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KLETT-COTTA FOREIGN RIGHTS GUIDE
SPRING 2021
FICTION & NON-FICTION
Raphaela Edelbauer SELECTED BY NEW BOOKS IN GERMAN
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ENGLISH SAMPLE+INTERVIEW AVAILABLE
Literary Fiction
432 pages
Hardcover
January 2021
ISBN: 978-3-608-96473-8
www.jetztdave.com
Raphaela Edelbauer was born in Vienna in
Rights handled by Michael Gaeb 1990. She was awarded the first prize at the
Literary Agency (World, except IT) • Rauriser Literaturtage 2018 and received a year-
Berla & Griffini (IT) long stipend from the German literature fund.
Among numerous other nominations and
awards, she won the highly acclaimed audience
Published as top title, accompanied by an extensive marketing campaign • Highly acclaimed author: award at the Ingeborg Bachmann competition in
Shortlisted for the German and the Austrian Book Prize (2019) • Winner audience award at the Ingeborg 2018. Edelbauer lives in Vienna.
Bachmann competition (2018) • Theodor-Körner-Prize
Fiction | 2
Rights of ›The Liquid Land‹ sold to: France (Éditions Globe) • Italy (Rizzoli) • WER (Scribe)
Hermann Stresau INTERVIEW WITH EDITORS AVAILABLE
A World Apart • Diaries from an
ENGLISH SAMPLE BY DAMION SEARLS
Emigration of the Mind in Nazi Germany, 1933 – 1939
Modern Classics
Volume one of two
448 pages
Hardcover, with various illustrations Hermann Stresau, born in Milwaukee in
1894, grew up in Frankfurt. He studied German
March 2021
language and literature and worked as a
ISBN: 978-3-608-98329-6 municipal librarian in Berlin until 1933.
After his dismissal by the National Socialists –
Rights handled by Michael Gaeb because of critical remarks he made about
Literary Agency (World, except IT) • Hitler and the Nazi regime – Stresau worked
as a writer, editor, critic and translator.
Berla & Griffini (IT)
In the post-war period, he became a highly-
respected public intellectual. He worked at the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and wrote
several novels and biographies of English
Edited and with an afterword by Peter Graf and Ulrich Faure • Published in two volumes (1933 – writers. Stresau died in Göttingen in 1964.
1939 and 1939 – 1945) in Spring and Fall 2021 • For readers of Victor Klemperer, Walter
Kempowski and Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz (sold to 20 territories) Fiction | 3
Jörg-Uwe Albig
The Stockholm Syndrome and the Sadomasochistic
Spirit of Capitalism
Literary Fiction
240 pages
Hardcover
April 2021
ISBN: 978-3-608-98416-3
Rights handled by Michael Gaeb
Literary Agency (World, except IT) •
Berla & Griffini (IT)
Jörg-Uwe Albig, born in Bremen in 1960,
studied art and music in Kassel, was an editor
at Stern and lived in Paris for two years as a
correspondent for a German art magazine.
Since 1993 he has worked as a freelance
author in Berlin.
A trenchantly intellectual, very zeitgeisty novel which leads the coaching and corporate optimization
madness of our time ad absurdum • An extremely clever satire criticising neoliberalism Fiction | 4
Bernhard Heckler ENGLISH SAMPLE AVAILABLE
The Love Life of Penguins
Literary Fiction
208 pages
Hardcover
March 2021
ISBN: 978-3-608-50482-8
www.bernhardheckler.de
Bernhard Heckler, born in 1991 in Munich,
studied political sciences and journalism in
Regensburg, Istanbul, Vienna and Munich. He
has a scholarship from the Bavarian Academy
of Writing and the FAZIT Foundation. He
writes for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die ZEIT
and their magazines. He lives in Munich.
Brilliant young debut novel • For readers of Leif Randt (Allegro Pastell) and Ronja von Rönne •
A novel for the »Generation Can’t commit« Fiction | 5
Jörg Magenau ENGLISH SAMPLE AVAILABLE
The Canadian Night
Literary Fiction
200 pages
Hardcover
February 2021
ISBN: 978-3-608-98403-3
Jörg Magenau is one of Germany’s best-
known feature writers. He has written
biographies about Christa Wolf, Martin Walser
and the brothers Ernst and Friedrich Georg
Jünger. His literary report ‘Princeton 66’ was
recently published by Klett-Cotta. ‘The
A poetic and powerful autobiographical novel • For readers of Karl Ove Knausgård and Joachim Meyerhoff • Canadian Night’ is his first novel.
