Friedrich Dürrenmatt the Plays

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Friedrich Dürrenmatt The Plays . . . and other books by Patricia Highsmith Hartmut Lange · Donna Leon · Ingrid Noll Christoph Poschenrieder · Astrid Rosenfeld Bernhard Schlink · Hansjörg Schneider Martin Suter · Tomi Ungerer and F. K. Waechter Cinema Exhibitions Opera TV friedrich benedict Wells patricia highsMith toMi Ungerer hartMUt lange donna leon dÜrrenMatt Director Frieder Wittich The release of the cinema 1,000 Years of Strasbourg The Concert Adaptation for First broadcast of Beastly The documentation is in post-production adaptation of Carol (The Cathedral: The Artists of the opera by Swiss composer Things / The Golden Egg, In the Labyrinth /Friedrich of the cinema adaptation Price of Salt) is scheduled for the Cathedral. Alfons K. Zwicker. the 21st/22nd case for Commis- Dürrenmatt was broad- of Beck’s Last Summer. 28.11.2015 (USA) and 05.12.2015 Tomi Ungerer / John Howe sario Brunetti, in 2015. casted on TV in Spring 2015 Cast: Christian Ulmen, (UK). Director: Todd Haynes. at the Tomi Ungerer Museum, Director: Sigi Rothemund. and is now adapted for Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Cast: Cate Blanchett, Strasbourg, from 06.03.2015 Script: Florian Iwersen. cinema. Director: Sabine Friederike Becht. Production: Rooney Mara and Kyle until 04.10.2015. Production: teamWorx and Hartmut Gisiger. Production: Das Claussen Wöbke Putz Chandler. Screenplay: Incognito at the Kunsthaus Lange ARD Degeto for Das Erste Das Konzert Kollektiv. Scheduled release: Filmproduktion. Scheduled Phyllis Nagy. Production: Zurich, from 30.10.2015 in co-operation with BR.

Autumn 2015. release: Autumn 2015. Film4, Killer Films, Number until 07.02.2016. Aft erwards Novelle · Diogenes 9 Films. at the Museum Folkwang, Martin sUter Essen. David Fincher, Ben Afﬂ eck Director Stephan Rick Between Marianne and and Gillian Flynn are is in post-production Germania at the Museum planning a remake of of the cinema adaptation of Renchen, from 13.10.2015 Strangers on a Train. The Dark Side of the Moon. until 13.01.2016. Musicals Cast: Jürgen Prochnow, Director Andy Goddard EIN FILM VON SABINE GISIGER Moritz Bleibtreu, Nora von is ﬁ lming the cinema f. k. Waechter friedrich Waldstätten. Production: adaptation of The Blunderer. Permanent exhibition dÜrrenMatt DÜRRENMATT Arctic Pictures Limited, Cast: Jessica Biel, Patrick The Cartoonists of the New The Visit DER KINOFILM Lailaps Pictures, Port au Wilson and Haley Bennett. Frankfurt School at Caricatura At the Broadway Theater Lyceum, New York. IM WINTER14/15 IM KINO Prince Film & Kultur Pro- Production: Killer Films, Museum Frankfurt.

DAS KOLLEKTIV FÜR AUDIOVISUELLE WERKE GMBH PRÄSENTIERT EINEN FILM VON SABINE GISIGER MIT IRVIN D. YALOM (PSYCHOTHERAPEUT, SCHRIFTSTELLER, EMERITIERTER PROFESSOR DER PSYCHIATRIE) DRAMATURGIE PHILIP DELAQUIS LEITUNG SCHNITT BARBARA WEBER SCHNITT ANDREAS WINTERSTEIN KAMERA HELENA VAGNIÈRES MUSIK & SOUNDDESIGN BALZ BACHMANN · PETER BRÄKER AUFNAHME TON SAUL ROUDA TONSCHNITT & MISCHUNG BASIS BERLIN / ANSGAR FRERICH 2. KAMERA MATTHIAS GÜNTER · TIM METZGER ARTWORK MATTHIAS GÜNTER POSTPRODUKTION STUDIO CINE PLUS Music and Lyrics: John IN KO-PRODUKTION MIT SCHWEIZER RADIO UND FERNSEHEN / URS AUGSTBURGER · SRG SSR / SVEN WÄLTI · MARIANNE JEGER · ROMAN VON SURY · RUTH WALDBURGER, VEGA FILM AG DREHBUCH & REGIE SABINE GISIGER PRODUZENT PHILIP DELAQUIS WELTVERTRIEB AUTLOOK FILMSALES duktion. Scheduled release: Sierra Pictures. © 2014 DAS KOLLEKTIV FÜR AUDIOVISUELLE WERKE GMBH, ZÜRICH / INTERNATIONAL STANDARD AUDIOVISUAL NUMBER ISAN 0000-0003-A2CC-0000-N-0000-0000-5 October 2015. friedrich Kander and Fred Ebb. dÜrrenMatt Cast: Chita Rivera, Roger lUkas hartMann Writer and Artist: Rees et al. The ﬁ lming of the cinema Permanent exhibition at Opening: April 2015. adaptation of his novel Centre Dürrenmatt At the Theatre Creation, anthonY Mccarten Dark Bliss will start in Neuchâtel, reopened Tokyo. Music: Moritz Is working on a musical autumn 2015. Director: in January 2015. Schneider and Michael based on the oeuvre by Stefan Haupt. Production: Dürrenmatt à Neuchâtel Reed. Lyrics: Wolfgang Arthur Schnitzler, in co- Triluna Film. at Centre Dürrenmatt, Hofer. operation with the Vereinigte Neuchâtel, from 18.04.2015 Opening: August 2015. Bühnen Wien, Vienna. until 06.09.2015.

