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Vereinfachte Texte (Easy Readers)

A1	Das Schlafwagenabteil	Christian Bock
	A crime story in form of a play
	Level: intermediate
	Ernst Klett Verlag Stuttgart 1973

A2	Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte	Adelbert von Chamisso
	This life story of Peter, placed in the 18th century, combines realistic features with fairy tales. Peter sells his shadow to the devil and finally has to pay for it.
	Level: intermediate
	Ernst Klett Verlag Stuttgart 1996

A3	Bild ohne Rahmen	Felix & Theo
	Do you know Walter Angermeier? He is a painter in Berlin and would like to become rich and famous. But how?
	Level: intermediate
	Langenscheidt Verlag Berlin 1993

A60	Ein Fall auf Rügen	Felix & Theo
	Following his doctor's advice, private detective Müller spends his vacation at the ocean on the island of Rügen. A terrible accident leaves a young man injured. Müller is puzzled by the circumstances and decides to find out what has occurred and why.
	Level: advanced
	Langenscheidt Verlag Berlin 2003

A69	Elvis in Köln	Felix & Theo
	Carneval in Köln! Helmut Müller picks an Elvis costume and visits a costume ball. But there are problems: money, watches, and Bea Braun disappear.
	Level: beginner
	Langenscheidt Verlag Berlin 1999

A5	Das Fräulein von Scuderi	E. T. A. Hoffmann
	It is the year 1680. In Paris, a series of mysterious murders occur, all involving expensive jewelry. Suddenly, the highly respected Miss Scuderi receives some strange letters…
	Level: intermediate
	Ernst Klett Verlag Stuttgart 1976

A6	Drei Tage Liebe	Joe Lederer
	A love story in the Berlin of the 1920s
	Level: easy
	Ernst Klett Verlag Stuttgart 1996

A7	Die lange, große Wut	Hansjörg Martin
	Two crime stories that describe the dependence of married couples and their search for personal freedom - which seems to be achievable only by murder.
	Level C (1800 words)
	Ernst Klett Verlag Stuttgart 1983

A10	Die Tat / Ein Fall für Herrn Schmidt	Wolfdietrich Schnurre
	The two stories deal with a cat that interferes fatefully with the lifes of a soldier and a boy.
	Level C (1800 words)
	Ernst Klett Verlag Stuttgart 1974

A11	Die Oder gluckste vor Vergnügen	Rolf Ulrici
	A humorous novel in the 1930s. Three teenagers, two girls and a boy, bike from Berlin to the Baltic Sea, and they have lots of fun during the trip.
	Level C (1800 words)
	Ernst Klett Verlag Stuttgart 1994

A12	Der Sprung ins Ungewisse	Theodor Weißenborn
	Seven stories about life in our times. Loneliness and increasing isolation, but also self esteem and stamina are some of the topics
	Level: intermediate
	Ernst Klett Verlag Stuttgart 1975

A13	Treff mit Trimmel	Friedhelm Werremeier
	Two crime stories located around Hamburg. In the one case, an alcohol dependent woman dies under mysterious circumstances. In the other case, two teenaged boys steal a car with unexpected content.
	Level D (2400 words)
	Ernst Klett Verlag Stuttgart 1984

A14	Novellen	Stefan Zweig
	Three novellettes that analyze the psyche and thoughts of people that are driven by mysterious and unconsious powers.
	Level C (1800 words)
	Ernst Klett Verlag Stuttgart 1972

A55	Täglich dasselbe Theater - Heitere Geschichten	A & E Schmitz (Editors)
	Humorous short stories
	Level 2 (1300 words)
	Max Hueber Verlag, Ismaning 1996

A61a	Kurzgeschichten	Marie Luise Kaschnitz
A61b	Several short stories are presented with characters that experience super natural powers which cause anxiety.
	Level B (1200 words)
	Ernst Klett Verlag Stuttgart

A64	Der geteilte Himmel	Christa Wolf
	This is the story of a couple separated by the recent construction of the Berlin Wall. The two struggle with the contradictions of their different societies in the East and West.
	Level B (1200 words)
	Ernst Klett Verlag Stuttgart

