In his new popular novel Kirchhoff weaves four crazy love stories into the collapse of a crazy system –highly topical but as timeless as the hero’s erotic desires. An off-beat ...

A moving love-story from the great story-teller Irina KorschunowPierre and Nora are two people who belong together, who talk and are silent, quarrel and make it up together, make plans and discard ...

Siegfried Lenz’s stories are among the very best short prose works written in German.Lenz says that he learnt about writing short stories from Hemingway: ‘You can write with just the ...

After the bestselling Die Schachspielerin (The Chess-Player) comes Bertina Henrichs’s new novel. The moving reconciliation between a daughter and her mother. Eva loved her mother, even when ...

‘A book like a revolver!’ Der Spiegel‘Irene Dische falls into no one category. She promises a crime story, produces it and with it a biting comedy and a new, black fable. An ...

‘If you want to recuperate in New York, why are you flying to Miami?’This book tells of Seraphine’s sentimental journey home and also guides you through an American presidential ...

Brilliantly written, thrillingly narrated: a dramatic journey to the origins of mankind.It starts with passionate love, as Mary and Louis Leakey set off for East Africa to look for traces of our ...

The best Berlin poems by Wolf Biermann‘Berlin was my first love in 1955 and became my old love, because I kept falling in love with her all over again. Oh, how many times a poet has to sing ...

88 messages from this terribly beautiful life.The doner kebab man and the bedroom slipper beauty, the collected wisdom of women friends and the sadness of small print: in Politycki’s poetical ...

Marcel Reich-Ranicki has compiled for us a special set of readers: Mein Heine and Mein Lessing will be followed by Mein Kleist and Mein Büchner and lastly Mein Kafka. Each volume contains ...

Marcel Reich-Ranicki has compiled for us a special set of readers: Mein Heine and Mein Lessing will be followed by Mein Kleist and Mein Büchner and lastly Mein Kafka. Each volume contains ...

The hunt for the magical seal of darkness. A great fantasy discovery. The first of a spectacular trilogy.Young Tenan has no idea what a powerful stone he has found: the Seal of Darkness gives ...

Money laundering, arms deals and the Russian mafia: a thrilling financial crime novel.She is blond but not blue-eyed. She winds men coldly round her little finger but then melts away when Mr Right ...

Searching for one’s lost self – text and photographs combine to make a moving book.In nine reports, supplemented with large black and white photographs, daughters and sons, spouses and ...

Twenty years after reunification the long-standing head of the Permanent Representation writes his memoirs.Almost his whole professional life was spent during the period of the divided Germany. The ...

A man’s faith makes him confront the Nazi dictatorship – and he survives in psychiatric care.In the middle thirties a savings bank clerk in Tübingen faces a difficult personal ...

“Anyone who goes through a wilderness arrives at himself.” On foot and by camel through 25 of the world’s deserts.Achill Moser relates the highpoints of his journeys and takes the ...

For couples who are like chalk and cheese.The secret of love? Don’t try to change the other person, just enjoy them as they are! Like Mrs Hare and Mr Hamster.Up bright and early, always with ...

The new party game from Dietmar Bittrich. What’s the fish doing? Is it wriggling about? Lifting its head? Gesturing with its fins? Is it coiling up? Turning around? It all means something! ...

Don’t stammer any more over the most important phrase in the world!A charming declaration of love for people who want to say it for the first or for the thousandth time.It’s a big thing ...

For dreaming and wallowing in. What did famous lovers whisper to each other? In a boat on a lonely lake like Lotte Lenya and Kurt Weill? In an aeroplane shortly before it crashed like Consuelo and ...

A joyful Easter present. From the story So tender was SuleykenThis story about uncouth people and an uncouth meal from the recollections of Suleyken conjures up a lively Easter atmosphere.A crook ...

Perhaps hope is the ultimate wisdom of fools.

After his extremely successful novella A Minute’s Silence and the play The Guinea Pig, Siegfried Lenz has written a new novel. The story begins in ...

Believe it or not, Brenner is here again. An unprecedented come-back.Wolf Haas astounded and delighted the literary world with his novel The Weather 15 years ago (‘A genre invention of ...

