The ferryboat - a life motif; melodic fragments 1923-1927, Dresden beginnings; cabaret in Munich; dancing in new fields 1927-1933, Aachen; the long night's black 1933-1934, Hitler's Berlin; a place to hide 1934-1938, Erfurt; through the trees, across the river, into the fire, 1940-1945, Munster, Berlin, Russia, Dresden; again begin to become, 1945-1947, with Dore Hoyer in Dresden; descent into devastated Berlin; ferryboat to a mountain top 1947-1951, Annanberg; back to the two Berlins 1951-1964, Felsenstein and the Komische Oper; the ferryboat comes full circle 1962-1970, Holland and the German Democratic Republic.
