The literary historian Karl Otto Conrady once commented on the oeuvre of Sigrid Damm: "An impressive body of work. It captivates with its literary artistry that brings the distant into the present, opens new perspectives, uncovers the overlooked, conveys insights, and provides lasting reading pleasure." The life and work of the widely read author, who has received numerous awards (including the Feuchtwanger, Mörike, Fontane, Thuringian Literature, and Weimar Prizes), are vividly portrayed in five conversations that Ulrich Kaufmann conducted with the author between 1998 and 2021. The volume looks at her early work, offers worthwhile reflections on GDR literature, and serves as a Sigrid Damm reader. It includes today’s forgotten or hard-to-access texts about colleagues, friends, and visual artists. Numerous photographs, several of which are published here for the first time, provide insight into a remarkable life that began in Gotha, Thuringia, and spans her studies in German and history at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, her doctoral work, her time at the Ministry of Culture of the GDR, and her more than forty years as a freelance writer and editor.