Fiction Spring 2023

Isabella von Seybach seems to be all set for the coming season: ready for the breathtaking gowns, ready for the heady parties, and ready, too, to find a husband. But she secretly has other plans:...

Bath, 1795. Farmer’s daughter Betty Hartley dreams of becoming a journalist and a woman of independent means. She has even found a position as a stenographer at the Somerset Star, Bath’s latest s...

1936 is Frederic Carvis’s last good year. He is studying physics in Berlin under the supervision of renowned physicist Paul Bergmann, and already getting a glimpse of the top echelons of the scie...

In Berlin, the Roaring Twenties are in full swing: the empire’s corseted age is over, and new opportunities are opening up for the city’s women. At KaDeWe, sales assistant Rieke Krause has worked...

Oldenburg, 1897. Marleene, the first ever female royal gardener, wants to use her success to help other women follow in her footsteps. But establishing a school for female gardeners is harder tha...

Norderney, 1962. Young Hanna has started a new job as a carer in the Strandhafer children's convalescent home. She hopes to be able to contribute to the greater good, and help the young patients ...

Hamburg, 1957. Searching for a position as an office assistant, twenty-year-old Klara Paulsen applies for a job at women’s magazine "Claire". Since her father died at the front, Klara has been ke...

Paris, 1922. Elsa Schiaparelli and her young daughter have just arrived in the City of Lights. Elsa has been designing and sewing dresses for a long time now, and has come to Paris with visions o...

Western Prussia, 1918. Gerda von Westkamm is growing up on the Lapienen estate, surrounded by endless meadows, forests and lakes. She spends her childhood summers with her best friend Thomas, dre...

Danzig, 1856. When young Johanna Berendt finds herself standing in front of the big villa in Langgasse Street, she feels deeply embarrassed. She eloped with a pianist just a few months ago, but n...