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                             Charles Lewinsky
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                                  His Son
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   »Kurkow distils a happy desperation, a form of surreal
 pantheism that places him geographically, like his country,
                                                                                                                                                   Andrej Kurkow
 between Russian romanticism and Scandinavian fatalism,                                                                                              Grey Bees
  between Chekhov and Paasilinna, Gogol and Hamsun.«
                                                                                                                                                By the author of Death and the Penguin
                                      Frédéric Beigbeder / Le Figaro, Paris

                                                                                                                   »In spare prose, Ukraine's most famous
                                                                                                                 novelist unsparingly examines the inhuman
                                                                                                                       confusions of our modern times

                                                                                                                                                                  Andrej Kurkow Graue Bienen
                                                                                                                    and the longing of the warm-hearted
                                                                                                                          everyman that is Sergeyich
                                                                                                                  for the rationality of the natural world.«
                                                                                                                       John Thornhill / Financial Times, London

                                                                                                                 »This time, the Ukrainian author of Death
                                                                                                                 and the Penguin, known for his brilliantly
                                                                                                                 dark humour, has written a modern-day
                                              French edition by Liana Levi                                              odyssey, with a return that is
                                                                                                                          ambiguously hopeful.«                                                          Andrej
  Romanian edition by Paralela 45                                                 US edition by Deep Vellum
                                                                                                                         India Lewis / The Arts Desk, London
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Kurkow
                                                                                                                                    Rights sold:
                                                                                                                                                                                                      Graue Bienen
                                                                                                                         Chinese/CN (Beijing Imaginist)
                                                                              »Kurkow tells the oppressive
 »In his book, the writer                                                                                                      Croatian (Božičević)
                                                                                 story of the everyday
  paints the ›grey zone‹                                                                                                         Danish (Mr. East)
                                                                               of war in Eastern Ukraine
on the frontline with great                                                                                                    Dutch (Prometheus)
                                                                                with a quiet and poetic
        humanity.«                                                                                                           English/UK (MacLehose)                                                        Roman · Diogenes
                                                                                      language.«
Isabelle Mandraud / Le Monde, Paris                                                                                         English/US (Deep Vellum)
                                                                                 Céline Graf / Der Bund, Berne
                                                                                                                               Estonian (Tänapäev)
                                                                                                                                French (Liana Levi)
                                                                                                                                Greek (Kastaniotis)                                                              Novel
                                                                                                                             Hungarian (Művelt Nép)                                                         448 pages, 2019
                                               UK edition by MacLehose                                                            Italian (Keller)
                                                                                                                               Japanese (Sayusha)
                                                                                                                               Mongolian (Tagtaa)
                                                                                                                         Norwegian (Cappelen Damm)
                                                                                                                                  Persian (Ofoq)                                                       World rights are handled
                                                                                                                              Polish (Noir sur Blanc)                                          by Diogenes except Russian and Ukrainian.
                                                                                                                             Romanian (Paralela 45)                                                    Film rights are available.
                                                                                                                         Russian original publisher: Folio
                                                                                                                           Spanish/world (Alfaguara)
                                                                                                                           Swedish (Natur och Kultur)
                                                                                                                                 Ukrainian (Folio)

      Persian edition by Ofoq                                                     Greek edition by Kastaniotis

                                              Danish edition by Mr. East                                                          Andrej Kurkow’s books have been published in 39 languages.
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                           »A most impressive debut.«
                             Daniel Arnet / SonntagsZeitung, Zurich
                                                                                                                                                                                     Solomonica de Winter
                                                                                                                                                                                         Natural Law

                                                                                          50'000 copies sold                                                          The rise and fall of a fearless heroine. In a
                                                                                                                                                                      world without written records, one woman
                                                                                                                                                                      makes it her mission to find the last
                                              Solomonica                                                                                                              remaining books on Earth.
                                               de Winter
                                             Die Geschichte                                                                                                           The long-awaited new book by the excep-
                                                von Blue Bestseller                                                                                                   tionally talented and Spiegel-bestselling
                                                   Roman · Diogenes
                                                                                                                                                                      author Solomonica de Winter: The start of a
                                                                                                                                                                      trilogy and an epic novel, featuring an
                                            Over the Rainbow                                                                                                          ingenious maverick.
                                              Novel, 2014

                                                                                                                                                                      In the New World, people live according to
                                                                                                                                                                      the Natural Law. The world as we know it
                                                                                                                                                                      does no longer exist and the remaining
    »Over the Rainbow is incredibly                                       »I have read Over the Rainbow                                                               population is now divided into four tribes.
cool, pure and solidly told stylistically                                     with great admiration.«                                                                 Gaia Marinos is an outcast living in the
   speaking. It is barely imaginable                                     Ronald Ockhuysen / Het Parool, Amsterdam
                                                                                                                                                                      woods. When she gets captured by one of
  that this was written by a sixteen
              year old.«                                                                                                                                              the tribes, she is saved only by her ability
                                                                           »Smashing novel. Read this!«                                                               to read. Yet the tribe members have a plan
Melina Savvidou / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
                                                                                  Marie Claire, Amsterdam                                                             for her. Gaia’s mission to track down the
    »Over the Rainbow transcends
                                                                                                                                                                      last remaining books on Earth is jeopard-
the young adult novel. For the sixteen                                   »The debut novel by the sixteen                                                              ised, and she has to decide: how far is she
  year old that she is, [Solomonica                                   year old Solomonica de Winter stands                                                            willing to go?
de Winter] is remarkably experienced.                                  out. Not only because of the double                                                                                                                           Novel
 She writes cinematic and evocative,                                  murder that is committed in it or the                                                                                                                  496 pages, October 2022
   and uses beautiful metaphors.«                                     writer’s ancestry, but mostly because
                                                                              of its literary quality.«
   Annick Vandorpe / De Morgen, Amsterdam
                                                                      Gabriele Flossmann /Illustrierte Neue Welt, Vienna                                                »And all that began, began in the wild,
                                                                                                                                                                            lest you wish to never know.«
                                                                                                                                                                                    Solomonica de Winter              World rights are handled by Diogenes.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Film rights are available.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Solomonica de Winter’s books
                                                                                                                           Photo: © Linelle Deunk / Diogenes Verlag

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      have been published in 4 languages.

                     solomonica de winter was born in Bloemendaal near Amsterdam
                     in 1997. After several years in Los Angeles, she is now living back with
                     her family in Bloemendaal, where she attended the International School.
                     A well-travelled cosmopolitan, she studied in Israel, Italy and the USA.
                     Her debut, Over the Rainbow, received overwhelming acclaim from the
                     press. Solomonica de Winter writes in English.
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          »A great rhythm, beautiful sentences, atmosphere:
                     a joyful cultural experience.«                                                                                                                                                                              Stefanie vor Schulte
                                   Thomas Andre / Hamburger Abendblatt                                                                                                                                                           Snakes in the Garden

                                            Stefanie vor Schulte Junge mit schwarzem Hahn
›Mara Cassens Prize‹ 2021 (winner)                                                                                                                Rights sold:                                                  Stefanie vor Schulte’s new novel, following
›Das Debüt‹ prize 2021 (shortlisted)                                                                                                     French (Héloïse d'Ormesson)                                            her prize-winning debut and booksellers`
                                                                                                                                                                                                                favourite Boy with a Black Rooster: A book

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Stefanie vor Schulte Schlangen im Garten
    ›Rauris Prize of Literature‹                                                                                                             Italian (Mondadori)
        2022 (shortlisted)                                                                                                                      Serbian (Plato)                                                 about compassion and being there for
                                                                                                   Stefanie                                Spanish/MX (Seix Barral)
                                                                                                 vor Schulte                                                                                                    other people – and about how our world
   ›Festival du premier roman‹
   Chambéry 2022 (nominated)
                                                                                                  Junge mit
                                                                                              schwarzem Hahn
                                                                                                                                                                                                                often lets us down on that score.
                                                                                                   Roman · Diogenes
                                                                                                                                                                                                                About how we all stumble sometimes but
                                                                                                                                                                                                                are lifted up by others. A story of hope
                                                                                            Boy with a Black Rooster                                                                                            and tenacity.
                                                                                                  Novel, 2021

                                                                                                                                                                                                                A mother dies, and her family are accused
                                                                                                                                                                                                                of wallowing in their grief. Life must go on,
      »Stefanie vor Schulte’s debut novel,                                                                             »Stefanie vor Schulte's novel is full
                                                                                                                                                                                                                say the Mohns’ neighbours, and the
    Boy with Black Rooster, is an engrossing                                                                          of poetic power and with a language
     and enchanting fairy tale for adults,                                                                                 characterized by images.«                                                            Mourning Bureau agrees. But they don't
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Stefanie
      offering readers some ideal (post-)
             pandemic escapism.«
                                                                                                                                   HR Kultur, Frankfurt                                                         want to move on – not her partner Adam.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                Nor Linne, furious with the world. Nor
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  vor Schulte
              New Books in German, London
                                                                                                                             »And – this is important –
                                                                                                                                                                                                                Steve, a student who has come back home.                                                           Schlangen
                                                                                                                        she has proven that for this there                                                      Nor Micha, the youngest. They want to                                                              im Garten
        »A ray of light in gloomy times,                                                                               exists a language filled with poetry,                                                    hold onto Johanne – not just in their own                                                            Roman · Diogenes
    beautifully narrated and extraordinarily                                                                                     wit and courage.«                                                              memories, but through countless stories
                   touching.«                                                                                            Rose-Maria Gropp / Frankfurter Allgemeine                                              that may not be entirely true to life …
            Dagmar Kaindl / Buchkultur, Vienna                                                                                      Zeitung, Frankfurt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Novel
       »Stefanie vor Schulte has presented                                                                                 »Stefanie vor Schulte’s novel                                                                                                                                                         240 pages, September 2022
         an enigmatic debut of peculiar                                                                               demonstrates that it takes the wisdom
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      »Summer in the city is surprising
                     beauty.«                                                                                           of a child to understand cruelty.«
                                                                                                                                                                                                                     yet fundamentally to be expected.
                                                                                                                       Hannah Küppers / Sächsische Zeitung, Dresden
            Meike Schnitzler / Brigitte, Hamburg                                                                                                                                                                            Rather like death.«
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Stefanie vor Schulte                                                         World rights are handled by Diogenes.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Film rights are available.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Stefanie vor Schulte’s books
                                                                                                                                                                       Photo: Gene Glover / © Diogenes Verlag

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           have been published in 5 languages.

