FOREIGN RIGHTS 2008

2008FOREIGN RIGHTS

Berlin Verlag

Bloomsbury Berlin

Berliner Taschenbuch Verlag

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Ingo SchulzeAdam and Evelyn NOMINATED FOR THE

GERMAN BOOK PRIZE 2008

'This was how holidays smelled. This was how holidays had always smelled. He didn't know when he

had last drunk from this thermos flask. But there was no other smell that belonged more than this,

that meant family, friends, vacation, that was free from all worries. He felt as if a burden was falling

from his shoulders, as if he could now breathe again and his heart could relax. And even before he

took the next sip he suddenly knew what he had to say to Evelyn if she came out of the door now –

or in a few hours' time. Suddenly everything seemed very simple.'

Women love Adam because he makesdresses that make them beautiful anddesirable. Adam loves beautiful women.Once they are wearing his dresses hedesires them all – and apart from thathe loves Evelyn. She catches him infla-granti with one of his creations one hotAugust day. Instead of taking Adam,Evelyn goes away to Lake Balaton inHungary with a friend and her cousinfrom the West. Adam climbs into hisrickety Wartburg to follow their redPassat. He would go to the end of theworld for Evelyn – and perhaps he willhave to, as Hungary plans to open itsborders to the West. Suddenly, the for-bidden fruit is within arm's reach, andeveryone has to make a decision.

In the exceptional situation of the latesummer of 1989, the limbo of suddenfreedom of choice, Ingo Schulze stum-bles upon the ancient story of forbiddenfruit and temptation, love and discovery,and man's desire for paradise. Butwhere can we find it? In the promises ofthe West, the freedom of an endlessholiday summer on the Balaton, or per-haps after all in the familiar musty officesmell of a freshly opened lunch tin andone's own garden?

In a light-hearted play on the biblicalmyth of Adam and Eve, Ingo Schulzehas created a magnificent tragicomedy.With his ironically broken idea of the Fallof Man, he finds a cipher for entry intoour present-day world.

Ingo Schulze

Adam and Evelyn

Novel

314 pages. Hardcover

Published in August 2008

Ingo Schulze was born in Dresden in 1962, studied classical philosophy in Jena and thenworked in Altenburg as a playwright and newspaper editor. He has lived in Berlin since 1993.Ingo Schulze is a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts and the German Academy ofLanguage and Literature. His books have been translated into 27 languages.

2008 Premio Grinzane Cavour 2001 Joseph Breitenbach Prize2007 Thuringian Literature Prize 1998 Johannes Bobrowski Medal2007 Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 1998 Berlin Literature Prize2007 Villa Massimo grant 1995 Ernst Willner Prize2006 Peter Weiss Prize of the City of Bochum 1995 Aspekte Literature Prize

A great tragicomedy about for-

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Ingo SchulzeCell Phone, New Lives

Ingo Schulze

Cell Phone

Thirteen Stories in the Old Style

Short stories


Published in February 2007

Sold to: USA, Italy, Spain, Sweden,

Netherlands, Czech Republic,

Poland, Hungaria, Korea, Bulgaria,

France, Greece, Norway, Romania,

Serbia, Slowenia, Marcedonia, Brazil

‘Handy is a literary event. With his thirteennew short stories, Ingo Schulze shows withease how to hide the greatest literary ingenuitybehind a simple narrative tone.’Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

‘Ingo Schulze has brought a kind of writing tothe peak of perfection here, which seduces thereader through the appearance of being lifeitself.’ Süddeutsche Zeitung

‘There are only few writers in German litera-ture today who have such a firm command ofthe techniques and tricks of narration as IngoSchulze.’ Die Welt

‘In his new book Handy, Ingo Schulze trans-forms the fantastic into reality and enticesthrough the great art of humour and subtleirony. One is perfectly happy to believe and beamazed at everything he writes.’ taz

‘Schulze's trick is to hide behind inconspicu-ous narrators who demand no stylistic tom-foolery. His prose stands out for its modesty.’Der Tagesspiegel

‘A miracle. The reader sits open-mouthed,both surprised and pleased reading this won-derfully work on the philosophy of money,romantic poetry and epic strength. This bookis an admirable piece of work.’Süddeutsche Zeitung

‘An incredible feast!’ Der Spiegel

‘What a stupendous, fantastic book! I haven’tread a new German novel of this literary classfor years. This is a maturetruly masterful liter-ary performance.’ Berliner Morgenpost

‘A great, impeccable coup in literature, a coupthat is brilliant in its humour and dramatic.A stroke of genius.’ Frankfurter Rundschau

Ingo Schulze

New Lives

Novel


Published in October 2005

Sold to: USA, France,

Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Greece,

Catalonia, Slovac Republic, Korea,

Sweden, Hungaria, Brazil

'World class literature.' Die Welt

Ingo Schulze

Simple Storys

Novel

304 pages.

Published in March 1998

Sold to: USA, UK, France,

Sweden, Denmark,

Finland, Norway, Iceland,

Estonia, Netherlands,

Turkey, Italy, Greece,

Spain, Hungary, Russia,

Czech Republic, Brazil,

Latvia, Egypt, Korea,

Croatia, Ukraine, Romania

Ingo Schulze

33 Moments of Happiness

Novel

272 pages.


Sold to: USA, UK, France,

Israel, Russia, Estonia,

Netherlands, Turkey, Italy,

Greece, Spain, Hungary,

Poland, Croatia, Bulgaria,

Korea, Romania

'The best novel about German re-

unification.' DIE ZEIT

Patricia GörgMeier with a Y

Just as churches once displayed theLabours of the Months depicting thework, crop cycles and festivals through-out the year, here a miser goes throughhis own personal labours throughoutthe year. Labours of miserliness.

