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FOREIGN RIGHTS GUIDE
AUTUMN 2019
FICTION
cover design: Focus + EchoC O N TA C T S & A G E N T S CONTENT
ANDREA SEIBERT English language CONSTANZE CHORY Scandinavia
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FRONTLIST AUTUMN 2019 CRIME 8
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HISTORY 13
WOMEN’S FICTION 16
CHRISTMAS 17
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rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de rights@dtv.de www.dtv.deHIGHLIGHT AUTUMN 2019 HIGHLIGHT AUTUMN 2019
ARTUR DZIUK
Artur Dziuk
ENGLPISLH
SAM TEION
The Ting TRAANVASILLAABLE
DAS TING
© Gunter Glücklich
What would happen if you let an app make all the ROMAN
decisions in your life?
464 pages
dtv’s new imprint bold addresses generation Y readers with young, In Berlin, four young people start a new company and September 2019
co-develop a new app, the so-called Ting which gathers
edgy fiction titles. Life in times of social media and globalization, body-related data, evaluates it, and then uses this basis to
gender debates, experiences of diversity and inclusion, and the provide behavioral and decision recommendations.
overcoming of stereotypes are topics that bold takes on The concept of Ting proves convincing – the app makes a
ARTUR HENRYK DZIUK was born in 1983 in
− across communities and age groups, and beyond expectations. great impact. However, in order to win more investors for the
Poland, and as a child, he moved with his parents
company, the four start-up founders are soon forced to take
to Berlin. He was the publisher of Bella triste, a
part in a dangerous game. They sign a contract to follow all of
magazine for contemporary literature. He was
Ting’s future recommendations, regardless of what happens,
also an artistic director for Prosanova, a festival for
with fatal consequences.
contemporary literature, and is currently employed
by the Fraunhofer Society for Information and
Communication Technology.
bold is the publishing answer to everyday life of generation Y • An exhilarating novel set in the Berlin start-up
− a new imprint, a bold experiment. scene
Having started in 2018 with huge success, the imprint explicitely • For fans of The Circle and Her
attracts new target groups.
"I want to be on your list!", an enthusiastic literary agent told us in
2016. − So far, two of her titles made it there! Be bold!
Claudia Baumhöver, publisher dtv
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rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de rights@dtv.de www.dtv.deHIGHLIGHT AUTUMN 2019 HIGHLIGHT AUTUMN 2019
SABINE FRIEDRICH
R.R. Sul R.R. SUL is a pseudonym. The
EINIGE
ABER DOCH
Sabine Friedrich
author would like to remain
The Inheritance anonymous.
ROMAN
But Some Did
© Heike Bogenberger
ENGLPISLH
SAM TEION
TRANSLAABLE
AVAIL
»Ich war immer allein. Mit meiner Mutter. SABINE FRIEDRICH, born in
Meine Mutter war immer allein. Mit mir.
Meine Mutter lebte für mich und zerstörte ihr Leben.
Nicht aber meines. Das versuchte ein anderer.«
_ _ 1958 in Coburg, studied
German and English in Munich
224 pages 448 pages and gained her PhD in 1989.
September 2019 September 2019 Returning to her native Coburg
in 1996, she has been living
there ever since with her family.
»I was always alone. With my mother. My mother was always alone. With »My greatest hope is that you are happy when you think of me.« In 2012, Sabine Friedrich
me. My mother lived for me and destroyed her life. But not mine. Someone published her comprehensive
This is the first novel ever published about the lives and deaths of the women and men novel Wer wir sind about the
else did that.« involved with the so-called Red Orchestra. They all met the same violent fate, but German resistance, along with a
their paths to that point were quite varied despite the similarity of their deaths. Sabine work report about the
Friedrich’s narrative is not about heroes from some distant time, but about the decisive development of this novel.
As a child, Wolf slept during the day and was awake at night. He was only allowed to and searching, desperate and confident, outraged and loving individuals who found
leave their apartment if he put on a motorcycle helmet, because his mother claimed themselves compelled to respond and react to the circumstances that surrounded them.
that he suffered from moonshine disease. When a doctor discovered her lie, she killed Just like everyone else. Most Germans acquiesced to what was happening around them,
herself. Now, as an adult, Wolf lives in seclusion in his apartment, the walls of which are never even once trying to intervene. But some did.
covered with puzzles. One day, a man appears, claiming to be his brother. Freddy has an
enigmatic impact on Wolf, a man with no moral compass, and the two men grow closer.
