A Bathroom Break in the Future (vol. II)
Goodbye, Lenin – hello again, you bathroom break kids!
Jobst misses his friends Jule and Letscho who he met during his crazy time travel journey to East Germany in the late 1980s, which is why he spontaneously decides to bring the two Young Pioneers for a reciprocal visit in modern-day, reunified Germany.
With his two friends, he wants to make his own history by stopping “parasitic capitalists” from shutting down the town theater that belongs to Jule’s father. But as it turns out, the conniving property shark who wants to do this is none other than Letscho all grown up! However, the child Letscho decides he is not too timid to have a frank conversation with his future self...
- A thoughtful story about friendship set against a historical background
Franziska Gehm studied English, psychology and intercultural economic communication. After completing her studies she taught at a grammar school, worked for a radio station and as an editor of children’s books. She now lives in Munich where she works as a freelance author, translator and editor.
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Horst Klein, born in 1965, spent his formative years in East Frisia before moving to Krefeld in 1989 to pursue his studies in Visual Communication. Before he could do that, though, he had to look up Krefeld in an atlas. He still lives there today with his wife and two children, where he works as illustrator and graphic designer.
