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        gestalten continues to actively reimagine the way in which we approach publishing. With our extensive range of titles, we not only seek to enhance and to enrich our reader's lives, but to continually engage with the surrounding creative landscape. Our origin story began with a focus on the aesthetic, particularly that of graphic design and, over the last two decades, the scope of both our content and our expertise has widened. Today, using a myriad of observations of culture, people, art, and other intimate, inspirational informants, we document and anticipate vital movements in architecture, visual culture, design & fashion, escapism, food & beverages, travel, and contemporary art. In 2014, Little Gestalten joined the literary ranks and ensured that there was a place for readers of all ages within the world of gestalten. The gestalten narrative exists beyond the textual realm; regardless of the medium at hand, gestalten wishes to inform and inspire our community. We welcome you to enter gestalten's world of creative culture, whether between our pages, indulging in images and films online or at one of our international events. We look forward to the result: mutual inspiration.

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      • Trusted Partner
        January 1992

        Gestapo V-Leute

        Tatsachen und Theorie des Geheimdienstes

        by Weyrauch, Walter O

      • Trusted Partner
        February 2002

        Grenzen der Gemeinschaft

        Eine Kritik des sozialen Radikalismus

        by Helmuth Plessner, Joachim Fischer, Helmuth Plessner

        Plessners Grenz-Schrift galt seit 1924 als Geheimtip. Entlang einer für deutsche Verhältnisse seltenen Limitierung von Gemeinschaftsutopien sucht sie durch die Denkfigur einer »Sehnsucht nach den Masken« ein »Gesellschaftsethos« zu begründen, das sich in den Kernkategorien »Distanz«. »Spiele, »Zeremonie und Prestige«, »Diplomatie und Takt« verdichtet. Wegen seiner jüdischen Herkunft 1933 zur Emigration gezwungen. entging Plessner in den Niederlanden während des Krieges nur knapp dem Zugriff der Gestapo. Nach 1945 spielte er als Remigrant neben Adorno, Horkheimer, Löwith und René König eine bedeutende Rolle in der intellektuellen Konsolidierung der bundesrepublikanischen öffentlichkeit.

      • Trusted Partner
        November 2014

        Pariser Trilogie. Abendgesellschaft, Außenbezirke, Familienstammbuch

        Drei Romane

        by Patrick Modiano, Walter Schürenberg

        Drei Bücher hat Patrick Modiano unter dem Titel Pariser Trilogie zusammengefaßt: Abendgesellschaft, Außenbezirke und Familienstammbaum. Wie wird man zum Verräter, wie läßt es sich verhindern? Diese Fragen stellt sich ein junger Franzose, der sich, für die Gestapo arbeitend, einer Résistance-Gruppe anschließt. In einer ebenso sanften wie unnachgiebigen Erzählung nähert sich Modiano einer Vergangenheit an, die er selbst nicht erlebt hat. Mit seiner unverwechselbaren Musikalität erweckt er Worte zum Leben und überführt sie in eine fantastisch anmutende Abendgesellschaft. In den Außenbezirken, außerhalb von Paris, sucht Serge Alexandre seinen Vater. Wieder befinden wir uns in der Zeit der Besatzung. Wer ist dieser Vater? Was macht er, als Jude unter all den zwielichtigen Gestalten? Warum erkennt er seinen Sohn nicht mehr? Bis zuletzt folgt der Erzähler den Spuren seines geisterhaften Vaters. »Ich war siebzehn, und es blieb mir nichts anderes übrig, als ein französischer Schriftsteller zu werden«, schreibt Modiano im Familienstammbuch und legt uns in 14 Erzählungen seine Jugenderinnerungen vor. Autobiographisches, aber auch Imaginiertes.

