My grandfather stood in front of the window and drank tea no. 12

When Günther Schenck, born in 1913, passes away, he leaves his granddaughter Naomi an unusual legacy: she is to write his biography. Naomi loved the brilliant chemist and his elegant wife, Christel. However, there was always a feeling that not everything had gone well in his life. As she embarks on her search, she discovers that her seemingly apolitical grandfather had joined the SA in 1933. What does this mean? Why did no one in her family know about it? Naomi Schenck poses the questions of a generation for whom the answers found in history books are not enough. From her own memories and hundreds of stories, she shapes a vivid portrait of a bourgeois family in Germany.