General Aviation Harras hosts the Otto Restaurant. This is the only restaurant in Berlin where, under Goering’s special permission, private banquets can be held in wartime. Accordingly, in one of the halls the latest Gestapo listening device is mounted. The general ...

The events of the novel date back to 1946 and take place in Wurzburg am Main, destroyed by American aircraft after the SS command, disregarding the will of the powerless population, rejected the Americans' demand to surrender the city without a fight and signed a defense order. Few left ...

In 1813, Adelberto von Chamisso fell into the hands of a notebook - the diary of his friend, Peter Schlemel. He was brought early in the morning by a strange man with a long gray beard, dressed in a worn black Hungarian. Here is its content. After a long voyage, I arrived in Hamburg with a letter for Mr. Thomas John from ...

Julius tries to find Lucinde where he used to see her - in her room, on their couch - and, not finding her, begins to conduct a strange conversation with her, devoid of a certain content, then surrendering to the will of his fantasies, then resorting to help scribbled by him once, kept by her caring ...

The plot of the drama was based on a historical event - the uprising of the Silesian weavers of 1844. The house of Dreisiger, the owner of the paper factory in Peterswaldau. In a special room, the weavers hand over the finished fabric, the receiver Pfeiffer exercises control, and the cashier Neumann counts the money. Poorly dressed, gloomy, ...

The Nibelung was called one of the two kings killed by Siegfried. Then this name passed to the Dutch knight himself and his fabulous subjects - the keepers of the treasure. Beginning with the twenty-fifth adventure, the Nibelungs are called burgunds.The miraculous tales of bygone days say that she lived in the land of the Burgundians ...

The scene is Bonn, the time of the action approximately coincides with the date of creation of the novel. The story itself is a long monologue by Hans Schnier, a comic actor or, simply, a clown. Hans is twenty-seven years old, and he recently experienced the hardest blow of fate - she left him to marry ...

Together with the hero of the novel, Jacob Fabian, we live a short period of time - maybe a few weeks or even less. During this period, the hero mainly suffers losses - he loses his job, loses a close friend, his beloved leaves him. Finally, he loses life itself. The novel is somewhat reminiscent of paintings ...

Karl Erp, head of the district library in Berlin, the capital of the GDR, a forty-year-old family man with an emerging abdomen, wakes up in his room with a smile on his face. While reading a book at breakfast, he thinks about the broiler. After graduating from a library school, she, along with another student, goes through ...

This poem by Heinrich Heine tells of a bear named Atta Troll. The action begins in 1841 in the small resort town of Coteret in the Pyrenees, where the lyrical hero was relaxing with his wife Matilda, whom he affectionately calls Juliet. Their balcony overlooked the town square, and they ...

The action takes place in ancient Greece. We meet with the main character at a difficult moment in his life: expelled from his native city - Athens, Agaton heads to the Middle East. Lost in the mountains of Thrace, he accidentally falls on the feast of Bacchus, which is celebrated by the noble inhabitants of this area. Cilician ...

There are three storylines in the novel: 1st — a narrative conducted on behalf of the angel Agasfera, whose name means “Beloved of God”; 2nd - a story about the life path of Paulus von Eicen, a younger contemporary of Martin Luther; 3rd — correspondence between Professor Siegfried Byfus, Director of the Institute of Scientific ...

The action takes place in the first half of the XVIII century. in the German Duchy of Württemberg. Isaac Simon Aandauer, the court banker of the Duke of Eberhard-Ludwig and his favorite Countess von Würben, a rich and very influential man, has long been eyeing Joseph Süss Oppenheimer, who strives as ...

In November 1932, he was the senior owner of a furniture company, the owner of a solid current bank account and a beautiful mansion in Berlin, built and furnished to his own liking. The work carries him a little, he appreciates his worthy, substantial leisure more. Passionate bibliophile, ...

Chapter One The action takes place in Germany in several villages around the Westhofen Concentration Camp. The story is narrated by one of the prisoners, but it is not clear who, because he always says “we”. Near the hut number three unusual trees were cut down under human growth - seven plane trees....

Franz Bieberkopf, a former cement worker and loader, has just been released from a Berlin prison in Tegel, where he spent four years for the murder of his girlfriend. Franz stands on a busy street amidst a noisy crowd and sparkling shop windows. This strong and broad-shouldered man, a little over thirty years old, feels ...

Prince Gonzaga, ruler of the Italian province of Guastella, examines the portrait of Countess Orsina, a woman whom he had loved just recently. He was always with her easy, joyful and fun. Now he feels differently. The prince looks at the portrait and hopes to find again in it that which he no longer notices. ...

Mountain lawn with a small hut under an overhanging cliff. At the edge of the well, young Rautendelein, a creature from the fairies, sits and combs her thick reddish-golden hair. Leaning over the edge of the log house, she calls Vodyanogo. She’s bored, Wittich’s grandmother has gone into the woods, you look, chatter is faster ...

The action takes place in the modern writer Silesia. Alfred Lot appears on the Krause estate, he would like to see the engineer. Frau Krause - a noisy peasant woman, appreciating the modest appearance and rustic clothes of a stranger, takes him for a supplicant and drives him away. Hoffman pleads mother-in-law, he ...

The action takes place after the First World War in a large German city. In the mansion of seventy-year-old Matthias Clausen, a well-groomed gentleman, secret commerce of the adviser, his anniversary is celebrated. The house has a festive atmosphere, many guests arrived. Legal Advisor respected in all ...