Two school friends, twelve years old and fatherless, are the focus of this story from the early post-war period. Heinrich and Martin grow up without fathers because they never returned from the war. Their living conditions are fundamentally different, and yet they share formative experiences. Heinrich grows up in poor conditions and has to take on responsibility at an early age.

Written between 1949 and 1951, The Angel was Silent is Böll's first novel set in post-war Germany. It begins on May 8, 1945, the day of the capitulation, and leads into the middle of the ruined landscape of a German city. Perhaps that was the reason why the manuscript, which had been waiting for publication for a year, did not appear after all. The publishing house at the time took the change...

Eleven short stories from Boell's estate – written between 1936 and 1951. In this early work, including for the first time a text by the young Boell from the pre-war period, the critical and distanced view of the dedicated writer becomes clear when he writes about his surroundings and his time .

Rarely has a book of the post-war period triggered such heated discussions as the views of a clown, which struck a chord with the morals and lifestyle of bourgeois Catholic society.

The volume edited by Jochen Schubert offers a comprehensive selection from Heinrich Böll's narrative work, following several aspects: in addition to the best-known stories, there are those that are representative due to their subject and narrative style, and others that have not yet been published or are only planned hard-to-reach places. The total of 75 stories vividly document Böll's work in...

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.

Because Franziska would rather choose 30 wild years instead of 70 good ones, the young and talented architect ignores the predetermined career path. One year she will work in the back provinces. She doesn't want to be satisfied with what's feasible, nor does she want to become cynical like Ben, the mysterious man she makes her lover.

When angry farmers thwart a seizure of livestock, everything in a small northern German town gets out of joint. Intrigues and political intrigues are hatched, no one can escape the game of money and power. – With this lively, deeply human novel, Hans Fallada creates a rich panorama of the domestic misery of the Weimar Republic.

Hans Fallada's Unpublished Stories. What a find: Of the stories that Hans Fallada wrote in the course of his life, more than twenty important texts are unknown to readers because they have never been published or were written directly for a magazine. They show the familiar author in top form and at the same time allow us to discover new sides of him. These stories spanning four decades lead...

His profile was posted publicly in the county seat when Johann Schulz sought refuge with relatives in a Rhenish-Hessian village. He is accused of killing a police officer at a demonstration. The bounty offered becomes a temptation for the villagers, and it is a matter of opinion who finally denounces the cop killer. Because the Nazis advertise in the village.

Feuchtwanger's world-famous family novel They are successful and respected: Gustav, the writer and senior boss, Martin, the businessman, and Edgar, the doctor. But then the unbelievable happened: The Nazis set up their regime with murder and fire. Home is slipping away from the Oppermanns. They have to leave their homes and their friends because they are of Jewish descent.

When Toni Muhr returned to Vienna from the war in the fall of 1916, Emperor Franz Joseph I was being ceremonially buried. Toni's world seems to be getting out of joint in other respects too: his employer quite obviously applied for the chemical patent himself, which he had offered him for sale in vain shortly before he was drafted into military service, and thus made incredible wealth during...