With “The 100 most important things”, the IFZ is publishing a compendium that defies any simplistic logic and is nevertheless beautiful to look at. The aim: to name the ultimate material truths in a definitive selection of exactly 100 things – the most important (!) things – that is also comprehensible to non-scientists.

This may not seem spectacular at first, but with the reduction to 100 texts and 100 photographs, this volume represents the first guide to orientation in today's knowledge society and opens up a completely new perspective on the world of things for the reader.a book for anyone who wants to know what “The 100 most important things” are, and thus wants to know more than they know so far.

With guest contributions from Katja Eichinger, Rafael Horzon, Sophie Hunger, Daniel Kehlmann, Holger Liebs, Markus Lüpertz, Magnus Resch, Peter Richter, Claudius Seidl, Christiane Stenger and others.

Editors: Timon Karl Kaleyta, Tilman Ezra Mühlenberg, Samira El Ouassil, Martin Martin Schlesinger, Photographs: Mischa Lorenz

German, 256 pages, 100 illustrations

Awards:
The Beauty and the Book Award 2016
The Most Beautiful German Books 2016: Shortlist