Patricia Highsmith Carol (The Price of Salt) Photo: © dcm

Benedict Wells Lukas Becks letzter Hartmann Sommer Martin Suter Patricia Friedrich Finsteres Die dunkle Highsmith Dürrenmatt Glück Seite des Carol Der Besuch Mondes oder der alten Dame Please ﬁ nd more information at: Salz und sein Preis Tragische Komödie www.diogenes.ch/rights Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Diogenes Anniversary Awards Theatre

erich hackl friedrich patricia highsMith The Three Robbers Has been awarded the ›Ring of dÜrrenMatt The Talented Mr. Ripley Konzert Theater Berne Honour‹ by the city of Steyr The Enormity Teatr Studio, Warsaw marotte-Figurentheater, (Austria) in April 2015. He also of thePossible Westfälisches Landestheater Karlsruhe has been awarded the Austrian Centre Dürrenmatt, Cie Rêve Lune, Woody Allen Dalai Lama Friedrich Yadé Kara Walter Muschg State Prize for literary trans- Neuchâtel sŁaWoMir MroŻek La Seyne-sur-mer Dürrenmatt lation ›Translatio 2015‹ for his Greek Man The Emigrants Victorie Music, Paris life’s work as translator of Seeks Greek Wife Serbian Theatre, Budapest Spanish and Latin-American Vingtième Théâtre, Paris Striptease / Out At Sea patrick sÜskind literature. The Physicists Associazione if Prana, Italy The Double Bass Stratford Festival Szöveg Szinhàz Theatre, Is permanently in the anthonY Mccarten Tour repertory of many German His screenplay for The Theory Petöﬁ Theatre, Veszprém Theater zum Mitnehmen, Wdowy and foreign theatres. Ingrid Noll Connie Palmen Thomas F. K. Waechter Reiner Zimnik of Everything has been awarded Strittmatter Vienna Vaci Dunakanya Szinhàz The record is held by the BAFTA ›Film | Adapted Theatre, Vac the Munich Volkstheater. Screenplay‹ and has been The Pledge The original 1981 produc- WoodY allen nominated for the ›Oscar‹. Schauburg, Munich Martin sUter tion with Nikolaus Paryla 80th Birthday on 01.12.2015 Director: James Marsh. Theater der Keller, The Devil from Milan had more than 500 per- Cast: Felicity Jones, Eddie Cologne dalai laMa Sandkorn-Theater, formances. Redmayne, Emily Watson. The Visit 80th Birthday on 06.07.2015 Schauspielhaus Karlsruhe New productions Production: Basel Schauspielhaus Bochum in the following theatres: friedrich dÜrrenMatt Working Title Films. Schauspielhaus doris dÖrrie Theaterhaus Stuttgart 25th Anniversary of the author’s death on 14.12.2015 Distribution: Zurich Hungarian States Theatre, Happy Odekhiren Amaize, Dubai Universal Pictures. YadÉ kara Cluj-Napoca Foro Quinto Piso Theatre, Akut Theater 99, Aachen 50th Birthday on 10.08.2015 Mexico-City KunstKulturQuartier, Is Number 1 on the annual anthonY Mccarten Nuremberg Walter MUschg funny girl toMi Ungerer Düsseldorfer 50th Anniversary of the author’s death on 06.12.2015 Spiegel Bestseller List 2014 ›hard-cover ﬁ ction‹, especially Salzburger Landestheater Flix Schauspielhaus ingrid noll with Donna Leon’s The Golden Le Carreau, Forbach theater hof / 19, Oldenburg 80th Birthday on 29.09.2015 Egg (24 weeks), Bernhard Schlink’s The Woman on the connie palMen Stairs (18 weeks), Ingrid Noll’s 60th Birthday on 25.11.2015 Til Greed Does Us Part thoMas strittMatter (17 weeks) and Martin Suter’s 20th Anniversary of the author’s death on 29.08.2015 Allmen and the Vanished María th (16 weeks). And for the 13 Martin Suter f. k. Waechter Der Teufel Patrick time since 1982 the readers of von Süskind 10th Anniversary of the author’s death on 16.09.2015 Doris Dörrie Anthony S¥awomir Mailand Der Buchmarkt magazine awarded Happy McCarten Mro‡ek Kon trab aß funny girl Emigranten reiner ZiMnik Diogenes ›Publisher of the und andere Stücke Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Diogenes 85th Birthday on 13.12.2015 Year‹ among the German language publishers.

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Rights sold to: Christian Bourgois (France) Martin Suter, born in Zurich in 1948, is a writer, columnist Sellerio (Italy) and screenplay author. Until 1991, he worked as a creative Application for assistance with director in advertising, before deciding to focus exclusively English manuscript is available. translation costs possible. on writing. His novels have enjoyed huge international success. 2011 saw the debut of his crime novel series, Allmen and the Dragonﬂ ies. Martin Suter lives with his family in Zurich. Photo: © Alberto Venzago Martin Suter’s books have been publishedMOVING in 32 languages. WORDS Swiss Translation Programme 2009–2011 6.10.2008 15:25:46 Uhr »Christoph Poschenrieder’s light story telling is both stylistically brilliant and highly readable.« CHRISTOPH POSCHENRIEDER Eckart Baier / Buchjournal, Frankfurt Common Swift

• By the author of A Grain of Sand, which has been longlisted for the ›German Book Prize 2014‹. Longlist • An intelligent and enjoyable novel about growing old and the question: How do I Christoph Christoph Christoph want to die? Poschenrieder Poschenrieder Poschenrieder DieWelt Der Das Sandkorn • Cryptic, philosophical and witty – ist im Kopf Spiegelkasten an absolute pleasure to read. Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes

