Vor den Vätern sterben die Söhne

The collection of stories Vor den Vätern sterben die Söhne made Thomas Brasch (1945-2001) famous. A book of existential and political revolt. A book of hopeless unconditional steadfastness. The book of a young man. At the end of 1976, Brasch’s “one-off departure for the purpose of resettlement from the GDR” took place, and in 1977 the concise, compressed, carefully composed Vor den Vätern sterben die Söhne was published by West Berlin’s Rotbuch Verlag.