Click here to watch Jörg Magenau's interview with Literaturhaus Heilbronn
Fiction | 6
Christoph Hardebusch BEST-SELLING FANTASY AUTHOR
The City of Seers
Fantasy
Approx. 448 pages
Hardcover
May 2021
ISBN: 978-3-608-93918-7 Christoph Hardebusch, born in 1974,
studied English and media in Marburg and
then worked as a copywriter for an
www.hardebusch.net advertising agency. His great interest in
fantasy and history eventually inspired him
to pursue his vocation as a writer. His debut
Works by Hardebusch have an overall printrun of half a million copies • Author was awarded the »The Trolls« (Heyne) has captured the minds
›Deutscher Phantastik Prize 2007‹ for the best German-language debut novel • Published at and imagination of readers everywhere.
Klett-Cotta’s ›Hobbit Presse‹, one of the most renowned Fantasy imprints in Germany (J.R.R. Hundreds of thousands copies have been
Tolkien, Patrick Rothfuss and many more) sold in Germany alone. Hardebusch now
lives and works together with his wife in
Heidelberg.
Rights of previous works published by Heyne sold to: Italy (Armenia) • Czech Republic (Fantom
Print) • The Netherlands (Mynx/de Boekerij) • Russia (FLC) • Turkey (Pegasus) Fantasy | 7
Carlotta Welding
ENGLISH SAMPLE AVAILABLE
Learning to Feel • Why we often struggle to make
sense of our feelings and how we can change this TOP TITLE PSYCHOLOGY 2021
Popular Psychology
304 pages
February 2021
Softcover
ISBN: 978-3-608-96336-6
www.carlottawelding.de
Dr. Carlotta Welding, born in 1984, Berlin
linguist and emotion researcher, did her
doctorate at the Cluster of Excellence at the
FU Berlin and is an expert on emotions and
repressed, forgotten, skipped, unlived
feelings. She lives together with her three
By one of the leading scientists in the field of emotional research • Caring, entertaining and children and her husband in Berlin.
scientifically sound • Why emotions are not just a matter of feeling
Non-Fiction | 8
Susann Sitzler
Fathers and Daughters • A book on relationships
Psychology
304 pages
Hardcover
April 2021
ISBN: 978-3-608-98220-6
Susann Sitzler was born in Basel in 1970 and
lives in Berlin as a journalist and book author.
She has written reports, portraits and radio
features for DIE ZEIT, Frankfurter Allgemeine
Sonntagszeitung, Merian and Deutschlandradio
Kultur; numerous books, most recently
How fathers shape their daughters and vice versa • Almost 30,000 copies of Sitzler’s works sold published by Klett-Cotta: ›Freundinnen‹ and
›Geschwister‹.
Rights of ›Geschwister‹ sold to: Turkey (Ilestisim Yayinlari)
Non-Fiction | 9
ENGLISH SAMPLE AVAILABLE
Meike Stoverock
Female Choice • About the Beginning and BEST-SELLING TOP TITLE SPRING 2021
End of Male Civilization
Big Idea Book
352 pages
February 2021
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-608-50480-4
Meike Stoverock studied biology with a focus
www.fraumeike.de on evolutionary ecology. She completed her
doctorate in epidemiology. The complex
interactions between living organisms and their
Rights handled by Michael Gaeb
environment are her field of expertise.
Literary Agency (World, except IT) • She has been involved for years in gender and
Berla & Griffini (IT) social debates in Germany with her widely read
articles. She publishes both on her blog and in
Zeit-Online, Tagesspiegel and Spiegel-Online.
›Female Choice‹ is her first book, published as
the leading title of Tropen/Klett-Cotta in Spring
2021, accompanied by a Podcast.
Non-Fiction | 10ENGLISH SAMPLE+BOOKLET AVAILABLE
Tobias Hürter
The Age of Uncertainty • How Physics Changed the
PREVIEW TITLE FALL 2021
Way We See the World, 1895 – 1945)
Popular Science
Approx. 416 pages
Hardcover
November 2021
Tobias Hürter, born in 1972, studied
ISBN: 978-3-608-98372-2
mathematics and philosophy in Munich and
Berkeley and holds a Phd in mathematics. He
Rights handled by Michael Gaeb has been writing about science, technology
Literary Agency (World) and philosophy for magazines and
newspapers since 2000. He was head of text
at the philosophy magazine ›Hohe Luft‹ and
is now a permanent freelance editor at ›DIE
For readers of Stephen Hawking, Brian Greene, Lisa Randall, Carlo Rovelli, Janna Levin and Wolfram ZEIT Magazin Wissen‹. He has already
Eilenberger • The discovery of radioactivity, the theory of relativity, the invention of quantum published several nonfiction books. His new
book ›The Age of Uncertainty‹ was acquired
mechanics and the atomic bomb: the great era of modern physics and its ingenious protagonists •
at fierce auction.
