Ludwig Zweifel descends from a straight line of rebels:
On the 9th November 1938 in Krefeld, Germany,

Ludwig’s grandfather, Reinhold, was awoken by his father in the middle of the night. He took the 8 year old boy to a window. Outside they saw the Nazis marching with torches and burning down houses. Reinhold was told by his father: “Those people out there are criminals!”. Reinhold’s father continued to voice his despise of the Nazis and helped people who were fleeing from them. Reinhold’s father was sent to the front. And just like when he served in the first world war he got captured and suffered as a prisoner of war in Russia. Reinhold had to dig trenches as a teenager, but they both survived the war and the Nazis.

Two decades later Reinhold was driving a bus full of western tourists through occupied East Germany. An agent of the SED escorted them and told Reinhold exactly which route to take in order to hide the catastrophic state of the DDR. Reinhold faked a panic attack and deliberately took a wrong turn. While the agent shit his pants they all saw the desastrous state of the DDR, in which people had to live here.

A dozen years later Reinhold’s daughter, Regine, was on a school trip in occupied Berlin. The wall made her sad and angry.

The people on the other side spoke the same language as me, but weren’t free.

When she saw the guards at the checkpoint she walked straight towards them. Fueled by righteous anger, Regine was hellbent on a confrontation with the soldiers. Her classmates had to physically stop her.
That saved her and ultimately led her to have a son, Ludwig.

Ludwig traveled to Israel and Palestine at an age when both his mother and grandfather already saw the horrors and the downfall of two different inhumane regimes. When he saw the wall in Palestine, it was the first time in his life that he couldn’t believe his eyes. Ludwig was raised in Germany, where walls are a thing of the past and where human dignity shall be inviolable.

The conversations, experiences and emotions during this trip motivated him to write a story that’s fun and stays true to what's going on in this part of the world and shows the grace of the people that inspired him.

So he wrote a science fiction story called : “They Look Like Us”