Paul Hoffmann

In heaven there is faith, and love. Only in hell there is justice. Everyone here gets the part that suits them best. Therefore, hell is the place for eternal pleasures.

In heaven there is faith, and love. Only in hell there is justice. Everyone here gets the part that suits them best. Therefore, hell is the place for eternal pleasures.

The writer Charmain Colson entertains a circle of old friends. One day, when the group receive an anonymous message saying Memento Mori/Remember you must die, they all panic in fear and angst.

Twelve different episodes of erotic relationships are described as examples of modern love substitute.

Keller, a painter, while at the ballet is impressed with the beauty of Nicole and sketches her head on the body of a nude model. When it is shown, it causes embarrassment to Nicole's husband, Walter, a diplomat whose career is threatened.

Professor Mauthner, after many years of exile (having emigrated in 1933 to the USA), returns to Germany in 1948. He can in fact return to his teaching post, but the rejection and petty intrigues of his reactionary colleagues and students make his work almost unbearable.

Germany, 1914: The bourgeois austerity of the small, northern German town in which Ulyssa lives conflicts sharply with her desire to flirt with and be ensnared by charming, young men. That she's married is irrelevant; it's a marriage which exists only on paper. Among all the men Ulyssa flirts with, there is one for which she has genuine affection: Stefen Marbach, an upright and sincere man, far superior to her other men. And, indeed, the two are honest with one another about their feelings, but the outbreak of the First World War separates them. Sometime later, Ulyssa finds out that not only her husband, but Stefan, too, has fallen in battle. The news of this disaster leads her to reconsider and eventually give in to the constant urgings of the Viennese merchant Reindl. Ulyssa joins Reindl in Vienna and lives a life of wealth and comfort, until one day, Stefan shows up.

German chancellor Otto von Bismarck promises the dying emperor Wilhelm I. to be loyal to his grandson. But the gap between young Kaiser Wilhelm II. and old Bismarck is rapidly widening. It soon appears that an era is coming to an end.

В 1862 году Германия была разделена на 35 государств, входивших в конфедерацию под фактической властью императора Австрии Франца Иосифа. Король Пруссии Вильгельм I, желая восстановить независимость своего государства от власти династии Габсбургов, назначает на должность премьер-министра барона фон Бисмарка. Бисмарк распускает парламент, вводит цензуру в печати, проводит реформу армии. Как дипломат Бисмарк успешно ведет переговоры с Францией, Австрией и Россией. После перевооружения прусской армии Бисмарк начинает реализацию плана создания единой Германии «железом и кровью».

Maria Halmborg is a widow. Her husband Erik - missing for years - is considered dead. Suddenly she learns that her husband allegedly lives in Rio and sets out on the journey to clarify the matter.

Принц Клеменс фон Меттерних приказывает Фридриху Генцу, одному из его помощников, помешать герцогу Рейхштадтскому —Наполеону Франсуа Жозефу Шарлю — сыну Наполеона и наследнику французского престола думать о французской политике. Генц заручается поддержкой балерины Фанни Эльслер, которой повально увлечены многие в элитах нескольких европейских столиц, чтобы отвлечь герцога.