The two best-selling authors Christine Westermann and Jörg Thadeusz hardly knew each other before they ventured to write a book together. What has driven them to do that? An enormous curiosity for one another: Each of them wants to find out how the other – different sex, different age – thinks about the big and the small topics in life.
Christine Westermann and Jörg Thadeusz have more in common than a passion: As journalists, they made the desire to get to know people and their stories their profession. In their books, both prove themselves to be masters of observation who are able to find the poetical and extremely funny aspects of even the most ordinary situations. Both are disarmingly honest. And highly charming.
Their correspondence is an invitation to dance but it has not yet been worked out who invites whom. With sweet gracefulness, unexpected volte-faces and a never ceasing tactfulness, Christine Westermann and Jörg Thadeusz approach their subjects: love, faithfulness, jealousy, ageing, work and idleness. They get excited over the question if Carl Maria von Weber was a »philogynist« and if »philogynist« actually is a swear word or not. Or they consider the point of pet names and those their parents used with each other and those they themselves have been given.
Whatever topic these two write about, they always surprise the reader with unexpected opinions and conclusions, with pirouettes or a rapid march across the dance floor.
