Kaltenburg

Acknowledgments

My thanks are due to the following bodies for supporting my work on this novel: the Fund for German Literature (Deutscher Literaturfonds), the Saxon Ministry for Art and Science, the Leuk Castle Foundation (Stiftung Schloß Leuk), and the Municipality of Leuk, Canton Valais.

Among the many people who have shared their knowledge, observations, and memories with me over the years, there are two in particular whom I wish to thank: Renate Glück, for a conversation continued since 1996 about a Dresden I could never have discovered without her; and Dr. Siegfried Eck, custodian until his death in September 2005 of the Ornithological Collection at the Museum of Zoology, State Natural History Collections Dresden, who awakened my interest in ornithology.