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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

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Claude Cueni, Genesis 2.0 28 Holger Senzel, Später Zeuge 30 Leif Karpe, Der Mann, der in die Bilder fiel 32

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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 FotoPeter-Andreas ©:

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»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 Foto ©: Urban Zintl

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»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.

Sales Rolf Lappert Auf den Inseln des letzten Lichts: Leben ist ein Rolf Lappert English US (Owl Canyon Press) unregelmäßiges Verb was born in Zurich in 1958 and lives in Switzer- Nach Hause schwimmen: China (Shanghai To Live Is an land. He trained as a graphic designer and later Translation Publishing House), Denmark (Tiderne Irregular Verb founded a jazz club, then worked from 1996 to Skifter), France (Pont 9), Italy (Odoya Meridiano 992 pages 2004 as a scriptwriter. In 2008, Hanser publis- • A powerful and poignant portrait Zero), Lithuania (Gimtasis), Netherlands (Signatuur), August 2020 hed his novel, Nach Hause schwimmen, which Turkey (Ayrinti) was nominated for the German Book Prize that year and won the Swiss Book Prize. Hanser also • An ode to literature itself published his novel Auf den Inseln des letzten Lichts (2010,) his Young Adult book Pampa Blues (2012) and Über den Winter (2015) which was also nominated for the German Book Prize. Foto ©: Sonja Maria Schobinger

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Robert Walser Prize THILO KRAUSE

After years away, a young couple returns to »What is unusual and the strange rocky landscape of the Sächsische Schweiz. The desire to start afresh in the place risky in this remark- where they spent their childhoods puts them on a collision course with their home town and able novel is how leads to a new feeling of alienation. What happens to the individual in a society political and emotional which rejects everything that’s different? Is it just homesickness that has driven them or subjective strands back? The narrator keeps it a secret from his girlfriend Christina, also he feels guilty towards are linked. It’s an Vito, the school friend who lost a leg during a climbing trip together. He now returns to this aesthetic tightrope place, recalling formative moments in his life: the accident, the public shaming at school walk without the during the raising of the socialist flag, his decision to break away. But his first attempt usual safeguards.« at reconciliation fails.Thilo Krause’s debut novel tells the story of a couple returning to a setting Helmut Böttiger, Süddeutsche Zeitung that feels foreign to them. He casts his eye across a landscape of apple trees and Elbe meadows, but also neo-Nazi summer camps. Ultimately, the couple’s fresh start is threatened by the distrust of the villagers. A powerful novel about our country and the times we live in.

Sales Thilo Krause France (Editions Zoé) Elbwärts Down the Elbe Thilo Krause 208 pages was born in Dresden in 1977 and lives in Zurich. August 2020 In 2012 he received the Swiss Literature Award for his debut Und das ist alles genug, the Clemens • How do you come to terms with the Brentano Prize of the city of Heidelberg in 2016 and place you grew up in when it feels the ZKB Schiller Prize. In 2018, Hanser published foreign to you? his book of poems Worüber wir reden, wenn es gewittert, for which he was awarded the Peter Huchel Prize. thilokrause.ch Peter-Andreas Hassiepen FotoPeter-Andreas ©:

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IRENE DIWIAK

»Irene Diwiak tells an almost classically Austrian story – with Christina travels to Italy to take photographs at the wedding of her cousin Marietta, whom subtle irony and she has never met. The family is impressively wealthy, their villa as big as a castle, and endearing malice.« everyone in the village seems to work for them – and pay heed to the women of the Andrea Gerk, NDR Culture family. But the idyllic image is deceptive. After a few days, Christina finds the body of Blanca, who was previously hired as the photo- grapher. She too has the feeling that her »Irene Diwiak has every move is being watched. Irene Diwiak skilfully succeeds in drawing a trunkful of tricks.« us into a fascinating world in which no one Sebastian Fasthuber, Falter bothers to hide the underlying horror.

Sales Irene Diwiak All rights available Malvita 304 pages September 2020

Irene Diwiak • A literary thriller which takes up was born in Graz in 1991 and grew up in Deutsch- landsberg/Styria. She studied comparative litera- the topic of MeToo ture in Vienna. Her texts have already received numerous awards. Her first novel, Liebwies, was published in 2017. • Exciting and entertaining Fotowww.corn.at ©:

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On the SPIEGEL bestseller list LISA ECKHART »An evil, funny novel.«

Tobias Haberl, SZ-Magazin

»With Granny Lisa Eckhart »Helga, quick, the Russians are coming!« succeeded in writing one In 1945, grandma Helga is an adolescent and vies with her beautiful sister Inge for the favour kind of feminist novel.« of the occupying forces. In 1955, Helga is sent Arno Frank, Der Spiegel to the countryside. There, she is supposed to marry the village innkeeper. Neither Helga nor the innkeeper’s wife is happy with this arran- »Black-humoured and gement. In 1989, the enterprising grandma organises bus trips to Hungary to smuggle tons of meat across the border. Already over eighty, malicious.« Wolfgang Popp, Ö1 Morgenjournal she then sets sail and competes with her granddaughter to attract the attention of the cruise ship’s captain. »It’s all great fun, polished Lisa Eckhart takes a wild ride through post-war history, breaking all and intelligently phrased, taboos in her intelligent, scathing, highly polished and hysterically funny story. … a sparkling debut.«

Bernd Melichar, Kleine Zeitung

Sales Lisa Eckhart All rights available Granny 384 pages • Acerbic and taboo-breaking August 2020

Lisa Eckhart • A humorous debut novel of was born in Leoben in 1992 and studied German high literary quality and Slavic studies in Paris and Berlin. Today she lives in Leipzig. Omama is her first novel. • The renown cabaret artist’s skill at language is polarising and impressive Foto ©: Paula Winkler

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»The Summer is a stunning RONYA OTHMANN debut novel, told concretely and vividly, with strong

characters and dialogues. The village is in northern Syria, near the border to Turkey. Leyla spends every summer there. Ronya Othmann has a wide She knows its smells and tastes. She knows its stories. She knows where the villagers’ suit- range of expression. She cases are hidden in case they have to escape again. Urgently and poignantly, as belongs to a generation that if her eyes were wide open, Ronya Othmann’s debut novel tells the story of living in the switches easily between face of annihilation. Only to defy it. Leyla’s parents are German and Yazidi. She theory, politics, poetry and spends lesson time sitting in her secondary school in Munich, and the summer holidays prose; she can be both sitting on the earthy floor of her grandparents’ house in a Yazidi village. Leyla is familiar with aggressive and adaptable. the outline of Kurdistan, and the shape of the female student she loves. She clicks through There are many topics on pictures of war-torn Aleppo the assassination of the Yazidi by ISIS, and alongside these, her agenda. A debut writer carefree photos of her German friends’ everyday lives. Leyla will soon have of which we can expect a to make a decision.

great deal.« Meike Feßmann, Deutschlandfunk Kultur

Sales Ronya Othmann Ronya Othmann All rights available Die Sommer was born in 1993 in Munich and studied at the The Summer German Institute for Literature in Leipzig. She 288 pages has received the MDR Literature Prize, the Caroline August 2020 Schlegel Sponsorship Award in the category of essay, the Open Mike Poetry Prize, and the • A novel filled with tenderness audience prize of the Ingeborg Bachmann Literature Award. In 2018, she was on the jury and anger at a world torn in two of the International Film Festival in Duhok in the autonomous region of Kurdistan, Iraq. Together with Cemile Sahin, she writes the column Orient- Express for the taz which covers Middle-Eastern politics. Foto ©: Chihan Cakmak

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Selected by New books in German BUDE/MUNK/WIELAND

»No Future«: under this slogan, a group of young people squatted a building in Kreuz- berg, Berlin in the early 1980s. Politically and artistically active, they tried to lead a life in opposition to the perceived lies of West Ger- man society. Their mood alternated between trailblazing euphoria and internal disputes under the constant shadow of state authority. Then, an accident changed everything: a squatter died. Her death sent shockwaves through the group of revolutionaries. Heinz Bude, Bettina Munk and Karin Wieland have written a book based on their own expe- riences. Impact is set in a world of punk and street fights, AIDS and drugs, crude art and wild theories, blatant sex and deep affection West Berlin in the Eighties: during a period of no compromise, especially between men and women. When New Wave exploded into the bars and clubs, the the novel of a generation Berlin Wall fell, right next to the squat.

Heinz Bude was born in 1954 and studied sociology, Sales Heinz Bude philosophy and psychology. He has been teaching All rights available Bettina Munk macrosociology at the University of Kassel since Karin Wieland 2000. He lives in Berlin. His most recent publication Aufprall by Hanser was Solidarität (2019). Bettina Munk was Impact born in 1960 and studied art in Berlin and London. 256 pages • The Eighties were over. But in this After living in New York, she returned to Berlin in September 2020 2001 and has since taught at various universities. wild, major work, they are brought She has taken part in exhibitions in Europe and the back to life USA, most recently Das bewegte Bild – Das Bild bewegt. Karin Wieland was born in 1958 and studied political science. She lives and writes in Berlin. Her most recent publication by Hanser was Das Geschlecht der Seele (2017). heinzbude.de, munkmovies.de, karinwieland.de Foto ©: Olivia Wimmer, Zsolnay Verlag

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DANIEL GLATTAUER

Alfred needs money for a wedding anniversary gift but has an ordeal ahead of him. For days, the cash machines have been denying him access to his bank account. The bank super- visor assures him that his savings are fine, but that they are currently away on a »business trip«. While the smart bank director wants to talk about everything but finances – because the topic bores him to death. He would rather present his desperate customer with a vision of the bank of the future, which puts the human factor first. A surprisingly well-received concept, especially by Ulli, Alfred’s wife … Beloved Money

Sales Daniel Glattauer Die Wunderübung: France (Grasset), Israel Die Liebe Geld • A new comedy by bestselling (Keter), Italy (Feltrinelli), Romania (Trei), Money, My Love Daniel Glattauer Spain (Penguin Random House) author Daniel Glattauer 112 pages born in Vienna in 1960, is a journalist and writer. September 2020 His books include Darum (2003), Der Weihnachts- hund (2004), Ewig Dein (2012) and Geschenkt (2014). His E-mail novels Gut gegen Nordwind • Money and love: Issues that (2006) and Alle sieben Wellen (2009) became concern us all international bestsellers and were translated into 40 languages. Vier Stern Stunden (2018) was his latest theatre play, and Die Wunderübung (2014) was even adapted to screen. • A satire on banks and the promises they make Foto ©: Leonhard Hilzensauer/Zsolnay Verlag

