In 1927, a Jewish doctor built a summer house for himself and his family on the Groß Glienicker lake. In colourful, unique pictures, the book presents major historical events up to the present day in a child-friendly way, based on the ninety-year history of the house. The focus is on
An orange falls from a tree, a volcano erupts, and a ship fights its way through a storm. In the space of a second, the story races page by page from Tokyo to New York, from Morocco to Venezuela, and to many other places. The colour-saturated double-page illustrations and the
Nicolas can’t stand another second with his parents, who do nothing but argue during their Caribbean vacation. He secretly leaves the cruise ship and rows to an uninhabited island. There, the state of Paidonesia is founded – with Nicolas as president! The »madcap adventure« [DIE ZEIT] is a novel based
In Portland, a city hit hard by gentrification, Lynette struggles desperately to buy the house where her family lives. »Vlautin chronicles the downfall of a city. As Lynette’s story illustrates, it’s an undoing that is deeply personal, too.« [New York Times]. To accompany the novel, an album by Vlautin’s band
Die Dichterin Ana Luísa Amaral weiß, dass Worte außer der Flüchtigkeit der Dinge nichts festzuhalten vermögen. Und so spürt sie in ihrem neuen Gedichtband, der in einer Tradition mit Emily Dickinson und Wisława Szymborska steht, sprachlich luzide den vergänglichen Spuren des Lebens nach. Im Juni 2021 stand »Was ist ein
Something is rotten in the town of Dunkelblum. Eva Menasse’s new novel tells the tale of an Austrian small town that is haunted by its past when the future seems to have just begun. In 1989, refugees from the GDR are waiting at the nearby Hungarian border, when evidence of
The 1982 feature film with a topclass cast, including Katharina Thalbach, Bernhard Wicki, and Anne Bennent, is about a young actress who anxiously oscillates between fiction and reality and finally loses her footing after the death of her mentor. »The story of this artistic identity crisis is combined with set
100 years of the Chinese Communist Party, 72 years of it in power. Forty-five years after Mao’s death, China has achieved spectacular economic growth thanks to economic reforms, while the political system has remained unchanged. The democracy movement of June 1989 was stifled, as the memory of it, and Hong
What impact do increasing inequality and poverty have on human rights? In his new essay, Wolfgang Kaleck, known as Edward Snowden’s lawyer and involved in numerous international criminal proceedings, formulates a feminist, decolonial and ecological critique of overly narrow notions of human rights. In conversation with author Priya Basil, he
Like a Nollywood soap opera, Lagos’ noisy Ajayi Crowther Street provides the setting for a morality tale about what goes on behind closed doors: secret affairs, an illegitimate pregnancy, hypocrisy, rape. But on Sundays, the neighbourhood always comes together at church. »A compelling read, and a fine addition to a
An orange falls from a tree, a volcano erupts, and a ship fights its way through a storm. In the space of a second, the story races page by page from Tokyo to New York, from Morocco to Venezuela, and to many other places. The colour-saturated double-page illustrations and the
The film debut of playwright Thomas Brasch, commissioned by the German ZDF in 1981, received the Bavarian Film Prize in the year it was made. It tells the true story of the young gang leader Werner Gladow, who undertook raids through Berlin at the time of the Berlin Airlift. True
