Foreign Rights Guide 2015/2016
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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 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 Das Seil DER RIESE DEM SIEPEN AUS STEFAN
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..
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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.
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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 Roman The Video Murderer her small apartment and get to know her neighbours. Julie “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 Der Kameramörder Der 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. After a career in the Ministry of Education, Culture irony and social criticism, depicting the interior and exterior and Science she became a diplomat with worlds of the present day and the past with (…) astounding postings in Brussels and Paris: Counsellor to finesse (…)” Der Spiegel the EU and deputy Ambassador to UNESCO. In order to stay on in Paris she left the service Long-selling debut novel by bestselling author Alex Capus in 2010. She regrets rien.
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Judith Winter Rita Falk Judith Blood Money The Meatloaf Addict BEST Winter A Bavarian crime thriller SELLER A little boy calls the police emergency line; he’s in shock and Franz Eberhofer’s seventh case facing extreme danger. But the police officers get to the scene too leberkäs- late – a family of four has been slaughtered in cold blood. junkie Franz Eberhofer’s cholesterol levels are as high as his spirits It’s clearly a case for Emilia Capelli and Mai Zhou, who are alrea- Ein Provinzkrimi are low. It’s goodbye to Bavarian meatloaf sandwiches and dy under tremendous pressure following the death of one of their grandmother’s scrumptious meatballs. To make matters own. Popular and respected colleague Thorsten Mohr was killed worse, just as Franz has really begun to engage with his son during a raid; what’s mystifying is that he had evidently taken off _ in a big way, Susi is giving him a hard time about the kid. STERBE premium Kriminalroman his mandatory protective vest just before his death. The ensuing Then a stranger is found brutally murdered in Liesl GELD investigations – both internal and external – put Capelli and Mooshammer’s guesthouse; his face has been rubbed in _ Emilia Capelli und Mai Zhou ermitteln Zhou directly in harm’s way; they find themselves with their lives fire accelerant and put on fire and he is disfigured beyond at risk, because the enemy is closer than they could have possibly recognition. When the Angolan footballer Buengo – of all December 2015 | 384 pages imagined … January 2016 | 272 pages people! – who plays for the local team, is suspected of the murder, Eberhofer takes up the case … Young, as different as chalk and cheese, professional to the core, with a first-rate track record: the third spellbinding case for inve- The seventh case of the acclaimed cult series, with over stigative duo Emilia Capelli and Mai Zhou. 2,8 million copies in circulation. More titles with Emilia Capelli and May Zhou are in preparation. By the same author:
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Press acclaim for Seven-fold: 21330 “A thriller that will keep you up all night!” denglers-buchkritik.de winter-
kartoffel- SauerkrautKoma - By the same author: sauerkraut zwetschgen- knodel koma datschi- Ein Provinzkrimi Ein Provinzkrimi
WinterKartoffelKnödel komplott 21489 Judith Ein Provinzkrimi _ _ premium premium
Winter _
• Winter Potato Dumplings Judith Winter was born in Frankfurt in • Steam-bread Blues 1969. She studied German literature and • Boar’s Head, Rare Judith Winter SIEBENSCHÖN psychology in Berlin and Vienna, then THRILLER Lotusblut THRILLER • The Semolina Dumpling Affair worked for many years in a prestigious _ _ • Sauerkraut Coma scientific institute before branching out on her own. After spending time in Milan Seven-fold The Blood of the Lotus • The Plum Stew Conspiracy and Paris, she now lives with her family Rights sold: Italy Bestselling series, total print run: Over 3 million copies in Konstanz. Rights sold: Turkey, Latvia 10 11 Crime Crime
Reinhard Rohn Benjamin Cors Die Quietly Jetsam
As a young man he committed a murder. For twenty-six years The setting is the Cannes Film Festival; young bodyguard he has lived undiscovered, a respected member of society, Nicholas Guerlain is supposed to be looking after a French the perfect husband and family man. But when the body of minister but accidentally knocks him to the red carpet a prostitute is found in Cologne and the murder bears all when his attention is distracted by a familiar figure in the the hallmarks of his case, his past threatens to catch up with cheering crowd – is that not Julie, his long-lost love who him. The one-time killer finds himself the target of a ruthless vanished two years ago? blackmailer. Nicholas is transferred home to the Normandy spa town of
JUNG, TALENTIERT – GEFEUERT: PC Lena Larcher’s first case after an extended leave of absence EIN PERSONENSCHÜTZER Deauville for disciplinary reasons. His new colleagues don’t _ ERMITTELT IN DER NORMANDIE _ seems set to drive her to her limits, both professionally and premium exactly welcome him with open arms and things go from emotionally. Will she ever be able to get over the death of bad to worse when he sets out to investigate a crime that 304 pages her husband and son? It looks as though Lena’s past is also 400 pages goes back decades … coming back to haunt her …
A sophisticated plot; a charismatic protagonist: suspense par excellence!
