Exhaustion
Not the tiredness after a long day.
But the kind that stays.
Depression
When even good days no longer feel light.
Chronic Pain
When the body sends signals - and nobody knows why.
Concentration
When thoughts unravel even though you are trying.
To tiredness that is supposed to be “normal.”
To diagnoses that manage symptoms but find no solutions.
To the feeling of not quite being yourself.
We even got used to the rooms we lived in.
And did not ask the most obvious question:
What if it is not us?
Tuesday, June 16, 2026 - from 7:00 PM
Book launch at Ozon / Pforzheim
Andreas and Monika Pross will present their book Dicke Luft (German) and read selected passages from their personal story.
They will share personal insights into how the book came into being, read a compact selection from the story, and talk about why closed rooms, poor air, and invisible exposures changed their lives so profoundly.
Afterwards, there will be an opportunity for questions, discussion, and personal conversations.
BAD AIR is our story of how we fought for years against symptoms that seemed to have no cause.
Exhaustion, pain, disorientation, doubt - and the feeling of slowly losing yourself.
Medical explanations remained unsatisfying, therapies worked only briefly or not at all. Until an existential turning point forced us to question everything we had taken for granted - including the indoor air and room climate in which we lived every day.
What if it is not the extraordinary that makes us ill, but the ordinary?
What if the rooms in which we live, work, and sleep affect our health and our cognitive performance more strongly than we suspect?
What if elevated CO2 concentrations, stale air, or chemical emissions (VOCs) can intensify symptoms without us noticing?
In confronting the invisible surrounding air, a search for clues begins that combines personal experience with scientific research - from measurements and ventilation habits to the question of how fresh air supply might affect body and mind.
BAD AIR tells of loss and powerlessness, of resistance and doubt - but also of a new awareness and the cautious hope that change is possible.
It is a book about what we cannot see.
And about what happens when we begin to take it seriously.
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We are not telling this story because we were convinced from the beginning. Quite the opposite.
For a long time, the possible cause of our symptoms seemed too trivial, too self-evident to be seriously considered. Air. Rooms. Everyday life. None of it sounded like an explanation for years of physical and psychological change. If we had not experienced it ourselves, we probably would not have believed it.
We had tried many things. Changed our diet. Started therapies. Accepted diagnoses. Worked on ourselves. Always assuming the cause had to be complex, rare, perhaps genetic or fate-driven. The idea that something so invisible and ordinary could play a role contradicted our own way of thinking.
That is exactly why we are telling it.
Not because we promise easy answers.
Not because we believe we have found a universally valid solution.
But because we have experienced how easy it is to overlook the obvious - and how fundamentally perception can change when you begin to take it seriously.
We are telling this story because we ourselves would have been the last to believe it.
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Our book tells a personal story. But it does not stop at personal impressions, memories, and assumptions. We related many of the experiences we describe to measurements, observations, and scientific studies.
In an unusual way, Dicke Luft connects the lived experience of two people with the question of what research already suggests about indoor air, pollutants, symptoms, and chronic burdens. Not as final proof. Not as a medical diagnosis. But as a search for clues between experience and science.
The endnotes directory shows which studies, specialist texts, and sources we refer to in the book. It makes visible that behind our story there is not only personal involvement, but also the attempt to classify what was experienced carefully.
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