Hans Werner Richter, Alive as Yesterday - "Stories from Bansin"

"The History of the Beach: Only with the founding of the town in 1897 does the beach gain significance. It becomes a bathing beach. Its history can be divided into three periods. The first period is that of bathing in public baths..." (Quotation from "Stories from Bansin" by Hans Werner Richter, p. 15, lines 11-15, first edition 1970, published by Wagenbach Verlag)

Listen to Richter's novel read by Dr. Ute van der Maer, who, like Richter, is deeply connected to her homeland.