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Ingeborg Bachmann
Wolfgang Bauer
Ulla Berkéwicz
Ernst Bloch
Hans Blumenberg
Felix Bohr
Nora Bossong
Paul Celan
Suhrkamp
Insel
Zoltán Danyi
Nana Ekvtimishvili
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Yannic Han Biao Federer
Christoph Hein
Heinz Helle
Axel Honneth
Eva Illouz Rights List
Rahel Jaeggi
Dževad Karahasan
Frankfurt Book Fair 2018
Christian Lehnert
Enis Maci
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Philip Manow
Andreas Reckwitz
Ralf Rothmann
Judith Schalansky
Gershom Scholem
Peter Sloterdijk
Maria Stepanova
Uwe Tellkamp
Stephan Thome
Philipp Weiss
Bruno E. Werner
Serhij Zhadan
Ulf Erdmann Ziegler
Authors and Estates
represented by Suhrkamp/Insel
A selection
Theodor W. Adorno Durs Grünbein Ivan Nagel
Robert Alexy Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Angelika Neuwirth
Juri Andruchowytsch Jürgen Habermas Hans Erich Nossack
Friedrich Ani Anna Katharina Hahn Albert Ostermaier
Ingeborg Bachmann Michael Hampe Katja Petrowskaja
Zsófia Bán Peter Handke Andreas Pflüger
Wolfgang Bauer Christoph Hein Marion Poschmann
Ulrich Beck Heinz Helle Doron Rabinovici
Jurek Becker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Andreas Reckwitz
Ulla Berkéwicz Dieter Henrich Bärbel Reetz
Thomas Bernhard Hermann Hesse Hartmut Rosa
Barbara Beuys Wolfgang Hildesheimer Ralf Rothmann
Marcel Beyer Ludwig Hohl Sasha Marianna Salzmann
Ernst Bloch Axel Honneth Judith Schalansky
Hans Blumenberg Eva Illouz Wilhelm Schmid
Karl Heinz Bohrer Rahel Jaeggi Gershom Scholem
Szilárd Borbély Hans Joas Lutz Seiler
Friedrich von Borries Uwe Johnson Clemens J. Setz
Nora Bossong Hans Jonas Peter Sloterdijk
Volker Braun Dževad Karahasan Manfred Sommer
Bertolt Brecht Anna Kim Andrzej Stasiuk
Hermann Broch Esther Kinsky Maria Stepanova
Simone Buchholz Julia Kissina Wolfgang Streeck
Bernd Cailloux Friedrich A. Kittler Peter Szondi
Paul Celan Alexander Kluge Uwe Tellkamp
Ann Cotten Wolfgang Koeppen Philipp Ther
Sigrid Damm Siegfried Kracauer Stephan Thome
Zoltán Danyi Christian Lehnert Hans-Ulrich Treichel
László Darvasi Svenja Leiber Galsan Tschinag
Ljubko Deresch Gertrud Leutenegger Ernst Tugendhat
Ulrike Edschmid Sibylle Lewitscharoff Peter Turrini
Nana Ekvtimishvili Niklas Luhmann Siegfried Unseld
Hans Magnus Enzensberger Thomas Macho Kevin Vennemann
Urs Faes Enis Maci Martin Walser
Erika Fischer-Lichte Nicolas Mahler Robert Walser
Rainer Forst Andreas Maier Peter Weiss
Photo: Jürgen Bauer
Manfred Frank Friederike Mayröcker Philipp Weiss
Max Frisch Thomas Meinecke Bruno E. Werner
Valerie Fritsch Robert Menasse Lambert Wiesing
Markus Gabriel Christoph Menke Josef Winkler
Efrat Gal-Ed Winfried Menninghaus Christa Wolf
Literary Fiction
Gunther Geltinger Alice Miller Raul Zelik
André Georgi Heiner Müller Serhij Zhadan
Dagmar von Gersdorff Stefan Müller-Doohm Ulf Erdmann Ziegler
Rainald Goetz Melinda Nadj Abonji Slavoj Žižek
Collected Works / Correspondence Literary Fiction / Essay
Ingeborg Bachmann Ulla Berkéwicz
Hans Magnus Enzensberger Beyond Script
»Write down everything that is true« »A meditation on the mythical sources of the power of thought
The correspondence between two major intellectuals which have been lost in the modern age.« Alexander Cammann, Die Zeit
One was a poet and cover girl of Der Spiegel Ingeborg Bachmann Based on Vedic, Jewish and mathematic- Ulla Berkéwicz
magazine in 1954. The other was an »angry Hans Magnus topological knowledge, Ulla Berkéwicz’ Beyond Script
young man«, a networker who tore strips Enzensberger new work, comprised of two correspond- (Original title: Über die
off the literature industry, and whose »Write down everything ing parts which reflect each other, Schrift hinaus)
that is true« 120 pages
career as a poet began in 1957. Ingeborg invites us to discern what restricts our
The Correspondence Clothbound
Bachmann (born in 1926) and Hans Magnus consciousness.
Edited by Hubert Lengauer Release: May 2018
Enzensberger (born in 1929) met in October
Collected Works and Letters.
of 1955 in Tübingen at the Gruppe 47 In a stunning poetic fantasy, a poet partisan
Salzburger Bachmann Rights available
conference. After a subsequent meeting, crosses the threshold of narration and a
Edition. Volume 13
the letter exchange struck up, initiated mathematic rebel transcends the countability
With illustrations Ulla Berkéwicz lives in Berlin.
by Enzensberger in November 1957. A (Original title: »Schreib of numbers during the thirteenth hour of the Since 1982, Suhrkamp Verlag
correspondence was established, of which alles was wahr ist auf«. Der night of Shrove Tuesday. That leads a society has published twelve works by
130 letters have been handed down: 53 Briefwechsel) of potentates, artists and bourgeois to break her, which have been translated
the mold in a way that allows them to follow into nine languages. Her plays
from Bachmann, 77 from Enzensberger. The approx. 450 pages
premièred at the Burgtheater
final letters are dated 1972, the year before Clothbound the two into their freedom of the imagination.
in Vienna and at the Munich
Ingeborg Bachmann died. Release: October 2018 The fundamental humanistic and scientific Kammerspiele. Ulla Berkéwicz
idea of this anarchic spectacle evolves into has received numerous prizes
The two emblematic figures, icons of German Rights available a piece of prose that is as provocative as it and accolades for her work,
post-war literature, converse on literature is uncompromising. It reveals what could among them the Moses-
Ingeborg Bachmann, born Mendelssohn-Medal 2016.