Meyer lives in the bargain basement oflife: a life of worry, lived in episodes,always under threat of loss. While allaround him, behind him, below him,alongside him, the rest of nature meta-bolises and tells parts of a coherent story.

Poor old Meyer! He looks out throughthe bars of his neurotic character. But:his Y refuses to play along. It jumps andleaps across the rooftops, shakes youthout of a rejected old tin, commits thislunacy and that. Is this the same manwho shoots at wandering stars from acrossroads by night?

Patricia Görg

Meier with a Y

A year book


Published in January 2008

Patricia Görg

Ocean of Quiet

A Book of Adventures

176 pages.

Published February 2003

Sold to: Russia

Patricia Görg

Dead Acquaintances

Contemporary Stories

186 pages.


Patricia Görg

Lucky Splits

A Story

128 pages.

Published March 2000

Sold to: Russia

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Patricia Görg was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1960.After studying theatre studies, sociology and psycho-logy, she became a freelance author and now lives inBerlin. She has written essays for newspapers andradio, along with numerous radio plays. Berlin Verlaghas previously published the short story Glücksspagat(2000), the adventure book Meer der Ruhe (2003) and the stories Tote Bekannte (2005).

'A success!' Die Welt

'Patricia Görg's language has the precision of true poetry.' Süddeutsche Zeitung

'The loneliness of this highly modern neurotic is shocking.' Kulturspiegel

'This unusual book condenses things as different as poetry and warning signs intoa highly contemporary portrayal of modern morals.' Frankfurter Rundschau

'Patricia Görg finds linguistic images for the visible and the invisible, which are soluminous that one is amazed not to have seen them before.' Bayerischer Rundfunk

'Patricia Görg has written a tragicomic, laconic and at times poetically luminousbook.' Deutschlandradio Kultur

'Precise descriptions of nature and forceful images.' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

The cheap life of a man incapable

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'Everyone, literally everyone in the church turns around to me as if on command and looks right at me.

They don't say a single word, not even the priest, who could have me thrown out on the spot if he

wanted, and then the organ stops playing and all. The music stops in the middle of a note, and this

must be exactly how it feels when the world stops turning and the sun goes out and you look the dark

side of the moon in the eye, exactly like this, and it's an incredibly good feeling.'

Thomas KluppParadiso

All he wanted was to get from Potsdamto Munich by the shortest route. Butnothing in Alex Böhm's life is pre-dictable. The dark side of things is partof his life – no wonder for a man whosecharacter displays a chronic lack ofmorals.

It's hot. Boiling hot. Alex Böhm is stand-ing at a motorway service station nearPotsdam, waiting. Any minute now, ayellow estate car will turn up and takehim to Munich, and then he'll fly toPortugal with his girlfriend Johanna.

Or maybe he will. But first he runs intoKonrad, who he knows from his school-days. 'Konrad the loser' used to weartracksuits, and now he's driving an AudiTT complete with a blonde on the pas-senger seat. The moment Alex gets intothe car, the 'Böhm System' starts tickingaway – louder and louder, faster andfaster. Meeting up with Konrad triggersoff a forceful encounter with the past.Alex Böhm's interior monologue chewsup the reader and spits them out again –disaster is inevitable. Alex gets in andout of cars, the people he meets takinghim back home, to the borderlandsbetween cheap prostitution and forest-edged rural idyll. It smells of destruction,and that's no illusion…

Thomas Klupp

Paradiso

Novel

Approx. 160 pages. Hardcover

To be published in February 2009

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Thomas Klupp was born in Erlangen in 1977 and lives in Berlin. He has edited the literarymagazine BELLA triste and now works at the University of Hildesheim's Literature Institute.He has published prose in magazines and anthologies, received a workshop grant from theJürgen Ponto Foundation and was invited to the 10th Klagenfurt Literature Course. Paradisois his first novel.

A wicked debut novel that leaves

the reader behind, wide-eyed and

breathless.

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Péter EsterházyNo Great Art

The final sentence of Helping Verbs of theHeart – was it a promise, a threat, aquote? In 1985, when Péter Esterházy'sbook came out on unnumbered, black-edged pages, this much-cited sentenceseemed most likely to be the manifesta-tion of authorial posturing. After thepublication of his books on his fatherCelestial Harmonies and Revised Edition,this sentence and the preceding book onhis mother's death, broken up into aux-iliary verbs, now gain new meaningtwenty-three years later in No Great Art.

No Great Art is the book of the reawak-ened mother, a mother who knows theoffside rule, and whose language, whichdetermines her relationship to the world,is the language of football. The son onlyexists in relation to it, just as everythingand everyone else only exists in relation

to this mother's football language.Football, in the author's last book astage and a medium for private historio-graphy, now acts as a worldview, itsroots in his relationship to his motherand his mother tongue: a mother'slanguage complex.

Readers seeking 'family stories' in PéterEsterházy's novel will find them – insubtly written, rounded stories. Thoselooking for emotions will find them too:platonic love, marital love filled with ten-derness, and of course love for hismother and father. And those interestedin the esterházyesque auto-reflexivetextual world (where does the authorbegin and end) will not be disappointedeither. Irony, beauty, history, theMagnificent Magyars, father, grand-mother, aunt, uncle, mother, life anddeath, especially death, but beautifullywritten. And life too, of course, whichcomes before death.

Péter Esterházy

No Great Art

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Péter Esterházy was born in 1950 into a family belonging to Hungary's oldest aristocratic dyna-sties. In 1951 the family was dispossessed by the Communists and banished to a remote village.In 1957 they were allowed to return to Budapest. He studied mathematics at the University ofBudapest's department of Natural Sciences, and began his career as a writer in 1978. He is a mem-ber of the German Acadamy for Language and Literature, and lives in Budapest with his family.

