1995 Lichterfelde (non-fiction, Spiegel bestseller, biography, rap)

In 1995, Hussein Akkouche was born on a cold, snowy winter night as the fourth of six children in a family with Lebanese roots. Growing up in the grey streets of Berlin-Lichterfelde, he had to assert himself among his elders at an early age and at the age of 13 made a decision that changed his life forever: He started rapping. Today, all of Germany knows Hussein under the name Samra. In his autobiography, he reviews his successes and setbacks, looks back on his family's past, marked by war and poverty, and deals with brutally honesty about how the dark side of the music business almost drove him to suicide. It is the moving story of a boy from the heart of the block who had to stand on his own two feet at an early age. And who learned at a young age to defy all the adversities that life has in store for him.