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Jörg Fauser General Fiction Caliban 368 pages 11.6 × 18.4 cm October 2019 Published by Diogenes as Caliban Berlin

Original title: Caliban Berlin Contact: Susanne Bauknecht, Rights Director, [email protected] and Bozena Huser, Film Rights, [email protected]

Movie adaptations

2006: ROHSTOFF. Ein Film über den Schriftsteller Jörg Fauser mit Franz Dobler Director: Christoph Rüter Cast: Bekannte und unbekannte Schauspieler

1998: Das Frankfurter Kreuz Director: Romuald Karmakar Screenplay: Jörg Fauser Cast: Michael Degen, Manfred Zapatka

1985: Der Schneemann. Kokain ist sein Geschäft Director: Peter F. Bringmann Screenplay: Matthias Seelig Cast: Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Polly Eltes, Oliver Lentz

Awards

2020 Rohstoff in der Kategorie ›Bester Interpret‹ (Lars Eidinger) auf der Shortlist für den ›Deutschen Hörbuchpreis‹ 1988 Postum ›Friedrich-Glauser-Preis‹ auf der Criminale

Praise

Caliban Berlin

»Anyone who reads Fauser’s columns can reconstruct in real time how the monochrome Federal Republic became a colourful .« Jörg Fauser’s revealing columns: about the Tagesschau daily news – Ambros Waibel / (Fauser’s biographer) programme and boxing matches, about a papal visit and democracy »Here we have an author as sensitive as he is – and about the cultural sector. Now including afterwords by worldly, and above all, one who writes with journalists Ambros Waibel and Werner Mathes. literary precision.« – Dirk Hohnsträter / WDR1, »If you work for magazines, you’ll have money for a certain period of Cologne time to do your own thing, if you want to separate the two. But I don’t want to separate them. Ever since I’ve been a journalist, for me Jörg Fauser there is no separation,« says Jörg Fauser. This volume gathers together the pieces which the incorruptible (yet »The Clint Eastwood of German literature.« – not unimpressionable) Fauser wrote under the pseudonym Caliban Franz Dobler / (Author) and under the column title As You Like It in the Berlin magazine tip. »Like almost no one else, Fauser had a talent »The captain was, you see, a picture-perfect captain [. . .] and his for linking coarse realism and poetry.« – helper and general drudge was a picture-perfect helper with Volkhard App / NDR1, Hanover pockmarks and all, who answered to the name Manoli and smoked lights, because life really was hard enough, and the Naousa was a »Hard-hitting on the attack, with tender fervour in adoration, always operating along picture-perfect caique boat, her ten knots slicing through the Etesian the ravages of time.« – Neue Zürcher Zeitung winds, and it was of course a picture-perfect day on a pictureperfect sea, and later everyone held on tightly to their picture-perfect plastic »Whatever he wrote left its mark.« – Der bags.« Spiegel, Hamburg Mediterranean Sea Boat Tour

