In “The Catch of the Day” the author and publisher’s widow Gisela Stelly Augstein takes us through the dirty inheritance war between two family clans.
Meeting this woman in a café on the east bank of Hamburg’s Alster could also be a kind of battlefield tour. Outside the window, the street Schöne Aussicht nestles along the water, a rich avenue with large villas from the Wilhelminian era. One of them is the guest house of the Hamburg Senate, another was once for sale for 19 million, and others will still be owned by the Hanseatic family, but may soon be inherited.