Memories of people and places, stories of success, freedom, and independence - from Thomas Bernhard to Anna Wimschneider. 20 very personal and fascinating portraits of Thomas Bernhard, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Cornelia Froboess, Erika Fuchs, Eva Christina Fuchs, Thomas Gottschalk, Werner Herzog, Patricia Highsmith, Wolfgang Koeppen, Brigitte Kronauer, Hermann Lenz, Udo Lindenberg, Eva Mattes, Milva, Johannes Mario Simmel, Friedrich Torberg, Franziska Walser, Martin Walser, Wim Wenders, and Anna Wimschneider. "It was the seventies and eighties; I was a magazine editor, later working freelance for daily newspapers, radio, and television. There was still time to carefully plan my texts and conduct extensive research. I was able to visit all the personalities I wrote about, spending hours or days with them..." These encounters with authors, K.