A new masterpiece by the brilliant feuilletonist Jutta Voigt: clever and entertaining, she tells of the longing for a different life in the GDR. Artists, bohemians, those who failed in the face of real socialism - they all sought the right existence outside the control of the wrong system. At the center of Jutta Voigt's new book is a bohemian who pursued a fundamental interest: the other life. In the early GDR years with rebellious elitism and pathos of departure, increasingly critical and reformist in the 1970s, distant to indifferent in the 1980s.