Once again, Wolf finds himself in a dangerous struggle for the truth of his own life.
• The first novel ever published about the lives and deaths of the women
and men involved with the Red Orchestra.
• Two more novels are in preparation, one on the “Kreisau Circle” involving
Helmuth James von Moltke, and one on “Operation Valkyrie” involving
• Raw, murky and turbulent Claus von Stauffenberg.
• An unsettling game of power and manipulation
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
CÄSAR VON HOFACKER · RÜDIGER SCHLEICHER · EMMI BONHOEFFER · HARRO SCHULZE-BOYSEN · ARVID HARNACK · ERIKA VON TRESCKOW
SABINE
PHILIPP SCHAEFFER · BERTHOLD SCHENK GRAF VON STAUFFENBERG · HORST VON EINSIEDEL · FRITZ-DIETLOF GRAF VON DER SCHULENBURG
FRIEDRICH
HILDE COPPI · HANS BERND VON HAEFTEN · JULIUS LEBER · RUDOLF SABINE FRIEDRICH
BERGTEL · KURT SCHUMACHER · HELMUTH JAMES GRAF VON MOLTKE · ODA
Wer
SCHOTTMÜLLER · CHRISTOPH PROBST · ULRICH VON HASSELL · INA LAUTENSCHLÄGER · FRIEDRICH KARL KLAUSING · HORST HEILMANN · CLAUS
Wer
SCHENK GRAF VON STAUFFENBERG · HANNELORE THIEL · FREYA GRÄFIN VON MOLTKE · FRANZ JACOB · WILHELM LEUSCHNER · CLARITA VON
TROTT ZU SOLZ · JOHN SIEG · ROSEMARIE REICHWEIN · HEINRICH SCHEEL · CARL DIETRICH VON TROTHA · WALTER HUSEMANN · THEODOR HAUBACH
wir
KURT SCHULZE · GEORG HANSEN · SOPHIE SCHOLL · PETER GRAF YORCK VON WARTENBURG · HEINZ STRELOW · ERIKA GRÄFIN VON BROCKDORFF
JOACHIM KUHN · MARIA VON WEDEMEYER · LIANE BERKOWITZ · SARAH GOLDBERG · DIETRICH BONHOEFFER · JOHANN GEORG ELSER · HANS VON
wir
DOHNANYI · LOTTE SCHLEIF · CARL FRIEDRICH GOERDELER · ADOLF GRIMME · HELMUT HIMPEL · FRIEDRICH REHMER · RUDOLPH-CHRISTOPH
sind
FREIHERR VON GERSDORFF · RUDOLF VON SCHELIHA · DOROTHEE POELCHAU · FRIEDRICH WILHELM HEINZ · OTTO GOLLNOW · KARL LUDWIG
FREIHERR VON UND ZU GUTTENBERG · HERMANN MAASS · CARLO MIERENDORFF · ALEXANDER SCHMORELL · HARALD POELCHAU · ADAM
KUCKHOFF · LILO RAMDOHR · WERNER VON HAEFTEN · WILHELM FELLENDORF · HENNING VON TRESCKOW · ROSE SCHLÖSINGER · ERWIN VON
WITZLEBEN · BERNHARD BÄSTLEIN · THEODOR STELTZER · MARTHA SCHULZE · GEORG FERDINAND DUCKWITZ · ROSEMARIE TERWIEL · EWALD
sind
HEINRICH VON KLEIST-SCHMENZIN · RAINER KÜCHENMEISTER · HANS OTTO · JOHANNES POPITZ · ANNI KRAUSS · MARION GRÄFIN YORCK VON
WARTENBURG · HERBERT GOLLNOW · ANTON SAEFKOW · HANS SCHOLL · ERNST VON HARNACK · KURT HUBER · ANNEDORE LEBER · ERNA EIFLER
ELISABETH SCHUMACHER · WILLY BRANDT · ALFRED DELP · CLARA BOHM-SCHUCH · CATO BONTJES VAN BEEK · ROBERT UHRIG · LUDWIG BECK
URSULA GOETZE · ROBERT ABSHAGEN · KARL BÖHME · LIBERTAS SCHULZE-BOYSEN · BARBARA VON HAEFTEN · ELISABETH VON THADDEN
WILHELM SCHÜRMANN-HORSTER · EWALD VON KLEIST-SCHMENZIN · CARL SACK · AXEL FREIHERR VON DEM BUSSCHE-STREITHORST · MILDRED
HARNACK · OTTO KIEP · GÜNTHER WEISENBORN · GUSTAV DAHRENDORF · HANNA SOLF · ILSE STÖBE · ULRICH WILHELM GRAF SCHWERIN VON
SCHWANENFELD · MARTA HUSEMANN · ADOLF REICHWEIN · ALBRECHT VON KESSEL · ADAM VON TROTT ZU SOLZ · WERNER KRAUSS · HANS OSTER
ROMAN
SOPHIE POZNANSKA · GERD VON TRESCKOW · CHRISTINE VON DOHNANYI · WILHELM GUDDORF · NIKOLAUS GRAF VON ÜXKÜLL-GYLLENBAND
ELFRIEDE PAUL · FALK HARNACK · KLAUS BONHOEFFER · HANS COPPI · EUGEN GERSTENMAIER · FABIAN VON SCHLABRENDORFF · EVA-MARIA
BUCH · FRIEDRICH OLBRICHT · WILLI GRAF · JOHN GRAUDENZ · CARL-HANS GRAF VON HARDENBERG · GRETA KUCKHOFF · MARGARETHE VON
OVEN · JOHN F. RITTMEISTER · CHARLOTTE GRÄFIN VON DER SCHULENBURG · FRITZ THIEL · CARL JULIUS LANGBEHN · HELLMUTH STIEFF · WALTER
