'Stupid boy.' Those two words, uttered by a baker, are enough to destroy Lieutenant Gustl. His honor cannot be restored because his opponent is not capable of satisfaction. With death as the only way out, Gustl wanders through the streets of Vienna. Arthur Schnitzler's novella, designed as an inner monologue, gives direct insight into the consciousness of the (anti)hero who, controlled by...

Professor Unrat torments his students, even follows them privately - right into a nightclub. There, however, he succumbs to the charms of a ding-a-ling singer, and the end of the tyrant is heralded. Heinrich Mann writes about the main character of his novel that she is 'a new expression of the phenomenon that has so often shaken me, power'. With the film The Blue Angel, in which Marlene...

A young couple and three days of happiness - the little prose idyll about the lovers Claire and Wölfchen, who try to escape the everyday life of Berlin's big city, made Kurt Tucholsky famous overnight. His first and lightest book. A wonderful summer read, not only for lovers.

'What comes after?' If life after death were to be what Kurt Tucholsky envisioned, then it wouldn't be bad at all: sitting on a cloud with a friend and contemplating life. In the 1920s he devoted himself to the hereafter, God, human errors and relationships in 20 profound and amusing stories that appeared as a column in the Weltbuehne. With an afterword by Ute Maack. Illustrated by Hannah Kolling.

War. Terrible and hateful. Ernst Graeber - an ordinary German soldier - for the first time after two years of war goes on vacation for three weeks. Three priceless weeks - time to live! He leaves to be at war again - in a city where endless bombing. In the city, where residents are afraid to breathe once again, where no one can ever be trusted with their thoughts and feelings, otherwise -...

One of the most fascinating and sad love stories of the twentieth world century. The story of the romance of the most famous singer of the 'lost generation' Erich Maria Remarque and the most famous 'femme fatale' of world cinema Marlene Dietrich, told by themselves - in letters that they wrote to each other. Their relationship was not simple. In them, flashes of passion and tenderness were too...

'Arc de Triomphe' is a poignant love story against all odds, love that brings pain, but also gives endless joy. The scene is Paris on the eve of World War II. The hero is a refugee from Germany, without documents, hiding from both the French and the Nazis, a surgeon who saves human lives. The heroine is an Italian actress, surrounded by fans, quick-tempered, like all artists, beautiful and...

This astonishing, autobiographical tour de force was written by Hans Fallada in an encrypted notebook while he was incarcerated in a Nazi insane asylum. Discovered after his death, it tells the tale—often fierce, often poignant, often extremely funny—of a small businessman losing control as he fights valiantly to blot out an increasingly oppressive society.

Veresaev's literary debut. An autobiographical book that was first published in 1901 - and immediately brought wide fame to the young author. The first steps of a freshly minted aesculapian starting his journey in the medical field. Good luck and bad luck. A painful fear of a mistake that could kill an innocent patient. Stress. Despair. Pride of success. Dangerous and morally questionable, but...

Miniature edition. White paper, large, legible font. Flipbook format, great for reading in the subway, on the bus, in a plane.