Reinhard Rohn was born in Osnabruck in 1959. He works as the head of a publishing Benjamin Cors is a political journalist and house and divides his time between Cologne television presenter who spent many years and Berlin. Rohn translated numerous covering world news for evening news detective novels into German before starting programmes and in-depth political analysis. to write crime fiction of his own. Under the Today he works as a regional political pseudonym Arne Blum, he has already correspondent for a broadcasting station. He published three novels featuring Kim the grew up as a Franco-German national and pig-detective. spent his childhood summers in Normandy.
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Ole Kristiansen PaulHannah Grote O’Brien The Forests of Death QueenThe Luck for aof Nightthe Irish a Wine and Crime Novel
When her uncle dies, young Hamburg-based journalist Katja Following an extended foreign sabbatical, ambitious Jakobs inherits a small patch of woodland in the North policewoman Grace O’Malley returns to her native Ireland German provinces. On her first visit there, she comes across to head up the Galway murder squad. Her first case, the the ruins of an old farm estate and makes a gruesome killing of young student Annie, proves no walk in the park. discovery – the remains of a young man who has obviously Three prominent local men play a major part in her had his skull smashed in. The case dates back to a dark investigations – and it seems they all have something to period in the village history – the 1970s, when children and hide. It’s not long before two of the men are dead too, and teenagers kept disappearing in the notorious forest until one Grace finds herself under increasing pressure. Things come day the nightmare ended as swiftly as it had begun. The to a head when her daughter vanishes into thin air … _ mystery of the vanished children was never solved, the _ children never found. 352 pages 272 pages Headstrong investigator Grace O’Malley’s first case.
Volume three of Ole Kristiansen’s Elements series, a realistic An atmospheric crime thriller set in Ireland; the love of the thriller on the hot topic of fracking! Emerald Isle leaps out at you from every page. Press acclaim for The Winds of Death: “A riveting finale caps an incredibly gripping thriller with multi-faceted characters, a dark and broody setting and a plot that is anything but predictable.” Wiener Zeitung
By the same author: 21376 OLE 21492 OLE KRISTIANSEN KRISTIANSEN D R IND BRINGT D N TOD D r ind bringt d n Tod DAS FEUER BRINGT DEN TOD
DAS FEUER Ole Kristiansen read media studies and BRINGT DEN TOD American and English Literature; he now Hannah O’Brien is a journalist and author _ THRILLER _ THRILLER works as a freelance translator and writing who lived in Great Britain and Ireland for coach in Hamburg. He is currently working The Winds od Death The Fires of Death many years but now divides her time on his doctorate which focuses on the Rights sold: France between homes in Cologne and on the literary mechanisms of suspense, horror banks of the Moselle. A regular visitor to and mystery. Ireland, she is an expert on Irish affairs.
