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Writer Suter, Stuckrad-Barre in a hotel in Hamburg: With a rocket into the light
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Philipp Schmidt / DER SPIEGEL
After two hours Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre leaves the room for a moment.
He has put his cell phone on the big round leather table in the middle.
The cell phone plays a song, an incredibly sad song.
It's called "Happy".
We are in a white, curved luxury hotel on the Outer Alster in Hamburg.
The hotel is empty.
But there is Martin Suter, the successful Swiss author, and Stuckrad-Barre, reporter, writer, who has always turned his life into spectacular books.
Most recently in »Panikherz«, a drug novel, story of a healing, the story of a trip to California, into the light.
The two met a while ago in another white luxury hotel, in Heiligendamm on the Baltic Sea.
Both in swimming trunks.
"I also write," Suter had introduced himself to the younger colleague at the time.
They then talked, meeting again and again to continue talking.
At some point they recorded their conversations and turned them into a book.
It says "Everyone got so serious".
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