After a break of three-year, we are happy to continue the series "Books of Childhood", in which personalities from public life, culture, society and politics talk about early reading experiences and…
Fanny Hensel died unexpectedly of a stroke in May 1847. Her brother Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was so devastated by her death that he retreated to the Swiss mountains: "Up to now I have not been…
Wind can strike many keys: sometimes purring softly, sometimes roaring loudly, sometimes whistling an angry tune, sometimes blowing gently. Musicians from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra use…
Erich Kästner
The writer Erich Kästner was a close companion of Jella Lepman. They met in Munich in the publishing rooms of the Neue Zeitung and the magazine Heute. Erich Kästner was senior editor…
Lucia means "the shining one", "the radiant one". She lived in Sicily at the end of the 3rd century and helped persecuted people and fugitives who sought refuge from their persecutors in caves and…
Every year, the internationally recognised recommendation list "The White Ravens" presents outstanding new publications of the international children's and young adult literature production of a…
Romana Romanyschyn and Andrij Lessiw will read from their children's book "When War Changed Rondo" (Gerstenberg Verlag), and other works.
Both live and work in Lviv. After studying at the National…