An old man, dreadfully lonely, and a rejected will. A Porsche driver with a colourful past in an awkward situation. The god-like splendour of professors. Old age, growing old and being old. The notion of homeland and a West Germany which sprang from a strange act of creation. The convents and bridges of Cologne – and their role in history. Plus sharp-eyed portraits of such very different individuals as the newspaper publisher Alfred Neven DuMont, the radical feminist Alice Schwarzer, and Helmut Thoma – a media mogul and his rivals. Or a life »at the service of humour«, in honour of Willy Millowitsch on his 85th birthday. But also people who are not famous, like the ›housekeeper‹, for whom read ›brothel madam‹. And much more ...

German citizen Frank Wagner has crossed the Atlantic as did millions of immigrants before him in the hope of leaving the horizon of the Old World behind him and finally finding the centre of life. In Manhattan, he meets American woman Nancy Ferencz. A love story begins. But is New York the fulfillment of his longings?

A satirical thriller about democratic political culture, but also a fascinating novel about the unequal lives of two sisters and a dramatic chapter of German history. And it is also the comforting story of an ageing man who finds it difficult to keep pace with his much younger and more active wife.

Business in Nashville had been brought to a conclusion, and now Wolfgang Lauterbach wanted to relax by rambling about the south of the USA for a week without his appointments diary. But in a motel on the highway he is drawn into a mysterious story of which he only understands one thing: people whom he has never seen before are out to kill him.

The moment Lilly Hanebeck entered the small auditorium, Hans Schumann knew that something had happened. A German architect, Schumann is about to give a speech at a symposium in Savannah, Georgia. Lilly Hanebeck is not his wife, but that of his friend Roland. From this moment on Roland and Schumann's fiancée, Charlotte, disappear without trace – in America's most haunted city. Two couples intertwining, a major international contract worth millions, a city set against a backdrop of exotic flora and old haunted houses, enchanted love and black magic in the heart of Voodoo country, the dark side of American history – a host of ingredients that completely bewilder the imagination, and more, of the established architect Schumann. ›A Visit to Dr. Buzzard‹ is a rollercoaster ride of emotions and speculation, a subtropical midsummer night's dream for the 21st century.

Such shockingly realistic words can only flow from the pen of someone who knows what he is talking about: Hans Werner Kettenbach, for many years the political editor of a large Cologne daily, takes aim at provincial German politics. Faber is a freelance feature journalist. Yet secretly he yearns to make political headlines. He also works as an editor for a small publisher. One day, he gets his hands on a manuscript that looks al lot like a ›roman à clef‹: Someone, a political insider, has much to tell about scandals in highest government circles. Faber starts researching the matter, tentatively at first, becoming more audacious with increasing self-confidence. Prominent politicians, of course, don't remain passive for long...

He had ticked his educational trip through beautiful Georgia off his list a long time ago. And also the hospitality offered by David Ninoschwili and his attractive partner, Matassi, who, however, had proved herself to be exceptionally obliging. He seems to remember that he had only just avoided great danger at that time. He, i.e. the committed senior teacher, Christian Kestner, happily married to a successful lawyer, the not so happy father of a son who recently has been fraternising with extreme right wing circles. The past catches up with Kestner seven years later: In the meantime there is civil war in Georgia and Ninoschwili announces his arrival in the West. Where will he live? According to the rules of Georgian hospitality with the person that he had put up in his home at an earlier date: Kestner. The family's reaction is one of open rejection. Kestner assures them it will only be for two, three weeks - and is completely mistaken. Their Georgian guest takes up mysterious activities and develops a great liking for Kestner's wife. The senior teacher's vivid imagination is triggered off, he begins to shadow the foreigner and to plot and scheme against him …

Summer 1928, 32 degrees in the shade. Two respectable citizens in a small town on the Rhine perpetrate a bank robbery. They bury their booty, gold ingots to the value of nearly one and a half million marks at today's rate, under a plum-tree and prepare to wait until it is safe to claim their treasure. But it seems this time will never come… Leo Theisen, a widely travelled retired journalist, is a brilliant story-teller who constantly surprises his niece Maria with new and exciting anecdotes. But Leo appears to be completely infatuated with one of his stories about a »family treasure« – in which he claims to be both the son and the nephew of the alleged bank robbers –, much to the annoyance of Maria, who believes the story to be a product of his imagination. Maria determines to prove to the self-confident Leo that his story cannot be true and, gold or no gold, she sets out to refute the myth of the buried treasure and the old stories of guilt, negligence and missed opportunities – and finds herself entangled in a web of tragi-comic events which turn her life upside-down. A nicely rounded, deadly comical novel, full of anecdotes and self-ironical ideas which pose the question to end all questions: the question of man's ability to understand the world, of the reliability of memories, and our capacity for acknowledging guilt.