Maria Sklodowska was an extraordinary woman. Not only was she interested in completely extraordinary things, such as chemical experiments and physical phenomena, but she also wanted to educate herself and became an outstanding scientist! She left Poland and studied at the Sorbonne in France. There she met her husband - Pierre Curie. While researching radioactivity in a duo with her husband, she...

Vincent van Gogh, a painter who was underappreciated during his lifetime and who was missing one ear, took up more than just a paintbrush to survive the hard times. He says, ‘I’ve done a lot of different things in my life: I’ve been a bit of an art dealer, a preacher in the coalfield, a language teacher, a bookseller.’ How did he manage to survive and not give up his passion for painting?...

‘My name may not ring a bell. But I'm sure many of you know my most famous work, 'The Little Prince.' If not, run to an adult right away and ask them to buy you this book. Just be careful not to keep it for themselves. No wonder. Many adults love this novel because it reminds them of the child they once were.’ This is how Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the author of one of the most beautiful stories...

Theory of relativity, the most famous formula in the world and scientific achievements that earned him the Nobel Prize in 1921. This time, meet one of the most famous scientists of all time – Albert Einstein. It is hard to believe that he was not a model student and even had problems at school. Yes, this funny-looking, disheveled physicist who was proclaimed a man of the 20th century by Time...

This is Mahatma Ghandi, or, as his nickname suggests, a great spirit. Throughout his life, he proved that violence is the worst form of fighting for the equality of men and women. He worked for the poorest, for those despised solely because of the color of their skin, and for those who could not enjoy freedom. And all this with calm strength, unyielding perseverance, and a revolutionary program...

Pianist, composer and sensitive romantic. Fryderyk Chopin – a truly international talent. And he was born and spent his childhood in Poland! It was here that he had loving parents and a home that resounded with music. It was in a country that did not exist on the map at that time that he experienced his first contacts with the keyboard and his first performances before the Warsaw audience. Here...

Jens Bisky legt eine Gesamtdarstellung der Geschichte Berlins vor, wie es sie seit Jahrzehnten nicht gegeben hat, vom Dreißigjährigen Krieg bis in die Gegenwart. Eine faszinierende Erzählung über Aufstieg, Fall und Neubeginn – und zugleich ein packendes Panorama deutscher wie europäischer Geschichte im Spiegel einer einzigartigen Metropole.

Marx, Wagner, Nietzsche – diese drei Denker haben das 19. wie das 20. Jahrhundert tief beeinflusst. Als Zeitgenossen, die sich wechselseitig mit Verehrung, Ablehnung oder Ignoranz gegenüberstanden, prägten sie eine Zeit von enormer wissenschaftlicher Vielfalt und gesellschaftlicher Dynamik. Ihre Antagonismen und Widersprüche führen ins Herz der deutschen Entwicklung. Herfried Münkler folgt...

Dabei wird deutlich, wie porös die Brandmauer zwischen Rechtsextremismus und Konservatismus in den USA schon immer war, nicht erst seit Trump. Brockschmidt erzählt packend, wie historische Entwicklungen und Machtkämpfe die Partei geprägt und radikalisiert haben – und warum das Ergebnis der Präsidentschaftswahl 2024 nicht nur für die USA von entscheidender Bedeutung sein wird.

Ein Klassiker der 1930er-Jahre-Literatur, neu entdeckt: das Schicksal einer klugen und ehrgeizigen Frau als Bankangestellte in der Weltwirtschaftskrise

The novel begins with the events of June 23, 1941, when the offensive of the German army launched another wave of the fight against spies in the USSR. The work immerses the reader in the atmosphere of the 1930s and is based on the materials of the investigative case of the first director of the Moscow crematorium, Pyotr Ilyich Nesterenka, through whose testimony and diaries one can trace the...

These were all just ghosts of the night, phantoms of the mind wandering in the dark. And although he had to see a lot of them and even once during a lonely walk to face Satan himself, the daylight always overcame all this devilry, and then he could lead an ordinary, pleasant life without fear of the forces of the other world.