The stories of Lektro, this touching character – despite the fact that he is the best electro-mobile driver far and wide. No other driver can negotiate such narrow curves and whistle the song about Loreley so magnificently. When the air flickers in the heat of summer, he sits down among the flowers watches the clouds fly by and has beautiful thoughts…

Those who shout abuse at a cat must be prepared for everything, maybe even for the cat putting a spell on them … A modern fairytale with all the typical ingredients: tests of courage, seductions, incantations – and a silly protagonist who turns out to be wise in the end.

Here he is one more time with new adventures – the short lovable man with his uniform cap and his old-fashioned metal-rimmed glasses. From behind their round lenses, he amiably smiles at everyone he encounters. He quickly came to symbolise a longing for a better life, for peace, freedom and an ideal world.

When Picasso meets hairdresser Eugenio Arias in 1947, they develop a deep relationship.
It is principally their communist conviction that unites the two Spaniards in exile in the South of France, but they also share a great love of bullfighting and a mischievous sense of humour. Picasso’s Hairdresser not only depicts the intense friendship between these two extraordinary men but also offers a fresh look on the world-famous painter as a generous and loyal companion.

A picture book for both adults and children, about friendship, trust and humanity – a classic in the making.

We all need someone to look after us. And someone to care for.

Planet Earth is devastated and empty. Everyone has escaped to the moon. Only Vasco is still there, determined to bring little green Poco to safety. Luckily, he has an ally: his own shadow, which rescues him and the baby from a thousand threats – just in time! – and shows him the way on his adventurous journey through destroyed cities and apocalyptic landscapes. Right up until the unexpectedly sweet ending.

A beautifully designed art book featuring over 150 ink and pencil drawings.

Christoph Niemann has provided covers for the New Yorker and New York Times Magazine and was commissioned to create a special edition of Zeit Magazin in 2016.

Christoph Niemann’s pictures tell stories of unfamiliar places. They are observations on travelling, arriving, and immersing oneself, on the melancholy of being on the road and the adventure of discovering new places. Virtuoso iconic sketches, capable of capturing the magic, light and mood of a place in a handful of strokes.

One of the most talented and inventive artists of our times: Christoph Niemann at Diogenes.

This unique picture story from the late great artist F.K. Waechter tells a timeless story in intense, powerful strokes.

F.K. Waechter was one of the most astounding and versatile artists of our times. His award-winning books are beautiful, his cartoons humorous and to the point. Yet with this impressive posthumous find, Waechter once again breaks down all genre boundaries and will thrill readers with his dark and memorable fable of a hellish hound.

»I write and draw for all those who were once five years old, who still remember it and would like to live to ninety-nine.«
F.K. Waechter

The story line is a »pilgrimage, which zigzags around an earth full of puzzles, often heavenly, sometimes hellish. Is it the way there? Is it the way back?« At first glance, Lustig's pictures seem poetic, uncanny and playful; but their pretty surface is »like a thin shell under which terrible things are found.« The pilgrimage deals with the end of the world, the great stillness, profound boundlessness and unrest. This is countered with humour, which both artists have: »Slowly I am getting older and wiser, now I know that the end of the world, like a spoiled diva, keeps us waiting; because you see, we are still here and Switzerland is, too.«

A Unique Christmas Book – Typical Tomi Ungerer Whoever wants to celebrate Christmas with Tomi Ungerer has something to look forward to: Tomi Ungerer is always good for a surprise. Christmas with him is guaranteed not to be the bleak, cloying, sugary festival of commerce and boredom. Nevertheless, Tomi Ungerer's ›Beware of Christmas‹ is a splendid house book completely stuffed like a stocking with both deceptive and surprising yet still contemplative stories and poems by authors from around the world: from Charles Dickens and Martin Suter to Doris Dörrie and Urs Widmer. And as a very special gift: the more than 70 colored drawings by Tomi Ungerer, who interprets Christmas dreamily, romantically, jokingly, cheekily, frivolously and subversively.

The book series All About Me has sold over three million copies worldwide.

This international classic amongst questionnaire books has been a hit for the last 20 years and is the simplest way to deepen your understanding of yourself and others.

Most people find it easier to entrust their thoughts, worries and desires to a stranger. And it is even easier when someone asks exactly the right questions. All About Me was the first question and answer book ever, its 25 chapters designed to open up the most important details of the reader’s life. With questions on dreams and desires, fears and memories. No matter whether you read it alone or together with someone else, this book will reveal what you have never dared to ask yourself.

The best dramatic stories by Loriot accompanied by colour images from the animated films: ›Gentlemen in the Bath‹, ›Where Are They Running?‹, ›The Interview‹, ›Television Night‹, ›The Breakfast Egg‹, ›The Talking Dog‹ and ›Work's Over‹.

A sleepy village in an indefinite time and place – what spectacular things can possibly happen? A group of mourners eat butter-cream cake at a funeral feast, young lads get blind drunk and stagger through the streets… Unremarkable enough, if it were not for this wondrous bird. A buzzard, omnipresent, hovering above the village, fields and treetops. Nothing escapes its sharp eyes, and the villagers are uncannily aware that something even more mysterious is lurking above the crooked roofs. Wit and satire dance lightly through the pages of Waechter's new picture book, and he tells his story in wonderfully simple yet trenchant pictures and short, pithy sentences.

The themes of Paul Flora's brilliant descriptions include subjects and personalities such as Charlie Chaplin, Saul Steinberg, Alfred Kubin, Kurt Moldovan, Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando, venerable Austrians, authentic Viennese, original Tyroleans and seductive Venetians, adventurers, demons and monsters, monarchs and courtiers, go-getters, heroes and sea battles, art, caricatures and the cinema – a collection from Flora's world previously known to us only through his drawings: cheerful yet melancholy revelations, accompanied by an excellent biographical text.

Tomi Ungerer is nine years old in 1940 when German troops march into Alsace. German becomes the official language, French is banned under threat of severe punishment, and Jean-Thomas, who everyone calls Tomi, becomes Hans. Tomi Ungerer shares his experience of everyday life under Nazi occupation, of the war, of the libération — and of the utterly normal pranks, joy and experiences of a young boy growing up. Enriched with countless childhood drawings and Tomi Ungererʼs boundless humour, this is an incredibly spirited memoir.

Contents: ›Gentlemen in the Bath, Where are They Running?, The Interview, Television Evening, The Breakfast Egg, The Talking Dog, Knocking-off Time‹. Nearly everyone knows them, Mr Müller-Lüdenscheidt and Dr. Klöbner! It is rare indeed for literary figures to achieve such independence. They can justifiably be counted among the best-known living German personalities.