Siegfried Lenz

In The Heritage, first published in German in 1978, Zygmunt Rogalla, an elderly Masurian rug-maker from Lucknow ... which was once part of East Prussia, now part of Poland ... tells his story from a hospital bed. The curator of the Masurian museum, where objects were collected as a symbol of the culture that had been …

The German Lesson is a novel by the German writer Siegfried Lenz, published in 1968 in Germany. The English edition The German Lesson was published in 1986 by New Directions Publishing, New York City. Deutschstunde was translated into several languages.