A67	Die Züricher Verlobung	Barbara Noak
	A humorous and confusing love story
	Level C (1800 words)
	Ernst Klett Verlag Stuttgart

A68	Jerry lacht in Harlem	Josef Reding
	The present shortstories from the book "Don't call me Nigger" depict people from the dark side of life. There is the Harlem boy Jerry and his gang, the poor Italian immigrant, a welfare recipiant, or just people with bad luck. A book for thought.
	Level B (1200 words)
	Ernst Klett Verlag Stuttgart



Novellen und Kurzgeschichten (Short stories)

A15	Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit	Heinrich Böll
	Collection of satirical stories describing the German society of the 1950s
	Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1966

A16	Wanderer kommst du nach Spa….	Heinrich Böll
	Short stories, mostly placed in the early part of the 20th century
	Paul List Verlag München 1956

A51	Gedichte	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
	Complete edition of Goethe's poems, with comments by Erich Trunz
	Verlag Beck, München 1978

A17	Der Gegenwart ins Gästebuch	Erich Kästner
	Collection of Poems
	Büchergilde Gutenberg, Frankfurt 1968

A18	Arche Noah, Touristenklasse	Ephraim Kishon
	42 satirical short stories from Isreal
	Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag Reinbek 1973

A19	Sternstunden der Menschheit	Stefan Zweig
	12 historical miniatures
	S. Fischer Verlag Frankfurt 1991

A56	Klassisches Vorlesebuch 1	Friedrich M. Fux (Editor)
	Chapters from 12 great novels of world literature from Cervantes to Tolstoj
	Langewiesche-Brandt KG, Ebenhausen 1964



Romane (Novels)

A20	Ansichten eines Clowns	Heinrich Böll
	Hans Schnier wants to be an honest clown rather than a hypocrite. For six years, he lives with Marie, without being married. Marie leaves him, because he refuses to agree to bring up potential children in the catholic faith. Schnier can't cope with this loss. From being a clown in great demand, he turns into a beggar that sits on the stairs of the Bonn train station - when Marie returns from her honey moon with a 'progressive' catholic.
	Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag München 1967

A54	Ende einer Dienstfahrt	Heinrich Böll
	A strange trial is being held in a small town: it looks like sabotage, but the two suspects, a father and son, don't fit the image of saboteurs who would set a jeep of the army on fire. Böll depicts a detailed picture of his protagonists and the town, lovely and idyllic, but not without irony towards everyone.
	Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 1967

A21	Die chinesische Heirat	Pearl S. Buck
	Nine stories of Asia, past and present; one of Chinatown, New York.
	Droemer Knaur, München 1978

A22	Die Frauen des Hauses Wu	Pearl S. Buck
	Madame Wu, wife of a rich merchant, is the head of a large family. She guides her sons securely and unnoticed through life. At the age of 40, she decides to regain freedom from her husband by satisfying him with a second wife. She falls in love with an Italian priest. This strange relationship leads her into a completely new world and changes her life.
	Fischer Bücherei Frankfurt 1956

A23	Die Mutter	Pearl S. Buck
	The story of a poor Chinese Farmer's woman and mother that bears her tough life only through the never ending love for her children.
	Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag Reinbek 1957

A24	Land der Hoffnung, Land der Trauer	Pearl S. Buck
	Wu I-wan was the son of a wealthy banker in Shanghai. Reacting against the squalor and misery of the masses, I-wan joined the illegal student revolutionary movement to fight against the corrupt and heedless rulers of his country. This is the story of his betrayal, of his flight to Japan - of his return to take up arms when the Japanese invaded his country.
	Eduard Kaiser Verlag, Klagenfurt

A25	Ostwind - Westwind	Pearl S. Buck
	The love and life story of a chinese girl with her husband, that was assigned to her already at birth. The husband, a medical doctor, was brought up in the western world. The book describes vividly and sensitively the differences between East and West.
	Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag Reinbek 1953

A26	Insel am Ende der Welt	Ian Cameron
	Treasure hunt in the heart of the Arctic. A member of a whaling fleet disappears with his helicopter in the Arctic and is believed dead. But his father doesn't agree. He organizes an expedition to search for his son. On the way, they discover unknown Arctic tribes and unexpected treasures.
	Known through the film version by Walt Disney
	Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag Frankfurt 1976