The incredible story of a group of physicists who reinvented the universe a hundred years ago
Non-Fiction | 11Ronald D. Gerste
ENGLISH SAMPLE AVAILABLE
Healing the World
The Golden Age of Medicine 1840 - 1918 PUBLISHED AS TOP TITLE 2021
Popular History
400 pages
Hardcover with various illustrations
February 2021
ISBN: 978-3-608-98409-5
Rights handled by Michael Gaeb
Ronald D. Gerste is a practicing physician
Literary Agency (World, except IT) •
and historian. Based in Washington, D.C., he
Berla & Griffini (IT) is the science correspondent for leading
German-language newspapers including the
»Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung«, »Neue
Zürcher Zeitung«, »DIE ZEIT« and scientific
magazines. Klett-Cotta published his books
on America and on other deciding factors in
history, like the weather or maladies.
Rights sold to: Italy (Keller) • Korea (pre-publication; Hanbit Biz) • Russia (Eksmo) • Spain (World, Taurus) •
Non-Fiction | 12
Please note option publishers (China: Xinchang, Hungary: Corvina, Taiwan: Inno-Fair, Turkey: Kolektif)BRAND-NEW LOOKS AT GLOBAL HISTORY…
Ronald D. Gerste | How Maladies Make History
381 pages | Hardcover with illustrations | March 2019 | ISBN: 978-3-608-96400-4
Rights handled by Michael Gaeb Literary Agency (World, except IT) • Berla & Griffini (IT)
Rights sold to: China (BEIJING XINCHANG CULTURAL) • Korea (Miraebook Publishing) •
Hungary (Corvina) • Italy (Keller Editore) • Russia (Eksmo) • Taiwan (Inno-Fair)
Ronald D. Gerste | How Weather Makes History • Catastrophes and Climate
Change from Antiquity to the Present Days
288 pages | Hardcover with illustrations | October 2015 | ISBN: 978-3-608-94922-3
Rights handled by Michael Gaeb Literary Agency (World) • Berla & Griffini (IT)
Rights sold to: Hungary (Corvina), Korea (Miraebook Publishing), Turkey (Kolektif Kitap) •
Please note option publishers
Backlist Highlights Non-Fiction | 13ENGLISH SAMPLE AVAILABLE
Stefan Bollmann
The Breath of the World
ENGLISH INTERVIEW AVAILABLE
Johann Wolfgang Goethe and his Nature Experience
Narrative Non-Fiction
Approx. 650 pages
Hardcover with various illustrations
March 2021
Stefan Bollmann, born in 1958, studied
ISBN: 978-3-608-96416-5
literature, history and philosophy. He holds a
doctorate in German studies (thesis on
Rights handled by Michael Gaeb Thomas Mann) and wrote several books on
Literary Agency (World, except IT) • the history of reading and alternative ways of
Berla & Griffini (IT) living. His unconventional Goethe biography
"Why a life without Goethe is pointless" as well
as “Women Who Read Are Dangerous” and
“Women Who Read Are Dangerous and
Books by Stefan Bollmann have been translated into 16 languages and sold nearly half a million copies • Clever” became bestsellers. Bollmann lives in
Munich and has been working as a nonfiction
Rethink Goethe! Goethe as the pioneer of nature writing • The first ecologist • The inventor of forest bathing
editor at C.H.Beck for 13 years.
Rights sold to: Spain (Planeta, Ariel)
Non-Fiction | 14Wolfram Eilenberger | Is This Me? • Little People Big Questions NEW BOOK BY BEST-SELLING AUTHOR
Approx. 128 pages | Hardcover | March 2021 | ISBN: 978-3-608-96462-2
Rights handled by Michael Gaeb Literary Agency (World)
Wolfram Eilenberger, PhD, was born in
Freiburg in 1972. He studied Philosophy,
Psychology and Romance Philology in
Heidelberg, Berlin and Turku, Finland. He is a
columnist at DIE ZEIT, hosts a TV show on
philosophy on Swiss television and is the
program director of ›phil. cologne‹, a yearly
international festival on philosophy. He
published several narrative nonfiction books
Eilenberger’s ›Time of the Magicians‹ has sold 75.000 copies to date in Germany, received the ›Bavarian Book
very successfully.