The World in the Head The Mirror Box A Grain of Sand Novel, 2010 Novel, 2011 Novel, 2014 Five old friends – successful, affl uent men who have shaped the country – venture into an experiment. Together they found a fl atshare in Christoph a beautiful house with a sea view, and make a Poschenrieder Praise for The Mirror Box: Praise for A Grain of Sand: pact: each of them should be able to die in the way he chooses – and the others will help him. Mauersegler »In this gripping and well-told novel, »Christoph Poschenrieder’s story Christoph Poschenrieder takes is told cleverly and carefully and But fi rst they enjoy their retirement. They a fresh approach to the Great War which with stylistic brilliance.« smoke, drink, eat, what and when they want, will have wide appeal.« Martin Halter / Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich without having wives or nurses telling them Roman · Diogenes New Books in German, London not to. When it gets serious for the fi rst of »Christoph Poschenrieder masters the balance them, they activate the ›Death Angel »The Mirror Box gets under your skin. between irony and intellect and Programme‹ as designed by the computer buff Yet despite the horrors of war Christoph the link between fi ction and historical facts.« of the fl atshare. And they hire Katarina, a Novel Poschenrieder is able to create images that are Philipp Haibach / Die Welt kompakt, Berlin nurse from Kirgizia, who has her very own 224 pages poetically beautiful, sometimes absurd.« ideas about how to fi ll the villa with life September 2015 Kai Kappes / Nürnberger Nachrichten again . . . World rights are handled by Diogenes. Film rights are available.

Christoph Poschenrieder, born near Boston in 1964, studied philosophy in Munich. He also attended the Journalism School of Columbia University, New York. Since 1993, he worked as a freelance journalist and documentary fi lmmaker. Today, he focuses on literary writing and enjoys programming in his spare time. His novels received rave reviews and achieved international renown. Christoph Poschenrieder lives in Munich. Diogenes Verlag / Photo: Agostini © Daniela Christoph Poschenrieder’s books have been published in 5 languages. »Astrid Rosenfeld’s narration is so ﬂ uent that you would like to follow her characters to the end of the world.« ASTRID ROSENFELD Nina Apin / Tageszeitung, Berlin Twelve Times July

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Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Jacob and July, it once sounded like a promise. But now years have already gone by since Adam’s Legacy Elsa strange Sing me a Song Novel, 2011 Novel, 2013 With photographs by he broke that promise and left July out of Astrid Johannes Paul Spengler, 2014 the blue. Rosenfeld Then Jacob sends an email announcing his Praise for Adam’s Legacy: Praise for Elsa Strange: return. He is coming in 12 days time, on ﬂ ight Zwölf Mal Juli lh 3930. In these 12 days, the past and the »This wonderfully energetic and funny debut »Astrid Rosenfeld strikes a tone that future push their way into July’s present, and is a powerful and compelling story, is more commonly found in English language she meets 12 people. establishing Astrid Rosenfeld as an exciting writing: laid-back, laconic, unsentimental In these 12 encounters, Astrid Rosenfeld and original new talent.« and fast-paced.« depicts a headstrong young woman who has Roman · Diogenes New Books in German, London Anke Groenewold / Neue Westfälische, Bielefeld to fi nd out how to keep on living aft er a great love and great dreams break down – and how »With astonishing literary power and »In her brilliantly narrated novel Astrid to keep on dreaming. refreshingly direct language, Astrid Rosenfeld Rosenfeld deploys a wide-ranging collection Novel takes the reader with her on a of disappointed and forlorn characters.« 160 pages journey through German history.« Sabine Zaplin / Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich September 2015 Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Essen World rights are handled by Diogenes. Film rights are available.

Astrid Rosenfeld was born in Cologne in 1977. Aft er her high-school graduation, Rosenfeld went to California for two years, and worked at a small theatre. Aft er that she began to train as an actress in Berlin, before quitting the course one and a half years later. Since then she has held a variety of jobs in the fi lm industry, as a casting director amongst others. Her debut, Adam’s Legacy, reached the longlist of the ›German Book Prize 2011‹. Astrid Rosenfeld lives in Berlin and Marfa, Texas. © Diogenes Verlag / Photo: Gerster Gaby Astrid Rosenfeld’s books have been published in 11 languages. »Ingrid Noll is one of the best German story-tellers.« Angela Gatterburg / Der Spiegel, Hamburg INGRID NOLL Lunchtime

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• 80 th Birthday on 29.09.2015 Ingrid Noll Ingrid Noll UrsIngrid Widmer Noll Urs Widmer UrsIngrid Widmer Noll UrsIngrid Widmer Noll UrsSelige Widmer DerHahn DieHäupter Ingrid Noll Kalt ist Röslein Witwen ist tot Liebesnachtmeiner LiebesnachtDie LiebesnachtderAbend- Liebesnachtrot Liebesnacht Lieben Apothekerin hauch Nelly just got rid of Matthew. But being a Roman · Diogenes ErzählungRoman · Diogenes · Diogenes ErzählungRoman · Diogenes · Diogenes ErzählungRoman · Diogenes · Diogenes ErzählungRoman · Diogenes · Diogenes ErzählungRoman · Diogenes · Diogenes thirty-something single mum, she has to fi nd Hell Hath Head Count The Pharmacist Cold is the Red Rose Blissfully No Fury Novel, 1993 Novel, 1994 Breeze Novel, 1998 Widowed a way to earn some extra money. Luckily, she Novel, 1991 of the Evening Novel, 2001 Novel, 1996 has plenty of space and a talent for cooking, so Nelly invites paying guests over to her house for lunch. Among the few women are more interesting men: a captain, who has not been at

Ingrid Noll Ingrid Noll sea in ages, a very tanned sports instructor, an Ladylike Ingrid Noll Ingrid Noll Rabenbrüder Kuckucks- Ehrenwort Ingrid Noll kind Ingrid Noll insurance salesman and an equally handsome Urs Widmer Urs Widmer Urs Widmer UrsIngrid Widmer Noll HabUrs Widmerund Gier LiebesnachtFalsche Liebesnacht Liebesnacht Liebesnacht Liebesnacht Zungen Über Bord Liebesnacht and smart electrician. Unfortunately, the latter Ingrid Noll Roman · Diogenes ErzählungDiogenes · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes ErzählungRoman · Diogenes · Diogenes ErzählungRoman · Diogenes · Diogenes ErzählungRoman · Diogenes · Diogenes ErzählungRoman · Diogenes · Diogenes does not turn up alone. The good thing is Der Rabenbrüder False Tongues Ladylike Cuckoo’s Child Word of Honour Overboard Til Greed Does though, that his better half suﬀ ers from a nut Novel, 2003 Stories, 2004 Novel, 2006 Novel, 2008 Novel, 2010 Novel, 2012 Us Part Mittagstisch Novel, 2014 allergy . . .

