Christine Ziegler was born in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1971. After her A-levels she studied Restoration Sciences and worked in various museums. She is fascinated by the field of tension between the past and the future. Today she writes and lives near Munich with her family, which includes an excessive computer gamer, and two chatty cats near…
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They are looking for you, they are hunting you, but you will get them … The Great War dates back more than 20 years. Large parts of Berlin are destroyed and radioactively contaminated. 16-year-old Will manages to make a living as an illegal computer player. As one of the “Returns“—genetically optimised and sorted out because…
Agonisingly boring bedtime stories Our everyday life is basically the same as Emmental cheese: a few holes here and there improve the quality considerably. Time to calm down. Time to just be yourself. Great people know how important this is once they have celebrated their birthday about three dozen times; or when they have been…
Have you ever tried to read the Little Prince to little children? You will soon have realized that it doesn‘t work. Just like Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s little hero, you must have learned a fair bit about the world before the fabulous story becomes accessible to you. Children‘s book author Isabel Pin has undertaken to recount…
Whenever Line can‘t fall asleep at night, she needs her cuddly toys. But they are scattered all over her bedroom. So Line has to get out of bed and collect them one by one. Every animal she finds tells her a story or an adventure experienced in a distant land. Bob the bear takes her…
Mika’s dad works at home, but he’s very busy with work. The promised visit to the quarry pond seems to be a long way off! To get Mika off his back, he allows Mika to buy a pet… This is the beginning of a wonderfully turbulent story in which one animal after another populates the…
Miro and Zia live in Aurora, a fishing town nestled in the shadow of a mysterious castle. Miro lives in the world of books; Zia is never without her camera. The day they meet, they stumble on a secret. With Zia determined to discover more, a reluctant Miro is pulled into a real-life adventure. The…
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…
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…
The ° LUFTSCHACHT Verlag was founded in 2001 in Vienna and unites contemporary literature beyond the narrow limits of genre and age. After several independent projects with authors, musicians, photographers and actors, the first regular book program was released in 2003, the list of novels and short stories quickly made the rounds. In 2008, graphic...
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…
Villains beware: Super Pug is back! A new neighbour moves into the house next to the home of Helge and his pug. And they both know immediately: Madame Magenta and her cat, Marylin, are super villains! When Helge’s unsuspecting Dad walks right into Madame Magenta’s nasty cell phone-hypnosis-trap, Super Pug and Helge act like true…
Oscar is Dad’s brother. He wants to move into the house where the whole family already lives. “Is he like you?”, asks Mum. “No, different”, says Dad. “Then he can start by trimming the hedge”, says Mum. “He won’t do that”, says Dad. Then Oscar arrives and only does what he wants. He does not…
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,…