KÜCHENMEISTER · PAUL VON HASE · WILHELM CANARIS · ALBRECHT RITTER MERTZ VON QUIRNHEIM · WOLF-HEINRICH GRAF VON HELLDORF
_ _
HANS LAUTENSCHLÄGER · WESSEL FREIHERR VON FREYTAG-LORINGHOVEN · ALEXANDER FREIHERR VON FALKENHAUSEN · HANNA BERGER
EDUARD BRÜCKLMEIER · ILSE SCHAEFFER · CARL-HEINRICH VON STÜLPNAGEL · ANTONIE GRAUDENZ · ERICH FELLGIEBEL · KLARA SCHABBEL
Who We Are
2.032 pages
Pub. Date: 2012
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rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de rights@dtv.de www.dtv.deCRIME FICTION CRIME FICTION
Frank Goldammer Detective Inspector Max Heller-Series
c. 340 pages / each title
Frank Goldammer
The Air Raid Killer (vol. I)
Dresden, November 1944: the population is
BELSLETR June '53
groaning under the strain and dire privations
of an increasingly menacing war. Detective SE :
VOL. I + IITE
COMPLLIESH
© Jens Oellermann
inspector Max Heller is summoned to the
scene of a crime, where he is confronted with ENG T
the savagely battered body of a woman. Very TEX E
soon, the rumour mills start to grind: it’s the AVAILABL
Fright Man, prowling the ruins at night.
BEST G FRANK GOLDAMMER was
»Reading The Air Raid Killer may SELLHIN
OR
born in Dresden in 1975.
AUT A painter and varnisher by
A Thousand Devils (vol. II) keep you up more nights than most 352 pages trade, he began writing in his
December 2019
Dresden, 1947: The city lies within the Soviet mysteries, breathless from the early twenties, self-publishing
his first novels. For dtv he has
occupation zone and is still a desert of rubble explosions and in awe of Heller’s written several successful
and ruins. Inspector Max Heller is summoned
to the scene of a crime in Dresden Neustadt by conviction.« - Gabriella Page-Fort, historical crime thrillers set in
Max Heller remains true to himself - but the gap that is dividing the Dresden and its surroundings.
the newly-instigated People’s Police. The victim Amazon Crossing
seems to be a Red Army soldier. But before he country also starts to fragment his own family A single parent, he lives with
his twin children in Dresden.
gets a chance to begin his investigations he
discovers that the Russian military has
Summer 1953: Daily life in the new German Democratic Republic (GDR) is
removed the corpse from the scene... Rights sold: becoming difficult. The ongoing shortages of everything continue. The
English language, Arabic language, population’s dissatisfaction grows, and the number of those fleeing the country
increases continuously. The government of the Socialist Union Party harshly
The Forgotten (vol. III) Greece, Hungary, The Netherlands imposes its demands and mercilessly hunts down its opponents. Even Max and
Karin Heller consider fleeing to the West. On June 17, the political situation
Dresden 1948: a hot summer, three years after
escalates as large-scale protest movements grow everywhere.
the end of the war. The great currency reform
This is the point at which Detective Inspector Heller is called to a Dresden
throws occupied and divided post-war
insulation factory: its director and former owner has been brutally murdered. Is
Germany into a crisis. In the midst of the
he a victim of the rebels? Heller’s suspicions run along other lines. In the midst
arduous reconstruction work, Detective
of the people’s revolt, he searches for an unpredictable murderer. At the same
Inspector Max Heller finds himself entangled
time, Karin demands that he takes a decision: run or stay?
in a case involving a fourteen-year-old boy,
whose cause of death is anything but clear.
