Foreign Rights List Spring 2016

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Emanuel Bergmann The Trick . . . and other books by Esmahan Aykol Tatjana Hauptmann · Donna Leon Hugo Loetscher · Hansjörg Schneider Schünemann & Volić Süskind & Sempé · Laura de Weck Benedict Wells and Leon de Winter

Theatre Exhibitions

Jakob arJoUni The Physicists sŁaWoMir Mrożek patrick sÜskind f. k. Waechter Cherryman hunts Schauspielhaus Zürich The Talented Mr Ripley Emigrants Is permanently in the re- F. K. Waechter – Mister White Deutsches Schauspielhaus Teatr Studio, Warsaw Teatrul Nat¸ional, pertory of many German 100 exhibitions at the tjg. theater junge generation, Hamburg Westfälisches Cluj-Napoca and foreign theatres. New Caricatura Galerie Kassel Dresden Niedersächsisches Landestheater, Teatro El Candil, Toledo productions in the following until 22.11.2015. Staatstheater Hannover Castrop-Rauxel Zihni Sako, Gjirokaster theatres: Gorky Academic Petöfi Theater, Veszprém Städtische Bühnen Drama Theatre (Samara), friedrich Striptease toMi Ungerer Stratford Festival Frankfurt a. M. KeskEesti TeatriTrupp dÜrrenMatt Versus Tiyatro, Istanbul At the Villa Bernasconi, Guest performance of the Schaubühne am Lehniner (Imavere), Düsseldorfer Frank V. Citizens Theatre, Glasgow Geneva, from 20.11.2015 Schauspielhaus Zürich, Platz, Berlin Tango Schauspielhaus, Fundacja until 21.2.2016. Fundació Teatre Lliure, Tong Xiang, Zhejiang Sceny im. Stanisława Chernigiv Youth Theater Incognito at the Kunsthaus Barcelona Wyspiańskiego (Krakow), Romulus The Great anthonY Mccarten Kharkiv State Academic Zürich, from 30.10.2015 Greek Man Seeks Theaterhaus Stuttgart. Theater Mestska divadla Death of a Superhero Ukrainian Drama Theater until 7.2.2016. Greek Wife praska, Städtische Bühnen, Between Marianne and Vingtième Théâtre, Paris Out at Sea The Pledge Osnabrück Szöveg SzÍnház Theater, toMi Ungerer Germania at the Museum Hercules and Staatstheater Stuttgart Staatstheater Mainz Hungary Fog Man Renchen, from 13.10.2015 the Augean Stables The Visit Junges Ensemble, Fabrika Sanat Theatre, Filament Theatre, Chicago until 13.1.2016. Teatr Im. Juliusza Osterwy, Schauspielhaus Zürich Stuttgart Istanbul Moon Man Frontières at the Musée de Lublin Tiroler Landestheater, Funny Girl Zabawa Spitalfi elds Music, London l’Histoire de l’Immigration, Play Strindberg Innsbruck Salzburger Landestheater Erkan Baylav Theater, tjg., Dresden Paris, from 9.11.2015 Theater Basel Vakhtangov State Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Istanbul The Three Robbers until 29.5.2016. Theater Divadlo Exil, Academic Theatre, Hamburg tjg., Dresden 1,000 Years of Strasbourg Pardubice Moscow h.U. steger Westfälisches Landestheater Cathedral: The Artists of Comuna Teatro de Teatrul Nat¸ional Travelling to Tripiti Castrop-Rauxel the Cathedral. Tomi Ungerer/ Vasile Alecsandri, Iaşi Pesquisa, Lisbon Theater Winterthur ATZE Musiktheater, Berlin John Howe at the Tomi Vilnius State Small Theatre Cie Rêve Lune, Ungerer Museum, Strasbourg, Hungarian State Theatre, La Seyne sur mer until 4.10.2015. Cluj-Napoca

Jakob Arjouni Patrick Süskind Cherryman Friedrich jagt Patricia Anthony S¥awomir Der Friedrich Dürrenmatt Anthony Mro‡ek Kon trab aß Mr.White Dürrenmatt Der Besuch Highsmith McCarten McCarten DA BIN ICH Der talentierte Emigranten Friedrich Karl Waechter Die Physiker der alten Dame Superhero funny girl und andere Stücke Komödie Tragische Komödie Mr. Ripley

