1919 Munich is the center. Revolution - and these men are on the scene: Ernst Toller, Thomas Mann, Erich Mühsam, Rainer Maria Rilke, Gustav Landauer, Oskar Maria Graf, Victor Klemperer, Klaus Mann . The Munich soviet republic that brought the poets to power. A blink of an eye in history, a moment in which everything seemed possible. What happened between November 1918 and April 1919 is recounted by Volker Weidermann, Spiegel's literary director, publicist and host of the Literary Quartet. Readers become eyewitnesses to the turbulent, comic and tragic weeks that shook Munich, Bavaria and Germany. Radical pacifism, direct democracy, social justice, the reign of the imagination. And in front Toller, Landauer and Mühsam. "Dreamer" - a historical thriller on the one hand, but more likely science fiction from current expectations of the future.
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