Ingrid Noll cooks up something special, where she mingles with people as well as with Roman · Diogenes All titles on list. »Ingrid Noll is oft en referred to as ingredients. Germany’s Queen of Crime, and she fully Total print run of all German editions: deserves this title.« around 7 million copies. The Sunday Times, London Novel 200 pages September 2015 World rights are handled by Diogenes. Film rights are available.

Ingrid Noll was born in Shanghai in 1935. She studied German philology and art history in Bonn, has three children and four grandchildren. Aft er her children left home, she began to write crime stories, which all became instant bestsellers. Head Count received the ›Glauser Prize‹ and is just one of her novels to have been successfully adapted for the screen. © Diogenes Verlag / Photo: Barth Renate Ingrid Noll’s books have been published in 28 languages. »Hartmut Lange is not only one of the last grand masters of the novella, but also a virtuoso of a style refi ned to the last detail.« HARTMUT LANGE Peter Mohr / Mannheimer Morgen The View from the Window

• Stories about existential disturbances and about life’s breaking points.

Hartmut Lange • Written in clear, sparing and yet exceptionally Der Wanderer Hartmut Hartmut Hartmut Lange Lange Hartmut Lange Lange Hartmut concentrated prose. Der DerAbgrund Im Museum Lange LeptisMagna Das Haus in der Zwei Novellen Therapeut des Endlichen Drei Novellen Drei Novellen Dorotheenstraße

Diogenes Novelle · Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes Novellen ⋅ Diogenes Hartmut Lange’s stories are set in Munich, Leptis Magna The Wanderer The Therapist The Abyss In the Museum The House on Two Novellas, Novella, Three Novellas, of the Finite Weird Episodes, Dorothea Street in a small town near Hamburg, on the Baltic 2003 2005 2007 Three Novellas, 2011 Five Novellas, 2009 2013 Sea coast, and on the raw north-west coast of England. And again and again in Berlin, where past and present penetrate in a particularly palpable way. Eight stories which are as bright »Hartmut Lange’s masterful skill in »Hartmut Lange’s books are incredibly as day and mysteriously condensed, which writing novellas is unique in German language topical, in an era when existential questions depict and artfully capture precarious states contemporary literature.« have become so pressing precisely of mind: deceptive promises of happiness, un- Hartmut HR, Frankfurt because they were suppressed for so long.« fulfi llable longing, the need of lonely people, Lange Peter Henning / Der Spiegel, Hamburg the encounter with evil, the fear of failing. Der Blick aus »Hartmut Lange is an artist of omission who leaves nothing lacking. »Hartmut Lange’s exquisite depictions of the dem Fenster He knows how to invent characters using uncanniness of human life as well as the the most concise of descriptions, nightmarish potential of suburbia seem ready- Diogenes build up atmosphere and tension and hint at made for an art-house fi lm.« an underlying secret beneath the narrative.« New Books in German, London Michael Lentz Stories 112 pages September 2015 World rights are handled by Diogenes. Film rights are available.

Hartmut Lange, born 1937 in Berlin, studied theatrical production. In 1960, he became a theatrical producer at the Deutsches Theater in East Berlin. From a trip to former Yugoslavia he did not return to the former German Demo- cratic Republic. He settled in West Berlin where he worked as theatrical producer and director at renowned stages. He has been honoured with several awards for his plays, essays and prose. laif / Photo: Plambeck © Hans-Christian Hartmut Lange’s books have been published in 9 languages. »Professor Schlink may be an expert on the letter of the law, but writer Schlink is an intrepid explorer of the much trickier BERNHARD SCHLINK terrain of the human heart.« Explorations Andrew Nagorski / Newsweek, London

• The author Bernhard Schlink has been in demand as a lecturer and essayist for years.

Bernhard Schlink • Nuanced intellectual explorations in the Bernhard Bernhard Liebesﬂuchten Bernhard Schlink Schlink Bernhard Bernhard Walter Popp Schlink narrator’s clear and vivid prose. Die Schlink Der Vorleser Schlink Selbs gordische Selbs Selbs Justiz Schleife Betrug Mord

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Bernhard betrayal? What makes our identity? Can we Bernhard Schlink Bernhard Bernhard Schlink Bernhard Die Frau remain Christians if we have lost our belief? Vergangenheits- Bernhard auf der Treppe Schlink Schlink Schlink Schlink Vergewisserungen schuld Die Heimkehr Beiträge zu einem Das Bernhard Über Politik, Recht, Sommerlügen What does it mean to be a lawyer? How Schreiben und Glauben deutschen Thema Wochenende Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Diogenes Roman · Diogenes does the law change, and what is jurisdiction Schlink Veriﬁ cations The Homecoming Guilt of the Past The Weekend Summer Lies The Woman developing into? Erkundungen Essays, 2005 Novel, 2006 Essays, 2007 Novel, 2008 Stories, 2010 on the Stairs Novel, 2014 zu Geschichte, Moral, Taking familiar defi nitions, everyday experi- Recht und Glauben ences and societal and political conﬂ icts as a Praise for The Woman on the Stairs: starting point, Bernhard Schlink explores Diogenes complex topics which are both timeless and »A delicate and entertaining novel, »With The Woman on the Stairs, highly topical – in his typically descriptive a cleverly constructed story, almost a thriller, Bernhard Schlink has written a narrative style. but also a piece about moral code.« gripping novel about what happens About Politics, Law, Writing and Faith Stefanie Wirsching / Augsburger Allgemeine when life’s plans fall apart.« 256 pages Nina May / Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung October 2015 World rights are handled by Diogenes.