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Please fi nd more information at: www.diogenes.ch/rights Cinema Anniversary Awards doris dÖrrie Chandler. Screenplay: Phyllis ingrid noll connie palMen hartMUt lange Fukushima, mon Amour Nagy. Production: Film4, Director Wei Zhao is fi lming 60th Birthday on 25.11.2015 Has been awarded the ›Rom- Doris Dörrie is working on Killer Films, Number 9 Films. the cinema adaptation of the Preis 2016‹ by the Deutsche WoodY allen a new feature fi lm about novel Hell Hath No Fury. The Akademie Rom, which 80th Birthday on 1.12.2015 Japan. The movie is in the A Kind of Murder, the cinema release is scheduled for the includes an artist residency making and the release is adaptation of The Blunderer end of 2016. Script: Li Qiang. Walter MUschg at the Villa Massimo, Rome. scheduled for March 2016. is in the post production stage. Production: Cheerland. 50th Anniversary of the Script and director: Doris Director: Andy Goddard. author’s death on 6.12.2015 christoph Dörrie. Cast: Kaori Momoi Screenplay: Susan Boyd. Martin sUter reiner ZiMnik poschenrieder and Rosalie Thomass. Pro- Cast: Jessica Biel, Patrick The premiere of the cinema 85th Birthday on 13.12.2015 Has received an artist residency duction: Olga Film, Rolize, Wilson, Eddie Marsan and adaptation of The Dark Side for the Deutsche Studienzen- Constantin Film, ZDF, ARTE. Haley Bennett. Production: of the Moon was at the friedrich trum at Venice. Killer Films, Sierra Pictures. Zurich Film Festival in dÜrrenMatt In autumn 2016 he will stay th patricia highsMith September 2015. The release 25 Anniversary of the in the Palazzo Barbarigo della The release dates and distribu- friedrich is scheduled for 14.1.2016 author’s death on 14.12.2015 Terrazza for 3 months. tors of the cinema adaptation dÜrrenMatt (Germany). Director: Stephan lUis MUrschetZ of Carol or The Price of Salt are: The documentation Rick. Cast: Jürgen Prochnow, 80th Birthday 7.1.2016 lUkas hartMann

Australia: 18.10.2015, Trans- In the Labyrinth / Friedrich Moritz Bleibtreu, Nora My Djinn has been nominated John VerMeUlen mission Films Dürrenmatt was broadcasted von Waldstätten. Production: for the ›Prix Chronos‹. This Photos: Luis Murschetz: © Klaus Kallabis; Rolf 75th Birthday 13.5.2016 France: 13.1.2016, TF 1 on TV in Spring 2015 and Arctic Pictures Limited, Dobelli: Christof Schürpf / © Diogenes Verlag; John readers’ book prize is organized is now adapted for cinema. Lailaps Pictures, Port au Vermeulen, Woody Allen, Reiner Zimnik: © Archiv Italy: 1.1.2016, Lucky Red Diogenes Verlag; Friedrich Dürrenmatt: © Edouard rolf dobelli by Pro Senectute, a Zurich- Prince Film & Kultur Pro- Rieben; Walter Muschg: © Mit freundlicher Ge- Latin America: Swen Director: Sabine Gisiger. nehmigung der Universitätsbibliothek Basel; Connie 50th Birthday 15.7.2016 based charitable organization Palmen: © Annaleen Louwes : 17.12.2015, Production: Das Kollektiv. duktion. for the elderly. Cinemien Scheduled release: Portugal: Lusomundo Autumn 2015. South Africa: Ster Kinekor TV Musical Sweden: 25.12.2015, Scanbox lUkas hartMann Uk: 14.10.2015, Studiocanal The fi lming of the cinema donna leon patricia highsMith friedrich Usa: 09.10.2015, The Weinstein adaptation of his novel First broadcast of The Golden The production of a television dÜrrenMatt Company Dark Bliss will start in Egg in spring 2016. Director: series based on Patricia High- The Visit guest performance of Director: Todd Haynes. autumn 2015. Sigi Rothemund. Script: smith’s Tom Ripley novels is in the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien in Cast: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Director: Stefan Haupt. Prince Au Port Copyright Photo: Florian Iwersen. Production: the making. Produced by Tele- Japan is scheduled for autumn Mara (award for best actress ex Production: Triluna Film. teamWorx and ARD Degeto vision 360 (Game of Thrones) 2016. Music: Moritz Schneider aequo at Cannes) and Kyle for Das Erste in co-operation and Endemol Shine Studios. and Michael Reed. with BR. Philipp Keel for Diogenes will Lyrics: Wolfgang Hofer. The Dark Side of the Moon serve as executive producer.

Lukas Hartmut Christoph Patricia Hartmann Martin Suter Lange Die dunkle Donna Leon Poschenrieder Highsmith Finsteres Das Konzert Mauersegler Please fi nd more information at: Carol Glück Seite des Das goldene Ei Lukas oder Mondes Commissario Brunettis Hartmann Salz und sein Preis zweiundzwanzigster Fall Mein Dschinn www.diogenes.ch/rights Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Novelle · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Diogenes Extract from: The Trick EMANUEL BERGMANN Inside the circus, above the artist’s entrance was a balcony, and on The Trick that balcony sat a four-man orchestra, playing popular waltzes. When the audience was more or less seated, whispering excitedly to each other, the orchestra played a fanfare. • A round of applause, ladies and gentlemen, A red curtain was pushed aside, and then he stepped out – The for the Great Zabbatini!

Half-Moon Man. • Emanuel Bergmann – the discovery He walked up to the footlights with calm, measured steps. of a new storytelling talent!

»Good evening,« he said in a deep, sonorous voice. »I bid you all • A debut with chutzpa and drive, heart welcome.« and humour.

