"Freunde" von Eva Kranenburg

In her debut novel, Eva Kranenburg tells the story of four young people whose paths cross in the final days of the war. Tarek, Nata, Ren and little, feral Tuk are to be drafted into the completely desolate army and sent to the battlefield armed only with spades. But they desert, and this bonds them together. However, their community is put to the test. All the characters have experienced unbearable things, they carry secrets and deep pain. All four ask themselves again and again how to go on: Can you overcome hatred for a people you are at war with? Can you love when you have experienced the worst violence? Can you remain moral in a destructive world?‘Friends’ is an impressive and moving anti-war novel for readers aged 13 and up about friendship and humanity.

Eva Kranenburg worked with a former concentration camp inmate and children of refugees from Bosnia and Kosovo in her youth. As a psychotherapist, she cared for refugees from Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq. Eva Kranenburg is a graduate of the Academy for Children's Media and received the Förderpreis Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung and the Oldenburg Children's and Youth Book Prize for the manuscript ‘Friends’.

With kind support of Fischer-Sauerländer Verlag.

Reading for school classes Grade 8 and up as part of Münchner Bücherschau Junior
Wednesday, 11. March 2026
10 am
Jella-Lepman-Saal, Schloss Blutenburg

The reading will be held in German. 
Registration will soon be open via www.muenchner-buecherschau-junior.de