Foreign Rights Guide 2015/2016 dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Foreign Rights Department Tumblingerstraße 21 • 80337 München • Germany [email protected] • www.dtv.de © Katharina Netolitzky unter Verwendung eines Fotos von gettyimages/Eric Audras von eines Fotos Verwendung unter Netolitzky © Katharina Dear colleagues, We are happy to present to you our foreign rights catalogue featuring the new publications 2015/2016. For reading copies or further information on our titles, please contact us either directly or through the agency in your respective country. We hope you enjoy browsing through this catalogue and we look forward to hearing from you. With best regards, Constanze Chory Julia Helfrich Rights Director Rights Manager T: ++49 89 38167-125 T: ++49 89 38167-127 F: ++49 89 38167-325 F: ++49 89 38167-327 [email protected] [email protected] English language French language Dutch language Spanish/Portuguese language Asian countries Baltic countries Italy Balkan countries Scandinavian countries Bulgaria/Romania Russia/Ukraine Poland Czech Republic/Slovakia Greece Hungary Israel Arabic language Turkey 3 LITERARY FICTION LITERARY FICTION Stefan aus dem Siepen Lizzie Doron The Book of Impositions Who the Fuck is Kafka TOP TITLE We really oughtn’t drive. It’s too undemanding. But are we LIZZIE DORON Hatred is an emotion, but peace is a conscious not constantly exposed to all sorts of minor irritations on the Who the Fuck decision train as well? Do we just need to turn a deaf ear more often? Is Kafka What’s happened to common courtesy? Can an artist be badly Roman A hotel in Rome. There’s a knock at Lizzie Doron’s door; dressed? Why is mediocrity so often a success? when she opens it, she thinks she finds herself confronted by an Arab suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt. In Stefan aus dem Siepen takes an impish look at the modern fact Nadim has merely stuck his travel documents to the Eine israelische Schriftstellerin und ein palästinensischer Journalist. world. In a series of brief reflections and anecdotes, he Er will einen Film über sie drehen, waistband of his trousers with black adhesive tape. considers the critical factors that prevent us from enjoying sie erzählt sein Leben. _ _ a pleasant and comfortable life. He examines the absurdity premium Such is the first encounter between the Israeli author Lizzie rampant in modern art, the farcical aspects of culture and the Doron and the Palestinian-Arab journalist Nadim, an 288 pages contrariness of everyday life. 256 pages encounter that marks the beginning of an eventful roller- coaster of a friendship that will drive them to breaking point A book about impositions – the journal of a true flaneur – time and again. They both live in different buildings of the funny, poignant, sometimes provocative. same madhouse: Lizzie carries a baggage-load of Holocaust, while Nadim is weighed down by the memory of al-Nakba (the great disaster) – the tragic consequences of the 1948 By the same author: Arab-Israeli War. STEFAN • an Israeli writer tells the story of a Palestinian journalist AUS DEM SIEPEN Das Seil DER RIESE DER RIESE who wants to make a film about her ROMAN • a tense juxtaposition of two inner and outer worlds, the confrontation of two different cultures – and a search for Stefan aus dem Siepen aus dem Stefan common ground Stefan aus dem Siepen • a story about steadfastness and sense of justice STEFAN AUS DEM SIEPEN AUS STEFAN Das Seil ROMAN Rights sold: Italy _ _ Lizzie Doron was born in 1953 in Tel Aviv. premium premium She studied linguistics before becoming a writer. Her first novel “Ruhige Zeiten” (Quiet “Who the Fuck is Kafka? is essential reading for anyone Stefan aus dem Siepen, born in 1964, The Rope The Giant Times) won the Buchman prize, and in 2007 trying to get to grips with the Israeli-Palestinian relation- studied law and entered a diplomatic career Rights sold: Italy, Rights sold: France, Korea she was awarded the Jeanette Schocken ship in all its contradictions and complexity.” in 1992. After postings in Bonn, Luxemburg, France, Korea prize. Critics celebrate her as an outstanding ORF Ex libris Shanghai and Moscow, he is currently and distinctive narrator who instils personal working for the Foreign Office in Berlin. He experience with universal significance, “This book moved me to the core.” has published two more novels (“Luftschiff” condensing it into poignant, emotionally Funkhaus Europa and “Die Entzifferung der Schmetterlinge”). charged novels.. 