He made a grandiose, inviting gesture with his arms and took off his top hat. They meet in Los Angeles: a small boy who Moshe was riveted. The man was tall and elegant. He looked like believes in everything and an old man who an aristocrat. His black hair was slicked back with brilliantine. He believes in nothing any more. What could possibly bring these two together other wore a black frock coat with a white shirt and red sash. He had than the course of world history, which has the Emanuel white cotton gloves on, and was leaning on an impressive, large, cruellest and most bewildering tricks up its Bergmann black cane with a silver top. sleeve? Der Trick »What’s wrong with his face?« Moshe whispered. Prague, 1934: The fi ft een-year-old rabbi’s son The left half appeared completely normal. But the right half was Moshe Goldenhirsch marvels at the legendary covered by an ornate, brass mask, in the shape of a crescent moon. circus magician known as the ›Half-Moon Roman · Diogenes The half-moon. Man‹ and his delightful assistant – he falls head Moshe was glued to his every gesture. There was something about over heels in love, twice over. Moshe runs away from home to join the circus, which is this man, about the entire spectacle, that touched him on a deep and slowly making its way to Germany. Novel visceral level. Los Angeles, 2007: Ten-year-old Max Cohn 336 pages This, right here, right now, was Moshe’s future. climbs out of his bedroom window to fi nd April 2016 the Great Zabbatini, a jaded old magician. World rights are handled by Diogenes. The boy is convinced – only magic can bring Film rights are available. his estranged parents back together before divorce strikes. Original English manuscript available.

A moving and absurdly funny story spanning Emanuel Bergmann was born in Saarbrücken in 1972. eras and continents, a novel about the fragility Aft er his high school graduation, he moved to Los Angeles of life and the will to let magic do its work. to study fi lm and journalism. He has worked for various movie studios, production companies and independent publishers in Germany and the usa. He now makes his living teaching German, translating books and writing

articles. And novels, too. The Trick is his literary debut. Photo: © Lily Kerrigan »This 23-year-old Berliner is the shooting star in Germany’s young literary scene: a multi-talented virtuoso with a touch of madness.« BENEDICT WELLS Jan Drees / 1Live, Cologne On the End of Loneliness

• The new novel by the bestselling writer Benedict Wells.

• A deeply moving story of personal Benedict development. Wells Becks letzter • A great love story. Sommer BenedictBenedict Benedict WWellsells Wells SSpinnerpinner Fast genial »A diffi cult childhood is like Roman · Diogenes RomanRoman · D Diogenesiogenes Roman · Diogenes an invisible enemy: you never know Beck’s Last Summer Crank Almost Ingenious when it will come for you.« Novel, 2008 Novel, 2009 Novel, 2011

Jules and his brother and sister Marty and Liz are all very diff erent, but a tragic event marks Benedict Praise for Almost Ingenious: all their lives. Having grown up in idyllic circumstances, they lose their parents in an Wells »A universal story about growing up, »This entertaining novel is a page-turner accident. Although they are all sent to the Vom Ende it is both touching and exciting.« to the very last letter – rien ne va plus!« same boarding school, each of them goes their der Einsamkeit own way, becoming strangers to one another Der Spiegel, Hamburg Deutschlandradio Kultur, Berlin and losing contact. Roman · Diogenes »Absolutely enthralling. Tantalizing like »This moving literary road movie takes Jules in particular, once a paragon of confi - a thriller. Benedict Wells’ Almost Ingenious us all the way across the usa. dence, withdraws more and more into a dream is a rather ingenious book.« And once again, one admires the author’s world. The only friendship he makes is with the mysterious Alva, but he will only realize ZDF heute-journal, Mainz linguistic and narrative skill.« Novel what she means to him years later – and what NZZ am Sonntag, Zurich 288 pages she has never told him. When Jules meets Alva February 2016 again as an adult, it looks like they could make World rights are handled by Diogenes. up for lost time. But then the past catches up Film rights are available. with them.

Benedict Wells, born in Munich in 1984, moved to Berlin aft er completing school in 2003. He decided against uni- versity to concentrate on his writing, earning a living with various jobs. His widely praised debut Beck’s Last Summer was published in 2008 and adapted into a fi lm in 2015, directed by Frieder Wittich and starring Christian Ulmen. The novel Almost ingenious followed in 2011 and spent weeks on the Spiegel Bestseller List. Photo: © / autorenfotos Bogenberger Benedict Wells’ books have been published in 7 languages. »Leon de Winter has always been a virtuoso in the construction of thrilling intrigue.« LEON DE WINTER NRC Handelsblad, Amsterdam Geronimo

›Geronimo‹ was the code word that the men of seal Team 6 were to use if they located Osama bin Laden. The commandos astonished the Leon de Winter world with their spectacular operation. But Leon Leon Leon Der Himmel Leon deWinter de Winter de Winter Leon von de Winter Hoffmans SuperTex Serenade de Winter Hollywood Sokolows did it really unfold as the offi cial version Hunger Zionoco Universum Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes would have us believe? In this novel, Leon