Bernhard Schlink, born near Bielefeld in 1944, is a jurist and lives in Berlin and New York. The novel The Reader (Stephen Daldry’s fi lm version, starring Kate Winslet, David Kross and Ralph Fiennes, won an ›Oscar‹ and a ›Golden Globe‹ in 2009) has been published in 52 languages, awarded with national and international prizes, and established Bernhard Schlink’s worldwide renown as an author. © Diogenes Verlag / Photo: Gerster Gaby Bernhard Schlink’s books have been published in 54 languages. »Irresistible.« New Books in German, London HANSJÖRG SCHNEIDER Hunkeler’s Secret

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Silver Pebbles The Fluttering The Couple Death of Hunkeler Hunkeler and Novel, 1993 Man on the Barge a Doctor messes around the Livius case Novel, 1995 Novel, 1999 Novel, 2001 Novel, 2004 Novel, 2007 Peter Hunkeler, now a retired inspector of the Basel police force, hospitalized following Swiss Swiss Bestseller Bestseller surgery and shared the room with an old acquaintance: Stephan Fankhauser, a colourful character. Once a wild member of the 1968 Hansjörg Hansjörg Schneider Hansjörg student movement, over the course of the Hansjörg Hansjörg Nachtbuch Schneider Hansjörg Schneider Schneider für Astrid Nilpferde Von der Liebe, vom Sterben, Schneider Schneider Hunkeler und Hunkeler und die vom Tod und von der Trauer unter years he made his way through the institutions darüber, den geliebten Menschen Das Wasser- die goldene Hand Augen des Ödipus verloren zu haben dem Haus Der siebte Fall Der achte Fall zeichen Diogenes and became director of a bank. Now Fank- Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Hunkelers hauser is seriously ill. Hunkeler Hunkeler Night Book Hippos under The Watermark Geheimnis and the ›Golden and the Eyes for Astrid the House Novel, 2013 Der neunte Fall Hand‹ of Oedipus Diary, 2000 Diary, 2012 Novel, 2008 Novel, 2010 One night, Hunkeler had just been given a sleeping pill, he noticed a nurse with a ruby ring on her hand administering an injection to Roman · Diogenes The following Hunkeler crime stories have »What a splendid read!« the fellow patient. Strangely, Fankhauser is already been adapted for Television: Die Weltwoche, Zurich resisting it intently. And does not the night Silver Pebbles (2010), The Couple on the Barge nurse usually wear a diamond ring? The next (2004), Death of a Doctor (2004), Hunkeler messes »Excellent characterisation and morning, when Hunkeler wakes up, Fankhauser Hunkeler’s Ninth Case around (2007), Hunkeler and the Livius case perfect narrative rhythm and drive.« is dead. Was it all just a dream? Hunkeler is not 208 pages (2009), Hunkeler and the Eyes of Oedipus (2012). Das Kulturmagazin, Lucerne sure, but he resolves to get to the bottom of September 2015 the matter. World rights are handled by Diogenes. Film rights are sold.

Hansjörg Schneider was born in 1938 in Switzerland. Aft er completing his dissertation in German literature he worked as a teacher, journalist and at the theatre. He is one of the most performed playwrights in the German language and his Hunkeler crime stories are regularly on the Swiss Bestseller List. Hansjörg Schneider has received numerous prizes, among them the ›Friedrich Glauser Prize‹ in 2005.

He lives in Basel and in the Black Forest. Diogenes Verlag / Photo: Schweitzer © Bastian Hansjörg Schneider’s books have been published in 6 languages. »One of Europe’s most important postwar dramatists.« The Daily Telegraph, London FRIEDRICH DÜRRENMATT The Plays

On April 19th, 1947, Dürrenmatt’s first play, • 25 th Anniversary of the author’s death It is Written, premiered at the Schauspielhaus, on 14.12.2015 Zurich. It was a calamity, and the audience • Just as topical as they are legendary, whistled so loudly that the police had to Dürrenmatt’s plays have lost none of their intervene. Nevertheless, the author, 26 years of explosive power to this day, and are still age at the time, went on to achieve world amongst the most performed plays on the fame and attract an audience of millions as a German stage. dramatist. Romulus The Great, The Visit, The Physicists and many more remain among the All plays in one volume (without the audio most performed plays on the German stage to dramas and theatre adaptations): this day, as well as being (beloved!) school The Visit now at the reading and »universally renowned, modern Broadway Theater Lyceum, New York. It Is Written myths« (Le Monde, Paris). Director: John Doyle The Blind Man This edition features all plays with detailed Book: Terrence McNally Romulus the Great references to performance and publication Music and Lyrics: John Kander and Fred Ebb The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi history, as well as a chronicle of Dürrenmatt’s Cast: Chita Rivera, Roger Rees et al. An Angel Comes to Babylon life and work. Opening: 23.04.2015 The Visit Frank V. »A nightmare about democracy, »Dark, depressing and downbeat as The Physicists Dürrenmatt’s play will always be pertinent.« Dante’s Inferno, Swiss playwright Friedrich Hercules and the Augean Stables Frank Rich / New York Times Dürrenmatt’s stinging drama The Visit The Meteor has intrigued producers ever since its initial Portrait of a Planet »His work gave world theatre larger-than-life New York premiere. [. . .] The Visit is The Conformist characters with lasting impact.« back this summer. This time it’s a musical!« All plays in one volume The Deadline Der Spiegel, Hamburg Rex Reed / Observer, New York 1600 pages Achterloo IV November 2015 World rights are handled by Diogenes. Film rights are available.