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ELKE HEIDENREICH

When Elke Heidenreich talks about clothes, she talks about life itself in her inimitably tragi-comic style: how she was at sixteen, friends, love and separation. Stories in which everyone can recognise themselves, in worn jeans, a delightful but faded blouse – or at worst, a camel-hair coat. Elke Heidenreich knows her jackets from her trousers and her skirt from her hats – but above all, she’s a connoisseur of people. Everyone wants to look good, but isn’t there much more going on below the surface? Why are photos of us wearing pleated skirts in our youth so embarrassing? Why do we buy things that »We forget names and stories, but we rarely forget clothes.« don’t fit or suit us? And why do we fall for well-dressed men who turn out to be fools? The greatest love stories have fallen at the first »A fine, warm-hearted and highly entertaining storyteller.« hurdle, all because of a garish shirt!.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Sales Elke Heidenreich All rights available Männer in Kamelhaarmäntlen Elke Heidenreich Men in was born 1943 and lives in Cologne. She studied Camel-Hair Coats German and Theatre Studies and has worked in • Clothes are probably the nicest 192 pages radio and television. Hanser has published the October 2020 titles Der Welt den Rücken (short stories, 2001), diversion in the world, but they often Rudernde Hunde (stories, with Bernd Schroeder, reveal the truth about men and women: 2002), Passione (A Declaration of Love to Music, 2009), Alte Liebe (novel, with Bernd Schroeder, and Elke Heidenreich explains how 2009) and, most recently, Alles kein Zufall (short stories, 2016). Foto ©: Leonie von Kleist

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VERENA KESSLER

Larry lives in a city with an unusual history. At the end of the Second World War the greatest mass suicide in German history took place in Demmin. But for Larry, her hometown is one thing above all: boring. She wants to see the world as soon as possible and become a war reporter. While Larry is struggling with the ordeal of growing up, an old woman is about to move to a retirement home. While sorting through her house, she remembers the end of the war in Demmin »Verena Keßler’s novel is buzzing with life. Sad, funny and makes a momentous decision. With ease and wit, Verena Keßler tells a story of grief and loneliness, friendship and and dark - sensational!« Stefanie de Velasco first love. This is a novel about the lack of communication between generations and the possibility of overcoming it. »Her novel succeeds in giving an impression of what we call history by juxtaposing the past and the present.«

Luka Rietzschel

Sales Verena Keßler All rights available Die Gespenster von Demmin The Ghosts of Demmin Verena Keßler 240 pages was born in 1988 in Hamburg and now lives in August 2020 Leipzig, where she studied at the German Litera- • About the instability of growing up ture Institute. In 2018 she took part in the Kölner and the question of how much the past Schmiede novel workshop and the Jürgen Ponto Foundation writing workshop in 2019. She was determines our present a fellow of the 23rd Klagenfurt literature course. The Ghosts of Demmin is her first novel. Foto ©: Michael Bader

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BEATRIX KRAMLOVSKY

A story

of great Karl has been a prisoner of war in Siberia since 1914, fighting hunger and cold. He longs for home and wants nothing more yearning set than to return to his beloved Fanny in Vienna, almost ten thousand kilometres away. In May 1918, the time finally comes: Karl and in Siberia’s his brother Viktor flee together to the west. Beatrix Kramlovsky tells the story of forgotten merciless POWs of the Great War – artists, locksmiths and dreamers who were only kept alive by love. And of how a merciless landscape landscape can take everything from people except their humanity.

Sales Beatrix Kramlovsky All rights available Fanny oder Beatrix Kramlovsky Das weiße Land was born 1954 in Upper Austria and lives as an Fanny or artist and writer in Lower Austria. She studied • A novel about the unshakeable The White Country languages and has published short stories, power of love and hope 272 pages poems and novels. A period of living in East Berlin October 2020 (1987-1991) led to a publication ban of her work in the GDR. She has been awarded numerous • In atmospheric detail, Beatrix prizes and scholarships. In addition to travelling extensively, Beatrix Kramlovsky loves Kramlovsky creates worlds working in her large garden. In 2019 her novel of unusual vitality Die Lichtsammlerin was published by hanserblau. kramlovsky.at and on Facebook Foto ©: privat

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MARGRIT SCHRIBER

In a fit of jealousy after a choir rehearsal, thirteen-year-old Kitty opens fire at the wife of organist Charly. And a summer drama »Margrit Schriber’s of beautiful song and bright colours begins. – Margrit Schriber shows a new side to her language has a succinct writing and takes us back to the 1960s. The story starts when music student Charly beauty; she thinks with takes up a job as an organist at St Anna’s Church in a remote village by a lake. He starts her senses, and you can a girls’ choir, which kindles dreams of an exciting future in the minds of local working- even hear the story as class girls. Like the pop and film stars they idolise, why shouldn’t they too be discovered? Süddeutsche Zeitung you read.« In the village Charly also meets the eccentric Madame Benz, who he finds fascinating. Between choir rehearsals and regular visits to Madame Benz’ villa, Charly forgets his studies – and his young wife who is the narrator of the story. Kitty, the jealous choir girl, forges a plan with dramatic consequences.

Sales Margrit Schriber All rights available Die Vielgeliebte meines Mannes My Husband’s Mistress

Margrit Schriber 128 pages born in Lucerne in 1939, lives in Zofingen and January 2020 the Dordogne. Her literary work has been awarded • What did I know about my husband? many prizes. Most recently, Die falsche Herrin (2008), Das zweitbeste Glück (2011) and Practically nothing. Glänzende Aussichten (2018) were published by Nagel & Kimche. Foto ©: Yvonne Bühler

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CLAUDE CUENI

»The greatest

danger facing Rats! They mostly shy away from people. But some of them become domesticated humanity is not and live in close contact with people. If these animals mutate or carry deadly viruses, they turn into ticking bombs. Fanatical scientists war, meteorite and unscrupulous criminals also have a keen interest in the possibilities of genetic engineering. The genetic makeup of the rat and strikes, climate its robust immune system in particular, which is far superior to that of humans, offer unprece- change or negative dented potential. A young Indian woman, Nadi, escapes an arranged marriage in her native country at the last minute and flees to London. interest rates, but Her travelling companion? A rat. Nadi is infected, but she herself does not get sick. When the people around her fall ill and die, a pandemic.« a renowned molecular biologist takes an interest in her.This science thriller is set in India, England, Morocco, Sierra Leone and the British Antarctic colony of South Georgia, where James Cook spread the nucleus of the deadly epidemic 250 years ago.

Sales Claude Cueni All rights available Genesis 2.0 The pandemic from • A suspenseful thriller that explores out of the ice Claude Cueni was born in 1956 in Basel and is a Swiss genetic research and pandemics 304 pages writer and screenwriter. His historical novel August 2020 Das Große Spiel reached number one on the Swiss bestseller list, has been translated into • Exciting right up to the last page, numerous languages and is currently being filmed. He has achieved international success thoroughly researched and highly with his bestsellers Cäsars Druide, Der Henker topical, not only against the back von Paris, Script Avenue and Giganten. ground of the Coronavirus. Foto ©: Mirko Ries

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HOLGER SENZEL

Everything that goes around comes around. But does that only apply to evil deeds? Or to good ones as well? And can one cancel »If my story were out the other? Twenty-five years ago, Peter Zielke killed two people but has since saved a TV suspense drama, dozens of lives as a doctor. – A psychological thriller that pivots on guilt, atonement and late I would hope for the revenge. A long time ago, Prof. Peter Zielke, a successful oncologist and chief physician, commissioner’s sake father and exemplary son-in-law, shot two men in the heat of the moment as they were that they manage to burying a box containing millions in a forest. A quarter of a century later, he is blackmailed hunt down the duplicitous by an accomplice of one of the deceased: not only does the man demand his money crook.« Holger Senzel back but also wants the doctor to cure him of terminal cancer. Prof. Zielke’s life spirals downwards in fear as he desperately looks for a way out. Holger Senzel shows us the extremes people can go to in certain situations. This is an unsparing, poignant story about a brutal fight in which one person has nothing to lose, and the other, everything.

Sales Holger Senzel All rights available Später Zeuge Holger Senzel Late Witness born in 1959, is a writer and radio journalist. 320 pages He has worked for the Hessischer Rundfunk, March 2020 has been the chief spokesman of NDR2, a corres- pondent for the London radio studio of NDR/WDR • When the borders between madness and the chief editor of foreign reporting at NDR info. Since 2016, he has been the ARD radio and reality start to blur … correspondent for Southeast Asia in Singapore and was awarded the German Radio Prize in 2019. Senzel has already published two non-fiction titles. Late Witness is his first novel. Foto ©: Christian Weiß

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LEIF KARPE

The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh, of all paintings – a key impressionist work – »You always had an is allegedly a fake! The Chroseby auction house has to keep this rumour under wraps eye for the essence of until its next sale – just the ticket for Peter Falcon, a man who understands a thing an image. For the truth or two about art.The New York-based Chroseby auction house wants Peter Falcon, beyond the canvas. Even who turned his back on the art world many years ago, to travel overseas to Paris to when others laughed do business with a renowned art critic. When Peter reluctantly agrees since he could very at you for it, I always well use the money, he has no idea of the challenges this case will present. Leif Karpe believed you!« has written an eloquent, original thriller set in the art world. His story of an unusual investigator draws the reader into the atmosphere of present-day Paris and guides us through impressionism’s key works with intelligence and humour.