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Paul Grote Lars Simon
The Barolo Trail LARS SIMON Reindeer Droppings A Wine and Crime Novel TIER A light-hearted wine-tasting trip to the Piedmont ends in RE.. It looks like thirty-five-year-old Torsten Brettschneider’s disaster. Harald Sturm, one of seven wine connoisseurs from fortunes have taken a turn for the better. He’s bought a house
AUL Dusseldorf, disappears without trace. Could he have been TTEL in Sweden – close to his beloved Linda, too! – but before long P O GROTE kidnapped? If so, it can only have happened on the flight home ROMAN unexpected problems crop up. It transpires that the house is Die Spur from Turin. But how? And why? Is he still alive? Sturm’s Italian completely ramshackle and in dire need of renovation. What’s des Barolo wife Francesca is determined to get answers to these questions even worse, his beloved Linda has vanished into thin air! Kriminalroman as quickly as possible, but the authorities are proving less than When his friend Rainer, the eternal student, turns up on his cooperative. So the single-minded signora decides to take the doorstep in original Sami garb, the chaos is complete! matter in hand; masquerading as a wine-buyer, she sets out on _ investigations of her own. _ But first things first: Torsten needs to find Linda. The search leads Torsten and Rainer into the freezing wastes of Lapland, 400 pages Previous Wine & Crime-novels are: 320 pages where they run into an Aesean sect whose members are stark • Bitter Chianti raving mad: convinced they are the reincarnations of Nordic (Rights sold: France) gods, they are looking forward to sacrificing Heidrun the goat • Death in Bordeaux with great excitement. • Rioja for the Matador (Rights sold: Poland, Greece) Volume three of the hilarious zany Swedish series featuring • Death in the Vineyard Torsten, Rainer and their cronies. • Heir to the Port Estate • Red Wine, Red Danger By the same author:
(Rights sold: Greece) 21508 LARS SIMON 21554 LARS SIMON • The Champagne Fund • A Farewell Riesling • His Last Burgundy • Queen for a Night ROMAN
Total print run of the Wine and Crime Novels by Paul Grote: ROMAN 300.000 copies Lars Simon was born in '68 (which may SIMONLARS explain a lot, but not everything); after his _ _ _ Press acclaim for previous Wine & Crime-novels by Paul Grote: studies, he spent many long years working After training as a management assistant in “What’s more enjoyable? A splendid wine or a juicy crime as marketing manager of an IT company advertising, Paul Grote studied sociology before moving to Sweden, where he Älgskit! Cayman Droppings and political science in Hamburg. He spent thriller? Paul Grote gives us both in one.” Frau im Spiegel resided as a tourist artisan in a wooden Rights sold: 15 years living in South America, from house with his family for more than six Czech Republic whence he reported for the press and radio years. He has recently returned to live in the on wine and cookery.. Frankfurt area.
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Marlies Ferber Dora Heldt 0070: Turkey, Murder and Christmas Evil Is as Evil Does BEST Marlies Ferber SELLER Truthahn, Mord Pudding Dora Heldt und Christmas Former secret agent James Gerald and his girlfriend Sheila are The peace of the North Sea island of Sylt is rudely shattered by udding Böse Leute looking forward to a peaceful run-up to Christmas at home in Kriminalroman a series of burglaries of the houses of elderly single women. London. But it’s not to be; Sheila’s friend Rosalind is brutally This is scandalous, thinks recently retired chief commissioner murdered while taking a walk in a graveyard! Karl Sönnigsen; without further ado, he offers his assistance to his former colleagues in Westerland, the island’s capital. And Without letting on to Sheila, James immediately embarks on although he turns up promptly at the headquarter briefings investigations; to his horror, everything seems to suggest she armed with cake or fishrolls, his successor Runge has the was the intended victim. To make matters worse, her shady nerve to bar him from the premises! With the assistance of childhood friend has parked himself on her for the festive his friends, Karl immediately embarks on his own undercover _ _ KRIMINALROMAN season. James senses danger of the highest magnitude – while premium investigations. Sheila’s only concern is the impending Christmas festivities … 304 pages 344 pages Evil people must be stopped at all costs, and before long 70-year old James and vivacious Sheila prove once again Karl and his resourceful trio of pensioners are onto their they’re far from past their sell-by date in either love or life. first hot lead …
• The first crime novel by No 1 bestselling author Dora Heldt Press acclaim for previous 0070 titles: • A quirky quartet of pensioners undertakes an unconven- “This literary debut is a blast. The ideal blend of suspense and tional investigation in a book that is gripping, funny and romance, wit and originality. A fabulous read!” Literaturmarkt bristling with island flair.
