Robert Seethaler
On deck of a ship from New York to Europe is Gustav Mahler. He is famous, the greatest musician in the world, but his body aches, has always ached. While…
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Robert Seethaler
On deck of a ship from New York to Europe is Gustav Mahler. He is famous, the greatest musician in the world, but his body aches, has always ached. While…
Robert Musil
The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil’s main oeuvre, is considered one of 20th century’s most influential novels. The novel was published from 1930 on in three separate volumes.
Leo Perutz
Vienna, before the First World War: A mysterious series of deaths shatters the community. Was it suicide? Or murder? Trivialities, which have hardly been noticed, gradually intensify into signs against…
Cornelia Funke
Philipp can’t believe his eyes: a white knight and a dragon jump out of his book and chase each other across the room! Philipp has no time to wonder what…
Edgar Hilsenrath
“I am Max Schulz, the illegitimate, albeit pure Aryan son of Minna Schulz …” Thus begins Edgar Hilsenrath’s famous novel about the SS man and mass murderer who slips into…
Robert Walser
In the middle of the golden years of the twenties, at the height of social euphoria and just before economic crisis hit, Robert Walser was writing his last novel, The…
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
Germany, November 1938. Otto Silbermann’s relatives and friends are arrested or have disappeared. He himself tries to remain invisible, taking train after train, travelling across the country. In the midst…
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Gastmann makes a bet with his childhood friend, Bärlach as to whether it is possible to commit a crime without being prosecuted for it. It was never proven that he…
Hertha Pauli
“The rift of time goes through my heart” is a Heinrich Heine quote that accompanied Hertha Pauli on her long escape route via Zurich, Paris, Marseille and Lisbon to the…
Christoph Hein
Leipzig 1968: Historian Dellow is released after 21 months in prison. His crime: Filling in for an absent piano player during a student cabaret. The lyrics, set to a tango…
Hans Keilson
At the centre of this thrilling and subtly human novel are a young Jew, in search of his purpose and way in life, and the political social climber B., whose…
Matthias Nawrat
It is the winter of the attacks on the Christmas market at Berlin’s Gedächtniskirche. A man without a name observes the precarious neighbourhood with growing unease. Through conversations and encounters…