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The tailor Christoph Eusebius Mandel spins tales to occupy his son, Amadeus, but the songs which Amadeus weaves over his father and step-mother have an enchantment all their own.

"It led him cautiously out of his fear into the world which he had not yet seen, and when he sang, regardless of what it was, sky or clouds or forest or his father or his mother, everything became as it had been and yet much, much more beautiful."

Hermann Stehr (1864-1940) was a Silesian author of over thirty novels and novellas. He was awarded the Bauernfeld Prize (1910), the Fastenrath Prize...

When a man is born, at the same moment two bells begin to toll. One bell tolls below, one above; one as it were on earth, one, as the people say, in heaven. This doubled tolling does not stop as long as we live. And according to whether the man listens more to the bell above or that below, he is good or bad, big or small, and it goes uphill or downhill with him. Some men, however, commit such a noise in the middle of their life with their business affairs or with their passions, yes, some even merely with their thoughts, that the sound of the two bells cannot reach them. Such men are stuck...

"The devil sometimes comes in the form of a dog."

Hermann Stehr (1864-1940) was a Silesian author of over thirty novels and novellas. He was awarded the Bauernfeld Prize (1910), the Fastenrath Prize (1919), the Schiller Prize (1919), the Rathenau Prize (1930), the Wartburg Rose (1932), the Goethe Medal for Art and Science (1932) and the Goethe Prize of Frankfurt-am-Main (1933), and was a founding member of the Prussian Literary Academy (1926).

"I don't know what you so love in us Scandinavians, since you have your Hermann Stehr anyway." Knut Hamsun, Nobel Laureate in...

As a reward for helping his bankrupt drunkard brother, Josef Schramm is beaten up and left for dead. He survives this misfortune and struggles back to health, but can his generosity and humanity survive his return to society?

"I don't know what you so love in us Scandinavians, since you have your Hermann Stehr anyway." Knut Hamsun, Nobel Laureate in Literature (1920)

Hermann Stehr (1864-1940) was a Silesian author of over thirty novels and novellas. He was awarded the Bauernfeld Prize (1907), the Fastenrath Prize (1911), the Schiller Prize (1913), the Rathenau Prize (1930),...