Helena Kühnemann's novel "Endzeitgemäß" is published by Ullstein Verlag. The author and filmmaker completed her studies at the HGB in the expanded cinema class with Clemens von Wedemeyer with the first version of the manuscript for "Endzeitgemäß". She is active in the national and international film and cultural scene, including in festival production, and lives in her home city of Berlin.
About the book:
Merve grew up in transit, between motorways, model houses and plastic plants. Here, where time seems to have stood still, her grandfather gets drunk on pop music and her father prepares for the end of the world. Merve just wants to get away; she longs to finally rise to the ideal. There, people are effortlessly beautiful, they realise themselves, they know something about consensus and kimchi. Instead of routines, they have found their rhythm. The promise: If you work hard enough on yourself, you can be something special. In the ideal, Merve also hopes to find her mother again, who disappeared when she was a small child.
Shortly before the ascent, Merve meets Sven; Sven, who is affectionate and quick-witted, but wants to stay in transit. Suddenly Merve has doubts: will she lose something if she continues to strive for the ideal? And is it worth hoping at all while one crisis follows the next?
Helena Kühnemann: Endzeitgemäß
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