Sales Leif Karpe All rights available Der Mann, der in die Bilder fiel Ein Fall für Peter Falcon Leif Karpe The Man Who Fell born in 1968, grew up in the Black Forest, into Pictures Brazil and the Ruhrgebiet. He has worked for • Would we be less fascinated A Case for Peter Falcon over twenty years as a director and cameraman on documentary and feature films with a focus by The Starry Night if it was not by 320 pages on art. These include productions about Sandro January 2020 Botticelli, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Ai Weiwei und Vincent van Gogh? William Turner, among others. The Man Who Fell into Pictures is his first novel. Foto ©: Leif Karpe

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MELY KIYAK

Mely Kiyak talks about all the details that make life meaningful. She reflects on conver- »I am a woman. sations about wisdom and ignorance that she and her father had after his shift at the factory when she was a girl. About cousins who I like being one. talked about desire and found pictures to explain to their innocent relative what lust That’s what I want was. About growing up between countries and classes, saddled with the baggage of foreignness and curiosity about unknown to talk about.« experiences. About being alone, finding yourself and about family. What is femininity if you overcome the view from the outside and are left alone? Sincere, fun-loving, tender and disarmingly clever, Mely Kiyak reminds us that conditions teach us how to love and live.

Sales Mely Kiyak All rights available Frausein Womanhood 128 pages Mely Kiyak August 2020 was born in 1976, lives in Berlin and has published several books and essays, plays and • What being a woman means is other texts. She writes a weekly political column illustrated by each individual life: for Zeit Online called Kiyak’s Deutschstunde and Kiyak’s Theater Column for the Gorki Theater beauty, implicitness and questions Berlin. In 2011 she was awarded the Theodor Wolff Prize. Foto ©: Jacqueline Illemann

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KARL-MARKUS GAUSS

The book by Karl-Markus Gauß that you’ve always wanted to read. He reports on a Muslim sommelier in the Albanian town of Berat and recounts the jaw-dropping story of Central Europe’s largest military training area. He praises the richness of European languages and draws parallels between modern society, hungry for sensation and bygone audiences of gladiators. Wherever we follow him, we walk in the footsteps of a sensitive flâneur who creates universal observations from details. »Karl-Markus Gauss is a specialist in uncovering connec- In his new book, Gauß, a »specialist of remote places« captivates the reader with tions. That is the great skill of his storytelling.« J. Friedrich-Freska, Die Zeit his distinctive point of view, his mastery of multiple genres and elegant style.

»I don’t need books for a desert island. I have Karl-Markus

Gauß’ books. They give you a solid foundation.« Robert Menasse

Sales Karl-Markus Gauß Abenteuerliche Reise durch mein Zimmer: Die unaufhörliche Karl-Markus Gauß Bulgaria (Black Flamingo), Croatia (Fraktura), Wanderung was born in 1954 in Salzburg. He still lives there Italy (Keller) The Never-Ending Trek today, working as an author and editor of the Jour- 208 pages nal Literatur und Kritik. His books have been trans- October 2020 lated into many languages and won him numerous awards, including the Charles Veillon European • Stylistically, brilliant essays, Essay Prize, the Vilenica Prize for Central Euro- pean Literature, the Georg Dehio Book Award, reportage and travelogues the Johann Heinrich Merck prize and most recently the Jean-Améry-Prize. His latest publications by Zsolnay: Zwanzig Lewa oder tot (2017) and Abenteuerliche Reise durch mein Zimmer (2019). FotoKaindl/bilderrecht.atKurt ©:

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EDI ZOLLINGER

An inspiring journey through time for all art and literature lovers and an investigative look at paintings and books you thought you knew. According to Ovid, Arachne the weaver challenges Minerva, the goddess of the arts, to a weaving competition. She wins. As a punishment, she is turned into a spider. Edi Zollinger is a master of deciphering literature and art. He brilliantly decrypts pictures from Velázquez and Rubens to Goya and Picasso, thereby revealing a thread that always leads back to Arachne, the mother of painting and poetry. The fact that Arachne pulls her work out of her stomach like a mother pulls out her child becomes a problem for all her male descendants – and in the end even the hero Hercules has to take a seat at the spinning wheel!

Edi Zollinger was born in Zurich in 1969, is a private lecturer in French and Comparative Literature at the Edi Zollinger Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and Herkules am Spinnrad teaches German at the Küsnacht Canton School Rubens – Velázquez – Picasso in Zurich. He is also a regular critic for the Neue Hercules at the Spinning Wheel Zürcher Zeitung. Most recently, Hanser published Rubens – Velázquez – Picasso the titles Proust ¬ Flaubert – Ovid (Der Stoff, aus 170 pages with illustrations dem Erinnerungen sind, 2013) and Arachnes October 2020 Rache (Flaubert inszeniert einen Wettkampf in narrativen Weben, 2007).

Brilliant and astonishing – literature and art combined in a new way

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OSKAR PASTIOR

Oskar Pastior’s poems are legendary, his poetic abilities sweeping. The new volume of his Complete Works includes Das Hören des Genetivs and the famous Gimpelschneise in die Winterreise: the creative transformation of the other to fulfil his own, new objectives. When Oskar Pastior was awarded the Büchner Prize in 2006, a wider audience became aware of who he was for the first time: the most linguistically possessed, playful and original German-language poet of our age. His life’s work is now being compiled in the Complete Works, of which this is the latest volume. Once again, Pastior draws the reader in with his inimitable use of language, forms and traditions. The volume includes not only famous poems such as Das Hören des Genetivs, but also his Frankfurt lectures Das Unding an sich, as well as many previously unpublished texts.

Oskar Pastior Oskar Pastior born in 1927 in Sibiu, Romania, moved to »eine sanduhr für metaphern« Berlin in 1969. In 2000, Oskar Pastior was an hourglass for metaphors awarded the Walter Hasenclever Prize and in Complete Works Volume 7 2006 the Büchner Prize. The Complete Works edited by Ernest Wichner published by Hanser was begun in 2003. 448 pages Oskar Pastior died in October 2006. April 2020

»An onomatopoeic poet of the universe, radiant with the joy of words.« Benedikt Erenz, Die Zeit

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Denis Scheck, Tagesspiegel »For all those who can still sigh with pleasure. Monika »It’s good that she has never stopped Helfer’s sentences resonate, opening up a soulful space writing.« Christina Pausackl, Zeit online of longing.« Götz Thieme, Stuttgarter Zeitung Foto ©: Peter-Andreas Hassiepen published by Hanser Verlag. by Hanser published recently Ohrfeige novel His Berlin. in lives Khider Abbas Potsdam. and Munich in philosophy and literature studied and 2000 since Germany in lived has He countries. various in refugee »illegal« an as stayed and in Iraq 1996 fled he release, his After activities. political his for arrested was he 19 of 1973. in age the At Baghdad in born was Abbas Khider Das Lehrbuch endgültige

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»In The Palace of the »A book that opens your »Tender and funny at the Wretched, Khider’s skill is eyes with long-known same time. Abbas Khider in evidence – here, in the truths. A book that teaches has developed an envia- »A book that story of a conspiratorial us humility.« bly lively, rich tone. His goes far beyond reading circle in which Gabriele Weingartner, Die Rheinpfalz characters are equipped Shams ends up selling books the history of with gallows humour and Baghdad’s bazaar. Here, »The author por- quick wit. That’s why Iraq.« Insa Wilke, 3sat Kulturzeit bitter reality mixes with trays Shams’ family you root for them while the dream-like sophistication, reading, even if the »Those who are plagued much like the Egyptian- precisely, and in horror chills you. This is by everyday concerns or francophone writer Albert an honest, very a hard book to put down

›the new normal‹ should Hans-Peter Kunisch, Die Zeit Cossery.« direct language.« because it leaves you read this book. Of course, Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung wanting to find out: How we are no better off when »A literary fighter did the boy survive this?« others suffer. But it puts for more human »This was what Iraq was like Claudia Ingenhoven, Stuttgarter Nachrichten some things into per- for me; there were no love kindness.«Silke Bartlick, Deutsche Welle »With fine humour, clear, spective – at least in the stories here. This sentence short term.« Clementine Skorpil, unembellished sentences »This book is sad, yet grip- stays with you, as does the Die Presse and a quiet but relentless ping and warm-hearted, entire book. Urgent, realistic narrative style.« and, at the same time, very because the writer loves his Valeria Heintges, St. Galler Tagblatt

personal.« Kathrin Stahl, Südwest Presse characters so much.« rbb Inforadio Foto ©: Paula Winkler Göttingen. zu Wissenschaften der Akademie the of Medal Lichtenberg the 2007. in received he Italy 2007 In in novel foreign best for Cavour Grinzane Premio the and 2006 in Prize Kaschnitz Luise Marie the awarded was Mercier Pascal Peter Bieri. name real his under (2013) by Hanser published also were der Freiheit Handwerk 2007. in Lea novella by the followed was Das It ges. many langua into translated was and years recent of bestsellers biggest the of one became (2004) stimmer Schweigen Perlmanns After Berlin. in lives and 1944 in Bern in born was Pascal Mercier (1998), Nachtzug novel his nach Lissabon

Eine Art zu leben (2001) Art Eine and (1995) Klavier Der and - -

filling experience.« filling is arich and ful- reading book this »The time spent astheNightTrain toLisbon a philosophicalhaunting as novel than thestoriesweread– are • Nothingsaysmoreaboutwhowe WELTDIE

(Sia Kitap) (Wereldbibliotheek), Slovakia(Premedia), Turkey Italy (Fazi),Korea(Gimmyoung),Netherlands Arabic (Meskeliani),Finland(Tammi), Iran(Ofoq), Sales PASCAL MERCIER Since hischildhood,SimonLeylandhasbeen about thefreedomthatliteraturegivesusand house. Inthiscityofimportantliteraryfigures parents, hebecomesatranslatorandsingle- languages spokenaroundtheMediterranean. opportunity toonceagaincompletelyreinvent his work–untilamedicalerrorthrowshimoff mindedly pursueshisgoaloflearningallthe he believeshasfoundtheidealplacefor course. However, thisapparentcatastrophe Triest, whereshehasinheritedapublishing explores thequestionofhowfreewearein fascinated bylanguages.Indefianceofhis his life. After anintervalofseveralyears, Pascal Mercier'sTheWeight ofWords is From LondonhefollowshiswifeLiviato turns outtobeaturningpointandan the choiceswemakeinourlives.

