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International Edition · in English
DEUTSCHMUT
The new hard currency.
The German mix-and-match book against German Angst — now in English.
Three strips. 42,875 sentences. Every one of them claims something good about Germany — and every one of them works in English. Written in a country famous for its Angst, for everyone abroad who suspected there was more to it.
Binding pre-order · Secure checkout via Stripe (card, PayPal, Apple/Google Pay) · Invoice by e-mail · Expected delivery winter 2026/27
Made in Germany · works everywhere
What it is
One book.
One book.
42,875 sentences.
The Germans call it a Klappbuch: three horizontal strips, each with 35 pages. Flip the top for a beginning, the middle for a subject, the bottom for what happens. Every combination is a grammatically correct sentence — and every sentence claims something good about this country.
Middle strip
35 real German institutions. Cooperatives, repair cafés, youth orchestras, citizens’ assemblies, outbreaks of courage …
Bottom strip
35 endings — the positive turn Germany usually hopes for only after three committee meetings.
Gloriously unflusteredoutbreaks of couragesound crazy — and work anyway.
One of 42,875. Each page also carries a German proverb in the original, with an English line beneath it — some have exact English twins, some we kept deliberately literal. “The morning hour has gold in its mouth.”
Before you flip
Made in Germany.
Made in Germany.
Read everywhere.
This book was written in German, for Germans, in a country famous for a feeling it exported under its own name: German Angst. You are holding the counter-export. Five things worth knowing.
The title is not translated.
Deutschmut (say: DOYTCH-moot) is a new German word, built like the old ones: Anmut, Großmut, Wagemut. Germany lends words to the world — Kindergarten, Zeitgeist, Wanderlust, Angst — whenever English has no better one. We would like this one to travel too. It means: the well-founded expectation that effort pays off.
The nouns are real.
Cooperatives, citizens’ assemblies, repair cafés, youth orchestras, tinkerers’ workshops: the middle strip is not decoration. Each term names an institution of German everyday life. Together they draw the portrait of a Germany you rarely read about. A glossary at the back explains the ones that don’t travel on their own.
The proverbs are the genuine article.
Every page carries a German proverb in the original, with an English rendering beneath it. Some we kept deliberately literal, because they tell you something no translation could: this is a culture that talks to itself in small, sturdy sentences — and then acts on them.
German Angst is only half the story.
The thoroughness that makes us find, in advance, the reason why something cannot work is the same thoroughness that built the Energiewende, some 600,000 registered clubs and a volunteer force of about 27 million people. Deutschmut is that thoroughness, pointed forward.
Every sentence works in English, too.
All 42,875 of them. We checked each one. We are German.
Mut and mood are the same word.
The Old High German muot did not mean bravery but spirit, state of mind — the very root that became the English mood. Whoever turns mood back into courage merely reunites what belongs together.
Pre-order · First edition
One price.
One price.
Anywhere on earth.
€59 per copy, shipping included wherever you are — Lisbon, Lagos, Los Angeles. Pay now, receive the book from the first print run in winter 2026/27.
International Edition
€59 incl. VAT where applicable · shipping worldwide included
- 86 pages · three strips · Wire-O binding · 400 g/m² board
- 42,875 sentences, each checked in English · German proverbs with English lines
- Note for readers abroad + glossary “The German in this book”
- ISBN 978-3-9829469-2-4 · NUNC Verlag, Cologne
- Up to 10 copies per order — one address, one price
Secure checkout via Stripe · invoice automatically by e-mail · outside the EU, any import duties are borne by the recipient · we do not ship to sanctioned countries. Binding pre-order with immediate payment; should the edition not appear, you get a full refund. Terms (German) · Right of withdrawal (German).
Good to know
Questions,
Questions,
answered.
When will my copy arrive?
The International Edition goes to print with the German first edition. We expect to ship in winter 2026/27. You receive an e-mail the moment the books leave the printer in Monheim am Rhein, Germany.
Is shipping really included everywhere?
Yes — one price, wherever you live, with the exception of countries under international sanctions or postal embargo. Outside the European Union, customs duties or local import taxes may apply; these are borne by the recipient. Books are duty-free in most countries.
Do I need to read German?
No. Everything in the International Edition is in English. The German proverbs appear in the original with an English line beneath — that is part of the charm, not a hurdle.
Is this a translation?
It is an edition, not just a translation: same book, same mechanics, all 42,875 sentences rebuilt so that every combination works in English — plus a note for readers abroad and a glossary explaining the German institutions on the middle strip.
Can I order the German edition as well?
Of course. The German Standard Edition (€49) and the numbered Collector’s Edition (€89) ship to Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein — order here (German).
Who is behind this?
Christopher Peterka, Cologne — entrepreneur, keynote speaker and author. Design by Dirk Kels, Kels Design & Partner. Published by NUNC Verlag, the publishing imprint of gannaca GmbH & Co. KG.
The author
Christopher Peterka
Futurist, serial entrepreneur and keynote speaker from Cologne, founder of the think tank gannaca. Author of Deine Wahl! (Murmann, 2019) and Symphonie der Systeme (2025). He works with the people who shape Germany’s future — in companies, foundations, municipalities and schools — and noticed that what the country lacks is rarely money or knowledge, but the expectation that effort pays off. Deutschmut is his answer: not an analysis, a piece of equipment.