Der alte Sack, als er noch kein alter Sack war, und die Sanierungen

The years of political upheaval from 1989 to 1994 are a time of new beginnings and uncertainty. Alexander and Lydia experience how political, economic and personal circumstances shift all at once, and they have to get through renovations that cost a great deal of patience and nerves.

The volume tells this not as a straightforward chronicle but as a mix of narrative, contemporary history and everyday observation. Where ordinary lives meet great upheavals, confusions and tangles arise that stir memory and contradiction alike in the reader.

What remains of a life when the old order collapses and everyone has to start over?