»Summer rain of love«

The volume contains Sigrid Damm’s essayistic works created over the span of four decades and is accompanied by an introduction by the German philologist and writer Heinrich Detering.

It includes recent essays on Hermann Hesse, Ulrich Schacht, the film Leuchte, mein Stern, leuchte, works on the Totentanz cycle by the painter Lutz Friedel and...

Sigrid Damm tells the exciting story, rich in contradictions, highs and lows, personal and political vicissitudes, of the more than fifty years of friendship between Goethe and the Weimar Duke Carl August.

From June 15 onwards, the day that Goethe receives the news of his friend’s death, their two lives are explored in flashbacks. Goethe talks about their »most...

A sixty-year-old woman and a thirty-year-old man are hiking in the solitude of the far north for seven days, in the archaic landscape of Swedish Lapland, the home of the Sami people, the last indigenous people in Europe.

At night, dreams open otherworldly doors, during the day, the rhythm of the steps sets their memory in motion. Peace and war, birth and death, horizon lines, fire,...

Sigrid Damm’s new book presents a retrospective love for her father. All her life, she was in conflict with him, rejected him. It wasn’t until shortly before his death that a tentative relationship started to develop between the two. More than twenty years later, she begins to trace her father’s life.

She consults documents and old photos, which had been stored...

»And now I bid all my friends in Weimar and Gotha a faithful farewell! Your love accompanies me, as I could not continue without it…«

 Against a backdrop of wars and confusion, agreements and conflict between the neighboring courts of Gotha and Weimar, this book – based, as always, on Sigrid Damm’s meticulous research – reveals a largely unknown chapter of Goethe’s biography and...