What happens after you die? Where will you go? Will you have a harp, and wings? Will you still have your sharp wit? Does it do you any good? Were you happy with your life? Did your family love you? Or, at least, your mistress? And do you want a second chance to return to earth? In Hereafter. We Were Sitting on a Cloud, Dangling Our Legs Kurt Tucholsky, the iconic German Jewish author and poet of the Weimar era, explores the afterlife between golden clouds and far-away stars, with floating spirits, masquerade balls on lunar satellites, quivering astral lights, time travel through the night, meteor showers, a planet where the water is cured, a mountain of laughter, and, of course, God. Translated by Cindy Opitz, and a preface by William Grimes. With its whimsical tone and its sepia colored pictures of Berlin's little angels, the book is the ideal Christmas gift for the cultured shopper.
Berlinica Publishing LLC offers English-language books from Berlin, German; fiction, non-fiction, travel guides, history about the Wall and the Third Reich, Jewish life, art, architecture and photography, as well as travel guides and cookbook. It also offers documentaries and feature films on DVD, as well as music CDs. Berlinica caters to history buffs, Americans of German heritage, travelers, and artists and young people who love the cutting-edge city in the heart of Europe. Berlinica cooperates with Berlin-based publishing houses.
Berlinica's current and upcoming titles include "Our West Berlin," by various authors, also five translated books by famed Weimar author Kurt Tucholsky as well as Harold Poor's landmark biography of Tucholsky, two translated plays by Ernst Toller, and two American travel stories by Alfred Kerr and Roda Roda, soon to be followed by Egon Erwin Kisch's "Paradise America".
In the non-fiction department, we have "Rocking the Wall," the Bruce-Springsteen-book and "Burning Beethoven," about German Americans in World War I, both by Erik Kirschbaum, also "Mark Twain in Berlin," by Andreas Austilat, "Berlin 1945: World War II: Photos of the Aftermath," by Michael Brettin, "The Berlin Wall Today," a full-color guide to the remnants of the Wall, by Michael Cramer, "Berlin in the Cold War," about post-World War II history, and "A Place they Called Home," edited by Donna Swarthout about Jews returning to Germany.
We also offer "The Berlin Cookbook," a full-color collection of traditional German recipes by Rose Marie Donhauser, the picture book "Wings of Desire," by Lothar Heinke, "Martin Luther's Travel Guide," by Cornelia Dömer, "Leipzig! The City of Books und Music," by Sebastian Ringel, and "Berlin For Free," a guide for the frugal traveler by Monica Maertens.