4 5 LITERARY FICTION LITERARY FICTION Nikolaus Breuel Yorck Kronenberg Berlin, Palace Square Days of Night NIKOLAUS BREUEL A German MP on a field trip finds himself stranded on an Anton, an elderly professor of literature from Frankfurt, island in the middle of the North Sea. owns a house on the English coast. One day it is burgled, and YORCK Far from the machinations of the capital, life and politics although no harm comes to him or his wife, he feels sick at SCHLOSSPLATZ, KRONENBERG BERLIN take on a very different perspective. heart and overcome with a sense of impotence. Increasingly ROMAN TAGE DER he finds himself thinking back to his childhood in 1940s Meanwhile in Berlin there are plans afoot to build a vast NACHT Germany. Anton’s father, an unemployed violinist, despised aquatic complex right next to the palace square – Berlin’s Roman Nazism, but the regime met with considerable support in famous Schlossplatz. A date has already been set for the the neighbourhood – and indeed with Anton’s grandparents. opening, but the building is far from finished. There’s a mess Unaware of the magnitude of his action, the boy denounced _ of pipes, but nobody knows where they lead to. _ his father to a neighbour. Legislation, major projects, the world situation at large – the 280 pages stranded MP is responsible for it all. He believes in truth 256 pages One sleepless night, driven by haunting memories and visions and the power of right; he wants to make the world a better from his childhood, Anton leaves his house. His walk takes place. But somehow everything is going awry – with the him along the coast – and becomes a wrestling match with his panel of directors, in parliament and politics in general. inner demons. An absolute rarity in German literature: a literary novel Atmospherically charged and profoundly compelling, Yorck written by an executive who knows the nitty-gritty of Kronenberg’s novel describes the life-long effects of a tragic politics inside out. childhood. Yorck Kronenberg was born in 1973. He studied piano and composition in Nikolaus Breuel, born in 1960, is a Lübeck. As a pianist, he won the businessman living in Berlin. A few years International JS Bach Competition in ago he began to write as an adjunct to his Saarbrücken in 1998. He has also work. His major concern is the question of received numerous awards for his literary how politics works and how we can improve work, including bursaries from the Lower society in the long term. Breuel is married Saxony Foundation, the Ahrenshoop with two children. “Berlin, Palace Square” is Lukas Artists’ Residence and the Berlin his first book. Literary Colloquium. 6 7 LITERARY FICTION LITERARY FICTION Julie Mebes Heaven Near the Louvre Highlights Julie Mebes On Happiness in Paris Recommendations from our Backlist “Once one has been a woman in Paris, one cannot be it anywhere else.” Stefan aus dem Siepen Montesquieu Das Seil The Rope Der Himmel This small novella describes the invasion of the unfathomable neben dem Rive Droite, the 1st Arrondissement, one of the most and chaotic into a narrow, well-ordered world. It is a gleamingly venerable and most elegant neighbourhoods right in the Louvre Siepen aus dem Stefan written parable on the power of the irrational and on the Zum heart of Paris, between Place Vendôme and the Tuileries Stefan aus dem Siepen destructive powers of obsession. Glück¯ Gardens. In 38 brief chapters, Julie Mebes shows us her very in Paris Das Seil own Paris. She takes us to her favourite tea room and leads ROMAN Rights sold: Italy, France, Korea _ premium _ us through the lesser-known side streets and large boule- premium vards. She makes us marvel at tame goats in the Tuileries 224 pages and at German tourists taking snapshots in the Louvre. We are queuing in her supermarket and are invited to a writers’ 13546 _ Thomas Glavinic Thomas Glavinic seminar. We join her at her writing desk at the window in Der Kameramörder The Video Murderer her small apartment and get to know her neighbours. Julie Roman Der Kameramörder Der “Thomas Glavinic’s outstanding and overwhelming book ‘The Mebes depicts how Parisians succeed in mastering everyday Video Murderer’ is not so much about a murder as about the life with great elegance – and how easy life in Paris is for a video camera that was present, and that is why the story comes Thomas Glavinic Glavinic Thomas woman. closest to reality when it loses itself in its own reflection.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A book about the joys and charms of Parisian life. Makes one want to leave for Paris. Tout de suite. For good. Over 100.000 copies sold Rights sold: France, Turkey, Croatia, Hungary, English World Rights _ Alex Capus Alex Capus Munzinger Pascha Roman Munzinger Pasha The skilfully interwoven tale of two journeys – one to Cairo, the Born in Germany in 1966, Julie Mebes other into the heart of a disillusioned man. grew up in the Netherlands and changed nationality at the age of eighteen. She “Capus interweaves the narrative threads of his debut novel with studied law and politics in Amsterdam.