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“Let the world bow to me or break”, says Ubu. He believes in neither democracy, equal rights nor climate change – all that counts is his insatiable hunger.

The German post-war “economic miracle” required a large and low-pay labour force from abroad. They were called “Gastarbeiter (guest workers)”, a derogatory general term.

Berlin on the eve of Hitler’s seizure of power; the metropolis is lurching towards its doom. Fabian, a melancholy yet humorous observer, wanders through this juggernaut of a city that seems to be amusing itself into oblivion.

Damascus in 2011: a vibrant city with lively shopping streets, gentrified residential neighbourhoods and a pulsating cultural scene and night-life. And residents who are organising peaceful demonstrations for reforms.

From April 2019 to February 2020, the German Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe considered a long-simmering, unresolved debate: medically assisted suicide.

On 15 January 1974, a bed goes up in flames at the East Berlin hospital Charité. The patient who dies in this fire, caused by a burning cigarette is Ruth Berlau, Danish communist and Bertolt Brecht’s lover.

Felix – the Lucky One – son of a bankrupt manufacturer of sparkling wine, is a master in the art of showing people exactly what they want to see in him.

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