Mercis Publishing bv is the publisher and world-wide rights holder for Dick Bruna’s books, including Miffy. Mercis Publishing has published the Dutch version of the Dick Bruna books since 1995 and coordinates the publication of all Dick Bruna books in other countries. Dick Bruna’s books have been translated into more than 50 languages. The list includes picture books, board books, bath books, novelty books and colouring & activity titles.
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Petra Schier, Jahrgang 1978, lebt mit Mann und Hund in einer kleinen Gemeinde in der Eifel. Sie studierte Geschichte und Literatur an der Fernuniversität Hagen und arbeitet seit 2003 freie Autorin. Ihre sehr erfolgreichen historischen Romane erscheinen u.a. im Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, ihre ebenfalls sehr beliebten Weihnachts- sowie Liebesromane bei Rütten Loening, MIRA Taschenbuch, HarperCollins und Weltbild.Unter dem Pseudonym Mila Roth veröffentlicht die Autorin verlagsunabhängig verschiedene erfolgreiche Buchserien.
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A walk through the literary city of Wrocław, centre of of humanism and German baroque poetry, place of work of important authors such as Gerhart Hauptmann and Olga Tokarczuk, in the 1920s the nucleus of the radio avant-garde and, since the 1970s, a centre of attraction for outstanding Polish poets and theatre-makers. In 2016 Wrocław was European Capital of Culture and UNESCO World Book Capital. The revised new edition of the classic from the publishing programme of the Culture Forum's publishing programme presents quotations from the 14th to the 21st century, as well as comprehensive information on the culture and history of the UNESCO City of Literature.
Als Horst im Jahr 1936 sechs Jahre alt ist, verstirbt sein deutscher Vater, und er bleibt mit seiner jüdischen Mutter in Breslau. Die Mutter glaubt, dass die Nazis nicht lange an der Macht bleiben und dass der Rest der Welt den Nazis nicht erlauben wird, den Juden zu schaden. Sie sagt aber ihrem Sohn, niemandem und niemals in seinem Leben zu verraten, dass er semitisches Blut in sich hat. Mutter und Sohn überleben die Kriegsjahre in Breslau. Nach dem Krieg fliehen sie wie viele Deutsche nach Westen. Horst entwickelt einen starken Überlebensinstinkt, der ihm in vielen Situationen hilft, seine Familie und Freunde vor Hunger und Not zu bewahren. Sein Leben wird von seiner angeborenen Faszination für Kochkunst, Musik und Sport geprägt. Der Roman ist mit Witz und Eleganz geschrieben, macht aber auch die tief sitzende Traurigkeit spürbar, die mit der Geschichte der deutschen Juden verbunden ist.
Galicia is an integral part of the Habsburg myth and the epitome of worldly seclusion, Eastern Jewish cultural traditions, the Kakan way of life and indescribable poverty. Even if the supranational entity called the Habsburg Monarchy, to which Galicia belonged between 1772 and 1918, no longer exists, the region lives on in literature. In addition to Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Iwan Franko and Karl Emil Franzos, Joseph Roth, Bruno Schulz, Mascha Kaléko, Stanisław Vincenz, Józef Wittlin, Hnat Chotkevych, Zygmunt Haupt, Stanisław Lem, and Isaak Babel dealt with Galician themes. Today, Sophia and Juri Andrukhovych, Andrzej Stasiuk, Olga Tokarczuk, Martin Pollack, Tanya Maljartschuk, Taras and Jurko Prochasko, Ziemowit Szczerek, Natalka Sniadanko, Maxim Biller among others, do so. The book takes you to places of European history in the Southeast of Poland and in the West of Ukraine - from Krakow via Tarnow to Brody and from Lviv via Drohobych, Stanislau/Iwano-Frankiwsk and Boryslau to Zakopane. Marcin Wiatr reminds us that Galicia has historical lessons to teach us all in Europe.
What unites the three states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia? What separates them? These questions are answered by the historian Steffen Raßloff in his overall account of Central German history. He spans the arch from prehistory and early history to the most recent times. He reports on the kingdom of the Thuringians as well as on the Wettin nobility, which once dominated large parts of the region. The historical diversity of Central Germany is also impressive: from classical Weimar to the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Kingdom and the baroque Dresden of Augustus the Strong, a uniquely dense cultural landscape has developed. Numerous impulses emanated from the land of Luther, Bach, Goethe and the Bauhaus and still shape our culture today. In an entertaining way, the author reviews important places, events and personalities of the three countries, gives references to important museums and memorials and reflects today's culture of remembrance.
Although the number of plant and animal species is shrinking at an alarming rate, there are still places where we can see an amazing diversity of species: museums of natural history, as archives of biological diversity with thousands of living and extinct species, are unique treasuries, not least because of their high scientific value. In this book, awardwinning photographer Klaus Nigge and ornithologist Karl Schulze-Hagen document five famous ornithological collections and invite the reader to take part in an unusual excursion into the world of museum birds, with Humboldt’s parrot looking over our shoulders …
Iris Hanika was awarded the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2021 for her novel Echoes Chambers. The jury's statement:»Iris Hanika proves to be a clever, witty and wild narrator. As one of the most headstrong voices in contemporary German literature, who can look at social conditions with a brutally clear and unabashed view. And then again incredibly funny.« In Echoes Chambers, Iris Hanika impressively demonstrates her skills as artful, ingenious storyteller. We are travelling to New York to accompany the poet Sophonisbe. She follows an invitation to come to the »City of Dreams« for ten weeks before returning to Berlin, where Roxana, the novel’s second protagonist and a successful writer of self-help books, takes over. The two women get caught up in various incidents, excesses and digressions, including with a young bourgeois who gives the story another sharp twist. Nevertheless, this book does not just speak of mature delusional love – it is also about Echo and Narcissus. The intricately woven episodes are brimming with a boisterous thirst for knowledge, a good dose of life’s reality and merciless criticism of capitalism. Echoes Chambers, a travel as well as a romance novel, but also an action novel and self-help book, provides for great literary joy.
