During his lifetime, Handel was celebrated as »Orpheus«, and his music is played in opera houses and concert halls all over the world to this day. Yet we know very little of...

From ghetto to death camp - a memoir of privilege and luck

Anatol Chari was a member of the Jewish Special Police Force and his memoirs are one of the few...

Bertha Krupp (1887-1957) spent her entire life in the public eye. Following her father's untimely and scandal-ridden death, she inherited the Krupp industrial empire at...

It is 1902, and Friedrich Alfred Krupp - head of the global industrial giant of the same name - dies suddenly at the height of a scandal concerning his alleged homosexuality....

Ultimately, this is the story of a father and daughter. Barbara Honigmann describes her childhood in East Berlin, the perpetual travelling back and forth between her separated...

The rise of a brilliant politician caught between resistance to reform and activism   Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, and this led to the end of the...

Germany's most famous author loved women. Like in a gallery, this book presents in words and pictures both the most important women in his life as well as famous female...

This introduction to Simone de Beauvoir's life and work focuses on her most famous book, ›The Second Sex‹. Written in 1949, it deals with the situation of women in the western...

"To the Germans, I was a foreigner, to the Muslims a Jew, and to the Jews a juvenile delinquent."

Arye Sharuz Shalicar was born in Germany, ...

No sooner had German-speaking women writers begun to make their mark on the literary scene at the start of the 20th century than their way was already being barred by the...

An original thinker and a great teacher of wisdom  

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 -1860) was only 25 years old when he published his first major...