2004 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 1999 Austrian National Prize 2004 Grinzane Cavour Prize for European Literature2002 Herder Prize 1996 Kossuth Prize2001 Hungarian Literature Prize 1993 Premio Opera di Poesia2001 Sándor Márai Prize 1986 József Attila Prize

'My mother talked her way through the entire sixties and seventies in French. Boy, even comrade sounds

bearable in French. She slipped into the French language as if into a bunker. No, a bunker would be

more German, concrete protection; language is a lighter form of asylum, if danger were ahead it would

provide no protection, a hiding place, a hideout, a wing under which one cannot shelter. Whenever she

left French she immediately moved into football. One might say my mother was on the run her whole

life long. And one might also say that she was happy her whole life long.'

'I WILL WRITE ABOUT ALL

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Gerhard FalknerBruno

In the summer of 2006, a brown bearwas wandering wild between Austriaand Bavaria. For one side, it was a pro-tected animal and a challenge for con-servationists; for the authorities he wasa 'problem bear' that was finally shotand killed. This is the material Falknerhas worked into his multi-facetedartist's novella.

A German writer comes to Leuk inSwitzerland. On his arrival, he reads inthe press that the brown bear Bruno hasalso made an appearance in the Valais.The author develops a growing obses-sion, initially impenetrable, with seeingthe bear in person. He begins an absurd

search with hidden bait, missed tracks,existential turning points and bizarreencounters in the magnificently des-cribed, 'Stifteresque' Swiss Alps. At firstglance, the novella is a nature tale, buton closer inspection it is the story of fail-ure on every level developed in the text.The longed-for encounter, in truth alsothe longed-for encounter with himself,ends in a grotesque, as does the furiousattempt at a revolt.

Bruno is a bear of a story, there is nodoubt. But above all it is a multi-layeredcontemporary artist's novella of power-ful language and images, in which thepoet Gerhard Falkner pays tribute toHemingway and Adalbert Stifter.

Gerhard Falkner

Bruno

Novella


Published in May 2008

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Gerhard Falkner, born in 1951, is now unarguably one of the most important German-languagecontemporary poets. He has published the poetry volumes Wemut (1989), X-te Person Einzahl(1996), Endogene Gedichte (2000) and most recently Gegensprechstadt – ground zero (2005).He has also edited anthologies such as AmLit. Neue Literatur aus den USA (1992) andBudapester Szenen. Jüngste Lyrik aus Ungarn (1999). Falkner lives in Berlin and Bavaria.

2008 Kranichsteiner Literature Prize 2003 Schloss Solitude Fellowship2006 Spycher Literature Prize Leuk 1987 Bavarian State Prize for2004 Schiller Prize Emerging Writers

'The incomparable Gerhard Falkner!' Armin Kratzert, Bayerisches Fernsehen

'Stunning: Poetry meets irony!' Sächsische Zeitung

'Falkner has put out the wildest, most exciting animal novella in the literary sensethat has been printed for a long time. If you're going to the mountains this year –don't go without Falkner.' Die Welt

'Bruno ought to go out among the people as soon as possible.' Marcel Beyer

'The bear may be lying dead in a puddle of blood at the end of this novella, but thestory definitely continues: in our heads, where Bruno lives on thanks to GerhardFalkner's writing.' BR-online

'Brilliant written and with a serene profoundness.' WAZ

'Bruno is an event!' WAZ

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Gerhard FalknerHölderlin Repair

How can we harness the sublime in today'sspeech? The starting point for these poemsis the high tone typical of Hölderlin. Yet, feign-ing the approach of historical-critical editions,the poetry is repeatedly shattered by playand theory and either driven to the main mat-ter at hand, the autonomous poem, or furtherprocessed as poetic mass, as material, andbrought to never-ending associability. Never,of course, without ignoring the irony of itsinner logic. Poetry thus also becomes a con-ceptual undertaking as in the fine arts.

Yet the intention is unmistakable: reproducingthe poem in its closed and moving form and,in the figurative sense, placing it within a net-work of references.

Hölderlin Repair is a book with a density ofallusions perhaps not attempted since EzraPound.

Critics acclaimed Gerhard Falkner's last poetryvolume, the long poem Gegensprechstadt –ground zero set in Berlin, as a poem of thecentury. With Hölderlin Repair, he returns tothe innovative writing methods he developedin his now legendary collection wemut.

This new collection by the poet once pro-claimed Germany's 'lyrical great white hope'finally establishes the Kuhligk sound as a legit-imate phenomenon. That slightly snotty, neverhalf-hearted, deliberately iconoclastic andimmediately moving upright tone that marksBjörn Kuhligk's poetry and lends it an unmis-takable 'face made of elegance / and cheek'.These poems are as if electrified, fed by thetension between heterogeneous worlds ofexperience. Kuhligk relocates urban fracturesinto nature, overlays authentic feelings withphrases. He lends social realities three-dimen-sionality in a handful of lines, standing out forone main thing: untamed vitality.

Gerhard Falkner

Hölderlin Repair

Poems

96 pages.

Published in November 2008

Björn Kuhligk

On the Surface of the Earth

Poems

Approx. 86 pages.

To be published in March 2009

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Björn KuhligkOn the Surface of the Earth

Björn Kuhligk

Big Picture

76 pages.


Björn Kuhligk

In the End the Tourists Come

112 pages.