Prize‹, and the ›Best Foreign Book Award‹ in 2018 • An inspiring, entertaining, and humorous book about
children and the love of wisdom
Stefan
• Rebenich | The Germans and their Antiquity • An eventful relationship
Approx. 400 pages | Hardcover with illustrations | June 2021 | ISBN: 978-3-608-96476-9 Stefan Rebenich, born in 1961, studied
classical philology and history at the University
of Mannheim and ancient history at Oxford
University. In 2003, Rebenich became Pro-
fessor of Ancient History at the University of
Bielefeld. In 2006, he moved to a Chair of
Ancient History and Reception History of
Antiquity up to the 20th Century at the
Rebenich is one of the leading German historians of antiquity and science • 200 years of antiquity-longing University of Bern. He writes for the Neue
and history of ancient studies Zürcher Zeitung, the Süddeutsche Zeitung and
the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Bernd Stegemann | The Public and its Enemies
304 pages | Hardcover | February 2021 | ISBN: 978-3-608-98419-4 Bernd Stegemann, born in Münster in 1967,
studied Philosophy and German Philology at
the FU Berlin and the University of Hamburg as
well as Theatre Directing at the Hamburg
Theatre Academy. He is a professor at the Ernst
Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin and
A plea for a new culture of debate and a public that is aware of its responsibility dramaturge at the Berlin Ensemble.
Non-Fiction | 15Angela Dunemann, Regina Weiser, Joachim Pfahl | Trauma Sensitive Yoga – ENGLISH SAMPLE AVAILABLE
TSY • Post-traumatic growth and development of self-compassion
248 pages | + 34 practice cards, tbp in April 2021 | ISBN: 978-3-608-89181-2/-89273-4
Angela Dunemann, social pedagogue, yoga
teacher, alternative practitioner in psycho-
therapy and trauma therapist.
Regina Weiser, psychologist, yoga teacher,
works in her own practice as a psychotherapist
and is building up yoga-therapeutic networks,
e.g. yoga in a social setting with refugees.
Joachim Pfahl, yoga and meditation teacher,
trauma yoga therapist, mental coach with 40
years of professional experience, author and
lecturer for trauma-sensitive yoga and yoga
teacher trainings.
www.traumasensiblesyoga.de
BACKLIST HIGHLIGHT PSYCHOTHERAPY
Wolfgang Schmidbauer | Taking Offence • Emotional Vulnerability in
Psychotherapy
230 pages | ISBN: 978-3-608-89230-7
Wolfgang Schmidbauer (Ph.D.) is a psycho-
therapist (of couples and individuals),
psychoanalyst, supervisor, honorary chair-
man of the Society for Analytical Group
Dynamics, instructing analyst of the Munich
Work Group for Psychoanalysis, well-known
science writer and author. He lives in Munich
and Dießen (Ammersee), Germany.
Works by Wolfgang Schmidbauer have been sold to The Netherlands, Spain, Czech Republic,
Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Korea and Japan
Backlist Reference Books | 16Bettina Hitzer | Oncomotions • The History of Cancer and
ENGLISH SAMPLE AVAILABLE
Emotions in the Twentieth Century
540 pages | ISBN: 978-3-608-96459-2
Bettina Hitzer, studied history, got a Ph.D.
and teaches as private lecturer at the Free
University Berlin. Since 2014, she’s been
leading a research team at the Max Planck
Institute for Human Development (Berlin),
Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Price 2020 (Non-Fiction) • First book on the significance of
studying illness as a subject of the history of
emotions in the history of cancer
emotions. Bettina Hitzer lives in Berlin with her
family.
Rights sold to: China (Guangdong People's Publishing House) • Russia (offer pending) •
WER (offer pending)
Gregor Hasler | The Gut-Brain-Connection • Revolutionary Knowledge ENGLISH SAMPLE AVAILABLE
for our Mental and Physical Health
368 pages | ISBN: 978-3-608-98384-5
Gregor Hasler is Professor of Psychiatry and
Psychotherapy at the University of Freiburg
and Head Physician and Head of the
Psychiatric Research Department at the
Freiburg Network for Psychic Health. His
›The Gut-Brain Connection‹ sold more than 30,000 copies in Germany • Internationally
research focuses are neuroscientific
recognized and scientifically renowned author (click here for author's full CV)
psychiatry, bio-psycho-social interaction,
stress, depression and eating disorders.
His manifold scientific publications have
received numerous awards.
