Heimsuchung

Abitur Theme 2026–28 A House by a Markish Lake: A setting for fifteen life stories, tales, and destinies, from the 1920s to the present day. Its inhabitants experience the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the war and its aftermath, the GDR, the turning point, and the post-reunification period. Jenny Erpenbeck gives each individual fate its own literary form, each unfolds its drama in a unique way. A panorama of the last century with impressive force. With an afterword by Friedhelm Marx. A novel of enormous poetic power. Great stories about a small piece of land, epic historiography at the highest level.