1919. Germany immediately after the First World War. Uprisings, council republics, Freikorps battles, the Treaty of Versailles, the stab-in-the-back myth, political murder, revenge, and Nazism: Could history have unfolded differently?

Soldiers, returnees, revolutionaries, ministers, Freikorps fighters, high school students, sailors, monarchists, displaced persons, lovers, a vagabond, a newspaper seller: In their stories, the myriad problems of a time shaken by the explosions of war and marked by catastrophic defeat, hunger, mass misery, and war profiteers, fanatical nationalism and social revolutionary ideas, military violence and fantasies of free love are presented.

In 1919, hundreds of fragments, scenes, and plotlines from contemporary novels, reports, and essays converge. A narrative flow in 123 chapters that draws from the ideas and struggles of the time, from trivial, nationalistic, utopian, Dadaist, reactionary, political, literary, and photographic sources. A play with historical possibilities and literary figures, imagined stories and real events, collective delusions and individual realities.

A fiction that showcases extreme positions and sharpens the contradictions of the Weimar Republic, telling of Kaiser Wilhelm's fortune and demise, the brotherhood of vagabonds and the sinking of a fleet, the dreams of art and the return of German submarines. A bold, surprising, and outrageous work against historical amnesia, fatalism, and blind obedience. A groundbreaking book about an end of the world that was a future.