Friedrich Dürrenmatt was born in Konolfingen near Berne in 1921, as son of a protestant minister. He studied philosophy, literature, science and history of art in Berne and Zurich, lived and worked in Neuchâtel, where he died in 1990. Photo: Rieben © Edouard Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s books have been published in 44 languages. »This writer changed how we gauge the world. »Despite all its crime, catastrophes and disasters, Dürrenmatt’s One could even say he altered our very understanding of it. work is optimistic: Because human beings dare to evoke all the He is a colossus of literature, his work a continent.« horrors – and then to rebel and laugh about them.« Jochen Hieber / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Die Zeit, Hamburg

Denken mit Friedrich Dürrenmatt Dürrenmatt Dürrenmatt Dürrenmatt Dürrenmatt Albert Friedrich Dürrenmatt Dürrenmatt DerAuftrag Aus den Dürrenmatt Dürrenmatt Der Hund Dürrenmatt Urs Widmer Friedrich Kritik Literatur und oder Einstein Dürrenmatt Liebesnacht Dürrenmatt Kritiken Vom Beobachten Papieren Durch- Grieche sucht Der Tunnel Justiz Kunst Gedanken uge Charlotte Kerr und Zeichnungen Essays, Gedichte, Reden des Beobachters eines Wärters einandertal Griechin Die Panne Roman f der Beobachter Frühe Prosa Roman Erzählungen Rollenspiele Novelle · Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes ErzählungDiogenes · Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes

The Assignment; Early Prose Durcheinandertal Greek Man Seeks The Dog / Justice Thinking with Albert Einstein Gedankenfuge Rollenspiele Kritik Literature or, On the Stories, 1980 Novel, 1989 Greek Wife The Tunnel / Novel, 1985 Friedrich Essays, 1979 Essays, 1992 A Reader, 1986 A Reader, 1980 and Art Observing Novel, 1980 Traps Dürrenmatt Essays, 1980 of the Observer Stories, 1980 A Reader, 2005 of the Observers Novel, 1986

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Dürrenmatt Dürrenmatt Meine Minotaurus Der Sturz Dürrenmatt Eine Ballade Dürrenmatt Dürrenmatt Dürrenmatt Schweiz Dürrenmatt Dürrenmatt Dürrenmatt Abu Chanifa und Dürrenmatt Dürrenmatt Zusammenhänge Philosophie Ein Lesebuch Versuche Essay über Israel. Eine Konzeption DerAuftrag DerPensionierte DerRichter Anan ben David Der Das Politik Theater Novelle Fragment eines Kriminalromans Smithy und Natur- Essays, Gedichte, Reden Essays, Gedichte, Reden Kants Nachgedanken Mit einem möglichen Schluß und Verdacht Versprechen unter anderem überFreiheit, Gleich- Midas von Urs Widmer Das Sterben derPythia wissenschaft Hoffnung heit und Brüderlichkeit in Judentum, und einem Nachwort sein Henker Essays, Gedichte, Reden Christentum, Islam und Marxismus oder Die schwarze Leinwand von Peter Rüedi Erzähl ungen Essays und Reden und über zwei alte Mythen Diogenes Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes

The Minotaur / The Pensioner The Judge and The Coup / The Quarry The Pledge Philosophy Politics Theatre My Switzerland Versuche / Zusammenhänge / The Assignment / Novel, 1995 His Hangman Abu Chanifa Novel, 1978 Novel, 1980 and Sciences Essays, Poems, Essays, Poems, A Reader, 1998 Kants Hoﬀ nung Nachgedanken Midas Novel, 1978 and Anan ben Essays, 1980 Speeches, 1980 Speeches, 1980 Essays, 1988 Essay, 1980 Novellas, 1985 David / Smithy / The Dying of the Pythia Stories, 1980 Dürrenmatt

Dürrenmatt Dürrenmatt Max Frisch Die Heimat Nächtliches Gespräch Friedrich im Plakat mit einem verachteten Dürrenmatt Sein Leben in Bildern Diogenes Friedrich Menschen Dürrenmatt Dürrenmatt Dürrenmatt Herkules und Dürrenmatt Dürrenmatt Stranitzky und der König Johann Labyrinth Turmbau Diogenes Briefwechsel Nationalheld der Stall desAugias Stoffe I -III Stoffe IV-IX Das Mögliche Herausgegeben von Das Unternehmen Der Prozeß um Titus Der Winterkrieg in Tibet Begegnungen · Querfahrt Peter Rüedi ist ungeheuer der Wega des Esels Schatten Andronicus Mondfinsternis Die Brücke · Das Haus Ausgewählte Gedichte Hörspiele und Kabarett Griechische Stücke Shakespeare-Umarbeitungen Der Rebell Vinter · Das Hirn Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes

The Enormity Nocturnal Hercules and the King John / Titus The Winter War Begegnungen, His Life in Pictures Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Correspondence Die Heimat im Die Mansarde of the Possible Conversation Augean Stables/ Andronicus in Tibet / Querfahrt / The Biography, 2011 Writer and Artist between Max Plakat Illustrations, 1995 Selected Poems, with a Scorned The Trial about Retellings, 1980 Lunar Eclipse / Bridge / Das Haus / A Portrait, 1994 Frisch and Fried- Illustrations, 1963 1993 Man /Stranitzky the Donkey’s The Rebel Vinter / The Brain rich Dürrenmatt and the National Shadow Stoﬀ e I – III, Stoﬀ e IV – IX, Correspondence, Hero / The Vega Greek Plays, 1980 1990 1990 1998 Enterprise Audio dramas and cabarets, 1980 »No one is more graceful and accomplished than Donna Leon.« Washington Post Donna Leon Falling in Love

