"Like a letter, an opened eye cannot know the book that contains it, I cannot read where I am." The questions of one's own existence arise: the construction soldier, who risks losing himself in the monotonous toil on Rügen between "marching in step" and "standard time"; the virtuoso of adaptation, Erich Mielke, for whom the word 'I' is merely "a blind groping in the dark"; or Apostle Paul, who trusts in what is to come and perceives the here and now as a transitional state. On moraines, these voices resonate, among them a mountain of experiences and history, a rubble of thoughts that shifts upon itself. Christian Lehnert explores the questions of identity in his cycles of poetry, probing and urgent, as they have been reflected from early Christianity to the present day, and unfolds "a tapestry of words full of dark brilliance.".