Wie kommt das Salz ins Meer

More than 40 years after its first publication, Brigitte Schwaiger’s debut novel HOW DOES THE SALT GET INTO THE SEA remains a highly relevant plea against provincial bourgeois conformity. The book is considered one of the undisputed classics of contemporary German-language literature, and its themes have lost none of their topicality. In 1986, Peter Beauvais (Summer in Lesmona) adapted Schwaiger’s novel into a television film. Uschi (Nicolin Kunz) and Rolf want to do everything differently after their wedding, yet end up in the same psychological hell as their parents. A gripping portrait of the 1970s.