      • Trusted Partner
        March 2006

        Beckett Erinnerung

        by James Knowlson, Elizabeth Knowlson, Christel Dormagen

        Beckett Erinnerung beginnt mit Gesprächen, in denen Samuel Beckett seinem Freund und Biographen James Knowlson von seiner Familie, seiner frühen Jugend und seiner Freundschaft mit James Joyce und dessen Familie berichtet. Er beschreibt seine Tätigkeit als Mitglied des französischen Widerstands in Paris, seine Flucht vor der Gestapo und sein Leben während der letzten Kriegsjahre im südfranzösischen Roussillon. Der Band versammelt des weiteren Erinnerungen an Beckett von einigen seiner engsten Freunde. Sie erinnern sich an den Schüler, den jungen Schriftsteller, dann den Autor, der in den fünfziger Jahren des vergangenen Jahrhunderts mit seinen Romanen und dem Theaterstück Warten auf Godot weltberühmt wurde. Schauspieler, die in seinen Inszenierungen auftraten, Regisseure und Beckett-Kenner schildern ihre Erlebnisse mit Autor und Werk, und eine Reihe von Schriftstellern (darunter Edward Albee, Paul Auster, J. M. Coetzee, Raymond Federman und Antoni Libera) äußert sich über Becketts Werk und über den Einfluß, den es auf ihr eigenes Schreiben gehabt hat. Beckett Erinnerung präsentiert ein facettenreiches, eindringlich persönliches Bild des gemeinhin als unzugänglich bekannten Jahrhundertgenies - zusammengesetzt aus lauter "Originaltönen". Der Band enthält zahlreiche Entdeckungen, auch für Kenner.

      • Trusted Partner
        September 1994

        Jorge Semprún erzählt seine deutsche Geschichte

        2 Bände: Die große Reise. Aus dem Französischen von Abelle Christaller. – Was für ein schöner Sonntag! Aus dem Französischen von Johannes Piron

        by Jorge Semprún, Johannes Piron, Abelle Christaller

        Jorge Semprún wurde am 10. Dezember 1923 in Madrid geboren. Mit 14 Jahren musste er bei Beginn des spanischen Bürgerkrieges mit seiner Familie nach Paris fliehen. Dort besuchte er das Lycée Henri IV und studiert Philosophie an der Sorbonne. 1941 trat er unter dem Pseudonym ›Gérard‹ der kommunistischen Résistance-Bewegung ›Francs-Tireurs et Partisans‹ bei. Die deutsche Gestapo verhaftete ihn 1943, und Semprun wurde in das KZ Buchenwald deportiert. Nach der Befreiung 1945 kehrte er nach Paris zurück. Ab 1953 koordinierte er als Mitglied des ZK der spanischen Exil-KP im Geheimen den Widerstand gegen das Franco-Regime in Paris. Unter dem Pseudonym Federico Sánchez arbeitete er zwischen 1957 und 1962 im Untergrund der kommunistischen Partei im franquistischen Spanien. 1964 wurde er wegen Abweichung von der Parteilinie aus der KP ausgeschlossen. Seitdem widmete sich Semprun seiner schriftstellerischen Tätigkeit. In den sechziger Jahren wurde er erstmals als Drehbuchautor bekannt; mit berühmten Filmen wie beispielsweise La guerre est finie (Der Krieg ist aus) von 1966, Z von 1968 und L'aveu (Das Geständnis) von 1970. Nach seiner Amtszeit als spanischer Kultusminister von 1988 - 1991 lebte Jorge Semprún bis zu seinem Tod (2011) in Paris.

