Manga is actually just the Japanese term for comics. But since comics and anime have developed into a real economic factor in Japan, which has also spread more and more in Europe, it is time to take a closer look at this phenomenon.

Who doesn't know the writer Jules Verne and his future and fantasy stories? I still like the film adaptation of his best-known adventure novel “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” (by the way, the book was written between 1869 and 1870).

Book fairs such as those in Leipzig or Frankfurt, but also increasingly publishers and even smaller bookstores, organize readings primarily for marketing reasons in order to present a newly published book to a broad public and promote it.

Open and curious, the eye wanders from the cover of the book to the original and a certain similarity to the original can hardly be denied: Ottilie PfefferMinze, real name Anne Schwede.

Many of us are very familiar with the always grumpy, bad-tempered and always up for subtle attacks, detective chief inspector and chief investigator Peter Faber of the Dortmund crime scene, at least in his role as this, which has been flickering across the screens since 2012.

The Leipzig Book Fair is the most important spring meeting for the book and media industry and sees itself as a trade fair for readers, authors and publishers.

We got to know Robby during a lecture about his hike, perhaps better his run “On foot from the North Pole towards the South Pole” on the occasion of the Finnelauf 2022 in Billroda,

We were only too happy to accept the invitation of the Goethe Institute in Izmir to take part in the conference “Media and Freedom”, which, to get a quick conclusion, was both in terms of timing and due to the current relevance of the Mohammed caricatures and the currently discussed film “Innocence of Muslims” and the content of the selection of speakers from Turkey and Germany could not have been better.

A wonderful side effect of traveling by caravan or motorhome is known to be the quick contact between campers, which is a crucial reason for us to carry out our project tour "Comprehension and Cultural Trip along Roman Roads" by caravan.

We, the entire Alaturka editorial team, are very pleased to be able to introduce you, dear readers of the portal, to another co-author, Nevfel Cumart, who will present books, stories or poetry by Turkish or German-Turkish authors in the future.

Whit Monday evening around 9:30 p.m., Night is slowly falling. My wife and I retreated to the living room after a wonderful day that we spent almost entirely in the garden. It has become noticeably damp outside.

 As already reported, we came across Misho Yuzmeski's office purely by chance during our first city tour of Ohrid.

This is what Alexandra Klobouk calls her way of working, which she developed in the course of her first book "Istanbul, with hot sauce?" began to develop.

Karin Holz was born in Regensburg and has deep roots in the old cathedral city. At school I was already a permanent member of the theater and singing group at the age of 10.

French-Moroccan Saphia Azzeddine presents a disturbing story of emancipation: from country shepherd to whore.

When the phone rang quite early in the morning last Thursday and Nevfel Cumart reported from the ICE to Frankfurt, the surprise was great.

Hatice Akyün was born on June 15, 1969 in Akpınar Köyü near Kütahya in a small Anatolian village about 100 kilometres southeast of Ankara.

- And then also a cultural trip? The doctorate in ancient history Melanie Heinle from Munich is doing exactly that at the moment.

Mathias Enard's adventure and bildungsroman takes place around the Mediterranean Sea and addresses the current crises in Islamic societies - A review by Nevfel Cumart

We had already planned to visit the Frankfurt Book Fair last year, but as it always happens..... Well, this year it should finally work out.