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Dies is die Geschichte von Siggi Jepsen, Insasse einer Anstalt für schwererziehbare Jugendliche, dem in der Deutschstunde die Augfabe gestellt wird, über "Die Freuden der Pflicht" einen Aufsatz zu liefern. In diesem Thema ist er zu Hause. Sein Vater, in Rugbüll der "nördlichste Polizeiposten Deutschlands", war zu jeder Zeit den Pflichten seines Amts in so rückhaltloser Leidenschaft ergeben, daß er nicht zögerte, 1943 einem Maler hohen Ansehens, von Jugend auf sein Freund, den in Berlin gegen ihn gefällten Spruch zu überbringen. Er überwacht sogar unnachsichtig die Einhaltung des Verbots künstlerischer Betätigung. Dem Lebensgesetz der Pflicht ist für ihn jedermann unterworfen.
Siggi Jepsen ist zur Zeit dieser Ereignisse noch ein Kind, das in seiner Wachheit Zeuge eines lautlosen Kampfes wird. Immer weiter entfernt er sich von seinem Vater, und alle Zuneigung gehört Max Ludwig Nansen und dessen farbglühenden Bildern. In der Rückerinnerung wird der Aufsatz zum Bericht seines Lebens, zum Versuch, sich selbst zu begreifen.
Gleichsam in einer Nußschale läßt Siegfried Lenz die Strukturen eines ganzen Zeitalters sichtbar werden. So weitet sich vor seinem Auge Siggi Jepsens Deutschstunde zur Bestandsaufnahme deutscher Art und wird zu einem Zeugnis deutschen Selbstverständnisses.

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Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, in one day assigned to write a routine German lesson on the 'The Joys of Duty.'Overfamiliar with these 'joys, ' Siggi sets down his life since 1943, a decade earlier, when as a boy he watched his father, constable of the northernmost police station in Germany, doggedly carry out orders from Berlin to stop a well-known Expressionist, their neighbor, from paintings to keep them safe from his father.

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