                           stefanie vor schulte, born in Hanover in 1974, studied Theatre
                           and Costume Design. She lives in Marburg with her husband and four
                           children. Her first novel Boy with a Black Rooster was awarded the 2021
                           ›Mara Cassens Prize‹ for the best German-language debut.
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                                              »A humourist who dips his pen in spite,
                                                    with Gogol’s blessing.«                                                                                                                                                                                                              Andrej Kurkow
                                                                                          L’Express, Paris                                                                                                                                                                             Samson and Nadezhda

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                                                                               • Ein Freund des Verblichenen
                                                                                                                                                 Andrej                                                                                                                By the author of Death and the Penguin and
                       Andrej                                                                                                                    Kurkow
                      Kurkow
                      Picknick
                                                            Andrej
                                                           Kurkow
                                                                                                                   Andrej
                                                                                                                  Kurkow
                                                                                                                                                Pinguine
                                                                                                                                              frieren nicht                                           Andrej                                                           Grey Bees.
                     auf dem Eis                          Petrowitsch                                            Ein Freund                                                                           Kurkow

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Andrej Kurkow Samson und Nadjeschda
                                                                                                                     des                                                                          Die letzte Liebe
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       The first book in a new crime series, humor-

                                                                                       Andrej Kurkow
                                                                                                                Verblichenen                                                                      des Präsidenten
                       Roman · Diogenes                     Roman · Diogenes                                      Roman · Diogenes             Roman · Diogenes                                       Roman · Diogenes

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       ous and heartfelt.
                   Death and the                       The Good Angel                                           A Matter of                  Penguin Lost                                         The President’s
                     Penguin                              of Death                                             Death and Life                Novel, 2003                                            Last Love                                                          Kyiv, 1919. Samson investigates a puzzling
                    Novel, 1999                          Novel, 2000                                            Novel, 2001                                                                        Novel, 2005                                                         case of theft and murder – and loses his
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       heart to a young comrade.
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                                                                                                                                                                     Andrej Kurkow Graue Bienen
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Soviet Ukraine in the early years – an era of
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       danger and turmoil, when the rules are
                                                                                                                                                                                                      Andrej
                                                                                                                                                                                                     Kurkow
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       changing on a daily basis.
• Herbstfeuer

                                                                                                               Andrej Kurkow                 Andrej Kurkow                                         Graue Bienen
                       Andrej                            Andrej Kurkow                                          Der Gärtner
                                                         Der Milchmann                                         von Otschakow                  Jimi Hendrix
                      Kurkow                                                                                                                 live in Lemberg
                                                          in der Nacht
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       In the tumultuous wake of the Russian
   Andrej Kurkow

                     Herbstfeuer
                                                                                                                                                                                                      Roman · Diogenes
                     Erzählungen · Diogenes                 Roman · Diogenes                                      Roman · Diogenes              Roman · Diogenes

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Revolution, the young, recently orphaned
                      Bonfire
                   Stories, 2007
                                                         The Milkman
                                                         in the Night
                                                                                                               The Gardener
                                                                                                                of Ochakov
                                                                                                                                             Jimi Hendrix
                                                                                                                                              Live in Lviv
                                                                                                                                                                                                   Grey Bees
                                                                                                                                                                                                   Novel, 2019
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Samson finds himself almost accidentally                                                  Andrej Kurkow
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       signed up to the new Soviet police force in
                                                         Novel, 2009                                            Novel, 2012                  Novel, 2014
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Kyiv. His first case is a perplexing mystery
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Samson und
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       involving a severed ear, a bone made of                                                    Nadjeschda
  »If anyone is seeking macabre but                                                                                                        »Andrej Kurkow is a master                                                                                                                                                                                                      Kriminalroman
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       pure silver and a decidedly unusual suit tai-
sympathetic insights into the opaque                                                                                                  of the subordinate clause – so laconic                                                                                                                                                                                                 Diogenes
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       lored from fine English cloth. Luckily,
  world of post-Soviet politics, then                                                                                                      that one would even read a
 Andrej Kurkow's novels are probably                                                                                                    lawnmower instruction manual if                                                                                                Samson meets the ingenious Nadezhda,
   one of the best places to start.«                                                                                                         it were written by him.«                                                                                                  who aids him in his investigation.
Judy Dempsey / International Herald Tribune, Paris                                                                                                         Die Welt, Berlin                                                                                                                                                                                                     Novel
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Original Russian title: Samson i Nadežda
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       368 pages, August 2022

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       »An ironic lightness of touch, black humour
                   »One of the most wonderful                                                                                            »The ordinariness of the absurd
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        and an intuitive grasp of the pragmatism
               literary surprises of recent years.«                                                                                  triumphantly emphasises the grotesque
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        of ordinary people forced to live through
                                              Le Soir, Brussels                                                                              nature of the reality.«
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       difficult times – these have always been the                                          World rights are handled by Diogenes
                                                                                                                                                       Spectator, London
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           hallmarks of Andrej Kurkow’s prose.«                                                except Russian and Ukrainian.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Photo: © Pako Mera /Opale /Bridgeman Images

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Deutschlandradio, Berlin                                                      Film rights are available.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Rights sold:                                                              Andrej Kurkow’s books
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             have been published in 39 languages.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   English/UK (MacLehose)
                                                   andrej kurkow, born in St. Petersburg in 1961, has lived in Kyiv since child-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      French (Liana Levi)
                                                   hood and writes in Russian. He studied foreign languages (he is fluent in eleven
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Greek (Kastaniotis)
                                                   languages), was a newspaper editor and, during his military service, a prison
                                                   guard. Afterwards, he became a cameraman and wrote numerous screenplays.                                                                                                                                                       Spanish/world (Alfaguara)
                                                   His novel Death and the Penguin was a worldwide success. He has been a free-                                                                                                                                                 Russian original publisher: Folio
                                                   lance author since 1996 and also works in radio and television.                                                                                                                                                                     Ukrainian (Folio)
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                                                                                                                                               Arno Camenisch
The world had changed. It was January, and I was on
                                                                                                                                                  The World
the terrace outside my apartment, gazing out across the
lake. A strong wind was gusting that morning. It came
from the east, and I held a cup of coffee in my hand.                                                             Following such bestsellers as The Shadow
                                                                                                                  Over the Village and The Last Snow: the
I was wearing a thick coat and had no idea what was                                                               intimate new novel by the bestselling Swiss

                                                                                                                                                                        Arno Camenisch Die Welt
coming. Everything was uncertain; the world was                                                                   author.
in upheaval. I was nearly forty-four, mid-life. I liked                                                           In his ingenious and poetic new novel,
January, and I especially liked the clarity of January                                                            Arno Camenisch weaves together the jour-
                                                                                                                  neys he has made, the people he has loved,
days. Only in January were they this clear. I huddled                                                             and the different phases of his life – but
my coat tighter around my neck, and when I closed                                                                 the story he tells is about us all.

my eyes the lake sounded like the sea, and I thought                                                              A book about departures and arrivals, about
                                                                                                                  new beginnings and final scenes, and a love
of Santiago, of his aged face and young eyes, of the way
                                                                                                                  letter to the world and to humanity.
he’d stood by the shore and looked out across the sea,
after eighty-four days without catching a thing, and                                                              Life – and seemingly the whole world – is at
then set sail. I saw him stand there by the sea and saw                                                           a standstill. Yet could that be the hint of a
                                                                                                                                                                                                             Arno
him climb into the boat and glide across the water.
                                                                                                                  new beginning drifting in across the lake?
                                                                                                                  The narrator is standing on the terrace of his
                                                                                                                                                                                                           Camenisch
The old man in that boat would never return; someone                                                              apartment, watching a boat glide across the                                               Die Welt
else would. And I thought back to 2003, the year that                                                             water, and his mind begins to wander – back                                                 Roman · Diogenes
                                                                                                                  into the past, and to the people dear to his
everything changed.                                                                                               heart. Where did he get the courage to keep
                                                                                                                  letting go and starting anew? It always began
It had all started, however, two years earlier, in the summer                                                     with a sense of being constricted, with curi-                                                     Novel
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of 2001. We had survived Y2K and emerged into the new                                                             osity about the world, with a journey …
millennium fit and well, if a little hungover, contrary to
various experts who had predicted the end of the world.
                                                                                                                         »Camenisch writes unique                                                   World rights are handled by Diogenes.
                                                                                                                    and wonderful prose that finds its own                                                Film rights are available.
                                                                                                                        rhythm and its own poetry.«
                                                                                                                         Angelo Algieri, Die Berliner Literaturkritik                             Arno Camenisch’s work has been published
                                                                                                                                                                                                         in more than 20 languages.
                                                                                                                              »His prose is refreshing,
           arno camenisch, born and raised in Tavanasa in the Swiss canton of
           Grisons in 1978, studied at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel. In 2009,                                      like crisp mountain air.«                                                   Application for translation
                                                                                          Photo: © Janosch Abel

           Engeler Verlag published his first novel, The Alp, which was followed                                           Thomas Lee, The Manchester Review                                          support possible with Pro Helvetia.
           by eleven more books. His work has been translated into more than twenty
           languages, and his readings have taken him across the world, from
           Hong Kong to Moscow and Buenos Aires to New York. In March 2015,                                                    »A powerful author.«
           he released the documentary Arno Camenisch – Writing on the Edge.                                                          Die Welt, Berlin
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»Rare linguistic splendour and striking narrative virtuosity.«
                                             Andreas Isenschmid / NZZ am Sonntag, Zurich
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Charles Lewinsky
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                                            Charles                                                                                           Lewinsky                                                                                                                                                                                                      Louis Chabos does not know who his father
                                           Lewinsky                                                                                            Melnitz
                                          Johannistag                                                                                                                                                                                      Charles                                                                                                          is. And he won’t rest until he finds out.
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                                            Roman · Diogenes
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Roman · Diogenes                                                                                                 An odyssey through war-torn Europe: from
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Napoleonic Milan to Russia and a Swiss
                                       Midsummer’s Day                                                                                   Melnitz                                                                                      Gerron
                                       Novel, 2000 / 2021                                                                            Novel, 2006 / 2021                                                                           Novel, 2011 / 2021                                                                                                        mountain village to Paris.

