This monograph is the first academic assessment of the German novelist, poet, and scholar Hans-Ulrich Treichel. This study of his work includes a biographical essay, an interview with the author, a previously unpublished essay from Treichel, and academic essays about a number of his individual works. Hans-Ulrich Treichel is the author of Die Verlorene, or Lost and Tristanakkord, or The Tristan Chord.