in general and in detail, and on their own be possible if we would stop restricting our
on June 25th, 1926, died on
intentions; they reflect upon contemporary October 17th, 1973 in Rome. cognitive abilities to our three-dimensional
Selected Backlist:
happenings, polemicize, and are also sphere and instead let our imagination run
Vielleicht werden wir ja
unreservedly frank in their opinions of dear Hans Magnus Enzensberger wild and into areas that aren’t confined by
verrückt (2002) International
colleagues. Two different writing-characters
was born in Kaufbeuren in the concepts of time and space. Sales: English world rights
1929. As a poet, essayist,
bounce off one another: discussions broached writer, publisher and translator, (Banyan Tree - published,
by one with pragmatic irony and defended he is one of the world’s most rights reverted), Spanish world
by the other from a position of principle. influential and internationally rights (Losada - published,
renowned German intellectuals. rights reverted), Arabic
world rights (Al-Kamel -
Suhrkamp represents translation published, rights reverted),
Selected Backlist: Italy (Casagrande - published,
rights to integral (single) volumes
Ingeborg Bachmann/Paul Celan: Herzzeit. of the Collected Works. rights reverted), Netherlands
Correspondence (2008) International Sales: (Aspekt - published, rights
reverted), Greece (Kastaniotis -
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English world rights (Seagull), Spanish world rights The hitherto unpublished and
(Fondo Cultura), Portuguese rights (Antígona), unknown correspondence published, rights reverted),
Chinese simplex rights (China Renmin UP), Russia between Ingeborg Bachmann Israel (Hakibbutz Hameuchad -
(Ad marginem), France (Seuil), Italy (Nottetempo), and Hans Magnus Enzensberger published, rights reverted)
Netherlands (Meulenhoff), Denmark (Vandkunsten), allows one to relive how, after Ich weiß, daß du weißt (1999)
Sweden (Ellerströms), Japan (Seidosha), Poland (A5), the Second World War, two of International Sales: English
Czech Republic (Pulchra), Romania (Art), Croatia the most prominent writers in world rights (Oolichan Books),
(OceanMore), Turkey (Kirmizi Kedi), Ukraine (Knihy the German language chose to Russia (Text Publishing -
XXI), Georgia (Ibis), Israel (Hakibbutz Hameuchad) depict and regard the world, published, rights reverted)
literature and the publishing
industry, but also how they
wished to present and be
regarded themselves.
Poetry Poetry
Nora Bossong Paul Celan
Crusade with a Dog Poems
»At 33 years old, Nora Bossong is a remarkably Celan Year 2020 – 100th birthday and
accomplished poet and novelist.« FR 50th anniversary of his death
In her new volume of poetry, Nora Bossong Nora Bossong Celan’s collected poems – for the first Paul Celan
travels from small-town Germany to the Crusade with a Dog time in their entirety and with new com- Poems
Mediterranean and onwards into the Holy Poems mentary. Close to 60 more poems than New complete and
Land and beyond. Her natural manner of (Original title: Kreuzzug the 2003 edition. annotated edition
mit Hund. Gedichte) Edited by Barbara
movement a shifting back and forth in time. The history of their origins, sources,
approx. 100 pages Wiedemann. With 25
Hungry for experience, she explores poetic cross-references: broken down with sum-
Clothbound etchings by Gisèle Celan-
scenes from a past hundred of years old and maries and individual notes.
Release: November 2018 Lestrange
a distilled present. Almost as if by chance, (Original title: Die
she directs her lens on people, places and International Sales: For Paul Celan reading was always an Gedichte. Neue
traditions, describing them with subtle experience as well: the books, journals, and kommentierte
English world rights
humour and sensitivity while leaving their daily newspapers he read were as much a Gesamtausgabe)
(Seagull)
secrets intact. source of his poems as personal encounters approx. 1.350 pages
Nora Bossong, born in 1982 in and political events. When a complete and Clothbound
Whoever has had the chance to hear Bremen, is a writer of poetry, annotated edition of Celan’s poems first Release: July 2018
Bossong’s poems set to music by the com- novels and essays, and has appeared in 2003, the indexing of such
poser Anno Schreier, will know what an been the recipient of several
sources was still at its beginning. In the Rights available
awards for these, including the
important voice of German-language lit- meantime editions of his most important
Peter Huchel Prize and the Art
erature contemporary writing has been Prize Berlin. epistolary exchanges have been published, Paul Celan was born in 1920
graced with. It is time that other coun- the critical editions have been completed, in Czernowitz and passed
tries got to know it now, too. away in April 1970 in Paris.
and research in Celan’s bequest library with
He is recognized throughout
its literary traces and annotations has forged the world as one of the most
ahead. important authors of the
twentieth century.
On this basis, the 2003 edition could be
expanded by close to 60 poems, some of them Barbara Wiedemann, literary
appearing for the first time, and all of his scholar and a professor at the
University of Tübingen, is the
texts underwent careful examination. The
editor of Paul Celan’s works
»Astonishing powers of commentary has also been reorganized and and letters.
expanded considerably, especially thanks
observation and an immense
to the editor’s intensive research of Celan’s
talent for writing.« FAZ reading of the press. Special attention has
Photo: Wolfgang Oschatz
been paid – in line with his poetology – to
Photo: Heike Steinweg
the ›inscribed date‹ of every poem. With
this new edition the reader is given a
great wealth of clearly demonstrable
information for understanding Celan’s
poetry.
Literary Fiction
Zoltán Danyi
The Carcass Remover
»Even more than the story, what fascinated me was the hatred, the anger
and the pain and how that fire can be transformed into sentences.«
They had heard about five dead foxes, Zoltán Danyi
lying in the road by the Hungarian-Serbian The Carcass Remover
border. But when the men from the disposal Novel
(Original title: A
unit arrive, there are dozens of carcasses,
dögeltakarító, published
dogs and cats, too – shot, it seems, by border
in June 2015 by Magvető,
guards to pass the time. The war in the
Budapest)
Balkans is long over, and yet incidents like (Translated German title:
these haul the narrator back into his past. Der Kadaverräumer.
