About the book: 2017 / The autobiographical novel by Alexander Granach (1890–1945) belongs to the best books of this genre written in German. Poor childhood in a Jewish town in Eastern Galicia, wandering, “pounds of dashing” in Berlin at the beginning of the twentieth century, early acting experiences in the theater of Max Reinhardt, participation in the First World War, captivity, escape and again acting work, now in theater and cinema of the era of expressionism , - wherever the person Alexander Granach finds himself, wherever he goes, he is guided by inexhaustible artistic curiosity, heroic irony, heightened empathy and an almost fanatical sense of self-esteem.