The novelist and medical doctor Ernst Weiß enjoyed a high reputation before Hitler came to power; he was considered "ein Romancier von europäischem Rang" (a novelist of European rank) whose works were mentioned together with those of Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, Alfred Ehrenstein, Stefan Zweig, and even Thomas Mann. He died an exile in Paris in 1940, and almost all his manuscripts, letters, and diaries were lost during the turbulent years of World War II. The uncertain fate of his literary estate was partly responsible for the fact that his large oeuvre remained almost forgotten for over thirty years after the war. While his fifteen novels, his short stories, and his essays have been rediscovered and reedited and included in the 1982 sixteen-volume Suhrkamp edition of his collected works, his two dramas and a volume of poetry remain unavailable, and his name is still missing from most...