Sold to: Published by: Donna Leon’s Death at La Fenice, the fi rst Calmann-Lévy (France) Heinemann (uk) novel in her beloved Commissario Guido De Bezige Bij Grove /Atlantic (usa) Brunetti series, introduced readers to the (Netherlands) Grup 62 (Catalan) dazzling world of Venetian opera and Italy’s Noir sur Blanc (Poland) Seix Barral (Spain) fi nest living female soprano, Flavia Petrelli – Otava (Finland) then a suspect in the poisoning of a renowned German conductor. Aft er Brunetti kept her Donna Leon Tod zwischen out of prison and went on to save the life of den Zeilen her female American lover in Acqua Alta, Commissario Brunettis dreiundzwanzigster Fall Flavia has once again returned to Venice and Roman · Diogenes La Fenice to perform the lead in Tosca, and By its Cover Brunetti has tickets to an early show. Novel, 2015

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Collected here in this stunning box set edition, The Complete Ripley Novels celebrates one of fi ction’s most iconic literary characters. Patricia Highsmith Patricia Der Junge, This collector’s item, featuring all fi ve classic Patricia Patricia Highsmith der Ripley Patricia Highsmith Highsmith Ripley’s Game folgte Highsmith Der talentierte Ripley oder Ripley Ripley novels –The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Der amerikanische Mr. Ripley Under Ground Freund Under Water Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Under Ground, Ripley’s Game, The Boy Who

The Talented Ripley Ripley’s Game The Boy who Ripley Followed Ripley and Ripley Under Water – Mr. Ripley Under Ground Novel, 1976 Followed Ripley Under Water Novel, 1971 Novel, 1972 Novel, 1980 Novel, 1991 is published to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of Patricia Highsmith’s death in 1995. The Highsmith literary renaissance, initially sparked by a 1999 fi lm adaptation of Sold to: Agra (Greece) Cinema adaptations of The Talented Mr. Ripley – which re-introduced Art (Romania) Eksmo (Russia) The Talented Mr. Ripley: fans and new readers alike to the unforgettable Relógio d’Agua (Portugal) Tom Ripley, the debonair confi dence man Published by: Noir sur Blanc (Poland) 1960: Plein soleil: with a talent for self-invention and murder – W. W. Norton (usa) Openhouse for Publishers Director / Script: René continues in full force with three major Little, Brown (uk) (Korea) Clément. Cast: Alain Delon, Highsmith movies in the offi ng as well as Calmann-Lévy (France) Shanghai Translation (China) Maurice Ronet and Marie the publication of this volume, »the most Bompiani (Italy) Yuan-Liou (Taiwan) Laforêt sinister and strangely alluring quintet the Anagrama (Spain) crime fi ction genre has ever produced« (Enter- rBa Libros (Catalan) 1999: The Talented Mr. Ripley: tainment Weekly). Norstedts (Sweden) Director / Script: Anthony All fi ve Ripley novels in a box Companhia das Letras (Brazil) Minghella. Cast: Matt Damon, »It’s a little on the nose that I love her 2224 pages Rosenkilde & Bahnhof Jude Law, Cate Blanchett so much. I read Ripley fi rst, back in the day, November 2015 (Denmark) and what a revelation her writing was. World rights are handled by Diogenes. There was this sense of impending dread. Film rights are sold. She’s a very spare writer. I remember having my body temperature physically altered, becoming physically chilled at some point.« Gillian Flynn (author of Gone Girl)

Patricia Highsmith (1921 – 1995), born in Texas, grew up and studied in New York. She achieved worldwide success in 1950 with her debut novel Strangers on a Train, made / Photoshot / Picture-Alliance into the famous fi lm by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr. Ripley, published in 1955, was awarded the KEYSTONE ›Edgar Allan Poe Scroll‹ by the Mystery Writers of America and introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley. Photo: © Patricia Highsmith’s books have been published in 35 languages. »Tomi Ungerer loves playing with language, twisting and turning it, leading words ad absurdum. Sometimes corny jokes emerge – TOMI UNGERER but oft en surprising insights and poetic images too.« Useless Thoughts II Matthias Kußmann / Südwestrundfunk, Stuttgart

• The master of draughtsmanship as a brilliant and playful wordsmith.

• With wisdom, love for life, and humor.

Tomi Ungerer Even before the volume Useless Thoughts, word The got around that Tomi Ungerer was just as Party virtuous with a pen as with a pencil. He coaxes Diogenes the deeper meaning from language, makes ludicrous connections, and twists and turns The Party Babylon Far Out isn’t Far Enough A Childhood Under the Nazis 128 pages, 22.5 x 30 cm 172 pages, 22 x 27 cm 176 pages, 18.5 x 25 cm 144 pages, 18.5 x 25 cm words come hell or high water. 1969 1979 1983 1993 Wise jokes, revealing wordplay, pointed paradoxes – there is nothing more thought- provoking than reading these Tom-isms. Tomi Ungerer Besser nie Expect Previously published: als spät the Unexpected Useless Thoughts I Neue Gedanken und Notizen Essays über Tomi Ungerer zu seinem 80.Geburtstag

Zvi Kolitz Tomi Ungerer Jossel Rakovers Wendung zu Gott Diogenes Jiddisch -D eu tsch Es war einmal Herausgegeben von Paul Badde mein Vater Mit Zeichnungen von Tomi Ungerer Diogenes Diogenes Tomi Ungerer Diogenes Die Hölle ist das Paradies des Teufel s Posters From Father to Son Zvi Kolitz: Expect the Unexpected Gedanken und Notizen Selected by Philipp Keel and 128 pages, 18.5 x 25 cm 114 pages, 18.5 x 25 cm Yosl Rakover 256 pages, 14.3 x 21.3 cm Diogenes 1994 2003 Talks to God 2006 Margaux de Weck 208 pages, 12.5 x 18 cm 160 pages, 12.5 x 18 cm 160 pages, with illustrations, 12.5 x 18 cm 2004 2008 October 2015 World rights are handled by Diogenes.