                                                                                                                                     ›Prix du meilleur                                                                ›German Book Prize‹                                                                                                                   A novel about the all-consuming need to
                                                                                                                                      livre étranger‹                                                                  2014 (nominated)                                                                                                                     know where we come from – the new
                                                                                                                                      2008 (winner)                                                                          ›Swiss Book Prize‹                                                                                                             literary masterstroke by the author whose
                                                                                                                                                                                                                             2011 (nominated)                                                                                                               Halfbeard was nominated for the 2020
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            German and Swiss Book Prizes.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Louis Chabos grew up in a children’s home
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            in Milan. After his battlefield experiences
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            during Napoleon’s Russian campaign, he
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            wants only one thing: to settle down to a                                                     Charles
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Eine Spurensuche                                             comfortable life at long last and build a
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            family. In Grisons, in eastern Switzerland,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Sein Sohn
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            he finds the small piece of happiness he has
               Kastelau                                                                   The Stutterer                                                                                                Halfbeard                                                                           Is that You?
            Novel, 2014 / 2021                                                             Novel, 2019                                                                                                 Novel, 2020                                                                       Non-Fiction, 2021                                                  hoped for. But he squanders it when his
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Roman · Diogenes
                                                                                                                                                                                              ›Swiss Book Prize‹                                                                                                                                            desperate urge to track down his unknown
                                                                                                                                                                                              2020 (nominated)                                                                                                                                              father lures him to Paris, where he seeks his
                                                                                                                                                                      ›German Book Prize‹                                                                                                                                                                   destiny amid the splendour and the misery.
                                                                                                                                                                       2020 (nominated)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Novel
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           »Lewinsky has a deft feel for drama; you get the impression he has a field day
              setting the readers on one track and then drawing them onto another.«                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               »A wise and eloquent novelist.«
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Alexander Kissler / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
                                                                                                     Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 World rights are handled by Diogenes.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Film rights are available.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 »Above all, though, the tradition,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Photo: Maurice Haas / © Diogenes Verlag

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                the storytelling itself is always part                                                Charles Lewinsky’s books
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 of the narrative; this is the allure                                            have been published in 15 languages.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   of the multi-layered works.«
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Peter Zander / Berliner Morgenpost                                              Application for translation
                                          charles lewinsky, born in Zurich in 1946, has been a freelance writer since                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              support possible with Pro Helvetia.
                                          1980. He won international renown with his novel Melnitz, which was awarded
                                          numerous prizes, including the French ›Prix du meilleur livre étranger‹. His most
                                          recent novel Halfbeard was nominated for the Swiss and German Book Prizes.
                                          Charles Lewinsky lives in Vereux (France) in summer, and in Zurich in winter.
FICTION

»Krien is masterful when it comes to letting her characters’
        everyday lives illuminate the big questions.«                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Daniela Krien
                                                         Richart Kämmerlings / Welt am Sonntag, Berlin                                                                                                                                                                                          Someday We’ll Tell
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Each Other Everything
    Daniela Krien Muldental

                                                                        Daniela Krien Die Liebe im Ernstfall

                                                                                                                                                                     Daniela Krien Der Brand
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               A bestseller, acclaimed by critics and readers
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               alike.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Daniela Krien Irgendwann werden wir uns alles erzählen
                                                                                                                                                 r                                                                               r
                                                      ller                                                                                stselle                                                                         stselle
                                                Bestse                                                                              # 1 Be                                                                          # 1 Be                                                     Winner of the ›Nicolas Born Debut Prize‹ 2015.
                                                                                                               Daniela Krien
                                Daniela Krien
                                 Muldental
                                                                                                                 Die Liebe                                                                     Daniela Krien                                                                   A film adaptation is in production, directed
                                                                                                                im Ernstfall                                                                    Der Brand
                                     Diogenes                                                                    Roman · Diogenes                                                                Roman · Diogenes                                                              by Emily Atef (3 Days in Quiberon).

                                  Muldental                             Love in Case of Emergency                                                                                                The Fire                                                                      It’s the kind of love that sweeps Maria off
                              Stories, 2014/2020                                Novel, 2019                                                                                                     Novel, 2021
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               her feet – and into the arms of a man who’s
To be published in 3 languages                                     To be published in 30 languages                                                              To be published in 9 languages                                                                                 more than twice her age and hiding a dark
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               secret. In the stifling hot summer of 1990,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               as world history holds its breath, a country
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               stands on the brink of radical upheaval and
       »And there it is again – love –                                                                                                »Daniela Krien’s books possess an
   and the question of what consistency                                                                                             immense feel for contemporary voices.«                                                                                                     the atmosphere fizzes with possibility, a
       it actually has. Krien depicts
              it masterfully.«
                                                                                                                                                       Knut Cordsen / BR24, Munich                                                                                             young girl becomes a woman and a lover.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Daniela Krien
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               What happens next shakes everything to its
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Irgendwann
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               core – inside and out – and the two lovers’
                              Katrin Schumacher / MDR Kultur, Leipzig
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                werden wir uns
                                                                                                                                    »The author adeptly turns an unsparing                                                                                                     fatal entanglement comes to a brutal end.                                                                        alles erzählen
                                                                                                                                       gaze on the simple, the succinct,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Roman · Diogenes
       »›Knowledge of human nature                                                                                                    on that which is wordlessly endured                                                                                                        »This deceptively elegant story reveals
   and the wisdom of life‹ – yes, that may                                                                                           in a marriage, and captures it within                                                                                                      great emotional and cultural upheaval.«
       be the secret of Daniela Krien’s                                                                                                           language.«                                                                                                                                Kirkus Reviews, New York
     literature. A knowledge of human                                                                                                               Nora Zukker / Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich
    nature and a wisdom that’s reflected                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Novel
                 in her style.«                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      »A candid tale of raw passion,                                                                        First published by Graf, Munich in 2011
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 256 pages, December 2022
         Rainer Moritz / Laudatory speech ›Saxonian Prize                                                                                                                                                                                                                        whose essence and timelessness shines
                                                                                                                                       »Her style is clear and unadorned.                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Movie Adaptation
                        for Literature‹ 2020                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           through the spare prose.«
                                                                                                                                      And yet her language is never banal;                                                                                                                Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich
                                                                                                                                         it is always artfully literary.«
                                                                                                                                                     Anke Jahns / NDR Kultur, Hamburg
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Rights currently sold:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         World rights are handled by Diogenes.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Arabic (Al-Arabi)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Film rights are sold.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Photo: Maurice Haas / © Diogenes Verlag

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Danish (Arvids)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           English/UK (MacLehose)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Spanish/world (Salamandra)                                                                             Daniela Krien’s books
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Thai (Library House)                                                                        have been published in 30 languages.
                                                     daniela krien, born in Neu-Kaliß, Germany, in 1975, studied communication,
                                                     media, and cultural studies in Leipzig. Since 2010 she has been a freelance writer.
                                                     Her debut novel Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything has been published
                                                     in 18 languages. Her novels Love in Case of Emergency and The Fire were on
                                                     the bestseller list for months and have been translated into numerous languages.
                                                     Daniela Krien lives in Leipzig with her two daughters.
FICTION

                                    »A virtuoso of the historical novel.«
                                                Charles Linsmayer / NZZ am Sonntag, Zurich
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Lukas Hartmann
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            They call him a ›hothead‹ and her a ›hys-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            teric‹ – Fritz Platten and Sabina Spielrein.
• Pestalozzis Berg

                           Lukas
                         Hartmann                           • Die Seuche                              Lukas                                                                                                           Lukas

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Lukas Hartmann Ins Unbekannte
                                                                                                    Hartmann                                     Lukas                                                               Hartmann
                         Pestalozzis
                            Berg                                                                    Die Seuche
                                                                                                                                               Hartmann
                                                                                                                                              Bis ans Ende
                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Finsteres                                                                              Two passionate people yearning for a new
     Lukas Hartmann

                                                                          Lukas Hartmann

                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Glück
                                                                                                                                               der Meere
                           Roman · Diogenes                                                          Roman · Diogenes                           Roman · Diogenes   Bestse
                                                                                                                                                                          ller
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Roman · Diogenes           Bestse
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         ller
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            life: A dual portrait of a political revolution-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            ary and a female pioneer of psychoanalysis,
                        Pestalozzi’s                                                              The Plague                                  To the End                                                             Dark Bliss
                         Mountain                                                                 Novel, 2009                                  of the Sea                                                           Novel, 2010
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            whose colourful lives reflect the hopes and
                        Novel, 2009                                                                                                           Novel, 2009                                                                                                                                                   tragedies of the twentieth century

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Sabina has come to Zurich from Russia to
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            be treated by Dr. Carl Gustav Jung at the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            University Psychiatric Clinic – and
                                                                                                                                                 Lukas                                                                                                                                                      becomes his lover.
                                                            • Konvoi

                           Lukas                                                                                                               Hartmann                                                                Lukas
                          Hartmann                                                                    Lukas                                                                                                          Hartmann
                                                                                                    Hartmann                                    Abschied

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Lukas
                         Räuberleben                                                                                                                                                                                    Auf
                                                                          Lukas Hartmann

                                                                                                    Der Konvoi                                von Sansibar
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    beiden Seiten
                                              Bestse
                                                     ller
                                                                                                                                                                   Bestse
                                                                                                                                                                          ller
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Bestse
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         ller
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Fritz, a carpenter’s son, dreams of building
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Hartmann
                          Roman · Diogenes                                                           Roman · Diogenes                           Roman · Diogenes                                                       Roman · Diogenes