English sample English sample translation January January 2020 576 pages Words of Weight The Worte der Gewicht Das Pascal Mercier available

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Longlisted for the German Book Prize BIRGIT BIRNBACHER

»A microstudy of the way we live now that Arthur, 22, quiet and intelligent, spends combines humour 26 months in prison. When he is finally released, he realises he won’t simply be given and empathy.« another chance. Without the right papers and Jury Bachmann Prize references, he won’t be able to reintegrate into the real world. Together with his uncon- ventional therapist Börd and his glamorous substitute mother Grazetta, he comes »Birgit Birnbacher writes up with a clever plan. A small lie that could lead to absolute freedom … with precision and With humour and empathy, Birgit Birnbacher, winner of the Bachmann Prize, tells the story without false pathos.« of how somebody like Arthur could end up in prison at all, and explores the big question Wiebke Porombka, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of what constitutes a »useful« life.

Sales Birgit Birnbacher Croatia (Hena Com) Ich an meiner Seite Me by My Side 304 pages Birgit Birnbacher March 2020 born in 1985, lives as a sociologist and author in Salzburg. Her debut novel Wir ohne Wal was published in 2016 and was awarded the • New novel by the winner of the literature prize of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation, the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2019 Rauriser Förderungspreis and the Theodor Körner Förderpreis. In 2019 she was awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. FotoAutorenfotos Bogenberger ©: MORE QUOTES AND PRAISE

»The book has a quiet »Birnbacher views her vibrancy, thanks to »Birgit Birnbacher »Her milieu study is an characters with clear- Birnbacher’s unsenti- impressive piece of litera- has a fine sense sightedly, with no illu- mental empathy. And it ture. Prison parole in literary for the margina- sions and a deep empathy. is wise, too, thanks to form! The author writes Here’s a social realist her gentle, philanthropic lised and socially cleverly and knowledgeably novel that neither glorifies touch.« Judith von Sternburg, about the probation system underprivileged, Frankfurter Rundschau nor exaggerates hardship. as well as transferring thera- and for people Instead Birnbacher inter- »A successful social peutic theory into literature who have been weaves tragic, comical realist novel, with simple, in an impressively artistic and bizarre moments. clear language and a way.« Carsten Otte, SWR2 Literatur thrown off track ... What’s more, there are skilful structure, resul- A novel as humane laconic and often humo- ting in a convincing »This is literature as it is literary.« rous observations and portrait of a milieu.« Christoph Schröder, Süddeutsche Zeitung Online strong-willed characters.« at its best.« Sächsische Zeitung Christian Schacherreiter, Oberösterreichische Nachrichten Sonja Hartl, Deutschlandfunk Kultur

»In Me By My Side, Birnba- »With dry humour and »Birgit Birnbacher shows »With this novel, Birgit cher succeeds in exposing the not one superfluous word, off her wit, which is as Birnbacher proves that limitations and distortions in this young Austrian writer subtle as it is humorous. she was rightly awarded the midst of our times, which paints a picture of a deeply … She handles language the Bachmann Prize.« cannot be grasped by acade- defenceless young man.« and dialogues with vituo- Dominika Meindl, Falter Brigitte Schmitz-Kunkel, Kölnische Rundschau mic theses alone. « Florian Baranyi, orf.at sity.« Senta Wagner, Der Standard Foto ©: Olivia Wimmer, Zsolnay Verlag »A debut that captivates the reader from the first page.« impressivean debut Barta.« from Dominik »When interpersonal relationships become political – Ariane Heimbach,BrigitteWOMAN andbeautiful terrible sides of country life. Agreat debut.« »Barta manages to succinctly capture the tough, delicate, Vom Land Vom theatre. the for 2017 in writes also and competition Ö1 an and literature 2009 in competition essay ZEIT the won He Florence. and Bonn Vienna, in studied Austria, Upper in 1982 born Barta Dominik is his first novel. first his is

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China (Yilin Press) Sales DOMINIK BARTA Theresa’s husbandhastolearnaccepthelp and feelings. And eventwelve-year-oldDaniel Theresa issilent,findsnowords,wayout. power andempathy, hisdebutnovelisabout a farmer’s wife,suddenlyfeelsill, allcertain- a farmer’s to travelfromwherevertheyhaveendedup Dominik Bartacontinuesagreattraditionof When Theresa, aroundsixtyyearsoldand Austrian literature.Withprecision,archaic in ordertofinallytalkeachotheragain. has toconfronthisstubbornuncleMaxin ties crumble.Hergrown-upchildrenhave order toprotecthisonlyrealfriend.But ordinary peopleandcircumstances.

January January 2020 176 pages Countryside From the Vom Land Barta Dominik

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HUBERT ACHLEITNER »With fleeting Hubert Achleitner has succeeded in writing a remarkable

debut novel.« Martina Kothe,

NDR Kultur Maria has disappeared. Herwig, to whom she has been married for almost thirty years, hasn’t heard from her in months. The fact that »An exciting, light- she quit her job and took his Volvo at least gives reason to hope that she is still alive. But footed literary journey.« what happened to their marriage, their love, their life together? Hubert Achleitner sends his Judith Hoffmann, Ö1 Morgenjournal protagonists on an adventure that takes them from the Austrian mountains across Europe to Greece. And for both of them it is first and foremost a highly emotional journey into them- »A wonderful novel, selves. A wise and very musical novel about love and longing, fate and fleeting happiness. a mixture of road movie and love story.«

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Sales Hubert Achleitner All rights available flüchtig Fleeting Hubert Achleitner 304 pages known as Hubert von Goisern, was born in Bad April 2020 Goisern in 1952. He is regarded as a prominent exponent of New Volksmusik and inventor of Alpine • The first novel by the musician Rock. His interpretation of Alpine music spans many styles and is inspired by other cultures. The Hubert von Goisern »Linz Europa Tour 2007 – 2009« is regarded to this day as one of the largest cross-border music projects of our time. Flüchtig is his first novel. Foto ©: Konrad Fersterer NON-FICTION

NATURE & SCIENCE

Birgit Bulla, Noch ganz dicht? Alles Wissenswerte über die Blase 2 Josef H. Reichholf, Der Hund und sein Mensch 4 Science Busters, Global Warming Party 6

POLITICS & SOCIETY

Max Czollek, Gegenwartsbewältigung 8 Anna Mayr, Die Elenden 10 Melisa Erkurt, Generation Haram 12

BIOGRAPHY

Bert Rebhandl, Jean-Luc Godard 14 Zeina Nassar, Dream Big. Wie ich mich als Boxerin gegen alle Regeln durchsetzte 16

PHILOSOPHY

Bernward Gesang, Mit kühlem Kopf 18

CULTURE & HISTORY

Stefan Laube, Der Mensch und seine Dinge 20 Susanne Kippenberger, Die Kunst der Großzügigkeit 22 NATURE & SCIENCE

English sample translation available BIRGIT BULLA

A better bladder Did you know that your bladder, just like your skin, reflects your emotional health? That the male urethra is eight inches long, while will help you feel the female urethra is only five to seven? But until a few years ago, medical research only looked at the male body? That we hold better too our breath when we pee and two sphincters control our bladders? The bladder is a special and complex organ that is shrouded in ignorance. In a fresh, direct style, Birgit Bulla’s book explores the biggest problem area for women’s health. Because you can only take care of your body if you know how it works.

Sales Birgit Bulla Korea (Open Books), Norway (Manuskript Forlag) Noch ganz dicht? • Birgit Bulla breaks down the most Alles Wissenswerte Birgit Bulla über die Blase lives in Munich and works as a freelance editor crucial problem zone (for women) Home and dry? for various magazines. Out of the blue in her 208 pages with mid-twenties, she developed an irritable bladder. illustrations The response to her blog, pinkelbelle.de, shows • What we always wanted to know September 2020 that she’s far from alone. Today she knows about our bladder but never dared to ask everything about our sensitive, beautiful organ. And it comes as no surprise: Bulla is, after all, the Latin word for bladder. • With numerous illustrations by pinkelbelle.de, on Instagram:@pinkelbelle Birgit Bulla’s twin sister Annette Bulla Foto ©: Katja Brömer, Illustrationen: © Annette Bulla

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English sample translation available JOSEF H. REICHHOLF

They once lived freely like wolves – they were wolves. At some point, however, they became closer to people. Ten thousand gene- rations later they have evolved into dogs, special creatures that are our mirror. Josef Reichholf explores one of the oldest relationships in human history: the friendship between dog and human. In a style typical of his scientific prose, he combines personal stories with current research on the biology and evolution of the dog. Were wolves really domesticated by humans – or did dogs evolve by themselves? How can the special relation- ship between dogs and humans, a pet owned by nearly 10 million households in Germany, be explained? Entertaining and with professi- onal expertise, Reichholf goes in search of answers and reveals some fascinating facts for all those who want to understand their dog and themselves a little better. From enemy to best friend: how the dog became a human companion

Sales Josef H. Reichholf Netherlands (Harper Collins NL) Der Hund und • Astonishing facts about sein Mensch Josef H. Reichholf the animal closest to us Wie der Wolf sich was born in 1945, is an evolutionary biologist and und uns domestizierte ecologist, was the former head of the vertebrate Dogs and Their Humans department of the Zoological State Collection Mu- • An original natural history book by How the Wolf Domesti- nich and has taught ecology and nature conserva- bestselling author Josef H. Reichholf cated Itself and Us tion at the Technical University Munich. His most 208 pages recent publications were Schmetterlinge. Warum August 2020 sie verschwinden und was das für uns bedeutet • Exciting and practical knowledge for (2018) and Das Leben der Eichhörnchen (2019). everyone who wants to understand

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SCIENCE BUSTERS

Welcome to the Global Warming Party! Everyone is invited! We have so much to

celebrate! We are blasting more C02 into the atmosphere than ever before! Every year breaks new temperature records! So, let’s party and get in the mood! Live dangerously! Climate change is a real party pooper. But we’re going to the party started. Help is coming, the cavalry is on its way, and the Science Busters are riding in. To save the world with science and humour. You’re welcome! Do sunspots rinse out at 40°? Is Planet B accessible via the motorway? Does binge drinking help the climate crisis? The Kelly Family of natural science provides the »If you like funny, chaotic, sinister, sometimes bad, but ultimate proof that, when it comes to a good carbon footprint, we humans only have always strictly scientific prose, then the Science Busters a chance if we are small, round idiots. Because all we want is for the party we call life to go on for a long time. are exactly the right thing for you.« Michael Lange, Deutschlandfunk