      • Trusted Partner
        March 2002

        Der Tote mit meinem Namen

        by Jorge Semprún, Eva Moldenhauer

        Jorge Semprún wurde am 10. Dezember 1923 in Madrid geboren. Mit 14 Jahren musste er bei Beginn des spanischen Bürgerkrieges mit seiner Familie nach Paris fliehen. Dort besuchte er das Lycée Henri IV und studiert Philosophie an der Sorbonne. 1941 trat er unter dem Pseudonym ›Gérard‹ der kommunistischen Résistance-Bewegung ›Francs-Tireurs et Partisans‹ bei. Die deutsche Gestapo verhaftete ihn 1943, und Semprun wurde in das KZ Buchenwald deportiert. Nach der Befreiung 1945 kehrte er nach Paris zurück. Ab 1953 koordinierte er als Mitglied des ZK der spanischen Exil-KP im Geheimen den Widerstand gegen das Franco-Regime in Paris. Unter dem Pseudonym Federico Sánchez arbeitete er zwischen 1957 und 1962 im Untergrund der kommunistischen Partei im franquistischen Spanien. 1964 wurde er wegen Abweichung von der Parteilinie aus der KP ausgeschlossen. Seitdem widmete sich Semprun seiner schriftstellerischen Tätigkeit. In den sechziger Jahren wurde er erstmals als Drehbuchautor bekannt; mit berühmten Filmen wie beispielsweise La guerre est finie (Der Krieg ist aus) von 1966, Z von 1968 und L'aveu (Das Geständnis) von 1970. Nach seiner Amtszeit als spanischer Kultusminister von 1988 - 1991 lebte Jorge Semprún bis zu seinem Tod (2011) in Paris. Eva Moldenhauer, 1934 in Frankfurt am Main geboren, war seit 1964 als Übersetzerin tätig. Sie übersetzte Literatur und wissenschaftliche Schriften französischsprachiger Autoren ins Deutsche, u.a. von Claude Simon, Jorge Semprún, Marcel Mauss, Mircea Eliade, Gilles Deleuze und Lévi-Strauss. Sie wurde mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet, u.a. mit dem Helmut-M.-Braem-Übersetzerpreis und dem Paul-Celan-Preis. Eva Moldenhauer verstarb am 22. April 2019.

      • Fiction
        March 2020

        El chico de las bobinas

        by Pere Cervantes

        THE BOY WITH THE FILM REELS /   A city under constant  threat where the most important thing is to learn how to survive. A murder that will reveal a secret meant to be never discovered. Barcelona, 1945. Nil Roig is a young boy who spends the days on his bicycle, carrying old film reels from one cinema to another and dreaming that one day he will be a projectionist in one of those movie theatres. On the day of his thirteenth birthday he is a witness of a crime committed in the staircase of his house. While the murderer escapes after having threatened him with death if he does not keep his mouth shut, the dying man gives him a mysterious picture card of a film actor from the pre-war times. The object searched for and desired by the low-keyed figures of an ex Gestapo commander and a Francoist police officer. The fact that the man while giving the card to Nil, whispers the name of David, the boy’s father, who disappeared on the day when the city was taken over by the victorious army will prompt him to uncover a mystery of the past for which he will pay a high price. In the Barcelona of light and shade, El chico de las bobinas tells us about the unparalleled strength of the women, victims of the war, who showed the world how to survive, about the local movie theatres, a refuge  where people could dream in the turbulent after-war years and about ruined childhood and genuine sorrows, with the plot set in the determined – but also universal time. Far beyond the suffering for what was lost and the struggle for survival El chico de las bobinas is an homage to the mother figure and to the eternal magic of the cinema.

      • The Holocaust
        October 2017

        The Vél d'Hiv Raid

        The French Police at the Service of the Gestapo

        by Maurice Rajsfus; translated by Levi Laub; foreword by Michel Warschawski

        With passion and indignation, Maurice Rajsfus recounts the worst single crime of the Vichy regime in France: the pre-dawn arrest by French police, at German instigation, on July 16-17, 1942, of 13,152 Jewish men, women, and children, and their ordeal on the way to extermination. Rajsfus brings this terrible experience to life with contemporary texts – high-level Franco-German haggling, detailed police instructions, eye-witness testimony, and press commentary. – Robert O. Paxton, author of Vichy France and the Jews   This uniquely detailed study of the July 16, 1942 roundup offers the only contemporary analysis of both the precursors and the aftermath of the Vél d’Hiv Raid. Rajsfus details the internal organization of the police, showing the mechanisms of this raid particularly and of raids in general, making the book an indispensable micro-history of the Holocaust. Notably, as the author points out, the French police went beyond Nazi ordinances and took it upon themselves to arrest and imprison more than 13,000 Jews at the Vélodrome d’Hiver. This book flies in the face of right-wing politicians who today continue to deny the crime was a French one.

