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FOREIGN RIGHTS CATALOGUE
Fall 2021
Anne Gesthuysen
We Are, After All, Somebody
The story of two strong but dissimilar sisters
A young female pastor who shakes up her parish, the
upbringing of two dissimilar sisters in aristocratic circles and
the courage it takes to shape one's own life when everything
seems predetermined - this is the new novel by bestseller
author Anne Gesthuysen.
The citizens of the community of Alpen are sceptical when
Anna von Betteray takes over from the pastor, who is ill.
After all, she is divorced, blue-blooded, in her mid-thirties
much too young for the position and, last but not least, a
woman. The only man at her side: her dog Freddy.
While Anna tries to come to terms with a dark chapter of her
past and carefully modernises the parish, her sister Maria's life
is completely disrupted. Her husband is arrested, and shortly
afterwards her son disappears.
• Kiepenheuer & Witsch
Maria was the exemplary daughter in the eyes of their status-
• Novel
conscious mother, who was crowned queen at shooting
• Hardcover
parties and married a count, while Anna played in the stables
• 320 pages
with dirty trousers and fell in love with the wrong men. It is
• November 2021
only in times of need that the sisters overcome their
• World Rights Available
differences - and receive support from a surprising source.
Because when it comes to finding a little boy, everybody
sticks together.
In her new novel, Anne Gesthuysen tells with incomparable
wit, great warmth of heart and sensitivity about a family that
first has to lose itself in order to find itself.
Anne Gesthuysen studied
journalism and Romance studies.
From 2002 she presented the
"ARD-Morgenmagazin". She gave
up these night shifts after the great
success of her first novel in order
to write more books.
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Katja Lewina
He's Up For It
Men and sex
What's wrong with men? What do they really want? To
find out, you need guys who speak plainly. And Katja
Lewina, who talks to them about their masculinity, about
their lust and their bedtime stories, their complexes and
fears.
What role do socialisation and social expectations play in
this? And above all: what does it take to finally free men
from the nasty clutches of patriarchy?
Katja Lewina notes: Yes, being a man is not easy. But why
chase after norms that put men under pressure and rob
them of the freedom to be the person they really are?
Women cannot fight for the end of patriarchy alone. That
is why it is high time for this book, which shatters • Dumont
stereotypes and points out alternatives. Shame-free, • Nonfiction
approachable and humorous. • Hardcover
• 220 pages
• August 2021
• "Fortunately for us, there are authors like Lewina!" - • World Rights Available
ELLE
• "A lot can be gained from Katja Lewina" - Die
Wienerin
• "Katja Lewina entertainingly shows how role clichés
have made us sexually miserable." BRIGITTE
Katja Lewina was born in Moscow
and studied Slavic studies, literature
and religious studies. She worked as a
freelance editor and in ar tist
management. Today she is a freelance
author for well-known German media.
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Volker Klüpfel & Michael Kobr
Tomorrow, Klufti, We'll Get
Something
Christmas at the Kluftingers
Christmas at Kluftingers' home means Erika's home-
baked biscuits, Kluftinger's annual battle with the
Christmas tree and, above all, many cherished traditions.
However, these traditions are thoroughly disrupted when
a spontaneous visitor from Japan arrives and Erika falls
off the ladder two days before Christmas Eve. So
Inspector Kluftinger is left on his own to prepare for the
festivities.
No easy task, as his Japanese visitor expects nothing less
than the ultimate Allgäu Christmas experience. And so the
• Ullstein
disaster takes its course ...
• Novel
• Hardcover
• September 2021
• Germany's most successful author duo
• 144 pages
• Total print run of Klüpfel & Kobr' books: 7.5 million copies • World Rights Available
• 24 Christmas disasters with the German cult inspector
Kluftinger
Volker Klüpfel and
Michael Kobr have been
friends since their school
days. They write the
Chief Inspector
Kluftinger bestsellers as a
team - five of these have
also been made into
films..
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Rocko Schamoni
The Hunter and His Master
Schamoni approaches with sensitivity and
humour the legendary artist Heino Jaeger
In the sixties, Joska Pintschovius meets the eccentric Heino
Jaeger while working at the Helms Museum. Joska soon
recognises his new friend as a highly acclaimed artist and
voice imitator. He introduces Heino Jaeger to Hamburg's
bubbling scene, gets him a radio show, protects him.
Jaeger gets worshipped as "master" but in the end, he burns
up because of his mental vulnerability.
The combination of genius and madness fascinates the
narrator Schamoni, who shows himself more personal and
vulnerable than ever before in his exploration of this
unbridled life beyond bourgeois moral concepts.
• "Rocko Schamoni is a true universal genius across all art • hanserblau
forms."- Brigitte • Novel
• Hardcover
• "Jaeger is a great, important piece of German cultural • August 2021
history that this country has completely ignored." OLLI • 288 pages
DITTRICH • World Rights Available
• "How could it happen that Heino Jaeger remained an
insider tip for 25 years?" LORIOT
Rocko Schamoni is a musician,
an author, a theatre director and
an entertainer. He is also a
member of the comedy
ensemble Studio Braun. Rocko
Schamoni lives in Hamburg.
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Heinrich Steinfest
Amsterdam Novella
Amsterdam, a fateful love affair and a photo
that didn't even exist yet
The "Amsterdam Novella", short, pointed and fast-paced,
ends as it begins, with a photograph: it shows Roy Paulsen
from Cologne where he cannot be, in Amsterdam. He has
never been there, and yet we see him cycling along a canal.
Paulsen could dismiss this picture as a curious story of
mistaken identity. But that's exactly what he doesn't do -
Paulsen goes to Amsterdam and sets out to find the house
that can be seen behind the cyclist. And gets into a deadly
confrontation that turns his life in a new direction - towards
the very moment of the photo.
