HANSER • HANSER BERLIN • HANSER KINDERBUCH •HANSERBLAU • ZSOLNAY HANSER LITERATURVERLAGE FOREIGN RIGHTS AUTUMN 2020 Impressum Cover: © Peter-Andreas Hassiepen Translation: Lucy Jones Design: Tessa Schlesinger Concept and compilation: Claudia Horzella Copyright: September 2020 Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG Vilshofener Straße 10 81679 München, Germany www.hanser-literaturverlage.de http://foreignrights.hanser.de FICTION LITERARY FICTION Dorothee Elmiger, Aus der Zuckerfabrik 2 Robert Seethaler, Der letzte Satz 4 Rolf Lappert, Leben ist ein unregelmäßiges Verb 6 Thilo Krause, Elbwärts 8 Irene Diwiak, Malvita 10 Lisa Eckhart, Omama 12 Ronya Othmann, Die Sommer 14 Karin Wieland • Heinz Bude • Bettina Munk, Aufprall 16 Daniel Glattauer, Die Liebe Geld 18 Elke Heidenreich, Männer in Kamelhaarmänteln 20 Verena Keßler, Die Gespenster von Demmin 22 Beatrix Kramlovsky, Fanny oder das weiße Land 24 Margrit Schriber, Die Vielgeliebte meines Mannes 26 CRIME FICTION / THRILLER Claude Cueni, Genesis 2.0 28 Holger Senzel, Später Zeuge 30 Leif Karpe, Der Mann, der in die Bilder fiel 32 ESSAY Mely Kiyak, Frausein 34 Karl-Markus Gauß, Die unaufhörliche Wanderung 36 Edi Zollinger, Herkules am Spinnrad 37 POETRY Oskar Pastior, »eine sanduhr für methapern« 38 FICTION Nominated for the Swiss Book Prize Shortlisted for Selected by the German New books Book Prize in German DOROTHEE ELMIGER »It is already clear that Out of the Sugar Factory will be one If the connections between world events should suddenly be wiped out, we would be of this year’s most grateful to find Dorothee Elmiger’s book to help us understand what happened in the important books. This past. Its subject: the cycles of capital, labour and lust. Its form: a journal full of observa- is because it delves tions, surveys and investigations. My skills never end is the slogan on the T-shirt into pressing issues, of a worker receiving his wages. Switzerland’s first lottery millionaire stands on the beach but deals with them of a Caribbean island looking out to sea. At night, goats crowd around the writer’s bed. in a hallucinatory way. Dorothee Elmiger tracks down money and desire through the centuries and the world. And because of the She writes biographies of mystics, the insa- tiable, gamblers, orgiasts and colonialists, precision and luminous studies the routes of ships on the Atlantic, records dreams and cases of ecstasy and beauty of her language.« madness. Out of the Sugar Factory docu- ments this research in a text that opens our Anne-Sophie Scholl, Die Zeit eyes to the complexity of the world. Sales Dorothee Elmiger Dorothee Elmiger Sweden (Nirstedt) Aus der Zuckerfabrik was born in 1985, and lives and works in Zurich. Out of the Sugar Factory Her debut novel Einladung an die Waghalsigen 272 pages was published in 2010, followed by the novel August 2020 Schlafgänger in 2014, both by DuMont. Her texts have been translated into different languages • Dorothee Elmiger on the trail of capital, and adapted for the stage. Dorothee Elmiger has been awarded numerous prizes, including the labour and lust Aspects Literature Prize for the best German- language prose debut, the Rauris Literature Prize, a sabbatical from the city of Zurich, the Erich Fried Prize and the Swiss Literature Prize. dorotheeelmiger.com Peter-Andreas Hassiepen Peter-Andreas Foto ©: 1 2 MORE QUOTES AND PRAISE »Out of the Sugar Factory »No matter where you makes a psychological »Elmiger’s way of working open the book, you are inventory, the findings of does not create a novel in the immediately drawn into which are authenticated usual sense: it is not exciting »Out of the Sugar Factory the thicket of cross- by the author’s rigorous fiction, but a different kind is liberated from the corset references and an intoxi- literary method. To be of narrative fabric that capti- of the novel, a celebration cating journey of greed, sobered up by Dorothee vates you. Non-novels have of storytelling, a daring money, sugar, colonialism Elmiger’s book is an a unique magic, their own expedition into the economy and female desire. An intoxicating experience.« narrative order.« Judith Kuckart, Berliner Zeitung Paul Jandl, Neue Zürcher Zeitung of power and desire and into almost never-ending the abysses of our collective journey that continues »Born in 1985, this Swiss »Out of the Sugar phantasms. Elmiger is a poet, in your mind after you writer does not carelessly historian, analyst, theorist finish reading it.« tell a fully rounded story, Factory is, there- and gifted storyteller all Linda Schildbach, MDR Kultur as stories like these can fore, above all else in one. Few books are as only subject reality to »You can open this book an exercise in beautiful, as intelligent, as violence, subjecting it to at any point and be profound and playful, and an order that neither devotion: to the immediately drawn in. on top of that, as brilliantly promotes knowledge nor enigmatic and To follow Dorothee Elmi- written as Out of the Sugar qualifies it for change. You ger on these paths is as repeatedly mira- Factory.