Spring fever

Spring is here! And with it comes our good mood: everything is blooming, the sun is shining, and we are beaming right along with it. We flirt, feel butterflies in our stomachs, and everything feels lighter. When spring lets its blue ribbon flutter through the air again, the heart becomes more buoyant and the senses more open to the blossoming nature and the beautiful company. This unique feeling of life that only spring brings is reflected in the poems and stories gathered here: in poems about sudden feelings of happiness, sweet, familiar scents, and the first tender kisses; and in stories about first love - tales that speak of the confusion of emotions, tentative approaches, and awakening sensuality. Featuring poems and stories by Alfred Andersch, Rose Ausländer, Italo Calvino, Joseph von Eichendorff, Robert Gernhardt, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.