Rights sold: China (Anhui Haolin) • The Netherlands (Uitgeverij Nieuwezijds)
Backlist Non-Fiction | 17Iris Wolff | The Blurriness of the World
216 pages | ISBN: 978-3-608-98326-5 ENGLISH SAMPLE AVAILABLE
Rights handled by Michael Gaeb Literary Agency (World, except IT) • Berla & Griffini (IT)
Iris Wolff, born in 1977 in Hermannstadt,
Transylvania, received several awards for her
critically acclaimed literary works. She was
nominated for the highly regarded Alfred-
Döblin-Prize and received Scholarships of the
Selected by New Books in German • Nominated for the German Book Prize 2020, the Bavarian Art Foundation Baden-Württemberg, the state
Book Prize 2020, the Wilhelm-Raabe-Literary Prize 2020, the Literary award Text & Sprache 2021 • of Baden-Württemberg and the Künstlerhaus
Winner of the Protestant Book Prize 2021, the Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize 2021 and more Edenkoben. Wolff is a member of the
international exile PEN. She lives in Freiburg, in
the south west of Germany.
Rights sold to: France (Éditions Grasset) • Italy (Rizzoli) • Netherlands (Signatuur) •
Romania (Lebada Neagra) • Bulgaria (offer pending)
Zaia Alexander | A Long Spell of Earthquake Weather
320 pages | ISBN: 978-3-608-50459-0
Zaia Alexander lives in Potsdam and Los
Angeles. She holds a PhD in German Studies
from UCLA, was a research assistant at the
Getty Research Institute and program director
of the Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades/ Los
Angeles. In 2008 she was awarded the Lannan
Complete English manuscript available • Click here for Zaia Alexander’s interview with Residency in Marfa, Texas. ›A Long Spell of
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Earthquake Weather‹ is her first novel.
Backlist Fiction | 18KLETT-COTTA CLASSICS
Karl Kerényi | The Mythology of the Greeks
Published in two volumes | Vol. 1: The Gods of the Greeks; Vol. 2: The Heroes of the Greeks |
307; 451 pages | 1997 | ISBN: 978-3-608-94373-3
Karl Kerényi, born in 1897 in Temesvár, was
one of the 20th century's leading scholars of
comparative religion. After holding a
professorship in Fünfkirchen (1936) he taught
in Szeged after 1941, before moving to
Switzerland in 1943, where he remained until
his death in 1973.
Rights sold: China (SSAP) • Brazil (Vozes) • Greece (Hestia) • Hungary (Szukits, out of print) •
Italy (Saggiatore) • The Netherlands (Uniboek, out of print) • Spain (Atalanta) • Sweden (Natur
och, out of print) • Turkey (SAY) • UK (Thames&Hudson, out of print)
Ernst H. Kantorowicz | Emperor Frederick II
Main volume of the new edition with an epilogue by Eckhart Grünewald | 572 pages | 1998 |
Ernst H. Kantorowicz studied political
ISBN: 978-3-608-96121-8 economy and philosophy. He insisted, during
the Third Reich, in retiring from his Frankfurt
University professorship, going first to
Berkeley and then, after his anti-Communist
loyalties were impugned, to the Institute of
Advanced Studies at Princeton.
Rights sold to: France (Gallimard) • Italy (Garzanti) • Spanish rights available again, WER (Head
of Zeus)
Backlist Classics | 19For rights handled by Michael Gaeb Literary Agency please contact: For Italian language rights please contact:
Michael Gaeb Literary Agency Berla & Griffini Rights Agency
Ms Andrea Vogel Ms Barbara Griffini
Chodowieckistraße 26 Via Gian Giacomo Mora 7
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E-mail: vogel@litagentur.com E-Mail: griffini@bgagency.it
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For Spanish/Portuguese language rights please contact: For Scandinavian language rights please contact:
A.C.E.R. Agentur Literatur Gudrun Hebel
Ms Laure Merle d‘Aubigné Mr Guenther Frauenlob
Calle Amor de Dios, 1 Franz-Mehring-Platz 1
28014 Madrid, Spain 10243 Berlin
Tel. +34-91-369 20 61 or 369 46 75 Tel. +49 (0)-30-34707767
Fax. +34-91-369 20 52 E-Mail: guenther.frauenlob@agentur-literatur.de
E-Mail: LMA@acerliteraria.com Web: www.agentur-literatur.de
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For Dutch/Flemish language rights please contact:
Marianne Schönbach Literary Agency
Ms Marianne Schönbach
Rokin 44 III
1012 KV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel. 0031 (0) 20 62 000 20
E-Mail: m.schonbach@schonbach.nl
Web: www.schonbach.nl
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