Writers not only write impressive literature, they themselves are also frequent impressive personalities who repeatedly become the focus of films that make literature their subject - whether in portraits of writers or in fundamental approaches to the fascination of books, plays or even operas. Whether Arno Schmidt, Jürgen Becker, John Irving, Margaret Atwood, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ian Rankin or Paulo Coelho: they all appear in this collection in cinematic portraits, while other films use the power of literary forms of expression as a starting point for (fictional) stories.