By the same author: • 0070 - Operation Eaglehurst Bestselling author Dora Heldt has written eight more novels • 0070 - Agent on Board with a total print run of 4 million copies. • 0070 - Murder in Hangzhou She has been translated into 12 languages. 21345 21522 Marlies Ferber 21418 Marlies Ferber Marlies Ferber Null-Null-Siebzig Null-Null-Siebzig Mord in
Marlies Ferber was born in 1967 and Operation Agent an Mord in angzhou Operation angzhou aglehurst aglehurst ord H H studied sinology. She worked as an editor Agent an ord Ein Fall für Ex-Agent James Gerald B – with a license to kill typos and adverbs – and now lives in the Ruhr Null-Null-Siebzig Null-Null-Siebzig
Null-Null-Siebzig
Valley with her husband and two children, working as a freelance author and Dora Heldt, born in 1961 on the Marlies Ferber Marlies Ferber
translator. Her favourite Bond is Sean Marlies Ferber North Sea island of Sylt, trained as a
Connery, and she makes no bones about _ _ KRIMINALROMAN _ KRIMINALROMAN bookseller. Since 1992, she works as _ _ KRIMINALROMAN the fact that it was him – the one and only sales representative for a publisher true Bond – she had in mind when she and lives in Hamburg. Her last six came up with the idea for this series. novels became bestselling titles.
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Susanne Goga Cornelia Haller It happened in Schöneberg The Mandrake’s Heart SUSANNE GOGA Leo Wechsler’s fifth case ES GESCHAH IN SCHÖNEBERG Berlin, 1927: during a fashion show at the Café Romanesque, 1492: Having narrowly escaped being burned at the stake in Kriminalroman it emerges that two of the models’ outfits have been tampered Ravensburg, midwife Luzia Gassner is studying medicine at with – impregnated with a contact poison in what appears the prestigious Montpellier University disguised as a man. to be a deliberate assault on the Morgenstern & Fink fashion With her cover in danger of being blown, she escapes to her house. Is an envious competitor behind the assault? Shortly home town on the shores of Lake Constance in the most afterwards, a man’s body is found in Schöneberg and the adventurous manner. She takes a position as a gynaecologist investigators come across a Morgenstern & Fink brochure in in the newly founded hospital in Überlingen, working side his apartment … by side with physician Johannes von der Wehr, who so hap- pens to be her former lover. When the two of them botch a Ein Fall für _ _ Leo Wechsler Leo Wechsler, now Chief Commissioner with the Berlin CID, premium caesarean section – a strictly prohibited procedure – Lucia, is entrusted with the investigation. meanwhile pregnant, is forced to flee once again. January 2016 | 336 pages 512 pages
Press acclaims for Susanne Goga’s previous books: Press acclaim for Seelenfeuer: “With Leo Berlin, Susanne Goga brings us a first rate histori- “This book is action-packed from start to finish. Every cal thriller. Gripping, authentic and beautifully written, this is thought, every sentence becomes fate, is turned into action, historical crime fiction of the highest order.”Rebecca Gablé brutal or beauteous.” Martin Walser
“Susanne Goga skilfully combines an intricate detective story with period atmosphere […] and a team of investigators which is not only endowed with supreme detective instincts but also credible backstories […] Very entertaining reading.” Focus
By the same author: • Leo Berlin • Death in Blue • The Dead Woman of Charlottenburg • Murder in Babelsberg
21390 SuSanne GoGa 21487 SUSANNE GOGA 21381 SuSanne GoGa 21486 SUSANNE GOGA Leo TOD Die ToTe von MORD IN BerLin IN BLAU CharloTTenburg BABELSBERG Kriminalroman Kriminalroman Kriminalroman Kriminalroman Cornelia Haller was born in 1966 in MORD IN Charlo TT enburg Die To T e von Ber L in Leo TOD IN BLAU IN TOD Immenstaad on Lake Constance, and still BABELSBERG a a Susanne Goga was born in 1967. She lives there with her husband and two Ein Fall für Leo Wechsler studied literary translation in Düsseldorf anne Go G anne Go G daughters. She takes her inspiration for Su S Su S SUSANNE GOGA and has been translating as a freelance SUSANNE GOGA short stories, poems and novels from the
Ein Fall für Ein Fall für Ein Fall für from English and French since 1995. _ Leo Wechsler _ _ _ _ Leo Wechsler _ _ Leo Wechsler lake and surrounding region.