• A literary gem • Piper Verlag
• Novella
• Hardcover
• Linguistic wit, suspense and philosophical pitfalls • September 2021
• 112 pages
• "Steinfest writes the most amusing and intelligent • World Rights Available
literature of our time." Denis Scheck
Heinrich Steinfest invented
the detective Cheng and is the
author of numerous novels for
which he received, among
o t h e r s, t h e H e i m i t o vo n
Doderer Literary Award and the
Bavarian Book Prize.
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Selected Backlist:
Karsten Dusse
Murder Mindfully - Series
I. Murder Mindfully
II. My Inner Child Wants to Murder Mindfully
III. Murder Mindfully at the Edge of the World
A mixture of black-humoured crime novel and guidebook. In the novels,
the stressed lawyer Björn Diemel follows the advice of a mindfulness
coach in his search for peace of mind and to save his marriage. He
invites beginners and advanced mindfulness practitioners to accompany
him on his journey - and on his deeply relaxed murders.
• the shooting star of German crime literature and darling of the
German book trade
• one of the most original voices the German publishing scene has to
offer
• takes aim at social trends in his books and satirises them in the best
possible way - all embedded in an exciting, gripping storyline
• lets us learn so much about our society and does it more entertainingly
than anyone else
• has invented a new genre with his crime series: Holistic Crime hits the
nerve of the time
• All titles have been on the Spiegel bestseller list since publication.
"Murder Minfully" was #1 for 20 weeks
Rights sold to:
Bulgaria (Iztok Zapad) • The Netherlands (A.W. Bruna)
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Catalonia (Simbol Eidtor) • Poland (Otwarte)
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Croatia (Znanje) • Russia (Azbooka Atticus)
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Czech Republic (Host) • Serbia (Vulkan)
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Estonia (Tänapäev) • Slovakia (Ikar)
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France (Cherche Midi Éditeur) • Slovenia (Ucila)
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Hungary (Alexandra Kiado) • Turkey (Pegasus)
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• Italy (Giunti)
• Korea (Segyesa Contents)
• Lithuania (Alma Littera)
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Selected Backlist:
Ferdinand von Schirach
Every One
An appeal for a new Charter of Fundamental Rights
The American Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the Declaration
of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in France in 1789 laid the
foundations for our modern society, for our freedom and our inalienable
rights.
The amazing thing about these declarations is that they did not reflect
reality. The great manifestos of humanity demanded an order of society
that did not yet exist. They were utopias.
Today, we are facing entirely new challenges. Globalisation, digitalisation,
artificial intelligence, climate change: the dangers we face today were not
even imaginable 200 years ago. We therefore need new, additional human
rights.
Luchterhand - 32 pages - Rights sold to: Italy (Neri Pozza)
Ferdinand von Schirach
Coffee and Cigarettes
The author's most personal book so far
Ferdinand von Schirach weaves autobiographical narratives, notes and
observations into a narrative whole in which the private and the general
touch, mix and mirror each other. It is about defining experiences of the
narrator, fleeting moments of happiness, about loneliness and
melancholy, uprooting and the longing for home, as well as about the
great life themes of Ferdinand von Schirach, strange legal cases and
incidents, about the idea of law and human dignity, the achievements and
legacy of the Enlightenment that must be preserved, and about what
makes human beings human in the first place.
Luchterhand - Stories - 192 pages - Rights sold to: China (Thinkingdom), France
(Gallimard), Italy (Neri Pozza), Japan (Tokyo Sogensha), Lithuania (Tyto Alba), The
Netherlands (De Arbeiderspers), Norway (Gyldendal), Spain (Salamandra), Sweden
(Lindelöws), Taiwan (Prophet Press), UK (John Murray),
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Working with
Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Macedonia, Korea
Montenegro, Bosnia and Albania, Czech Momo Agency
Republic, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Geenie Han: geeniehan@mmagency.co.kr
Hungary and Croatia
Corto Literary Agency Netherlands
Antonija Radić: antonija@cortoliterary.com Marianne Schönbach Literary Agency
Marianne Schönbach: m.schonbach@schonbach.nl
China
Andrew Nurnberg Associates International Ltd. Beijing Poland
Representative Office Andrew Nurnberg Associates Warsaw
Jackie Huang: JHuang@nurnberg.com.cn Ewelina Wegrzyn: ewelina.wegrzyn@nurnberg.pl
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine Russia
Andrew Nurnberg Associates Baltic Andrew Nurnberg Literary Agency Russia
Tatjana Zoldnere: zoldnere@anab.apollo.lv Ludmilla Sushkova: ludmilla@lit-agency.ru
France and Belgium Spain, Portugal & Brazil
Agence Sabine Fontaine Casanovas & Lynch
Sabine Fontaine: agencefontaine@orange.fr Sarah Guilloret: derechos@casanovaslynch.com
Greece Turkey
Iris Literary Agency ONK Agency
Catherine Fragou: irislit@otenet.gr Meriç Güleç: meric@onkagency.com
Israel Taiwan
The Deborah Harris Agency Andrew Nurnberg Associates Taiwan
Efrat Lev: efrat@thedeborahharrisagency.com Whitney Hsu: whsu@nurnberg.com.tw
Italy UK + Scandinavia
The Italian Literary Agency Anderw Nurnberg
Elisa Beretta: elisa.beretta@italianliterary.com Marei Pittner: MPittner@nurnberg.co.uk
Japan USA
Meike Marx Literary Agency InkWell Management Literary Agency (USA)
Meike Marx: meike.marx@gol.com Lyndsey Blessing:
lyndsey@inkwellmanagement.com
Foreign Rights Contact
Chiara Futter
futter@marcelhartges.de
f +49 89 244 15 06 31
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