While investigating this case, Heller runs up
against a wall of silence.
• Total sales of Frank Goldammer’s books with dtv: 120,000 copies
• Trust viewers of Tom Tykwer's Babylon Berlin to pick up Goldammer's books
Red Raven (vol. IV)
• Frank Goldammer's books span the time period from the last days of the World War II
In late summer 1951, Detective Inspector
Heller is worried, but his new case isn’t to the construction of the Berlin Wall - pure tension, compelling and vibrantly
leaving him any time to brood. Two men, narrated
Jehovah’s Witnesses, being held under
suspicion of espionage die in their prison
cells. And other mysterious deaths follow. A
cryptic message is found next to one of the
victims and a horrifying suspicion rises in
Heller.
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rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de rights@dtv.de www.dtv.deCRIME FICTION CRIME FICTION
Susanne Goga Detective Leo Wechsler-Series Susanne Goga Detective Leo Wechsler-Series
Leo Berlin (vol. I)
Berlin 1922. Germany is divided into two rival political factions; with
their defeat at the end of the First World War, the people seem unable to
Susanne Goga
settle down and come to terms with peace. Detective superintendent Leo
Wechsler, a widower with two children, has to investigate a mysterious
murder: a faith healer, whose wealthy patients were mostly women, has
The Dance Hall Murder
been found dead – the murder weapon a jade sculpture of Buddha. There
are no witnesses, and no further clues. But the healer had his secrets: it turns
(vol. VII)
© Myriam Topel
out that he was supplying many of his patients with cocaine. Soon after, a
prostitute is murdered. Leo suspects the two murders are connected. His
investigations take him to elegant mansions, squalid tenements, cocaine
280 pages
dens and red light districts, but every time he thinks he’s on to something,
BEST G
SEULTLHIN
the trail goes cold. Leo’s tenacity, however, is legendary…
July 2005
A OR SUSANNE GOGA was born
in 1967. She studied literary
Rights sold: Italy 320 pages
translation in Düsseldorf and
has been translating as a
December 2019
freelance from English and
French since 1995.
A dead body in Clärchen’s Ballroom
Berlin, Summer 1928. A dresser is found murdered in Bühler’s ballroom, a
dance establishment on the Auguststraße, which is also known as Clärchen’s
dance hall. Clärchen, the owner, is stunned. Was the murder specifically
intended to harm her establishment?
Inspector Leo Wechsler’s case is further complicated by an unknown woman
present at the crime scene, a series of unsolved sexual crimes in Frankfurt
Death in Blue (vol. II)
The Dead Woman of Murder in Babelsberg (vol. IV) which show some similarities to the current case, and the sympathies of the
300 pages
Charlottenburg (vol. III) 320 pages victim’s Communist ex-lover. Wechsler and his colleagues pursue their
February 2007
304 pages February 2014 investigation in a world shaped by the Charleston, champagne, and wild
July 2012 pleasure.
• The seventh volume in the successful series about Inspector Leo
Wechsler
• An atmospheric historical Berlin mystery: ideal reading material for
fans of Babylon Berlin
• Susanne Goga’s total sales with dtv: 160,000 copies
It happened in Nighttime at
Schöneberg (vol. V) Ascanian Square (vol. VI)
336 pages 320 pages
January 2016 February 2018
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rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de rights@dtv.de www.dtv.deCRIME FICTION HISTORY
F e li ci t y Wh i t m o re
Susanne Mischke Felicity Whitmore
SUSANNE MISCHKE
Blank Space The Forgotten Voices
of Chastle House
© Antonio Moroni
© Melanie Grande
Roman
THRILLER
SUSANNE MISCHKE was born _ FELICITY WHITMORE
in Kempten in the Allgäu Alps manages, along with her
320 pages and lives in Hanover. One of 416 pages husband, an independent
August 2019 the best-known thriller writers October 2019 theater in Hagen, where she
for both young readers and works as a drama consultant,
adults in the German-speaking director and actress. Once a
Why. Am. I. Here? world, she is the recipient of the Echoes of the past year, she travels to England
Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg to satisfy her passion for the
This is the question Carolin asks herself when she wakes up in a Prize for Literature and the Dione Dearine, 27 years old, an international popstar, flees from her overly Victorian era and old English
psychiatric clinic two days later without any memories. No sense of why “Agathe”—the City of Wies- public life to Chastle House, an old family estate in the English Lake District. country houses.
