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Stories, essays, reading samples and teaching materials related to the novels.

Short storyGerman
Eine unheimliche Reise zwischen Literatur, Erinnerung und Wirklichkeit

Short storyGerman
Ein Prequel zu „Geld ist ein Messer“

Short storyGerman
Eine Erzählung in fünf Zuständen

Short storyEnglish
A short story · A prequel to “Money Is a Knife”
Macheath and Jenny grow up together in 1990s Chicago. While Jenny learns to turn intimacy, desire and money into a business, Macheath discovers his gift for patterns in numbers and enters Peach’s financial empire.

Short storyItalian
An unsettling journey through literature, memory and reality
An enigmatic book found in a Regensburg antiquarian shop sends a traveler across the Alps in an old-fashioned carriage. In this Italian edition, Matteo Rossi’s notes increasingly intrude upon the traveler’s reality.

Short storyChinese
A story in five states
The Simplified Chinese edition follows an almost motionless patient through memory, data and artificial intelligence—from the blackbird outside the laboratory to Mintaka c and the question of consciousness.

Short storyItalian
A story in five states
The Italian edition moves from the inner world of an immobilized patient toward an artificial intelligence that expands his perception—and the unresolved question of where consciousness begins.

Essay & reading sample
Von der Idee eines Lebens nach dem Körper

Teaching unit
Von Goethes „Faust“ zu „Living Forever“

Didactic manuscript
Goethes „Faust“ im Dialog mit „Living Forever“