Ulf Erdmann Ziegler

For every story that ends, another begins. In Scotland's Dundee, a female dancer watches how the nation becomes divides over the question of whether to leave the UK or not. In Hamburg, a radicalised animal rights activists goes missing. A Berlin punk entrepreneur finds serenity in music after being injured, and a young cameraman, tired of his job routine, becomes an adventurer. All of...

Oliver, the modernist version of a Stuttgart Calvinist, has just saved the London-based firm Turnstyle Movies from bankruptcy. Finally married to Barbara, a clever and popular British art historian, he sees himself as a success when a company merger lets him experience the limits of what he thought he knew about business administration. Involved in all of this is a mysterious, much younger...

This is the story of Marleen who falls in love with the world of lettering before she has even learned to read. Born into a family of successful advertisers and illustrators, she grows up dreaming of a truly great invention: the perfect font for everybody.

This novel digs deeply into the history of modern typography, how it was practised, taught and reinvented a few times over....