Two Without - Dirk Kurbjuweit "On the night the girl fell from the sky, Ludwig became my friend." This sentence begins Dirk Kurbjuweit's novella about a wonderful yet destructive friendship between the narrator Johann and Ludwig, who lives with his parents under a high highway bridge from which people frequently jump to their deaths. Thus, the bridge and the events of "Two Without" carry a sense of something monstrous within them. Johann's deep desire for friendship seems to be fulfilled by Ludwig, the new kid in class. They spend seven years of friendship in a symbiotic relationship, experience their first sexual relationship, and together face the farewell to their childhood. An old motorcycle that they restore together and their successful harmony in the "Two Without," a rowboat without a helmsman.