Ho man’s SuperTex Serenade Zionoco The Sky of Sokolov’s de Winter plays a masterful game with that Hunger Novel, 1994 Novel, 1996 Novel, 1997 Hollywood Universe Novel, 1994 Novel, 1998 Novel, 1999 question. Geronimo is also the story of Apana, an Afghan girl who develops a passion for Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and the story of Jabbar, a Leon de Winter Pakistani boy whose most precious possession Leon Leon Place de la de Winter de Winter Leon Bastille Leon Leo Kaplan de Winter de Winter Ein gutes Herz is an old kitchen stool, a stool that could Malibu Das Recht auf Rückkehr set the course of history off in a crucial new Leon Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes direction. de Winter Kaplan God’s Gym Place The Right VSV or an Act Then there is the story of American ex- Novel, 2001 Novel, 2003 de la Bastille to Return of Altruism Geronimo Novel, 2005 Novel, 2009 Novel, 2013 commander Tom Johnson, through whose compassionate eyes we view a world full of Praise for Geronimo: cunning and tragedy, a world that is at the same time magnifi cent. »With a great conspiracy, the writer places »Thrilling. A page-turner that Roman · Diogenes the novel in the international political arena. will dispel any ounce of boredom.« Leon de Winter is the fi rst author to call into The charm lies in its madness.« De Morgen, Brussels question the entire offi cial version of Opera- NRC Handelsblad »Leon de Winter stokes the fi res of the tion Neptune Spear – in which Osama bin Novel »A novel with the momentum imagination until the pages are ablaze. Laden was eliminated – in a high wire act of about 300 pages September 2016 of a Tom Clancy thriller.« It’s an approach that makes him unique.« the imagination. Elsevier, Amsterdam De Volkskrant, Amsterdam World rights are handled by Diogenes, except English and Dutch rights. Leon de Winter was born in ’s-Hertogenbosch in 1954 English sample translation and Published by as the son of Dutch . He began writing as a teenager synopsis available. De Bezige Bij (Netherlands) aft er the death of his father. From 1976, he has worked in Featured title in 10 Books from Holland Holland and the USA as an independent author and fi lm- (Dutch Foundation for Literature). maker. His novels are immensely successful in the Nether- lands and abroad; some of them have been made into fi lms for cinema and television, for example The Sky of Holly- wood (movie title: The Hollywood Sign) directed by Sönke Wortmann. A fi lm version of the novel SuperTex was directed by Jan Schütte. Laif / Okhuizen Photo: © Marco Leon de Winter’s books have been published in 20 languages. »Patrick Süskind is a master of the deceptively simple tale.« PATRICK SÜSKIND Alison Roberts / The Times, London The Story of Mr Sommer

Helmut Dietl A boy’s village childhood with all the Patrick Süskind traditional attributes – father, mother, brother, Patrick Süskind sister, a house on a lake, tree-climbing, going Patrick Helmut Dietl Drei Süskind Patrick Süskind Geschichten to the races, music lessons, a bicycle, a crush Der Vom Suchen und eine Betrachtung Kon trab aß Patrick Patrick und Finden Süskind Süskind der Liebe on a girl in the class – is bedevilled by Das Parfum Die oder die mörderische Frage, Die Geschichte wer mit wem schlief eines Mörders Taube Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes the mystifying appearances of the eccentric

The Double Bass Perfume The Pigeon Rossini – Looking for Three Stories Mr Sommer. Moving through the landscape in Play, 1984 Novel, 1985 Novella, 1987 Or the Deadly Love, and a Refl ection Question of Who Finding Love Stories, 2005 silent haste, like a man possessed, with his Slept With Whom Film script, 2005 empty rucksack and his long, odd-looking Film script, 1997 walking stick, Mr Sommer runs like a black thread through the boy’s days.

Praise for The Story of Mr Sommer: Sempé’s light, caricatural illustrations per- Das Parfum Das Buch zum Film fectly capture both the humour and the gravity Patrick Süskind Diogenes Über Liebe »Touching and profound, full of tenderness of Süskind’s tale. und Tod and vulnerability, extraordinarily Patrick Süskind Diogenes human and at times desperately funny. Rights sold to: On Love and Perfume –The Movie Die Geschichte Death 2006 A wonderful little work.« Fox, Finch & Tepper (Uk) Essay, 2006 von Herrn Sommer René Bortolani / Das Magazin, Zurich Seix Barral (Spain) Columna (Catalan) Longanesi (Italy) Diogenes Patrick Süskind, born in Ambach near Munich Azbooka-Atticus (Russia) in 1949, studied medieval and modern history Shanghai Translation (China) With illustrations by Sempé in Munich and Aix-en-Provence, making a liv- Erein Argitaletxea (Basque) Novel ing writing screenplays. His one-person play Porto (Portugal) 128 pages Psichogios (Greece) The Double Bass appeared in 1984, his novel fi rst published in 1991 Perfume in 1985, the short story The Pigeon Can (Turkey) in 1987 and The Story of Mr Sommer with Partvonal (Hungary) World rights are handled by Diogenes. illustrations by Jean-Jacques Sempé in 1991. Am Oved () Film rights are available. Diogene (Georgia) Jean-Jacques Sempé was born in Bordeaux in The Open Books (Korea) 1932. His caricatures and drawings appeared in ikc Solaris (Serbia) L’Express and, from 1978, in The New Yorker. Belimex (Slovakia) Mentioning Sempé together with names such Drustvo Mohorjeva (Slovenia) as Goscinny, Modiano and Süskind is almost Brightkids (Thailand) unavoidable. Without them, fi gures such as Little Nick, Catherine Certitude and The Story of Mr Sommer would be unthinkable. Keel : © Philipp Photo left Opale / Photo right: © Lian Hong Patrick Süskind’s books have been published in 54 languages. »This thriller makes the reader both want to go to Belgrade [. . .] and to hear more of Milena Lukin.« SCHÜNEMANN & VOLIĆ Petra Mies / buchjournal, Frankfurt Peony Red