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            a better society. He pushes Switzerland to
                       A Robber’s Life                                                             The Convoy                                  Goodbye                                                             On Both Sides
                         Novel, 2012                                                               Novel, 2013                                to Zanzibar
                                                                                                                                              Novel, 2013
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Novel, 2015                                                                             the brink of revolution, and later in Russia
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            he saves Lenin’s life.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Ins Unbekannte
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Die Geschichte von
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Sabina und Fritz

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Sabina and Fritz are courageous, torn, full                                                  Roman · Diogenes
                                                                                                                                                                                     Lukas Hartmann Schattentanz
                                                            Lukas Hartmann Ein Bild von Lydia

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            of contradictions; both ceaseless breakers
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            of new ground. Their paths interweave and
                            Lukas
                         Hartmann                                                                     Lukas                                                                                                                                                                                                 mirror one another – even as they slip away
                        Ein passender                                                               Hartmann                                     Lukas                                                                 Lukas
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Story of Sabina and Fritz
                            Mieter                                                                   Ein Bild
                                                                                                    von Lydia
                                                                                                                                               Hartmann                                                              Hartmann
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Schattentanz                                                                            into the darkness of European history.
                                                     ller                                                                      ller
                                                                                                                                               Der Sänger
                                                                                                                                                                              ller
                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Die Wege des Louis Soutter
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         ller
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Novel
                                              Bestse                                                                    Bestse                                            stse                                                                    Bestse
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                           Roman · Diogenes                                                          Roman · Diogenes                           Roman · Diogenes                                                        Roman · Diogenes

                      A Suitable Tenant                                                         A Picture of Lydia                            The Singer                                                           Shadow Dance
                         Novel, 2016                                                               Novel, 2018                                Novel, 2019                                                            Novel, 2021
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               »Lukas Hartmann knows how to write
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     history in a way that puts
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               World rights are handled by Diogenes.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  the present in a different light.«
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Film rights are available.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Augsburger Allgemeine
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Photo: Lukas Lienhard / © Diogenes Verlag

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Lukas Hartmann’s books
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               have been published in 17 languages.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Application for translation
                                         lukas hartmann, born in Berne in 1944, studied German
                                         and psychology. He was a teacher, journalist and media consultant.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      support possible with Pro Helvetia.
                                         Today, he is a freelance writer living in Berne, writing books for
                                         adults and children. He is one of Switzerland’s best-known authors
                                         and his novels regularly feature on the bestseller lists.
FICTION

                                                        »The fragile elegance of his style is unmatched
                                                                 in contemporary literature.«                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Hartmut Lange
                                                                            Werner Fuld / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung                                                                                                                                                                                                                         At the Oslo Fjord or The Stranger
                                                                                 ›Gerhart Hauptmann Award‹ 1968
                                                                              ›Konrad Adenauer Literature Award‹ 1998
                                                                                      ›Italo Svevo Award‹ 2003

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Hartmut Lange has long been acknow­
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                ledged as a master of subtly describing
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                »imperceptibly approaching shadows«.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Hartmut Lange Am Osloer Fjord oder der Fremde
 Hartmut Lange Die Waldsteinsonate

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Stories that disturb us, turning our percep-
                                                                                                                          Hartmut
                                                                                                                           Lange                                                                                                                                                                                                                tions on their head. Terse, enigmatic, ironi-
                                                                                                                        Der Wanderer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                cally relentless.
                                        Hartmut Lange                         Hartmut                                                                                                                                  Hartmut
                                        Die Waldstein-                         Lange                                                                                                                                    Lange                                                        Hartmut Lange
                                            sonate                          Leptis Magna                                                                                                                                 Der                                                          Der Abgrund
                                            Fünf Novellen
                                                                               Zwei Novellen
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Therapeut                                                      des Endlichen
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Drei Novellen                                                    Drei Novellen

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A viral plague that could destroy humanity:
                                             Diogenes                            Diogenes                                 Novelle · Diogenes                                                                             Diogenes                                                         Diogenes

                                       The ›Waldstein‹                     Leptis Magna                                The Wanderer                                                                            The Therapist                                                          The Abyss                                                 but isn’t it already under threat from a far
                                           Sonata                        Two Novellas, 2003                            Novella, 2005                                                                        Three Novellas, 2007                                                     of the Finite
                                     Five Novellas, 1984                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Three Novellas, 2009
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                worse enemy? What is it that audiences
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                admire about seeing a consumptive depict-
›Prix de la littérature                                                  ›LiteraTour Nord‹
    traduite‹ 1989                                                          Award 2004
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                ed on the operatic stage, or an absinth-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                drinker in a museum? What happens when
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                nature attacks a monument that humanity
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Hartmut
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                has erected to itself? A book about parting,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Lange
                                                                                                                                      Hartmut Lange An der Prorer Wiek und anderswo

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Hartmut Lange Der Lichthof

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                and the experience of wounds that refuse
                                                                                                                                                                                         Hartmut Lange                                                                                                                                          to heal – and about the stumbling stones in                                                             Am Osloer Fjord
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        oder der Fremde
                                                                                                                                                                                        An der Prorer Wiek
                                                             Hartmut                                                                                                                      und anderswo
                                                              Lange                               Hartmut
                                                                                                   Lange
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Hartmut
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Lange
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                our own minds.
                                                            Im Museum                                                                                                                                                                                              Der Lichthof
                                                                                               Das Haus in der
                                                                                               Dorotheenstraße
                                                                                                                                                                                           Novellen · Diogenes                                                        Diogenes
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Diogenes
                                                              Diogenes                           Novellen ⋅ Diogenes

                                                       In the Museum                           The House on                                                                           On the Prorer Wiek                                                         The Courtyard
                                                     Weird Episodes, 2011                    Dorothea Street                                                                           and Elsewhere                                                             Novellas, 2020
                                                                                            Five Novellas, 2013                                                                        Novellas, 2018
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   »At a time when existential questions
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   have become so urgent, having been                                                                              Novellas
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    repressed for so long, Lange’s books                                                                    96 pages, October 2022
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         are immensely relevant.«
                                       »The master of linguistic stringency.«                                                                                                               »One feels reminded of the plays
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Peter Henning / Der Spiegel, Hamburg
                                          Kristina Maidt-Zinke / Süddeutsche Zeitung,                                                                                                        by Maeterlinck and Wedekind.«
                                                            Munich                                                                                                                                               Alain Bosquet / Le Figaro, Paris
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       »Hartmut Lange has a talent                                                                  World rights are handled by Diogenes.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     for inventing characters in brief                                                                    Film rights are available.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      sketches, building atmosphere
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   and tension and suggesting a hidden                                                                    Hartmut Lange’s books
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Photo: © Hans-Christian Plambeck/laif

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       secret beneath what is told.«
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    have been published in 9 languages.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Michael Lentz (German author)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 »A minimalist with far-reaching effect.«
                                                                         hartmut lange, born in Berlin in 1937, studied theatrical production.                                                                                                                                                                                                       Hans-Christian Kosler / Neue Zürcher Zeitung
                                                                         He has been honoured with several awards for his plays, essays and prose.
                                                                         His most recent publication is the novella collection The Courtyard
                                                                         (2020). He lives and writes in Berlin.
FICTION

»Still the most original crime writer in the German language.«
                                             Christel Freitag / NDR Kultur, Hamburg
                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Ingrid Noll
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Tea Time
                                                 A selection of her best novels:

                                                                                                                                                                                          Six young women confess their secret idio-
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                                                                                                                                                                                          syncrasies and found the ›Nutters’ Club‹.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Ingrid Noll Tea Time
                                                                                                                                                                                          Six screwball women and a man out for
                                                                                                                                                                                          revenge: someone’s getting wasted. Fertile
                                                                                                                                                                                          ground for the Queen of Crime's flourishing
                                                  Ingrid Noll                                                              Ingrid Noll
              Ingrid Noll
               Der Hahn
                                                  Die Häupter                   Ingrid Noll
                                                                                    Die                                     Kalt ist der                                                  imagination.
                                                    meiner                                                                 Abendhauch
                 ist tot                            Lieben                      Apothekerin
               Roman · Diogenes                    Roman · Diogenes               Roman · Diogenes                           Roman · Diogenes
                                                                                                                                                                                          Friends Nina and Franziska live in the
               Hell Hath                          Head Count                   The Pharmacist                                Cold is the
                                                                                                                                                                                          same building on the market square in a
                No Fury                           Novel, 1993                    Novel, 1994                              Evening's Breeze                                                small town in southwest Germany. In a fit
              Novel, 1991                        Movie Adaptation               Movie Adaptation                            Novel, 1996
              TV Adaptation                                                                                                Movie Adaptation                                               of champagne-induced enthusiasm, they
                                                                                                                                                                                          and four other women found the ›Nutters’
                                                                                                                                                                                          Club‹, based on the idea that there is some-
                                                                                                                                                                                          thing odd about each one of them.
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                                                                                                                                                                                          When Nina loses her handbag, she makes                                        Ingrid Noll
              Ingrid Noll                                                       Ingrid Noll                                 Ingrid Noll
                                                                                                                                                                                          the fateful acquaintance of Andreas Haase.
                                                                                                                                                                                          Not satisfied with the usual finder’s fee, he
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Tea Time
                Selige                            Ingrid Noll                       Der                                       Halali
                Witwen                                                          Mittagstisch
                                                 Hab und Gier                                                                                                                             wants more – and Nina will need to rely on
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Roman · Diogenes
                                                                                                                                                                                          her best friend more than ever before.
               Roman · Diogenes                                                                                              Roman · Diogenes
                                                    Roman · Diogenes              Roman · Diogenes

               Blissfully                          Till Greed                   Lunchtime                                   Tally-Ho
               Widowed                            Do Us Part                    Novel, 2015                                Novel, 2017
              Novel, 2001                         Novel, 2014
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Novel
                                                                                                                                                                                                »Ingrid Noll has truly mastered                                        304 pages, September 2022
                                                                                                                                                                                               the art of the comic crime novel.«
                                         All titles on the Spiegel Bestseller List                                                                                                                   Ulli Wagner / SR3, Saarbrücken
                                              5 cinema and TV adaptations

                                                                                                                                                                                                  »Ingrid Noll is often referred                                 World rights are handled by Diogenes.
                                                                                                                                                                                               to as Germany's ›Queen of Crime‹,                                       Film rights are available.
                                                                                                                                                                                                and she fully deserves this title.«
                                                                                                                                                                                                      The Sunday Times, London
                                                                                                                                                Photo: Renate Barth / © Diogenes Verlag

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Ingrid Noll’s books
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 have been published in 28 languages.

