What to do when it's night outside and sleep doesn't come? And how can one fall asleep here, when the pillow is uncomfortable, the blanket is biting, and the sheet keeps sliding down to the floor! Masha was offended by her bed and decided not to go to bed at all - after all, you can find something more fun. Maybe the dog Tyavka, the rooster Petka or the Bat will tell the girl where she sleeps...

Alyosha Solnyshkin dreams of the ocean. He dreams of becoming a sailor, and when his grandmother sends him to the city to enter the school, this brave boy arbitrarily leaves for Okeansk. Solnyshkin gets into the crew of the ship 'Give!', where fun and unexpected adventures await him, during which he will learn to always follow the arrow of his compass-heart.

The great Russian artist Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935) is known as one of the key figures in the Russian avant-garde. His painting overturns the usual ideas about art and gives birth to new meanings. Malevich belongs to those artists who said important words about the new art. Since 1915, he has been creating texts parallel to his artistic quest. A cross-cutting theme in Malevich's vocabulary is...

The amusing shameful deeds of the two good-for-nothings: in 1865 Wilhelm Busch wrote his picture story »Max and Moritz«, which was to bring him worldwide fame.

The children's book classic in the famous English adaptation by Mark Twain, with all illustrations and the German original in the appendix.

In the course of his life Goethe wrote more than three thousand poems, apparently easy to understand, but also those of the highest linguistic and metaphorical complexity, poems in song-like strophic forms, in strict ancient meters or rhymeless poetry. With this lyrical work, which is exceptional in scope and importance, he actually created the German-language poem of the modern age.

The amusing shameful deeds of the two good-for-nothings: in 1865 Wilhelm Busch wrote his picture story »Max and Moritz«, which was to bring him worldwide fame.

He made his debut as child prodigy Loris, and very early on, at about twenty years of age, Hofmannsthal found his style in poetry. The famous poems that form the core of his ultimately small lyrical oeuvre, which is presented here in a selected edition, were composed in the mid-1890s.

A lyrical cross-section through the diversity of romanticism. The epoch was a heyday of poetry art. She turned to new themes, the fairytale, the night, longing, she developed new motifs such as forest solitude, moonlight and Loreley and aimed at the dissolution of the individual's boundaries in nature or in the universe. The selection ranges from the beginnings in Jena to late Romanticism, from...

In addition to candles, baubles and tinsel, they are essential tools for every successful Christmas celebration: poems by timeless classics (to be read under the tree!) and many contemporaries (it's nice that there's always good news). Happy holidays are guaranteed! Nebst Kerzen, Kugeln und Lametta gehören sie zum unverzichtbaren Rüstzeug für jedes gelungene Weihnachtsfest: Gedichte von...