Film Rights Optioned for The Humming Underneath the Skin by Stephan Lohse

Stephan Lohse's touching queer coming-of-age story, The Humming Underneath the Skin, is set to be adapted into a feature film. 

Hamburg, 1977. Julle is fourteen. Shortly before the summer break, a new student, Axel, joins his class. Julle falls in love immediately. No one knows that he is gay. Except for his sister and maybe his mother. Mothers tend to have a sense for these things, after all. Julle counts the hours that he has known Axel and befriends him. Together, they go to the public pool, feed Axel’s rabbits, and discover a hidden, partially burned-down hut in the forest. Just as they get close to uncovering its secret, Axel suddenly moves away – and Julle has a hunch that after this summer, nothing will be like it was before.

»A book for the summer about that first great love from which one never fully recovers.« Lenore Lötsch, NDR Kultur