                                  ingrid noll, born in Shanghai in 1935, studied German philology and art
                                  history in Bonn. She has three children and four grandchildren. After her
                                  children left home, she began writing crime stories, which all became instant
                                  bestsellers. In 2005 she received the ›Glauser Prize of Honour‹ for her oeuvre.
FICTION

   »One of the 10 best modern European crime writers.«
                                                                                      Brian Oliver / The Observer, London
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Petros Markaris
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Conspiracy
Petros Markaris' novels are regulars on the bestseller lists in Greece, Italy (Il Corriere
           della Sera), Spain (La Vanguardia), and Germany (Spiegel).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               The latest case for Costas Haritos is a pan-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               demic crime novel from award-winning,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               internationally bestselling author Petros

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Petros Markaris Verschwörung
                               Petros
                              Markaris                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Petros
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Markaris
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Markaris. A novel about resistance, then
                               Hellas                                                                                                                                                                 Petros
                              Channel
                                  Ein Fall für                                                             Petros
                                                                                                                                                                                                     Markaris
                                                                                                                                                                                                       Live!
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Der Groß-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                aktionär                                                                                                                                       and now.
                                 Kostas Charitos
                                                                                                          Markaris                                                                                          Ein Fall für                                                                       Ein Fall für Kostas Charitos
                                                                                                         Nachtfalter                                                                                      Kostas Charitos
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            eller
                                                                                                                 Ein Fall für
                                                                                                               Kostas Charitos
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Bests
                              Roman · Diogenes                                                            Roman · Diogenes                                                                               Roman · Diogenes                                                                           Roman · Diogenes

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Athens during the pandemic. The shops
                           Deadline                                                                   Zone Defence                                                                                   Live!                                                                                    The Major                                                                                                                                        are shut and many people have been
                           in Athens                                                                   Novel, 2001                                                                                Novel, 2004                                                                                Shareholder
                          Novel, 2000                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Novel, 2007                                                                                                                                       pushed to the brink, so it’s hardly surpris-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               ing that even the elderly are taking their
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               own lives. Yet when Costas Haritos hears
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Petros
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               that a ninety-year-old has written ›Long
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               live the Suicide Movement!‹ in his note,                                               Markaris
                             Petros                                                                       Petros
                                                                                                         Markaris
                                                                                                                                                                                                      Petros
                                                                                                                                                                                                     Markaris
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Petros
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Markaris
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               his ears prick up. Is there more to his                                              Verschwörung
                            Markaris
                         Die Kinderfrau                                                                Faule Kredite
                                                                                                                Ein Fall für
                                                                                                                                                                                                     Zahltag
                                                                                                                                                                                                           Ein Fall für
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Abrechnung
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Ein Fall für
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Kostas Charitos
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               actions than just despair? Haritos investi-                                              Ein Fall für Kostas Charitos
                                                                                                                                                                   eller                                                                                        eller                                                                                    eller
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               gates – and gets to know the city of
                            Ein Fall für Kostas Charitos
                                                                                                                                                              Bests                                                                                       Bests                                                                                    Bests
                                                                                                              Kostas Charitos                                                                            Kostas Charitos

                                 Roman · Diogenes                                                         Roman · Diogenes                                                                           Roman · Diogenes                                                                            Roman · Diogenes

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Athens and its inhabitants’ spirit of resist-
                          The Nanny                                                                    Bad Credit                                                                                  Payday                                                                                    Reckoning
                          Novel, 2009                                                                  Novel, 2011                                                                                Novel, 2012                                                                                Novel, 2013
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               ance in a whole new light.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Roman · Diogenes

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      »A writer of Mediterranean Noir
                                            Petros Markaris Offshore

                                                                                                                        Petros Markaris Ferienbekanntschaft

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Petros Markaris Zeiten der Heuchelei

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Petros Markaris Das Lied des Geldes

                         Bests
                               eller                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              in its most sublime and classy sense.«
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             La Repubblica, Rome
                                                                                                      Bests
                                                                                                           eller                                                   Petros                                                                                                                        eller                                                                                    eller                                                                                                                                        A Case for Costas Haritos
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                                                                                                                                                                 Markaris
       Petros                                                                                                                                                   Drei Grazien                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Original Greek title: To kinima tis aftoktonias
      Markaris                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Petros                                                                                   Petros
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         352 pages, August 2022
                                                                                                                                                                  Ein Fall für Kostas Charitos

       Zurück                                                             Petros                                                                                                                                                                              Markaris                                                                                 Markaris
      auf Start                                                          Markaris                                                                                                                                                                               Zeiten                                                                                 Das Lied
         Ein Fall für                                                    Offshore                                                                                                                     eller                                                 der Heuchelei                                                                             des Geldes
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      Roman · Diogenes                                                    Roman · Diogenes                                                                            Roman · Diogenes                                                                            Roman · Diogenes                                                                       Roman · Diogenes

  Back to the Start                                                     Offshore                                                                               Three Graces                                                                              Times of Hypocrisy                                                                   The Melody of Money
    Novel, 2015                                                        Novel, 2017                                                                              Novel, 2018                                                                                 Novel, 2020                                                                           Novel, 2021                                                                                                                                                                 World rights are handled by Diogenes
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          except Greek.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Film rights are available.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Photo: © Regine Mosimann / Diogenes Verlag

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Petros Markaris’ books
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              have been published in 17 languages.
                                                           petros markaris, born in Istanbul in 1937, is a playwright, who worked as an
                                                           author with Theo Angelopoulos (director of Eternity and a Day, Ulysses’ Gaze
                                                           etc.), and translated the works of German dramatists like Brecht and Goethe.
                                                           He began writing crime novels late in life, in the mid-1990s, and became an interna-
                                                           tional success. His accolades include the ›Pepe Carvalho Prize‹, the ›Goethe
                                                           Medal‹ and an honorary doctorate from the University of Thessaloniki. Petros
                                                           Markaris lives in Athens.
Food for thought:                                                                       Narrative Non-Fiction
                                                                                                                  DORIS
                                         24427

                                                                               DORIS DÖRRIE DIE HELDIN REIST

                                                                                                                                               WAS BLEIBT, WENN WIR STERBEN
                                                   THOMAS
                                                   MEYER                                                         DÖRRIE                                                                         LOUISE BROWN

                                                                                                                  DIE HELDIN REIST
                                                                                                                                                                                     WAS
                                                                                                                                                                                      BLEIBT
                                                                                                                                                                                            WENN WIR STERBEN

                                                       TRENNT                                                                                                                                                                         Friedrich

                                                                                                                                               LOUISE BROWN
                                                       EUCH!                                                                                                                                                                          Dönhoff
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Ein gutes Leben ist
                                                                                                                                                                                 ERFAHRUNGEN EINER TRAUERREDNERIN

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                die beste Antwort
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Die Geschichte des Jerry Rosenstein

                                                       Diogenes                                                         DIOGENES                                                            DIOGENES                                        Diogenes

                                                 Thomas Meyer                 Doris Dörrie                                                                                    Louise Brown                                Friedrich Dönhoff
                                                   Break Up!              The Heroine’s Journey                                                                               What Memories                                    Living Well
                                                    Essay, 2018                                                 Non-Fiction, 2022                                              Are Made Of                                Is the Best Revenge
                                                                                                                                                                               Non-Fiction, 2021                      The Story of Jerry Rosenstein, 2014
      A book about incompatible                                          Heroes have to set out into the big
  relationships and their well-earned                                 wide world and have adventures in order                                 After the death of her parents,                                           A book about a man who will
endings. Thomas Meyer’s controversial                                  to become heroes – otherwise there’d                                the journalist Louise Brown tries to                                         not let anyone keep him down:
polemic: »Four out of five relationships                               be no story. But what about heroines?                             extract something meaningful from the                                        neither as a German Jew in Europe
    ought to be ended right away.«                                                                                                        finitude of life. She becomes a funeral                                      nor as a homosexual in America.
                                                                                                                                          orator, and a witness to what remains
                                                                                                                                                    of us when we die.

                                                  ULRICH WEBER
     ULRICH WEBER FRIEDRICH DÜRRENMATT

                                                                                                                                               24606
                                                                            Jörg Fauser Marlon Brando

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Dalai Lama
                                                                                                                  Jörg Fauser                                                    Malte Herwig                                      Mitgefühl
                                                   FRIEDRICH                                                       Marlon Brando                                                 Françoise Gilot                                     und
                                                                                                                                                                                 Die Frau, die Nein sagt
                                                  DÜRRENMATT                                                    Der versilberte Rebell                                            Ihr Leben mit und ohne Picasso
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Weisheit
                                                    EINE BIOGRAPHIE                                                   Eine Biographie                                                                                                 Ein Gespräch mit
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Felizitas von Schönborn
                                                                                                                        Diogenes                                                            Diogenes
                                                        DIOGENES
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Diogenes

        Ulrich Weber                                                          Jörg Fauser                                                      Malte Herwig                                                                   Dalai Lama
    Friedrich Dürrenmatt                                                    Marlon Brando.                                                The Woman Who Says No                                                             Path of Wisdom,
                                                  Biography, 2020        The Silver-Plated Rebel                                                                              Biography, 2015/2021                           Path of Peace
                                                                                                               Biography, 1978/2020                                                                                   A Conversation With Felizitas von
       Ulrich Weber tells the story                                                                                                          Françoise Gilot on her life with                                                Schönborn, 2004
 of Dürrenmatt’s life (including his love                             Fauser and Brando – two ruptured souls                             and without Pablo Picasso. She was the
of astronomy, physics, painting, football                               united by more than just their ability                              only woman to ever leave Picasso,                                           Based on her in-depth, first-hand
   and dogs), the genesis of his works                                to getting back up when knocked down.                                and to him she remained a mystery.                                        conversations, Felizitas von Schönborn
and of the cosmic mind, whose probing                                                                                                          Françoise Gilot is a painter,                                        has been able to bring together the views
      questions accompany us well                                                                                                                 a truth-seeker, a rebel.                                             and core values of the Dalai Lama
          into the 21st century.                                                                                                                                                                                            and Tibetan Buddhism.
NON-FICTION

