Four inmates of the St. Ägidius mental home revitalize their institution's finances and then float it on the stock market. What can you expect, after all, from three former top executives and a former executive PA?

An ex-financial director, Dr. Wilhelm Löhring is ...

"It's only for a fortnight."
My mother sounded friendly and very determined. I'd had an uneasy feeling right from the start of the conversation.
"And he is your father after all. Other children would be delighted."
"Mama, what do you mean other 'children'? I'm ...

Hatred is an emotion, but peace is a conscious decision

A hotel in Rome. There's a knock at Lizzie Doron's door; when she opens it, she thinks she finds herself confronted by an Arab suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt. In fact Nadim has merely stuck his travel documents to ...

"She was as complicated as a puzzle of several thousand parts, and I had to find these parts and put them together," says Angelika Schrobsdorff about her mother. The parts she uses are letters, photo albums, friends' memories and the life they later led together.

Everything started ...

Journalist Henry Meyenbeeker, who is reporting from the most famous of all Spanish wine regions, inadvertently finds himself in the midst of a dispute raging between a large winery and a young highly committed co-operative. When the co-operative's oenologist dies in a car crash, ...

Germany, 1965. Elizabeth has had a strict Catholic upbringing in a small village and dreams of leading an independent life in the city. That summer, she falls in love for the first time: with Giorgio, a young Italian guest worker. But shortly before his departure, Giorgio confesses that he is ...

For disciplinary reasons, Franz Eberhofer is forced to leave his post with the Munich police and is transferred to his home village of Niederkaltenkirchen in Lower Bavaria. There, he is a pen-pusher with a cushy job - his patrols invariably ending up in the pub for a beer with Wolfi or at ...

What could be worse than the prospect celebrating your 50 ^th birthday in a humdrum suburban restaurant in the company of your entire family? Especially if you suffer from cataclysmic mood swings and occasionally find yourself glowing like burning embers even in the snow. Doris (49.

It's business as usual: crime is rife in Niederkaltenkirchen...

Franz Eberhofer's relationship with Susi is ticking along quite nicely and his pigsty of a home is finally approaching something resembling order. But then things start spinning out of control in Niederkaltenkirchen.

Three women, three lives.

It's too late for reconciliation: for ten years Maja Sternberg has had no contact with her mother Lilli - and now Lilli is dead. The police in Vienna suspect suicide, but Maja doesn't want to believe it. In her mother's flat, she finds Lilli's birth ...

The touching and convincing story of one woman's struggle in a time of adversity.

Being an illegitimate child and growing up in the Austrian provinces in the 1930s is not the easiest of starts in life. Fourteen-year-old Marie has nevertheless to be grateful that she has been able to ...

If you're nearing forty and your husband suddenly dumps you, after ten years of marriage, and he has the gall to do it over the phone, it's bound to come as a bit of a blow. This is exactly what happens one fine evening to Christine. A publisher's sales rep who is always on the road, she is at ...