Alles in allem

On some nights, it may seem to one that the sublime landscapes of nudity contain more truth than entire libraries of sacred books. A thought-provoking insight for a theology student who has been working on a dissertation for what feels like an eternity and leads a fundamentally tranquil life, free from inner and outer tensions, with his girlfriend in Berlin-Friedenau. However, this idyllic comfort comes to an end when he meets the artist Katharina at a symposium in Wittenberg, who draws the sleepy theorist into a mystery of sensual self-loss and a very corporeal revelation over the course of several weeks. The encounter shatters all his concepts and resurrects the old gods around him. Plummeting into personal and metropolitan abysses, past Neukölln esotericists, hedonistic subcultures, and other contemporary routines of urban self-optimization, he carves out a spiritually joyful path of insight all the way to Greek Delphi. There, in the center of the world, Katharina awaits him.

A linguistically powerful yet sensitive approach to love and the erotic, a novel of sensually ironic lightness and intellectual depth - a hymn to tenderness.