Hartmut Kasper

Thomas Mann worked for almost 50 years on his novel „Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull“. In no other work has the writer incorporated so many ...

An analysis of The Magic Mountain, a novel by the German writer Thomas Mann (1875-1955), published in November 1924.

Documentary about German comedian Loriot alias Vicco von Bülow, who would have been 100 years old in 2023.

The story of a powerful political and economic dynasty, fundamental to understanding the turbulent destiny of the United States of America throughout ...

In the 19th century, Baden-Baden was the summer capital of Europe. The city is particularly attractive to Russians. With Dostoyevsky and Turgenev come...

His opponents accused him of being homosexual. The male favorites he gathered around him during his short life gave those malevolent enemies solid arg...

While the First World War and its battles on the Western Front are still very much anchored in our memory of history, the simultaneous battle in the E...

Documentary about the song “You'll Never Walk Alone,” the most famous sports anthem of the world.

From 1957 —the year in which the Soviets put the Sputnik 1 satellite into orbit— to 1969 —when American astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the surface...

The man who invented James Bond: The story of Ian Fleming, real-life spy, ladies' man and sportsman, who was there at the birth of MI-5 and the CIA, a...

John Irving's literary worlds are satirically exaggerated, socially critical, unexpectedly magical. But how do these dazzling, sometimes bizarre, narr...

Documentary about the cult figure of German science fiction literature, Perry Rhodan, as well as its creators and lovers.