Jacob Taubes
In February 1987, just a few weeks before his death, in front of a small crowd of an audience, Jacob Taubes presented four lectures about Paul, which he viewed as…
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Jacob Taubes
In February 1987, just a few weeks before his death, in front of a small crowd of an audience, Jacob Taubes presented four lectures about Paul, which he viewed as…
Wolfgang Benz
More than 100 years ago the czarist secret service claimed to have laid their hands on the records of the Zion World Congress of 1897. In 24 protocols the Jews…
Ingo Schulze
How does an upright man of books and literature become a reactionary, a revolutionary? Norbert Paulini is a highly respected antiquarian bookseller in Dresden. In his shop book lovers can…
Hans Joas
A persistent controversy of recent decades revolves around the question of the origin of the idea of human rights. Do we owe it to our Christian-Jewish heritage or is it…
Peter Stamm
“Please come to Skogskyrkogården tomorrow at 2. I have a story I want to tell you.” Lena agrees to Christoph’s out-of-the-blue request, though the two have never met and…
Margit Auer
Ida doesn’t feel at home at her new school. But then her teacher Miss Cornfield tells them about a magical pet shop and Ida receives a magical, talking animal: the…
Margit Auer
No one is allowed to know about the talking animals and the secret of the magical pet shop. But Ida and her fox Rabbat accidentally spill the beans. What if…
Pavle Goranović
The powerful wings of loneliness, grief and despair are very familiar to Pavle Goranović. Equally, rare moments of happiness and fulfillment. The author knows about the nothingness of the world…
Lukas Bärfuss
In a certain sense, Dora in Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern is a tiny stone in the gears of good, liberal society. Not as long as she fills out the…
Christian Kracht
Christian Kracht’s novel The Dead takes us right into the glistening, feverish years of the Weimar Republic, when modernist culture, especially in film was in its first full prime. In…
Heinz Helle
Two beers, another round – much else is not necessary for intimacy. But alcohol’s warmth can’t keep up with the coldness that reigns supreme in the outside world. A fact…
Irena Brežná
Searching for a better world, a young woman comes in 1968 to Switzerland, to a land of hard cheese, but she should not be too hard on Switzerland, she learns…