Roman)
Sitting in the garden of a Berlin clinic where 264 pages
he is stuck until his terrible digestion issues Clothbound
are treated, he is overcome by the music of a Release of the German
Kusturica film and he starts to sob: »perhaps edition by Suhrkamp:
because it brought it all back to the surface, September 2018
all he tried to run away from, those desolate
years of hollowing-out, years that seemed Rights available
without end, nor desirous of an end, and on
Zoltán Danyi, born in 1972
they endured.«
in Senta, Yugoslavia, studied
Philosophy and Literature in
Who is this narrator, who stumbles back Novi Sad and Szeged. In 2003,
and forth between the scenes of his life in a he made his debut as a poet,
torrent of speech that threatens to sweep him publishing poems and short
away; part of a carcass-collecting unit that stories. He completed a PhD
had once completed a rather different task? in 2008 on the Hungarian
Is he a victim, a perpetrator? A survivor who
»The great success of writer Béla Hamvas, and went
is seeking a cure through speaking? The Carcass Remover is on to work as an editor and
not entirely down to its schoolteacher. His first novel,
The Carcass Remover, won the
The war in Yugoslavia and its afterlife aesthetic quality, but also Miklós-Mészöly-Prize. Danyi,
have never lessened their hold on Zol-
its shocking timeliness, the a member of the Hungarian
tán Danyi – for almost two decades he
failed in his attempt to comprehend the permanent contemporary minority in Serbia, now lives as
a rose grower in Senta.
monstrous reality that almost entirely nature of history, its
devoured him. One day, the sound was continual return, the death
there – a sound that makes for compel- of culture, of humanity, of
ling reading. The writing shimmers like
the surface of a contaminated body of wa-
the myth of Europe. The
ter. Layer by layer it is laid bare. A book fact that here and now we
constructed like a complex musical com- are also living in wartime.«
position whose beauty contains both dis- Orsolya Bencsik, Müut
tance and an intimate touch.
Photo: Sóki Tamás
Poetry
A New Divan
A Lyrical Dialogue between
East and West
Prefaces by Daniel Barenboim and Omar al-Qattan
Published to celebrate the 200th anniversary notes where appropriate). Each poem will A New Divan
of Goethe’s West-Eastern Divan (1819), A appear in English poetic translation facing A Lyrical Dialogue
New Divan will bring together twenty-four the original language of composition. The between East and West
leading poets – twelve from the ›East‹ and same modus operandi applies to the German Prefaces by Daniel
Barenboim and
twelve from the ›West‹ – in a poetic dialogue publication and will be required for all
Omar al-Qattan
inspired by the culture of the Other. forthcoming translations.
Edited by Barbara Haus
Schwepcke and
Drawing on themes suggested by the twelve Three pairs of essays will enhance and
Bill Swainson
books of Goethe’s original publication, compliment the poems, just like in Goethe’s
2.400 lines of poetry
including The Poet, The Cup Bearer, The original:
30.000 words of
Tyrant, Love, Anger and Faith, and using the Sibylle Wentker: Bringing Persia to Germany scholarship
distinctive poetic forms of the cultures of the Joseph von Hammer and Hafiz Clothbound
poets taking part, A New Divan will be a life- Rajmohan Gandhi: Goethe and ›the East‹ of Release of the English
enhancing conversation in poetry. Today edition by Gingko Library
and of the German edition
For the English edition, 22 English-language Robyn Creswell: Playing a Part: Imru’ al-
by Suhrkamp: 2019
poets have been commissioned to create Qays in English
English-language versions of the original Narguess Farzad: On the importance of
Rights available
poems, either by direct translation or by translating Persian poetry into European
working with a literal translation (with languages
Stefan Weidner: The New Tasks of the
Translator
Kadhim Jihad Hassan: On the Translation of
European Poetry into Arab Culture
Contributors:
East West
Adonis (Syria) Khaled Mattawa (USA)
Abbas Beydoun (Lebanon) Durs Grünbein (Germany)
Iman Mersal (Egypt) Antonella Anedda (Italy)
Reza Mohammadi (Afghanistan) Homero Aridjis (Mexico)
Amjad Nasser (Jordan) Don Paterson (UK)
Fatemeh Shams (Iran) Gilles Ortlieb (France)
Mourid Barghouti (Palestine) Jaan Kaplinski (Estonia)
Nujoom al-Ghanem (UAE) Raoul Schrott (Austria)
Mohammed Bennis (Morocco) Aleš Šteger (Slovenia)
Gonca Özmen (Turkey) Angélica Freitas (Brazil)
Hafez Moussavi (Iran) Clara Janés (Spain)
Fadhil al-Azzawi (Iraq) Jan Wagner (Germany)
Literary Fiction Literature
Nana Ekvtimishvili Hans Magnus Enzensberger
The Pear Field Survival Artists
An intense portrait of young people without future »A hymn of praise to literature.
who stand up against the world of adults What an homage, what a book!« Deutschlandfunk Kultur
The Pear Field takes place in the 1990s in Tbilisi, Nana Ekvtimishvili The 20th century was the heyday of writers Hans Magnus
capital of the recently independent country of The Pear Field who had survived state terror and purges Enzensberger
Georgia. At the heart of the novel is the »School Novel with all the ethical and political ambivalences Survival Artists
for Idiots«, a boarding school for »mentally (Original title: მსხლების that this entailed. How did they manage 99 Literary Vignettes from
მინდორი, published the 20th Century
deficient children«, actually visited mostly by to do that? Were they too steadfast to bend
in May 2015 by Bakur With 99 images
children whose parents are either dead or who to the powers that be? Did they owe their
Sulakauri, Tblisi) (Original title:
have emigrated for economic reasons. Even the survival to their foresight, their intelligence
(Translated German title: Überlebenskünstler. 99
teachers leave the children and teens to their Das Birnenfeld. Roman) or sharpness, their belief in themselves, literarische Vignetten aus
own devices. 221 pages their connections or their tactical skill? Was dem 20. Jahrhundert)
The narrative unfolds from the point of view of Paperbound it serendipitous circumstances bordering 366 Seiten
16-year-old Lela who has decided that she will Release of the German on a miracle that helped them escape from Clothbound
murder Wano, the history teacher. Only over edition by Suhrkamp: prison, camps and death, or was it strategies Release: April 2018
the course of the novel do the reasons become August 2018 that spanned from ingratiation to disguise?