she has landed here, no sense of why she is being kept here. However, she baden’s award for female crime Dione becomes Diana, who needs a little time to get used to her new
suspects that it might have something to do with the disappearance of her fiction authors. Her books have independence. But then she falls in love with the old house at the lake - with
friend and roommate Odile. Odile, who looked out for Carolin after the been translated into several its creaking boards and spacious rooms, with the landscape’s rough charms,
latter had moved into the flatshare on the houseboat. Odile, the languages and many of them and with her new life. She also finds herself falling for Aiden, the farmer who
fascinating, charismatic art student who had vanished without a trace have been made into television introduces her to all this. But the walls of Chastle House are hiding a horrifying
several weeks ago. But then the real shock comes during Carolin’s films. family secret...
conversations with her attending psychologist: Maart, the third roommate
in their flatshare, was murdered – and Carolin was found holding the
murder weapon...
• Amsterdam serves as the high-contrast backdrop for this
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
intelligent, shocking crime novel
Felicity Whitmore
Das
errenhaus
im Moor
Roman
_
premium
_
The Sound of Hidden Rooms The Manor on the Moor
432 pages 416 pages
Pub. Date: 2017 Pub. Date: 2018
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rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de rights@dtv.de www.dtv.deHISTORY HISTORY
Astrid Ruppert Reinhard Rohn
Days of Light The Seven Lives of
Anton Busch
© Susanne Schleyer
© Peter Porst
ASTRID RUPPERT worked REINHARD ROHN was born
as a dramatic consultant and in Osnabruck in 1959. He
producer for television works as the head of a
480 pages productions after completing 432 pages publishing house and divides
October 2019 her degree in literature. She November 2019 his time between Cologne
lives in the countryside, and and Berlin. Rohn translated
works as an author and numerous detective novels
How can you become the woman you want to be? screenwriter. “I was five years old when I first realized that I could read minds.” into German before starting
to write crime fiction of his
own. Under the pseudonym
One mild summer’s night in 1906, young, headstrong Lisette, the daughter of Little Anton inherited the gift for reading minds from his beloved grandfather, a Arne Blum, he has already
wealthy builder Otto Winter, secretly runs away from her parents’ home and goose keeper who had always dreamed of being a violinist. With this gift, Anton published three novels
everything she previously knew as her life. Her heart belongs to fashion design saved his mother’s life. This is the memory that begins the life story of the now featuring Kim the pig-
and to the young tailor Emile. Far outside the boundaries of her conservative, almost eighty-year-old Anton Busch. Born in 1939 as the seventh child in a detective.
imperially loyalist society, they want to start a family in which they can call their farming family, he tells the story of his impoverished childhood, about the war,
own shots and live freely. Emile sews the vibrant, flowing gowns designed by and about his family’s flight. He grew up in the young West Germany during the
Lisette, and the couple quickly becomes famous for their extravagant reform economic wonder years. Worked, married, learned, loved, suffered, and lived like
fashions. But then the First World War begins – bringing with it a whole new set everyone else.
of challenges. As an elderly man, he realized two things: Every life is unique. And no person
lives just one life. Sometimes they lead many...
• Volume One of the trilogy about four generations of the women in • A novel about a fascinating life, linked to significant historical
the Winter family events while remaining focused on the essential elements: the
• A novel about the courage required to pursue your dreams people
• Crime author Reinhard Rohn strikes off on a new path, inspired by
his great-uncle’s eventful life
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rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de rights@dtv.de www.dtv.deWOMEN'S FICTION CHRISTMAS
Heike Stöhr Ulrike Herwig
The Devil’s Handwriting Empty Stockings,
Cold Fireplace
© Mary Grace Long
© Christine Fenzl
576 pages 304 pages
August 2019 September 2019
HEIKE STÖHR born in Pirna ULRIKE HERWIG taught
“This mysterious book contains formulas which can defeat death.” in 1964, earned degrees in
Christmas XXL German in London for ten
German Literature and years before moving to
Pirna, 1544: Ever since the book with strange writing in it crossed her path as a History, and works as a The Bachmanns never dreamed of a Christmas like this! None of their grown Seattle with her family in
child, Sophia has been devoted to solving its mystery. Master Heinrich Fuchs stands teacher in Berlin. She did daughters, who are now scattered around the globe, can make it home for 2001. She spends every free
solidly by her side, having married Sophia after the death of Niklas, the father of her the research for her thesis Christmas this year. And so the Bachmann parents decide to take an moment at her desk, at which
son. The unscrupulous town clerk, Wolf Schumann, has been secretly watching both on Saxon history in the Pirna adventurous international trip. Along with an elderly grandmother and a raw she has written several
of them, and he has his own plans for the book’s magical powers. But then one day, Municipal Archive, focusing Christmas goose stuffed in their luggage, they visit one daughter after the other successful novels.