      • Trusted Partner

        Last Paths to Freedom. French Girl Guides in resistance to Nazi Germany

        by Thomas Seiterich

        Summer 1940. Nazi Germany annexes Alsace, but not without resistance: in the Catholic parish of St. Jean, very close to the Great Synagogue, six French Girl Guides opened an underground border crossing for opponents of the regime, Jews, Communists and the military. They explored and found secret routes across the Vosges to the west, and south to Switzerland. By the time the Gestapo picked them up in 1942, they had brought around 500 people to safety. Freisler tried them in 1943 and sentenced six of them to death by guillotine. Pope Pius XII demanded that the women be spared. And Hitler did indeed pardon them – with the proviso that they were not allowed to know. They all survived.

      • Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2015

        The seven boxes

        by Dory Sontheimer

        The author of this book was born in Barcelona and raised as a Roman Catholic in Franco’s Spain. Many years later, after the long illness and death of her mother, Dory Sontheimer discovered, in the false ceiling of her mother’s home, seven boxes that were to reveal/uncover an identity and a past both unknown and dramatic. Organizing this emerging legacy, made up of photographs, letters, Passports and other documents, Sontheimer reconstructs the timeline of her family. Over twelve years, moved by a combination of fascination, curiosity and a sense of duty, Dory completes the investigation which takes her to Germany, Israel, the USA, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Austria, UK and the Czech Republic. In this way she followed the traces of one of many families that became victims if the industrialized massacre of Jewish people. Refugees in Barcelona as a prevention and a way of fleeing the advance of Nazism, Dory’s parents started a new life which made them deny their origins and take on a new language, name and trade which were not their own. This disturbing testimony, which combines the value of a documentary with the light and sincerity of the author, dissects some of the more domestic aspects of the drama the victims experienced. The testimony verifies the pain and sense of guilt of the survivors who had to adapt to their situation as exiles or stateless citizens and bury beneath a slab of silence the rumbles and truth about their past. Without any rhetorical showing off, Dory Sontheimer has written a tale, out of the painful treasure she discovered, exposing the forgotten: documenting the life of Jewish refugees in Spain. As a response to the foresight of those who left the testimony in seven boxes, she managed to bring members of her family out of oblivion and to overcome distances imposed by the tragedy: they themselves discovered emotions which the reader shares until the very end.

      • 2019

        A Forgotten Hero

        Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish Humanitarian Who Rescued 30,000 People from the Nazis

        by Shelley Emling

        In one of the most amazing rescues of WWII, the Swedish head of the Red Cross rescued more than 30,000 people from concentration camps in the last three months of the war. Folke Bernadotte did so by negotiating with the enemy—shaking hands with Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Gestapo. Time was of the essence, as Hitler had ordered the destruction of all camps and everyone in them.To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/2JZ10Sb

      • True stories: discovery / historical / scientific
        September 2020

        The Lost Collection

        by Pauline Baer de Perignon

        Paintings by Monet, Degas, and Renoir… Imagine a magnificent family collection mysteriously vanishing during WWII! The narrator, Pauline, knows from family rumours that one of her great-grandfathers, Jules Strauss, was an art collector. A considerable aura has grown up around this figure. Despite his unfailing eye, he sold his acquisitions too soon. One day, a distant cousin hands Pauline a scribbled list of the paintings that once belonged to Strauss. There is no trace of these pieces in the family apartment. Where are they now? What happened in 1942? Pauline, a homemaker looking for a subject for a book, is no art historian. But, driven by insatiable curiosity that soon borders on obsession, she develops a passion for these missing paintings. Her search takes her from the Louvre to a museum in Dresden, via Gestapo archives.

