A book about a man who will not let anyone keep him down: neither as a German Jew in Europe nor as a homosexual in America.

Two generations separate them, but a friendship unites them: Friedrich Dönhoff (45) and Gerald B. Rosenstein, known as Jerry (86). In summer 2013 they set off on a road trip from Amsterdam to Bensheim, following the path of Jerry’s childhood and youth. A few weeks later they meet up again in San Francisco, where Jerry has lived since 1949.

Because Jerry wants to tell his story. After spending his whole life dodging questions about his past, he now wants to tell the account of what he survived as a Jew in Germany, Holland and Auschwitz – how he coped as a homosexual in the USA and how he found his inner freedom.

In Friedrich Dönhoff he has an attentive listener, one who writes his story without any trace of pathos, but with a great deal of sensitivity.

With a picture section.

English translation available.

Conflict is rife between Ecopolis activists and the Köhn shipping company. One is concerned about the environment, the other about their competitive power. When the corpse of a ship owner is found at the fish market, Inspector Sebastian Fink starts investigating. The case leads him to a bitter manager in a modern glass palace high above the docks, a sport-obsessed widow in the country and a student couple in St. Pauli. Sebastian already was busy with the case – then his grandmother turns up on his doorstep one morning and confronts him with a long-hidden family secret.