Im Kreis treibt die Zeit

Sigrid Damm's new book is a lingering love for her father. All her life she was at odds with him, rejected him. Only shortly before his death did a tentative rapprochement take place. More than twenty years later, she begins to trace her father's life. Papers and old photos, which were stored in the cellar for many years, are questioned; in parallel, the historical incisions that determined his life are described. Born in Gotha in 1903 and died there in 1993, he witnessed the Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi rule, the GDR regime and the Federal Republic. Sigrid Damm's careful, persistent search for traces provides answers to questions she never asked her father.