clear: sexual assault and even rape. However, If only it was possible to make a clear-cut International Sales:
Lela, a combative, angry young girl, has taken International Sales: distinction! English world rights
up the role of protector. She looks after the English world rights (Seagull), France
younger children, comforts them, and even (Peirene), Azerbaijan In 99 pointed, deliberately subjective
(Alma), Italy (Einaudi);
tries to convince them to apply themselves, (TEAS Press) portraits, Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Domestic Rights Sales:
in other words, to study so that they can leave describes the lives and particular surviv-
German Bookclub
the School for Idiots behind. As strong as al strategies of international writers, but
also the objective reasons for which they (Büchergilde Guten-
her hatred for the history teacher is, she has Translation funding
managed to survive the 20th century, the berg)
developed a tender, sister-like relationship available from the
with the boy Irakli. Every week Lela takes »Age of Violence«. Despite the seemingly
Georgian National Hans Magnus Enzensberger
him to a nearby high-rise flat so he can talk on overwhelmingly powerful opponent of was born in Kaufbeuren in
Book Center
the phone with his mother in Greece. Irakli, thoroughly formed societies and authori- 1929. As a poet, essayist,
however, refuses to believe what Lela has long Literary Prizes and Awards:
tarian, death-or-glory governments. That writer, publisher and translator,
known: his mother is never coming back, not we could learn from this in our present he is one of the world’s most
Literary Award SABA 2016 for influential and internationally
even to pick him up. Lela, nonetheless, tries to situation is not, according to the author,
The Best Debut renowned German intellectuals.
encourage him and even manages to get him to IliaUni Literary Award 2016 for
out of the question.
learn English because she wants Irakli to have The Best Novel Selected Backlist:
a better future. And then, one day, a married LITERA (Prize awarded by
Tumult (2014) International
the Ministry of Culture and
couple from the southern United States arrives sales: English world rights
Monument Protection of
and his dream threatens to become reality in a
A subjective-historical revue
(Seagull), Spanish world rights
Georgia and by the Writer’s
Photo: Jürgen Bauer
most bizarre way. House of Georgia) for the Best (Malpaso), Chinese simplex
rights (Beijing Fonghong
Debut 2016
Books), Brazilian Portuguese
Awards (selection): rights (Todavia), France
Frank-Schirrmacher-Preis 2015 (Gallimard), Italy (Einaudi),
Denmark (Gyldendal), Greece
Nana Ekvtimishvili, born in 1978 in Tbilisi, Georgia, is a writer and movie director, and owns Georgia’s first chain Sonningprisen 2010 (Hestia); Domestic Rights
of ice cream parlors. She studied screenwriting and dramaturgy in Potsdam-Babelsberg. She first published stories
Premio d’Annunzio 2006 Sales: German Audiobook
in 1999 and in 2011 directed her first short film, Waiting for Mum. In 2013 together with her partner Simon Groß
she released the feature film In Bloom. In Bloom premiered at the 63rd Berlinale where it was hailed as the birth Premio Príncipe de Asturias 2002 rights (Der Hörverlag),
German Entire Radio Reading
of the new Georgian wave and won the CICAE Award, followed by numerous awards at film festivals in Hong Kong, Heinrich-Heine-Preis 1998
Tokyo, Paris, LA, and Sarajevo, and was Georgia’s entry for the 2014 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language (HR), German Book Club
Film. In 2013 Nana Ekvtimishvili — again with Simon Gross — was chosen as one of the ten most promising Erich-Maria-Remarque-Friedenspreis 1993 (Büchergilde Gutenberg)
European directors from Varietyʼs 10 Directors to Watch at the 48th Karlovy Vary Film Festival. In Hong Kong, the Heinrich-Böll-Preis 1985
film was named as the spring of Georgian cinema. The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) has
Georg-Büchner-Preis 1963
called the film a sign of the rebirth of Georgian film. Her latest film My Happy Family has first been released at the
Sundance Film Festival in 2017. The Pear Field is her first novel. Deutscher Kritikerpreis 1962
Literary Fiction Literary Fiction
Yannic Han Biao Federer Christoph Hein
And Everything is like Paper Mâché Befuddlement
»The knowing looks, the innocuous fuss. A gay love in the GDR
And then the clamour.«
It is the late summer of 2001 in the backwoods Yannic Han Biao Federer Friedeward loves Wolfgang. And Wolfgang Christoph Hein
of Baden. On the television, there are images And Everything is like loves Friedeward. They are young, enjoying Befuddlement
Paper Mâché the summer vacation, cycle the long way to Novel
of the World Trade Centre collapsing. Jian is
Novel the sea, discuss all the subjects under the (Original title: Verwirrnis.
sixteen and in love with Sarah, but sleeps with
(Original title: Und alles Roman)
Anna who has just broken up with Frank. After sun. They are happy when they are together,
wie aus Pappmaché. approx. 220 pages
and this seems to be all that they need. But
that, Sarah doesn’t want to have anything to Roman) Clothbound
no one must know that they are more than
do with Jian anymore, nor Jian with Anna, and approx. 200 pages Release: August 2018
Paperback best friends. It is the 1950s, they live in
Frank is caught up in his own self. Fifteen
Release: February 2019 Catholic Heiligenstadt, and for those people
years later Anna is in a love-triangle, Frank Domestic Rights Sales:
around him, particularly for Friedeward’s
is hidden away in the forest, and Jian comes German Audiobook
Rights available ardently believing father, their love is a sin.
across Sarah again in paparazzi photos. They (DAV)
If their relationship were to be discovered,
have long since lost track of one another and Yannic Han Biao Federer, they could lose everything. When they move
Born in 1944, Christoph Hein
yet Jian continues to narrate how their shared born in Breisach in 1986, to Leipzig to study – Friedeward German lives in Berlin. He has written
story might run. studied German in Bonn, literature, Wolfgang music – they discover novels, novellas, short stories,
Florence and Oxford. Since a world of renowned intellectuals, it all plays, essays and children’s
2014, he has been researching glimmers with vivid thinking. And they get
Yannic Han Biao Federer’s first novel books. As of 2002, Suhrkamp
for his doctorate and working
follows four young people as they try to find to know Jennifer who confides in them that Verlag has acquired the world
at the Rheinische Friedrich-
their place and direction in an ever more she is conducting a secret love with one of rights to the works of Christoph
Wilhelm University of Bonn. He
disparate and fragile world. He reveals the female teaching fellows. The four of them Hein. He has garnered
took part in the Atelier NRW
how close history and experience are inter- 2016 as well as the writing
attend the legendary lectures in auditorium numerous literary awards for
forty, go to the theatre and throw themselves his work. When the Pen centres
twined and explores the time we are living workshop of the Jürgen Ponto
in East and West merged,
Foundation in 2017. into the intellectual life of the city. And
in with great alertness and intelligence. Christoph Hein was President
gradually the three friends form a plan:
of the German Pen Centre from
Would it not be the perfect ›disguise‹ if one
1998 to 2000.