'What I have said is not what I have

not said.' Gerhard Falkner

'Consistently contemporary and ruthlessly poetic.' Tagesspiegel

9POEMS

Ron WinklerFragmented Waters

Jan WagnerEighteen Pies

'Jan Wagner's new poetry collection is a pat-tern book of linguistic haute cuisine.' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

'Jan Wagner is well known for his soufflé-lightsonnets and intricate sestinas – the last timewe read the like was perhaps in Baudelaire andOskar Pastior.' Neue Zürcher Zeitung

2007 Grant-holder at the Casa Baldi2006 Arno Reinfrank Literature Prize2005 Ernst Meister Prize2004 Mondseer Poetry Prize2004 Anna Seghers Prize2004 Alfred Gruber Prize2003 Christine Lavant Audience Award2001 Hamburg Literature Prize

for Emerging Writers2001 Hermann Hesse Prize

for Emerging Writers

Ron Winkler

Fragmented Waters

Poems

96 pages.


Jan Wagner

Eighteen Pies

Poems

96 pages.


These poems are 'guidelines for landscapetourists'. Ron Winkler takes the almost jadedmetaphors won from nature that have beenfloating around in our language since theRomantic period and recharged in the fields ofsocial matters, and uses them for a newdescription of nature. For him, the sensualexperience of nature is always infiltrated by thepresence of the media; 'nature' becomes aprojection surface for a modern way of life.

'With great irony and linguistic creativity,Winkler's nature poems make him the lyricalspokesman of a new generation. He trips apleasantly un-academic linguistic and philo-sophical light fantastic with incredible vitalityand jaunty elegance.' Deutschlandradio

'These lines should be posted onto coffeemachines as a good morning greeting. Orread aloud to your crush. Beautiful.' Einslive

'Ron Winkler succeeds in making use of thenature poem as a frame of reference for amodern way of life.' Leonce and Lena Prize 2005

Jan Wagner

Test Drilling in the Sky

80 pages.


Jan Wagner

Guericke's Sparrow

83 pages.


'Idiomatic esprit and bold images.'

Tagesspiegel

'Virtuoso.' Süddeutsche Zeitung

Fridolin Schley

Wild, Beautiful Animal

Short stories



Nikola Richter

Ending it on an Island

Short stories

144 pages.


Matthias Göritz

Short Dream of Jacob Voss

Novel

192 pages.


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Matthias Göritz, Nikola Richter

'Schley's stories make readers prick up theirears. One reads these short stories at first withcuriosity and then with a craving for the solu-tion to the riddles they pose.' Süddeutsche Zeitung

'The 32-year-old author sets the book's sixshort stories in scene without a trace of songand dance, surprising his reader again andagain with their unexpected twists and turns.'Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung

2007 Tukan Prize of the City of Munich2006 PhD scholarship from the

Protestant Student Foundation2004 Günther Klinge Culture Prize2001 Hermann Lenz Prize

for Emerging Writers2001 Bavarian State Prize

for Emerging Writers

When two people meet it's often a funnything – strange, awkward, unsure one time,relaxed, confident, straight ahead the next.Nikola Richter throws a spotlight on such cityromances with high hopes and visions.

'Göritz tells us about how strange people areand how lonely puberty is, how utopia failand about the aesthetic and political awful-ness of the 1980s.' Die Literarische Welt

'The book title sounds like Fassbinder, andthere are indeed parallels to his similarlypithy, poignant imagery. A successful debut.'Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Fridolin Schley

'Impressively mature prose.' NZZ

'Nina Jäckle is a true discovery!' Literaturen

'Jäckle's language is like music, tenderly,sometimes comically making storytelling themeaning of existence, even if one is lost forwords in the end.' Glamour

'This literary debut is intricately woven andtremendously compelling. It's written withbreathtaking precision and without a trace ofsentimentality.' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

'…quiet, rather demanding, with a wonderfulsense of rhythm.' Brigitte

'Jan Peter Bremer is a specialist in the mini-malist form, in playing little literary games.'Süddeutsche Zeitung

'Little masterpieces, as dark, beautiful andbeautifully polished as a black diamond.'Deutschlandradio

'A joy for every reader.' Welt am Sonntag

'Lifted out of time, the volume floats on noth-ing but language, coming ominously close tothe heart of literature and letters.' Literarische Welt

1996 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize

Jan Peter Bremer

Palaces

235 pages. New edition

Published in May 2006

Jan Peter Bremer

Fire Salamander

112 pages.


Jan Peter Bremer

Still Life

88 pages.

Published in Feburary 2008

Nina Jäckle

There Are Some

Short stories

134 pages.


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Nina Jäckle

Noll

Novel

194 pages.


Sold to: France

Nina Jäckle

Next Door

Novel

126 pages.


Jan Peter Bremer

Nina Jäckle

Werner SonneIf I Forget You, Jerusalem

February 1947. Judith, a survivor of Dachauconcentration camp, has come to Palestine tofind her uncle in Jerusalem; she has no rela-tives left in Germany. When she hears of heruncle's death she attempts suicide. In hospi-tal, she receives a transfusion of the blood of astudent nurse, Hana, and makes friends withthe young Arab woman. Hana is promised toher neighbour Joussef. But she wants to com-plete her training at the Hadassah Hospital –

and she loves a Jewish doctor. Joussef, hispride deeply wounded, joins the Mufti's men,who want to drive the Jews into the sea. Thepolitical situation comes to a head. When theUN accepts the plan to divide Palestine on 29November 1947, violence erupts and thefriendship between Judith and Hana is put toa tough test.

Werner Sonne, born in 1947, has been a tele-vision journalist for forty years, includinglong placements as a foreign and Berlin cor-respondent.

30 January 1945. The great luxury liner of the1930s, the passenger ship Wilhelm Gustloff, isanchored in Danzig Bay. It is to take on boardthousands of women, children and old peopledesperate to escape the approaching Russianarmy. Its destination of Kiel is a beacon ofhope uniting all those on board.

