Bombs falling on Cologne, burning neighboring houses, and mother Helene says to her six-year-old son Dieter: Look closely! And there was a lot to see: first Herrsching on Lake Ammer, where the family flees, then the completely destroyed Düren from the bombing war. But Kühn doesn't just stop at observing and writing; he gets involved: campaigning in the countryside, founding a German-Turkish association, serving as a lay judge at the youth court, and mentoring a convicted criminal, working in drug assistance and on a genetic engineering commission. For the first time, the man who has written about so many significant historical figures tells his own story and that of his time - in a way that breaks all conventional autobiography molds. And makes Dieter Kühn's life story our own. The more green the magical eye of our old radio showed, the better.