A novel about the unplumbed depths of fidelity and deceit An abysmal day for husband and wife. A compelling story of both love and its worst nightmares .Hinrich Schepp has regained his sight. ...

About the pains of love, homesickness and binomal formulae: the long-awaited sequel to the ‘terribly beautiful Novel of Childhood.’ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.‘God, if only it ...

‘This literary voice is telling me that it can be bliss to read and to be alive.’ Arnold StadlerIn 2008 Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker, winner of the Jürgen Ponto Prize, made a ...

‘Giovanni Segantini and Luigia Bugatti: He painted her when she was little more than a child. He loved her passionately all his life.Giovanni Segantini is put into a reform school as a ...

A story of crime, atonement and reconciliation. A German story.The young lawyer Lisa despises her grandmother Dora, who is in prison for murder. To make her granddaughter understand her action, ...

An eighteenth-century family saga brilliantly told. A great historical novel.One stormy day in 1725 two brothers run aground in a bay on the Baltic coast and settle there in the teeth of bitter ...

Tense, cheeky, charming. Nothing is as old as yesterday’s emotions.

‘The leading man drank a considerable number of glasses of kolsch. He was famous and drunk and he came over to our ...

‘The robber spun round. The bullet hit the bank clerk right between the eyes.’A bloody bank hold-up, spectacular hostage-taking and clues which lead to a dark chapter in the history of ...

Marcel Reich-Ranicki’s personal ‘readers’ of works by great authorsMarcel Reich-Ranicki has compiled some special readers for us. After My Heine und My Lessing we now have My ...

Marcel Reich-Ranicki’s personal ‘readers’ of works by great authorsMarcel Reich-Ranicki has compiled some special readers for us. After My Heine und My Lessing we now have My ...

One of the most important German poets of today.Walter Helmut Fritz’s works in three volumes: the first is a collection of lyric and prose poetry, the second contains the four novels which ...

‘You have to be clever and subtle; but above all, your opponents must also have respect for you.’Perry Kretz, the well-known reporter for Stern magazine, has looked down into the depths ...

An historic event. Stefan Aust’s new book is a fascinating chronicle of the greatest upheaval in the history of the Federal Republic.Aust was right on the spot when the Wall fell and during ...

‘For decades he has been looking into the souls of the mighty – now he is looking into his own.’ Die ZeitThe verdict is cancer of the root of the tongue. For one of the most ...

Laduuuuuma means Goooooal!There is more to South Africa than diamonds, lions, Table Mountain and Nelson Mandela. No-one should know that better than the Africa expert Bartholomäus Grill, who ...

Previously unpublished documents from eight decades – the event of the Dönhoff year!Marion Dönhoff never wrote her autobiography but did write an enormous number of letters, some ...

‘The long-serving editor of Die Zeit was rarely so personally accessible.’ Die ZeitFor Marion Gräfin Dönhoff’s centenary on 2 December 2009: the great bestseller in a ...

Adoption – The story of an odyssee. The longing for a child and the fight for happiness.They want to be a family and face the greatest challenge of their lives: the longing for a child is the ...

100 Years of St Pauli FC. The inner-city club celebrates; non-established since 1910!One of the most popular football clubs in Germany takes stock at its centenary. A lavish jubilee volume presents ...

Welcome to the world of Lily Lux. There are a thousand things to discover there. Lily Lux smiles back . A playful look at the essentials in today’s world. A special book, chock-full with ...

Love’s Wheel of Fortune Practical orientation through the jungle of love. Does like go with like? Do opposites attract each other? This is a conundrum one can solve!Who suits me? People ...

What would life be like without her? The nicest present for your girlfriendIt’s wonderful to sit together on the sofa with this book. It effortlessly brings out your thoughts: Do you ...

At last a gift book for a man!Men like their toys. Where does this passion spring from? The secret is finally out. Stage by stage. In detail.Everyone talks about how women like shopping and men ...

Wild woods and the wide worldWhether it’s ‘Bollenhut’ (traditional Black Forest hat) or cuckoo clock, this area has exported worldwide a romantic concept of itself.Her ...