 Murke's Collected Silences

"Murke's Collected Silences" () is a short story by German writer Heinrich Böll, first published in the "Frankfurter Hefte" in 1955 and in "Doktor Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen und andere Satiren" in 1958.A satirical response to the German "Wirtschaftswunder", the story examines the relationship between the generations in post-war Germany and the country's post-war surge in religious belief.