Pandemics

The spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has meanwhile a massive impact on all areas of our society. However, this is not the first pandemic that threatens humanity. In the Middle Ages, the plague was a disease that killed a large part of the population in some areas. But cholera and, in the 21st century, avian and swine flu, Ebola and other epidemics again and again present humanity with the challenge of mastering and overcoming these diseases.

Many of these pandemics have also not only left their mark in the literature. Edition-115 presents samples where pandemics influence literature.

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With the Corona postage stamp, printed on 4 layer toilet

paper, we not only want to issue an original block of

stamps that we will remember this year, but also support

those who have been particularly hard hit by this crisis.

The surcharge of 2.75 euros per stamp goes to the ORF

campaign 'Licht ins Dunkel'. A third of this each goes to

the Corona emergency fund of Caritas and Kronen

Zeitung, to Unicef Austria and to other projects from

'Licht ins Dunkel', explains Post Director General Dr.

Georg Pölzl in a company news of postal service Austria.

Also in 2021 the postal service of Austria is offering a special stamp

Mary Shelley

Der letzte Mensch

The world in the 21st century: a new and deadly epidemic is spreading. It has devastating effects on humanity, economics and politics. One question hovers over them all: what to do in the face of a global public health crisis?

Shelley's 1826 novel, the very first dystopia in world literature, is an oppressive reading today. The story follows Lionel Verney, who, with his sister and friends, was initially politically active in the young English republic. They set off for Greece, and in the south they come into contact for the first time with a new type of plague that is gradually spreading to Europe and North America. Soon there will be apocalyptic conditions in England. The only thing left for the friends and their families is to flee ...

Price Germany € 26.00

ISBN 978-3-15011-328-8

©**	Sebastian Fitzek Identität 1142 Fitzek and more than 1000 fans who used the pandemic time got down to work and contributed to this book. Price Germany € 20.00 ISBN 978-3-42628-266-3

Steffen Kopetzky

Monschau

In 1962, when the nuclear arms race reached its peak, when bombs exploded in Algiers and Paris, the young doctor Nikolaos Spyridakis set out for the Eifel in Germany's economic miracle. It's a delicate mission: Smallpox has broken out in the Monschau district, it is highly contagious and life-threatening. In the middle of the carnival there is now a threat of a standstill, quarantine. The Rither boss wants to keep the factory open at all costs. Less than twenty years after the end of the Second World War, business is good all over the world. Vera Rither has completely different plans: The sole heiress studies in Paris, admires Simone de Beauvoir and carries the spirit of the avant-garde to Monschau. There she meets Nikolaos, who is driven as a company doctor through the snow-covered Eifel to visit patients, protected from infection by a steelworker's suit. As different as the two are, the Cretan doctor, who experienced the horrors of the German occupation as a child, and the rich orphan, they quickly discover that they have more in common than their love for Miles Davis. But the cases of illness are increasing and the virus is taking what it can get.

Steffen Kopetzky tells of a love in a state of emergency and of the young Federal Republic, shaped by rapid economic growth - and transforms the true events of a little-known chapter of German history into gripping literature.

Price Germany € 22.00

ISBN 978-3-73710-112-7

Even now, the humor should not be neglected

Wladimir Kaminer

Der verlorene Sommer

The new book by the SPIEGEL bestselling author.

With unshakable humor, Wladimir Kaminer looks at the months that changed our lives.

Spring 2020. People woke up from their hibernation, blinked in the sun and had no idea what was in store for them. In distant China, an armadillo with a cold supposedly sneezed on a sick bat - a virus was born that crippled the world. But it couldn’t harm Wladimir Kaminer’s curiosity or humor. Despite lockdown, face mask and draft beer ban, he found stories everywhere that proved: Life went on! Even if a little different every day than before. With wit and heart, he observed the everyday life of us coronauts and the gradual change in our reality ...

Wladimir Kaminer and his view on the Corona world.

Price Germany € 16.00

ISBN 978-3-44220-624-7

Title	Author	ISBN	Price € Germany
Die Pest in London (German) Gebundene Ausgabe ©**	Daniel Defoe	978-3-99027-249-7	25.00
Die Liebe in den Zeiten der Cholera ©**	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	978-3-59690-708-3	13.00
Die Pest ©**	Albert Camus	978-3-49922-500-0	12.00
Das Dekameron ©**	Giovanni Boccaccio	978-3-73060-047-4	7.95
Ich rede von der Cholera ©** A report from Paris 1832	Heinrich Heine	978-3-455-01042-8	14.00
Corona ©**	Martin Meyer	978-3-03695-837-8	20.00