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Deutscher Buchpreis 2015 · Winner
Die Erfindung der Roten Armee Fraktion durch einen manisch-depressiven Teenager im Sommer 1969
Title translated by AI:“The Invention of the Red Army Faction by a Manic-Depressive Teenager in the Summer of 1969”
Frank Witzel · 60 when first published
Novel · 817 pages · Coming of age, Politics, Historical
AI-generated summary:For the thirteen-year-old narrator, Gudrun Ensslin is a plastic squaw and Andreas Baader a knight in black armour. His world, the cosmos of old West Germany, is as real as the political events of those years, which he makes sense of in his own way.