Ravens: birds with stories. They reach back to biblical and mythological times, when ravens symbolized wisdom and care, but also evil, sin, and the demonic. In accounts of wars and battles, ravens, as scavengers, are symbols of death. The magical creatures from ancient times have arrived in the present and astonish behavioral researchers with their pronounced intelligence as the "chimpanzees of the skies." A raven anthology featuring poems by Adler, Ausländer, Bachmann, Becker, Bekker, Benn, Bernhof, Binding, Bobrowski, Britting, Bulla, Burkart, von Chamisso, Dauthendey, Däubler, Dehmel, Falke, Flieger, Fontane, Goes, Hebbel, Heine, Heym, Hilbig, Huchel, Kipphardt, Kirsch, Kirsten, Kräftner, Kühn, Kurzawa, Lehmann, Lenau, von Lingg, Löns, Morgenstern, Müller, Nietzsche, Poe, Reinert, Ringelnatz, Rückert, Seidel, Trakl, Treichel, Wiltens.