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Katharina Münk Sybil Volks Westermann and Fräulein Gabriele Winter Guests KATHARINA MÜNK
Westermann Richard Westermann is an IT executive with a tendency Sybil Volks The news of Inge Boysens impending death brings the family & Fräulein to brood and a penchant for cemeteries. At a funeral, back to Tide House on the tiny North Sea island they once Westermann falls in love with the deceased author’s portable äste called home. By the time they realise the news was a false alarm, Gabriele intergäste typewriter. And so the machine – an old Gabriele model – Roman they find themselves cut off in the house beyond the dyke by becomes an essential part of his life. a blizzard just before the turn of the year. Outside, the world Roman is turning to ice; inside, old animosities and new yearnings When Westermann finds himself saddled with a young and flare up … excessively ambitious “data executive”, he strikes a counter- blow by exchanging his computer for Gabriele. His corporate Great things happen in the smallest of spaces – but how much _ _ premium premium colleagues consider this an ingenious diversionary tactic – proximity can a family handle? he’s supposed to be working on the development of a 256 pages cryptography box. In no time at all Westermann and his 416 pages Icy squalls, a crackling fireplace and a sizzling atmosphere: a “Gabriele” turn the daily routine in the whole firm on its head. first-class family saga brimming with poetry and mysteries. As he immerses himself in his decelerated analogue world, his 80-year-old mother Yolanda embarks on the opposite path: she goes online and discovers the internet. Press acclaims for Torstraße 1: “Every now and then you read a book you just can’t put down, a A declaration of love for the “good old days” – full of book that comes alive with characters you become addicted to.” nostalgia, spirit and humour. Peter Twiehaus, ZDF Morgenmagazin
By the same author: “A marvellous story of friendship and love in an emotionally • The Inmates charged period of German history.” Kieler Nachrichten Over 100.000 copies sold • An Excellent Business By the same author: • The Ice Scater 1 Torstrasse
24988 21516 21415 21299 Katharina Münk Katharina Münk KATHARINA MÜNK die die .. glanz € n d e insassen Eisl auferin g € s chaf t e Sybil Volks was born in 1965 and lives in Roman Berlin. She works as a freelance editor and BEST SYBIL VOLKS SELLER writer, has published numerous short stories
Katharina Münk and poems, and was awarded the Berlin Senate’s literary grant. Her historical Berlin »Eine herrliche Satire AU ER TO über Manager am D R IN N Katharina Münk is a PA and the author of crime novel Café Größenwahn (Jaron Verlag Torstraße 1 O Rande des Wahnsinns.« V die Hörzu insassen Roman S
D R “And Tomorrow I’ll Kill Him! My Life as a PA E E 2007) was nominated for the Sir Walter Scott L S L _ B E S T S E to Top Management“(2006), which became _ _ Roman premium _ _ ROMAN Prize as well as the Glauser Prize for best _ a bestseller overnight. debut crime novel of 2008.
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Ulrike Herwig Caro Martini
ULRIKE HERWIG Kidnapping for Beginners Turn Left at the Next Man Oskar an Bord Roman Tina and Markus have been married for almost twenty years Lucie may be drop-dead gorgeous and utterly charming, but and their love has seen better days. Markus is so weighed she lacks orientation in life, love and motoring. When she buys down by the grinding routine of everyday life and his a second-hand sat-nav at the local flea market, the seller hands eternal money worries that one day he finally blows a fuse, it to her with the words “may you reach your destination”. A bit and without thinking twice holds up a petrol station. much, thinks Lucie – it’s just a sat-nav for God’s sake! Tina witnesses the hold-up completely by chance and is But the very first time she uses it, it greets her personally, saying shocked to the core. In a panic, the two of them make “Hi Lucie, where do you want to go today?”, then proceeds to their escape in the first vehicle they can get their hands _ guide her in a friendly but resolute manner – everywhere except premium on – which happens to be an ambulance, of all things. Little _ her specified destination! If Lucie’s life was disorganised before, do they know they have 87-year-old Oskar on board – but it’s totally off the rails now; but the mysterious apparatus with December 2015 | 288 pages Oscar turns out to be a very shrewd former small-time February 2015 | 400 pages the George Clooney voice seems to know just where her happi- criminal who has all sorts of tricks up his sleeve that come ness is lying in store … in rather handy for the latter-day Bonnie and Clyde. What follows is a heady flight as the oddly-matched trio embarks on the adventure of a lifetime … A delightful story about one girl’s meandering journey through
life – with a dash of magic.
