How much money do we have now? How much will we have tomorrow? And how much will we have the day after? What is the salary, if there is any at all? How much will they give us next month? Will we even have a job next month? In Hans Fallada’s 1932 novel Kleiner Mann – was nun? (Little Man, What Now? 1996, translated by Susan Bennett), these questions define the lives of the young couple, Pinneberg and Lämmchen. They plan, calculate, save, and even agree on a monthly budget, but their situation...