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...

The last novel by the Viennese master. It is a bright early spring day when Therese arrives in Vienna. Behind her lies the boredom of everyday life in a small town, the disappointment of her first love. The officer's daughter from a good family takes on the life of a maid because she wants to live, be free, finally be happy in this seductive city. In his touching novel about women, Schnitzler...

What do we know about the feelings and fears of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers? In the early 1990s, Wolf-Rüdiger Osburg set out to visit the last witnesses to the war. 135 soldiers at the front gave him information and reported on the war in all its facets: relentlessly, in detail and honestly. It tells of total exhaustion, of hunger and deprivation, of the constant proximity of death,...

Bertolt Brecht in 100 Poems The anthology authorized by Bertolt Brecht: a cross-section of his entire lyrical work. This selection of poems, made by Wieland Herzfelde a few years before Brecht's death, has found an audience of millions since its first edition. It takes into account the entire extensive lyrical work of the great playwright, director and poet of the 20th century.

The major new edition of one of the most discussed books in GDR literature. The sensational book for the first time as the author wrote it. Thanks to a lucky find, we can rediscover this novel, which is currently causing international enthusiasm due to its amazing modernity, in an unabridged, politically unembellished version.

Friday, April 10, 1981: In Jena, 23-year-old Matthias Domaschk boards the express train to Berlin. He wants to go to a birthday party. But he never arrives, because the fully occupied train is stopped in Jueterbog, and Matthias and three other people from Jena are arrested. He is dead two days later after an interrogation in the Stasi detention center in Gera. What happened then?

The Escape Without End is a novel by Joseph Roth, which was written in 1927 during the author's trip to Albania and was published by Kurt Wolff in Munich in the same year. According to Roth, the novel is a piece of autobiography. Franz Tunda, lieutenant in the Austrian army, escapes from Russian captivity and finds shelter in the taiga with the Pole Baranowicz in Werchne-Udinsk. In the spring...

In this great novel, which first appeared in 1932 and made him internationally famous, Joseph Roth tells of the downfall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, using the example of the Trotta family - the checkered fate of three generations and the downfall of an entire family.

Confession of a Murderer, Told in One Night, written in exile in France, is a parable of the power of evil. For a whole night, the guests of the Russian emigre bar ›Tari-Bari‹ in Paris listen to the confession of Semjon Golubchik, who calls himself a murderer.

'All I own are three suitcases.' – A mosaic of the stages of his life emerges from his own letters, feuilletons and selected prose works that describe Joseph Roth’s feelings and impressions of people, situations and political circumstances.

Kaffeehaus-Fruehling, the Vienna reading book published by Helmut Peschina, shows the bravura feuilletonistic beginnings of Joseph Roth.

Joseph Roth's Radetzky March, that great novel in which a figure in history, the Austrian monarchy, is snatched from transience through the poet's language, is given a strange addition by the novel The Dumb Prophet: the swan song not to a figure of the past history, but melancholic resignation in the face of a powerful utopia of the kingdom of justice, in which all men are brothers, which has...