Mascha Kaléko's main work is now available for the first time at dtv! "Sick Leave," "Sunday Morning," "City Love," "Patients in the Waiting Room" - these are the titles of Mascha Kaléko's urban poems from the 1930s. They tell stories of love, colds and sore throats, Sunday outings, and salary scales. In her usual manner, melancholic yet witty, Kaléko writes from everyday life for everyday life, striking a chord with people right in the heart. You get to know someone fleetingly and eventually agree to a rendezvous. Something indescribable, hard to name, tempts you to never part ways. By the second raspberry ice cream, you start calling each other "you.".