A27	Kleiner Mann - was nun?	Hans Fallada
	The story of a poor couple that fights with life in Germany after world war 1. Thanks to their love, loyalty, idealism and fantasy they never lose hope and their dreams of a better life.
	Rowohlt Verlag Reinbek 1981

A28	Kleine Liebe zu Amerika	Manfred Hausmann
	A young man strolls across the United States. He observes and analyzes carefully what he sees, without rushing to conclusions. A lively and colourful image of the US.
	Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag Frankfurt 1961

A29	Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders	Eva Heller
	Student Constanze is tired of her boy friend. He is cheap and unemotional. She looks for a new relationship that will allow her to have her emancipated dreams come true. Who is the real man, how can she find him? A book as exciting as a love story and as amusing as men.
	A book for women
	Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag Frankfurt 1987

A30	Dublin	James Joyce
	Scenes of every day life in Dublin around 1900.
	Fischer Bücherei Frankfurt 1953

A31	Morgens um sieben ist die Welt noch in Ordnung	Eric Malpass
	The humorous story of a little innocent boy who brings his whole family up in arms with his true and simple-minded observations. His ears and eyes are everywhere where they shouldn't be.
	Rowohlt Verlag Reinbek 1967

A32	Tonio Kröger	Thomas Mann
	The life of a young man who is torn between the south European life style of his mother, and the Northern German seriousness of his father. He turns into a restless artist that feels at home neither in Italy nor in Denmark, and has a difficult time to establish lasting relations with others.
	S. Fischer Verlag Berlin 1965

A33	Natascha	Heinz G. Konsalik
	Natascha, a world renowned singer from Russia, decorated with all honours the country had to give away, asks for political asylum in France. The book describes the fascinating and unparalleled life of Natascha Tschugunowa.
	Wilhelm Heyne Verlag München 1975

A34	Wechselspiel der Liebe	Rosamunde Pilcher
	A young woman finds out that she has a twin sister. She discovers a person that resembles her in looks, but lives a very different life. The world turns upside down when she meets the former fiancé of her sister.
	A book for women
	Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag Reinbek 1993

A35	Der Gasmann	Heinrich Spoerl
	The honest civil servant, Mr. Knittel, takes the train to work in the morning. Suddenly a passenger who has lost his suit during a little love affair in the sleeping car, forces Knittel to change his uniform for the stranger's pyjama and a large check. For Knittel starts a dramatic time, rich with conflicts and misunderstandings.
	Rowohlt Verlag Reinbek 1957

A70	Herr der Diebe	Cornelia Funke
	Two brothers flee to Venice, and continue on to an island in the lagoon, where they find an old, tubled-down merry-go-round with magic powers.
	Cornelia Funke is the most successful German contemporary children book author. This book was a New York Times bestseller after it's first publishing.
	Adult edition of the children phantasy story
	Atrium Verlag, Zürich 2002

A44	Die Tochter des Schmieds	Selim Özdogan
	The story of a girl in a village in Anatolia who submits to the strict traditions of her surroundings, without ever catering to her own wishes. The author gives a sensitive picture of the conficts between young and old.
	Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2005

A47	Hechtsommer	Jutta Richter
	Two children, who know that their mother is very sick, react completely different to the situation: the girl wants to stop time, the boy thinks catching a pike would heal his mom. Despite the disagreement, the two stick together through hope, despair, mourning and comfort.
	Carl Hanser Verlag, Ottobrunn 2004





Epische Romane, dicke Bücher (Epic Novels, thick books)

A36	Die Einwanderer	Howard Fast
	The story of the American dream: born to Italian immigrants, Daniel Lavette starts out as a fisher man in San Francisco and builds up a huge empire with ships, airplanes, hotels and real estate. But then comes black Friday and the big depression. Rise and fall of a whole generation.
	Rowohlt Verlag Reinbek 1979