Ulrike Herwig taught German in London for ten years before moving to Seattle with Caro Martini studied English and German her family in 2001. She spends every free literature in Leipzig and London. Addicted to moment at her desk, at which she has books from an early age, she eventually written several successful novels. decided to start writing them herself.
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26 27 SOCIETY psychology TOP TITLE Günter Ogger Catarina Katzer Moral Tyranny CATARINA KATZER Cyber-Psychology GÜNTER OGGER Online life: How the Internet is ch@nging us
Die Diktatur der If you lie, cheat, defraud or generally step out of line, then Omnipotence or impotence – and the space between …
trip up and get caught, you have to expect social disgrace to the point of ostracism – even if you happen to be part of Leben im Netz: There are nearly 2,5 billion people online by now. The virtual MORAL MORAL Wie das Internet the upper echelons. That wasn’t always the case; there’s a new uns ver@ndert world has become a living, breathing environment with far- MORAL breed of moral tyranny afoot. reaching effects on our attitudes, values and personalities. Wie »das Gute« The Internet is in fact changing the very structure of our unsere Gesellschaft CYBER blockiert Does this development indicate a rise of moral standards? thought-processes. Do we really set greater store by morals or are the scandals PSYCHO surrounding corruption, drugs and tax evasion provoked by You come across all aspects of human experience and beha- _ _ social tension in a competitive society shot through with envy? LOGIE premium viour in the digital realm – where they are channelled and Günter Ogger believes it’s a point well worth considering – reinforced, for better or for worse. It’s a well-known fact that 304 pages because the fuss about the new power of morality is rapidly January 2016 | 280 pages the inhibition threshold is significantly reduced by anonymi- turning into a business in its own right. ty and physical absence.
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28 29 philosophy spirituality TOP Robert Zimmer Anselm Grün TITLE Philosophical Brain Games The Art of Striking the DENKSPORT Right Balance PHILOSOPHIE Thinking can be fun Pope Francis sets an example of moderation, but many find Robert Zimmer it a difficult concept to achieve and maintain. Exorbitant God and man, nature, space and time, insight and self-know- executive bonuses are just the tip of the iceberg: we all waste ledge, society and the state, logic, ethics and morality –these resources on a daily basis as we ransack nature, exploiting are issues that have preoccupied people since time immemorial. ourselves and each other. So how do we go about striking Forays into philosophy can enhance our perspective on life’s pro- Anselm Grün a proper balance? Such a central tenet revolves around blems and hone our cognitive skills. Karl Popper once said that Die Kunst, sustainability and our consumer behaviour. Self-image and
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32 33 Current affairs politics
Rainer Hermann Michael Wolffsohn Islamic State: End of the Line? In Search of World Peace Rainer Hermann A political concept Michael ENDSTATION The Arab world is undergoing the most severe crisis since the Wolffsohn The world is completely out of joint and most of us haven’t ISLAMISCHER thirteenth century Mongol invasion. Many Arab countries have Zum even noticed. However there are some people who are only STAAT? failed at even the most basic functions of state and seem unable WELTFRIEDEN too well aware of this predicament: terrorists and heads of Staatsversagen und to protect their citizens. In turn, the people are fed up with their Ein politischer Entwurf state. They are taking advantage of the cracks in failing states Religionskrieg in der rulers. The only remaining common bond is Islamic faith – so for their own gain – and the number of failed and failing arabischen Welt every conflict is bound to turn into a religious battleground. We states is constantly on the rise. Each new crisis triggers hectic may well be facing the beginning of a new Thirty Years War, a responses in the form of peace policy tourism at the highest war that will have a profound knock-on effect on Europe bringing level. But it never seems to offer a solution. Why is that so? more fundamental changes than any other event since the Second »Die Vorstellung von der Dauerhaftigkeit unserer _ World War. premiumpremium Political reasoning is based on international law, which in _ Staatenwelt ist absurd.« turn is based on the concept of the nation state. But what’s 128 pages A perceptive historico-political analysis and a comprehensive 180 pages omitted from the equation is the fact that many state borders inventory of modern Islam by an acknowledged expert on are entirely arbitrary, drawn up in the wake of post-colonialism Arab affairs. Rainer Hermann’s account goes way beyond mere or as a result of political and economic interests disregarding reportage, venturing a well-founded prognosis. the needs of the local populace.
