Spirituality has become a key concept of contemporary religious culture. It signifies that reality does not solely reside in what is present and encompasses everything that transcends the merely functional and utilitarian. This makes a look at contemporary German literature particularly exciting. Christoph Gellner explores, through renowned authors such as Erika Burkart, Ulrike Draesner, Daniel Kehlmann, Adolf Muschg, and Martin Walser, the challenging variations of contemporary spirituality, which often express themselves outside of church contexts. This selection of diagnostically insightful key texts encourages an intellectually responsible engagement with one's own life and its existential questions.