Featured Topics: On Love
»We Didn’t Do Well« – The Bachmann Frisch Correspondence
Spring 1958: Ingeborg Bachmann – celebrated poet, winner of Literary Prize of Gruppe 47 and cover star of Der Spiegel – is broadcasting the radio play Der gute Gott von...
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Happy Together
From best-selling author Werner Bartens (over 150,000 copies of »What Keeps Couples Together« sold, 127,000 copies of »The Book for People Who Hate Doctors« and 111,000 copies of »A Happy Body«)
Anyone can fall in love. There’s not all that much to early infatuation. However, not only maintaining a long-term relationship in spite of...
Creative Couples
The Normal Chaos of Love
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»Summer rain of love«
Unreservedly he shares with her all his doubts and fears, tells her of his successes and failures and of his artistic and socio-political work in the Duchy...
Elizabeth II and the Loves of Her Life
On April 17, 2021, Elizabeth II had to say goodbye to Prince Philip at St George’s Chapel in Windsor. The Duke of Edinburgh had been her rock for more than seventy years. The morning after the funeral, she flips through her diaries and reviews her eventful life. With the pictures of her grandchildren in front of her, she recalls her own childhood, the preparations for her future role as...
Archive of Love
With these words an old lady introduces herself to the author who has just arrived to attend a reading. It is November, All Saints’ Day,...
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Loving at a Distance
Loving at a Distance talks about the author’s experiences in the hotspots of the high-tech sector in California: the Silicon Valley and the college towns of Berkeley and Stanford. The...
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The End of Love
Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people's lives – the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined to us, the feverish waiting for...
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Cold Intimacies
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Hard-Core Romance
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The Humming Underneath the Skin
»Axel has been missing for three days. I subtract the hours that have passed without him here from the eighty hours that I have known him. Twenty-six hours are left. In little more...
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Love as Passion
He argues that, while family systems remained intact in the transition from traditional to modern societies, a semantics for love developed to accommodate extra-marital relationships; this...
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L’amour numérique
What it means to find that one person, that great love: Oliver Polak describes nothing less in his latest book L’amour numérique. Or, to say it with Toto, the band: Hold the line. Love isn’t always on time.
In different episodes, Polak talks about the uplifting and the disillusioning challenges of modern love. Search, swipe and date...
»You Love Me, I Love You «
Eleven children’s and adult stories to be read aloud or just read – this a completely new genre for Thomas Rosenlöcher, the poet from Dresden, whose idylls never become trivial, because they are always lightly tinged with mystery.
Love
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Sexout
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Stories of Love
Along the relationship between Arthur Schopenhauer’s sister Adele and Sibylle Mertens that oscillated...
My Father’s Sea
»It was summer, a smell of sea in the air, I was thirteen, my father fell.«
Yunus is thirteen when his father suffers two strokes and is almost completely paralysed. He...
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