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new imprint wbg Edition offers reprints and complete
editions. wbg Academics, which is also new, focuses on
academic, study course and research literature.

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TITLES FOR TRANSLATION                                                              SPRING 2019

Ancient Sciences
Burandt The Roman Legionary ................................................................................................. 4
Song / Leitdorf / Heller Aerial Archaeology............................................................................ 5
Fischer Have you just found more broken old junk again? ................................................ 6
Barceló The Old World ................................................................................................................ 7

Biographies
Rasch / Wagner Aldous Huxley ................................................................................................ 8
Knechtges-Obrecht Clara Schumann ...................................................................................... 9
Grunewald A Princess in Disgrace ......................................................................................... 10
Mülcher Napoleon ......................................................................................................................11
Kittstein Gottfried Keller .......................................................................................................... 12

Geography & Natural Sciences
Blum A Short History of Mathematics ................................................................................... 13
Börner Chemistry ....................................................................................................................... 14
Richarz Bird Migration .............................................................................................................. 15

History
Fittkau / Werner The Conspirators ......................................................................................... 16
Polian Letters From Hell........................................................................................................... 17
Bringmann The People rules itself.......................................................................................... 18
Knipp The Fascists’ Commune ............................................................................................... 19

Modern Language Studies & Art
Von Arnauld / Klein Because Books Change our World..................................................... 20

Philosophy & Theology
Vogt Christians in the Middle East ........................................................................................ 21
Vasek A Country of Drivers ..................................................................................................... 22

Selected Backlist Titles ................................................................................................. 23
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Boris Burandt

The Roman Legionary:

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Clothing, Equipment and Weapons
during the Period from Augustus to
Domitian

The Roman Legionary is just as much a part of              The archaeologist Dr. Boris Burandt
Ancient Rome as the Colosseum and the toga.                is carrying out research as a postdoc
Wearing iron plate armour over his red tunic, a            in the DFG-funded research training
helmet with cheek flaps and the typical rectangular
                                                           group “Wert und Äquivalent” (Value
shield, he is still in service today – in books, comics,
TV documentaries and, of course, films. Irrespective       and Equivalence) at the University of
of whether he is fighting a battle in the Teutoburg        Frankfurt. He is an expert in the
Forest, participating in the Marcomannic Wars or the       Roman military.
battle against Attila’s Huns, the Roman
Infantryman’s appearance is almost identical. And
yet his equipment was almost constantly changing.
                                                               •   The star of the Roman Army
Boris Burandt’s archaeologically based research into
the Roman Legionary paints a more differentiated                   through the ages
picture: he accompanies him through the first
century and meticulously tracks the evolution of his           •   Brought to life by many highly
weapons and equipment. Detailed reconstructions of                 detailed reconstructions
individual pieces of equipment, fresco paintings and
mosaics illustrate impressively the description of the
findings which have mainly been handed down in
fragments. In doing so, this book manages to
preserve the glamour of the Roman Legionary and to
fascinate readers with the variations in his battle        112 pages 100 color illus. 2019
attire.
                                                           Original Title: Der römische Legionär.
                                                           Kleidung, Ausrüstung und Waffen in
                                                           der Zeit von Augustus bis Domitian

                                                           ISBN: 978-3-8053-5183-6

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                                                                                 Ancient Sciences page 4
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Baoquan Song / Klaus Leidorf / Eckhard                   The authors are the aerial
Heller                                                   archaeologists Baoquan Song and
                                                         Klaus Leidorf, as well as the
                                                         surveyor, Eckhard Heller.
Aerial Archaeology
Tracing the Past from the Air

The methods and techniques behind aerial                     •   Impressive and outstanding
archaeology are developing at lightning speed. Digital           aerial photos
photography, computer-based air photogrammetry,
Geographic Information Systems (GIS), LIDAR
                                                             •   The only up-to-date technical
(airborne laser scanning) and 3D technology, to name
just a few examples, can all be applied to                       and scientific introduction to
archaeology. The access to diverse geodata such as               the topic
WMS, Geobasis, Google Earth and many other tools
open up limitless opportunities for research.                •   Future essential reading for
                                                                 all relevant disciplines in the
The aerial archaeologists, Baoquan Song and Klaus
                                                                 humanities and the geo and
Leidorf, as well as the surveyor, Eckhard Heller, use
practical examples to present an overview of the                 engineering sciences
potential methodological applications of aerial
archaeology in various natural and cultural
landscapes. The case studies originate from research
projects in China, Germany, France, Georgia, Iran,
Italy, Spain, South Africa and Hungary.

                                                         168 pages 123 color illus. 2019

                                                         Original Title: Luftbildarchäologie.
                                                         Spuren der Vergangenheit aus der
                                                         Luft

                                                         ISBN: 978-3-8062-3887-7

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                                                                               Ancient Sciences page 5
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Jonas Fischer                                           Jonas Fischer is studying
                                                        Communication Design and is
                                                        working at the Muthesius University
Have you just found                                     of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel. He
                                                        accompanies archaeologists from
more broken old junk                                    the CRC 1266 (Cooperative Research

again?                                                  Centre) at Kiel University.

An Excavation Journal with Drawings –
the Archaeological Excavation of a
Large Stone Age Settlement in                               •   The graphic novel about
Stolniceni, Moldova                                             archaeology: the daily life of
                                                                archaeologists during
                                                                excavations, seen through the
Is archaeologists’ day-to-day research in exotic                eyes of a graphic artist
countries really as adventurous and romantic as it is
made out to be? Meeting different people and                •   An entertaining and charming
cultures and living and working in a confined space             excavation journal for the
are exceptional situations which can deliver unique
                                                                twenty-first century
stories.

