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GOTT

2020-09-14

By Ferdinand von Schirach

Fiction

Richard Gärtner, 78, is in good health but no longer wants to live since his wife's death. He requests a medication to end his life. An ethics commission debates the case. As in Terror, the audience must deliver the final verdict themselves. Supplemented by e...

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Trotzdem

2020-04-27

By Ferdinand von Schirach

Social Science

Ferdinand von Schirach and Alexander Kluge discuss what the Corona pandemic means for democratic rights and civil liberties. They ask whether a societal state of emergency can become a state of emergency for democracy itself, and warn of the gradual entrenchm...

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Strafe

2018-03-05

By Ferdinand von Schirach

Fiction

Twelve stories about people in extreme circumstances. Ferdinand von Schirach writes about the limits of our judgments: how quickly we distinguish between good and evil, how little we know about the circumstances. He condemns no one. The stories are about lone...

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Carl Tohrberg

2017-09-11

By Ferdinand von Schirach

Fiction

Ein Berliner Bäcker macht die beste Torte seines Lebens. Carl Tohrberg feiert Weihnachten. Der pensionierte Richter Seybold lernt die andere Seite des Gesetzes kennen. Drei meisterhaft erzählte Geschichten, in denen Ferdinand von Schirach von den Abgründen sc...

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Tabu

2017-02-13

By Ferdinand von Schirach

Fiction

Sebastian von Eschburg lost his footing as a child when his father died by suicide and becomes an artist whose work explores the boundary between reality and truth. When he is accused of murdering a young woman, veteran lawyer Konrad Biegler takes on his defe...

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Die Würde ist antastbar

2017-02-13

By Ferdinand von Schirach

Fiction

Ferdinand von Schirach collects essays on major social questions, including the influence of terrorism on democracy and when state security measures begin to threaten freedom. Alongside these are personal reflections on writing and reading.

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Der Fall Collini

2017-02-13

By Ferdinand von Schirach

Fiction

Was treibt einen Menschen, der sich ein Leben lang nichts hat zuschulden kommen lassen, zu einem Mord? Vierunddreißig Jahre hat Fabrizio Collini als Werkzeugmacher bei Mercedes gearbeitet. Unauffällig und unbescholten. Und dann tötet er in einem Berliner Luxu...

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Terror

2016-09-12

By Ferdinand von Schirach

Fiction

A fighter pilot shoots down a hijacked aircraft against orders, preventing it from striking the packed Allianz Arena in Munich. He saves thousands of lives and kills 164 passengers in doing so. Ferdinand von Schirach's play gives the audience the verdict. Sup...

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