Sales Science Busters The Science Busters Das Universum ist eine Scheißgegend: Global Warming Party have long had a cult following. Since they started Spain (Ediciones Culturales Paidós) How we can strengthen in 2007, they have been serving up science for Gedankenlesen durch Schneckenstreicheln: our democracy through everyone, making guest appearances in theatres • Would a cloud of schnapps Russia (Piter) technology – and why throughout the German-speaking world with their we must not leave it science cabaret shows and often feature on tele- help save the climate? in the hands of auto- vision and radio. They have received the German crats, monopolists and the Far Right Kleinkunstpreis and the Salzburg Stier for their • Tongue in cheek explanations cabaret programme. Their books Gedankenlesen 128 pages durch Schneckenstreicheln and Das Universum ist of climate change with illustrations eine Scheißgegend have been named Non-Fiction October 2020 Books of the Year. sciencebusters.at and on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Youtube Foto ©: Ingo Pertramer

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MAX CZOLLEK

In times of crisis, social issues and diversity take a blow. For Max Czollek, state-supported concepts such as »dominant culture« or »integration« offer no answers to this problem whatsoever. Since 2018 there has been much debate over Max Czollek’s polemical book, Desintegriert euch!. While it summed up the status quo of Germany’s self-image, Czollek’s new book lays out a model for living differently in the present by asking: how does society have to change so that everyone experiences solidarity in equal measure? What cherished beliefs do we all have to give up for this Hanau, Thuringia, Halle, Corona: to happen? How can the joint defence of pluralistic democracy succeed in a fragmented world? Max Czollek goes to the heart of 2020 Answers to today’s political questions. – and this polemical book is his pacemaker.

»Czollek really hit a nerve!« New York Times

Sales Max Czollek Max Czollek All rights available Gegenwartsbewältigung was born in Berlin in 1987. He is a member of Coming to Terms the poetry collective G13 and co-editor of the • A manifesto for a pluralistic society with the Present journal Jalta – Positionen zur jüdischen Gegen- 176 pages wart. Together with Sasha Marianna Salzmann, August 2020 he curated the De-integration Congress in 2016 • What kind of world do we and the Radical Jewish Culture Festival at the want to live in? Maxim Gorki Theater in 2017. His poetry volumes Druckkammern, Jubeljahre and Limitene have been published by Verlagshaus Berlin, and in • Czollek’s bestseller De-integrate 2018 Hanser published the non-fiction book Yourselves! sparked a debate Desintegriert euch!. On Twitter: @rubenmcloop, on Instagram and Facebook Peter-Andreas Hassiepen FotoPeter-Andreas ©:

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ANNA MAYR

»Lazy.« »Uneducated.« »Apathetic.« »This book not only broadens »Your own fault.« As the child of long-term unemployed parents, Anna Mayr knows how horizons; it blasts through wrong prejudices such as these are. But this didn’t protect her from the reality of living them. Anna Mayr gives on Hartz IV, which was accompanied by constant money worries and the feeling of not a voice to those who are belonging. She used to be ashamed that her parents didn’t have jobs. Today, she knows all too often not heard – that our society needs people like them: as scarecrows of poverty, assuring everyone else without patronising them.« that they are doing the right thing – namely

Bodo Ramelow by having jobs. In her fierce book, which puts forward a strong hypothesis, Mayr shows why we need to rethink the history of work: as a history of unemployment. What would a world look like in which we no longer need the poor to give meaning to our lives.

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Anna Mayr • A new perspective from the next 200 pages was born in 1993 in a town on the outskirts of the August 2020 Ruhr area. She studied geography and literature generation on poverty and in Cologne, has written for a tabloid and worked unemployment in Germany as a German teacher. With the Correctiv team, she was nominated for the Nannen Prize and the Reporter Prize in 2018. Today she is a journalist • Why social programmes in Germany in the politics section of ZEIT and lives in Berlin. mayranna.de do not aim to help social advancement Foto ©: Anna Tiessen

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MELISA ERKURT

Melisa Erkurt and her parents moved to Austria from Bosnia when she was a child. She studied and now works as a teacher and journalist. She’s made it – but she’s an Now it’s the exception. Because at the end of a school year, she knows that the majority of her pupils will never speak German well enough to losers’ turn change their fate – and their fate is predeter- mined. A generation of children is growing up in Germany and Austria without language or to talk! self-esteem, and to whom no one listens to because they cannot articulate themselves. While others discuss »culture clash« in the classroom, Melisa Erkurt lends her voice to the losers of the educational system. It is not these pupils who need to change, but the school system which needs to break new ground.

Sales Melisa Erkurt All rights available Generation Haram Why Schools Have Melisa Erkurt to Learn to Give Everyone a Voice was born in Sarajevo in 1991. She was a chief • The author is a teacher and journalist reporter at biber magazine and led the biber 192 pages »Newcomer« project in Vienna’s inner-city schools who comes from an immigrant family August 2020 for three years. Erkurt taught at a Viennese secon- dary school and since September 2019, she has • A much-needed change of perspective been an ORF editor in the domestic policy section. She writes a weekly column in the Falter and one in the educational debate for the taz called Nachsitzen. ć Foto ©: Vedran Philipovi

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BERT REBHANDL

»Like few

others in film In 1960, he was the biggest pop star of cinema: the premiere of »Breathless« (with Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo) took journalism, place. The following year his wedding to Anna Karina featured on the covers of glossy magazines, and his films attracted all kinds Rebhandl has of hipsters before the term was widely used. Then came 1968, and for Jean-Luc Godard, mastered the a process of permanent cinematic revolution began, one that has caused a stir and material for debate to the present day. His art of the pithy thought-provoking imagery puts him on an intellectual par with Jean-Paul Sartre. In this book, the story of Godard’s exciting life sentence.« and his cinematic work are told together. Christoph Haas, Süddeutsche Zeitung A unique European figure in a long-overdue comprehensive volume.

Sales Bert Rebhandl All rights available Jean-Luc Godard Der permanente Revolutionär Bert Rebhandl • Last living director of the French born 1964 in Upper Austria, is one of the most Jean-Luc Godard distinguished German-language film critics. He nouvelle vague The Permanent writes mainly for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Revolutionary Zeitung and the Standard. He has produced 288 pages books about Orson Welles, the Western (as an • Icon of European cinema October 2020 editor), the TV series Seinfeld and The Third Man. The Rediscovery of a Classic Film. He lives in Berlin. • Glamorous and politically controversial Foto ©: Matthias Lüdecke

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ZEINA NASSAR

At the age of thirteen, Zeina Nassar already knew she wanted to box. Because she refuses to take off her headscarf in the ring, she isn’t Anything is allowed to take part in competitions for a long time. But Zeina won’t be dictated to; she forges possible if you her own path. Her parents, who are from Lebanon, don’t want her to box? Zeina con- vinces them with a fifteen-minute lecture. The fight for it – German dress code at competitions doesn’t allow religious women like Zeina to box in a headscarf? Then the regulations have to a young woman change. On an international level, women are not allowed to enter the ring wearing a hijab? steps into the Then the rule has to be abolished. Zeina is not just an exceptional sportswoman; the sociology student travels around the world as an ambas- ring sador for education and fights internationally for equal rights. Proof of where a woman’s willpower can take her: in her compelling and inspiring memoir, Zeina writes for the first time about her struggles and setbacks. And about the importance of never losing sight of your goal.

Sales Zeina Nassar All rights available Dream Big • Zeina Nassar pushes back against How I triumphed Zeina Nassar against all the odds born in 1998 in Berlin, has been boxing since conventions – a role model for as a boxer she was fourteen. She lives in Berlin and studies young women worldwide 208 pages sociology in Potsdam as a scholarship-holder of the April 2020 Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. Since 2018 she has also been on tour with the Maxim Gorki • Zeina Nassar is one of the faces Theater play Stören. Instagram: @zeina.boxer (80.000 subscribers) of the new Nike campaign Facebook: Zeina Nassar http://www.zeina-nassar.com/ • The author trains for Olympia 2020 Foto ©: Henning Heide

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BERNWARD GESANG

Abstention and To stop global warming, we must change the way we live. But this raises some very prohibition? fundamental questions: what restrictions and prohibitions are permissible in a free society? Aren’t poor countries entitled to prosperity Or responsibility as well? Why don’t we talk about nuclear power or population policy? En route to an and solidarity? ecological society, many political, moral and ethical questions, which have been debated by philosophers since antiquity, have to be The philosophical answered. Bernward Gesang takes up the role of the philosopher in the climate debate. He uncovers errors and contradictions that dimension of the prevent real change. Is eating meat a complete no-go? Don’t we need to invest much more climate debate money in developing countries? Gesang’s philosophical reflections lead back to the questions of everyday politics – and he provides well-founded answers.

Sales Bernward Gesang All rights available Mit kühlem Kopf • Justice, responsibility and morality: Über den Nutzen der Bernward Gesang the climate debate raises philosophical Philosophie für die was born in 1968, studied philosophy in Bonn Klimadebatte and Münster and qualified as a professor in 2000 questions A Cool Head Düsseldorf, where he took up a professorship in On the Benefits 2006. Since 2009 he has been teaching at the • The climate debate is bigger than of Philosophy for the University of Mannheim and leads the philosophy Climate Debate department with a focus on business ethics. His everyday political disputes 240 pages most recent publications include Wirtschaftsethik September 2020 und Menschenrechte (2016) and Darf ich das oder muss ich sogar? (Piper, 2017). • Bernward Gesang is a climate expert among philosophers Foto ©: privat

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STEFAN LAUBE

To understand a person, you have to under- stand the objects that are important to them. Everyday things, works of art and religious objects reveal much about similarities and differences that connect and separate people 64 objects, in space and time. Berlin’s museums contain a vast number of works of art and objects from every era and region in the world: 64 stories Stefan Laube has selected 64 of them to tell the story of human civilisation. It starts with the four elements – a hand axe, a fountain, a fire mask, a wind harp – and leads to the art of storage, whether using clay or hard drives. For each topic, Laube juxta- poses four objects from different times and culture. It’s a game that keeps you reading and making new discoveries.