of them would marry Jennifer in a fictitious
marriage? Awards (selection):
2013: Stefan-Heym-Preis
In his new novel, the great German chron-
2012: Uwe-Johnson-Preis
icler Christoph Hein movingly explores 2010: Eichendorff-Literaturpreis
a love that for years defies all barriers – 2008: Walter-Hasenclever-
and at the same time depicts a vivid pan- Literaturpreis
Photo: Heike Steinweg
orama of German intellectual life. 2004: Schiller-Gedächtnispreis
Photo: Max Zerrahn
des Landes Baden-Württemberg
2002: Österreichischer
Staatspreis für Europäische
Literatur
Selected Backlist: 2000: Solothurner Literaturpreis
1998: Peter-Weiss-Preis der
Glückskind mit Vater (2016) International Sales: Arabic world rights (Sefsafa), France (Métailié), Italy (e/o),
»An exciting kaleidoscope of memory.« Denmark (Gyldendal), Bulgaria (Atlantis); Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV), German Entire Radio
Stadt Bochum
1994: Bundesverdienstkreuz
Westdeutsche Zeitung Reading (MDR)
1990: Erich-Fried-Preis (Wien)
In seiner frühen Kindheit ein Garten (2005) International Sales: English world rights (Metropolitan), France
1983: Deutscher Kritikerpreis
(Métailié), Italy (e/o), Denmark (Gyldendal)
Landnahme (2004) International Sales: English world rights (Metropolitan), Arabic world rights (Kanaan), France
(Métailié), Italy (e/o), Denmark (Gyldendal), Slovakia (Kalligram), Hungary (Europa), Bulgaria (Emas), Georgia (Ibis),
Israel (Hakkibutz Hamecheud); Domestic Rights Sales: German Book Club (Bertelsmann), German Book Club
Special Edition (Büchergilde Gutenberg)
Literary Fiction
Heinz Helle
Overcoming Gravity
»Profound and extremely unsettling with a powerful message
for our increasingly hate-filled times.«
John Harding, Daily Mail about Euphoria (Eigentlich müssten wir tanzen)
A couple of beers, and then a couple more – Heinz Helle
that’s all it takes for a sense of closeness. Yet Overcoming Gravity
the two brothers know that the warmth of Novel
the alcohol is not really a match for the cold (Original title: Die
Überwindung der
outside as they go from pub to pub. The older
Schwerkraft. Roman)
brother has long been one to cradle a drink
approx. 208 pages
with no special occasion required, simply
Clothbound
saddened or furious at a world governed by Release: September 2018
pain and suffering, wars and violence. That
evening however, he talks to his younger Rights available
brother not only about Stalingrad and Marc
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Dutroux, he also tells him that he is soon to Heinz Helle was born in 1978.
become a father. What neither of them know He studied philosophy in Munich
is that this is the last time they will see each and New York. He has worked
other. They talk on the phone once. The next as copywriter for advertising
call, nine months later, brings the news of agencies, and is a graduate of the
the older brother’s death. What he leaves »Makes The Road seem like Swiss Literature Institute in Biel.
He lives in Zürich.
behind are memories and questions: What is
it all about? What is it we are looking for in
a Disney cartoon by
the world? What is the meaning of it all, this comparison. Helle is an astute Selected Backlist:
living and dying? predictor of human nature, Eigentlich müssten wir tanzen
and part of the reason this (2015) International Sales:
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With virtuosic skill, Heinz Helle inter-
book is so haunting is because Tail), Chinese simplex rights
weaves the quest for traces of the dead
brother with the quest for answers to his characters all react to (People’s Literature Publishing
House), Arabic world rights (Al
the major questions of life. The precision their constantly-deteriorating Kotob Khan), France (Piranha)
with which he dissects the brothers’ per- circumstances in entirely
sonalities is painfully beautiful: a care- Der beruhigende Klang von
believable though by no means explodierendem Kerosin (2014)
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Roger Cox, Scotsman about Euphoria
(Eigentlich müssten wir tanzen)
»[A] philosophical tour de force which aptly
showcases Helle's deadpan humour. This is a linguistically
daring portrait of an overwhelmed mind.«
Financial Times about Superabundance
(Der beruhigende Klang von explodierendem Kerosin)
Shortlisted for the Swiss Book Prize 2018 »Beckettian, excellent, funny.«
Independent about Superabundance
(Der beruhigende Klang von explodierendem Kerosin)
Literary Fiction Poetry
Dževad Karahasan Christian Lehnert
The House of the Wearied Cherubic Dust
Masterful short stories by one of the great European writers
Sarajevo, September 1914. In a newspaper Dževad Karahasan Christian Lehnert’s seventh volume of poetry Christian Lehnert
editorial office, at the national bank and in The House of the Wearied again goes all out: from two-line moments, Cherubic Dust
other official locations, letters arrive with Five Stories to sonnets, odes and tersest and onwards to Poems
considerable delay, often years later. Yet it (Original Bosnian title: extensive, multi-facetted poems, this poetry (Original title:
Kuća za umorne. Pjesme o Cherubinischer Staub.
is not the war that has thrown the imperial works with a tremendous diversity of form.
ljubavi u smrti) Gedichte)
and royal mail into confusion, but rather
(Translated German title: approx. 100 pages
a postman in love who has fallen on the The poet makes multiple excursions into a
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battlefield of the world war just unfolding. Fünf Geschichten) »dictionary of natural phenomena.« In it Release: August 2018
approx. 250 pages the world and characteristics of snow and
Love and loss, progress and memory are the Clothbound frost, moss and leaves reveal themselves to Rights available
themes of these five long short stories with Release of the German him. Plume moths, stag beetles, flies and
which Dževad Karashan leaves the far-distant edition by Suhrkamp: falcons are shaped in words. Just as later Christian Lehnert, born in
epoch of the setting of his opus magnum, January 2019 he communes with the speech of firs and 1969 in Dresden, is a poet and
The Solace of the Night Sky and returns to the beeches. Ultimately these are poems about theologian. He is director of the
Dževad Karashan, born in Institute of Liturgical Studies in
twentieth century. Communism arrives in human fate, about mythical material and
Duvno, Yugoslavia, in 1953, Leipzig. His poetry has garnered
the backwoods of Bosnia. In the small towns, lives in Graz and Sarajevo. He
that based on historical reality. many prominent prizes.
