Rüdiger Liedtke – författare

Why do fish gasp for breath in Palma Cathedral? Why is there a house hanging over the cliffs? And why is there a theatre deep underground? Did you know that you are very close to heaven in Santanyí, that you can meet very strong Mallorcan women in Artà and that you can finally find the fountain of health in Campanet? Would you like to be a guest of the Archduke, chug through the jungle landscape by tram, or visit a church that’s upside down?This book guides even Mallorca connoisseurs to places that will amaze them. And it tells stories that hardly anyone has ever heard. You think you already know everything and then this picturesque island, and then you find it’s full of big and small surprises – 111 times!

Many people think that Munich means beer, beer, another beer - and the Alps. They might also recognise a church, a castle or two, but these edifices only reveal half of the story. The real Munich is hidden behind them, embodied by fountains, monuments, alleyways, and lots of precious little impressions that aren't written up anywhere. Here, one finds out, for instance, where in Munich Michael Jackson is at home forever, where a house with 1,000 plaster figures is, where hallucinations are guaranteed, where you can find out what your genetic fingerprint is, where you can meet Shakespeare out of doors and the brown bear of Thomas Mann, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929, to boot; where there is an experimental brewery, where a maker of artistic cabinets tried, all by himself, to blow up Adolf Hitler (and unfortunately failed); or the identity of the cowards "Coward Street" is named after. Whoever would like to get to know the city beyond beer steins and Our Lady's Cathedral will find fantastic discoveries in this book.