                                                                                                                                                         Shelly Kupferberg
My great-great-uncle was a dandy. His name was Isidor.
                                                                                                                                                               Isidor
Or Innozenz. Or Ignaz. Well, actually, it was Israel. But
this name revealed too much. Hence Isidor or Innozenz
or Ignaz. He was an upstart, an eccentric, a parvenu,                                                                               Shelly Kupferberg recounts the meteoric
                                                                                                                                    rise and brutal fall of her great-great-uncle.
a multi-millionaire, an occasional impostor, a man of action

                                                                                                                                                                                     Shelly Kupferberg Isidor
                                                                                                                                    Isidor and those around him – the story of
and of the world; he was stubborn and very proud. How                                                                               a fascinating Jewish family. A moving nar-
else do you explain his rise from the deepest, most impove-                                                                         rative non-fiction debut.
rished recesses of Galicia in Eastern Europe to the imperial                                                                        Dr. Isidor Geller has made it: he is a highly
metropolis of Vienna, where he became a prominent                                                                                   respected business man, an advisor to the
figure in the business community and an economic advisor                                                                            Austrian government, a multi-millionaire,
                                                                                                                                    an opera lover, art collector and, after two
to the Austrian government? How else could he have                                                                                  failed marriages, is in a relationship with a
clawed his way from Lokutni – Lokutni near Tlumach,                                                                                 beautiful singer. He has come a long way:
Tlumach near Kolomyia, Kolomyia near Lviv – so inexo-                                                                               from a shtetl in the furthest, most impover-
rably to the top? Until the day came when people like                                                                               ished recesses of Galicia to the most elite
                                                                                                                                    circles of Viennese society.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Shelly
him were marked for annihilation.                                                                                                                                                                                      Kupferberg
Isidor. Who was he? Where did his relentless urge to advan-
                                                                                                                                    No one can touch him now, Isidor is sure                                             Isidor
                                                                                                                                    of that – and certainly not those vulgar                                              Ein jüdisches Leben

ce himself in life originate? What shaped him? Who shaped                                                                           National Socialists.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Diogenes
him? Where did his family come from, what did they do,
                                                                                                                                    But in 1938, everything changes from one
what shaped them – and what paths did they take?                                                                                    day to the next.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            A Jewish Life
Isidor. It is his story, and that of those around him – pieced                                                                                                                                                               Non-Fiction
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       256 pages, October 2022
together from fragments, research, documents and interge-
nerational lore – that is the subject of this book.                                                                                  »In 1938, the Nazis in Vienna drove Uncle
                                                                                                                                        Isidor to his death. Nearly a hundred
                                                                                                                                      years later, his great-grandniece brings
                                                                                                                                                                                                                World rights are handled by Diogenes.
                                                                                                                                       this colourful man and his world to life
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Film rights are available.
                                                                                                                                                 in this moving book.«
                                                                                        Photo: Heike Steinweg / © Diogenes Verlag

                                                                                                                                                      Donna Leon

           shelly kupferberg, born in Tel Aviv in 1974, grew up in West Berlin
           and studied journalism, theatre and music. She works as a journalist
           and presenter for Deutschlandfunk Kultur and RBB Kultur, and often hosts
           at readings with German and international authors. Shelly Kupferberg lives
           with her family in Berlin.
NON-FICTION

         More and more species are going extinct –
        and now Homo sapiens is disappearing too.                                  Nadja Niemeyer
                                                                                    Counterattack

The downfall of humanity began with a cat video.           A pamphlet against human hubris, a plea
                                                           for greater natural diversity, and a dark and
People thought the animals in it were cute, and the        furious vision of the future. Bottomless,

                                                                                                           Bernhard Schlink Die Enkelin
recording was shared millions of times via social          savage, funny – and deeply urgent.

networks. By the time the first few viewers began          For everybody who loves this planet – and is
                                                           committed to its survival.
to grasp the significance of the video, it was too late.
Raincoats don’t help against a tsunami.                    The more globalised the world becomes,
                                                           the more vulnerable we are as human
The end of humanity began in January 2034, and             beings. Homo sapiens knows this, and yet
within a few years it was a done deal.                     still we carry on as always. We eat too
                                                           much meat, we use pesticides, we drive cars
Sure, a few individual specimens continued to eke          every day. But one day all those cute kit-
out a hardscrabble existence, a bit like the last white    ties, good-natured cattle and shy squirrels
                                                           will launch a counterattack. Things will
rhinoceroses, but the fact is that by 2038 the genus       start happening very fast – and before long
                                                                                                                                           Nadja Niemeyer
Homo sapiens was largely extinct, or had at least lost     it will all be over. No more fun, no more                                       GEGEN
its position as the dominant species once and for all.     day-to-day craziness, no more human
                                                           beings.                                                                            ANGRIFF
Its disappearance marked the apex of mass extinctions                                                                                      Ein Pamphlet                   Diogenes

during the Anthropocene, but at the same time it kick­
started a much-needed period of healing for the planet.
                                                                                                                                                        A Pamphlet
                                                                                                                                                   176 pages, June 2022

                                                                                                                                          World rights are handled by Diogenes.
                                                                                                                                                Film rights are available.
Nadja Niemeyer is not the author’s real
name. She has chosen a pseudonym to
avoid having to take part in public debates.
She is serious about her concerns and has
nothing to add to this book.
NON-FICTION

   »Brunetti's humane police work is disarming,
  and his ambles through the city are a delight.«                                                                                                                                         Donna Leon
  Donna Leon Milde Gaben
                                                          New York Times Book Review                                                                                                   A Tale of One’s Own

                                                                                                                                                                    Where did Donna Leon get her name? What
                                                                           ›Lifetime Achievement Award‹ 2019                                                        did she do for a living before she began
                                                                                 by The Strand Magazine                                                             turning words into narratives? And what is

                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Donna Leon Ein Leben in Geschichten
                               Donna Leon                                                                                                                           life like when your imagination has a crimi-
                               Milde Gaben
                                 Commissario Brunettis
                                                                                                                                                                    nal bent?
                                 einunddreißigster Fall

                                                                                                                                                                    A personal book, and a biography in adven-
                                  Roman · Diogenes

                                                                             »This book is classic Leon: Brunetti
                                                                                                                                                                    tures on the world-famous author’s 80th
                              Give Unto Others
                                                                                  is less focused on any actual
                                                                             crime than on figuring out whether                                                     birthday: wonderful episodes of Donna’s life.
                           The 31st case, June 2022
                                                                                some other unknown crime has
                                                                           been committed, whether he himself                                                       Donna Leon has led an adventurous life,
    A Sunday Times Bestseller                                                is doing something wrong by using                                                      and with her tell-tale knack for observation,
   A New York Times Bestseller                                                 official resources on an unofficial                                                  she turns her experiences in America, Iran,
                                                                              investigation, whether the ends of
                               Rights sold:                                finding information he needs justifies
                                                                                                                                                                    Saudi Arabia, Italy (of course) and
        Catalan (Grup 62)                                                    Signorina Elettra's shadowy means                                                      Switzerland into a captivating read. She                                                     Donna Leon
      Dutch (De Bezige Bij)                                                     of procuring it[...] Still the next
                                                                               best thing to moving to Venice.«
                                                                                                                                                                    takes us on a journey around the world,
                                                                                                                                                                    from growing up on a farm, to curfew
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Ein Leben
English/UK (William Heinemann)
  English/US (Grove/Atlantic)                                                        Kirkus Reviews, New York                                                       pajama parties in Iran, financial straits, and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                in Geschichten
     French (Calmann-Lévy)                                                                                                                                          a Fiat 600. And we join Donna as she
      Polish (Noir sur Blanc)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Diogenes
                                                                                                                                                                    arrives in Italy as a chaperone, as she hunts
  Spanish/world (Seix Barral)
                                                                           »Another moving meditation on the                                                        for the perfect cappuccino, and as she
                                                                             vagaries of human relationships                                                        encounters small marvels in the mountains.
                                                                          posing as a mystery novel. There is no
                                                                              ambiguity about the unalloyed                                                                                                                                                             Non-Fiction
                                                                         affection millions of readers feel toward                                                                                                                                               160 pages, September 2022
                                                                          Guido Brunetti, one of crime fiction’s
                                                                               most popular protagonists.«
                                                                                                                                                                              »There is no worse crime
                                                                                 Booklist (starred review), New York
                                                                                                                                                                              than not having loved.«
                                                                                                                                                                                      Donna Leon                                                           World rights are handled by Diogenes.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Donna Leon’s books
                                                                                                                       Photo: © Regine Mosimann / Diogenes Verlag

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           have been published in 35 languages.