Tomi Ungerer, born in 1931, is from a Strasbourg family of clockmakers. He botched his school-leaving exams, hitch- hiked across Europe and published his fi rst sketches in the German satirical magazine Simplicissimus. In the middle of the 1950s, he went to New York, where his incredible career as an artist, illustrator and children’s book author began. He lives with his family in southwest Ireland and in Stras- bourg, where the French state dedicated a museum to him. Keystone / Photo: © Gaëtan Bally Tomi Ungerer’s books have been published in 41 languages. »A brilliant author of children’s books. His books for children are timeless.« TOMI UNGERER Libération, Paris Allumette Cinema Cinema Adaptation Adaptation Tomi Ungerer DER MONDMANN Diogenes Allumette is Tomi Ungerer’s wild adaptation of

die gute Schlange Hans-Christian Andersen’s The Little Match Girl. Allumette, too, wanders the cold streets TOMI UNGERER Tomi Ungerer · DER MONDMANN Ungerer Tomi Das Biest around Christmas time, cold and hungry and des Monsieur Racine Diogenes Diogenes with no money or home to return to. But un-

The Three Robbers Crictor Moon Man Zeralda’s Ogre The Beast of Monsieur Racine like the poor girl in Andersen’s tale, Ungerer’s 40 pages, 20.7 x 28.8 cm 32 pages, 22 x 27.5 cm 40 pages, 22.8 x 30.7 cm 36 pages, 23 x 30.3 cm 32 pages, 23 x 30 cm 1962 1963 1966 1970 1972 heroine Allumette does not die of the cold, but gets everything she has ever wished for – and

Tomi Ungerer TOMI UNGERER uses the power of that original wish to eﬀ ect Tomi Ungerer DIE ABENTEUER the betterment of society as a whole. DER FAMILIE MELLOPS A wonderful story with a happy ending Fünf Geschichten in einem Band DAS FLIEGENDE KÄNGURU Diogenes and of course, Tomi Ungerer’s indispensable Diogenes illustrations. Tomi Ungerer Otto Autobiographie eines Teddybären

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The Hat The Mellops Adelaide Tremolo Otto The Blue Cloud 32 pages, 22 x 27.5 cm 176 pages, 14.3 x 21.3 cm 48 pages, 21 x 26.5 cm 32 pages, 22 x 27.5 cm 36 pages, 20.8 x 29 cm 40 pages, 22.7 x 28.9 cm DIOGENES 1972 1957 / 1978 1959 / 1980 1998 1999 2000

Tomi Ungerer First published in 1974 Tomi Ungerer ∙ Der Nebelmann Ungerer Tomi 36 pages, 21 x 26.5 cm December 2015

Tomi Ungerer Neue Freunde Tomi Ungerer World rights are handled by Diogenes. Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes Film rights are available. Making Friends Zloty Fog Man One, Two, Ask me a Question Snail, 40 pages, 21 x 29.7 cm 36 pages, 21 x 29.7 cm 48 pages, 22.8 x 30.7 cm Where’s My Shoe? 36 pages, 17.5 x 21.5 cm Where are You? 2007 2009 2012 36 pages, 17.5 x 21.5 cm 1968 / 2013 36 pages, 17.5 x 21.5 cm 1964 / 2013 1962 / 2014

Tomi Ungerer was born 1931 in Strasbourg, Alsace. In the middle of the 1950s, he went to New York, where his incredible career as an artist, illustrator and children’s book author began. He lives with his family in southwest Ireland and in Strasbourg, where the French state dedicated a museum to him. His children’s books have become modern classics. He received the ›Hans Christian Andersen

Award‹ in 1998. Keystone / Photo: © Gaëtan Bally Tomi Ungerer’s books have been published in 41 languages. »A wonderful picture book to keep the cold and abandonment at bay.« F. K. WAECHTER Ute Blaich / Die Zeit, Hamburg Here I Am

• One of F. K. Waechter’s most beautiful and Die most touching children’s books. Kronenklauer th von F.K.Waechter • 10 Anniversary of the author’s death on und Bernd Eilert Diogenes 16.09.2015

»There were three of us. We were born in August. Mother had already had four in May. There were too many of us.«

So the little kitten has to look aft er itself and

The Red Wolf We Can Do So The Crown Snatchers make its own way in the big wide world. 64 pages, 22 x 27.5 cm Many Things Together 192 pages, 17 x 24 cm A story about coping with life, and about how 1998 40 pages, 22 x 27.5 cm 1972 / 2008 1973 / 2006 it is possible to fi nd your place in the world despite all the adversities, the place where DA BIN ICH you belong, where there is someone waiting Friedrich Karl Waechter F.K.Waechter for you, and where it is enough just to say: »Here I am!« Diogenes

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Grandpa Hucke’s The Anti- Full Moon Join-In Cabinet Shockheaded Peter 80 pages, 12.8 x 16.6 cm 136 pages, 17 x 24 cm 32 pages, 14.3 x 21.3 cm 2005 1976 / 2010 1970 / 1982

Friedrich Karl Waechter was born in Danzig (now Poland) in 1937. From 1962, he had lived in Frankfurt am Main, working fi rst as a graphic artist and later as a freelancer for various newspapers and magazines, including a number of satirical publications. In 1966, he published his fi rst volume of drawings and cartoons. His famous The Anti-Shockheaded Peter appeared in 1970. He was awarded the ›German Youth Literature Prize‹ in 1999 for The Red

Wolf. F. K. Waechter died in 2005 in Frankfurt am Main. Photo: Eigen © Horst F. K. Waechter’s books have been published in 11 languages. Recently published / Recently sold Recently published / Recently sold

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