The world bestseller for the first time as Fallada wrote it. Too explosive to be printed in this way: a quarter of the original version of the novel that made Hans Fallada an internationally acclaimed best-selling author on the eve of the Nazis' seizure of power has never been published. The seller Johannes Pinneberg and his girlfriend Lämmchen are expecting a child. The couple decides to marry...

Lorenz Beckhardt, brought up in a Catholic boarding school, only found out as an adult that he was a Jew and that many of his relatives were victims of the Holocaust. He meticulously follows the history of his family -- from grandfather Fritz Beckhardt, the ardent patriot and World War II pilot, to the generation that after 1945 dared to make a new start in the country of the perpetrators....

A provocative study of German peace of mind For the first time since the end of the exhibition 'War of Destruction. Crimes of the Wehrmacht 1941 to 1944' Hannes Heer spoke about the background to the campaign against the show, which he directed. She had questioned the legend of the clean Wehrmacht, and the shock was correspondingly great. The attempts to defame the exhibition were successful...

It has become acceptable again to make Hitler a scapegoat in order to clean up the German past. The Hitler and spear expert Joachim Fest, Bernd Eichinger's award-winning film 'Der Untergang' and the popular television series by Guido Knopp are the key witnesses for the current rollback in the historical perspective. Will Hitler become the leader of the Germans again?

Because Franziska would rather choose 30 wild years instead of 70 good ones, the young and talented architect ignores the predetermined career path. One year she will work in the back provinces. She doesn't want to be satisfied with what's feasible, nor does she want to become cynical like Ben, the mysterious man she makes her lover.

Time novel and fate panorama. The 'Anschluss' of Austria by the Nazis in March 1938 and their invasion of Vienna was a traumatic turning point in European history. Manfred Fluegge tells vividly and in detail about the tragic mistake of Kurt Schuschnigg and the failure of the world public. In an alternation of historical representation and exemplary life stories of actors and victims, including...

When angry farmers thwart a seizure of livestock, everything in a small northern German town gets out of joint. Intrigues and political intrigues are hatched, no one can escape the game of money and power. – With this lively, deeply human novel, Hans Fallada creates a rich panorama of the domestic misery of the Weimar Republic.

A new masterpiece by the brilliant feuilletonist Jutta Voigt: clever and entertaining, she tells of the longing for a different life in the GDR. Artists, bohemians, those who failed in the face of real socialism - they all sought the right existence outside the control of the wrong system. At the center of Jutta Voigt's new book is a bohemian who pursued a fundamental interest: the other life....

People on the run. Marseille in the summer of 1940: those persecuted and threatened by the Nazis gather on the edge of Europe. They rush for visas, certificates and stamps in order to escape overseas into safe exile. In the chaos of the city, in the cafés, on the walk from authority to authority, their paths cross - and for a short time, the lives of others are connected through hopes, dreams...

Exile under palm trees. For centuries, the Cote d'Azur has been a magnet of longing for German writers and painters. Until 1933. After that, the coast with its poetic patina became the refuge of many German artists, and Sanary-sur-Mer became the spiritual center of emigration. Thomas Mann lived here, as did Lion Feuchtwanger, Ludwig Marcuse, Franz Werfel and Bruno Frank. Many artists who had...

Hans Fallada's Unpublished Stories. What a find: Of the stories that Hans Fallada wrote in the course of his life, more than twenty important texts are unknown to readers because they have never been published or were written directly for a magazine. They show the familiar author in top form and at the same time allow us to discover new sides of him. These stories spanning four decades lead...

August 1939. Shimmering heat in Central Europe. The grain is mowed. Holiday season. It might be carefree days, but there's something disturbing in the air. Some say a new war is imminent. The others swear the peace is safe. In this restless August, the world is watching the Obersalzberg. Adolf Hitler spends his summer here. From here he dares a risky game. Hauke Friederichs tells the story of...