Michaela Konrad Tomorrow WHAT WILL OUR FUTURE BE LIKE? The current technological, ecological and social processes of change are making it increasingly difficult to answer this question. Because the faster technological disruption progresses, the harder it is for us to keep up with the resulting socio-economic upheavals. This book invites us to pause and take…
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Nele Brönner & Melanie Laibl Super Glitter Where does nature end? And where does technology begin? And what happens when the two worlds collide? A magpie with a sense of beauty finds a shimmering something in the forest. What might it be? Plant or animal? Magpie, fox and mole disagree. Then – luckily? – a…
Flora‘s ninth birthday is approaching. But instead of worrying about birthday wishes, her thoughts revolve around completely different things: The news is full of disturbing reports about the effects of climate change. Even the koala bears are threatened with extinction, it is claimed. “That won‘t happen“, says Flora‘s dad. But that doesn‘t make things any…
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who writes the funniest fairy tales of all? Elisabeth Steinkellner and Michael Roher, answers the mirror, and who’s to argue? Never before has anyone fabulated so amusingly through the history of fairy tales, mixing old with new in the most wonderful way possible: Red Riding Hood and the wolf are…
If elephants fly through the air like butterflies and Margareth the wild boar goes for a stroll in her frilly skirt … If wild, free mermaids watch Donald Duck, and Fischer Fritz has swimming races with one-wheeled fish … Then we are there, where the collarbone and cowslip are friends, a very special place. There…
Soap dispensers are sensitive beings who are often unable to cope with the pressure that is put on them every day. Their own listlessness, lack of self-esteem and the permanent fear of not being refilled drive them into depressive moods. A state of inner emptiness that increases even more in times of a pandemic with…
On the edge of a small town, at the end of the very last street, there is a creepy house. No one knows anything about the resident. Mr. Pasternak is nothing more than a shadow behind tattered curtains. A little girl named Anabel lives just across the street. Of course, she would never dream of…
“Dad, there‘s a big cat in the meadow!“ The little girl is very excited. It‘s a nice day to walk and run around in the park. Unfortunately, Dad is more interested in his mobile phone than her and any big cats. “How nice! Then you have someone to play with“, he simply says, turning towards…
The old man liked to talk about the war and told us how it all began, how everyone was excited until we started losing. He was a soldier in the division “Das Reich”, served in the SS regiment “Der Führer”, which was almost completely worn down several times and was involved in numerous war crimes….
It is a stormy morning in November when her mother takes Emma to a big, chunky house. Above the entrance it says “School“ and inside the grey giants that sometimes assign really tricky puzzles keep watch. “You, hammer nose, this calculation is very easy. No witchcraft. So do try a bit harder!“ So Emma is…
Balthasar Bloodberg is a terrifying creature who rules the entire world! He lives in the vastest and deepest of all oceans, the almost infinite Pacific … well, in in all honesty Bobo, as he calls himself, is a leech and lives in an overgrown pool. To him this actually is his whole world, into which…
Zebras have stripes. All zebras have stripes. Zebras are beautiful. All day long they take pictures of each other. The zebras. Because they find themselves so beautiful. Their stripes in particular. And they show the photographs around. “Just look at those wondful stripes! My wonderful stripes!“, they say. And they really find themselves beautiful. Only…
The bulimia had begun when she was fifteen and not feeling very comfortable with her body, which goes back to her early childhood in the countryside. The fact that ‘being good’ is connected to food as far as her family is concerned, is a principle that she had caught on to early on. The rest…
Bee Sabeena has a fine old life. She spends her afternoons in her parents’ café where there’s always something on the go. She plays board games with Jockel, the café’s rhyming regular, and gets old Frau Almut – she with the bright purple lips and silver rings in her ears – to read the cards…
It’s hard to believe, but sometimes even tigers get bored. Neither playing soccer with vultures, singing with the wildebeest, nor acting with the monkeys can help the tiger get rid of his boredom. The tiger comes up with a great idea one day: he’ll learn to fly! But this proves to be more difficult than…
Three meters, seventy-five centimetres water level – that is reality: The inner concept of the heroes Miller and Pynchon is that of an ordered world, their task: its possible mapping into the measured number. For both the melancholic Pynchon and the ballsy Miller, these abstract numbers represent the cohesion of their personal existence and provide…
He is the first man on Mars, his only real company a tortoise called Darwin. And if it is even possible to speak of fulfilling tasks, these would consist of observing Mars rock – a thoroughly monotonous activity – and, an obligation of the mission’s sponsors, running a gas station. But soon enough, the most…
Frida, it has to be said, is rather small. But so are Flii and Mo. Flii is a little gnome and Mo is a whale, but he never really seemed to be able to grow much. The three are best friends and live together in their city. This city isn‘t really big either, but what…
Melin had actually been looking forward to school. And it wasn’t noticeable at the beginning, because everyone makes mistakes then. It was only noticed a little later, when the kids were all a bit older. No matter how hard Melin tried: whether a word is written with i or ie, with h or without h,…
Fleech, the leech, is no ordinary bloodsucker. On the contrary, he conscientiously pursues his work at a veterinary practice. He does his gymnastic exercises in the mornings, treats patients in the afternoon and takes care of the river sand at the bottom of his jar in the evenings. He is aware that much depends on…