Intense performance by Klaus Kinski as Aguirre a Spanish conquistador looking for  El Dorado. 

 Eccentric rubber baron attempts to realize his dream of building a opera house deep in the Peruvian jungle. 

 Werner Herzog’s film of the  Buchner Play .

 Road movie which forms the second part of Wender’s trilogy, coming between ‘Alice in the Cities’ and ‘Kings of the Road’.

 Based on the novel by  Daniel Kehlmann, the film  re-imagines the lives of German scientists Carl Friedrich Gauss and German geographer Alexander von Humboldt.

 Part of the 1990s new wave of German pop literature, a young man is on an odyssey across Germany in a search for identity in the modern age.

   Fischer Taschenbücher  ISBN: 9783596185320  £12.50

    Film adaptation of Theodor Fontane's novel set in the late 19th century.

    When her father, an officer in the SS, and her Nazi-supporting mother are taken into custody by allied troops at the end of the war, Lore and her siblings must travel across Germany to their grandmother's house in Hamburg. On their travels, the group encounter a number of fearful and suspicious people, but it is only when they meet a kind-hearted young Jewish man, Thomas , that Lore begins to reassess the feelings of hatred so deeply instilled in her by her parents. 

 Young girl is found on a street at night with an empty bucket in her hand.  She has no recollection of the past and the authorities send her to a childrens home

   Das besondere Taschenbuch  ISBN: 9783442726868  £11.50

 New Directions Publishing ISBN: 9780811216081  £12.99

    German drama starring Sylvie Testud as Lara, the spirited daughter of two deaf-mute parents. Since early childhood, Lara has acted as a translator and mediator between her parents and the outside world. Now a young woman of 18, Lara is given a clarinet by her revered aunt, and learns to play with rapid success.

 A film about growing up and staring Daniel Brühl as about  19-year-old Daniel who is in 

love with Luca.

  A funny and poignant autobiographical coming-of-age novel, written when the author was sixteen years old.

   Goldmann ISBN: 9783442541591  £10.95

  Vintage ISBN: 9780375708312  £17.99

  A series of short and comic autobiographical vignettes about life among the Russian emigres in the multi-cultural atmosphere of '90s Berlin.

  After his release from prison, Martin who was an East German citizen needs to come to terms with German re-unification.

 Jana Hensel childhood ended with the fall of the Wall .  Her everyday activities of life in East Germany disappeared overnight and she had to adjust to a completely new life.

  Rowohlt TB.  ISBN: 9783499235320 - £11.75

 1938 a German Jewish family moves to  Kenya to start a new life. 

         Gay writer Lorenz returns to home town in Switzerland to deal with his writer’s block. However back home he has to deal with his elderly fun loving mother in this heart-warming  film.

 The book chronicles two childhood friends from the second World War into the 1960s in East Germany. 

  Suhrkamp Taschenbücher  ISBN:  9783518459133 - £10.95

    Set in pre-Berlin Wall East Germany in 1980. Nina Hoss stars as Barbara, a young doctor starting a new job at a small hospital in the provinces. It transpires she has been transferred there by the government as punishment for applying for an exit visa from the GDR.

    German TV drama set in 1983 during the height of the Cold War, when a young East Germanis reluctantly recruited as a spy and embedded into the West Germany army.

 1974, a family try to escape to the West from East German, but are caught. As a punishment the parents are presented with a terrible decision: they will be permitted to leave for West Germany with their seven-year-old son, but their two-year-old daughter Miriam must remain in East Germany and will be given up for adoption.

  In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with the suicide of his mother, Handke  sets out to piece together the facts of her life,

 Suhrkamp Taschenbücher ISBN: 9783518397879 -  £8.95 

  The main theme of the novel is switching identity amidst the effects of modern changing technology and the confusing game of deception played between reality and fiction.

   Rowohlt TB. ISBN: 9783498035433 -  £16.99

  Quercus Publishing ISBN: 9781849163767 - £12.99

  Ruth Kluger's story of her years in several concentration camps and her struggle to establish a life after the war as a refugee survivor in New York.

  Reclam ISBN: 9783150160459 -  £6.80 

  Meet the Baader-Meinhof Group, 25 years on... Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart.

  Diogenes, ISBN:  9783257239652 -  £10.75 

   Orion Publishing Co  ISBN: 9780753828489 - £9.99 

 Brecht set an ancient Chinese story in Soviet Georgia, where  two women argue over the possession of a child; thanks to the unruly judge,  justice is done and the peasant woman keeps the child she loves, even though she is not its mother.

 

Suhrkamp, ISBN: 9783518188422 -  £8.40 

Bloomsbury,  ISBN: 9780413544506 - £9.95 

 Lineman Thiel has due his job on the railway for many years.  But several tragic events lead him to commit a terrible crime. 

  Reclam ISBN: 9783150066171 -  £2.45

 Set in a prison with a terrible torture and execution device.

  Suhrkamp BasisBibliothek ISBN: 9783518188781 -  £8.60

  Reclam ISBN: 9783150194010 - £6.00

   Alma Books Ltd  ISBN: 9781847493521 - £4.99

  Napoleonic Wars, Julietta, a young widow and mother of impeccable reputation, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant.

   Bildungshaus Schulbuchverlage Westermann ISBN: 9783140224512 -  £7.20

   Reclam ISBN: 9783140224512 -  £3.00

  Pushkin Press  ISBN: 9781782275299 - £11.99

  A young family on holiday in Italy encounters a creepy entertainer: Cipolla, a hypnotist with a fascist-like will to control his audience

  Fischer Taschenbücher ISBN: 9783596293209 -  £7.35

 Vintage Publishing  ISBN: 9780749386627 - £10.99

 Play in which two brothers, Franz and Karl,  fight over their inheritance. Franz appears cold and calculating, but as the play unfolds, both Franz's motives and Karl's innocence and heroism are revealed to be complex

  Reclam ISBN: 9783150000151 -  £4.60

 Penguin  ISBN: 9780140443684 - £14.99