« Martina Süess, WOZ might call it a ‘school of insightful as it is exciting perception’, a challenge to culous entangle- and as disturbing as it is view the world with ten- ments of reading.« beautiful.« Fabian Thomas, The Daily Frown Björn Hayer, Die Zeit der respect.« Michael Wolf, Der Freitag FICTION Longlisted for # 1 on the the German SPIEGEL Book Prize bestseller list ROBERT SEETHALER Music doesn’t Gustav Mahler sits on the deck of a ship en route from New York to Europe. He is famous – the greatest musician in the world need anything in fact – but he is in pain, as he always has been. While the ship’s boy cares for him gent- ly but insistently, Mahler thinks over the past or anyone, it’s few years, the summers in the mountains and the death of his daughter Maria, whom he still always there. thinks he sees sometimes. And of Anna, his other daughter who is sitting downstairs at breakfast; and of Alma, the love of his life But what who has driven him to madness and to whom he has long since lost contact. This is to be his last ever trip. about life? The Last Movement is a poignant portrait of a composer who has grown tired while he is confronted with memories of the past in crystal-clear moments of beauty and regret. Sales Robert Seethaler Bulgaria (List), Croatia (Oceanmore), English World Der letzte Satz (Macmillan), France (Wespieser), Italy (Neri Pozza), The Last Movement • After The Traffiker, A Whole Life Netherlands (Bezige Bij), Spain (Salamandra), 128 pages and The Field, this is Robert Seethaler’s Turkey (Timas) August 2020 Robert Seethaler born 1966 in Vienna, is the winner of multiple latest novel writing awards. His novels The Trafficker and A Whole Life have been major international successes. Robert Seethaler lives in Vienna • The moving portrait of the and Berlin. robert-seethaler.de outstanding composer Gustav Mahler at the end of his life Urban Zintl Foto ©: 3 4 MORE QUOTES AND PRAISE »The ability to write succinct descriptions is one that »Falling silent for »With stripped- Robert Seethaler has maste- »This book will be published eternity is the theme down sentences, red like no other writer: by Hanser Berlin at the of Robert Seethaler’s new this makes his slim novel Seethaler peels beginning of August and novel. It is the portrait of a masterpiece about the last off everything adds to Seethaler’s last two an artist who was stages of a life.« Annemarie Stoltenberg, NDR that is super- successes, A Whole Life and already legendary during The Field, to form a trilogy of »The Last Movement his lifetime. It does not fluous until the the triumph of literature over is full of melodious delve into the depths of core is exposed. death. A surefire bestseller. Mahler’s music; it is not phrases, a beau- What is left And by no means one that a book about sound, but he needs to be ashamed of tifully composed about a human being. is life, looked in literary terms.« Andreas Platthaus, Laconic and well worth Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung work, melancholic at from a dis- reading.« Heribert Prantl, Süddeutsche and comforting.« Zeitung tance.« Elisa von Hof, Der Spiegel »The way in which Britta Heidemann, WAZ »The Last Movement is a Seethaler unfolds »Robert Seethaler »Elegant, poetic masterful novel by writer describes the great his material proves and yet completely Robert Seethaler about feat that life demands his narrative unsentimental. the musician Gustav of the individual.« Mahler.« Luzia Stettler, SRF Christine Westermann & Andreas Wallentin, WDR skill.« Ijoma Mangold, Die Zeit A treasure of a book.« Barbara Weitzel, Welt am Sonntag FICTION English sample translation available ROLF LAPPERT A back-to-nature commune in the 1980s. The authorities discover four children who are growing up sheltered from the outside world. What a story! From that day on, the four friends don’t see each other again for decades. This major The writer of novel is about friendship and loss, and the comfort that memories can offer. The ‘Children of Kampstedt Marsh’ are shot Nach Hause to fame against their will, and their fates are reduced to media headlines. But Frida, Ringo, Leander and Linus are people who have their schwimmen has own stories. Catapulted from their isolated lives into reality, they first stare around in amaze- produced his ment. Soon they are living the most different lives imaginable: either in a foster home or at boarding school, on an island or up in the opus magnum mountains, feeling hatred and love. How will these castaways find their way in the world? Is the past ever really over? What can crush someone who was once happy? In his highly unique, tender and laconic tone, Rolf Lappert tells a story about leaving childhood behind without ever actually escaping it.