Sarah Kuttner liest aus “Mama & Sam”

If you don't know that the funniest people often experience the deepest sadness, you won't be able to put the two sides of Sarah Kuttner together: How she could talk her head off, back in the big years of Viva and MTV and then in her own shows. And how deeply felt she is as an author, telling of the saddest things, of depression and panic as in her first novel "Mängelexemplar" or the death of a child in "Kurt", her last book.

With "Mama & Sam", Sarah Kuttner now explores completely new depths - and how you can find your way out of them and back into the light: After the death of her mother, the daughter left behind is confronted with her double life. But it is not her mother's mad love for a cheat that shakes her to the core. It is the chats between the two that she finds in the estate and from which she confronts herself with a merciless gaze that only a mother can have. What remains of the certainties of life after such a fundamental betrayal? And how do you find new closeness? To yourself. And to the mother. - Only Sarah Kuttner can tell this story with so much intelligent warmth, toughness and humor.