The expedition takes us to the large Chalcolithic           •   For all those who always
settlement of Stolniceni in Moldova, a so-called                wanted to take part in an
mega site, which belongs to the Cucuteni-Trypillia              archaeological dig and all
culture. This culture, which spread out across the              those who have already done
region of Eastern Europe that comprises the modern-             so
day Ukraine, Moldova and Romania between 5000
and 2700 B.C., created the largest known
settlements of the time in Europe – large cities with
probably as many as 30,000 inhabitants, extending
over areas of up to 340 hectares.                       156 pages with numerous colored
                                                        illus. 2018

                                                        Original Title: Habt ihr wieder nur
                                                        altes kaputtes Zeug gefunden?
                                                        Ein gezeichnetes Grabungstagebuch

                                                        ISBN: 978-3-8062-3880-8

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                                                                              Ancient Sciences page 6
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Pedro Barceló                                             Born in 1950, Pedro Barceló was
                                                          Professor of Ancient History at the
                                                          University of Potsdam until 2015.
The Old World                                             Within the field of Greek and Roman
                                                          Antiquity, the internationally
A Story of Land and Sea, Domination
                                                          renowned historian focused, among
and War, Legend, Cult and Salvation                       other things, on the History of
                                                          Religion and Religious Change, of
                                                          fringe groups and of the role of
The concepts of universality and globalisation are
                                                          Christianity. Among other titles,
currently at the tips of everyone’s tongues, but they
are in fact nothing new. They have their roots in         WBG published his biography of
Antiquity, in the cultural realm created by Hellenism     Alexander the Great, as well as short
and the Roman Empire.                                     histories of both Rome and Greece.

As a conclusion to his many years of research into
the Ancient World, Pedro Barceló, a leading Ancient
Historian, presents a panoramic view of the most
                                                             •    The Ancient World as an
important factors in Antiquity’s political, economic,
social, religious and cultic developments. In doing so,           archive of memories and
he distils the elements that characterised the                    catalyst for our cultural
surrounding environment and the cultural and mental               inheritance
constants which defined ancient history for more
than two thousand years. Which timeless myths                •    Written by one of the leading
pervaded the Greek and Roman Mediterranean
                                                                  German ancient historians
culture? Which notions did they share when it came
to divinity, domination or hostility?

It was indeed these anthropological factors in
particular which turned the cultural realm comprising
the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans into a large single
entity and which still influence us today – because       704 pages 71 b/w illus. 2019
we are following in their footsteps.
                                                          Original Title: Die Alte Welt. Von Land
                                                          und Meer, Herrschaft und Krieg,
                                                          Mythos, Kult und Erlösung

                                                          ISBN: 978-3-8053-5186-7

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                                                                                Ancient Sciences page 7
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Uwe Rasch / Gerhard Wagner                             Since 2001, Uwe Rasch has been a
                                                       research assistant at the Centre for
                                                       Aldous Huxley Studies at the
Aldous Huxley                                          University of Münster and
                                                       contributes to the publication of the
                                                       “Aldous Huxley Annual” and “Human
                                                       Potentialities”, a series of Huxley
The English author Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) is well   monographs. He worked for many
known to many readers. His novel “Brave New World”     years as a cultural journalist.
became a world classic, with its title soon being      Currently, Uwe Rasch’s main
turned into a slogan. Its warning about the risks of   occupation is as a full-time lecturer
technological dictatorship remains relevant to this
                                                       in Academic English at the
day.
                                                       University of Münster’s Language
For the first time, Uwe Rasch and Gerhard Wagner       Centre.
provide German readers with a comprehensive
overview of the influential author and thinker. They
describe Huxley’s serious eye disease, defence of      Gerhard Wagner did his PhD thesis
pacifism, experiments with drugs, adventures in        on poetic theory in Aldous Huxley’s
Hollywood and finally the founding of the Esalen
                                                       essay writing. Previously, he studied
Institute in California. Krishnamurti, Strawinsky,
Yehudi Menuhin and Charlie Chaplin were all his        English Philology, Modern History
close friends. He met Thomas Mann while in exile.      and Nordic Philology. He has worked
Theodor Adorno dedicated an essay to him. Huxley is    at the Centre for Aldous Huxley
shown on the one hand to be deeply pessimistic and     Studies at the University of Münster
on the other as a highly committed humanist. His       since it was founded in 1998. As his
extraordinary significance for a globalised world is
                                                       main occupation, he works as a state
striking.
                                                       school teacher.

                                                       320 pages 30 b/w illus. 2019

                                                       Original Title: Aldous Huxley

                                                       ISBN: 978-3-8062-3844-0

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Irmgard Knechtges-Obrecht

Clara Schumann
A Life Dedicated to Music

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                                                         Irmgard Knechtges-Obrecht
Clara Schumann (1819-1896) was a concert pianist,        studied Music, Theatre, Film and
wife and mother. She outlived her husband, the           Television as well as History at the
Romantic composer and music writer Robert                University of Cologne. She wrote her
Schumann, by forty years. He was the love of her life    PhD thesis on Robert Schumann.
but fell ill at an early age with a serious nervous      Until 1990, she worked as a research
condition. Magnificent successes and severe
                                                         assistant for the new edition of
setbacks accompanied him on his path from child
prodigy to legendary composer.                           Schumann’s complete works. Since
                                                         1991, she has been working as a
Irmgard Knechtges-Obrecht portrays Clara as an           freelancer. Knechtges-Obrecht is
independent artist and a fascinating personality who     Vice-President of the Robert
worked hard to provide a living for eight children and   Schumann Society in Düsseldorf.
a growing tribe of grandchildren. She helps us gain a
better understanding of Clara’s relationship with her
tyrannical father as well as her close bond with
Brahms which remains a puzzle. Letters and diaries           •   200th anniversary of Clara
which have only recently been published are able to              Schumann‘s birth on 13
dispel prejudices and clichés. Photographs, which                September 2019
are printed here for the first time, portray a woman’s
life that was extremely unusual for that era.

