JAN WEILER /// ZECHE CARL /// ESSEN

"The best! My life between puberty"

Sunday, 23.11.25 | Zeche Carl | Admission: 18:00 | Start: 19:00 | Reading

VVK: 20€ plus fees | B.O.: 26€

Jan Weiler's big puberty show spans a wide arc from the encounter with the uncanny prehistoric crab Holger to the first warning signs of his children's puberty and its glamorous highlights between parties, pimples and pop concerts to the puberty animals' departure from the nest at home and the anxious question: And what now?

In the best texts of the puberty era, there is of course also a reunion with Ulrich Dattelmann, visits to the puberty laboratory - and of course completely new pieces.

Jan Weiler was born in Düsseldorf in 1967. He initially worked as a copywriter in advertising and then attended the German School of Journalism in Munich. He then worked as an editor, author and finally editor-in-chief at Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin from 1994 to 2005.

In 2003, his first novel "Maria, ihm schmeckt's nicht." (Maria, He Doesn't Like It) emerged from a short story in SZ-Magazin. The book is considered the most successful German novel debut of the last twenty years, and the film adaptation was successfully shown in cinemas in 2009. 2005 saw the sequel "Antonio im Wunderland."

Funnily enough, his books are not available in Italian, but in Korean.

"A great writer" (Hamburger Abendblatt)

"Jan Weiler plays cleverly with language and national stereotypes" (DER SPIEGEL)

"Reading Jan Weiler is simply fun." (Brigitte)