surrounded by lonely, majestic landscapes, is a great romancer, short story
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Karahasan’s protagonists sense that a time writer, a dramatist, essayist Lehnert’s poetry dips into German mys-
Windzüge. Gedichte (2015)
is beginning in which there will not be a and academic. His works have ticism. From Jacob Böhme and Angelus
place for them any more. They are in denial been translated into more than Silesius he adopts the ambiguous, pene-
ten languages. In 2004, he was
– radical old men, stubbornly facing the trating language that connects spiritual-
awarded the Leipzig Book Prize
world, insisting on their right to dream, to for European Understanding. ity and physics. In his poems, a resurrec-
grieve, and to be tired, quite simply. tion of analogue thinking takes places in
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Letters that do not reach their destina- Što pepeo priča (Simurg Media,
tion because death and world history 2015) (German: Der Trost des
get in the way of love, are a leitmotif in Nachthimmels, Suhrkamp 2016)
The House of the Wearied. Karahasan de- International Sales: Chinese
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Translation Publishing House),
Bulgaria (Paradox), Slovenia a major poet with a rare
individuals in it can keep up with. (Beletrina), Turkey (Iletisim), sensitivity to beauty.«
Greece (Hestia), Iran (Donya-
e-Eqtesad), Part 1: Macedonia
Hans Werner Henze
»A brilliant storyteller.«
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(Templum)
Sara i Serafina (Durieux, 1999)
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Enis Maci Ralf Rothmann
Ice Cream Parlour Europe The God of That Summer
»The haunting portrayal of conflict and carnage in the final weeks
of the second world war makes this German novel a modern classic.«
The Guardian about To Die in Spring
What might resistance look like nowadays? Enis Maci A child in the war: at the start of 1945, Ralf Rothmann
Seeking an answer, Enis Maci draws a direct Ice Cream Parlour twelve-year-old Luisa Norff has to flee to the The God of That Summer
line from Joan of Arc to Sophie Scholl to Europe countryside with her mother and her older Novel
the sworn virgins of Albania. She exposes Essays sister as the bombardment of Kiel has begun. (Original title: Der Gott
(Original title: Eiscafé jenes Sommers. Roman)
the media strategies of the identitarian The estate owned by her brother-in-law
Europa. Essays) 254 pages
movement as a farce, she questions mother Vinzent, a SS-officer, becomes an unexpected
approx. 250 pages Clothbound
tongue and origin, travels to the Walhalla site of freedom: no more school, and as the
Paperback Release: May 2018
memorial where she looks at Edith Stein’s Release: October 2018 Allied bombers are flying eastwards and
bust, the nun murdered in Auschwitz. more and more refugees are arriving, the
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seemingly unrelated topics into the dense the woods and tries to understand life from
(Picador), Italy (Neri
panorama of the European present-day. In Enis Maci, born in 1993, this side of the fires: What is this agitation
her essays, the remarkable rubs shoulders she feels when she sees the young milker Pozza), Denmark
studied Creative Writing
in her essays with the everyday, the private at the German Literature Walter, who are the prisoners at Klostersee, (Rosinante), Czech
with the political. Institute in Leipzig and Cultural where did her sister Billie disappear to all Republic (Argo);
Sociology at the London Domestic Rights
of a sudden, and where does the wig maker
School of Economics. Her
plays have been performed, actually get hair from? And as she herself Sales: German
among other venues, at experiences what all women are afraid Audiobook (Hörbuch
Schauspielhaus Theatre in of these days during Vinzent’s birthday Hamburg), German
Vienna and at Schauspiel celebrations, Luisa breaks down under the Bookclub (Büchergilde
Theatre in Leipzig and greeted
burden of the inexplicable. Gutenberg)
enthusiastically. For the theatre
season 2018/19, Enis Maci
Ralf Rothmann’s great novel To Die
will be writer-in-residence at in Spring, translated into twenty-five Selected Backlist:
Mannheim’s National Theatre. languages, was a moving drama at the Im Frühling sterben (2015)
edge of the battlefields. The God of That International Sales: English
Summer is an equally touching story about world rights (Picador UK; USA/
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during the last months of a war that
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has a twelve-year-old say, and rightfully rights (L’Altra Editorial),
so: »I’ve experienced everything.« Portuguese rights (Sextante
Editora), France (Denoël),
Ralf Rothmann was born in 1953 in Schleswig and Italy (Neri Pozza), Netherlands
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grew up in the Ruhr. He lives in Berlin. He is the (Arbeiderspers), Denmark
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recipient of numerous awards, including: (Rosinante), Sweden (Thorén &
Lindskog), Norway (Gyldendal
Uwe Johnson Preis 2018 Norsk), Finland (Atena), Poland
Premio San Clemente 2017 (W.A.B.), Czech Republic (Argo),
Slovak Republic (Premedia),
Kleist-Preis 2017 Hungary (Magvetö), Bulgaria
Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis 2013 »A Bosch-like vision of hell. (Atlantis), Romania (ART),
»Your pride is your misfortune, Hans-Fallada-Preis 2008 The horror of war and the Estonia (Hea Lugu), Croatia
(Fraktura), Serbia (Laguna),
Medea is obviously the greatest lie of all.«
Literaturpreis der Konrad-
deep damage it does to people Slovenia (Goga), Turkey (Yapi
Adenauer-Stiftung 2008
Max-Frisch-Preis 2006
is not always handled as well, Kredi), Greece (Kastaniotis),
Macedonia (ArtConnect),
Heinrich-Böll-Preis 2005 or as powerfully, as this.« Kosovo/Albanian world rights
(Buzuku); Domestic Rights
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Judith Schalansky
An Inventory of Certain Losses
Wilhelm-Raabe-Priize 2018
World history is full of things that have Judith Schalansky
gone astray – willfully destroyed or mislaid An Inventory of Certain
over the course of time. In her new book, Losses. With 12 illustrations
Judith Schalansky dedicates herself to that (Original title: Verzeichnis
einiger Verluste)
which the lost leaves behind: dying echoes
252 pages
and disappearing steps, whispers and
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legends, apostrophes and phantom pains.