• A new case for the Belgrade criminologist Milena Lukin: another thrilling atmospheric crime novel that takes us to the heart of the Balkans. Rights sold to: Haus Publishing (Uk) • Like Cornfl ower Blue, Peony Red is based on rba Libros (Spain) two real murder cases still unsolved to this Schünemann & Vol i ć Héloïse d’Ormesson (France) day. Kornblumen- blau • Highly topical: the novel clearly shows the Ein Fall für Milena Lukin challenges facing Europe’s politicians. Roman · Diogenes

Cornfl ower Blue Novel, 2013 »Only here does the peony bloom in such strong shades of red, because the ground was Schünemann soaked in so much blood.« & Volić »Milena Lukin is a wonderful, unfathomable »The authors Jelena Volić and Christian Pfingstrosen- woman still swathed in a cocoon of secrecy, Schünemann have brought a likeable What happened on the night when a Serbian even at the end of her debut appearance. protagonist to life and skilfully interweave her couple were brutally murdered in their house rot Ein Fall für Milena Lukin Belgrade made fl esh.« private life with Belgrade’s political history.« in Kosovo? Milena Lukin might never have looked into Elmar Krekeler / Die Welt, Berlin Günter Keil / Landshuter Zeitung Roman · Diogenes the matter if her uncle Miodrag had not »Even though legal expert Milena Lukin’s »Fast-paced, subtle writing that leaves enough recognized the murdered woman as his fi rst fi rst case is anything but easily digestible – space for human gestures and many precisely love. She contacts the couple’s children and second helpings are defi nitely desirable.« observed details depicting life in Belgrade.« ventures to the scene of the crime – and into A Case for Milena Lukin the dark depths of politics. Gradually, she Frauke Kaberka / Focus online, Munich Wolf Ebersberger / Nürnberger Zeitung 320 pages comes to suspect that the killers are not from April 2016 far away, but very close to her, in beautiful World rights are handled by Diogenes. Belgrade. Film rights are available. Christian Schünemann, born 1968 in Bremen, Peony Red tells a story of how the fl ames of studied Slavic philology and journalism, and Rights sold to: political confl ict are fanned and kept alive be- worked in Moscow and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Haus Publishing (Uk) hind the scenes because Serbs and Kosovars He lives in Berlin. profi t from that confl ict.

Jelena Volić was born in Belgrade and studied Literary Criticism and Italian, Slavonic and Germanic Studies. She currently lectures in Modern German Literature. She divides her

time between Belgrade and Berlin. Privat : © Photo left Schünemann Photo right: © Jens DONNA LEON DONNA LEON 25 cases for Guido Brunetti! The Waters of Eternal Youth New York Times Bestseller Sunday Times Bestseller Fift een years ago, a teenage girl fell into a canal late at night. Unable to swim, she went under and started to drown. She survived thanks to a nearby man, an alcoholic, who pulled her out, 12 times a # 1 Spiegel Bestseller: though not before she suff ered irreparable brain damage that left her unable to learn or mature. The lush claimed he saw her thrown into the canal by another man, but the follow- ing day he could not remember a thing.

Donna Leon Donna Leon Donna Leon Donna Leon Donna Leon Donna Leon Sanft Nobiltà Das Gesetz Die dunkle Stunde Verschwiegene Beweise, Commissario Brunettis der Serenissima entschlafen siebter Fall der Lagune Kanäle daß es b öse ist Commissario Brunettis Commissario Brunettis Commissario Brunettis Commissario Brunettis Commissario Brunettis elfter Fall Now, at a fundraising dinner for a Venetian sechster Fall zehnter Fall zwölfterFall dreizehnter Fall Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes charity, a wealthy and aristocratic patroness – Quietly in A Noble A Sea of Troubles Wilful Behaviour Uniform Justice Doctored Their Sleep Radiance The 10th Case The 11th Case The 12th Case Evidence the girl’s grandmother – asks Brunetti if he The 6th Case The 7th Case The 13th Case will investigate. Brunetti is not sure what to do. If a crime was committed, it would surely have Donna Leon passed the statute of limitations. But out of a Ewige Jugend mixture of curiosity, pity, and a willingness to Commissario Brunettis fulfi ll the wishes of a guilt-wracked older fünfundzwanzigster Fall Donna Leon Donna Leon Donna Leon Donna Leon Donna Leon Donna Leon Blutige Steine Wie durch ein Das Mädchen Auf Treu Das goldene Ei Tod zwischen woman, who happens to be his mother- Commissario Brunettis und Glauben Commissario Brunettis den Zeilen vierzehnter Fall dunkles Glas seinerTräume zweiundzwanzigster Fall Commissario Brunettis Commissario Brunettis Commissario Brunettis Commissario Brunettis fünfzehnter Fall siebzehnter Fall neunzehnter Fall dreiundzwanzigster Fall in-law’s best friend, he agrees. Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes

