Die Auflehnung

"No to the circumstances of the world. "Submission or rebellion? This question is posed by two brothers who could not be more different and who face seemingly insurmountable opponents in their final years of work. Willy Wittmann, a renowned Hamburg tea taster, is threatened with the loss of his sense of taste, so that he must fear losing his job. His brother Frank, who has taken over the family's ancestral fish farm, sees his work threatened by cormorants. Both resist this predicament through no fault of their own and try to find a way out in a chaos of human weaknesses, passions and conflicts. With Die Auflehnung, the great storyteller Siegfried Lenz has created a novel that shows that what counts in life is not what you achieve, but how you act and what you try to do.