Among Katja Schmidt-Wistoff‘s favorite authors are Georg Büchner, Franz Kafka, Siegfried Lenz, Thomas Bernhard and Juli Zeh. „I highly recommend them to the students,“ she says. The students, in her case, are the adolescents of the German Embassy School in Beijing. Schmidt-Wistoff has been working at the German school in the Chinese capital as head of the library for 13 years now. For the 58-year-old, this position at the German school in the Chinese capital is an ideal opportunity to pass on her passion for literature to the students.