Christmas is the festival of love - which is to be proven. By spending it with your loved one in a secluded mountain cabin. Or - completely without a Christmas tree - under palm trees. You invite your parents to your home. Or - of course only for the sake of the children - your ex-husband. Or out of pure neighborly love, a refugee family? What happens when mother and son unexpectedly meet on a bench in front of the train station mission? Christmas love - humane, Christian, erotic - takes on strange forms. The authors gathered in this volume have plenty to say about it: Friedrich Ani, Antonia Baum, Doris Dörrie, Tanja Dückers, Harald Martenstein, Stefan Moster, Edgar Rai, Daniel Schreiber, and many others. Cheerful, melancholic, loving, light-hearted, and humorous: stories about a feeling that overwhelms us at Christmas - and is hard to control.