At age 23, when his first novel was published by Diogenes in 2008, Benedict Wells was the youngest author of the renowned publishing house. This novel has since been made into a film and his next three books were also successes. Now Wells presents a collection of short stories that can be considered virtually classic.

Is what I am seeing, hearing, reading politically correct? Art critic Hanno Rauterberg explores the origins and salient features of the current mode of analysis in the reception of art and culture.

Robert Seethaler lets the dead of an entire town have their say. All of them are buried in the same place, a graveyard called “The Field“. The Austrian writer weaves their stories into a place of desires – those that have been fulfilled, but even more so those that haven’t.

To present themselves as an attractive place to live, Germany’s urban centres are embracing innovative concepts for the modern world of work. 

Who are they and how do they live? The advertising and media world has discovered a new target group: Generation Z, fully digitalized since birth, is coming of age. But on screen they are (still) representing the lives of Millennials.

While many European countries struggle with high youth unemployment, Germany is experiencing lower rates than seldom before. There is more to these promising figures than just the country’s strong economy.

Over the past 120 years, Marxist ideas have undergone frequent revivals on the silver screen.

Falling down, lowering yourself on a rope from a great height or staging a moped accident – for Melanie Benna, this is all part of her everyday working life. The native Berliner works as a stunt woman. How does she assert herself in this male domain?

How do we interact with strangers and engage with foreign countries? The film “Western” tells the story of German construction workers sent to build a hydroelectric power station in Bulgaria, where their encounters with local villagers do not, to put it mildly, always go smoothly.

Some bank on software, others on local woods. The current range of instrument making in Germany is great, but so too is the international competition.

As news of Che Guevara’s death spread around the world in 1967, an independent label declared a cultural revolution in Bavaria. 2017 marks the 50th birthday of the Trikont record company, still a subversive thorn in the establishment’s side today.

Traditional German male choirs look pretty old in the twenty-first century. Sing-along formats, however, such as “pack singing” are booming. In any case, Germans’ desire to sing remains unbroken.