In Gotenhafen, the navy auxiliary girl ErikaGaletschky from Königsberg meets her loverHellmut Kehding, who is to captain theWilhelm Gustloff. At the last moment, Erikamanages to cross her scheming superior andsneak on board.

The completely overcrowded ship leaves theharbour without sufficient escort vessels. Asthe commanders are still arguing over who isin charge, a Russian torpedo hits the ship.Only a few of the almost 10,000 passengerssurvive the dramatic sinking of the ship in thedark cold of the Baltic Sea.

Tatjana Gräfin Dönhoff is a freelance authorand journalist. Her most recent book was thenovel Die Flucht (2007). Dr. Rainer Berg hasbeen writing screenplays since 1988. In 2002he was awarded the Bavarian Television Prize.

Werner Sonne

If I Forget You, Jerusalem

Novel



Sold to: Netherlands

Tatjana Gräfin Dönhoff /

Rainer Berg

The Gustloff

Novel



Sold to: Czech Republic,

Poland

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Tatjana Gräfin Dönhoff, Rainer BergThe Gustloff

A passionate novel about the foun-

dation of the state of Israel, telling

gripping stories of the fates of

individual Jews and Arabs.

The novel about the sinking of the

Wilhelm Gustloff.

Bernadette Calonego

Under Dark Waters

Novel



Sold to: Netherlands

Hans Graf von der Goltz

The Mission

Novel



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'Densely atmospheric, sensual prose full ofmoving images. Laconically terse and to thepoint. This narrator has a virtuoso commandof insinuation, sketches made up of a handfulof words that still contain the essence of thematter. A brilliant business novel.'Literarische Welt

'Goltz has learned his trade as a writer well. Ayoung generation wanting to draw new con-clusions from the current discussions onbusiness ethics would do well to train theirpowers of thought on this novel.'Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

'Precise and understanding in the psychologyof the characters – a cold little display of pyro-technics in the ice-cold North' Tages-Anzeiger

'Calonego wins over readers with thrilling andpalatable writing.' Neue Züricher Zeitung

'Tension to the very last page and a little sur-prise to finish off: a book like this is great fun.'Neue Presse

Bernadette CalonegoUnder Dark Waters

Hans Graf von der GoltzThe Mission

A women's search for the truth leads

her on a dangerous trail across Canada.

India 1957 – four men are to help the

country to help itself. A tale of res-

ponsibility and humanity in the midst

of a coolly calculated business world.

Moritz Wulf LangeLittle Aster. Dallinger's First Case

Central Berlin: the rain has been comingdown outside for hours. Inside, theoffice smells musty, the rusty radiator isgurgling away, and the coffee machine isgasping for air. Private eye MichaelDallinger is typing up yet another reportabout a cheating wife when he gets a callfrom his uncle, old Father Broock. A dis-tant acquaintance of Broock, the ceme-tery caretaker Richard Molinski, is beingstalked. Dallinger reluctantly startsinvestigating. One day later, the caretak-er is dead, his body cruelly mutilated.On the hunt for the murderer, Dallingercomes across a link between his uncle'spast and that of the victim. The trailtakes him back to a 1950's children'shome and the last days of the war. Thereis only one conclusion he can come to:Broock must know Molinski's killer. Butwhy won't he say anything?

Moritz Wulf Lange

Little Aster.

Dallinger's First Case



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Moritz Wulf Lange was born in Hamburg in 1971. He has written a number of audio versionsof Henning Mankell's Wallander books, among others. His own audio series Edgar Allan Poe(under the pseudonym Melchior Hala) was nominated for the German Audiobook Award in2006. The accompanying novel Lebendig begraben was published in 2007. Moritz Wulf Langelives in Berlin and on the River Oste near Bremervörde.

'What more can one ask for but a good warming scare?' DIE ZEIT

Berlin's most likeable private eye!

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Irina LiebmannWould it be nice? It would be nice!

He was passionate and sardonic, humo-rous and radical, one of the most bril-liant journalists Germany had; but hewanted more. And he devoted himself toan ambitious task: building a society inwhich every individual could developtheir skills. This vision was destined fortragic failure. Rudolf Herrnstadt (1903-1966) was the eloquent and best-knownjournalist of the Eastern Zone and theearly GDR, before being expelled fromthe Socialist Unity Party and exiled to theprovinces. Originating from a bourgeoisJewish family in industrial Upper Silesia,he had recognised the rise of fascismat an early point and decided not to es-cape but to fight against it. He became a

communist, setting his personal careeraside to work for his party wherever hewas needed. His life and writings tookhim from Berlin to Prague to Warsaw toMoscow and then back to Berlin, wherehe accompanied the Red Army's arrivaland helped set up the first of the city'snewspapers, then the Eastern Zone'spress. In the early years of the GDR hewas to head the party newspaper, takingan offensive stand for its propagandabut always using his position to set newinitiatives in motion. He was to be thefirst to make a public call for moredemocracy and demand that people betreated with respect. In 1953 he wasexpelled from the Socialist Unity Party asan 'enemy of the party,' and his existencewas ignored from then on.

Irina Liebmann

Would it be nice? It would be nice!

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Irina Liebmann, born in 1943, studied Chinese studiesin Leipzig. She has been a freelance author since 1975,living in East and later West Berlin.

