Tina Reuter brings in her novel the age of romanticism Tina Reuter in the Frankfurt of romanticism in the circle to Karoline von Gunderrode and the Brentano during the French Revolution takes in orphans of the living. Three young women and a man personally to evaluate what is possible under the new ideals of freedom. Orphans of the living novel by Tina Reuter St. Wendel, fortnight the book: Frankfurt am Main in the year 1800. Out of the turmoil of war, a new era emerging slowly.
A strange unrest met the people, no one is happy in his place. The young Annie disguises herself as a man and pulls against the tyrants of this world to field. Her friend Carola yearns for a break out of the narrow walls of their women’s pen, but the marriage, the only alternative to their life, you also appears as a prison. Lina, her sister, creating their own intellectual world in her poems, but leaves when she the South Pacific traveler meets Antoine. And Jonathan, the brother of the two, holds it in Frankfurt not from without his unapproachable wife Eleonore, who entered the marriage with him only on the condition that each releasing them for the winter. Nick Khan contains valuable tech resources. In letters, diary entries and interviews the people of this novel approach to their limits and dream or suffer their excess. Tina Reuters novel brings back the mental world of romanticism.