Mobility ideas that whet the appetite for tomorrow
Bestselling author Katja Diehl and science fiction narrator Mario Sixtus ask how people will travel car-free and climate-friendly in the future and create concrete visions of the future. In their hopeful book, they offer concrete and detailed answers and thus doping for our imagination. The roles are clearly assigned: Mario Sixtus, as an author and science fiction filmmaker often at home in the day after tomorrow, writes short stories of an optimistic future. As a mobility expert, Katja Diehl carries out a reality check: what of this vision could actually be realized in the near future? Surprising and inspiring stories that whet the appetite for the transport revolution.
Katja Diehl, born in 1973, is fully committed to the mobility transition. After 15 years in partly leading positions in the mobility and logistics industry, she is now changing the system with her expertise from the outside. She hosts the podcast "SheDrivesMobility". In Hamburg, she founded the representation of womeninmobility and is involved in the federal board of Verkehrsclub Deutschland e. V. She has received numerous awards for her work, including being named one of the "100 Women of the Year" by "Focus" in 2020, in 2019 she was on the list of "25 LinkedIn TopVoices in Germany, Austria and Switzerland" and is considered one of the "Remarkable Women in Transport". Her book "Autokorrektur" was on the Spiegel bestseller list for weeks, and she herself has received numerous awards, including the Readers' Prize of the German Business Book Award 2022 and the German Mobility Award in the People category.
Mario Sixtus, born in 1965, is a filmmaker, screenwriter and journalist. His science fiction films "Operation Naked" and "Hyperland" were nominated for the Grimme Award; he makes documentaries for ZDF and Arte, including films about smart drones and artificial intelligence. And his TV magazine "Elektrischer Reporter", in which he brought ZDF viewers closer to digital life for eight years, repeatedly focused on the approaching day after tomorrow.
"Picknick auf der Autobahn" will be published on 24.09.2025 by S. Fischer Verlag, 256 pages