The Russian writer and war correspondent wrote about this play himself: I am not scared by terms such as "romance novel" or even "novel about a love of war" or "love in wartime". The title of my recently published novel testifies to this: the so-called private life. Of course there is a polemical undertone in this title, because at that time you simply cannot imagine a personal life without war, a life detached from the events. (Source: ZVAB)
https://volksbuehne.adk.de/deutsch/volksbuehne/archiv/spielzeitchronik/1980_bis_1990/index.html
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Michailowitsch_Simonow#Schriften
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Simonov#Works
https://www.zvab.com/erstausgabe/sogenannte-Privatleben-Roman-drei-Novellen-Simonow/17017470127/bd