• a highly topical issue An appeal for rethinking peace policies. Wolffsohn goes • a precise analysis of the changing Arab world against the grain of established political theory. • an erudite perspective on the future
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Michael Wolffsohn was born in Tel Aviv to Rainer Hermann Wohin geht Wohin geht das neue Arabien? Wohin DIE GOLFSTAATEN DIE Rainer Hermann German-Jewish parents who fled to die türkische DIE GOLFSTAATEN Gesellschaft? Wohin geht das neue Arabien? Palestine in 1939. His family returned to Kulturkampf in der Türkei Rainer Hermann Germany in 1954, and Wolffsohn was Professor of Contemporary History at the
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34 35 politics / society politics / society
Filipp Piatov Hasnain Kazim
Crazy Russia Hasnain Kazim _ Inside Pakistan Putin, my family and other outsiders PLÖTZLICH premium My life in the most dangerous country in the world Much ado on the Eastern front PAKISTAN Hasnain Kazim moves to Islamabad as a correspondent for Mein Leben im gefährlichsten Land Der Spiegel and discovers a land rife with contradictions.
“Do you feel German, Ukrainian, Russian or Jewish? Or PLÖTZLICH PAKISTAN der Welt What makes Pakistan – a nuclear power full of religious maybe a bit of each?” Filipp Piatov is, as it were, a merge of extremists – tick? What holds together a country where the all these cultures. His Russian father and Ukrainian mother elite stages glitzy thousand-dollar bashes while working left the Soviet Union as it fell apart around them and Piatov class families live in shameful conditions of near-slavery?
grew up in a small town in Germany. From early on, he Kazim Hasnain pondered the nature of his identity – which country could Kazim explores Pakistan’s extremes; he speaks to clergymen, he truly call home? politicians, arms dealers and even the hangman of Lahore. _ premium In this book, he sets out to explore his family’s homeland; The country is beset by major problems; more and more travelling by rail and thumb all the way into the depths of people are living in abject poverty, the unemployment rate 240 pages Siberia, he investigates the apparently banal as well as the 280 pages is simply staggering, and soon the population will top the seemingly grandiose as he goes. two hundred million mark – the majority under thirty, with no foreseeable prospects. Is it true you get free food on the Trans-Siberian Railway? Will home-distilled vodka really make you go blind? Why A fascinating report on a society that doesn't seem to know had he never asked his grandparents how they managed to where it’s heading. survive famine and war? Or how the Jews of Russia mana- ged to cling to their faith by their fingernails in a regime Pakistan offers a vital key to understanding the problems that strictly banned religion? within the Islamic world and the trouble spots in other parts of it. Intimate, intelligent and leavened with youthful high spirits, Filipp Piatov gives us the lowdown on his road trip into the Stories that leave us unsettled, bemused yet entertained, depths of the Russian soul. contributing to a deeper understanding of Pakistan.
Hasnain Kazim was born in Oldenburg in Filipp Piatov is 23, was born in St 1974. He grew up near Hamburg and in Petersburg and moved to Germany with his Karachi, Pakistan. He studied political science family in 1992. After graduation, he spent a and was editor of Spiegel Online in Hamburg year in Tel Aviv, then went on to study from 2006. In 2009 he became South Asia economics in Frankfurt. He writes essays and correspondent for Der Spiegel and Spiegel columns for Die Welt and other newspapers Online in Islamabad. Since August 2013 he and magazines. He currently lives in Berlin, has been Turkish correspondent for the working for an American-Israeli start-up magazine and its online counterpart, based company. in Istanbul.
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