Locations of events.

What's it like waking up and being stuck in a donkey skin? The Roman author Apuleius shows his readers their everyday life from the perspective of a donkey. The Golden Donkey is a funny satire and a realistic picture of the ancient Mediterranean world.

Andersch's probably most important novel takes us back to the time of National Socialism. Five completely different people give themselves up in search of freedom, but recognize more and more clearly the limitations of their possibilities and the constraints of their existence. The plot inevitably leads us to ask how we would have acted in those times.

It is a truism that life comes easier for beautiful people. While we are ashamed of our superficiality today, educated contemporaries of the 18th and 19th century read Lavater, who told them why their preconceived ideas were justified.

If there is one man responsible for shaping how women were viewed by educated men for centuries, it’s Giovanni Boccaccio. His book ‘On Famous Women’ inspired artists of both sexes.

Every now and then, you will still find beautifully embellished letters patent for people who did not make it into any history book. They are a wonderful record of the society of the Ancien Régime – a society in which every commoner sought personal nobility, even under the enlightened ruler Joseph II.