German Drama

Inspired by real events, the New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphan returns with an unputdownable novel of a community torn apart when a former Nazi family moves into town to work on NASA's space program Berlin, 1934. Sofie Rhodes is the aristocratic wife of a scientist whose...

Der Nahostkonflikt gilt als einer der komplexesten Konflikte der modernen Geschichte. Doch was geschieht, wenn Menschen beginnen, praktische Probleme zu lösen, anstatt ausschließlich politische Positionen zu verteidigen? Israels Sicherheitsinteressen, die Bedürfnisse der palästinensischen...

In this intriguing historical novel, a young woman who is sent to a horrific “bride school” to be molded into the perfect Nazi wife finds her life forever intertwined with a young Jewish woman about to give birth. Germany, 1939 As the war begins, Hanna Rombauer, a young German woman, is sent...

Turn skeptics into fans and fans into scholars with this smart, entertaining guide to 20 influential reality shows, from The Real World to The Traitors. Much like reality itself, reality TV has one main problem: There’s just too much of it. Whether you’re a devoted fan who wants to share...

In fünf Akten entfaltet sich das konfliktreiche Verhältnis zwischen Don Carlos und König Philipp II., durchsetzt von Leidenschaft, Intrige und dem Streben nach Freiheit und Liebe. Don Carlos gehört zu den bedeutendsten Werken Schillers und behandelt Themen wie Machtkämpfe, persönliche Freiheit und die moralische Verantwortung in einer monarchischen Gesellschaft.

Im Mittelpunkt steht die tragische Liebesgeschichte zwischen der bürgerlichen Luise Miller und dem adeligen Ferdinand von Walter – zerrissen zwischen persönlichen Gefühlen und den gesellschaftlichen Zwängen ihrer Zeit. Schiller verbindet hier eine berührende Romanze mit scharfer Gesellschaftskritik. Machtspiele, Intrigen und der Gegensatz zwischen Adel und Bürgertum führen zu einem ebenso packenden wie erschütternden Finale.

A forgotten mansion. A wartime secret. What lies behind the door of the Cornish house? Cornwall, 1944: As her beloved brother fights the Nazis in Europe, Mary Trewallis works tirelessly on the makeshift hospital wards for injured servicemen that have taken over her family's grand ancestral home...

A bold, profound, kaleidoscopic novel about a crime family’s struggle for power in a rapacious new American era 1867: Wash Loomis returns from the blazing West to the winter slush of Utica, New York, epicenter of his infamous family’s sprawling web of swindlers and counterfeiters. Here...

In this startling candid and poignant memoir, the legendary Emmy Award-winning star of The Young and The Restless, America's #1 soap opera, chronicles his amazing life, from his birth in World War II Germany to his arrival in America to his rise to humanitarian and daytime superstar for the past...

In The Italian Quartet, Sara Marcello, a writer with roots in Italy, is invited to the island villa of Ugo and Olivia Bellini, two wealthy and worldly antiquarians. In this place of myth, belonging as much to Homer and Prospero as to the present, Sara discovers that she is at the center of...

A sensual and singularly voiced contemporary retelling of Anna Karenina that fully imagines the woman at its heart, boldly transforming a story we thought we knew, from critically acclaimed novelist and creative Jenny Mustard. On the cusp of her fortieth birthday, Karro wants for nothing...

1940: Dover waits for the Nazi invasion… but what if Hitler’s agents are already here, among them? Canadian journalist Jessica Marshall is reporting from Dover as the town is on the brink of a German invasion. But her story never makes it into the paper… Meanwhile, Louis Renard, an...

From the “dazzling” author of Woodworking (VOGUE) comes another millennial cult classic: a Little Women–inspired novel that turns expectations on their head and celebrates the power of love to defy definition Beth March is the third of four sisters. Well, she was supposed to be the only...

Two friends, bound by music but separated by the Jim Crow-era color line, endure the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of life in this moving novel from the acclaimed author of O Sinners! and Dances Hal Jansen, the artistic, sensitive youngest son of a successful department store executive, has...

In the second, prizewinning installment of the Duca Quartet from the godfather of Italian noir, doctor-turned-investigator Duca Lamberti uncovers a complex web of murder, betrayal, and revenge in Milan’s criminal underworld. On a quiet night at the edge of Milan, a car rolls into a canal; its...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER Now a major motion picture starring ACADEMY AWARD winner Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn, directed by Chloé Zhao. The acclaimed author of the Reese's Book Club pick The Marriage Portrait...

Najeeb s dearest wish is to work in the Gulf and earn enough money to send back home. He achieves his dream only to be propelled by a series of incidents, grim and absurd, into a slave-like existence herding goats in the middle of the Saudi desert. Memories of the lush, verdant landscape...

William Shakespeare gilt als der bedeutendste Dramatiker der Weltliteratur. Seine Werke erzählen von Liebe und Macht, Intrige und Leidenschaft, von Tragik und Komik – und vor allem vom Menschen in all seinen Widersprüchen. Diese Hörbuch-Edition eröffnet einen besonderen Zugang zu seinem Schaffen: In 20 meisterhaft nacherzählten Geschichten bringen Charles und Mary Lamb die großen Dramen Shakespeares in eine klare, erzählerische Form, ohne ihren poetischen Kern zu verlieren.

Widerwillig empfängt der bekannte Schriftsteller Pawel Wassiljewitsch die Muraschkina, eine emporstrebende, rotgesichtige Kollegin. Bevor die fleischige Dame ihren Fünfakter der Zensur vorlegt, will sie ihn Pawel Wassiljewitsch vorlesen. Dieser schätzt aber nur die eigenen Werke, wagt aber auch nicht, abzulehnen. Er gibt der Besucherin eine halbe Stunde Zeit.

Wilhelm Tell: Die Geschichte um den bekanntesten Schweizer ist noch heute ein Klassiker auf den Bühnen - und vor allem im Klassenzimmer. In diesem Hörbuch wird das GESAMTE Stück UNGEKÜRZT vorgetragen, inklusive der Sprecherangaben und Bühneninformationen, um das Werk so verständlich wie möglich zu präsentieren. Mit Trackliste.