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

his grandfather, Reinhold, was awoken by his father. He took the 8 year old boy to a window. Outside they saw the Nazis marching with torches, burning down houses. He was told “Those people are criminals!”. Reinholds father never held back his despise for the Nazis and almost died as a prisoner of war in Russia.

Two decades later Reinhold drove 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 to that would hide the catastrophic state of the DDR. Reinhold faked a panic attack and took a wrong turn and against the heavy protest of the SED agent they all saw the horrible circumstances in which people had to live.
A dozen years later Reinhold’s daughter, Regine, was on a school trip in Berlin. The wall made her sad and angry.

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

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

Ludwig went to Israel and Palestine. When he saw the wall in Palestine it was the first time in his life when he couldn’t believe his eyes. He was raised to believe walls are a thing of the past. Ludwig’s experiences and emotions during his trip motivated him to write a story.

A story that’s fun, but stays true to what's going on in this part of the world, without making it about the conflict itself.

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