How it could have been

The next generation features Reinhard, known as 'Had-dele' in Africa, who later becomes a gardener at the West Berlin Botanical Garden, and his wife, a sculptor from Switzerland. Between these two generations, we encounter Kamante, an unusual African native, the grandfather's companion, his son's teacher, and a fanatical aircraft builder whose converted plane, the 'Douglas-Fokker-Kamante 6,' is even allowed to fly in the Berlin Airlift. Finally, I am born, who later, thanks to my Tanzanian ancestry, am allowed to study literature at Humboldt University in East Berlin as the only white West Berliner in order to become a writer. Like Goethe with his Werther, I become a young literary shooting star and then drag myself unsuccessfully through life.

C.-A. Rebaf got into literature late in life. His lifelong pursuit of biochemistry, his love of classical music, painting and classical literature repeatedly flow into his texts. His favorite form of expression is the variation of well-known themes and literary texts or scenes.