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I like “Germany. A Winter’s Tale” by Heinrich Heine. And shortly before September 2023, I thought to myself: I can and want to write something like that too. So, something similar. For Saxony. In the present. So “Saxony. A Tale of Horror” was created. The horror tale mainly takes place in Dresden and only occasionally detours to Upper Lusatia, Radebeul, Leipzig, and Meissen.

The total of thirty chapters correspond to the thirty days of September 2023. Every day I was out and about, observed people and situations, sometimes talked to people, and processed all of that in my text. Each chapter is illustrated by a photograph. It is a political text, in which I have nevertheless tried to integrate the humor typical of Heine here and there. I do not act with a sledgehammer. One person may find themselves in a verse, may not understand the next one at all, but starts to laugh heartily at the one after that. Sometimes think about the words and continue at the end.