                                                         256 pages 20 b/w illus. 2019

                                                         Original Title: Clara Schumann.
                                                         Ein Leben für die Musik

                                                         ISBN: 978-3-8062-3850-1

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Ulrike Grunewald                                          Ulrike Grunewald, who was born in
                                                          1958, is Deputy Director of ZDF’s
                                                          editorial department for
A Princess in Disgrace                                    contemporary history. She worked as
The Scandal surrounding Queen                             a ZDF presenter and reporter for
Victoria’s outcast Mother-In-Law,                         “heute-journal”, the channel’s news
Louise                                                    show, and the lunchtime news
                                                          programme “Mittagsmagazin”. In
                                                          1987, she accompanied Charles and
                                                          Diana on their visit to Germany. She
An unhappy marriage, scandalous affairs and the
                                                          either co-wrote or co-edited a
enforced exile from the court of her husband, Ernst
                                                          number of major TV documentaries,
von Sachsen-Coburg, all left their mark on her life.
Branded “Disgraced Louise”, Princess Louise of            largely about contemporary Germany
Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Queen Victoria’s mother-in-         and the families of European
law, was quickly forgotten after her early death.         monarchies, such as “Die Wölfe”
Ulrike Grunewald presents this woman’s life and           (which was awarded the
links her story to the rise of the House of Saxe-         International Emmy in 2009). Ulrike
Coburg and Gotha from a tiny unimportant
                                                          Grunewald has written a number of
principality to one of the most powerful dynasties of
the nineteenth century. When Louise’s son Albert          popular biographies on similar topics
found recognition at the side of Queen Victoria in        with the publisher VGS und Knaur
England, he had to struggle with his mother’s legacy      (“Rivalinnen”, “Der Fluch des Hauses
– as rumour had it, Albert was an illegitimate child of   Windsor”, “Hauses Windsor”, “Auf
the hedonistic Louise.                                    Rosamunde Pilchers Spuren”,
                                                          “William & Kate”).
The book does not only provide us with a greater
understanding of a life which had, until then, not
been researched, but also gives us an insight into the
social conventions and constraints of the early
nineteenth century, which Louise flouted on several
occasions.                                                288 pages 12 b/w illus. 2019

                                                          Original Title: Die Schand-Luise.
                                                          Der Skandal um Queen Victorias
                                                          verstoßene Schwiegermutter

                                                          ISBN: 978-3-8062-3889-1

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Günter Müchler

Napoleon
A Revolutionary on the Emperor’s

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Throne

                                                         Born in 1946, Günter Müchler
                                                         studied History and Political
He came from nowhere, first had to learn French, and     Science. Following posts with a
rose through the ranks from Artillery Officer to First   number of newspapers, he moved
Consul: the Corsican, Napoleon Bonaparte. The            into radio in 1987 and, until 2011, was
revolutionary went on to become the Emperor of           Programme Director of the German
France.                                                  public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk,
                                                         the culture-oriented radio station
Günter Müchler eloquently outlines the life story of a   Deutschlandradio Kultur and DRadio
man who himself recognised his own limitations most      Wissen, a radio station targeting
clearly in his defeat on Saint Helena: the creator and   young people.
power broker was just as much a prisoner of the
conditions which the revolution dictated to him as he
was of the European battle between the old order
and the new. “The truth is that I was never in control    The 250th anniversary of Napoleon
of my movements. I had plans but never had the
                                                         Bonaparte‘s birth is on 15 August
freedom to execute them. Whatever I did was always
                                                         2019
determined by circumstance”. This is a remarkable
portrayal which casts a new light on the revolutionary
on the imperial throne depicting both his meteoric
rise and his devastating downfall.

                                                         642 pages 32 b/w illus.           2019

                                                         Original Title: Napoleon.
                                                         Revolutionär auf dem Kaiserthron

                                                         ISBN: 978-3-8062-3917-1

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Ulrich Kittsein                                           Ulrich Kittstein is Professor of
                                                          Modern German Literature at the
                                                          University of Mannheim. He was
Gottfried Keller                                          awarded the University of
                                                          Mannheim’s Prize for Language and
A Middle-Class Outsider
                                                          Science for his post-doctoral thesis.
                                                          His work focuses on German
                                                          literature from the eighteenth
                                                          century until the present, with a
                                                          focus on poetry, historical narration,
Alongside Fontane and Storm, Gottfried Keller (1819-
                                                          Friedrich Schiller, Eduard Mörike,
1890) is seen as the most important representative of
                                                          Gottfried Keller and Bertolt Brecht.
German-speaking Realism. Marked by the tradition
and culture of his home city, Zurich, and by the ideas
of Swiss liberalism, he developed his very own ideal
of middle-class life. Nevertheless, as an author and
critic of his times, Keller remained a social outsider,        •   200th anniversary of his birth
who also revealed the deep chasms of middle-class                  on 19 July 2019
life in his works.

Ullrich Kittstein describes Keller’s personality and           •   Unrivalled overview of his life
career, his ideological and political stance and his               and work
poetics. He looks in detail at “Green Henry”, “Martin
Salander” and “The People of Seldwyla”. In 2019,               •   The first detailed overall
Keller’s jubilee year, Kittstein has written a                     assessment of the writer’s life
multifaceted portrayal of an author whose virtuoso                 for thirty years
storytelling and psychological shrewdness never
cease to fascinate readers to this day.

