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...

Ever since it was first published in 1984, this anthology of German poems has been one of the classics in Reclam Verlag's programme. It offers a deliberately short selection of excellent and representative poems by over 100 most important poets in the German language from a period of more than twelve centuries. It has been updated and expanded again and again, now with poems by Elke Erb, Ulrich...

A representative selection from Heinrich Heine's four large poetry collections: from the early Book of Songs to the New Poems to the Romanzero and the late Poems. A detailed commentary provides information on the genesis of the poems, contemporary references and backgrounds as well as explanations of words.