Of nuns and fools, icons and names - a Transylvanian picture wall, translucent like a watermark. Sigrid Löffler remarked in 2001 at the Poets' Festival in Erlangen: "Clearly, the history of the Transylvanian Saxons has come to an end. But this end is exemplarily preserved in the novels of Eginald Schlattner, in the Hegelian sense." Denis Scheck in a letter, December 2016: "... based on what I know of Eginald Schlattner, one can speak of world literature." The author himself states: "My soul's bliss does not depend on books. Rather, that I am a pastor, first and foremost and sometimes thoroughly. Thus the imperative: Do not leave the place of suffering, but act in such a way that the suffering leaves the place.".