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Foreign Rights List Spring 2016 Diogenesest• 1952 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 PATRICIA HIGHSMITH 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, Prague 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 Roman · Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes 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 Rick. Cast: Jürgen Prochnow, th of Carol or The Price of Salt are: The documentation 80 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 Italy: 1.1.2016, Lucky Red is now adapted for cinema. 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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. Hartmut Lukas Martin Suter Christoph Patricia Hartmann Lange Poschenrieder Highsmith Finsteres Die dunkle Donna Leon Das Konzert Seite des Das goldene Ei Mauersegler Lukas Please fi nd more information at: Carol Glück 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.