What will happen if you change your profession from barber to pedicurist? For Katya Oskamp, it all ended with the release of a bestseller.
The German writer Katja Oskamp, out of professional restlessness and hopelessness, decided to become a pedicurist. She worked in a beauty salon in Marzahan (a prefabricated block in East Berlin) and met people from different social classes and personalities: a refugee from Königsberg, a party worker from the GDR, a couple whose husband was dealing with addiction, elderly people grieving the loss of a husband or wife.
The bestselling book Marzan, My Love brings together the amazing stories of all these different people.
Medusa publishes a piece about how Oskamp came to study as a pedicurist and saw other women who made the same mid-life choice.