The emigrant / Willi Bredel -- The sacrifice / Eduard Claudius -- Babik / Stefan Heym -- The excursion of the dead girls / Anna Seghers -- Saint Cunigund in the snow / Bodo Uhse -- A frustrated St. Francis / F.C. Weiskopf -- Feast for mice / Johannes Bobrowski -- The juggler at the movies, or The isle of dreams / Franz Fühmann -- In a dark world / Stephan Hermlin -- A bit of the South Sea / Hermann Kant -- Imaginary monologue / Günter Kunert -- The strange betrothal of a trucker / Siegfried Pitschmann -- Snow White / Erwin Strittmatter -- An example and me / Ernst Böttcher -- On the road / Werner Bräugnig -- One village and many villages / Wolfgang Burchmann -- The second description of my friends / Fritz Rudolf Fries -- Letters / Manfred Jendryschik -- Pimpush / Joachim Nowotny -- Podiralla joins the circus / Kristian Pech.