Reading and discussion
In 1989, the FRIEDLAND is on three voyages between Rostock and Asia. While political change slowly begins at home, everything on board is going its "socialist way". Cut off for a long time by scant information, the crew gradually catches up with events in the GDR. For some it is a relief, for others a defeat and disappointment. But for everyone it was also a journey home into the unknown.
Fred Schulz (born in 1960) himself sailed on a container ship of VEB Deutfracht/Seereederei Rostock at the time. In his novel, whose ship, plot and characters are fictitious, he describes the situation on board in the year of reunification.
