Briefly covered in this Berlin report, excerpted below.
...The film opens with a stocky writer Leon (Thomas Schubert) going with his friend Felix (Langston Uibel) to a vacation cabin on the Baltic coast, though he is so absorbed in finishing his next book that he pays scant attention to the apocalyptic forest fires threatening the area. In much of his work, Petzold tends to sacrifice psychological interest for allegorical heft—a trade-off that works well enough in Dreileben: Beats Being Dead…