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...

Few authors have described Berlin in the 1920s as perceptively and comprehensively as Joseph Roth. The city guide and publicist Michael Bienert has followed in his footsteps and has put together a reader that can be used to find the Berlin of the 1920s in the city of today.

The Leviathan tells of the Jewish coral trader Piczenik, who loves the real corals and yet falls victim to the fraud with the fake ones. The short stories The Triumph of Beauty and The Bust of the Emperor are added to this parable of human existence.

Wolfgang Leonhard was a 13-year-old boy when he had to leave Nazi Germany with his mother and emigrated to the Soviet Union. There he grew up after the arrest of his mother in a home for German and Austrian emigrants, studied at the Moscow Pedagogical College of Foreign Languages and joined the Komsomol. He experienced the outbreak of the German-Soviet war in Moscow and was forcibly resettled...

The young soldier Ernst Graeber receives leave from the front for a few weeks - and meets the love of his life in the last days of the Third Reich. Fear, terror and persecution are only now making him realize the senselessness of the war. But it's too late - he has to go back to war...

The painter and poet Fritz Schramm welcomes young people with artistic ambitions to his attic apartment. A friendship develops between him and the music student Ernst Winter, which is put to the test when Ernst falls in love with the opera singer Lanna. Remarque's debut novel: a touching portrait of the artist as a young man and the beginning of a great career as a writer.

The story of nineteen-year-old Paul Baeumer, who went from school to the front as an unsuspecting war volunteer, is now common knowledge. But when you read it again, the impression is again shocking: how Baeumer experiences the whole brutality of the carnage and the senseless deaths of his comrades instead of the hoped-for enthusiasm for the war and a short adventure is touching and outrageous.