Sales Stefan Laube All rights available Der Mensch Stefan Laube • An opulent book about the global und seine Dinge Eine Geschichte der was born in 1964, studied history, art history history of human civilisation and philosophy in Munich and now works at the Zivilisation, erzählt Humboldt University in Berlin and the Herzog durch 64 Objekte People and Their Things August Library in Wolfenbüttel. He lives in Berlin. • Information that meets the growing His most recent publications were Objekte A History of Civilisation, im Duett. Streifzüge durch Berliner Museen interest in cultures outside Europe Told Through 64 Objects (Berlin, 2019); Von der Reliquie zum Ding. 512 pages Kirche, Wunderkammer, Museum (Berlin, 2011) with illustrations and Das Lutherhaus – eine Museumsgeschichte • Coincides with the opening of the August 2020 (Leipzig, 2003). stefanlaube.de Humboldt Forum in September 2020 Foto ©: PD Gia Dr. Toussaint

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SUSANNE KIPPENBERGER

Surprise, expectation, happiness, disappointment, insult – why do we react so emotionally to gifts, no matter what their material value? Susanne Kippenberger, herself a passionate gift-giver, explores giving as a universe of feelings and complex form of communication. With ease and elegance, she unfolds the manifold aspects, asks why it is mainly women who take care of gifts, and explains why the most beautiful presents are those you cannot buy in any shop. She tells surprising and touching stories of gift-giving that touch upon wonders and disaster. Above all, however, she shows how much joy A book about giving presents – the art of generosity can offer. Giving makes you happy!

Sales Susanne Kippenberger All rights available Die Kunst der Großzügigkeit Geschichten einer Susanne Kippenberger • Giving as a form of communication: leidenschaftlichen born in 1957, grew up in Essen. She has been a Schenkerin journalist at the Berliner Tagesspiegel since 1989 a language that can be learned The Art of Generosity and is the writer of the portrait Kippenberger. Der Stories by a Passionate Künstler und seine Familien (2007) about her Gift-Giver brother Martin. In 2009 her book Am Tisch was • Endpaper and cover illustration published, and in 2014 Das rote Schaf der Familie 192 pages about Jessica Mitford and her sisters. by Leanne Shapton October 2020 Foto ©: Elena Steil

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HIGHLIGHTS SPRING 2020 NON-FICTION

»A historical piece of resistance in the usual masterful way.« Der Duft der Imperien

»A great book of history.« Tiere im Nationalsozialismus

»Written with great fondness for storytelling and therefore strongly recommended reading.« »Able to talk about everything.« Das große Welttheater

»A brilliant biography.«

»Jens Malte Fischer’s book is one long invitation to read Karl Kraus.«

»A long intellectual pleasure.« Karl Kraus CULTURE & HISTORY

KARL SCHLÖGEL

With his new book, Karl Schlögel has written a historical pièce de résistance: two perfumes, the French Chanel Nº 5 and the Soviet Red Moscow, provide him with the material to explore the dramatic events of 20th-century European history from an unusual perspective. The turmoil of the Russian Revolution brought the formula for a fragrance, which had been created for the 300th anniversary of the Romanovs, to France. It provided the basis for Coco Chanel’s Nº 5 and its Soviet counterpart, which is still produced today under the name »Red Moscow«. Polina Zhemchuzhina, wife of Foreign Minister Molotov, was director of the state-run perfume industry. She later fell victim to a cleansing campaign while Coco Chanel Can a fragrance conserve history? collaborated with the German occupiers. An apparently insignificant coincidence leads Karl Schlögel to a series of astonishing discoveries Two women, two empires, one century about an epoch we thought we knew well.

Sales Karl Schlögel • An original approach to European English World (Polity), France (Circé), Italy (Rizzoli), Der Duft der Imperien Karl Schlögel history in the 20th century Russia (Text), Slovenia (Beletrina), Spain (Acantilado) The Scent of Empires born in 1948, studied philosophy, sociology, Chanel Nº 5 and Eastern European history and Slavonic studies Red Moscow at the Freie Universität Berlin, in Moscow and • From the formula for a perfume, 192 pages Leningrad. Until 2013 he was Professor of Eas- Karl Schlögel develops a panorama February 2020 tern European History at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt am Oder. He was awarded the of the modern world in East and West 2016 Preis des Historischen Kollegs for Terror und Traum (Hanser, 2008). Last published by Hanser: • Coco Chanel and Polina Zhemchuzhina: Entscheidung in Kiew. Ukrainische Lektionen (2015). the lives of two women in the age of extremes Peter-Andreas Hassiepen FotoPeter-Andreas ©: CULTURE & HISTORY

JAN MOHNHAUPT

Potato beetles as weapons of war and pigs for educating the masses – under National Socialism, animals weren’t exempt from Animals in the (mis)appropriation. Jan Mohnhaupt tells their stories vividly and with an eye for everyday detail. Dog breeding served the Nazis as a day-to-day life model for their racial fanaticism. In primary school, insects were used to prepare children for war. And the stag was used to buttress the and ideology of myth of the »German forest«. Mohnhaupt discovers animals and their unique role in the dictatorship National Socialism in diaries and specialist journals, school textbooks and propaganda material. In the style of a historical reportage, he follows in their footsteps, from horses on the Eastern Front to cats in German living rooms. And he makes clear: »The Nazi perspective on the world is reflected with surprising clarity even in this aspect of the Third Reich.«

Sales Jan Mohnhaupt English World (Wisconsin University Press), Greece Tiere im (Gutenberg), Italy (Bollati Boringhieri) Nationalsozialismus Animals under Jan Mohnhaupt National Socialism was born in 1983 in the Ruhr area. He works as • Jan Mohnhaupt tells a previously 288 pages with a freelance journalist and author for a variety of neglected chapter of Nazi history photographs magazines and newspapers including Spiegel March 2020 Online, Zeit Online and PM History. In 2017 Hanser Verlag published his book Der Zoo der Anderen, • Horses, cats, silkworms: animals which was translated into several languages. He between heroisation and hate lives and works in Munich. FotoSojaka ©: CULTURE & HISTORY

PHILIPP BLOM »Philipp Blom is able to talk about everything under the sun in a

meaningful, profound way, We live in the best of all worlds: never before has there been so much peace, never before and his wealth of know- have we been so rich, so safe. These are the stories we tell ourselves. But what if they don’t ledge and curiosity make correspond to reality? What if democracies crumble, hatred between social groups grows, him interesting to listen to.« economic growth stagnates, the threat of a climate catastrophe increases? Oliver vom Hove, Die Presse In his expansive essay, Philipp Blom argues that the West may be in a crisis because of, and not despite, peace and prosperity. Nothing »Written with great in our past has prepared us for this. The signs are there that a storm lies ahead, and that the fondness for storytelling struggle for the future will also be a struggle between narratives, before all eyes, on and therefore strongly the stage of the global theatre.

recommended reading.« Freitag

Sales Philipp Blom Italy (Marsilio), Netherlands (Bezige Bij) Das große Welttheater Philipp Blom Von der Macht der born in 1970 in Hamburg, studied philosophy, Vorstellungskraft in history and Jewish studies in Vienna and Oxford. Zeiten des Umbruchs He lives in Vienna and writes regularly for Euro- • A historically substantiated analysis The Great pean and American magazines and newspapers. of current-day upheavals Global Theatre He is the winner of numerous awards. Also publis- About the Power hed by Hanser: Der taumelnde Kontinent. Europa of Imagination in 1900-1914 (2009), Die zerrissenen Jahre. 1918- • New ideas for our lives in times of Times of Upheaval 1938 (2014), Was auf dem Spiel steht (2017) und democratic crisis and climate catastrophe 160 pages Eine italienische Reise (2018). Bei Sturm am Meer April 2020 was published by Zsolnay in 2016. Further informa- tion can be found at www.philipp-blom.eu Peter-Andreas Hassiepen FotoPeter-Andreas ©: Foto ©: Zsolnay Verlag Richard Wagner Wirkung undseine Richard (2003), (2000), siècle de Fin anderen eines Ansichten merung. Jahrhundertdäm published Zsolnay Munich. of University atthe Studies Theatre of Professor was and history and musicology literature, and language German studied 1943, in born Jens Malte Fischer than histhan own.« even more relevant to our times »Much of what Kraus wrote is Vom Wunderwerk der Oper der Vom Wunderwerk Gustav Mahler. Der fremde Vertraute fremde Mahler. Der Gustav (2007) and and (2007) (2013).

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Jonathan Jonathan Franzen andmedia–morecurrent thanever • Sharp-tonguedcriticismofpolitics • A uniquepersonalityandhisepoch • Thefirstmajorbiographyindecades

All rightsavailable Sales JENS MALTE FISCHER was »thegreatestandmostcausticmanliving in Vienna today.« Kraus,bornin1874Jičín in Bohemia,died1936Vienna: forsome Kraus’s personalityandwork, hisfriendsand Die LetztenTage derMenschheitwasaradi- Hitler. According toEliasCanetti,KarlKraus His namehasremainedlegendary, butwhat present withthiscomprehensivebiography. he wasGod,forothersthedevilincarnate. he representedisbeginningtofade.Jens Die DritteWalpurgisnacht tookissuewith which hewrotealonefrom1911 to1936; At theageof25hefoundedDieFackel, greatest writersofhistimeandbeyond. cal reckoningwiththeFirstWorld War, enemies, aphorismsandantagonisms are broughttoliferevealoneofthe Malte Fischernowbringshimintothe

March 2020 March 1104 pages Dissenter The Kraus Karl Der Widersprecher Kraus Karl Jens Malte Fischer BIOGRAPHY

Book Prize 2020 Nominated for for Nominated the Bavarian

MORE QUOTES AND PRAISE

»Jens Malte Fischer’s biography reveals Karl Kraus and »Karl Kraus’ life is finally being fully his world in a new way.« Lothar Müller, Süddeutsche Zeitung honoured. Fischer rises impressively

