Simplicius Simplicissimus
Herbert Jobst was a writer of novels, narratives and screenplays. His best known work was the much read in East Germany, being the powerful autobiographical colored Novel Tetralogy "Der dramatische Lebensweg des Adam Probst" (The Dramatic Way of Life of Adam Probst). In them, the author tells the life story of a social outcast who endures Simplicius Simplicissimus thing, above all in the group "Der Vagabund", in a popular, humor filled to satirical tone.