1 / 3 2020 400 pages The ClubWeAllPlayIn 2021 128 pages Kant Photo: Fauser Archiv Jörg Fauser eternal thingsontheside.« to write.Iimaginedanormalexistencewhileproducingfew »At first,Ididn’twanttobecomeaprofessionalwriter,justwanted accident onamotorwaynearMunichthenightafterhisbirthday. exceptional positioninGermanliterature.JörgFauserdiedan novels, poems,newspaperarticlesandshortstoriesoccupyan watchman, amongotherthings.In1974,heswitchedtowriting.His making alivinginofficejobs,asanairportworkerandnight out ofuniversity,hespentsomeyearslivinginIstanbulandLondon, Jörg Fauser(1944–1987)wasbornnearFrankfurt.Afterdropping 2020 288 pages Marlon Brando 2021 368 pages A Friendship 2020 288 pages Completely Different Everything MustBe 2021 464 pages The WhiteoftheEye 2019 352 pages I HaveSeenBigCities 2020 304 pages The Snowman Franz Dobler/(Germanauthor) »The ClintEastwoodofGermanliterature.«– Zeit, Hamburg subcultural hero..«–PeterHenning/Die »To thisday,Fauserhasremaineda Die Welt,Berlin popular andhighculture.«–HendrikWerner/ and drugtourist,citymagazineprose, feverish ashisspurtoflifebetweendropout driven man,hisstylesimilarlybreathlessand »Jörg Fauserwasacrosserofbordersand Christoph Sator/MannheimerMorgen »An unforgottenpioneerofpopliterature.«– Philipp Holstein/RheinischePost,Düsseldorf compliment youcanmaketoliterature.«– what itisreallylike,life.Thatthegreatest oeuvre. Thosewhofindthem,think:Thisis survive. Therearemasterpiecesinhisrich »His booksaredocumentsofthewillto degradation.« –TheSundayTelegraph,London plumbs thedepthsofhumandesperationand »There aremomentsofsardonichumourashe Frankfurter AllgemeineZeitung as awriter?«–VolkerWeidermann/ taken suchaeuphoricandexistentialposition »When hasanauthor,beforeorafter,ever Praise (cont'd) – FranzDobler/BR2Kultur,Munich during hislifetime,willoutlivemany ofthem.« Fauser, whoreceivedneitherawards norgrants book afterbook,butthewritingof Jörg »The literaryindustrymaysingthe praisesof Zeitung highbrow wordsmithJörgFauser.«–Berliner Republic betterthantheunderground- and thereforeauthentic–souloftheFederal »No otherGermanwritercapturedthedark– Friedrich Ani/(Germanauthor) by theSwedishwritingteamSjöwall/Wahlöö«– socio-crime novelsemulatingtheBeck series Snake Mouth,farawayfromtheso-called novel trulybeganwithTheSnowmanand »The futureoftheGerman-languagecrime Halle/Saale to survive.«–StefanMaelck/mdr2, time andagaininGermanliterature.Ithelps American literature,youshouldrefertoFauser »Just likeyoualwaysreturntoChandlerin Peter Henning/AargauerZeitung the language-obsesseddesperado[...]«– composes histextswiththedriveandfurorof old FederalRepublic.[...]Fauser .] toreadFauserisexplorethesoulof German languageoverthelastfiftyyears.[.. best long-formjournalismwritteninthe »They [Fauser’stexts]remainamongstthe (German author) taking acertainstance‹.«–D.B.Blettenberg/ a thriller‹and›Goodentertainmentisabout two artisticprinciples:›Everywell-toldstoryis top ofhisgame,JörgFauserremainedtrueto »Full ofintegrity,believableandalwaysatthe (German actor) »I thinkFauserisagenius!«–LarsEidinger/ 2 / 3 Praise (cont'd)

»Stylistically speaking, his novel Raw Material seems more fitting to the present day than to 1984.« – Helmut Böttiger / .de

»The literary element in Fauser’s writing was rooted in his ability to condense reality and, in the process, build uncompromisingly upon his own experiences.« – Helmut Böttiger / deutschlandfunk.de

»This author is a walking contradiction, but his The Snake Mouth Raw Material Elements Raw Material timeless tone makes his work feel absolutely 320 pages 320 pages 352 pages 2019 2019 2019 contemporary.« – Helmut Böttiger / deutschlandfunk.de

»Reading Fauser is an experience, even today. [. . .] By reading Fauser, you not only discover more about the colourful – and increasingly so – Federal Republic, but also about life itself.« – Martin Oehlen / Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger

»He had something of the beatnik about him, but also an element of aristocratic Englishness. [. . .] You’ll be amazed at how fresh his writing feels.« – Michael Köhlmeier / rbb, Berlin

»His texts convey so much about the reality of West German life in the 1970s and 1980s.« – Dunja Welke / rbb, Berlin

»Jörg Fauser is a cult writer and hidden gem rolled into one.« – Stefan Kister / Stuttgarter Zeitung

»Fauser’s long-ago present day seems to always be responding to the current present day, and vice versa.« – Katja Kullman / taz, Berlin

»Fauser, the master of shades of grey, doesn’t pander to black-and-white thinking.« – Isabell Nina Schirra / Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich

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