                                                          512 pages 2019

                                                          Original Title: Gottfried Keller.
                                                          Ein bürgerlicher Außenseiter

                                                          ISBN: 978-3-534-27072-9

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Wolfgang Blum has a PhD in
Wolfgang Blum
                                                          Mathematics. Following his
                                                          university education, he carried out
A Short History of                                        research for several years at the
                                                          University of Erlangen. He then
Mathematics                                               worked as an economics journalist
                                                          for the German publications “Die
                                                          Zeit”, “Geo” and “Süddeutsche
                                                          Zeitung” and for the broadcaster
                                                          WDR. Since 2002, he has also been
In our daily lives, we are constantly surrounded by       teaching Mathematics and Physics
mathematics without noticing it. It can be found in       at a secondary school.
our smartphones, cars, electric toothbrushes or in a
snow crystal. It recognises what is essential,
classifies, and reveals new connections. One of its
special characteristics is that once something has           •   A high-speed journey through
been discovered, it applies forever. Two times two               the history of mathematics
will always make four and the angles of a triangle will
always add up to 180 degrees, just as they did in
ancient times and will continue to do in centuries to        •   An easily understandable
come. But where was calculation discovered? Why do               introduction to mathematics
we need logarithms or algebra? And what is behind                and its history
the beauty of mathematics?
                                                             •   Understandable without any
Wolfgang Blum goes back in time and tells us the
                                                                 particular specialist knowledge
story of mathematics, starting with the first numbers
                                                                 of mathematics
in the Stone Age and continuing through to the
twenty-first century’s Sudoku puzzles.

                                                          200 pages 33 b/w illus. 2019

                                                          Original Title: Eine kurze Geschichte
                                                          der Mathematik

                                                          ISBN: 978-3-8062-3877-8

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                                                                  Geography & Natural Sciences page 13
Armin Börner

Chemistry
Connections for Life

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Dare to venture into a world in which there is a             Armin Börner has been Full
connection between sugar and decisiveness or cave            Professor of Organic Chemistry at
drawings and formula language. See for yourself how          the University of Rostock since 2000
Chemistry structures the world and how the
                                                             and also works as Head of
knowledge of Chemistry can contribute to a better
understanding of where we live.                              Department at the Leibniz Institute
                                                             for Catalysis. He was awarded the
You have learned much of what you read in this book          Descartes Prize in 2001.
in Chemistry lessons – you have probably filed it in a
corner of your brain and forgotten it. Either because
you think that you did not understand it or because
you believe that it is irrelevant for your daily life. The
reality is quite the opposite. Chemistry is the
common thread that links all areas of our lives.

   •   Finally get to grips with Chemistry!

   •   Links Chemistry to our everyday lives

                                                             392 pages 23 color illus.         2019

                                                             Original Title: Chemie.
                                                             Verbindungen fürs Leben

                                                             ISBN: 978-3-8062-3884-6

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Klaus Richarz

Bird Migration

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Every year, an estimated fifty billion birds head off to
their winter quarters, often thousands of kilometres
away, before embarking on their return journey in
spring, when they return to their breeding grounds.        Klaus Richarz has a PhD in Biology.
During their long and dangerous journeys, they often       Between 1980 and 2013, he worked
achieve extraordinary things, need to cross mighty         full-time in the field of nature
oceans and overcome huge mountain ranges.                  conservation and, until 2013, headed
                                                           up the Hesse, Rheinland-Palatinate
Bird migration provides an endless source of
fascination to humans. Whenever we spot flocks of          and Saarland Ornithological
cranes or swallows in the autumn sky and marvel at         Institutes in Frankfurt for twenty-two
their formations, which have been created seemingly        years. He continues to play an active
by chance, we ask ourselves many questions: how do         role in nature conservation (as an
they communicate with each other while they are            advisor to several nature
flying, how do birds find their way on their long          conservation foundations and more).
journey, who actually travels and who stays at home?
                                                           Richarz has been writing non-fiction
Klaus Richarz introduces us to the most important          books about birds, bats, nature
migratory birds, describes their flight paths, explains    conservation and the experience of
and decodes the bird satnav and touches upon the           nature for many years, which have
consequences of climate change for bird migration.         been translated into more than ten
Finally, he provides some tips on how to protect our       languages.
migratory birds and where it is best to observe them.
Read all about one of the most fascinating natural
phenomena on earth.
                                                           192 pages 218 color illust. 2019

                                                           Original Title: Vogelzug

                                                           ISBN: 978-3-8062-3885-3

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                                                                   Geography & Natural Sciences page 15
Marie-Christine Werner was born in
                                                         1971 and holds joint German and
                                                         French nationalities. She studied
Ludger Fittkau / Marie-Christine Werner                  Comparative Literature, Italian,
                                                         International and European Law in
                                                         Saarbrücken. Following a traineeship
The Conspirators                                         in Journalism at SDR/SWR, she has
The Civil Resistance behind the Events                   been an editor and presenter with
of 20 July 1944                                          the SWR2 radio station in Mainz
                                                         since 2000. She is also the author of
                                                         longer-running programmes,
                                                         frequently about the National
Stauffenberg’s headquarters, the “Wolf’s Lair”,          Socialist period.
provided the stage for the assassination. The
Bendlerblock building in Berlin was the conspirators’    Ludger Fittkau, who was born in
military control centre. This is one – extensively       Essen in 1959, has been working as a
researched – side of the events of 20 July 1944. This    freelance correspondent since 1994
book takes a look at another, much less well known
                                                         for, among others, the public
story behind the assassination. It looks at non-
military participants and their secret meeting places    broadcasters WDR and
– courageous business people, Catholic women’s           Deutschlandfunk (DLF). He studied
rights activists or left-wing pacifists who met          Social Sciences at the
secretly.                                                Fernuniversität in Hagen and did a
                                                         PhD in Sociology in 2006. Since
The story is told of the supporters of Trade Union
                                                         2013, Ludger Fittkau has been
Leader Wilhelm Leuschner, of several hundred trade
                                                         working as the Hesse correspondent
unionists and social democrats, of police officers and
betting shop operators. Of experienced underground       for DLF. Prior to this, he had been
activists who were preparing to occupy public            DLF’s correspondent for the
administrations and radio stations, following a          Rhineland-Palatinate region in Mainz
successful assassination of Hitler. Marie-Christine      from 2009.
Werner and Ludger Fittkau trace the structures of the
conspirators’ civilian wing on 20 July 1944 and tell
the on-site story of the participants’ intertwined
destinies.                                               336 pages 36 b/w illus. 2019

