Sanditz

"Sanditz", the title of Lukas Rietzschel's new novel, is a small town on the edge of the republic. There, the author interweaves the story of the Wenzel family with that of the Sanditz residents to create a broad panorama of German stories - from the end of the GDR to the present day, from the occupation of the local Stasi headquarters to the struggle of a volunteer in Ukraine, from the orator to the civil rights activist, from the local journalist, the early retiree, the dreamer to the archivist. A novel about upheaval and decline, friendship and family, about the desire to belong and the longing for freedom. Lukas Rietzschel was born in Räckelwitz in eastern Saxony in 1994. His debut novel "Mit der Faust in die Welt schlagen" (2018) was a great success and was made into a movie.