SINCE 2024
Table of Content – the non-fiction podcast
Christof Blome, born in 1971, worked at KiWi, Rowohlt, Ch. Links/Aufbau, and Ullstein before becoming a freelance editor and literary agent. He also moderates panel discussions and book presentations. Since April 2024, he has been the host of “Table of Content,” Sagamedia’s nonfiction podcast.
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Episode 17 (68 min) – Aline Abboud about “Barefoot in Teta’s Garden”
In this episode, Christof Blome talks to news presenter Aline Abboud about her book “Barefoot in Teta’s Garden: Berlin, My Lebanon and Me.” In this book, Aline Abboud embarks on a very personal search for her roots. At the same time, she offers a different perspective on Lebanon and its history.
First aired: 27/07/2025 on Spotify.
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Episode 16 (64 min) – Ulli Lust about “Women as Human Beings”
For years, she immersed herself in current research on prehistory and early history and wrote the non-fiction comic “Die Frau als Mensch” (Women as Human Beings), for which she was awarded the German Non-Fiction Prize in 2025. In the podcast, Ulli Lust talks about how she got into comic drawing and what it means to her.
First aired: 01/07/2025 on Spotify.
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Episode 15 (85 min) – Lothar Müller about “The Fire Script.” Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Casanova is probably one of the most famous Europeans of modern times. Lothar Müller talks about a lesser-known but no less interesting Casanova: the adventurer, author, intellectual, and well-informed observer of his time.
First aired: 30/06/2025 on Spotify.
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Episode 14 (72 min) – Ute Cohen about “Glamour”
For Ute Cohen, glamour is a game for adults whose rules you should know. It is an art as well as a form of magic. It brings liveliness to our everyday lives, but it also has its dark sides. It means taking a risk – both for the person who is presenting themselves and for the viewer. She explains why in our conversation. We also talk about what makes people glamorous.
First aired: 03/04/2025 bon Spotify.
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Episode 13 (71 min) – Dominik Wullers about “I am Germany.”
Dominik Wullers represents Germany at NATO in Brussels, along with others. But during his childhood and youth as a Black German, he often found his relationship with his homeland difficult. In Ich bin Deutschland – Plädoyer für einen liberalen Patriotismus (I am Germany – A Plea for Liberal Patriotism), he describes his struggle for belonging and his search for an identity.
First aired: 24/03/2025 on Spotify.
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Episode 12 (80 min) – Sissy Chen about her cookbook “Simply Chinese”
Chinese cuisine is very popular in this country, but it is still subject to many prejudices. One of these is that the dishes are difficult to cook. Sissi Chen’s cookbook “Einfach Chinesisch” dispels this myth and presents recipes that are quick and easy to prepare – ideal for everyday cooking.
First aired: 21/02/2025 on Spotify.
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Episode 11 (72 min) – Jens Bisky about “The Decision: Germany 1929–1934”
Why did Germany’s first democracy fail? What significance did the global economic crisis of the time have? Was the republic crushed between the political extremes of National Socialism and Communism? What strategy did the conservative establishment pursue? And what made the National Socialists so attractive to younger people?
First aired: 06/02/2025 on Spotify.
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Episode 10 (66 min) – Bernhard Hartmann about Aurelia W’s diary from the Warsaw Ghetto
When many Poles fled from the advancing Wehrmacht in September 1939, journalist and writer Aurelia Wyleżyńska took the opposite route: she traveled from her vacation spot in the southeast of the country back to her apartment in Warsaw — toward the enemy.
First aired: 20/01/2025 on Spotify.
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Episode 9 (76 min) – Sabine Adler about “What will become of Russia?”
Russia is the largest country in the world, has the second most powerful army, possesses the most nuclear weapons alongside the US – and has been at war with its neighbor Ukraine since 2014, increasingly covertly against the West as well. What is the situation like inside this country?
First aired: 05/11/2024 on Spotify.
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Episode 8 (72 min) – Arthur Landwehr about “The Torn States of America”
Old myths and new values – a country struggles for its identity, reads the subtitle of Arthur Landwehr’s latest book. And it is precisely these myths and values that he discusses in the current episode. It quickly becomes clear that the “United” States of America have always been a myth.
First aired: 26/10/2024 on Spotify.
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Episode 7 (94 min) Michael Schikowski about an invisible genre
What distinguishes a non-fiction book from a novel? In conversation with non-fiction researcher Michael Schikowski, it quickly becomes clear that the answer is more complicated than it seems at first glance. It also becomes clear that the genre a book is assigned to can be decisive for its fate.
First aired: 08/10/2024 on Spotify.
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Episode 6 (52 min) – Gabriele von Arnim about “Life is a temporary condition”
When Gabriele von Arnim tells her husband that she wants to leave him, he suffers a stroke a few hours later, followed by a second one a few days later. From then on, he is confined to nursing care, alert in mind but trapped in his body. His wife stays with him and cares for him for the next ten years, until his death.
First aired: 20/09/2024 on Spotify.
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Episode 5 (73 min) – Christina Morina about “A Thousand New Beginnings”
Winner of the 2024 German Non-Fiction Prize
She likes to provoke her readers – now her book “Tausend Aufbrüche. Die Deutschen und ihre Demokratie seit den 1980er Jahren” (A Thousand New Beginnings: Germans and Their Democracy since the 1980s) has been awarded the German Non-Fiction Prize. Christof Blome talks to Christina Morina about why she considers the GDR to be part of German democratic history.
Fist aired: 05/08/2024 on Spotify.
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Episode 4 (52 min) – Martina Tittel about nonfiction books in bookstores
Owner of Germany’s second oldest bookstore, industry official, and now also publisher: I talk to Martina Tittel about the role of non-fiction in bookstores. How does she choose the titles she stocks in her store, and what can she do to market them?
First aired: 19/07/2024 on Spotify.
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Episode 3 (79 min) – Steffen Mau about “Lütten Klein”
Sociologist Steffen Mau grew up in the Lütten Klein prefabricated housing estate in Rostock. For his book of the same name, he returned there to explore the deeper causes of dissatisfaction and discontent in eastern Germany, using this place as an example.
First aired: 25/05/2024 on Spotify.
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Episode 2 (59 min) – Christiane Hoffmann avout “Everything We Don’t Remember”
Alone and on foot, she traveled hundreds of kilometers through Poland, Czechia, and Germany. For her book “Everything We Don’t Remember,” Christiane Hoffmann retraced the route her father took as a nine-year-old boy in 1945 when he fled Silesia.
First aired: 09/05/24 on Spotify.
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Episode 1 (64 min) – Philipp Hübl about “The Agitated Society”
What does a pronounced tendency to feel disgust have to do with a right-wing worldview? Christof Blome discusses this with philosopher Philipp Hübl. In his book “Die aufgeregte Gesellschaft” (The Agitated Society), Hübl examines how emotions shape our morals – and thus also politics. How do leftists, liberals, and conservatives differ in their emotional makeup?
First aired: 24/04/2024 on Spotify.