ABSTRACT
More than a hundred letters, most several pages long, written primarily in oldfashioned Kurrent-script and folded in yellowed envelopes with changing addresses and field post numbers, postmarks and censorship stamps; and among them nearly as many picture postcards and pre-printed army mail correspondence cards: all of them written and mailed, read and answered in the course of the First World War by a pair of young lovers who were later to marry - these represent but a part of Christl Lang and Leopold Wolf's total correspondence at the time. Individual letters are missing, as are all of the letters written by the pair during whole phases of the war. As a consequence, the perspective of one correspondent is often reduced to its reflection in the perception of the other, and so the 'tension between one's view of oneself and the view of the other' is intensified.' Fiction and reality merge.
