Bis ins Mark

In his mid-fifties, Stefan Schwarz gets cancer. Or rather, cancer gets him. Because Schwarz is experienced in dealing with existential upheavals: "When fate strikes, I strike back!" Like a "Marie Kondo of the soul", he begins to clean up his life, making surprising discoveries along the way. He also puts aside the haste we all know in our everyday lives, the constant pressure to cope with something. And he reflects on slowness, the moment. Stefan Schwarz tells of all this with great clarity - and with his unique humour, which contains a whole philosophy of life. Calmly, deeply and with pleasant self-irony, he looks at his existence; inwardly free and yet struggling for the future, he writes about the possible end and the associated waking up: "That is, after all, the whole point of cancer. That you stop fooling yourself and others, that you stop, that you wake up and rub your eyes". And he writes about what has taken place and is taking place: life in its fullness, which Stefan Schwarz captures as if under a burning glass. An extraordinary book - stirring, moving, liberating.