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      • Trusted Partner
        October 2007

        Morgens leicht, später laut

        Singles

        by Detlef Kuhlbrodt

        Detlef Kuhlbrodt horcht in den Tag hinein, und dann schreibt er Texte wie diese, konkret und komisch, weltentrückt und wetterfühlig, eigenartig im besten Sinne, schön kurz – Singles eben – oder auch nur: schön. Leicht schräge, merkwürdig vertraute Melodien zum Lesen. Ausgangspunkt kann alles mögliche sein, Kopfschmerzen oder der Rhythmus der Kratzer auf einer Schallplatte, ein Frühlingseinbruch im Januar oder die Begegnung mit einem Igel – eine Verwunderung, eine Begeisterung, eine Erschütterung. Das führt zur Beschreibung, zur kleinen Szene, die sich rechtzeitig, bevor es beschaulich werden kann, in einem Witz, einer Moral, einer grotesken Volte aufrollt. Oder in der Sehnsucht, sich »wieder im Unsinn zu verlieren und die Dinge extra ungetan zu lassen, weil sie so aufdringlich wie ein Amerikaner auf ihrem Wichtigsein beharren.«Detlef Kuhlbrodt, geboren 1961 in Bad Segeberg, schreibt seit den Achtzigern für Zeitungen und Zeitschriften, vor allem für die taz. Seine Texte, die legendären Status haben, sind funkelnde Splitter eines großen Ganzen: der leichtfüßigen Poetisierung konkreter Existenz. Er lebt in Berlin.

      • Business, Economics & Law

        Well Spent

        How Strong Infrastructure Governance Can End Waste in Public Investment

        by Gerd Schwartz, Manal Fouad, Torben Hansen, Geneviève Verdier

        The book covers critical issues such as infrastructure investment and Sustainable Development Goals, controlling corruption, managing fiscal risks, integrating planning and budgeting, and identifying best practices in project appraisal and selection. It also covers emerging areas in infrastructure governance, such as maintaining and managing public infrastructure assets and building resilience against climate change.

      • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        October 2022

        Once in my life ...

        Of wishes, dreams and goals

        by Barbara Zoschke/Katrin Stangl

        Life‘s dreams great and small How would you complete the sentence “Once in my life, I would like to ...”? Barbara Zoschke put this question to a wide variety of people between the ages of 6 and 100. The answers they gave paint a landscape of goals and dreams which amuse and amaze or give pause for thought – but always confront readers with their own desires. Very special illustrations by Katrin Stangl provide the artistic frame for this archive of wishes.

      • June 2020

        Echoes Chambers

        Novel

        by Iris Hanika

        Iris Hanika was awarded the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2021 for her novel Echoes Chambers. The jury's statement:»Iris Hanika proves to be a clever, witty and wild narrator. As one of the most headstrong voices in contemporary German literature, who can look at social conditions with a brutally clear and unabashed view. And then again incredibly funny.« In Echoes Chambers, Iris Hanika impressively demonstrates her skills as artful, ingenious storyteller. We are travelling to New York to accompany the poet Sophonisbe. She follows an invitation to come to the »City of Dreams« for ten weeks before returning to Berlin, where Roxana, the novel’s second protagonist and a successful writer of self-help books, takes over. The two women get caught up in various incidents, excesses and digressions, including with a young bourgeois who gives the story another sharp twist. Nevertheless, this book does not just speak of mature delusional love – it is also about Echo and Narcissus. The intricately woven episodes are brimming with a boisterous thirst for knowledge, a good dose of life’s reality and merciless criticism of capitalism. Echoes Chambers, a travel as well as a romance novel, but also an action novel and self-help book, provides for great literary joy.

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