A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.

2004 film by Dennis Gansel

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.

2008 film by Stephen Daldry

In 1983 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds -- with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk -- that it might be possible for him to take human form.

Germany, Baltic Sea coast, May 1945, a few days before the end of World War II. A small Soviet patrol arrives at an isolated house where an elderly baroness gives shelter to a group of orphan girls and a boy who is determined to continue the fight.

2012 film by Petter Næss

The setting is on a floating platform where a group of evenly and carefully placed men live. Each man is aware that the platform is not stable and in order not to fall to their deaths, they maintain a careful balance of weight to prevent the platform from tipping too far and cause them all to fall.

2015 film directed by Elmo Nüganen

2009 film directed by Michael Haneke

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.

2011 film by Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky

By the 1920's, Berlin had become known as a homosexual eden, where gay men and lesbians lived relatively open lives amidst an exciting subculture of artists and intellectuals. With the coming to power of the Nazis, all this changed. Between 1933 and 1945 100,000 men were arrested for homosexuality under Paragraph 175, the sodomy provision of the German penal code dating back to 1871. Some were imprisoned, others were sent to concentration camps. Of the latter, only about 4,000 survived. Today, fewer than ten of these men are known to be living. Five of them have now come forward to tell their stories for the first time in this powerful new film. The Nazi persecution of homosexuals may be the last untold story of the Third Reich. Paragraph 175 fills a crucial gap in the historical record, and reveals the lasting consequences of this hidden chapter of 20th century history, as told through personal stories of men and women who lived through it: the half Jewish gay resistance fighter who spent the war helping refugees in Berlin; the Jewish lesbian who escaped to England with the help of a woman she had a crush on; the German Christian photographer who was arrested and imprisoned for homosexuality, then joined the army on his release because he "wanted to be with men"; the French Alsatian teenager who watched as his lover was tortured and murdered in the camps. These are stories of survivors -- sometimes bitter, but just as often filled with irony and humor; tortured by their memories, yet infused with a powerful will to endure. Their moving testimonies, rendered with evocative images of their lives and times, tell a haunting, compelling story of human resilience in the face of unspeakable cruelty. Intimate in its portrayals, sweeping in its implications, Paragraph 175 raises provocative questions about memory, history, and identity.

第一次世界大战期间，十九岁的保罗·博伊默尔受到“爱国主义”的激励，跟同学们一起志愿参军，但战争与军队生活的残酷完全超出想象。在新兵训练营里，他们被迫抛弃从前对知识和自由的信仰，接受彻底的改造。短暂的训练后，新兵们被派往前线作战，所见所闻尽是残酷：战壕内都是老鼠、虱子；烈性传染病威胁着每个士兵的生命；战友们一个个阵亡，或受伤被送到野战医院；野战医院设备简陋，药品缺乏，伤患的死亡率极高。 保罗休假回家，发现德国国内仍沉浸在对于战争的英雄主义幻想中，普通人无法想象士兵们在前线所受的灾难，他和从前的生活已完全脱节，他的感受无人能懂。保罗重回前线，此时战争愈发惨烈，未来一片迷茫……

小说叙述一个奇才怪杰谋杀了26个少女的故事。其中每一次谋杀都是一个目的：只是因为迷上她们特有的味道。对格雷诺耶来说，每次都是一场恋爱，但是他爱的不是人，而是她们身上的香味；谋杀她们只是为了永远占有，并且拥有他所钟爱的那种没有感觉，没有生命的“香味”…… 这本书不是一部通俗的惊险小说，而是一部构思奇特，充满幻想，离意深刻的严肃作品；自1985年出版以来，始终高居德国畅销书排行榜前列，已被译成30余种文字。

★德国文学史上的里程碑杰作，被誉为“世界50大小说” ★欧洲各国教育部指定中学生“必读好书” ★伦茨和格拉斯，他们对我的吸引力比德国这个国家对我的吸引力还要巨大，如果能见到他们，我想这会成为我的隆重的节目。——莫言 ★《德语课》震撼了我，在一个孩子天真的叙述里，我的阅读却在经历着惊心动魄。这是一本读过以后不愿意失去它的小说，我一直没有将它归还给学校图书馆。——余华 易北河水缓缓流淌，浓雾中的汽笛声依稀传进禁闭室，少年犯西吉•耶普森正在完成他的惩罚性作文《尽职的快乐》。 痛苦的往事打开了缺口：十多年前，身为警察的父亲受命监视同村的一位画家，禁止其作画。自幼喜欢画家的西吉，悄悄将他的作品藏在一间破磨坊里。战后，禁令解除，父亲却仍然顽固不化地 “履行职责”，将磨坊里收藏的画作付之一炬，西吉对父亲的怀恨与恐惧到达极点。不久，他因公然在展览上“偷”画被送入教养所…… 回忆一发不可收拾，西吉终于完成了厚厚一摞《尽职的快乐》。而他自己也不愿再跨出禁闭室，想要一直写下去，继续体会“尽职的快乐”。

歌德，德国最伟大的诗人，在世界文学史上占有重要的地位，被称为与荷马、但丁、莎士比亚并列的四大文豪。《浮士德》是歌德的代表作，为诗体悲剧，描写主人公浮士德一生探求真理的痛苦经历，反映从文艺复兴到十九世纪初整个欧洲的历史，揭示了光明与黑暗，进步与落后，科学与迷信两种势力的不断斗争。歌德借助浮士德的抱负和追求，表达了他本人对人类未来的远大而美好的理想。

这本书是本雅明的名作之一，一部意象集。这些意象都是他所生活的时代中的真实事物，比如邮票、加油站、早餐室、中国古董、手套、时钟，建筑工地、海报、啤酒馆等等，当然还有梦境。本雅明对这些事物的处理不是找一堆概念来辅佐，而是直接从事物本身深挖下去，找出文化深处与人的感性、理性深处的暗流。本雅明所观注的这些事物已随着时间而逝，但是本雅明的思想却仍然新鲜，对当今世界的学术、思想界依然产生着巨大的影响。