Die Ursache: Erzählung

A weary poet, long haunted by the weight of his own disillusionments, impulsively decides to leave Berlin and return to the small town of his birth. The journey itself becomes a strange tableau of strangers, fleeting conversations, and a lingering, inexplicable urge that pushes him toward the familiar yet unsettling streets of his childhood. As the train rolls in, the sharp lines of his face mirror a hidden anger, while the clatter of the station awakens memories of poverty, school punishments, and a merciless teacher who still looms over his thoughts.

Stepping onto the platform, he is caught between the scent of home and the cold stare of the town’s workers, feeling both out of place in his new polished shoes and oddly anchored to his old, tattered coat. The town’s church towers and the echo of distant voices stir a restless inner dialogue, as he wrestles with an unnamed “cause” that has driven him back, searching for a clue to the emptiness that has followed him for years.