      • Fiction

        The Hours Taken From Us

        by Mónica Castellanos

        These are the days of Franco and Hitler. Among the thousands of refugees from the Spanish Civil War, Guillermina Giralt and Francesc Planchart, two young Catalans will live one of the most moving stories in their attempt to survive the French internment camp in Argelès-sur-Mer. But they will not be the only ones. Thousands of men, women and children, intellectuals, artists, peasants, workers will leave their homes, face inhuman conditions of life and fight to preserve the most precious thing they have: their lives.  In that uncertain future a man will emerge, the Mexican consul Gilberto Bosques who risking his life and his family’s, will suffer the arrest of the Gestapo and go beyond his diplomatic functions to save thousands of people from the most cruel and harrowing persecution of history.

      • Fiction
        January 2013

        Black Ghosts

        by Ken Kamoche

        Dan Chiponda earns a scholarship to study in China and reluctantly leaves his native Zimbabwe for an uncertain future. Learning to take racial abuse in his stride, he dates a fellow student, Lai Ying, who is attracted to his easygoing manner. He remains haunted by the weight of his mother’s expectations, encapsulated by the image of the African fish eagle.   Things take a dramatic turn when Chinese students pour into the streets in an orgy of violence to drive Africans out of town. The situation in Nanjing only stabilises when attention turns to the mayhem that is unraveling in Tiananmen Square, Beijing.   But that is only the beginning of Dan’s troubles with the ‘Campus Gestapo’, loan sharks in Hong Kong, and the shock of his family getting caught up in the violence by Mugabe’s war vets.

      • General & world history

        A Greater Love

        by Olga Watkins

        The true story of a woman's incredible journey into the heart of the Third Reich to find the man she loves. When the Gestapo seize 20-year-old Olga Czepf's fiance she is determined to find him and sets off on an extraordinary 2,000-mile search across Nazi-occupied Europe risking betrayal, arrest and death. As the Second World War heads towards its bloody climax, she refuses to give up - even when her mission leads her to the gates of Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps... Now 89 and living in London, Olga tells with remarkable clarity of the courage and determination that drove her across war-torn Europe, to find the man she loved. The greatest untold true love story of World War Two.

      • Literary Fiction

        A Tear in the Curtain

        by John Symons

        The author is a fluent Russian speaker so has had access to material only available in Russian. The book is a timely reminder of the recent but half-forgotten period in which the story is set, the Cold War. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 some Russians sought to come to terms with the countless crimes perpetrated by the Communist Party at home and abroad. There was a brief attempt, under President Yeltsin, to reveal the truth, later thwarted by the recrudescence of Communists and then Putin’s leadership. There is now a determined official campaign to minimise or deny the truth about the millions who lost their lives. The book is, in part, based on the author’s talks with people persecuted or imprisoned by the Gestapo or KGB, and on information revealed in documents, many of them not yet available in English, made public in Russia after 1991. Some of the documents are from the huge collection made available, at President Yeltsin’s direction, in 1992 to Vladimir Bukovsky, the Soviet dissident expelled from his home country in December 1976 who settled in Britain.

      • Children's & YA

        Future History 2050

        by Thomas Harding

        Nominated for the Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis 2021   It is the year 2020 and a researcher finds a stack of notebooks in a Berlin archive. He starts reading and is shocked to find that this is the history of the next thirty years. Could this really be the story of the future?

      • October 2021

        The Iron Duke

        by L. Ron Hubbard

        He’s a lady’s man, a man’s man—and a wanted man, on the run in 1930s Europe…. Meet conman Blacky Lee, ruggedly handsome with a quick wit and a roguish charm. Think Clark Gable—with larceny in his heart and a price on his head. A price put there by the German Gestapo. But Blacky’s always got an angle, and this time it’s as audacious as they come. He’ll hide in plain sight, with the stolen identity of the crowned head of a Balkan kingdom—the Iron Duke. Can he pull it off? Win the love of a country beset with communism … and of the beautiful Countess? All Blacky has to do is risk everything—and, for once in his life, find a way to do the right thing and reform. Hubbard and Gable were fast friends and fellow adventurers. While Hubbard was writing for Columbia Pictures in 1937, the studio often called upon him to doctor scripts for Gable—giving him a unique knowledge of the man and inspiration for characters like Blacky Lee. “Colorful prose, lively action writing, exotic locales…excellent.” —Ellery Queen

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