Being nice was my first dream, long before I knew you could just as easily be a rock star.' 'Bumblebee Brain' is the story of an adjustment—including heartbreaking and hilarious failures. With tenderness, clarity, and a talent for the tragicomic, Judith Holofernes looks back on her childhood. She recounts her training as a people-pleaser, her nonconformist yet so kind mother, her tangles in love, her first songs, a capricious body under constant scrutiny—and how she finally succeeds in carrying her bumblebee-ness into adulthood. Before she made a splash with "Wir sind Helden," Judith Holofernes was a strange child. A dreamer who moved through the world like a drunken bumblebee. What would later be called neurodiversity went unnoticed in Berlin during the wild 1970s. It's only when her lesbian mother moves to tranquil Freiburg that Judith begins to cause spectacular controversy. She wants so badly to do everything right. So she tries to do the balancing act: Is it possible to be nice and special? It's possible. Even though she pays a high price for it: Judith Holofernes becomes the nicest rock star in the world. New goods