How to Build a Castle from Ruins

Dörte Maack How to Build a Castle from Ruins The Story of How I Went Blind and Regained My Joy in Life Dörte Maack leads the life of a dazzling circus performer – until she is blindsided with the diagnosis of an incurable eye disease. She makes two plans: A: Not to become blind. B: If she does, she...

Beautiful in a Different Way

Ilka Brühl Beautiful in a Different Way How I Learned to Love Myself Ilka Brühl looks different. She was born with a facial cleft, which is a malformation of the nose, forehead and eyes. As a child, she was berated as a witch. As a young woman, she withdrew from the world and struggled with her...

The Woman Beyond the Veil

Karoline Roscher-Lagzouli The Woman Beyond the Veil My Path into Salafism and Back Out Again After growing up as an atheist, Karoline Roscher-Lagzouli converted to Islam in her twenties due to a lifelong fascination with Islam. For several years, she was part of a conservative Salafi community. In...

Late Storm

Thomas Seiterich Late Storm A Story of Love and Resistance in the Third Reich Two young Nazi resisters – the students Charlotte Wolfskehl and Hans Kühner – fall in love on the eve of the Second World War. Both have a beacon in their Munich lives: the German-Jewish poet Karl Wolfskehl, who is...

Not an Isolated Case

Chrstiane Florin Not an Isolated Case How Heinz Survived a Catholic Children’s Home At the age of six, Heinz was sent to a Caritas home in 1965. He fell into the hands of a sadistic preschool teacher and a sexually violent priest. He was defencelessly exposed to abuse and mistreatment as an orphan....

Parenting

Parenting Fear Growing Up in Uncertain Times and How We Can Help Our Children Face the World with Courage  Elisabeth Raffauf Further details Love Is Colorful A Guide for Parents of Homosexual and Bisexual Children Udo Rauchfleisch Further details The Coach from the Children’s Room How My Daughter...

Traumatized Children in Schools

Helga Kohler-Spiegel Traumatized Children in Schools Understand – support - stabilize Traumatization is not only the purview of children and young people who have experienced war and been refugees. The causes and experiences are many and varied, as are children’s reactions. Helga Kohler-Spiegel...

A Dad Is Not a Mom

Josephine Schwarz-Gerö A Dad Is Not a Mom What a Baby Needs from Its Father While the role of the new mother is clear, there are many questions on the part of the father. If we set aside the social demands and moralizing attitudes about what a father must achieve today and instead ask what a baby...

They Don`t Just Do Nothing: They Lie There and Grow

Elisabeth Raffauf They Don`t Just Do Nothing: They Lie There and Grow What Helps During Puberty All of us somehow survive it – puberty. And most of us have even turned into decent human beings. So why are we afraid that our pubescent children will never get their act together? Was it different for...

On Foot Through the Universe

Regina Groot Bramel On Foot Through the Universe Parents on the Move with a Little Human Being In lovingly written letters to a small child, Regina Groot Bramel encourages young parents to be self-confident and courageous, serene and joyful, confident and imaginative, realistic and loving towards...