                                                         Original Title: Die Konspirateure.
                                                         Der zivile Widerstand hinter dem 20.
                                                         Juli 1944

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Pavel Polian

Letters from Hell

                                                                                                        © Ingo Schneider
The Records from the Jewish Auschwitz
Special Unit

When state-of-the-art technology enabled Marcel            Pavel Polian is a Jewish Russian
Nadjari’s testimony to de decoded for posterity in         historian and literary scholar. He
2017, it was a real sensation: the last of the “Letters    lives and works in Moscow and
from Hell”, the secret records compiled by Jewish          Freiburg. His numerous publications
prisoners in the Special Unit in Auschwitz-Birkenau,
                                                           on the holocaust ensure that he is
had become decipherable once again. The Special
Unit’s members were forced by the SS to help with          recognised as an expert also in
the mass murder in the crematoria, the burning of          Germany and is well connected both
corpses and the disposal of the ashes of hundreds of       to fellow historians and the press.
thousands of people.

The fact that some of them felt the need to provide
written testimony of the horror is an unbelievable act
of humanity. That some of these testimonies would
be handed down to posterity did not occur to the               •   The essential holocaust
National Socialists. This volume is the first collection           documentation – for the first
of all nine of the preserved testimonies in German                 time in full, with all nine
translation and includes detailed essays to place                  reports available and a
them in the context in which they originated. These                German commentary
are key documents relating to the murder of the Jews
– and to deeply moving humanity.

                                                           544 pages 20 b/w illust.          2019

                                                           Original Title: Briefe aus der Hölle.
                                                           Die Aufzeichnungen des jüdischen
                                                           Sonderkommandos Auschwitz

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Klaus Bringmann, who was born in
Klaus Bringmann
                                                         1936, is Emeritus Professor of
                                                         Ancient History at the Goethe
The People rules itself                                  University in Frankfurt am Main.
A History of Democracy

                                                             •   Democracy – its historical
Relatively speaking, our Western democracy is fairly
new. Great Britain, for example, has only belonged to            principles, development,
the club of fully legitimate democracies since 1928.             strengths and risks
Philosophers from the Age of Enlightenment were
still in favour of a republic and were suspicious of         •   A book which takes due
democracy – as was Aristotle, the Greek philosopher.             account of the current
Athens was, however, the cradle of democracy.                    unease about our democracy

In an important late work, the Ancient Historian,
Klaus Bringmann, describes the ideals and shaping            •   A plea for the achievements
of Athenian democracy and demonstrates its                       of the western world
fundamental difference from modern-day systems.
He traces its concept and practice via the class             •   The defining work of a
system of the early modern period, the                           leading historian and
enlightenment, the birth of the first real democracy             observer of contemporary
during the United States’ early days through to today.           issues
He clearly analyses and identifies the strengths and
weaknesses of different options and criticises some
over-hasty reform ideas which are being developed in
light of democracy’s current crisis.
Those who value our liberal system’s future need to
know about its history and evolution.

                                                         336 pages 2019

                                                         Original Title: Das Volk regiert sich
                                                         selbst. Eine Geschichte der
                                                         Demokratie

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Kersten Knipp
The Fascists’
Commune
How the Republic of Fiume tested the
20th Century

                                                         Kersten Knipp, who was born in
                                                         1966, is a publicist and journalist. He
In September 1919, 2500 franc-tireurs under the
                                                         is a freelance political editor at the
leadership of the eccentric, poet and war hero,
                                                         German broadcaster „Deutsche
Gabriele D’Annunzio, occupied a small Croatian
coastal town and established the Republic of Fiume       Welle“ and works for
there on the ruins of the Habsburg Empire. They          Deutschlandfunk and other stations
enacted a bizarre spectacle with many contradictory      belonging to the broadcaster ARD.
elements: military parades, torchlight processions       He also writes for the Swiss
and events which glorified war, combined with a non-     newspaper „Neue Zürcher Zeitung“.
stop celebration of free love, drugs and nudism. The
                                                         He focuses on contemporary history
Republic of Fiume marked the start of a violent
century. It became a laboratory of fascist aesthetics    as well as politics in the Middle East
and an early location for the counter culture of 1968.   and the Arab World.

In his historical essay, Kersten Knipp describes how
all of these contradictory elements came together to         •   100th anniversary of the
create a dangerous populism accompanied by mass                  Republic of Fiume in
hysteria and demonstrates how this extraordinary
                                                                 September 1919 (continues to
episode hinted at the paths and wrong turns that the
twentieth century was to take.                                   the start of 1921)

                                                         140 pages 30 b/w illus. 2019

                                                         Original Title: Die Kommune der
                                                         Faschisten. Wie die Republik von
                                                         Fiume das 20. Jahrhundert probte

