Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany. When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover--then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be...
Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compa...
As a young man, Gerhard Self served as a Nazi prosecutor. After the war he was barred from the judicial system and so became a private investigator. He has never, however, forgotten his complicity in evil. Hired by a childhood friend, the aging Self searches for a prankish hacker who s invaded the computer system of a Rhineland chemical plant. But his investigation leads to murder, and from there to the charnel house of Germany s past, where the secrets of powerful corporations lie among the bones of numberless dead. What ensues is a taut, psychologically complex, and densely atmospheric...
As a young man, Gerhard Self served as a Nazi prosecutor. After the war he was barred from the judicial system and so became a private investigator. H...
This selection of the major works of constitutional theory during the Weimar period reflects the reactions of legal scholars to a state in permanent crisis, a society in which all bets were off. Yet the Weimar Republic's brief experiment in constitutionalism laid the groundwork for the postwar Federal Republic, and today its lessons can be of use to states throughout the world. Weimar legal theory is a key to understanding the experience of nations turning from traditional, religious, or command-and-control forms of legitimation to the rule of law. Only two of these authors, Hans Kelsen...
This selection of the major works of constitutional theory during the Weimar period reflects the reactions of legal scholars to a state in permanent c...
A child of World War II, Peter Debauer grew up with his mother and scant memories of his father, a victim of the war. Now an adult, Peter embarks on a search for the truth surrounding his mother's unwavering--but shaky--history, and the possibility of finding his missing father.
A child of World War II, Peter Debauer grew up with his mother and scant memories of his father, a victim of the war. Now an adult, Peter embarks on a...
Nach 20-jähriger Haft hat ihn der Bundespräsident begnadigt. Zum ersten Wochenende in Freiheit lädt seine Schwester die alten Freunde ein. Für sie ist das Leben weitergegangen. Und für ihn? Was bleibt von der Zeit der Gewalt? Legenden? Bewältigung? Sprachlosigkeit?
Nach 20-jähriger Haft hat ihn der Bundespräsident begnadigt. Zum ersten Wochenende in Freiheit lädt seine Schwester die alten Freunde ein. Für sie...
So sehr Heimat auf Orte bezogen ist, Geburts- und Kindheitsorte, Orte des Glcks, Orte, an denen man lebt, wohnt, arbeitet, Familie und Freunde hat - letztlich hat sie weder einen Ort, noch ist sie einer. Heimat ist Nichtort. Heimat ist Utopie.
So sehr Heimat auf Orte bezogen ist, Geburts- und Kindheitsorte, Orte des Glcks, Orte, an denen man lebt, wohnt, arbeitet, Familie und Freunde hat - l...