2008 Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2001 Guest lecturer at Oberlin College, Ohio1998 Berlin Literature Prize1989 Aspekte Literature Prize1987 Ernst Willner Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann

Competition in Klagenfurt

'This book truly deserves the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair!' Klaus Harpprecht, DIE ZEIT

'Irina Liebmann always has an eye for the whole period. She uses various text forms,giving her biography pace through her terse style. Gigantic material, great plot -moving and exciting from beginning to end.' Focus

'Irina Liebmann has pulled off a little masterpiece.' Literarische Welt

'A fascinating book about a wild and broken life.' Thea Dorn, Südwestrundfunk

'A magnificent combination of world, German and private history.' Literaturen

'Post-war German history has rarely been told like this. From the first to the lastpage, this book about a passionate, wise and very contradictory man is a declarationof love to a father.' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Irina Liebmann

Berlin Tenement

218 pages

Published January 2002

Irina Liebmann

The Free Women

Novel

240 pages

Published September 2004

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Irina Liebmann

In the Midst of War

224 pages

Republished March 2006

The story of a man who took his

life seriously in dangerous times.

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Viktor JerofejewThe Russian Apocalypse

'You know there was a coup d'etat in ourcountry? What do you mean, when? It'simpossible to say the precise date, asthere wasn't one. It was just that a windcame up, the sky clouded over and therain set in. There you have the wholecoup.'

With caustic wit, Jerofejew comments onthe state-controlled change in Russia'sweather, caused by invisible figures guid-ing the nation towards an unknown des-

tination. And anyone who neverthelessloves their country has to put up with thequestion: does it love you back? AsJerofejew satirizes the state of theRussian nation, the reader chokes on hislaughter – behind all the provocation,the author's concern for his countryshines through. A country whereJerofejew is convinced the apocalypse isnigh. His view of the lifestyles of thenouveau riches and politicians, of idealhusbands, writers, friends or house-wives prove him an expert on theRussian soul. But that soul is hanging inthe balance, undecided between theexperiences of the past and the challen-ges of the present.Viktor Jerofejew

The Russian Apocalypse

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Viktor Jerofejew, born in Moscow in 1947, is one ofRussia's leading authors. He has presented the weeklytalk show Apokryph on literature, culture and society forseveral years, and writes regularly for the New Yorker,Mare, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and DieWelt. He also edited the first Russian Nabokov edition.

'One of the most important chroniclers of these turbulent and frighteningly fasci-nating past decades in Russia.' DIE ZEIT

'Russia has not seen so much linguistic wit, coupled with everyday humour andexposure strategy, for many a year.' Der Spiegel

'Viktor Jerofejew is a key figure for understanding contemporary Russian literature,in which the writer and literary scholar has made many marks.' Deutschlandradio

'Nobody finds such witty and appropriate formulations for the state of the Russiansoul as Jerofejew.' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Viktor Jerofejew

De Profundis

Stories

136 pages.

Published August 2008

Viktor Jerofejew

The Good Stalin

Novel

364 pages.


Sold to: France, Italy,

China, Greece, Romania,

Estonia, Netherlands,

Poland, Serbia, Croatia,

Slovakia, Hungary,

Finland, Slovenia, Latvia

Pointed essays about Russia's

many faces, Russian hedonists

and patriots, and their ongoing

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Michael KlonovskyThe Pain of Beauty

To this very day, Puccini's operas are aunique success story, yet the composerhimself is often dismissed as second-rate. Michael Klonovsky gives a passion-ate explanation of why Puccini is never-theless one of the great figures inmusical history.

The man whose works still dominate theworld's opera stages as no other seemsnot to have been a first-rate composer –going by his reception in the specialistliterature, at least. This is a scandalousmisunderstanding, says the Pucciniadmirer Michael Klonovsky – after all,his music has transported millions oflisteners into veritable emotional eupho-ria and moved them to tears.

Who, except perhaps Mozart, has giventhe world more musical tenderness thanPuccini? For Klonovsky, the embarkationscene from Manon Lescaut, the 'TeDeum' from Tosca or the terrifyinglyominous 'Che tua madre' from MadameButterfly are among the high points ofmusical history, just like Turandot andthe all but forgotten Il Tabarro, from thefirst to the last bar.

The Pain of Beauty aims to rehabilitatethis musical genius at long last. Thispassionately written, well-researchedportrait of Puccini and his art is a charm-ing homage to a true master of his art,to a man, according to Klonovsky, whohas given some of the greatest gifts tohuman history.

Michael Klonovsky

The Pain of Beauty

On Giacomo Puccini


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Michael Klonovsky, born in 1962, is a writer and journalist. His novels include Land der Wunder(2005) and Der Ramses-Code (2001). He works as a duty editor for Focus magazine and livesin Munich. He received the Wächter Award for critical reporting in 1991.

A homage to Puccini.

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Michael MaarSolus Rex

Michael Maar

Solus Rex

The Bad and Beautiful

World of Vladimir Nabokov

208 pages.


Susanne Kippenberger

Kippenberger.

The Artist and his Families

576 pages.

80 b/w Illustrations


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Susanne KippenbergerKippenberger. The Artist and his Families

'Decoding Nabokov's books is an art form initself, and Maar has a masterly command ofit. Like Nabokov, Maar too lays trails for hisreaders, letting them follow red herrings onlyto amaze them with a surprisingly simplesolution. Anyone who enters into a journeywith Maar through the labyrinthine world ofNabokov's writing will be rewarded with valu-able insights. Masterly.' Neue Zürcher Zeitung

'Makes one want to read Nabokov straightaway.' Die Literarische Welt

'The most beautiful book written to date onthe lonely king of the novelists.'Rheinischer Merkur

2005 Fellow of the Carl Friedrichvon Siemens Foundation

2002 Guest professor, Stanford2001 Baden-Württemberg Essay Grant 2000 Lessing Criticism Prize1998 Lower Saxony Foundation Essay Grant1997 Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg

zu Berlin1995 Johann Heinrich Merck Prize1995 Ernst Robert Curtius Prize

for Emerging Essayists

A touching book remembering MartinKippenberger, the bad boy of the German artworld who died young and infamous for hisartistic iconoclasm and provocative life,through the eyes of his sister. MartinKippenberger was one of the most influentialand successful German post-war artists. Hetook part in the Biennale and documenta, andwas awarded the Käthe Kollwitz Prize. Therewere two major exhibitions of his work at theTate Modern, London, and the Kunst-sammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf,in 2006.

