Books set in Germany (158)


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Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder by Bertolt Brecht DE

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder, eine Chronik aus dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg. »Was eine Aufführung von Mutter Courage«, schrieb Brecht einmal, »hauptsächlich zeigen soll: Daß die großen Geschäfte in den Kriegen nicht von den kleinen Leuten gemacht werden. Daß der Krieg, der eine Fortführung der Geschäfte mit anderen Mitteln ist, die menschlichen Tugenden tödlich macht, auch für ihre Besitzer. Daß er darum bekämpft werden muß.«


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Night by Elie Wiesel EN

Rating: 5 (15 votes)
Country: Europe / Romania flag Romania
Description:
Presents a true account of the author's experiences as a Jewish boy in a Nazi concentration camp.

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Nightmare in Berlin by Hans Fallada EN

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Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
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Available for the first time in English, here is an unforgettable portrayal by a master novelist of the physical and psychological devastation wrought in the homeland by Hitler’s war. Late April, 1945. The war is over, yet Dr Doll, a loner and ‘moderate pessimist’, lives in constant fear. By night, he is haunted by nightmarish images of the bombsite in which he is trapped — he, and the rest of Germany. More than anything, he wishes to vanquish the demon of collective guilt, but he is unable to right any wrongs, especially in his position as mayor of a small town in north-east Germany that has ... continue


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Nutcracker and Mouse King by E. T. A. Hoffmann EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Russia flag Russia
Description:
The original stories behind everyone's favorite Christmas ballet It wasn't until the 1950s that seeing The Nutcracker at Christmastime became an American tradition. But the story itself is much older and its original intent more complex. This eye-opening new volume presents two of the tale's earliest versions, both in new translations: E.T.A. Hoffmann's Nutcracker and Mouse King (1816), in which a young girl is whisked away to the Land of Toys to help her animated nutcracker defeat the Mouse King, and Alexandre Dumas's 1845 adaptation, The Tale of the Nutcracker, based on Hoffmann's popular wo... continue

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On the Geneology of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
In 'On the Genealogy of Morals', Nietzsche exposes the central values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of conditioning designed to domesticate the animal vitality of earlier cultures.

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On War by Carl von Clausewitz EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
This abridged edition of On War by Beatrice Heuser, using the acclaimed translation by Michael Howard and Peter Paret, selects the central books in which Clausewitz's views on the nature and theory of war are developed.

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One Clear Ice-cold January Morning at the Beginning of the 21st Century by Roland Schimmelpfennig EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
"A highly original and often hypnotic work . . . exactly the type of book that readers in search of striking European voices should embrace" John Boyne, author of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS A contemporary Berlin fairy tale that bristles with urban truths - the first novel of Germany's best-known contemporary playwright One clear, ice-cold January morning shortly after dawn, a wolf crosses the border between Poland and Germany. His trail leads all the way to Berlin, connecting the lives of disparate individuals whose paths intersect and diverge. On an icy motorway eighty kilometres outside ... continue

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Paradise Garden by Elena Fischer DE

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
Die 14-jährige Billie verbringt die meiste Zeit in ihrer Hochhaussiedlung. Am Monatsende reicht das Geld nur für Nudeln mit Ketchup, doch ihre Mutter Marika bringt mit Fantasie und einem großen Herzen Billies Welt zum Leuchten