A novel by Friedrich von Bonin.

In the hall. Free contribution.

The book:
Who were our fathers? Where are we at home? Where is our home?
Albrecht von Wernow grew up with his parents telling him that he was
not at home in the small town in West Germany to which his parents fled after
the Second World War. His home was his father’s manor
east of the Oder. The search for a sense of his, his son’s, home
turns into a search for the life of his parents, his father.
Landowner, soldier, participant in the war, Knight’s Cross bearer, who was his father?
And was he a Nazi? And if he was not a Nazi, was he involved in the atrocities committed by the
Wehrmacht?
Albrecht von Wernow researches his father’s life and writes down what he has found
. His account describes the last veils that remain over his father’s
life during the war. At the same time, the novel paints an
empathetic picture of the happiness and suffering of the war participants and refugees
and of the barriers that stood in the way of taking up a bourgeois life after
the end of the war.

The author
Born in 1946, grew up in Emlichheim, Grafschaft Bentheim,
Lower Saxony. Secondary school in Nordhorn, 1966 Abitur.
Studied law in Göttingen, 2nd legal
state examination in Hamburg in 1976. From 1976 to 2017 self-employed
lawyer in Bremerhaven. Since 2017 he has lived as a freelance
writer in Bremerhaven and Yaiza/Lanzarote. He is married at
and has no children.
The following novels have been published to date:
“Rudolf Mittelbach hätte geschossen” (2012)
“David, König der Israeliten” (2012)
“Der Lauf der Zeit” (2014)
“Moses, der Wanderer” (2016)
“Die Wahrheit ist immer anders” (2018)
“Judas Ischariot, Träumer, Täter, Täuscher” (2019)
“ZwischenWelten” (2020)
“Verflucht zum Leben” (2023)
“Dieses Stückchen Erde” (2025)