A37	Vom Winde verweht	Margaret Mitchell
	The centerpoint of this epic is the beautiful, proud Scarlett O'Hara and her love to the outlawed outsider Rhett Butler.
	Lesering Das Bertelsmann Buch 1953

A38	Doktor Schiwago	Boris Pasternak
	The life of the Russian doctor Jurij Schiwago. He is torn between the love for his wife and another woman that crosses his path again and again during his life. Finally, he gives way to this woman, and a great, unfortunate love develops.
	Europäischer Buchklub Stuttgart

A39	Hurra wir leben noch	Johannes Mario Simmel
	The story of Jakob Formann, who builds a worldwide economic empire and is one of the richest, most successful and most requested men of the higher society. However, during the oil crises he loses everything and is as poor as thirty years ago. This gives him the time to remember and to return to his great love from then, the woman he never forgot.
	Knaur Verlag München 1978

A57	Der Schut	Karl May
	Following adventures in the Devil's Gorge and the Cave of the Jewels, hero Kara Ben Nemsi and his companions meet the head of the dreaded criminal gang, the 'Schut'. Dangerous situations arise, before the hunt, that started in the desert of Tunesia, comes to an end in Albania.
	Manfred Pawlak Verlag, Herrsching 1990


Kriminalgeschichten (Crime stories)

A40	Das Verhör des Harry Wind	Walter M. Diggelmann
	A story about the influence that clever and aggressive advertisement has on the public opinion. Harry Wind, a sly, reckless manager, is in detention because he supposedly spied for the Soviets. A dramatic duel unfolds between the investigation officer and Wind, covering many aspects of life in Switzerland.
	Buchclub Ex Libris Zürich 1962

A41	Der Verdacht	Friedrich Dürrenmatt
	Detective Bärlach checks himself into a famous clinic of a doctor that is suspected to have been a doctor in a concentration camp. Together with one survivor of the camp, the detective unmasks the doctor and uncovers a dark past.
	Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag Reinbek 1965



Biographien (Biographies)

A42	Konrad Adenauer	Klaus Gotto
	A review of the life of the first German chancelor. Many photos, text in German, English, French and Spanish
	Verlag Bonn Aktuell 1988

A43	Häuptling Büffelkind Langspeer erzählt sein Leben	Büffelkind Langspeer
	The author grew up as an Indian among Indians and was witness of the intrusion of the White Man in the life of the Indians. It is a true-to-life description of the life of the Indians at the turn from the 19th to the 20th century.
	Paul List Verlag München 1958

A45	Wilhelm Busch Museum Hannover	Museum
	The book describes the life and oeuvre of Wilhelm Busch, as it is shown in the museum in Hannover. Many fotos, examples of his paintings and his world famous cartoons.
	Westermann Druck, Braunschweig 1980



Sachbücher (Specialized books)

A46	Kulturelles Leben in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
	An overview of literature, theatre, art, music, architecure, film and traditional celebrations, with many pictures.
	InterNationes Bonn 1992

A48	1000 deutsche Redensarten	Heinz Griesbach & Dora Schulz
	German idioms and figures of speech, explained in German, with examples
	Langenscheidt Verlag Berlin 1993

A49	Sprichwörtlich	Hans Hunfeld
	German word plays and proverbs with an explanation of what they mean.
	Ernst Klett Verlag München 1989

A50	Schönes Westfalen	August Kracht
	Picture book of Westfalen, with introduction in German
	Wolfgang Weidlich Verlag, Frankfurt 1964

A52	Schönes Bayern	Werner Meyer
	Picture book of Bavaria, with introduction in German
	Wolfgang Weidlich Verlag, Frankfurt 1964

A53	Wir sind ein Teil der Erde	Häuptling Seattle
	The speech of the chief Seattle in front of the President of the United States in the year 1855
	Walter Verlag AG Olten 1982

A58	Der Deutsche Ritterorden	Dieter Zimmerling
	A complete review of the story of the Deutsche Ritterorden, on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the fourndation of the Orden
	Verlagshaus Goethestraße, München 1999

A59a	German Wordpack	Oxford
A59b	Over 6000 words, phrases, and translations
	Oxford University Press, New York 2000

Last Updated on 3/31/2007