Reinhild Solf's first novel appeared in 1980, published by Molden Verlag of Graz, and in 1985 as a paperback by Goldmann Verlag, by this time based in Munich in West Germany. The book, entitled "Leberwurst, Käsebrot, zwo, drei vier: Ein deutsch-deutsches Märchen" ("Liver sausage, bread 'n cheese, one two three: a German to German journey") provided a fictional account of a childhood in East Germany, a theme that will have resonated with thousands readers in the west because of the massive population shifts across the "internal frontier" that had taken place between the foundation of the two separated German states in 1949 and the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961. The book was a commercial success and the paperback edition was reprinted in January 1987.