396 ratings (3.94 avg)
359 reviews

#65 best reviewers

Gerhard

Gerhard’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (0)
currently-reading‎ (3)
read‎ (398)
belletristik‎ (206)
zeitgeschichte‎ (163)
sachbuch‎ (97)
klassiker‎ (70)
osteuropa‎ (67)
antisemitismus‎ (63)
autoren‎ (61)
biographie‎ (31)

familienroman‎ (30)
krieg‎ (23)
literatur‎ (20)
autobiographie‎ (17)
krimi‎ (13)
mythologie‎ (12)
extremismus‎ (11)
theaterstueck‎ (10)
essay‎ (9)
judentum‎ (9)
geschichte-vor-1870‎ (8)

asien‎ (7)
hannah-arendt‎ (7)
islam‎ (6)
juedische-literatur‎ (6)
antike‎ (5)
fiction‎ (5)
gelesen‎ (5)
j-dische-literatur‎ (5)
reise‎ (5)
revolution‎ (4)
zeitschrift‎ (4)

beobachtungen‎ (3)
japan‎ (3)
philosophie‎ (3)
politik‎ (3)
religion‎ (3)
lehrbuch‎ (2)
briefe‎ (1)
indien‎ (1)
komponist‎ (1)
theaterst-ck‎ (0)

Stats | More…

Gerhard is Currently Reading

Gerhard is currently reading

Jazz.

by Toni Morrison

bookshelves: currently-reading, belletristik

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

progress:

(page 121 of 256)
— 43 minutes ago

Jan 01, 2026 10:23AM

Gerhard is currently reading

Das Münchener Abkommen von 1938 in europäischer Perspektive: Eine Gemeinschaftspublikation des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin und des Collegium Carolinum (German Edition)

by Jürgen Zarusky

bookshelves: currently-reading, krieg, politik, zeitgeschichte

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Nov 11, 2025 07:56AM

Gerhard is currently reading

Thomas Mann: Werk und Zeit | Die erste umfassende Monographie zum Werk des Nobelpreisträgers (German Edition)

by Dieter Borchmeyer

bookshelves: currently-reading, autoren, biographie, sachbuch

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

progress:

(page 736 of 2022)
"Maßgeblich war hier nur die Ausführungen zum Zauberberg. Einstweilen wird das Buch zurückgestellt." — Jul 13, 2025 10:31AM

Sep 07, 2023 12:49AM

Gerhard’s Quotes

“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

tags: honesty, integerity

1664 likes

“Ein Raum ohne Bücher ist wie ein Körper ohne Seele.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: antike

3 likes

“Weißt du, was passiert, wenn man sich immer alle Türen offen hält? Dann zieht’s, mein Freund. Dann wird man krank.”
― Marc-Uwe Kling

85 likes

“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: honesty, independent-thought

1608 likes

“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: artistic, goals, life

1030 likes

More of Gerhard’s quotes…