Further exhibitions will take place at theMuseum of Contemporary Art in Los Angelesfollowed by the Museum of Modern Art inNew York in 2009.

'Martin Kippenberger lives!' Monopol

'The most insightful portrait of MartinKippenberger to date.' Süddeutsche Zeitung

'A monumental portrayal of the irretrievableCologne years.' Literaturen

'One of the best art books in a long

time.' Berliner Zeitung

A moving portrait of Nabokov –

a singular artist who disappeared

inside his own work in the end like

the Chinese painter.

Haralampi G. Oroshakoff

The Battenberg Affair.

The Life and Adventures

of Gavril Oroshakov or

A Russian-European Story

768 pages with Illustrations

Published Oktober 2007

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Manfred Weber-Lamberdière

The Ferran Adrià Revolution.

How a Catalan Made

Cooking an Art

With an Afterword by

Ferran Adrià

256 pages with Photos.


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Haralampi G. Oroshakoff tells the adventur-ous tale of his Russian family, its fates inextri-cably linked with the Oriental power strugglesof the 19th century. Die Battenberg-Affäre is ajourney of discovery into a bygone era, a mag-nificent story interweaving history and fictionto form an epic work of art.

'The book is much more than a family story. Itis the story of southeast Europe since thecollapse and end of the Ottoman Empire.Absolutely fascinating.' Cicero

'Anyone who really wants to understand therecent entanglements in the Balkans shouldemerge themselves in this great historicalnarrative.' Der Spiegel

'This magnificent family saga shows commonfactors, depicts irreconcilable differences. Moreconvincing than many a history book.' Bild

For Ferran Adrià, every dish is an original. Heputs the idea of the permanent revolution inthe kitchen into practice as no other has andthe gourmet world waits with baited breath todiscuss the unique new taste chords whenAdrià presents his new collection every April.Manfred Weber-Lamberdière paints a livelyportrait of the most influential chef of ourtimes, offering a fascinating insight into hisculinary laboratory and the universe of hautecuisine.

'The most entertaining piece ever written onthe history of Grande Cuisine and its protago-nists. The road from Escoffier's heavyweightcuisine to Adrià's molecular creations ismapped out so convincingly and amusinglythat you may well forget the Christmas roast inthe oven.' SonntagsZeitung

'A delicious book.' Westfälischer Anzeiger

'Al dente pleasure.' Celebrity

Haralampi G. OroshakoffThe Battenberg Affair

Manfred Weber-LamberdièreThe Ferran Adrià Revolution

'The best chef in the world.'

New York Times

A fascinating family novel and a great

European story

Kerstin HolmRubens in Siberia

There is barely any aspect of relationsbetween Germany and Russia as contro-versial and complex as how to deal withthe works of art stolen during and afterWorld War II. A huge number of works ofart and other cultural items were lootedas trophies of war by German soldiers inRussia and later by Russian soldiers onGerman territory. Up to the collapse ofthe Soviet Union, Moscow strictlydenied the existence of these stolen art-works in Russian collections. But sincethe early 1990s, it has emerged that notonly the major museums such as theHermitage in St. Petersburg containstolen art from Germany. Army unitshad also taken or sold looted artworksall the way to the provinces, ending upin Nishni Novgorod, Tula and Irkutsk.

Kerstin Holm spent sixteen years as acultural correspondent, going throughRussia's provincial museums with afine-toothed comb. She unearthedpictures from Berlin, Potsdam andSchwerin, revealing much about theweaknesses of those who stole themand even more about the Russian paint-ing now all around them.

Holm takes a highly unconventionalapproach to the subject of stolen art,posing surprising questions. How wasand is this very different art received? Towhat extent did the sudden confron-tation with “Western” views and repre-sentations of the world affect Russianart and those who viewed it? Thisimpressive book makes it clear that thesubject of stolen art has a human andart history dimension alongside itspolitical and legal aspects.

Kerstin Holm

Rubens in Siberia

Stolen art from Germany in the

Russian provinces

160 pages. Hardcover.

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Kerstin Holm, born in Hamburg, started out as a humanities editor for the FrankfurterAllgemeine Zeitung in 1987. She has been the newspaper's cultural correspondent in Moscowsince 1991. Her panorama of Russia, Das korrupte Imperium, was published in 2003.

'The best overview to date on the inextricable problem of looted art.' Berliner Zeitung

'Excitingly unconventional.' taz

'Highly competent.' Süddeutsche Zeitung

'Precisely researched and a fascinating read.' Literaturen

'It is extremely fortunate that Kerstin Holm knows most of the debate's pro-tagonists personally and can explain the standpoints on all sides.' Die Welt

Stolen art – surprising aspects

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Andreas WeberOrganic Capital

Nowadays, we are facing a chain ofalmost insolvable problems: the loss ofclimate stability and natural diversity, thegalloping globalisation and the wideninggulf between rich and poor – but also therestlessness, hectic lifestyles and mean-ingless lives from which the inhabitantsof the wealthier regions suffer.

