city despite everything, they don't really know themselves. But they do know that from now on nothing can separate them.

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  • Publisher: Rotfuchs
  • Release: 01.07.2024
  • ISBN: 978-3-7571-0089-6
  • 224 Pages
  • Author: Filiz Penzkofer
BERLIN WEIRDOS
Filiz Penzkofer BERLIN WEIRDOS
Jenni Gärtner
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Filiz Penzkofer

Filiz Penzkofer , born in Munich in 1985, studied German, communication sciences and Turkology in Bamberg and Ankara. She lives in Berlin, where she works as a freelance author and journalist. Before that, she was a radio columnist on Bayerischer Rundfunk for many years, led theatre courses for children, shot films with young people and taught German.