Hans Fallada’s novel Kleiner Mann – was nun?, Little Man, What Now?, appeared in 1932. Its hero, the bookkeeper Johannes Pinneberg, loses his job. He finds work in a department store and loses that job too, after only a year. He is behind on his sales quota. Fallada described his hero as einer von sechs Millionen, ein Garnichts, one of six million, a nothing. The book became a bestseller and went through 45 editions. It was filmed in Germany in 1933 and in Hollywood in 1934.