In the organizer's words:

"Withdrawal" begins with a bottle of vodka on the kitchen table of a family of three on a Monday afternoon - and the question of how it got there. Did the narrator seriously forget it there while his wife and child were at the playground? The novel begins with a writer who drinks in order to be able to write, think and feel. At some point, he only drinks to drink, to the point where the question is: drink and die or stop and live? He decides to admit himself to a clinic. "Withdrawal" is an unsparingly honest novel about the complicated logistics of addiction, about cheating on the people who are most important to you, about cheating on yourself. And full of hope, it tells of the way out of the hell of addiction, back to a life that is also worth living sober.

Christoph Peters was born in Kalkar in 1966. He is the author of numerous novels and short story collections and has received numerous awards for his books, including the Wolfgang Koeppen Prize (2018), the Thomas Valentin Literature Prize of the City of Lippstadt (2021), the Lower Rhine Literature Prize (1999 and 2022) and the Schubart Literature Prize (2025). Christoph Peters lives in Berlin. Most recently, "Innerstädtischer Tod" (2025), the final part of a trilogy based on Wolfgang Koeppen, was published by Luchterhand.

Marion Brasch, born in Berlin in 1961, worked as a trained typesetter in a print shop, at various publishing houses and for the GDR composers' association after graduating from high school. In 1987, she began working as a music editor at the youth radio station DT64 and is now a radio presenter at radioeins (RBB).

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