Two young men, friends since early child-hood, speed away on their trip into life. Until the accident. Uli believes fiercely that Hannes will awake from his coma, soon. He visits him daily, even though his community service at the "Bird's Nest", a mental health clinic, is ...

A summer’s day that starts out all bright and sunny and by its end nothing is ever the same again – that is the day when Annika's cousin Ginie disappears. Just a short while ago the two of them had been sunbathing by the water’s edge with Annika's friends Steffi, Rüdiger and ...

"This is just the worst thing that could have happened to me. It's utterly dire! New people are moving in next door. And that lot, of all people! I just can't believe it"

No, no! Wanda just can't believe it. This is decidedly too much! Fabian ...

Hanno had been looking forward to going to school, but his classmates make fun of him because he is too fat. This depresses him terribly; he doesn't do his homework or have fun playing. On his way home from school, he sits down on a park bench and begins to draw figures in the sand with a little stick.

Everything children really want to know about sex-and aren't afraid to ask

How much sex education do primary school children need? As much as they ask for, say the experts. And what exactly is it that children want to know? When teaching primary school classes about the human ...

Hanno had been looking forward to going to school, but his classmates make fun of him because he is too fat. This depresses him terribly; he doesn't do his homework or have fun playing. On his way home from school, he sits down on a park bench and begins to draw figures in the sand with a little stick.

It all begins with a raffle. Little Zuppi wins the first prize - a piglet. Daddy makes a grim face, and the landlord, Mr Buselmeier, is even less pleased. "Out!", he screams, and throws out the entire family, including the pig. They move to a house next to a football field. Daddy becomes ...

A vixen finds a fox cub that has gotten lost in the forest and carries it all the way home to her fox-earth where she lives with three cubs of her own. Her curious neighbour is anxious to see the new guest, but as the mother fox tries to pick it out, she realizes that she can no longer distinguish ...

"I'm not a crow, and I'm no rook either. I'm a mynah bird and my name is Padde." He's witty and clever; he can roar like a tiger and swear like a sailor. The wily bird has travelled all the way from the Indian jungle to Hamburg. In Schulte's pet shop, a little girl names him the Blackbird Pirate ...

Penny, Ida, Marie and Flora have become an investigative tour-de-force by now, complete with their own tracker-dog - although it has to be said that Dschastin really prefers chewing shoes to chasing criminals.

The four girls certainly didn't expect their next case would be waiting for ...

Ten-year-old Penny Pepper has three big wishes-and about a million smaller ones! But the main ones are:

• a dog

• becoming a detective and solving crimes

• getting out of having to go to that stuck-up show-off Flora's party

Sadly, the third ...

On the very first day of his family holiday on Lake Como, Jan runs into his worst nightmare - Hendrik Lehmann, the model pupil from his class. If Hendrik dishes the dirt on Jan about the things he got up to with his friends during a recent class outing, Jan might as well not bother to unpack.