Hartmut Lange’s first novella collection founded his international reputation as a writer.

Novellas about the state of those unhappy individuals for whom consciousness was a particular doom. Novellas about Nietzsche’s insanity, the Goebbels children, the mysterious suicide of Kleist and Henriette Vogel, the nihilist Alfred Seidel, who ended his life in a psychiatric hospital at the age of twenty-nine, and about a Jewish woman who goes walking with an SS man, who will become her murderer.