The Requiem is the last mass one can expect on Earth: it is a liturgy for the end. Yet nowhere is it written that this serious matter cannot also be lighthearted. Requiem is a captivating, poetic narrative that becomes a delightful dream journey: From an apartment overlooking the Teufelsberg, we fall through time, float over mountains and valleys, and travel across the land and seas. Thus, we arrive at the dolphins in the Landwehr Canal and all the way to Santa Catalina Beach in California – before the gates of the underworld open in a completely unexpected place. Now and then, we catch a glimpse of paradise. In a breathless story, Alexander Schnickmann shows what literature is capable of. Requiem is a book for a night and for eternity.