Berlin. It is the time of the so-called „Rauhnächte“, the days between Christmas and Epiphany. Loud propaganda has long since dominated not only the streets of the capital, but the politics of the entire country. And in the middle of it all, three lost souls are staggering, beginning to ask questions: Burschi, who loves Johanna, against all odds. And in doing so, she not only feels the strong arm of a state that no longer tolerates being different, but also the fragility of human relationships when fear is sitting in her neck. Charlotte is a sniper of a vigilante group who wavers in her loyalties and is in danger of losing her mind. Is her militancy perhaps just a failed attempt to escape her own life? And there is Charlie, her son, unpaid intern and part of the millennial generation, who struggles to escape his overprotective mother and experiences his coming of age in Berlin’s anarchic music scene between joints and loud beats. Until everything escalates on New Year’s Eve… The smell of gunpowder and rebellion is in the air…

With her debut novel "Black Powder" Laura Lichtblau designs an urban

Dystopia. In a fine and at the same time wild language, with wit and lightness, she tells of the unconscious desire for freedom in a state whose goal is absolute oppression.