An autobiographic book and a requiem that tells the story of an intense, forcefully interrupted friendship with huge poetic power.
A photograph becomes famous, it brings hundred of thousands out into the streets to demonstrate: A young woman kneels on the ground, holding the dying man´s head in her lap. He is young and slim, he looks to the side. But who is this man and who could he have been? It is Benno Ohnesorg, born 1940 and shot in Berlin during an Anti-Shah-demonstration on June 2, 1967.
He was Uwe Timm´s best friend when both of them graduated from the Braunschweig-Kolleg. He was a willful, reticent but in his own way very decisive man who painted and read French modernists´ works, wrote poems and was the first person to read Uwe Timm´s texts.
