Book of the month 2006

Anno 1914: 17 year old Welshman Merce Blackboro is a stow-away passenger on the ship „Endurance“ and is feverishly anticipating his discovery. This is his second big trip on a ship, and for 635 days it will bring him to a different world, one which he believes he already knows from books.More ...

"Measuring the world" is about the life and work of two of Germany’s most outstanding scientists: The naturalist and traveller Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) and the mathematician and astronomer Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) whose discoveries became of immensely important value to science. More ...

“Fatma is beautiful like a piece of the moon” and she is only 15 years old, when she is married to the young blacksmith Timur. Nevertheless, a gentle love story develops between the young couple, full of respect, affection and tenderness, which is set in the 40’s somewhere in remote, rural Anatolia, in a world completely bound by the traditions and rules of the old people, and spared from the confusion of the Second World War. For the time being, family life remains untroubled and happy.More ...

A sixteen-year-old peeks after the Polish housekeeper, as she walks to the bus stop in her raincoat. Afterwards he desperately searches through the house. "I looked in the kitchen, the living room and the bathroom, looking for something, that she might have forgotten, something I could touch, put in my pocket, which I can sniff, but it is true, she cleaned the house of herself.More ...