Werner Herzog was born in September 1942 in Munich, Germany, at a turning point in the Second World War. Soon Germany would be defeated and a new world would have to be made out the rubble and horrors of the war. Fleeing the Allied bombing raids, Herzog’s mother took him and his older brother to a remote, rustic part of Bavaria where he would spend much of his childhood hungry, without running...

In Ordinary People Don't Carry Machine Guns, Artem Chapeye reveals his war, intimate and senseless, withholding nothing about his motivations, his nightmares, his new relationship with the world. Here one man, a pacifist turned fighter, a story writer turned soldier, a father and husband, considers the reasons for and reactions to war on a very personal level.

World renowned psychologist and internationally bestselling author Edith Eger’s powerful New York Times bestselling book The Choice told the story of her survival in the concentration camps, her escape, healing, and her journey to freedom. Readers around the world wrote to tell her how The Choice moved them and inspired them to confront their own past and try to heal their pain. They asked her...

Immanuel Kant, der bedeutendste Philosoph der Neuzeit, wurde vor 300 Jahren geboren. Aber sein revolutionäres Denken ist bis heute aktuell. Kant erklärte die Entstehung unseres Planetensystems, begründete eine neue Form von Metaphysik und formulierte den kategorischen Imperativ. Kant war Wegbereiter des Kosmopolitismus und der Idee der Menschenwürde. Sein Denken hat nicht nur die Philosophie...

At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele, forced Edie to dance for his amusement and her survival. Edie was pulled from a pile of corpses when the American troops liberated the camps in 1945. Edie spent decades struggling with flashbacks and survivor’s guilt, determined to stay silent and hide from the past....

Im glühend heißen Sommer 1933 spitzt sich die politische Lage in Europa zu - und die der Familie Mann: Thomas und Katia Mann und ihre sechs Kinder sind nach abenteuerlichen Fluchten im Juni in dem verträumten Hafenort Sanary am französischen Mittelmeer gestrandet. Und jetzt wissen sie alle weder vor noch zurück.

Written as both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, The World of Yesterday recalls the golden age of literary Vienna—its seeming permanence, its promise, and its devastating fall. Surrounded by the leading literary lights of the epoch, Stefan Zweig draws a vivid and intimate account of his life and travels through Vienna, Paris, Berlin, and London, touching on the...

For over half a century, Werner Herzog has challenged, enriched, and expanded our understanding of the truth. His films and books have mixed fiction and nonfiction, documentary and drama, reality and imagination. Invariably, Herzog goes beyond the appearance of what is true in search of a higher truth, or what he has often referred to as the “ecstatic truth.” In The Future of Truth, a great...

‘Man has a need for something immense – for infinity and wonder – and he is right not to be content with less and not to feel at home in the world until this need is satisfied,’ – perhaps this phrase from one of Vincent van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo, more than any other, reveals the essence of the great artist's soul, forever wandering along the path of searching for perfection....

Ein Zwischenruf im Zeitalter der politischen Manipulation - auf der Suche nach der Wahrheit mit einem phänomenalen Erzähler Washington PostDer große Erzähler Werner Herzog fragt nach der seltsamsten aller Erzählungen: der von der Wahrheit. Was ist wahr? In einer Welt, die durch Fake News, politische Manipulation und künstliche Intelligenz verunsichert ist, die auf kalte Fakten setzt und doch...

Als sich die 21-jährige Margot am 20. Januar 1943 mit ihrer Mutter und ihrem Bruder Ralph treffen will, um die Flucht vor der Gestapo aus Berlin vorzubereiten, erfährt sie, dass ihr Bruder kurz zuvor abgeholt wurde. Und auch die Mutter erscheint nicht; sie hinterlässt ihrer Tochter folgende Botschaft: «Ich habe mich entschlossen, mit Ralph zu gehen, wohin immer das auch sein mag. Versuche, dein...

The gritty memoir of a former US Marine and Presidential Guard, who, after being unjustly held and abused in a Russian gulag for three years and freed in a high-profile prisoner exchange, seeks revenge against his former Russian captors by volunteering to fight in Ukraine.