Wolf Among Wolves is a novel by Hans Fallada

Hans Fallada

Hans Fallada , born Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen in Greifswald, Germany, was a German writer of the first half of the 20th century. Some of his better known novels include Little Man, What Now? and Every Man Dies Alone...

 first published in 1937 by Rowohlt

Rowohlt

Rowohlt Verlag is a publishing house based in Reinbek and also Hamburg and Berlin, part of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Group . The company was created in 1908 in Leipzig by Ernst Rowohlt.- Parts of the company :* Kindler Verlag...

 Verlag GmbH, Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

. Its first unabridged translation into English by Philip Owens was published in 1938.

This novel has a large cast of characters and portraits post war Germany. It begins in Berlin 1923 and describes the collapse of the German economy

Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic is the name given by historians to the parliamentary republic established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government...

which led to rioting, starvation and widespread unemployment.
.