Halbschlaf

In a distinctly Eastern tone, in the best sense, these are mood pictures that the author, born in 1951, published for his peers after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Without the need to accuse or justify himself. He tells a realistic, highly factual, and vivid story of a youth that almost inevitably leads to a life as an outsider and a gradual detachment from the prescribed life path. And he, who will not manage to escape from himself, is not the typical East German, but rather a heartbreakingly well-described human being. The vividness of his descriptions also resonates with people from different backgrounds. City, landscape, love, self-discovery, art – everything is interconnected and as concrete as the silhouettes of the prefabricated buildings at dawn. He expresses his utopia precisely at the bitterest point in German history.