For Andreas Weber, all these problemscan be traced back to a single cause: areligion of the economy, which subordi-nates everything to growth and which isbased on ideas rooted in a false image oflife and a false conception of humanity.Weber describes and calls for a new 'eco-logical economy' that works with naturerather than against it. He is convincedthat health, mental contentment, eco-

logical growth and a lasting, just andforward-looking economy are only possi-ble in concert – and that this is wheretrue progress lies.

In his clear and intelligent book, Weberpresents pioneers of the real 'sustainableturn', for instance the economist RobertCostanza, the first person to calculatethe total value of all the planet's services.And he visits model locations such asthe small town of Varese in the Ligurianmountains and a hidden Alpine valley,both of which have converted to clear cir-cular economies, generating high profitswith green business and rising to aboveaverage on the happiness scale.

Only a new economy of real wellbeing –an economy of happiness – can bringthe turning point, make lasting use ofthe wealth of nature and thus preserveour humanity.

Andreas Weber

Organic Capital

The reconciliation of the economy,

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Andreas Weber, born in 1967, studied biology and philosophy in Berlin, Freiburg, Hamburgand Paris. He is now a freelance writer, journalist and editor, writing regular articles for majormagazines and newspapers including GEO. Andreas Weber lives in Berlin with his wife andtwo children.

'Weber artfully arranges scientific knowledge and philosophical reflection, literaryquotes and personal experiences of nature. And the author creates passages withgreat poetic force – for instance when looking into the cosmos of a toad's eye orcomparing molecular activity with a bazaar.' Geo on Feeling Life

Andreas Weber

Feeling Life. Nature and

the Revolution of the

Life Sciences

172 pages.


How can we make business

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Wolfram EilenbergerLittle People, Big Questions

This is a stimulating and entertainingbook about questions as deep as life it-self, a wonderfully playful yet seriousintroduction to philosophy. Accordingto Kant, it is man's fate to ask questionsthat go unanswered. But he didn't writeanything about how even very youngchildren ask their parents unanswerablequestions. In fact, the 'metaphysicalchild' is a perfectly normal phenome-non – as every mother and father willagree. 'What if you'd never met mum?','Might I have been a boy?', 'Did youwant me the way I am?', 'Where has

grandpa gone?', 'Is God watching usright now?' – questions that both fas-cinate and unsettle us adults. All toooften, what might have been the start ofan interesting conversation ends upwith a quick-fire appeasement or a jokeydistraction. That's not the end of theworld, but it is a missed opportunity.For Wolfram Eilenberger, these ques-tions are nothing less than a challengeto us 'grown-ups' to think for ourselves.Or to put it another way, they are aspringboard into the world of philo-sophy. Clear, surprising and down toearth, Eilenberger familiarises us withthe ways in which philosophy haslooked at life's big questions.

Who teaches our children for

life? Adults. And who teaches

the adults for life? Philosophy!

Wolfram Eilenberger

Little People, Big Questions

20 philosophical stories for the adults

of today – and tomorrow



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Wolfram Eilenberger, a father of twins and a doctor of philosophy, is a correspondent forCicero magazine, a columnist for Berlin's Tagesspiegel newspaper and a freelance writer.Wolfram Eilenberger lives in Bloomington/Indiana and Berlin with his family.

'This is no semi-academic compendium of philosophical knowledge, but a collec-tion of humorous personal reports that take the reader straight from reflecting todeep thinking.' Der Tagesspiegel

'The book stands out a mile from the usual advice books with their magic formulae.'Deutschlandfunk

Wolfram Eilenberger

Philosophy for People

Who Want to Make it

222 pages.

Published August 2005

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Gila LustigerMr Grinberg & Co.

With loving detail, imagination and wit,Gila Lustiger sketches the everyday ad-ventures of an older gentleman, a littlegirl and her friends. They mourn, argue,make discoveries and fall in love, endingup in charmingly comic situations. Andagain and again, they stumble as if byaccident over the great eternal questionsof humankind.

Mr Grinberg likes nothing better thanhiding behind his newspaper; his inter-ests are world events and crosswords.But one evening he discovers Paul, a boyfrom the neighbourhood, freezing andexhausted on a park bench. When hecarries him home he finds out why the

boy ran away – his beloved grandmoth-er is on her deathbed. Soon there areplenty of people wondering how best tohelp Paul. And they include Paul's nosy,hard-boiled friend Paula Mathilda, whohas an unshakable opinion on every-thing. She decides Mr Grinberg will haveto take the place of Paul's grandmother.

Mr Grinberg suddenly remembers amysterious book from his youth: theBook of Questions. And by chance healso notices he's fallen in love with hishousekeeper…

Mr Grinberg & Co. is a philosophicalnovel for all, a parable for understandingand openness. A perfect gift book!

A philosophical novel about

happiness!

Gila Lustiger

Mr Grinberg & Co.

A story about happiness

Illustrated by Vitali Konstantinov



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Gila Lustiger was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1963. She studied German and comparativeliterature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has been a freelance writer in Parissince 1987. Her family novel about the history of the European Jews So sind wir (2005) wasshortlisted for the German Book Prize.

Vitali Konstantinov, born in Bessarabia in 1963, is a freelance artist and illustrator and haslived in Germany since 1996. He studied architecture in Russia and graphic art, paintingand art history in Germany. He illustrates and writes for children and adults.

'Full of charm and playful reflection. Magical!' Neue Ruhr Zeitung

'Gila Lustiger's novel is no pretence; it really is a story about happiness. The like ofwhich, in this form, in this lightness yet depth, has not been around for a longtime.' Literarische Welt

'A humorous everyday adventure, 185 entertaining pages distinguished by a virtuallyeffervescent art of invention and a good portion of humour.' Jüdische Allgemeine

'Lustiger's book is so wise and yet the stories in it are so mischievous that readerslarge and small will enjoy it.' Berliner Zeitung

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