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 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 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.

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.

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...

'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.

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.

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.

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...

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 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...

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...