Blood from Through a Glass, The Girl of A Question The Golden Egg By its Cover a Stone Darkly His Dreams of Belief The 22nd Case The 23rd Case Brunetti soon fi nds himself unable to let th th th th The 14 Case The 15 Case The 17 Case The 19 Case the case rest, if indeed there is a case. Awash in th the rhythms and concerns of contemporary Commissario Brunetti’s 25 Case Venetian life, from historical preservation, to 304 pages June 2016 »One of the most exquisite housing, to new waves of African migrants, and subtle detective series ever.« and the haunting story of a woman trapped in World rights are handled by Diogenes. Washington Post a perpetual childhood, The Waters of Eternal Rights sold to: Youth is another wonderful addition to this De Bezige Bij (Netherlands) series. Grove/Atlantic (Usa) Heinemann (Uk) Donna Leon, born in New Jersey in 1942, moved to Italy at the age of 23 to continue her studies in Perugia and Siena. She has lived outside the usa since 1965 and worked as a travel guide in Rome, as a copywriter in London, and has also taught at American schools in , Iran, China and Saudi Arabia. Since 1981 she divides her time between Venice and Switzerland. Diogenes Verlag / Photo: Mosimann © Regine Donna Leon’s books have been published in 34 languages. »Kati Hirschel – a name to remember!« ESMAHAN AYKOL Virgül, Istanbul Istanbul Tango

She dances the tango, lives in a smart apart- ment in the middle of Istanbul, has lovers who come and go – but recently, the fashion jour- nalist Nil’s life has been at risk. Bookseller Esmahan Kati Hirschel uses her hard-earned whodunit Aykol EsmahanEsmahan Hotel AykolAykol knowledge to help her, taking a closer look at Bosporus Esmahan ScheidungScheidung Ein Fall für Aykol Kati Hirschel aufauf TürkischTürkisch the city’s glossy world of fashion and fantasies. Bakschisch EEinin F Fallall f fürür Ein Fall für KKatiati H Hirschelirschel Kati Hirschel

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Hotel Bosporus Baksheesh Divorce in Turkish »Esmahan Aykol is a warm-hearted Novel, 2003 Novel, 2004 Novel, 2008 and well-informed author. Her stories are declarations of love to Istanbul.« Angela Gatterburg / Der Spiegel, Hamburg

Praise for Hotel Bosporus: »If you aren’t familiar with Kati, think a Esmahan younger German-in-Turkey Miss Marple Aykol »Fans of such female detectives as Amanda »As this fi rst in the series makes clear, mingled with the delicious informality of Istanbul Tango Cross’s Kate Fansler and Kerry Greenwood’s she could be the love child of Miss Marple The #1 Ladies Detective Agency.« Ein Fall für Kati Hirschel Phryne Fisher will fi nd a lot to like.« and [. . .] Andrei Codrescu.« www.thebookbag.co.uk www.publishersweekly.com Newsday, New York Roman · Diogenes

»Esmahan Aykol plots cleverly, »The fi rst novel about the Istanbul ›scene‹ works in some sly and knowing comments to be translated into German. A declaration of on the tropes and cliches of the crime genre, love to the metropolis of Istanbul.« A Case for Kati Hirschel 384 pages and she does a nice line in wittily Die Welt, Berlin June 2016 undermining national stereotypes.« New Internationalist, Oxford World rights are handled by Diogenes, except Turkish rights. Film rights are available. Rights sold to: Sellerio (Italy)

Esmahan Aykol was born in Edirne, Turkey, 1970, now living in Berlin and Istanbul. While studying towards a degree in law, she worked as a journalist for several Turkish newspapers and radio stations. Aft er an intermezzo as a barkeeper, she now concentrates on her writing. Istanbul

Tango is the fourth Kati Hirschel novel. Photo: Özdemir © Hüseyin Esmahan Aykol’s books have been published in 13 languages. »With Dear Leo and The Watermark Hansjörg Schneider has written important novels.« HANSJÖRG SCHNEIDER Beatrice von Matt / Neue Zürcher Zeitung Dear Leo

• Discover an unknown side to the author of the Hunkeler crime series.

• First published in 1980, the novel of a

Hansjörg generation. Schneider Hansjörg Nachtbuch Schneider für Astrid Nilpferde Hansjörg Von der Liebe, vom Sterben, Schneider vom Tod und von der Trauer unter darüber, den geliebten Menschen verloren zu haben Das Wasser- His girlfriend Bea has left him without as dem Haus zeichen Diogenes much as a goodbye, aft er ten years together. Diogenes Roman · Diogenes His search for her takes the unnamed narrator, Night Book Hippos under The Watermark for Astrid the House Novel, 2013 a screenplay writer in his early forties, to the Diary, 2000 Diary, 2012 sites of their love and his biography: Ticino, Basel, his father’s house in Aargau, Paris in May 1968 . . . Praise for Night Book for Astrid: Praise for The Watermark: In the New World, in San Francisco, the nar- Hansjörg rator fi nally fi nds Bea. And he discovers that Schneider »By the time you put this book down, »The Watermark shows that Hansjörg his best friend Leo had something to do with Lieber Leo you will not be the same person you were Schneider is a master of his trade.« her disappearance. when you picked it up.« Neue Zürcher Zeitung Back in Europe to confront Leo, the narrator Beatrice von Matt / Neue Zürcher Zeitung fi nds out he has passed away. In Berlin, he be- »A fascinatingly sensuous novel. By the end, gins to write a letter to his dead friend: Dear Roman · Diogenes Leo . . . Praise for Hippos under the House: most readers will have found Moses Bins- wanger not guilty – at the risk of being taken Love and friendship, farewells and separations, »Memories, dreams, everyday matters, in by the lies of a tremendous storyteller.« Novel and once again stories of love and guilt, Irene Prugger / Wiener Zeitung looking back and setting out are the themes of 304 pages of grief and hatred – brave, much braver, this novel, written in the form of a long letter. June 2016 than most confessions of this kind.« World rights are handled by Diogenes. Die (literarische) Welt, Berlin Film rights are available.

