The Queen and the Philosopher
Berlin, around 1700: Queen Sophie Charlotte is an unusually clever and very energetic woman who increasingly perceives the courtly confinement as a burden. Only through an intensive exchange of ideas with the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz can she live her free and progressive spirit. Gradually a soul relationship develops between the two, whose intensity comes dangerously close to the limits of decency...
"[...] a great biographical novel [...] with so much linguistic sensitivity and such wonderful dry humor that I read the book in just one night." Kölner Illustrierte
