Translated and edited by Peter E. and Evelyn S. Firchow

Contents:

• The Emigrant by Willi Bredel
• The Sacrifice by Eduard Claudius
• Babik by Stefan Heym
• The Excursion of the Dead Girls by Anna Seghers
• Saint Cunigund in the snow by Bodo Uhse
• A frustrated St. Francis by F.C. Weiskopf
• Feast for Mice by Johannes Bobrowski
• The Juggler at the Movies, or The Isle of Dreams by Franz Fühmann
• In a Dark World by Stephan Hermlin
• A Bit of the South Sea by Hermann Kant
• Imaginary Monologue by Günter Kunert
• The Strange Betrothal of a Trucker / Siegfried Pitschmann
• Snow White by Erwin Strittmatter
• An Example and Me by Ernst Böttcher
• On the Road by Werner Bräugnig
• One Village and Many Villages by Wolfgang Burchmann
• The Second Description of My Friends by Fritz Rudolf Fries
• Letters by Manfred Jendryschik
• Pimpush by Joachim Nowotny
• Podiralla Joins the Circus by Kristian Pech