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 novels are regularly on the Swiss Best- seller List. Hansjörg Schneider has received numerous awards, 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. »Hugo Loetscher – one of the most interesting writers of our time.« HUGO LOETSCHER Rias, Berlin Inventing Discovery

Praise for Wonder World A Brazilian • Hugo Loetscher’s best travelogues on Brazil, Encounter: in book form for the fi rst time.

Hugo Hugo Hugo Loetscher »Sparkling, • Brazil in the media: Summer Olympics 2016 Loetscher Loetscher Hugo Herbst Der Wunderwelt twinkling, sage.« Loetscher Waschküchen- Eine brasilianische Noah in Rio de Janeiro (5.8. – 21.8.2016). in der Groß en Begegnung Roman schlüssel einer Konjunktur Orange oder Was -wenn Gott Christoph Kuhn / Schweizer wäre Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich Diogenes • Edited by and with a postface by Jeroen

Autumn in The Laundry Wonder World Noah Dewulf from the University of Berkeley, the Big Orange Room Key Novel, 1983 Novel, 1984 Novel, 1982 Stories, 1983 California.

Hugo Loetscher Hugo Loetscher fi rst travelled to Brazil in 1965. Thus began a love that never let the cosmo- Hugo Loetscher Hugo Der Hugo Hugo Hugo Hugo politan Swiss writer out of its grip. Hugo Immune Loetscher Loetscher Loetscher Loetscher Die Papiere Abwässer Die Kranz- Die Fliege und Der predigende Loetscher returned again and again, writing Loetscher des Ein Gutachten flechterin die Suppe Hahn Immunen und 33 andere Tiere Das literarisch- in 33 anderen Situationen moralische Nutztier Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Diogenes travelogues about Brazil for various news- Diogenes Das Entdecken papers, as well as the novel Wonder World. The Immune Papers of Sewage The Wreath The Fly and The Preaching erfinden Man the Immune Man Novel, 1989 Maker the Soup Rooster Eventually, he went beyond the seductions of Novel, 1985 Novel, 1986 Novel, 1989 Stories, 1989 Essay, 1992 Unterwegs in meinem Brasilien the exotic to explore the contradictions of the land of his desires. Kulinaritäten Diogenes Hugo Hugo Alice Vollenweider A timelessly contemporary portrait of a country Loetscher Loetscher Hugo Loetscher Kulinaritäten War meine Zeit /Alice Vollenweider Ein Briefwechsel über Es war die Kunst und Hugo meine Zeit die Kultur der Küche which, in Hugo Loetscher’s words, is still Hugo Hugo einmal Loetscher die Welt Loetscher Loetscher Der Buckel Saisonon Die Augen »condemned to the future«. des Mandarin LoetscherHugo Diogenes a Roman · DiDiogenes Roman · Diogenes Geschichten · Diogenes Gedichte · Diogenes Diogenes Travels in my Brazil Season The Eyes of The Once there Was My Time Culinarities »Brazil was also a form of travelling in Reportages Novel, 1995 the Mandarin Hunchback was the World My Time Correspondence Novel, 1999 Stories, 2002 Poems, 2004 Essay, 2009 on Culinary Arts my consciousness. The adventure. 336 pages and Culture with Alice The fascination of the unfamiliar. The lure May 2016 Vollenweider of the unknown. But then, behind all the 2013 World rights are handled by Diogenes. exotic and the tropical, the discovery of the Film rights are available. country’s social reality. The encounter with another world that has more to do with Hugo Loetscher (1929 – 2009) was one of Switzerland’s ours than we are generally willing to accept.« most prominent authors and journalists. He regularly Hugo Loetscher contributed to German-speaking media as an expert on Latin American culture. The Latin American continent, in particular Brazil, also plays a major role in his travelogues and fi ctional work. In 1994, he was awarded the prestigious ›Order of the Southern Cross‹ for his services to Brazilian culture. Photo: © Sabine Dreher Hugo Loetscher’s books have been published in 18 languages. »Laura de Weck’s bold freshness and stubbornness are bewitching.« LAURA DE WECK Joerg Jermann / Aargauer Zeitung Making Politics and Love

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Laura de Weck • On-topic: gender quotas, couples therapy, Lieblings- Laura de Weck Big Data, banking confi dentiality and much menschen SumSum Ein Stück Ein Stück more.

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Peer Pleasures SumSum In her entertaining dialogues, Laura de Weck Laura de Weck Play, 2007 Play, 2008 mixes the public and the intimate: gender Politik und quotas are discussed in the bedroom, banking Liebe machen Praise for Peer Pleasures: Praise for SumSum: confi dentiality is broken in conversation, the Kleine Dialoge people and the state go to couples therapy, and there is illegal immigration in the delivery »This play is critical yet funny, sombre yet »SumSum is an amusing tragic love story room. The government and Google take eff ect fresh. Laura de Weck knows how to on the cusp between genuine and falsifi ed, on our private lives from above. But who gets capture this young generation yearning with the so-called sturdy boards of to go on top in a democracy and who is down for authenticity through an the stage providing solid ground for the below? The author takes everyday material aesthetic of non-communication.« oscillation of imagination and will.« and makes it extraordinary, takes banalities Diogenes Neue Zürcher Zeitung Buchkultur, Vienna and makes them highly political. »In this short play, Laura de Weck »An impressive and A multi-voiced panorama of contemporary convincingly links motives and she always really well observed story.« Small Dialogues life, loves and politics in Switzerland and 128 pages manages to let the characters, which Radio Fritz, Berlin Europe. A cheerfully dark book for every day. May 2016 remain fragmentary, react lifelike and comically in ludicrous situations.« World rights are handled by Diogenes. Thomas Thieringer / Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich Film rights are available.

