Georg Liebster was a lutheran pastor in Leipzig and a leader of the Evangelical Social Movement in the red kingdom of Saxony. Liebster's speach about working class and bourgeosie from 1900 offers insight into his national-social political thinking. Six simple sermons show the inventive liberal theologian.

Kurt Nowak was perhaps the most important church-historian in the former GDR. He was also a novelist, author of five belletristic books: Eintreffe heute abend, Der Tod des Studenten Lothar Dahl, Stechow oder Ein Fluchtversuch, Schöner Übermut des Herbstes and Vertraute Fremde. The essay describes the process of creation of those five books and analyses the relation between the theologian and the novelist.