What constitutes a family today and who is actually part of it?

Angela and Erich are the parents, Simon and Katrin the children. Together they make up a family. But just listing the members doesn't mean it is a proper family. Erich and Angela have ...

An extraordinary adventure and an unforgettable hero

Bartholomew is an orphan from Bombay, he's twelve years old and speaks almost as many languages. This is why, in the year 1854, he is hired as a translator by the brothers Schlagintweit from Germany, who, with the support of ...

A beer cellar, a luxury hotel and a grandmother who dies twice over…

Resplendent with glamour but overcast by many a shadow, the story of the Salz family centres on Leipzig's up-market Fürstenhof hotel. Salz Sr. buys it in 1914, but his actress daughter Lola refuses to ...

Many of our decisions have no major influence on our lives, while others are a matter of do or die. And some of them are so insane in retrospect that we can hardly believe we took them. A single good or bad decision can change the course of our lives forever. But what influences our decisions?

"In order to love India, I had to get to know Germany again."

Indians, Germans, and an author seeking to answer the question: What is home? Since his marriage to Indian native Saskya, Christopher Kloeble is a notarized "Person of Indian Heritage." In this insightful, ...

Our bodies' miraculous defense system: everything we need to know about our immune systems

Millions of microorganisms have colonized us: bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites. Most of them are harmless, but some of them are malignant pathogens. Without a functioning immune system, we ...

Adventure on the high seas

Eight-year-old August is happily bobbing on an inflatable rubber crocodile in the middle of the sea. He wishes he had some ice cream, but instead he meets Juli, who is nonchalantly paddling around on her float. The float is her home, and it is well ...

Ten-year-old Henry has his heart set on a dog of his very own. But then one day at the beginning of the Easter holidays he stumbles across a mound of leaves in the forest - concealed underneath it is a primordial creature-a shaggy little beast from a time long gone; a frozen dwarf-mammoth! ...

A somewhat different ghost story

As Lenny arrives at the Castle Röckenpöppel Boarding School in the middle of the night, he can hardly believe his eyes. The students are in the process of gathering for a meal, of which there is nothing to be seen except empty plates and glasses.

I'm not sweet!!!

"Oh, isn't she sweet!" - That's what everyone says when they see Minzi, and she can't stand to hear it one more time. Even Ole, the fright of the kindergarten, calls her "little cuddle monster," and when Minzi gets upset, he just rolls his eyes and looks smitten.

My body, my friend: an encyclopaedia to amaze you, make you laugh, think, and feel good.
Sometimes you might feel uncomfortable in your own skin, sometimes you might feel invincible. Katharina von der Gathen knows what interests and worries children about their own bodies. Her many years of ...

Telephone Tricks and Barbie Salad

Everyone will revel and marvel in, giggle and ponder at, Anke Kuhl's endearing childhood stories!

In marvellously humorous episodes, C'Moooooon! tells the tale of little Anke's childhood in a small town during the Seventies. We are immersed ...