Thomas Goritzki

母親のグラス、双子の姉のダイアンとともに暮らす17歳の少年フィル。自由奔放な性格のグラスは、これまで多くの男性たちと恋多き人生を送り、子どもたちの父親が誰なのかを姉弟に明かそうとはしない。サマーキャンプを終えて家に戻って来たフィルは、母親と姉の間にどこか緊張した空気が漂っていることを感じる。やがて始まった学校の新学期、イケメンの転校生ニコラスがクラスに姿を見せ、フィルはひと目で彼と恋に落ちる。

ABSEITSFALLE is the story of Karin and Mike. They work at Perla, a washing machine manufacturer. She is a career woman, he is on the assembly line and plays for the factory soccer team. The company is owned by an American corporation. Until now it has been business as usual, but all of a sudden comes the news that 400 redundancies are needed if Perla is to survive. Suddenly, there is everything to play for. Written by Anonymous

This is a family story that covers thirty years in the life of the Freytag family (narrated by the grandson, Robert). When his grandfather returns from Russia in 1949, he becomes part of the German "economic miracle" by producing garden gnomes. Klaus, Robert's father, wants to become a writer. He marries Gisela who almost immediately gets pregnant with Robert - but the marriage doesn't work. Both parents abandon the child, and Robert goes on living with both pairs of grand parents. While his father belongs to the 1968 generation that rebels against their fathers he falls in love with the neighbor's's daughter Laura.