Gebrauchsanweisung für das Leben

What audacity it is to write a book with such a title: "Instructions for Life." How is an author supposed to handle the most serious, the most mysterious, the most unfathomable and sensational word that has ever appeared in any language? Behind which five letters lie more question marks? More happiness? More abysses? More heroism and treachery? More genius and madness? What is more precious to one person, and what could be cheaper and more worthless to another? What do people with more power protect, and what do they destroy with equal fervor? Life, of course. Nevertheless, Andreas Altmann has made the attempt. He circles around the central concepts that define life. It is about nothing less than love and pain, adventure and friendships, loneliness, religion, and death, about home and language. And about traveling and the experiences that the author has had.