Tag: Stefan Zweig
Lea Singer’s novel “The Drinker’s Saint” – Munich
“The strawberries are sweating.” What an opening sentence for a novel told from the end! Because you think you know the end. Fact or fiction? A woman is on her…
Hyperinflation: When a loaf of bread cost 1.5 billion marks
100 years ago, hyperinflation raged in Germany and paper money was basically worthless. The economic chaos shook society deeply – a trauma that continues to have an impact today. source…
Interview with Mikhail Shishkin – Culture
Interviewed by Moritz Baumsteiger His older children are at home, says Mikhail Shishkin as he collapses into an armchair. But the little one has to go on book tours –…