Felix Rexhausen, journalist, satirist, lyricist, and novelist (1932 – 1992), was one of the first openly gay authors of the post-war era. He is already represented in the Rosa Winkel Library with the novel 'Lavendelschwert' and the collection of stories 'Berührungen'. 'Zaunwerk' is the unpublished precursor to these two books, rediscovered by literary scholar Benedikt Wolf. Completed as early as 1964, the book unfolds a panorama of the lives of homosexuals in the old Federal Republic, their lives in hiding, their small spaces of freedom, and their great longings. For Benedikt Wolf, 'Zaunwerk' is a "gay pioneer text in the emphatic sense," which more than deserves to "come out of the closet" nearly six decades after its creation.