»A new, opulent biography that, at to this enormous task.« Dirk Schümer, Die Welt

over 1,000 pages, demands a great »His monumental book The Dissenter is the product of a deal of the reader’s time, but in return lifelong occupation with Kraus, and is shaped by a deep knowledge of his work. The Dissenter is already not a, gives him or her the priceless benefit but the, definitive biography, and will remain unrivalled

of tangible pleasure.« Klaus Bellin, Neues Deutschland for a long time to come for anyone interested in Karl Kraus. Ignoring Kraus was a mistake back in 1914. »The Dissenter is a great book about a difficult yet clair- But today, when we are once again in an era of changing voyant intellectual and stands as an intellectual history media, via which huge corporations pump disinformation th of the early 20 century.« Jury commentary for the Ö1 book of the month award in April around the globe, his insights are perhaps more valuable than ever. Fischer has paid Karl Kraus, whom he revered, a great favour. But for all those who, with the help of this master of objection and opposition, wish to understand our »A long intellectual pleasure.« Peter Pisa, Kurier world as it continues to go through the apocalypse he faith- »A great work as a tribute to a great author in an exciting fully described, he has done an even greater favour.« time.« Katharina Teutsch, Deutschlandfunk Kultur Daniel Kehlmann, DIE ZEIT »Jens Malte Fischer’s book is one long »A brilliant biography.« Paul Jandl, Neue Zürcher Zeitung invitation to read Karl Kraus.« Wolfgang Paterno, profil CHILDREN‘S BOOKS

PICTURE BOOKS

Henrike Wilson, Das kleine Nein-Schwein 2 Micha Friemel • Jacky Gleich, Lulu in der Mitte 4

CHILDREN‘S FICTION

Charlotte Inden • Pe Grigo, Mein Tiger zieht um und wir kommen mit 6 Hans Magnus Enzensberger • Anke Kuhl, Struwwelpeters Rückkehr 8 Jutta Bauer, Kater Liam 10 Friedbert Stohner • Hildegard Müller, Ich bin hier bloß der Opa 12 Jutta Richter • Günter Mattei, Frau Wolle und die Welt hinter der Welt 14

YOUNG ADULTS FICTION

Dirk Pope, Still! 16 Tobias Elsässer, Play 18 Verena Keßler, Die Gespenster von Demmin 20 Karin Bongard, Es war die Nachtigall 22

YOUNG ADULTS NON-FICTION

Christine Knödler • Benjamin Knödler • Felicitas Horstschäfer, Young Rebels 25 Jugendliche, die die Welt verändern 24 PICTURE BOOKS

HENRIKE WILSON

NO! Piggo doesn’t want to get up! It’s cosy and warm in bed. That’s how it all starts. Because Piggo has to get up. At least that’s what Mum says. And get dressed. And eat his porridge. And brush his teeth. But Piggo doesn’t want to. Not one little bit. No! No! No! Mum can say whatever she wants and scold Piggo as much as she wants. But Mum keeps quiet and puts Piggo on the back of her bike. Without his jacket and gumboots. They arrive at kindergarten much too late. And then Mum leaves again very quickly. Piggo’s tummy is rumbling and he’s cold too. Saying no today isn’t any fun at all! Will Mum come back soon? Yes, there she is! And finally, she takes Piggo into her arms!

Everyone should be allowed to have a day of saying no!

Sales Henrike Wilson All rights available Das kleine Nein-Schwein The Little NO Piggo Henrike Wilson was born in Cologne in 1961 where she studied Color illustrations throughout graphic design and painting, as well as in the • For all those angry kids who USA. Today she is a freelance illustrator in Berlin. 32 pages For Hanser, she has illustrated the picture books say ‘No!’ to everything and their Format: 24,5 x 24,5 cm From age 3 Der kleine Weihnachtsmann, Das Schaf Charlotte exasperated parents (Brave Charlotte) and Kleine Schusselhexe. The August 2020 New York Times named Brave Charlotte one of the best-illustrated books of 2005. Henrike Wilson • Animated illustrations by Henrike Wilson has also illustrated books by Rafik Schami and Jostein Gaarder for Hanser. Henrike Wilson Illustrationen ©: Illustrationen

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MICHA FRIEMEL • JACKY GLEICH

A charming book for all middle children, with witty illustrations by Jacky Gleich. Lulu is the middle child. Lulu’s big brother Kaspar builds helicopters and milking machines. He’s a great inventor and is sure to win the Nobel Prize says Grandma. And everyone is always charmed by little Leo, no matter what she does. As soon as she cries, Mummy picks her up and consoles her. And Lulu? She wants to lay the table, but Papa has done it already. She wants to help with the cooking, but then the food is already on the table. Lulu’s had enough: she’s not small, but also not big. So what is she? The golden middle of the family – obviously!

»I’m not big, I’m not small. I’m the golden middle.«

Sales Micha Friemel Micha Friemel All rights available Jacky Gleich born in 1981, studied history and German litera- Lulu in der Mitte ture in Basel before completing a course in literary Lulu in the Middle writing at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel. She Color illustrations lives with her husband and four children in Santa throughout Maria Val Müstair. On the side, she also runs a • Finally a book for middle children 32 pages small guesthouse for creative retreats (www.chasa- Format: 28,5 x 22cm parli.ch). From age 3 • A picture book for encouraging Jacky Gleich March 2020 born in 1964 in Darmstadt, studied animation at understanding among siblings the Film University Babelsberg. She has illustrated more than 80 books for children and adults, for which she has received many awards, incl. the Jacky Gleich German Children’s Book Award for Hat Opa einen Anzug an? (text Amelie Fried, Hanser 1997). Illustrationen ©: Illustrationen

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The latest adventures of Oskar and Tiger Theo – CHARLOTTE INDEN • PE GRIGO »perfect for bedtime reading!«

38 little bedtime stories on the subject of moving house, delightfully told from the perspective of three-year-old Oskar. Mummy, Daddy, tiger Theo, Oskar and his sister Klara are moving to a new house. Which means complete chaos and saying lots of goodbyes. But moving house also means you get to meet all kinds of new friends and even neighbours with rabbits! There’s no getting around the fact that for a while you have to live on a building site – with lots of packing boxes and no doors! But Oskar and Klara’s new kindergarten is so close they can get there on their scooters, almost alone. They’re also getting a playroom with clouds on the walls and stars on the ceiling, and the new bath is so big, Oskar can swim in it – well, almost.

Sales Charlotte Inden Charlotte Inden Volume 1: Russia (Rosman) Pe Grigo born in 1979, studied German literature, art history, Mein Tiger zieht um – and film and TV studies. She lives with her family und wir kommen mit in Karlsruhe and works as an editor at a daily My Tiger is Moving • 38 one-minute stories about newspaper. Her novels for young adults, Anna House and We’re und Anna (2013) and Operation 5 minus (2015) children’s everyday lives Coming Too were followed by the children’s book Bei mir zu One-minute stories for bedtime reading Hause wohnt ein Tiger – Kleine Geschichten zum • About saying goodbye, moving house Vorlesen (2019). 96 pages and finding new friends Pe Grigo Format: 18 x 24 cm trained as a typescript editor before completing a From age 3 degree in design in 2015. She lives with her child- • For reading aloud to kindergarten children September 2020 ren in an old yellow house with an apple orchard. Pe Grigo For Hanser she also illustrated Bei mir zu Hause wohnt ein Tiger – Kleine Geschichten zum Vorlesen. Illustrationen ©: Illustrationen

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H.M.ENZENSBERGER • ANKE KUHL

Clear the stage for a humorous Let’s raise the curtain on the new version of Shockheaded Peter of the 21st century: in a cheeky, witty book, chock full of surprising Shockheaded Peter punchlines, Hans Magnus Enzensberger has rewritten the stories of Little Suck-a-Thumb, Fidgety Philip and Flying Robert, this time without the raised admonishing finger. Anarchic Shockheaded Peter is turned into a heartthrob and the wild hunter into an ignorant despot. th ANNIVERSARY 175 Harriet lights her matches but not carelessly of Shockheaded Peter this time: she has a bunch of tricks up her sleeve. And Augustus is lovesick rather than on hunger strike. Dr Heinrich Hoffmann himself, the original author, leads the reader through each scene, loosely following the principle that children should be outraged rather than quiet because talking back is healthy. Otherwise, there can be no happy endings.

Sales Hans Magnus All rights available Enzensberger Hans Magnus Enzensberger Anke Kuhl was born in 1929 in Kaufbeuren, is a poet, Struwwelpeters essayist, biographer, editor and translator and one • The modern Shockheaded Peter – by Rückkehr of Germany’s most influential and famous writers. Shockheaded Hans Magnus Enzensberger & Anke Kuhl Hanser children’s books has published his titles Peter’s Return Der Zahlenteufel (1997), Wo warst du, Robert? 28 pages (1998), Esterhazy (2009) and Bibs (2009). Hans • A tongue-in-cheek look at Augustus Format: 14 x 21,5 cm Magnus Enzensberger lives in Munich. Who Would Not Have Any Soup, Harriet From age 6 Anke Kuhl October 2020 was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1970, studied and the Matches and Fidgety Philip drawing. She has been nominated several times for the German Children’s Literature Award, which • For reading aloud and laughing together

Anke Kuhl she received in 2011. She lives with her husband and two children in Frankfurt am Main. Illustrationen ©: Illustrationen

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JUTTA BAUER

A delightful and intelligent cat’s-eye view on humans and their world. I am a tomcat – a big, beautiful red tabby. For many years now I’ve been observing humans and their habits. And let’s face it – they’re rather strange! They give you food that tastes of bird or fish instead of mouse or rat. And they let that horrible wet water run straight down over their heads! Another mystery to cats is why they hold a piece of paper in front of their face instead of scratching it. Or why »I spend a lot of time around humans. dark sofas aren’t considered a good place for tomcats like me to lie on. Really, it’s no Out of necessity – they give me food.« wonder that humans think computers and glass tablets are great inventions, but mice and balls of wool aren’t. They simply don’t understand enough about life!

