LIFE BEGINS AT 80

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Her sugar level is through the roof, she claims to have "osteoproses", she sleeps under an electric blanket and proclaims she "didn’t survive the war to end up eating meat substitute made from soya". She and her friend Gertrud have got a new hobby. The two wily seniors look through the papers, find a funeral, get dressed up in black and head over to crash the "party". After all, who’s going to notice another two elderly ladies at a funeral? Because as she says of herself: "Most people think I’m a nice old granny. But there’s another side to me, too."

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Taschenbuch
  • Release: 01.07.2014
  • ISBN: 978-3-499-23690-7
  • 224 Pages
  • Series: Die Online-Omi
  • Author: Renate Bergmann

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Renate Bergmann

Renate Bergmann lives in Berlin. She helped clear bombing debris after WWII, worked for the East German state railway, is a household professional and a four-time widow. In 2013, she took to Twitter and began microblogging about her insights and exploits. Her books, meanwhile, have won over the analogue world. Torsten Rohde , born in 1974, studied business administration and worked as a financial controller. His Twitter account @RenateBergmann, in which he tweets about Renate’s exploits, became an internet phenomenon. His book Ich bin nicht süß. ich hab bloß Zucker , published under his pseudonym Renate Bergmann, was a phenomenal success, and was followed by many other successful books and reading tours.