Laura de Weck, born 1981, studied acting at Zurich Univer- sity of the Arts. Alongside her acting work, she writes plays that have been translated into many languages and stages her own performances. Since October 2011 she has been writing scenic columns for the Swiss daily Janine Guldener Janine newspapers Tages-Anzeiger and the Bund. Laura de Weck

lives with her family in Hamburg. Photo: © »Tatjana Hauptmann is a pure stroke of good fortune.« TATJANA HAUPTMANN Lorenz Jäger / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The Great Book of Ballads

The most beautiful German ballads – with fairy-tale illustrations by Tatjana Hauptmann. Das große Märchenbuch Die hundert schönsten Märchen aus ganz Europa, gesammelt von Christian Strich mit vielen Bildern von Tatjana Hauptmann erschienen im Diogenes Verlag Let us tell of beckoning mermaids and of men A Day in the Life of Hurray for Peregrine Pig The Great Book The Great Book Petronella Pig 32 pages, 31.8 x 28.5 cm of Fairy-Tales of Legends up to their necks in water, of friends who will 32 pages, 31.8 x 28.5 cm 1979 672 pages, 22 x 27 cm 240 pages, 11.3 x 18 cm 1978 1987 1992 never be separated, of mourning husbands and fathers, of human anger and divine revenge, but also of fools who appease the gods and dogs who still know the meaning of good manners. As varied as the ballad’s themes, so diverse are

Anton Cˇ echov Kaschtanka its forms: broadside ballads and folk songs und andere Kindergeschichten Ausgewählt und übersetzt von Ein Geräusch, wie wenn einer versucht, Peter Urban alongside lyrical ballads, farces and parodies. kein Geräusch zu machen Mit Zeichnungen von Eine Geschichte von John Irving Tatjana Hauptmann Mit vielen Bildern von Tatjana Hauptmann Diogenes Diogenes The ballad can do anything, but there is A Sound Like Someone Trying How the Mole Nearly Adelheid Goes to the Opera Kashtanka The Adventures one thing it always has to be: ›dramatic‹ – Das großeBalladenbuch Not to Make a Sound Won the Lottery 32 pages, 22 x 27.5 cm Text by Anton Čechov of Tom Sawyer Die schönsten deutschen Balladen, gesammelt von Christian Strich Text by John Irving Text by Kurt Bracharz 2004 160 pages, 14.3 x 21.3 cm and Huckleberry Finn according to Goethe, at least. And so this Mit vielen Bildern von Tatjana Hauptmann 40 pages, 27.5 x 25.2 cm 64 pages, 14.3 x 21.3 cm 2004 Text by Mark Twain Diogenes 2003 2003 336 pages /480 pages, collection brings together a selection of the 14.3 x 21.3 cm, 2004 most exciting, saddest and funniest German Die schönsten Geschichten ballads, starting with the unhappy prince and 152 pages ausTausendundeiner All diedie Nacht verschwundenen princess, moving on to the lyrical ballads of Erzählt von Urs Widmer Dinge March 2016 Mit vielen Bildern von Tatjana Hauptmann Eine Geschichte von Diogenes Lukas Hartmann Mit Bildern von Bürger, Goethe, Schiller and Meyer, up to the Tatjana Hauptmann World rights are handled by Diogenes. Kurt humorous work of Morgenstern – delightfully Tucholsky Rheinsberg Franz Kafka Film rights are available. Ein Bilderbuch Die Verwandlung illustrated by Tatjana Hauptmann. für Verliebte Mit Zeichnungen Illustriert von von Tatjana Hauptmann Tatjana Hauptmann Der kleine Häwelmann Ein Märchen von Theodor Storm Mit vielen Bildern von Tatjana Hauptmann Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes

Rheinsberg The Most Beautiful Tale All the Missing Little John The Metamorphosis Text by from Arabian Nights Things Text by Theodor Storm Text by Franz Kafka Kurt Tucholsky Text by Urs Widmer Text by 40 pages, 27.5 x 25.2 cm 112 pages, 22 x 27.5 cm 96 pages, 11.3 x 18 cm 144 pages, 22 x 27 cm Lukas Hartmann 2011 2012 2008 2008 96 pages, 14.3 x 21.3 cm 2011

Tatjana Hauptmann was born in 1950 in Wiesbaden and lives in Einsiedeln. She is the author and illustrator of numerous children’s books, including A Day in the Life of Regine Regine / Diogenes Mosimann Verlag Petronella Pig. For Diogenes, she has illustrated numerous books, most recently Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. Photo: © Tatjana Hauptmann’s books have been published in 19 languages. Recently sold Recently sold

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