The present article is an attempt to analyze the collection of letters ‘Postlose Wochenenden gab es selten bei uns’. Heinz Piontek’s letters to his family and Margit Dürring, published by A. Hirner and H. Wiedow (H.P.Archiv in Lauingen) in 2020, and once again, apart from the editors who have already done it in the collection, to point out focal points of Heinz Piontek’s corre­spondence available there. The author pays special attention to the literary and extra‑literary friendships of Piontek, which were highlighted in the letters. The author traces Piontek’s attempts to promote not only himself as a writer but also others, to find valuable works with an excellent “literary nose”, to popu­larize them or to translate them into German. The collection of Piontek’s letters serves as a basis to check out Piontek’s relationship with publishers, but also privately, to faith and tradition, to see him in it not only as a literary man con­cerned about his fame, but also as a man with his infirmities, feelings of aging and states of depression, which he communicated in letters to those who were close to him.