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Everything beautiful is the title of the second novel by the German presenter and writer Jörg Thadeusz . In 2004 the book was published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch . Most of the action takes place in Berlin .

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Flight captain Lukas Winninger has been suffering from an inexplicable fear of flying for some time . Shortly before the start of a scheduled flight, Lukas can barely overcome his fear and take off. Once in Uganda , he relaxes while having sex with a stewardess. However, he cannot overcome his fear and recurring depression. On a scheduled flight to Hamburg he met Sarah Lohmann, a member of the Bundestag for the SPD parliamentary group. Despite Lukas' rather gruff manner and Sarah's fake cool demeanor, both feel immediately drawn to each other.

Shortly afterwards the reader learns that the flight captain Lukas is married to the actress Eva Hachmeister. However, Luke and Eve's marriage is maintained more for etiquette reasons. Both conversations and intimacies no longer take place, and Eva proposed separate bedrooms about two years earlier; Lukas agreed without protest. Rather in passing, the reader learns that Lukas had a brief liaison with Katharina.

After Sarah and Lukas say goodbye to each other on the plane, Lukas manages to invite them to dinner a few days later. In the meantime, however, Sarah has discredited the German development aid minister and, despite previous scandals, is given one last chance to prove herself. A defective camera in a political panel discussion unintentionally means that Sarah does not appear in the restaurant where Lukas is waiting for her at the agreed time.

Shortly before, Eva Lukas had made the first offer to talk to since the bedrooms were separated. This turns it down because of his appointment with Sarah. Since Sarah does not show up on time because of the postponed panel discussion, Lukas gets drunk and wakes up early in the morning in Sarah's apartment, who picked him up in the restaurant far too late.

A violent and unconditional love affair quickly develops between the two of them and Lukas tells her about his fear of flying. In return, Sarah tearfully tells how the political scandal came about. Sarah unsuspectingly expressed criticism of the subsidies from the new federal states in an interview and demanded that “the West should be on the way again”. Since state elections have just been prepared in two federal states in the eastern part of the state, this statement leads to an internal party scandal. A photo that was taken shortly before in France, on which Sarah chewing straw, lying barefoot in a lavender field, was leaked by the Bildzeitung's own parliamentary group, which two days later "caused" a tangible scandal and reported on page 1 that the "lavender slut" wants to take the money away from the Ossis.

After two days, Lukas returns home - without telling Sarah about his wife - to "clean things up" with his wife Eva. It quickly becomes clear that Eva also had a liaison with another man in the meantime. In the course of the conversation, Eva argues that Lukas already has a daughter with another woman, Katharina, and that she has kept this from her about their relationship because she was afraid she might leave him. Katharina had called Eva about two years earlier during a flight from Lukas and told her about her daughter, which also explains that Eva's relationship with her husband was so hypothermic and that she had not spoken to him during these two years. Lukas quietly paid maintenance for his daughter, although he was not allowed to see her.

At about the same time, Sarah learns that Lukas is married and, disappointed, leaves for a meeting in Hamburg. There she is sexually harassed by a union representative and beats him out of anger and shame, which leads to another political uproar and the political end of Sarah. Sarah owes a post as ambassador to Uganda solely to the favor of the development aid minister, who believes her statements. Sarah is killed by the SPD parliamentary group. Lukas visits his daughter and realizes that he has lost too much time. Together with Eva he dares a new beginning and travels with her to Vienna.

Lukas overcomes his fear of flying by telling a friend and colleague about it and finding out that he is not the only flight captain who is afraid. Together with his friend, he flies a Cessna several times, reliving the original feeling of flying and regaining his self-confidence.

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  • While the plot of the novel develops forward, the reader only learns more about the past and the various motivations of the protagonists in the course of the plot, which means that the characters are consciously partly without reservations (Lukas / Sarah), partly with reservations (Eva ) to be viewed as.
  • The author, who himself suffered from fear of flying, used this as the subject of his novel.

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