In der fünften Folge der aktuellen Staffel des Bertelsmann Business Podcasts „Kreativität & Unternehmertum“ spricht n-tv-Moderatorin und Podcast-Host Isabelle Körner mit einem der renommiertesten Fotografen der Gegenwart: Jim Rakete. Im Rahmen eines Kunstprojekts hat Rakete kürzlich die Vielfalt des Bertelsmann-Konzerns in beeindruckenden Bildern festgehalten. Bertelsmann hat ihm dabei keine Vorgaben gemacht. Die Ausstellung mit dem Titel „Das alles ist Bertelsmann by Jim Rakete“ ist ab sofort dauerhaft im Corporate Center von Bertelsmann in Gütersloh ausgestellt. Im Gespräch mit Isabelle Körner spricht der Fotograf unter anderem über Kreativität, wie die besondere Zusammenarbeit mit Bertelsmann entstand, welche speziellen Herausforderungen und Ansätze er bei diesem Projekt hatte. Zudem teilt Jim Rakete seine Gedanken darüber, warum er den Begriff „Leidenschaft“ problematisch findet und stattdessen „Hingabe“ bevorzugt, und diskutiert, ob Künstliche Intelligenz in der Fotografie wirklich Kunst ist.

Bertelsmann Business Podcast mit Jim Rakete

Exclusive extract from Simon Squibb's new audiobook, What's Your Dream?

What's Your Dream? by Simon Squibb

An intimate and lyrical celebration of great love, great art, and the sacrifices we make for both

For fifty years, Abe and Jane have been coming to Central Park, as starry-eyed young lovers, as frustrated and exhausted parents, as artists watching their careers take flight. They came alone when they needed to get away from each other, and together when they had something important to discuss. The Park has been their witness for half a century of love. Until now.
 
Jane is dying, and Abe is recounting their life together as a way of keeping them going: the parts they knew—their courtship and early marriage, their blossoming creative lives—and the parts they didn’t always want to know—the determined young student of Abe’s looking for a love story of her own, and their son, Max, who believes his mother chose art over parenthood and who has avoided love and intimacy at all costs. Told in various points of view, even in conversation with Central Park itself, these voices weave in and out to paint a portrait as complicated and essential as love itself. 
 
An homage to New York City, to romance, and even to loss, This Is a Love Story tenderly and suspensefully captures deep truths about life and marriage in radiant prose. It is about love that endures despite what life throws at us, or perhaps even because of it.

Listen to an excerpt from "This Is A Love Story" by Jessica Soffer, read by Marin Ireland

An epic and intimate tale of one couple across sixty years as world events pull them together and apart, illuminating the Chinese diaspora and exploring what it means to find home far from your homeland.

A single choice can define an entire life.

Haiwen is buying bananas at a 99 Ranch Market in Los Angeles when he looks up and sees Suchi, his Suchi, for the first time in sixty years. 
To recently widowed Haiwen it feels like a second chance, but Suchi has only survived by refusing to look back.

Suchi was seven when she first met Haiwen in their Shanghai neighborhood, drawn by the sound of his violin. Their childhood friendship blossomed into soul-deep love, but when Haiwen secretly enlisted in the Nationalist army in 1947 to save his brother from the draft, she was left with just his violin and a note: Forgive me.

Homeseeking follows the separated lovers through six decades of tumultuous Chinese history as war, famine, and opportunity take them separately to the song halls of Hong Kong, the military encampments of Taiwan, the bustling streets of New York, and sunny California, telling Haiwen’s story from the present to the past while tracing Suchi’s from her childhood to the present, meeting in the crucible of their lives. Throughout, Haiwen holds his memories close while Suchi forces herself to look only forward, neither losing sight of the home they hold in their hearts.

At once epic and intimate, Homeseeking is a story of family, sacrifice, and loyalty, and of the power of love to endure beyond distance, beyond time.

Listen to an excerpt from "Homeseeking" by Karissa Chen, read by Katharine Chin and Kenneth Lee

Enjoy this extract from Nephthys, written by Rachel Louise Driscoll and read by Antonia Salib.

Brought to you by Penguin.

Sister. Rival. Protector. The spellbinding story of a forgotten daughter and a forgotten goddess.

Quiet and reserved, Clemmie is happy in the background. But although her parents may overlook her talents, her ability to read hieroglyphs makes her invaluable at the Egyptian relic parties which have made her father the toast of Victorian society.

But at one such party, the words Clemmie interprets from an unusual amulet strike fear into her heart. The beautiful and dangerous glyphs she holds in her hands will change her life forever.

Five years later, Clemmie arrives in Egypt on a mission to save what remains of her family. The childhood game she used to play about the immortal sisters, Isis and Nephthys, has taken on a devastating resonance and it is only by following Nephthys' story that she can undo the mistakes of the past. On her journey up the Nile she will meet unexpected allies and enemies and, along with long-buried secrets and betrayals, Clemmie will be forced to step into the light.

Nephthys by Rachel Louise Driscoll, read by Antonia Salib

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