Bodo Kirchhoff's autobiographical novel is a recollection of life and an homage to love, albeit a bittersweet one. The book thrives on its complexity – and in many places is almost unbearable.
 

In films and novels from Alfred Döblin to Tom Tykwer, Berlin – that overpowering city – devours its inhabitants. Bettina Rust, by contrast, presents the capital as a cosy living room in which she sits on a flowered armchair and spills the beans.

Who shot the Treuhand CEO? And who directed the finger on the trigger? André Georgi presents a dark and gripping fiction from the era of German reunification.

Graphic designer Sascha Lobe works for global brands and cultural institutions. Adidas and Bauhaus are among his clients. In the interview, he describes how communication design has changed – and which projects he finds particularly exciting. 

A retired teacher, Mirta E. has an extensive private library. She visits the “Casa de la lectura” mainly because it offers her an opportunity to chat to like-minded people and learn new things.

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.