Everything changes for eleven-year-old Mira when the popular Beate joins her class and starts a lovers’ club with her best friend Karla. Mira is not allowed to join this club because she has never been in love before. The comic »succeeds masterfully in approaching the everyday life of adolescents« [NZZ]
Jacominus Gainsborough is a white rabbit whose entire life from birth to death is the focus of this book. Poetic language and richly detailed double-page illustrations describe the exciting stages of the rabbit’s fictional life. The book artwork is »as colourful and beautiful and sad as life« [Der Tagesspiegel] and
While her parents are constantly fighting during their summer vacation, 14-year-old Esther and her little sister are having fun at the seaside. There they meet Salomon, also 14, and his little sister. In free verse and with photos and drawings, the book sensitively tells the story of a great summer
Mathilde, an Alsatian woman, falls in love with Amine, a Moroccan officer in the French army, at the end of World War II. They marry and move to the foothills of the Atlas Mountains. Colonial racism, patriarchal traditions, and conflicts with her husband make the marriage a challenge. »Leïla Slimani
Niall Ferguson’s latest book, »Doom«, presents a global history of disasters — from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius to the plague pandemic to the Chernobyl nuclear accident — and explores how we can and must learn from the past. This book »promises to make a contribution to improving our management
The third author interviewed by Peter Stephan Jungk in Paris – after Georg Stephan Troller and Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt – before being interviewed himself by Arno Widmann about his new book, is Paul Nizon. Paul Nizon was born in Bern in December 1929, studied German, archaeology and art history, earned his
The Marché d’Aligre in Paris has become something like a home to Peter Stephan Jungk. Here, among the diverse merchants whose stories he has recorded for his book, he feels at home. The result is a »market narrative, which is at the same time a study of the milieu, a
Leїla Slimani will deliver the opening address of the 21st ilb. The 2016 Prix Goncourtwinning Franco-Moroccan author’s latest novel, »In the Country of Others« [2021], takes place after World War 2 and tells of the marriage between a French woman and a Moroccan. Among other things, Slimani will talk about
As a child, the writer, essayist, and translator Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt had to flee from the National Socialists without his parents. He ended up in France. What followed became world literature between two languages and nations. Peter Stephan Jungk talks to the writer about his life’s work and exile, which, as
Georg Stefan Troller, born in Vienna in 1921, fled from the Nazis to the USA and has lived in Paris since 1949. He is one of the great directors, writers, and documentary filmmakers of the German-speaking world. His seminal interviews with individuals such as Thomas Brasch broke new journalistic ground.
Roger Melis [1940—2009] not only photographed workers in the GDR and their everyday lives, but also created a series of expressive portraits of writers such as Anna Seghers, Christa Wolf, and Heiner Müller. He knew how to »wait until the gaze went into the open, the person became visible, he
16-year-old Maia goes to school, works in a juice bar, and often takes care of her two younger sisters in order to give her single mother a break. Nominated for the 2021 German Children’s Literature Award, this illustrated novel tells a story »in a casual, calm way« [DIE ZEIT], using free
