Non-Fiction Autumn 2022

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Birgit Lutz

An Epitaph to the Arctic

There’s still time to save the planet

Date of publication: November 9, 2022
Paperback | 496 pages
With this book, Birgit Lutz, expert on the Arctic, takes us on a very special journey – this time, however, it’s not a freezing expedition to the North Pole or a whale hunt in East Greenland with...
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Daniel Gerlach

The Last Secrets of the Middle East

My journey to discover our cultural roots

Date of publication: September 14, 2022
Hardcover | 368 pages
Who was Jesus? How was it possible for a hippie with an artistic bent to found a world religion? What does "The Exorcist" have to do with ISIS? And why do men with moustaches choose to remain sil...
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Eva Weissweiler

Villa Verde, or: the Hotel in San Remo

The Benjamin family’s exile in Italy

Date of publication: September 28, 2022
Hardcover | 288 pages
This is the history of the Villa Verde, the little hotel in San Remo once owned by Dora Sophie Kellner, Walter Benjamin’s ex-wife. Dora was an ambitious author, translator and journalist; she was...
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Jana Heinicke

Belly Instinct

We need to talk about motherhood

Date of publication: November 9, 2022
Paperback | 256 pages
Motherhood is still considered by society to be the greatest happiness and the one true fulfilment in a woman's life. No wonder that this high ideal raises expectations and that any deviation fro...
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Michael Horeni

The Blessed

Beauty, pain and loneliness: the rise and fall of the gods of football

Date of publication: October 26, 2022
Hardcover | 320 pages
Franz Beckenbauer, George Best, Diego Maradona, Mesut Özil, Michel Platini and Sócrates are international footballing legends. Yet they were also artists – some of them were even survival artists...
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Maik Baumgärtner, Ann-Katrin Mülle...

The Invisibles

How female secret agents have shaped German history

Date of publication: October 26, 2022
Hardcover | 384 pages
Our image of the secret services has been shaped by James Bond and Jason Bourne – yet in reality, not all secret agents are male. Ever since the bygone days of the German Empire, countless women ...
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Eva-Maria Schnurr (Editor)

The Great Witch Hunt

How the fear of black magic shaped European history

Date of publication: October 13, 2022
Paperback | 304 pages
In Europe, the dawn of the Modern Era inaugurated a time of upheaval and anxiety, as people began to question traditional beliefs. At the same time, our fear that the world was about to end broug...
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Veronica Frenzel

My Day Dawns in Your Shadow

How my family’s Nazi past made me a racist

Date of publication: September 28, 2022
Paperback | 320 pages
Even as a child, the award-winning journalist Veronica Frenzel suspected that there was something dark lurking in her family’s history. No one would speak openly about what her grandparents did d...
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Marcel Sebastian

Stroke or Slaughter?

Why our relationship with animals is so complicated, and what it says about us

Date of publication: September 28, 2022
Paperback | 240 pages
"It’s complicated" – there’s no better way to describe the human-animal relationship. While the value of cattle, pigs, etc. is usually measured in money per kilogram, pets are considered beloved ...
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Nicolas Mahler

Romy Schneider

All of her films, drawn by Nicolas Mahler

Date of publication: May 9, 2022
Paperback | 128 pages
An homage to Romy Schneider that takes a fresh look at the mysterious icon – one of the last true divas of the twentieth century. Nicolas Mahler, "the international star illustrator" (arte), famo...

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