Fiction Autumn 2021

Pinscher doesn't eat – he gorges; he doesn't drink – he downs; he doesn't have a cigarette – he chain-smokes; he doesn't work – he toils. He weighs in at nearly three hundred pounds, and stands a...

"Ombra" is the story of a man brought back from the brink of death: In the summer of 2019, Hanns-Josef Ortheil discovers that he suffers from severe chronic heart failure. Complications arise dur...

For seven years, starting on her forty-third birthday, Terézia Mora has regularly recorded her thoughts and observations in a blog with short texts. In these entries, the multi-award-winning auth...

Gunnar Bäumer left the province for Berlin seven years ago, when he was in his late twenties, but has to return home for a week to house-sit for his parents. His return coincides with the annual ...

Munich, 2020. Monika is a strong woman, but life hasn't been easy for her. Her mother Helga abandoned her when she was nine years old – to this day, she doesn't know why. Helga is a dark spot on ...

We don't choose the times we live in nor the times that shape us. Neither did Lud and Alma. Lud, who was born in 1899, and his brother Wilhelm revere Bach and Hölderlin, and share the same unatta...

She is 30 years old and her name is Kieu, like the girl in the most famous work of Vietnamese literature. But she prefers to go by "Kim" because it's easier in Berlin. In 1968, her parents had co...

Doggerland, a delta the size of Germany at the confluence of Thames and Rhine, was the old heart of Europe and centre of the Stone Age world. This borderland and continental bridge – submerged fo...

Twelve-year-old Henrietta, whom everyone calls Henry, lives in Berlin's Wilmersdorf district and is longing for adventure. When her overprotective mother leaves her brand-new BMW on the street wi...

18-year-old Niri, his parents and his siblings are living a modest, but secure existence as employees in a wealthy family's villa. But then the pandemic arrives: Niri's whole family is made redun...