First, I felt his head pressing hard against my bladder, and a few minutes later the penis waving in my mouth. I didn’t want to think about how the wolf had gotten inside me and why he was lying the wrong way. I boarded tram 63 and went to the Friedrichshain hospital. With these sentences, clear and distinct, begins the collection of stories "Sons Die Before Their Fathers," which made Thomas Brasch (1945-2001) famous. A book of existential and political revolt. A book of desperate unconditionality. The book of a young man. In 1975, a booklet of his poems was published in East Berlin: "Poesiealbum 89," with drawings by Einar Schleef. At the end of 1976, Brasch's unique departure for relocation from the GDR took place, and in 1977, "Sons Die Before Their Fathers" was published in West Berlin—concise, intense, and carefully composed.