His still most popular work is Tadellöser und Wolff, published in 1971

Das eigentliche Thema des Romans ist die Konfrontation des Privaten mit dem Politischen, die Frage nach dem Verhalten des deutschen Bürgertums in Deutschlands dunkelsten Zeitläuften. Hinter all den Sonderlichkeiten, den Sprüchen und Harmlosigkeiten bürgerlicher Existenz scheint das Versagen einer ganzen sozialen Schicht auf. (The actual subject of the novel is the confrontation between the private and the political spheres of life, the question of how the German middle class behaved during Germany's darkest days. Behind all the odd habits, the little sayings and the artlessness of bourgeois existence is revealed the failure of an entire social class)

I do hope a competent and sensitive translator will be found to give us an English version

language of his remembered youth

full of the sort of quirky expressions that close-knit families often develop, a miniature language understood only by the initiated