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Christian Klein is a private lecturer
                                                           and Academic Councillor for Modern
                                                           German Literary History and General
Andreas von Arnauld / Christian Klein
                                                           Literary Studies at the University of
                                                           Wuppertal and is a member of the
Because Books                                              university’s Narrative Research
                                                           Centre. He is the author of a study
Change our World                                           on cult books and, in addition to
From the Nibelungenlied to Harry                           writing numerous essays on
                                                           literature from the nineteenth to the
Potter
                                                           twenty-first centuries, has written
                                                           works of reference in the fields of
                                                           non-literary narration and the theory
Books have shaped our history, thinking and self-
                                                           and practice of biographical writing.
conception to a considerable extent. The authors
present ninety-nine books that have had a significant
influence on Germany as a cultural nation. They            Andreas von Arnauld is Professor of
focus on texts from many different areas of                Public Law with a focus on
knowledge: literary works are juxtaposed with              International and European Law at
scientific treatises; lexicons with philosophical works    Kiel University and Managing
and political diatribes. The special features of the       Director of the Walther Schücking
book in question are emphasised. Entertaining
                                                           Institute for International Law. Mr.
episodes are used to convey interesting information
about the book’s origins and historical background.        von Arnauld is Co-Editor of “Die
                                                           Friedens-Warte - Journal of
The authors include Martin Luther, Immanuel Kant,          International Peace and
J.W. Goethe, Karl Marx, Konrad Duden, Max Planck           Organization”, and has written
but also J.K Rowling and Thomas Hobbes. The                numerous books and scientific
enthralling, brief profiles in chronological order allow   essays about human rights,
readers to approach important landmarks in German
                                                           European integration and the
history from an original angle. What we know for
certain is that books are indispensable for                foundations of Law.
understanding what constitutes Germany today.
                                                           400 pages 2019

                                                           Original Title: Weil Bücher unsere
                                                           Welt verändern. Vom Nibelungenlied
                                                           bis Harry Potter

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© Fotostudio_Jünger
Matthias Vogt

Christians in the
Middle East
Between Martyrdom and Exodus                              Matthias Vogt, who was born in
                                                          1975, studied Jewish, Semitic and
                                                          Islamic Studies in Heidelberg, Paris
2018: Iraqi Christians return to their villages, from     and Halle (Saale). In 2004, he took a
where the so-called “Islamic State” had banished          PhD in Islamic Studies at the
them four years previously. A hundred years before        universities of Sorbonne in Paris
that, Christians in the region had already had to start   (Paris IV) and Halle-Wittenberg.
again from scratch. During the First World War,
                                                          Among other things, he has
hundreds of thousands in Anatolia were evicted and
murdered. What has happened in the hundred years          published works on the situation of
since the end of the Ottoman Empire? What impact          Christians and Jews in the Islamic
did the construction of independent Arab states,          World in the past and the present.
Jewish immigration and the founding of Israel have?       Since 2005 he has been working as a
Which role does Lebanon play as a state influenced        country consultant for Missio, the
by Christianity? How did secular Turkey deal with         international Catholic mission in
Christians? What consequences did the fall of
                                                          Aachen; since 2011, as the expert for
Saddam Hussein have for Iraqi Christians? How do
Christians see the revolution in Egypt and what           North Africa and the Middle East
consequences does the civil war in Syria have for         and also as the Deputy Leader of the
them?                                                     “Foreign Countries” department. He
                                                          has lived and travelled widely in the
The book describes the path steered by Christians in      region.
the Middle East between integration, social
participation, separation and emigration as well as
the challenges facing them today.                         504 pages 35 color illus. 2019

                                                          Original Title: Christen im Nahen
                                                          Osten. Zwischen Martyrium und
                                                          Exodus

                                                          ISBN: 978-3-534-27069-9

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Thomas Vašek, born in 1968, has
Thomas Vašek
                                                           held leading journalistic functions
                                                           with several publishers and was
A Country of Drivers                                       most recently employed as Editor-in-
The Germans and their Cars                                 Chief of the German popular science
                                                           magazine P.M. He is now Editor-in-
                                                           Chief at the Philosophy magazine
                                                           “Hohe Luft” (literally: “High Air”) and
                                                           has also made a name for himself as
                                                           an author of successful non-fiction
The key issues of our time, from globalisation to          books on philosophy.
climate change via digitalisation, lie at the heart of
the debate about the crisis in the automotive
industry. With the end of the combustion engine in
sight, the industry is facing a comprehensive
technological transformation.

At the same time, the car is closely linked to the
German identity. To this day, German cars stand for
engineering ingenuity, quality and reliability, as well
as for the country’s economic strength. Germany
depends on the car: the automotive industry
generates annual sales of more than 400 billion
Euros. Around 1.5 million jobs depend directly or
indirectly on the automotive industry. In light of this,
a fundamental debate about the importance of cars
to the German people is long overdue.

                                                           192 pages 10 b/w illus. 2019

                                                           Original Title: Land der Lenker.
                                                           Die Deutschen und ihr Auto

                                                           ISBN: 978-3-8062-3928-7

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Spring 2019

Selected
Backlist Titles
Burkhard Madea / Wilfried Rosendahl                         Professor Burkhard Madea (M.D.,
(ed.)                                                       PhD) is Director of the Institute of
                                                            Forensic Science at the University
                                                            Hospital Bonn and is the author of
Crime Scenes from the                                       countless non-fiction and specialist

Past                                                        books.

                                                            Professor Wilfried Rosendahl (PhD)
                                                            is Director of the Reiss-Engelhorn
                                                            Museum and of the Curt Engelhorn
They are ever-present on our television screens:            Centre of Art and Cultural History,
forensic scientists, who, with state-of-the-art             both of which are in Mannheim. The
technical equipment and scientific analyses, find the
                                                            “German Mummy Project”, which he
smallest clues to be able to reconstruct a crime.
Archaeology also uses forensic methods to                   leads, is one of the research units in
reconstruct events from long ago.                           the Centre.

