Archives de catégorie : Nonfiction

ERFÜLLTER LEBEN MIT MINIMALISMUS d’Adina Markowz

From a full life to a fulfilled life – rethinking minimalism – self-awareness instead of renunciation.

ERFÜLLTER LEBEN MIT MINIMALISMUS
(Living the Fulfilled Life through Minimalism)
by Adina Markowz
Irisiana/PRH Germany, April 2025

Adina Markowz does not do with giving things up, but the only things she has are those that suit her life. To find out what really works for you and your life, the ‘Minimalism Muse’, as she calls herself, has created a 40-step program that can be implemented in everyday life.

The author does not advocate any kind of extremism: you don’t have to throw away, give away, or sell 90 percent of your possessions the very next day. Adina’s playful minimalism will lend you more energy, lightness, and clarity rather than the stresses of optimization, abstention, or a guilty conscience. She is more focused on the happy medium of less, with a deep self-knowledge and personal fulfillment – and the questions: What makes you happy? What do you need? And what is simply unnecessary ballast hindering you in your life?

Adina Markowz is known and loved on Instagram as the « Minimalism Muse ». As a coach, she helps people free themselves from material and mental baggage, thereby helping them find more joy, lightness, and energy.

JUNGS VON HEUTE, MÄNNER VON MORGEN d’Anne Dittmann

Protect your daughter? Educate your son!

JUNGS VON HEUTE, MÄNNER VON MORGEN
(Boys of Today, Men of Tomorrow)
by Anne Dittmann
Kösel/PRH Germany, May 2025

People who have sons today face special challenges. We desire happy boys who grow up without toxic concepts of masculinity. But there still seems to be a lack of role models and structures for their upbringing. In her new book, Spiegel bestselling author Anne Dittmann, herself the mother of a son, examines the major questions of our time in terms of actual family life: What is inherent in boys’ nature? Which role models have a positive influence on them? What role models are we able to set for them? How do we raise them to be empathetic, respectful, and caring? And where do we sometimes become entangled in our own stereotypes? This book not only organizes the relevant evidence, but also provides us with many practical instructions for everyday life. A must for all those who want to courageously accompany their men of tomorrow.

Featuring interviews with renowned experts on such topics as friendship and feelings, violence and aggression, health and crises, computer games and media, roles and role models, porn and sexuality, and leisure and commitment.

• Empowering approach in the field of counseling boys
• Contributing to the ongoing debate around sexism, #MeToo, and toxic masculinity

Anne Dittmann is an author, podcaster, and journalist who writes about family policy issues, including for ZEIT Online, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Brigitte. With her Spiegel bestseller Solo, Selbst & Ständig and as the host of her podcast ‘Solo Moms’, she has become a prominent voice for single parents.

WIR SUPERHELDINNEN de Dorothee Biener

What the female body does so exceptionally, and how there is much more to it than we suspect.

WIR SUPERHELDINNEN
(We Superheroines)
by Dorothee Biener
Penguin Germany, March 2025

Gynecologist Dr. Dorothee Biener is always surprised at how little most women, young and old, know about their bodies. Yet every woman’s body is a true marvel!

In her book, she describes just how the female body operates and what extraordinary powers it has. This includes in short, all of fascinating and unexpected things that makes women superheroes and each woman so special. The author also explains what is important at every age and what women should definitely be aware of according to their stage of life. She also focuses on female diseases – how to identify them and what can be done to prevent them – as well as explaining and dispelling the many myths still out there.

Female sexuality is just as much a topic as are interesting cases from the gynecologist’s practice. In an entertaining, accessible and trustworthy way, Dorothee Biener offers deep and comprehensive insights into the miracle of the female body and everything you need to know about it, as well as a guide to a healthy, happy, and mindful life along with it.

• Amazing facts, debunked myths, and fascinating cases from a gynecologist’s practice

Dorothee Biener holds a degree in biology and a doctorate in gynecology. She has worked for many years in gynecology in hospitals and practices, and has been conducting research into breast cancer and gene distribution in the cell nucleus. While her scientific mind is dedicated to research into the fantastic female body, her heart belongs to her patients and anyone else who wants to explore the marvelous topic of womanhood. WIR SUPERHELDINNEN is her first non-fiction book.

