Two authors, a doctor and a pastor, confront mortality with radical honesty. In a previously unpublished story, physician-writer Walter Vogt (1927–1988) explores love in the shadow of the emerging AIDS crisis - a tale of a man who falls for a younger, infected partner, yet is “spared.” His friend, pastor and author Kurt Marti (1921–2017), meets death with equal clarity in his "Funeral Orations," rejecting clichés and trite sentimentality to celebrate life itself. These newly published or reissued texts feature afterwords by Christoph Geiser and Zora del Buono, who explore their enduring questions of identity, sexuality, and what constitutes a "good" life from a contemporary perspective.

In cooperation with the project “Kulturelles Gedächtnis” from Alit – Network for Literature