Non-Fiction Autumn 2024

At the start of the twentieth century, Gabriele Münter is in Bavaria, living and painting alongside the love of her life, Wassily Kandinsky – and the southern countryside thus becomes the birthpl...

Marina Buzunashvilli is one of the most influential names in the German music business, but her path to the top was anything but easy: she grew up in the gritty Kreuzberg neighbourhood in Berlin,...

Mia is the youngest in a long line of drinkers in her family. She loves red wine, but she’s not half as bad as her crazy gran and her mysterious father, who both killed themselves with drink. She...

In this book, Todenhöfer looks back on an unusual life in which he has often gone against the mainstream and been willing to risk danger and controversy. He describes his lifelong fight against w...

Statistics show that, in Germany, one in seven women suffers sexual violence at some point in her life. The real number is considerably higher. When Baumann was raped in the workplace, the event ...

"Becoming Thomas Mann" focuses on the years 1909–1919, a period in the Mann family’s life that has hitherto been largely ignored – shedding light on the lives of Thomas, his wife Katia and their ...

Her whole life, Clara Schumann fought for recognition, freedom and her own career. In many ways, she faced the same challenges as women living in the twenty-first century: struggling with her rol...

Ever since he was a child, writer and musician Regnier always felt that we only have one life, full of hopes, full of tears. Born in January 1945 as the son of stage actors and playwrights Charle...

Theirs was an extraordinary relationship: in 53 years of marriage, Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma created an unparalleled body of work, including the timeless classics "Rebecca", "Rear Window...

Spiegel editor Clauß is the author of the long-running and hugely popular parenting column Menschenskinder, where she writes openly, honestly and amusingly about her daily struggle to reconcile p...