About the book: 2015 / Peter Haenisch (b. 1943) - Austrian writer, historian and psychologist, one of the founders of the literary magazine "Wespennest" (1969) . Since 1975, founder, singer and lyricist of several musical groups. The author of one and a half dozen books, published in Russian for the first time. The novel “The Little Figure of My Father” (1975), which is based on the true story of the writer’s father, the famous photo reporter of the Third Reich, is a book about what we choose and what we cannot choose, about art and craft, about the fate of the artist and the little man in the maelstrom of history of the 20th century.