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David Friedrich, an extinct species of tiger, & Commonwealth (Mac-
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a vanished religion or a sunken island in the complex rights (Locus),
Pacific, she presents a panorama of the long Italy (nottetempo), Neth-
lost and disappeared, a panorama which erlands (Atlas/Contact),
traces the world’s blank spaces together with Denmark (Vandkunsten),
those within natural and cultural history
Sweden (Pequod), Nor-
while opening up areas of knowledge where
way (Press); Domestic
delivery has failed. The protagonists of these as in a photofit picture, suggests more than
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short stories are outsiders: a bizarre old man depicts the lost. As such, the collection
hoarding the knowledge of humankind in Audiobook (DAV)
proves itself to be a document of the power
his garden in Tessin, a lunar researcher from of print, the book a more efficacious and Judith Schalansky, born in
Bohemia who gives up all earthly curiosity long-lasting medium of transmission than Greifswald in 1980, lives in Berlin
for a position in the Archive of the Moon, an any other. as a writer, editor and book
aged Greta Garbo who dreams of appearing designer. Her work, which includes
the internationally successful
on the silver screen as Dorian Gray, Judith After her Atlas of Remote Islands, in this,
bestseller Atlas of Remote Islands
Schalansky’s own father who left the family her Inventory of Certain Losses, Judith and the novel The Giraffe’s Neck,
before she could even form a memory of Schalansky once again sounds the spaces has been translated into more than
him. These texts speak about beginnings between reality and imagination, truth twenty languages and has won
and endings – and at the same time are an and myth, fact and fiction. The result is a several prizes.
autobiographical trip into a country that lively evocation of the lost and the remote,
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no longer exists: childhood, the GDR of the which suggests that perhaps the difference
1980s. between presence and absence is only Der Hals der Giraffe (2011)
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Each of the twelve stories in this collection that, and a literature which reveals just how rights (Random House Mondadori),
sketches its own world through a subject- close preservation and destruction, loss and Chinese simplex rights (People’s
specific language, a world in which the creation, really are. Literature Publishing House),
boundaries between presence and absence Chinese complex rights (Locus),
»Western man’s inclination to value what is extinct more have disappeared as much as have those Russia (Text), Brazilian Portuguese
»There are no gains without
than what still exists seems to be one of its more rationally between fiction, memoir and essay, while
corresponding losses, no losses
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(Actes Sud), Italy (nottetempo),
almost incomprehensible qualities, for there could be simultaneously questioning the reliability
of our individual and collective memories as without corresponding gains.« Netherlands (Signatuur), Denmark
no other way to explain the strange fascination with the
(Vandkunsten), Sweden (Pequod),
well as future instruments of transmission. Agnes Heller Norway (Press), Finland (Tammi),
Tasmanian wolf.« Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei natural history series Moreover, every one of the 16-page stories Korea (Galmuri), Czech Republic
(Paseka), Hungary (Typotex),
begins and ends with a black page, which,
Bulgaria (Geia-Libris), Romania
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Maria Stepanova Uwe Tellkamp
Post-Memory The Carus Affairs
»Post-Memory is the most important Russian novel of 2017.« GQ A return to the world of The Tower, an international bestseller
Montpellier, 1908: the photograph of a Maria Stepanova »Going to Carus«: that is how the Uwe Tellkamp
young woman by an easel or »Grandma Post-Memory gynaecologist said goodbye to his two The Carus Affairs
on the barricades«, as the family calls it. (Original Russian title: children when he set off for the Carl Gustav Illustrated and designed by
Pre-Revolution portraits, postcards from Памяти памяти, published Carus Medical Academy each day. The man Andreas Töpfer
by Novoe in November (Original title: Die Carus-
Venice, Montpellier, or Nizhny Novgorod, who gave his name to the institution died in
2017) Sachen. Originally published
pieces from the »library of a very different 1869, he can be regarded as the prototype
(Translated German title: in 2017 by Edition Eichthal,
and lost visual culture«, letters, childhood of the then self-evident multi-talented man:
Nach dem Gedächtnis. Eckernförde)
souvenirs – these are the things that the Roman) natural scientist, doctor and painter, author approx. 96 pages
author examines in astonishment. Who were 408 pages of humanities studies (including one on Clothbound
these people who travelled all throughout Clothbound Goethe). It is therefore not surprising, when Release of the new edition by
Europe yet lived in Russia? Who did their Release of the German the father lures his two children into the Insel: September 2018
best to remain anonymous and who made edition by Suhrkamp: independent art scene of Dresden and its
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But it is precisely the unspectacular nature International Sales: approach the undivided humanity. Uwe Tellkamp was born in
of the find which turns the author’s research Dresden in 1968. He studied
USA/Canada (New
in the Russian context into something new: The use of the illustrations is not a condition Medicine in Leipzig, New York
Directions), UK/ and Dresden. He then worked as
»Everyone else had a family made up of people for translations.
Commonwealth a doctor. Now living as a writer
participating in history; mine was made up
only of their tenants.« Destined to become (Fitzcarraldo), in Dresden, his novel The Tower,
published in 2008, won that
victims of persecution and repression, they Spanish world rights
year’s German Book Prize. The
all still managed to survive the 20th century. (El Acantilado), Tower has been translated into
How was that possible? This is the question France (Stock), twenty languages.
and point of departure for Maria Stepanova’s Italy (Bompiani),
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first great work of prose. Netherlands (De Bezige
Der Turm (2008) International
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litteratur), Finland (Penguin Press), English world
like Roland Barthes, W.G. Sebald, Jacques
(Siltala), Poland rights digital (Frisch & Co.),
Rancière, and Susan Sontag, imbued with
(Prószyński), Bulgaria Spanish world rights (Anagrama),
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a passion for thought and a wonderfully Catalan rights (Anagrama-
soft, poetic voice derived from sensual as (Janet 45)
Empuries), France (Grasset;
well as intellectual observations, Stepanova Maria Stepanova, born in
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of an entire age. At its heart lives a large essayist, and journalist and
Italy (Bompiani), Netherlands
family of doctors, architects, librarians, one of the most visible figures
(Arbeiderspers), Denmark
accountants, and engineers, unheroic indi- of contemporary literary life in
(Gyldendal), Sweden (Bonniers),
Russia. Editor-in-chief of the
viduals who did not attach themselves to any Norway (Press), Hungary
online newspaper colta.ru, in
great project but who in uncivilized, violent 2018/2019 Maria Stepanova
(Magvetö), Bulgaria (Atlantis),
times attempted to live quiet, civilized lives. Romania (Curtea Veche), Serbia
will take up the Siegfried-
(Zlatni Zmaj), Turkey (Ithaki),
Unseld guest professorship in
Greece (Kastaniotis); Domestic
Berlin.
