Da Geht Ein Mensch: Roman Eines Lebens

What a storyteller Granach was. In episodic-style, the theater- and early-film actor tells about his life. From his upbringing in a poor jewish family in Old-Austria now-Ukraine to vagabonding, apprenticing at various bakeries and working at brothels. From discovering his love of theater, travelling to Berlin, to undergoing surgery on both legs for a better presence on stage. From fighting in the first world war, to being held captive in an Italien prisoner camp, to escaping home through the Swiss mountains. All his stories are full of humor and empathy, and most of all they are all instilled with a deep love for humanity.

Besides his stay in Berlin, where his story-telling is shortly interrupted by him gushing about his love of theater, this is a perfect compendium of a life in stories, that should be consumed at slow pace, to properly cherish them.