Berliners

By Ludmin Krause

Outrageous, ribald and profound. Berliners-prequel to The Greater Good-is a darkly lyrical novel that reaffirms the resilience of the human spirit. Set in Germany in 1933, it follows a troupe of cabaret performers as they navigate a nation descending into totalitarianism. Told in a haunting third-person plural voice-at once intimate and communal-the story explores how the light of courage and altruism endures, even in the eclipse of degradation. Appended to this edition is The Notebooks of Montag Deitering, a recovered diary written by one of the troupe's surviving members. Composed in the months following the events of Berliners, the notebooks trace Montag's slow descent from innocence to self-delusion as he attempts to make sense of love, guilt, and survival in a collapsing world. Where Berliners speaks in the collective voice of moral witness, The Notebooks turns inward, revealing the fractured consciousness of a single soul who can no longer tell the difference between confession and performance. Together, they form a diptych of moral ruin and human tenderness-two testaments from the same darkening age.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1257000713
• ISBN13: 9781257000715
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"