KLIMAZIRKUS de David Nelles

Fighting populist arguments with wit and wisdom – and solutions that actually work.

KLIMAZIRKUS
by David Nelles
Penguin Germany, May 2025

« Why should I stop eating burgers? » – How populism slows down efforts to counteract climate change, and how to effect real change.

Eco-anarchists, selfish SUV drivers, tree-hugging snowflakes, compulsory veggie days, net zero… hardly any other topic these days is as contentious as climate change, and what to do about it. Again and again, we get ourselves entangled in populist pseudo-debates instead of finding workable solutions. No wonder that many people switch off whenever the subject comes up.

Bestselling author David Nelles thinks it’s high time we started a new kind of discussion about climate change and its consequences. In his entertaining new book « The Climate Circus », he uses the sort of statements made by politicians, journalists and various people on social media as a starting point to debunk the disinformation, incitement, binary thinking and misguided arguments we encounter daily. Armed with eye-opening graphics and a wealth of facts, he confronts us with our misconceptions, demonstrates how best to argue the case, and explains how we might go about making real progress.

As so many other business studies students, David Nelles was annoyed by all those over-emotional debates around climate change. He and fellow student Christian Serrer looked around in vain for a book that could provide them with a science-based yet accessible short introduction to the subject, with lots of useful graphics – so they decided to write it themselves with the help of more than 100 experts on the subject. The result was Kleine Gase – Große Wirkung: Der Klimawandel (‘Climate change: little gases – big consequences’), which was an instant hit and became the country’s bestselling book about climate change. Since then, Nelles has given and led more than 200 talks and workshops for businesses and communities. He is also founder of Klimafabrik, a ‘climate factory’ that helps organisations and their staff become greener.

DER BLINDE FLECK de Stephan Lebert & Louis Lewitan

A blind spot in many families: the continuing impact of the Holocaust and the Second World War. A fascinating study of the generational trauma of war – and why families are finally beginning to talk.

DER BLINDE FLECK
(The Blind Spot)
by Stephan Lebert & Louis Lewitan
Heyne/PRH Germany, April 2025

It’s been 80 years since the Holocaust and the end of the Second World War, and only few eye witnesses are still alive. Yet the effects of the past persist. Shaped by a dark age that was over before they were even born, generations are suffering from a trauma whose cause they don’t fully understand: loved ones who show little emotion, feelings of guilt, fear, loneliness, a sense of rootlessness. Many families suffer from a leaden silence – suppressed memories, well-kept secrets, lies that won’t go away. It is an oppressive legacy, whose poison circulates to this day.

But now the armour of silence is starting to show cracks. Since ever fewer of them need to fear confrontation with parents or grandparents, they are beginning to investigate their family histories, hoping to discover how they have influenced their own lives. With DER BLINDE FLECK, trauma and stress expert Lewitan and award-winning journalist Lebert have created a unique book on the both difficult and freeing experience of finally facing up to the burden that is your family history. Based on deeply moving conversations with those affected, it is a highly topical contribution to memorial literature.

Stephan Lebert, born in Munich in 1961, is an award-winning journalist. Following spells at the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Spiegel and Tagesspiegel, he is now special projects editor at Die Zeit. He most recently won the 2022 Theodor Wolff Prize, and is the author of Denn du trägst meinen Namen (‘Because you have my name’, 2000), about the descendants of leading Nazis.

Louis Lewitan, born in Lyon in 1955, is a psychologist and a renowned stress and trauma expert with international expertise, thanks to a period spent in New York as researcher and executive director at the International Study of Organized Persecution of Children. Elie Wiesel was the group’s honorary president, and its focus was on the delayed effects of the Shoah on child survivors. Lewitan is the author of several books and was interviewed by Zeit magazine for its ‘How I was saved’ series.