the presumed dead Niklas suddenly appears in Pirna. on the subject matter she has in Berlin, London, and the US. Christmas Eve XXL!
utilized in her novels.
“Was it possible that the Master had leveraged his knowledge of alchemy to turn his
wishes into reality?”
Brigitte Pons Astrid Ruppert
Love is the Best Cook It’s Snowing Over
© Patrick Liste
There
© Peter Porst
320 pages 304 pages
February 2020 September 2019
ASTRID RUPPERT worked
BRIGITTE PONS, born in
People don’t kiss amateur cooks... 1967, lives near Frankfurt The magic of a Christmas evening as a dramatic consultant and
producer for television
am Main. She has published
productions after completing
Against her better judgment, Miriam decides to do a favor for her ex-boyfriend several cozy and regional The residents of an old apartment building are looking forward to the her degree in literature. Now
Felix. She agrees to take over a shabby, chaotic bistro for a few days. Fortunately mysteries. approaching Christmas season with something less than enthusiasm. On every that she lives out in the
for her, Selim (a chatty Turkish bus driver and dreamy amateur cook), Joannis (an floor, in every apartment, chaos, conflict or loneliness rule the day. Five-year- country, she continues to
accountant and Selim’s friend), and the Syrian Hasim offer her assistance. old Jules is the only one whose faith in the Christ Child remains, and so he work as an author and
decides to give the building’s occupants a celebration full of hope and love. A screenwriter.
Everything might have gone well, except Miriam’s ex Felix shows up and suddenly touching Christmas tale about the joy of friendship.
everything becomes horribly complicated.
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Ein Provinzkrimi with the Munich police and is transferred to his home village of Ein Provinzkrimi
Niederkaltenkirchen in Lower Bavaria. There, he is a pen-pusher with
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with Wolfi or at the dinner table of his stone-deaf grandmother. All
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real case finally does land on his desk, it is truly bizarre – members of grown children and is married
the Neuhofer family are being killed in the most peculiar ways. The to a policeman.
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whose tortured past has left her unable to speak. While working in the manicured gardens, she DÖRTHE BINKERT born in
becomes a muse to the celebrated painter Giovanni Segantini. Westfalia, studied German,
As her ties to Segantini grow ever more complex, her search for love and truth becomes as Art History and Politics in
perilous as the quest for an alpine summit – and her destiny is rewritten on the journey. Frankfurt. After working as
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MARIE BRUNNTALER was
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Martina Bergmann takes care of Martha, a woman in her mid-80s who has a born in 1979 in Ostwestfalen.
particularly poetic outlook on life. Neither can say anymore how this came to be, After graduating high school,
240 pages but they are so happy sharing the same house that it hardly matters. she fled to the big cities of
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The Black Forest, 1820. A savage boy is found, but no one knows where he comes burden and, in fact, can be inspiring and life affirming.
from. The adolescent Gabriel is handed over to a farming family for supervision.
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He also possesses extensive knowledge about homeopathy and saves the life of young Martina wouldn’t have it any other way.
Maria. More and more of the villagers fall under Gabriel’s mysterious charms. When
the farmer’s wife secretly falls in love with Gabriel, the events escalate and result in
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family apart. She leaves her husband, breaks off all her friendships and almost Germany’s most successful
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believe that love and happiness are possible. By her side are her mother and her ers, in Germany and
neighbor Trudi, a fascinating woman in her eighties, with a mysterious past. Young internationally. Hanni Münzer
Jason, who moves into the attic flat above her also plays a unique role in Penelope’s has lived in Seattle, Stuttgart
new life. They all help Penelope learn that the world is full of wonder for those with and Rome, and has now
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her husband.
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