Books of this sort are usually published by university presses; they’re genuinely specialised material for specialists. But why not, thought publisher Ralf C. Müller, and so he decided to include this rather unusual title in his catalogue. A book for specialists. And perhaps also for all those who, as patients, have come across the term […]
‘The Krkonoše Saga’ is the name given by Leipzig-based author Christina Auerswald to her series of novels about young people who grew up in the Krkonoše Mountains before the First World War, lived through the war and – like Kurt – became entangled in a web of bloody deeds. Acts that threw not only the […]
1918: Munich is in a state of emergency. The city is in turmoil. Violence is breaking out. Soldiers are shooting at one another. Kurt Eisner declares Bavaria a republic. The First World War has come to an end. It is revolution. History is being made. A note appears on the door of the poet Rainer […]
The opencast mines took up land and displaced people. Yet they also provided jobs and a sense of community… The Minister-Presidents of Central Germany are meeting today at a rehabilitated opencast mine site to discuss the future of structural change following the phase-out. The event features an exciting book launch, the prospect of reduced rail […]
It was a special moment when, back in 1990, the sociologist Cordia Schlegelmilch packed her bag and set off for a small town in the GDR, which at that time had only six weeks left to exist. Her main motivation was: “I wanted to find out how the residents of a small town were coming […]
How does one tell a story that ultimately cannot be substantiated by documents, because they were destroyed? Or falsified, tailored to ensure that the death of a Bonn civil servant on a business trip to Leipzig was not classified as a murder case? And yet still caused a stir? In *The Fechtner Case*, Katrin Reiser […]
His friend and rival, Alfred von Tirpitz, is a figure in the history books. But what about Wilhelm Büchsel? No warship was named after him. He was not glorified in the same way as Tirpitz. And when he died of the Spanish flu in 1920, he had been all but forgotten. Yet he served as […]
The title says it all. Nations can lose their minds. Just as individual people can. History is full of examples of this. And they all relate to the same phenomenon: the destruction of truth. For our coexistence as a society only works if we can agree on the same reliable facts. But what if that […]
LZ reader Gerd Stefan really did want to know. In his reader’s comment on the review of Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk’s new book *Fascism Is Not an Opinion*, he wrote: “I’d also be interested to know the definition of fascism that underlies the book’s title, especially as the author, it seems, was aiming to launch a sweeping […]
Anniversaries inspire historians. One such anniversary was the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War in 2024/2025. One of the bloodiest events took place in Frankenhausen, where the crowd of peasants gathered there was mercilessly beaten down by the princes’ mercenaries. It was also here that Thomas Müntzer was taken prisoner. In Martin Luther’s view, […]
The present is always shaped by the past. All the more so when the past is romanticised as a paradise and a sense takes hold that our world is currently going down the drain. A sense of doom dominates social media. And many kitchen-table conversations. This also influences elections. For it is the far-right parties […]
The Elbe also features in the story. It’s very peaceful. It’s still quite narrow here in its upper reaches in the Sudeten Mountains, where the little town of Hostinné is situated. Nina has no inkling yet that Hostinné might have something to do with her breakdown following the death of her mother, Irma, when she […]
There are already a number of illustrated books on Leipzig’s architecture, most of which focus on specific periods, such as Leipzig’s Gründerzeit era or particular historical landmarks. But how does one view a city when attempting to discover the architectural eras of the past 1,000 or even 3,000 years? And there is certainly something to […]
When is it time to take stock? To talk about one’s life and what really matters? What has truly given this life meaning? Actually, one might think, Richard Gauch would still have had plenty of time. Actually, he isn’t quite at the age for writing his memoirs yet. But he has led an exciting life, […]
Perhaps this is just the right little town to spend a few days relaxing away from the stresses of the big city: Coburg. Famous for the ducal family of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha who once ruled here, whose offspring were once highly sought-after by European royal houses. Just think of the British royal family. For such […]
We are already living in the dystopias of the 1980s. Sometimes it takes someone to rub it in so bluntly, as the French political scientist Asma Mhala does in this book, which is not called ‘Cyberpunk’ for no reason. For what we are experiencing today – the transformation of the liberal Western world into a […]
“Men are pigs,” Die Ärzte once sang. In the case of this novel, touted as a TikTok phenomenon, everyone gets a good roasting, regardless of gender. It’s a rancid roast, mind you, albeit rather prettily packaged in a cover with an elaborately designed texture. Let’s take it in order: a South American country, sometime in […]
Some wounds do not simply heal with time. Especially when it comes to one’s own deeply wounded self-image. This is an experience that many East Germans went through after 1990. That deep-seated disappointment is now also finding expression in election results. Not everyone, however, takes to the woods to eliminate the people who have brought […]
He was a star of 20th-century modern literature. He died in 1985 at the age of just 61: yet Italo Calvino’s novels and short stories are as vibrant as they were on the day they were first published. And not just those. Hanser Verlag is constantly unearthing new works and bringing them to lovers of […]
If you’re from Leipzig and visit the Kolumba Museum in Cologne, you might well find a book by the Buchkinder Leipzig on display alongside a Warhol in one of the exhibitions. Yes, Kolumba collects the works of the Buchkinder and lists the association, under ‘Artists’, as ‘monographic focal points that particularly define Kolumba’. The works […]
Historians are delighted by such finds: eyewitness accounts from a time when newspapers were still a rarity and did not really report in great detail on what was happening in the city. Take the Book Fair, for example, which twice a year turned Leipzig into a meeting place for booksellers and publishers. Everyone of any […]
It is a mammoth of a book, a mammoth of a life story that the Russian-speaking author Gusel Yakhina has presented here: the entire life of the most famous Soviet director – Sergei Eisenstein (1898–1948). A life like a film, one might think. Even if Eisenstein himself may not have felt that way. But Yakhin […]
The book’s title is reminiscent of two other books published by Lehmstedt Verlag – *Leipzig wird braun* (Leipzig Turns Brown) from 2008 and *Leipzig wird rot* (Leipzig Turns Red) from 2011. But that is not quite the intention. Katrin Löffler’s book does not tell the story of a turning point in history. In her book, […]
‘Love in Times of Hate’ is nothing new. When you’re handed a paperback by grateful schoolchildren, you simply have to read it. Especially as I’d already come across the title of this comprehensive, research-based work by Florian Illies (*1971), published in 2021. Years ago, I’d come across his *Generation Golf* – quite interesting – and […]
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