                                      donna leon, born in New Jersey in 1942, has worked as a travel guide
                                      in Rome and as a copywriter in London. She taught literature in universities
                                      in Iran, China, and Saudi Arabia. Commissario Brunetti made her books
                                      world-famous. Donna Leon lived in Italy for many years, and although
                                      she now lives in Switzerland, she often visits Venice.
NON-FICTION

                                                                                »Whatever he wrote left its mark.«
                                                                                                                                                                   Der Spiegel, Hamburg
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Jörg Fauser
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        You Just Cling On
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       to What You’ve Got

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Jörg Fauser Kant
                                                                                                                                                                            Jörg Fauser Der Schneemann
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Fauser writes to his parents – a unique tes-
  Jörg Fauser                                                                      Jörg Fauser                                                                                                            Jörg Fauser                                              Jörg Fauser                                                          Jörg Fauser
     Rohstoff                                                                           Das                                                                                                               Der Schneemann                                                 Kant                                                             Rohstoff                             tament in a new, expanded and uncensored
                                                                                   Schlangenmaul                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Elements
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               edition that includes facsimiles of letters

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Jörg Fauser Ich habe eine Mordswut
    Roman · Diogenes                                                                 Roman · Diogenes                                                                                                        Roman · Diogenes                                       Erzählung · Diogenes                                                   Diogenes

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               and postcards.
 Raw Material                                                                   The Snake Mouth                                                                                                           The Snowman                                                 Kant                                                            Raw Material –
Novel, 1984/2019                                                                Novel, 1985/2019                                                                                                         Novel, 1981/2020                                          Story, 2021                                                           Elements                              Compiled and edited by Peter Graf, with an
                                                                                                                                                                                                          Movie Adaptation                                                                                                            Early Prose and                          afterword by Ronja von Rönne.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Poems, 2019

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               At the age of twelve, he was fulminating
            Jörg Fauser Ich habe große Städte gesehen

                                                                                                           Jörg Fauser Alles muss ganz anders werden

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               about a writer in a letter to his father.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Before he even turned fourteen, he raved
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               about a young SPD party member while
                                                          Jörg Fauser                                                                                    Jörg Fauser                                                             Jörg Fauser                                                                  Jörg Fauser
                                                          Ich habe große
                                                          Städte gesehen
                                                                                                                                                           Alles muss
                                                                                                                                                       ganz anders werden
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Das Weiße im Auge
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Erzählungen 1980 – 87
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Caliban Berlin
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Kolumnen 1980 – 84
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               discussing a meeting of the federal parlia-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               ment: ›Helmut Schmidt from Hamburg!
                                                               Die Gedichte                                                                                   Erzählungen 1975 – 79

                                                                                                                                                                   Diogenes                                                             Diogenes                                                                     Diogenes

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Jörg Fauser
                                                                Diogenes

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               He was brilliant! Captivating!‹
                  I Have Seen Big Cities                                                                                                  Everything Must Be                                                               The White of the Eye                                                              Caliban Berlin
                 Poems, 1974-1979, 2019                                                                                                  Completely Different
                                                                                                                                           Stories and Prose,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Stories, 2021                                                                 Columns, 2019
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Each letter reveals a new facet of Jörg                                               Man hängt halt so
                                                                                                                                                  2020
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Fauser: far-sighted observer, passionate                                             an dem, was man hat
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               writer, incorruptible journalist and loving                                                  Briefe an die Eltern
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Jörg Fauser Die Tournee
                                                                                               Jörg Fauser Der Klub, in dem wir alle spielen
                      Jörg Fauser Marlon Brando

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               and rebellious son.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Diogenes

                                                          Jörg Fauser                                                                                    Jörg Fauser                                                             Jörg Fauser                                                                  Jörg Fauser
                                                           Marlon Brando                                                                                 Der Klub, in dem                                                       Carl Weissner                                                                  Die Tournee
                                                        Der versilberte Rebell
                                                              Eine Biographie
                                                                                                                                                          wir alle spielen
                                                                                                                                                         Über den Zustand der Literatur
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Eine Freundschaft
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Briefe 1971 – 87
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Roman aus dem Nachlass
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Rage
                                                                Diogenes                                                                                           Diogenes                                                            Diogenes                                                                      Diogenes                                                                                                                                                   Non-Fiction
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         256 pages, November 2022
                          Marlon Brando.                                                                                                               The Club We All                                                          A Friendship                                                                   The Tour                                                        »I’ll be there next Thursday evening, unless
                      The Silver-Plated Rebel                                                                                                              Play In                                                              Letters, 2021                                                               Novel, 2007/2022
                       Biography, 1978/2020                                                                                                              Essays and                                                                                                                                                                                                                advised otherwise. Fare (ten marks is
                                                                                                                                                        Reviews, 2020                                                                                                                                                                                                            enough) would be gratefully received.«
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Jörg Fauser                                                     World rights are handled by Diogenes.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Film rights are available.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                »He had something of the beatnik about
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Jörg Fauser’s books
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 him, but also an element of aristocratic
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Englishness. [. . .] You’ll be amazed at how                                        have been published in 9 languages.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         fresh his writing feels.«
                                                                                jörg fauser (1944–1987) was born near Frankfurt. After dropping out of                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Michael Köhlmeier / rbb, Berlin
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Photo: Fauser Archiv

                                                                                university, he spent some years living in Istanbul and London, making a living
                                                                                in office jobs, as an airport worker and night watchman, among other things.
                                                                                In 1974, he switched to writing. His novels, poems, newspaper articles and
                                                                                short stories occupy an exceptional position in German literature. Jörg Fauser
                                                                                died in an accident on a motorway near Munich on the night after his birthday.
CHILDREN’S BOOK

                                                                                                                                            Micha Lewinsky
                                                                                                                                            Holly in Heaven
Holly was flying. She could hardly believe it. She was
flying through the air, just like that. It really was extra-
ordinary.                                                                                                          Heaven: it’s buzzing up there.

Holly had only flown once before. In a plane. With her                                                             A madcap, playful and philosophical adven-
                                                                                                                   ture that deals with some of children’s most
parents, when her parents still wanted to fly in planes                                                            pressing questions.
together. They’d let her have some chewing gum to help                                                             A story that will take the hearts of children
her ears pop, and Timi, her little brother, had cried                                                              and parents by storm. A book that stands
because he wanted some too. Holly’s dad had tried to                                                               comparison with the most beautiful chil-
                                                                                                                   dren's books in world literature, perfectly
act like the family with the screaming kid had nothing                                                             complemented by Lawrence Grimm’s illus-
to do with him. And then Holly’s mum had tried to act                                                              trations.

like Holly’s dad had nothing to do with her. In the end,
                                                                                                                   When Holly arrives in heaven, it turns out
Holly had stuck the gum under her seat.                                                                            her life is far from over: there’s a lot going
                                                                                                                   on in the other world. The place is packed
That had been special. But not outright extraordinary.                                                             with people and animals, but amid the
Not as especially extraordinary as this right now.                                                                 crowds she meets Frida, who has been
Because right now, Holly was flying without any plane                                                              there for a hundred years and knows her
                                                                                                                   way around.
at all. She just flew. Like an angel, only without wings.
Because she wasn’t an angel. Holly was still a totally                                                             Together they set off towards the School for
ordinary girl.                                                                                                     Angels. Because, as Frida explains, if you’re       With illustrations by Lawrence Grimm
                                                                                                                   an angel you can go back down to Earth.                         Children’s Book
                                                                                                                   Holly is desperate to see how her family is       208 pages, 13.4 x 19.5 cm, September 2022

                                                                                                                   doing. There’s only one problem: ever since
                                                                                                                   Bortel has been in charge of heaven, the
                                                                                                                   school has been closed and the connection
                                                                                                                   to Earth has been severed.                       World rights are handled by Diogenes.
                                                                                                                                                                          Film rights are available.

           micha lewinsky, born in Kassel in 1972, is a screenwriter and film director,
                                                                                          Photo: © Doris Fanconi

           with projects including The Friend (›Swiss Film Prize‹), Will You Marry Us?
           and One-Way to Moscow. He also produced Earworms, catchy songs for chil-
           dren that have found their way into virtually every Swiss child’s room.
           Lewinsky is currently working on a new feature film. He lives in Zurich with
           his two children.
CHILDREN’S BOOK

»Andrej Kurkow knows how to make a story
       entertaining and amusing.«
                                                                                                                                        Andrej Kurkow / Tania Goryushina
     Judith Leister / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung                                                                                     Hedgehog and the Present Puzzle

                                                                      Rights sold:                                                     Getting in the mood for autumn in the
               Tania Goryushina                   Andrej Kurkow
                                                                  Croatian (Božičević)                                                 forest: the little hedgehog and the grey
                                                                   French (Borealia)                                                   mouse prepare for the cosiest season of the
                                                                   Russian (Pionier)                                                   year.
                                                                  Swedish (Tyanachu)
                                                                  Ukrainian (Bohdan)                                                   Follows on from the heart-warming tale
                                                                                                                                       that was awarded the 2021 ›LovelyBooks
                                                                                                                                       Readers’ Prize.‹

                                                                                                                                       The little hedgehog is back! In the autumn
                                                                                                                                       he likes sunbathing on a hill and watching
                                                                                                                                       the people in the village. When he returns
                 Warum den Igel                                                                                                        to his treestump house, he finds three bags
                     keiner                                                                                                            full of little apples – but what he thinks is a
                   streichelt                                                                                                          gift from the grey mouse soon turns out to
                                  DI OG E N E S                                                                                        be the red squirrel’s stockpile of food for
                                                                                                                                       the winter. Still, that doesn’t matter,
                 Why Nobody Strokes Hedgehogs                                                                                          because the forest has plenty of gifts to go
                        Children’s Book                                                                                                around. A celebration of autumn colours
                  36 pages, 20.5 x 28 cm, 2021
                                                                                                                                       and a homage to friendship.
                                                                                                                                                                                          Original edition published by Bohdan, Kyiv
           2021 ›LovelyBooks Readers’ Prize‹
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Children’s Book
                                                                                                                                                                                            36 pages, 20.5 x 28 cm, October 2022

                                                                                                                                                                                          World rights are handled by Diogenes
                                                                                                                                                                                         except Russian, Swedish and Ukrainian.
                                                                                                                                                                                                Film rights are available.
                                                                                         Photo: © Pako Mera /Opale /Bridgeman Images

              andrej kurkow, born in St. Petersburg in 1961, has lived
              in Kyiv since childhood. His novel Death and the Penguin was
                                                                                         Photo: © Pierre Helgesson

              a worldwide success. He has been a freelance author since
              1996 and also works in radio and television. He writes in Russian.
              tania goryushina, born in Kyiv in 1978, is a Ukrainian artist
              based in Stockholm. She is a publisher, teacher, and illustrator.
              She runs a micropublishing company working on art projects
              and winning commissions to decorate public spaces.
CHILDREN’S BOOK

Meyer & Meyer put up a riot in children’s book with ingenious
           rhymes and wonderful illustrations.                                                                                                                                                              Timon Meyer / Julian Meyer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                Oodles of Poodles
                                              30'000 copies sold

                                                                                                                                                                                                       Do birds move in herds?
                                                                                                                                                                                                       Who lives in a shoal?
                                                                                                                                                                                                       How’s life in a group?
                                                                                                                                                                                                       Who does what in which troop?

