A new kind of biography! The author embarks on a quest for traces and conveys emotions. Nature as a source of creativity. Through the first-person narrative style, the reader is immersed in the events. Carefully used illustrations emphasize the storytelling. Back cover text: The scent of the apple. The scent of childhood. Author Elmar Langenbacher explores the life path of Hubert Burda - the man of the digital revolution. Great-grandson of a destitute Bohemian immigrant, youngest son of a patriarch and the "Queen of Dresses," "Emperor" Senator Franz and Aenne Burda. The seemingly deceased, who revolutionized the media with FOCUS and built a media empire from his father's printing house and publishing company. What role does the creative grandfather play? What about the Baden hometown of Offenburg? And what about the Black Forest, the "mountain of childhood"? What was planned as a walk with Hubert Burda turns into a journey.