Paul Maar / Wolfgang Stute / Konrad Haas

»Memories are not diaries. They don't stand up to comparison with a river. They are more like scattered large and small puddles after a heavy rainfall.« Paul Maar, inventor of »Sams« and thus one of the most popular and successful German authors of books for children and young people, remembers his childhood – not in the form of a continuous, chronological novel, but in the form of individual islands of memory, jumping between past and present.

Moral portrait of the war and post-war period

Born in 1937, in »Wie alles kam« he also creates a portrait of the wartime and post-war period. His mother died young, his father was at war and yet Maar defies his life to find comfort and joy. »Anyone who has read this book knows why Paul Maar had to invent Sams«, says the blurb for the novel, from which the author himself reads aloud. Wolfgang Stute, who has worked closely with Heinz Rudolf Kunze, among others, and Konrad Haas play specially written songs – with guitar, percussion, flute and keyboard.