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To start the new season, Vanessa Vu invites her friend KatarinaDmitrieva, born in 1993, a student of osteopathy. Several years later, while on holiday together, Katarina revealed to her how she had actually grown up: in Gropiusstadt, her father had died early, her mother was on Hartz IV and could barely support her and her two sisters. Then she became a mother while still studying and now finances herself and her family with the help of BAföG. Why did the topic come up so late? How is she dealing with it today? And: How do you maintain a friendship under economically unequal conditions?