A monograph on the German reception of Witold Gombrowicz’s work remains a research desideratum even today, even though this reception was the very beginning of Gombrowicz’s literary world career. The author identifies the main actors such as translators, editors, literary critics and historians of literature as well as the main milestones of the career. Zybura’s research is generally based on the unpublished correspodence, part of he bequest of the German Slavist Heinrich Kunstmann (1923–2009) compiled at the Willy Brandt Center for German an European Studies at the University of Wrocław.