                                                                                                                                                                                                       Timon and Julian Meyer shake up the animal
Bear & Hippo on Holiday       Bear & Hippo in the Snow      Bear & Hippo Celebrate                                                                   Bear ♥ Hippo
  26 pages, 18 x 15 cm          24 pages, 18 x 15 cm              a Birthday                                                                     Children’s Book, 2022                                 kingdom, showing young readers the differ-
         2020                           2020                  24 pages, 18 x 15 cm                                                                                                                     ent ways animal families live together.
                                                                     2021
                                                                                                                                                                                                       Have fun with rhymes while learning!

                                                                                                                                                                                                       Litter, covey, pack, horde? Clear as day –
                                                                                                                                   Das große Knuddeln                                                  or as mud? Then this is the picture book

                                                                                TIMON MEYER / JULIAN MEYER · DAS GROSSE KNUDDELN
                                                                                                                                   Timon Meyer              Julian Meyer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Children’s Book
                                                                                                                                                                                                       you need to become an expert on the               32 pages, 24 x 17 cm, October 2022
                                                                                                                                                                                                       animal world. It’s also incredibly funny:
                                                                                                                                                                                                       where else do you get to see a paddling of
                                                                                                                                                 DIOGENES
                                                                                                                                                                                                       ducks driving some trucks or a shrewdness
                                                                                                                                                                                                       of apes and giraffes sharing grapes? The      World rights are handled by Diogenes.
           Not Today                Rolf Bugles             Paul’s Garden                                                                  The Big Cuddle
       32 pages, 19 x 25 cm     32 pages, 19 x 25 cm     32 pages, 19 x 25 cm                                                           48 pages, 30  x 25 cm                                          reader is given a tour of the animal world,         Film rights are available.
              2020                     2020                      2021                                                                           2021
                                                                                                                                                                                                       learning all its crooked, unexpected con-
                                                                                                                                                                                                       nections – with pitch-perfect rhymes and
                                            Praise for Not Today:                                                                                                                                      fabulous illustrations.

     »But it gives strength, and lends                              »›So maybe tomorrow, then?‹
     courage to hopeless, lonely days.                          Timon and Julian Meyer keep asking,                                                                                                          If a field mouse gets bored
    That’s why this book now belongs –                               hitting the nail on the head.                                                                                                          then same goes for the horde.
     and indeed, always will belong –                            Yes, tomorrow the world might look
              in every home.«                                              quite different.«
      Maria Riederer / Deutschlandfunk, Cologne                   Judith von Sternburg / Frankfurter Rundschau
                                                                                                                                                                                                               But a colony of beavers
                                                                                                                                                                                                               is full of overachievers.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                In a cauldron of bats,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                hang on to your hats.

                                      timon meyer, born near Stuttgart in 1977, is a freelance author                                                                                                         Why a murder of crows?
                                                                                                                                                                           Photo: © Kaya Wielopolski
                                                                                                                                                                           Photo: © Nikolaus Urban

                                      and artist who lives with his family in Queens, New York. Above
                                      all else, he loves writing for children.
                                                                                                                                                                                                               Well, nobody knows.
                                      julian meyer, born in Lower Saxony in 1983, was a carpenter
                                      before going on to study illustration in Münster. He has worked
                                      as a freelance illustrator since 2017. Julian Meyer has a daughter
                                      and lives in Hamburg.
CHILDREN’S BOOK

       »Tatjana Hauptmann is a pure stroke of good fortune.«
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Kurt Bracharz / Tatjana Hauptmann
                                                                                      Lorenz Jaeger / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                How the Mole Nearly Won the Lottery

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            30'000 copies sold.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Das große Märchenbuch
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Die hundert schönsten Märchen aus ganz Europa,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            gesammelt von Christian Strich, mit vielen Bildern von Tatjana Hauptmann

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Diogenes
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Das große Sagenbuch
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Die schönsten Götter-, Helden- und Rittersagen des Mittelalters
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          nacherzählt von Johannes Carstensen, mit vielen Bildern von Tatjana Hauptmann
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               An exciting story revolving around a few
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               wrong letters on which a lottery win of
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          DiogenesVerlag

                                    A Day in the Life of                                                 Hurray for Peregrine Pig                                                                                                                   The Great Book                                                                                                                       The Great Book
                                       Petronella Pig                                                    32 pages, 31.8 x 28.5 cm                                                                                                                     of Fairy-Tales                                                                                                                       of Legends                                                                                                                                                          100'000 earthworms depended. If only the
                                  32 pages, 31.8 x 28.5 cm                                                        1979                                                                                                                            672 pages, 22 x 27 cm                                                                                                               240 pages, 11.3 x 18 cm
                                            1978                                                                                                                                                                                                          1987                                                                                                                                 1992                                                                                                                                                            pig hadn't got such terrible trotters…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    »Written with velvet-pawed irony
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Anton Čechov
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               and wonderfully gentle comedy, and loving-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Kaschtanka
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                und andere Kindergeschichten
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Ausgewählt und übersetzt von
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 ly illustrated by Tatjana Hauptmann.«
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Peter Urban

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Katrin Behrend / Abendzeitung, Munich
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Mit Zeichnungen von
           Ein Geräusch, wie wenn einer versucht,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Tatjana Hauptmann
                 kein Geräusch zu machen                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Diogenes
     Eine Geschichte von   John Irving, mit vielen Bildern von Tatjana Hauptmann

                                       Diogenes

      A Sound Like                                                                 How the Mole Nearly                                                                              Adelheid Goes                                                                                                                   Kashtanka                                                                                                                                                      The Adventures
    Someone Trying                                                                   Won the Lottery                                                                                to the Opera                                                                                                              Text by Anton Čechov                                                                                                                                                 of Tom Sawyer
  Not to Make a Sound                                                              Text by Kurt Bracharz                                                                        32 pages, 22 x 27.5 cm                                                                                                              160 pages,                                                                                                                                                  and Huckleberry Finn                                                                   »Tatjana Hauptmann's fine
   Text by John Irving                                                                   64 pages,                                                                                      2004                                                                                                                      14.3 x 21.3 cm                                                                                                                                                 Text by Mark Twain                                                               and unmistakable line drawings bring
       40 pages,                                                                       14.3 x 21.3 cm                                                                                                                                                                                                                  2004                                                                                                                                                        336 pages/480
     27.5 x 25.2 cm                                                                        2003                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 pages, 14.3 x 21.3 cm,                                                              Kurt Bracharz's imaginative story
          2003                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          2004                                                                          lovingly and playfully to life.«
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Stuttgarter Zeitung
       Die schönsten
        Geschichten
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Tatjana Hauptmann / James Matthew Barrie Peter Pan

                                                                                            All die
    ausTausendundeiner                                                                 verschwundenen
                                                                                                                     Theodor Storm / Tatjana Hauptmann · Der kleine Häwelmann

           Nacht                                                                            Dinge
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    »Tatjana Hauptmann has retained
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Eine Geschichte von
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      James Matthew Barrie
                          Erzählt von Urs Widmer
                Mit vielen Bildern von Tatjana Hauptmann
                                                                                          Eine Geschichte von                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Mit Bildern von
                                Diogenes
                                                                                           Lukas Hartmann                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Tatjana Hauptmann
                                                                                            Mit Bildern von

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 a dreamy playfulness and a sense of vital
                                                                                          Tatjana Hauptmann

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    naivety. Both qualities are reflected                               First published in 1983
                                                                                                                                                                                       Der kleine Häwelmann
                                                                                                                                                                                Ein Märchen von   Theodor Storm, mit vielen Bildern von Tatjana Hauptmann
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Das große Balladenbuch
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Die schönsten deutschen Balladen, gesammelt von Christian Strich
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               in her drawings and account for her success                                  Children's Book
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               64 pages, 14.3 x 21.3 cm, September 2022
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Mit Bildern von Tatjana Hauptmann

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            a                                               Diogenes                                                                                                                                           Diogenes

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  with children as well as young-at-heart
                                                                                              Diogenes                                                                                                           Diogenes

The Most Beautiful Tales                                                            All the Missing                       Little John                                                                                                                                                        The Great Book                                                                                                      Tatjana Hauptmann /
  from Arabian Nights                                                                    Things                     Text by Theodor Storm                                                                                                                                                       of Ballads                                                                                                             J.M. Barrie
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  adults.«
   Text by Urs Widmer                                                                    Text by                           40 pages,                                                                                                                                                       152 pages, 22 x 27 cm                                                                                                       Peter Pan                                                                                                                                                Stern, Hamburg
 144 pages, 22 x 27 cm                                                             Lukas Hartmann                        27.5 x 25.2 cm                                                                                                                                                            2016                                                                                                        208 pages, 22.5 x 27.5 cm,
          2008                                                                         96 pages,                              2011                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        2016
                                                                                     14.3 x 21.3 cm
                                                                                          2011
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             World rights are handled by Diogenes.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Film rights are available.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            How the Mole Nearly Won the Lottery has
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Photo: © Regine Mosimann/Diogenes Verlag

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                been published in 8 languages.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Photo: © Kurt Bracharz

                                                                                   tatjana hauptmann was born in 1950 in Wiesbaden and lives near
                                                                                   Zurich. She is the author and illustrator of numerous children’s books,
                                                                                   including A Day in the Life of Petronella Pig, which received numerous                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               kurt bracharz, born in Bregenz in 1947, worked as a teacher
                                                                                   awards, including in 2018 the 37th ›Premio Andersen Award‹, category                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 in Austria. He also worked for newspapers and the radio from 1972
                                                                                   ›best book ever‹.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    on. Kurt Bracharz passed away in 2020.
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