Die Entdeckung der Currywurst
The Invention of Curried Sausage
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The Invention of Curried Sausage is a novella by German author Uwe Timm detailing the fictionalized invention of currywurst, a popular dish of sausage in curry ketchup in Germany, as well as describing life in Hamburg in the last days of the Second World War. The story follows an unnamed journalist seeking to track down the recipe of the currywurst he had when he was a child. The journalist believes that this particular currywurst recipe was the original recipe and that its creator, Lena Brücker, was the inventor of currywurst. His search leads him to the nursing home where Lena Brücker now lived. Lena's agreement to tell the journalist the story of how she came to invent currywurst serves as the major plot throughout the novel.— Wikipedia
