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      • Fiction
        March 2018

        Fiebelkorn

        by Matthias Lanin

        After the Second World War Johanna Lettmann and Wilfried Fiebelkorn were among the Germans expelled from Hinterpommern. When Wilfried Fiebelkorn returns to his Hanna after five years as a prisoner of war in England, they marry. In the dictatorship, which calls itself socialist, they begin a common life. 50 years later they had four daughters, one of them lost to cancer and their home lost to flames. They experience the turning point and reunification together. After half a century Willi and Hanna still love each other, but how can it go on for the other, when one of them will no longer be, when the love of life is missing? And which world does one feel closer to, that of the dead or that of the living?

      • Fiction
        September 2018

        Against the Dreams

        by Sead Husic

        It is 1969 when Mersija gets on a train towards Germany. She leaves Yugoslavia with a clear goal in mind: Not to end up like her father - old, poor and crazy. Ahmed rages against the family, is despised by his wife and children and was deprived of his money and his intellect by the whore Sabina. Mersija tavels until she has crossed the border. She finds work and succeeds in gaining a foothold in this foreign country. She marries Muso - a Muslim like her from Yugoslavia - and has a son. But she is separated from Adem by more than one generation. The son reproaches his parents for him not being a foreigner, but German, in contrast to them. But Mersija, Muso and so many others of her generation are always on the threshold of German society. Even after years in this country, they are still considered foreigners with their own laws and morals. But there is no way back either.

      • Fiction
        November 2017

        Life in the Backyard

        by Maik Siegel

        In a typical Berlin apartment building, world politics is suddenly discussed when Syrian refugee Samih has to move in. The tenants are very different from one another: there is the well-read cynic, the African family, the single gay, the conservative couple and the shared student flat, all of them with different expectations and opinions. However, their views will change rapidly once Samih moves in and even quicker when a nasty rumour is spread.

      • Fiction
        October 2018

        In the mole tunnel

        by Thomas Kastning

        As an employee in a paper wholesaler, Konstantin Berger leads a somewhat exciting life: Work, football, television, gambling. Social contacts: Fault report. Until his pretty new neighbor Leyla invites him to a squat in Berlin. What begins as an innocent adventure quickly gets out of control and makes Konstantin unintentionally an accomplice to left-wing terrorists. Because Leyla's friends are not only extremely intelligent and politically engaged - they are also willing to kill for their beliefs. As a confidant of an unprecedented series of attacks that shook the country, Constantine himself was finally targeted by the investigators. He has to make difficult decisions: Should he betray his new friends to the police? And how can he protect Leyla, whom he loved at first sight? A chase beyond the German borders begins.

      • Fiction
        August 2016

        In the Shadows of the Past

        by Ricarda Konrad

        Totally surprisingly the freshly divorced, 40 year-old Caroline inherits the cottage of her stubborn great-aunt in Ireland. Spontaneously, she leaves everything behind and drives to the idyllic village where she finds new friends very fast due to the warmhearted inhabitants. Even the very attractive neighbor Damian, whom she likes more than she wants to admit, is very helpful. During the renovation works she finds old letters from WWII, and uncovers a dark family secret... Together Damian and Caroline go on the search to find answers.

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