Imprisoned in a lunatic asylum, Professor Karl Barkentin writes the confession of how he came to murder his wife.
I watched Lilli wordlessly for quite some time, and then - then it climbed up in me for the first time; an uncanny delight beset me with the thought, "If this women were to lie dead before you, then you would be single and rid of all the worrying; death is the actual lover she needs, he will hold her fast and guard her.
Georg Julius Leopold Engel (1866-1931) was a German author and dramatist whose works were banned and grave desecrated by the Nazis. A number of his novels were bestsellers, and some were adapted into movies during his own lifetime.
Kerry Nitz is founder of K A Nitz publishing and since 2012 has published over 20 new English translations of works of fiction never before translated into English. He is the leading translator for the early 20th Century German authors Hermann Stehr and Georg Engel.