Burkhard Madea and Wilfried Rosendahl have
brought numerous experts together, who present the
diverse possibilities that forensic science offers, and
its uses for archaeology. From the Palaeolithic Age to
the Second World War, famous and illustrious cases
are represented which cover the full spectrum of
possibilities: from toxicology to forensic ballistics via
facial reconstruction and autopsies. Each topic is
explained in a clear and understandable way by
means of a meaningful case study from current
archaeological research.

                                                            144 pages 133 color and 20 b/w illus.
                                                              2017

                                                            Original Title: Tatorte der
                                                            Vergangenheit. Archäologie und
                                                            Forensik

                                                            ISBN: 978-3-8062-3645-3

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Alexander Emmerich / Philipp Gassert                      Alexander Emmerich was born in
                                                          1974, did his PhD in Medieval and
                                                          Modern History at the University of
America’s Wars                                            Heidelberg with a focus on the US.
                                                          He has published widely on German
                                                          and American History. He lectures at
                                                          the University of Mannheim.

The US does not only have the oldest democratic           Professor Philipp Gassert (PhD)
constitution in the world: since its independence, the    holds the Chair of Contemporary
country has been almost permanently involved in
                                                          History at the University of
military conflicts. How does that fit together –
democracy and war? “To make the world safe for            Mannheim. Prior to that, he carried
democracy”: it was with this goal in mind that            out research and lectured at the
President Wilson made the case for America’s entry        German Historical Institute
into the First World War. Since then, entering and        Washington DC (DHI) and at the
waging wars have been part of a propaganda drive          University of Heidelberg, the LMU
which tries to create the image of an America fighting    Munich, the University of
all of the evil in the world. But can a “democratic way
                                                          Pennsylvania and the University of
of war” exist?
                                                          Augsburg. In 2014 he was the Sir
For the first time, this book presents a complete and     Peter Ustinov Guest Professor of the
critical overview of America’s wars, from the early       City and University of Vienna. Since
beginnings of colonial societies through to the           2011, he has been a member of the
present day. It reveals similarities and patterns in      board of the German Association for
American foreign policy and looks at the historic
                                                          American Studies (DGFA).
parallels to be found in the reasons for going to war,
justifications and rhetoric of American politicians.

                                                          264 pages 11 b/w illus. 2014

                                                          Original Title: Amerikas Kriege

                                                          ISBN: 978-3-8062-2675-1

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Clauß Peter Sajak

Interreligious Learning

                                                                                                    © private
Among the most important issues confronting            Clauß Peter Sajak is Professor of
religious education – now and in the future,           Religious Education at the Faculty of
considering current demographic developments – is      Roman Catholic Theology at the
interreligious education. In any culturally and
                                                       University of Münster. He has been
religiously pluralistic society, religious education
cannot be content to impart the beliefs of one’s own   reflecting on questions of practical
faith community, but must also impart some             theology for many years, focusing in
knowledge of the other religions. In this way,         particular on the didactics and
religious education may contribute to greater          methods of interreligious teaching
understanding and cooperation among people of          and learning.
different denominations and religions, particularly
among Christians, Jews and Muslims. What is
needed now are new forms of interreligious learning
which reduce knowledge gaps and enable learners to
meet and communicate in dialogue.

Clauß Peter Sajak has written the first compact and
practical introduction to such an interreligious
education which can contribute, in the religiously
pluralistic societies of today, to a deeper
understanding of other faiths and to a more
respectful life together.

                                                       148 pages 52 illus. 2018

                                                       Original Title: Interreligiöses Lernen

                                                       ISBN: 978-3-534-74325-4

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Dieter Radaj
                                                        Dieter Radaj (b. 1935) received his
Philosophical                                           doctoral and postdoctoral degrees
                                                        from the Technical University of
Concepts and the                                        Brunswick before working, in a
                                                        managerial capacity, in research,
Natural                                                 teaching, and industry. He has
                                                        authored a number of specialist
                                                        books as well as several books on
                                                        current issues of theoretical and
Philosophical and scientific thought are connected      practical philosophy.
by a number of shared concepts. These convey
notions that transcend sense perception and make
possible the kind of abstract thinking which, in the
sciences, has led to mathematical theorems, while
natural philosophy remained language-bound. In
addition, there is the use of those concepts and
terms in everyday speech. This book focuses on
complementary pairs of concepts: being and
becoming, space and time, causality and correlation,
chance and necessity. Further discussion treats the
notion of natural laws in physics and biology as well
as the higher “forms of determination” applying to
the realm of the animate world. Throughout, Dieter
Radaj’s account is based in a contemporary ontology
and pays particular attention to the concepts of
modern physics, the principles of evolution and
molecular genetics, as well as the evolution of the
cosmos in space and time.
                                                        233 pages 2017

                                                        Original Title: Philosophische
                                                        Grundbegriffe der
                                                        Naturwissenschaften

                                                        ISBN: 978-3-534-26941-9

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Hermann-Josef Frisch

On Pilgrimage

                                                                                                          © private
What happens when people set out, looking for God
and – possibly – finding themselves? When they set
out, that is, non in a metaphorical sense, but literally     Hermann-Josef Frisch is a retired
“hitting the road”, on foot, travelling light, a pilgrim’s   parish priest and a former Lecturer in
staff in hand? The appeal of going on a pilgrimage           Religious Education at the University
persists to this day, and even people who do not             of Bonn. He has written or
consider themselves religious are fascinated by the          contributed to more than 200 books
idea of a fresh departure for new experiences on the
                                                             on religious education, pastoral care,
road.
                                                             adult education in theology, and
As a globetrotter in the matter of religion, Hermann-        religious studies. On more than fifty
Josef Frisch knows the pilgrimage traditions of the          journeys to Asia, he has explored
world’s great religions like few others. From first-         Buddhist culture and traditions.
hand experience, he tells of how life “along the way”,
with its rites, rhythms, and austerities, may sharpen
one’s focus on what is truly important, and may open
up a space for leisurely encounters with fellow
pilgrims and others. At the same time, his book
presents a masterful overview of different pilgrimage
traditions, with stunning photographs that take
readers on a journey to the most famous pilgrimage
sites around the globe.

