Biografische Lesung

"How Sascha found his father"

Reading by Michael Alexander Lauter in the Paunsdorf library. Mi-
chael Alexander Lauter was born in Bitterfeld in 1947. His mother had
fled here from East Prussia. His father, an officer in the Red Army,
had been ordered back home before the boy was born.
Even as a child, Sascha sensed that something was wrong with his origins.
They were just suspicions, but none of the adults he knew confirmed them.
confirmed. His mother only breaks her silence when he is seventeen years old. Then
he sets off in search of his father, who lives in Leningrad.
lives in Leningrad. In his book, Michael Alexander Lauter tells the story of his family.
story, very emotional, sometimes funny, sometimes almost unbelievable.
unbelievable. Let us take you on a long, unusual journey of searching and finding.
journey of searching and finding...