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Club (Der Club Bertelsmann),
literary reconstruction, which has created a whole new genre and German Book Club Paperback
sounds the relation between memory, time, and history.« Literratura (Weltbild), German Book Club
Special Edition (Büchergilde
Gutenberg)Literary Fiction
Stephan Thome
God of the Barbarians
A master of thorough portraits delivers his first historical novel:
the story of one of the bloodiest wars in human history
China, mid-nineteenth-century. A Christian Stephan Thome
revolutionary movement swamps the Empire God of the Barbarians
with terror and destruction. A young Novel
German missionary, who wants to help with (Original title: Gott der
Barbaren. Roman)
the modernising of the enormous Empire,
719 pages
travels full of idealism to Nanjing, in order
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the British High Commissioner in China;
German Entire Radio
and a Chinese scholar, appointed warlord,
Reading (NDR)
who has grown so powerful that even the
Emperor has reasons to fear him. Stephan Thome, born in
1972 in Biedenkopf, studied
In his enthralling new book, Stephan Philosophy and Sinology at the
Thome tells a story that precedes our cri- Freie Universität in Berlin and
at various universities in China,
sis-ravaged present day. Under the com-
Taiwan and Japan. He worked in
mand of a Christian convert who believes East Asia for ten years and has
to be God’s second son, rebels in China also lived in Lisbon. His novels
create a religious state that, in a devastat- Shortlisted for the Border Crossing (original title:
ing way, pre-empts the terror movements
German Book Prize 2018
Grenzgang, 2009) and Centrifugal
of our days. A major novel with a far- Forces (original title: Fliehkräfte,
2012) were both shortlisted for
reaching gaze on religious fanaticism, on
the German Book Prize. His work
how easily we can be seduced, and on the has won several prizes. Stephan
loss of orientation in a radically chang- Thome lives in Taipei.
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On the discovery and transformation of the world Philipp Weiss
On the edge of the world man
sits and laughs
1000 pages, five volumes – one novel
In On the edge of the world man sits and Philipp Weiss
laughs, Philipp Weiss recounts the world’s On the edge of the world
transformation during the Anthropocene – man sits and laughs
that epoch of earth’s history in which the Novel
(Original title: Am
human being became the central constitutive
Weltenrand sitzen die
power. Between France and Japan, from the
Menschen und lachen.
19th to the 21st century, this bold novel
Roman)
depicts a Panopticon of our fleeting reality. With many colour and black
Each one of the five volumes has its own and white images
form: encyclopaedia, manga, novella, audio- approx. 1000 pages
transcription and notebook. Five volumes with cover
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as they are closely interwoven International Sales:
France (Seuil)
How do we come to terms with
the unpredictable? And what does Philipp Weiss was born in 1982
in Vienna, where he currently
the future hold for mankind?
lives and works. He studied
German studies and Philosophy
The complexity of existence in and has published theatre plays
the modern world translated into and short stories. On the edge of
a gripping story and captured in the world man sits and laughs is
a single novel his first novel. In 2018, he has
been awarded the Literary Prize
of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation.
»Love is the transition into chaos.«
»As if I was at home nowhere. As if I perpetually stood on the
threshold, between things, spaces, people. Blessed are those who have
never tumbled over an edge of the world.«Literary Fiction Literary Fiction
Bruno E. Werner Ulf Erdmann Ziegler
The Slave Ship Scotland and Other Stories
Rediscovery of a post-war bestseller: on the German »Ziegler is a razor-sharp provocateur.« FAZ
intelligentsia during the Second World War
Dispassionate and, for that very reason, Bruno E. Werner For every story that ends, another begins. In Ulf Erdmann Ziegler
moving: a newspaper editor documents how The Slave Ship Scotland’s Dundee, a female dancer watches Scotland and Other Stories
the German intelligentsia – academics and Novel (Original title: Die the dividing of a nation. In Hamburg, a (Original title: Schottland
artists, novelists and editor-in-chiefs – cringe Galeere. Roman) radicalised animal rights activist goes und andere Erzählungen)
and writhe following the Nazi’s seizure of approx. 420 pages 190 pages
missing. A Berlin punk finds serenity in
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power, but also how they create space to music after being wounded, and a young
Originally published in 1949, Release: August 2018
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helpless in the face of the dictatorship. The 2018 recognition, but recognition wakens other
narrative arc spans from the day of the Nazi’s desires. Ulf Erdmann Ziegler was
seizure of power through the bombings of Translations have been published,
born in 1959 in Neumünster /
Berlin and Dresden and up to capitulation. among others, in the following Here you find everything you look for in Holstein. His novel Hamburger
Hochbahn earned him # 1 on the
territories: USA (Pantheon Ulf Erdmann Ziegler’s novels: the photo-
SWR-Bestseller List. Ziegler was
The novel first appeared shortly after the Books), UK (Heinemann), France graphic gaze, the quick rhythm, the in- awarded the Friedrich-Hebbel-
(Gallimard), Netherlands (Stok),
end of World War Two in 1949 and was terest in the abyss, the empathy for his Prize in 2008. In 2012, his novel
Sweden (Bonniers), Finland
translated into many languages. 70 years (Gummerus) characters. These short stories are what Nichts Weißes, »a new style of
after its publication, it is time to redis- the sketchbook would be to a painter. The realistic narrative« (German
Book Prize Jury), was published
cover this post-war bestseller. Bruno E. Werner (1896–1964) unlikely finds its place there, exaggera-
and was later nominated for
was in 1925 the art editor of the tion and wit and sensibility. They sketch the German Book Prize and
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung,
an image of a restless world and fit to- the Wilhelm Raabe Prize for
Berlin. In 1929 he was involved
in the founding of the Bauhaus-
gether like puzzle pieces in a jigsaw of Literature. Ulf Erdmann Ziegler
influenced journal Die neue Linie. today’s society. lives in Frankfurt am Main.
His book Vom bleibenden Geist der
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deutschen Kunst was published in
1934. From 1942 to 1947 Werner Und jetzt du, Orlando! (2014)
worked on the manuscript of Die Nichts Weißes (2012)
Galeere. After the war, he became
art editor of the Neue Zeitung
and president of the German PEN
Centre.
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