                                                             240 pages 130 color illus. 2017

                                                             Original Title: Man ist dann mal weg.
                                                             Über das Pilgern

                                                             ISBN: 978-3-8062-3625-5

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Lothar Machtan

Chancellor of the End

                                                                                                      © Milena Taplan
Times
Prince Max of Baden and the Fall of the
Second German Empire
                                                         Lothar Machtan is Emeritus
                                                         Professor of Modern History at the
                                                         University of Bremen. He has written
During the dramatic final phase of the First World       articles for Der Spiegel, Die Zeit and
War, Prince Maximilian of Baden is named German          Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as
chancellor. His mission is to save the Empire from       well as numerous well-acclaimed
impending catastrophe. He fails, however, thus
                                                         history books for a general audience
sealing the fate of an entire era. With riveting
narrative force, Lothar Machtan guides readers           and the script of a TV documentary
through the life of a man whose personality was          about the end of German imperial
marked by contradictions: “Prince Max” (as he was        rule in 1918.
known) maintained close contacts with the Richard
Wagner Circle at Bayreuth as well as with the British-
born racialist ideologue, notorious anti-Semite and
Wagner’s posthumous son-in-law, Houston Stewart
Chamberlain. At the same time, the Prince’s closest
confidant was a scion of the Jewish haute
bourgeoisie. Max of Baden was conscious of his rank
and station, yet, as a homosexual, he led a life
outside of the prevailing social norms. He was said to
be a cosmopolitan and peaceable man, yet he
despised democracy.
                                                         686 pages 39 b/w illus. 2018

                                                         Original Title: Der Endzeitkanzler.
                                                         Prinz Max von Baden und der
                                                         Untergang des Kaiserreichs

                                                         ISBN: 978-3-8062-3660-6

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Andreas Hafer / Bernd Bühler

From Pythagoras to                                         Andreas Hafer took his doctoral
                                                           degree in History and teaches
Quantum Physics                                            mathematics, history, and
                                                           philosophy at secondary-school
                                                           level. He has published numerous
A Short History of the Natural Sciences
                                                           articles and books on the history of
                                                           science and other topics.

From their first beginnings in the ancient Greece of
Thales and Pythagoras, through the times of Newton         Bernd Bühler took his doctoral
and Darwin to the most recent developments in              degree in Physics and theaches
quantum mechanics and genetic engineering, the             physics, biology, astronomy, and
natural sciences have worked their way through             psychology at secondary-school
almost 3,000 years of turbulent history. However,
                                                           level.für Physik, Biologie, Astronomie
that history of scientific models, theories, and
research practices was neither constant nor                und Psychologie. He, too, has
continuous, but marked by times of comparative             published numerous articles and
calm as well as periods of revolutionary upheaval.         books on the history of science and
                                                           other topics.
In their innovative short history of the sciences,
Andreas Hafer and Bernd Bühler highlight the great
revolutions in scientific thought, tracing both their
causes and effects. Phrased in layman’s terms, their
account of the fascinating history of the sciences
offers authoritative orientation without getting lost in
the detail. The result? a truly breathtaking historical
journey!
                                                           244 pages 50 b/w illus. 2016

                                                           Original Title: Von Pythagoras zur
                                                           Quantenphysik. Eine kurze
                                                           Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften

                                                           ISBN: 978-3-8062-3387-2

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Georg Auernheimer

Introduction into                                         Georg Auernheimer, born in 1939,
                                                          was professor for educational

Intercultural Education                                   science at the University of Marburg
                                                          and for intercultural socialization
                                                          and migration at the University of
                                                          Cologne.

The 8th edition of this standard work presents the
newest developments in intercultural education. An
overview of the development of the subject is
followed by an explanation of key terms like
multicultural society, education and cultural identity,
acculturation, ethnocentrism, prejudice, racism and
intercultural communication.
The author then portrays the objectives of
intercultural education: social learning, dealing with           Polish rights sold
differences, the ability to communicate, an education
guided by multiple perspectives, multilingualism and
antiracist education.

The book also considers research results of cultural
studies and depicts concepts of a multicultural
society as well as models of intercultural learning
and communication.

                                                          178 pages 7 b/w illus. 2015 (8th
                                                          edition)

                                                          Original Title: Einführung in die
                                                          interkulturelle Pädagogik

                                                          ISBN: 978-3-534-26776-7

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Cornelius Hartz

Myth Alarm!                                             Cornelius Hartz studied classical
                                                        philology and works as an editor,
20 Popular Errors about the Ancient                     author and translator in Hamburg.
Romans

Was Rome indeed founded in 753 BC as a popular
German rhyme would have it? Did all Romans speak
Classical Latin? A toga belongs to a Roman like the
laurel wreath to Caesar, or doesn’t it? Speaking of
Caesar – was he not murdered by a certain Brutus?
Anyway, what were they like, those ancient Romans?
Were they an especially cleanly people who visited
the public baths on a daily basis? Or is the opposite
true? After all, they did not know soap but
supposedly used urine for cleaning their teeth and
laundering their clothes.

In this highly entertaining book, Cornelius Hartz
debunks 20 popular myths about the Ancient
Romans and Ancient Rome.

                                                        190 pages 2016

                                                        Original Title: Alles Mythos! 20
                                                        populäre Irrtümer über die alten
                                                        Römer

                                                        ISBN: 978-3-8062-3273-8

                                                        wbg (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft)
                                                        Hindenburgstr. 40 64295 Darmstadt, Germany

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                                                        +49 6151 3308 159

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