Sales Jutta Bauer Italy (Feltrinelli), Spain (Lóguez) Kater Liam Ansichten eines Felltieres • Original insights into the world Tomcat Liam Jutta Bauer Observations From was born in 1955 in Hamburg, where she lives of humans from a four-pawed a Furry Creature and works as an illustrator, author, cartoonist and point of view animation artist. She has won numerous prizes, Color illustrations including the German Children’s Literature Award throughout in 2009 for her complete works, and in 2010 the • Humorously written and illustrated 56 pages Hans Christian Andersen Award. Also published Format: 11,5 x 18 cm by Hanser are Weißt du noch (text: Zoran Drvenkar, • For all cat lovers For all ages 2015) and five children’s books about the January 2020 Bärbeiß, most recently Der Bärbeiß. Ich bin • Humans simply don’t understand doch nicht verliebt! (text: Annette Pehnt).

Jutta Bauer enough about life! Illustrationen ©: Illustrationen

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A Sunday outing with four grandchildren? FRIEDBERT STOHNER No problem!

Now it’s Grandpa’s turn to have a say! Because there are so many stories to tell about life as an energetic pensioner and devoted grandparent. Looking after his four grandchildren? A piece of cake! Grandpa decides to take the children to the amuse- ment park for a Sunday family outing. He can manage that, no problem! But on the drive there, he gets an inkling that it might not be as fun as he imagined – at least not for him. No sooner are they stuck in traffic than the children start jumping about wildly in the back of the car. But Grandpa has nerves of steel and quickly sorts them back into their seats. When they are standing in the queue for the amusement park, however, he loses his com- posure for the first time when he notices that his youngest grandchild has disappeared …

Sales Friedbert Stohner Friedbert Stohner All rights available Ich bin hier bloß der Opa born in 1951 in Altlußheim am Rhein, worked for I’m Just the Grandpa Here many years in publishing. Together with his wife With b/w illustrations Anu he also worked as a translator out of English by Hildegard Müller and Finnish. And he writes children’s books, not • A book for all generations 120 pages only for his own four grandchildren. The following From age 8 in the same series have been published by Hanser: • Great fun to read, full of March 2020 Ich bin hier bloß der Hamster (2014), Ich bin hier bloß das Pony (2015) and Ich bin hier bloß das wit and irony Schaf (2018). Hildegard Müller • The ideal gift for Grandpa born in 1957, lives and works as a graphic designer, illustrator and author in Ginsheim near Mainz. She Hildegard Verlag Hanser Carl Müller, Fotos: Stohner, Nina © also illustrated the other books in the Ich bin hier bloß … series Illustrationen ©: Illustrationen

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JUTTA RICHTER • GÜNTER MATTEI

The siblings Merle and Moritz miss their father very much. It’s been almost a year since he left with his travelling bag in his hand. But he didn’t take his hat with him – his hat of all things, which is supposed to protect him! But Merle and Moritz are very sure that their father is coming back. And he will believe them when they tell him what they’ve experienced and that Miss Cloudsy has disappeared without a trace. Into the eerie night-time realm of Murkelania that begins on the other side of the door. Where the bug army is up to its mischief and the white treacherous cat smiles slyly. Where the hallways are red and blue and there’s a talking orphaned fox. Yes, with their father by their side, they’ll venture once more into Murkelania and finally solve the mystery of Miss Cloudsy! »Jutta Richter has surpassed herself

with Miss Cloudsy.« Süddeutsche Zeitung

Sales Jutta Richter Jutta Richter Italy (Beisler Editore), Spain (Lóguez), Russia Günter Mattei was born in 1955, received the German Children’s (Rosman) Frau Wolle und die Literature Award for Der Tag, als ich lernte, die Welt hinter der Welt Miss Cloudsy and the Spinnen zu zähmen (Hanser, 2000) and the • A modern take on Mary Poppins Catholic Children’s and Young Adult’s Book World Behind the World Prize for Hechtsommer (Hanser, 2004). Hanser 208 pages most recently published Frau Wolle und der Duft • The exciting finale of the From age 9 von Schokolade (2018) and Frau Wolle und das Miss Cloudsy-Trilogy October 2020 Geheimnis der chinesischen Papierschirmchen (2019). Jutta Richter lives in Münsterland. jutta- • »An absolute pleasure richter.de. On Facebook, Instagram: @postrichter Günter Mattei to read aloud.« Hans ten Doornkaat, NZZ born in Austria in 1947, studied graphic design and Günter Mattei works as a freelance graphic artist, book designer and illustrator in Munich. Illustrationen ©: Illustrationen

13 14 YOUNG ADULT'S FICTION

DIRK POPE

Mariella does not talk: not to her mother, not to her father, not to the goldfish, the teachers or her classmates. Because her parents have broken up. Because nobody tries to understand her. And because people talk too much anyway. The louder it gets around her, the quieter she becomes. Mariella’s silence rubs people up the wrong way and presents a real challenge. It’s not OK to be different from everyone else. But luckily there’s Stan, a deaf boy who accepts Mariella the way she is. With his help, Mariella discovers her own language. The encounter between the two encourages them to be just as they are – and ultimately to raise their voices. Sometimes you just have to keep your mouth shut so that everything turns out fine

Sales Dirk Pope All rights available Still! Quiet! Dirk Pope 192 pages was born in 1969 and worked as a creative in • A plea for quiet in noisy times From age 13 the advertising industry for more than ten years August 2020 before deciding to finish his teacher training. Since 2010, he has worked as a German and • A deep friendship between sports teacher alongside his writing. His debut two admirable teenagers Idiotensicher (Hanser, 2015) received critical acclaim and his second book Abgefahren • German Children’s Literature Award: (Hanser) was nominated for the German Dirk Pope has been nominated for Children’s Literature Award in 2019. Dirk Pope lives with his family in Frankfurt am Main. the New Talents Special Award 2020 On Facebook Coccon, Getty Images Illustration ©: Illustration

15 16 YOUNG ADULT'S FICTION

TOBIAS ELSÄSSER

What would you do if an app could predict your future? You enter your data, give it access to your social media channels and it tells you what course your life is going to take. Jonas refuses to accept the result. He’s just finished school and is impatient to start his own life. When the app predicts that he’ll make the same mistakes as his loathed father, he decides to out-trick fate and be unpredictable. Together with Sun, a complete stranger, he hitchhikes north in search of adventure. This feisty girl teaches him to take his life into his own hands. But Sun has a plan of her own.

Your life belongs to you, not an app!

Sales Tobias Elsässer All rights available Play 288 pages Tobias Elsässer From age 14 born in 1973, is a writer, musician and songwriter. September 2020 First, he worked as a singer in the music industry • A book about freedom, before publishing his debut novel Die Boygroup friendship and love in 2004, which is based on his own experiences. Today he writes and composes, as well as runs writing and songwriting workshops. His children’s • A rebel against predictability and young adult novels have received numerous awards, and he received a grant from the German • Free will in times of social media Literaturfonds for Play. He lives in Stuttgart. tobias-elsaesser.de © Peter-Andreas Hassiepen Peter-Andreas © Foto:

17 18 YOUNG ADULT'S FICTION

VERENA KESSLER

Larry lives in a city with an unusual history. At the end of the Second World War the greatest mass suicide in German history took place in Demmin. But for Larry, her hometown is one thing above all: boring. She wants to see the world as soon as possible and become a war reporter. While Larry is struggling with the ordeal of growing up, an old woman is about to move to a retirement home. While sorting through her house, she remembers the end of the war in Demmin and makes a momentous decision. With ease and wit, Verena Keßler tells a story of grief and loneliness, friendship and first love. This is a novel about the lack of communication between generations and the possibility of overcoming it. »Verena Keßler’s novel is buzzing with life.

Sad, funny and dark - sensational!« Stefanie de Velasco

Sales Verena Keßler All rights available Die Gespenster von Demmin The Ghosts of Demmin 240 pages Verena Keßler From age 14 was born in 1988 in Hamburg and now lives in August 2020 Leipzig, where she studied at the German Litera- • About the instability of growing up ture Institute. In 2018 she took part in the Kölner and the question of how much the past Schmiede novel workshop and the Jürgen Ponto Foundation writing workshop in 2019. She was determines our present a fellow of the 23rd Klagenfurt literature course. The Ghosts of Demmin is her first novel. © Michael Bader Michael © Foto:

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KATRIN BONGARD

Environmentalist versus hunter, open-mindedness versus tradition, two irreconcilable perspectives and one true love. Together with a group of friends, sixteen- year-old Marie fights for animal rights and against climate change. At a concert by her favourite band she meets Ludwig von Brockdorff, a passionate hunter. The attraction is immediate and mutual, but at the same time, two very different worlds collide. Can an independently minded environmentalist and a young hunter with a strong sense of tradition be together despite their prejudices, their antagonistic families and the very different circles in which they move? Animal-rights campaigner falls in love with a hunter? – »Feelings don’t stick to the rules!«

Sales Katrin Bongard All rights available Es war die Nachtigall It Was the Katrin Bongard Nightingale born in 1962, is an artist and author and has 272 pages worked for the last ten years as a screenwriter. • A topical and dramatic love story In 2005 her first children’s book Radio Gaga was From age 14 developed out a screenplay, and won several January 2020 awards, including the Peter Härtling Award. Since • A love of nature – then she has written twenty books for children and from opposite perspectives young adults. Together with her husband she runs an acting agency as well as the label Red • Two teenagers conquer the Bug Books. Painting, photography, installation work and drawing are also part of her artistic repertoire. social divide Es war die Nachtigall is her first book to be publis- hed by Hanser. © Irmela Schautz I Foto: © Uwe Carow Illustrationen:

21 22 YOUNG ADULT’S NON-FICTION

CLIMATE CHANGE DEMOCRACY FREEDOM OF SPEECH GUN LOBBY EQUALITY KORRUPTION BENJAMIN KNÖDLER • CHRISTINE KNÖDLER ETHICS DISCRIMINATION CLIMATE CHANGE CONSERVATION ENVIRONMENT GUN LOBBY They are fighting for the environment, EDUCATION DEMOCRACY EQUALITY ETHICS minorities and equality, and are actively SPEECH GUN LOBBY EQUALITY KORRUPTION involved against the gun lobby, discrimination and corruption. 25 young people ETHICS DISCRIMINATION CLIMATE CHANGE fighting for a better world. Greta Thunberg is just sixteen when she CLIMATE CHANGE DEMOCRACY FREEDOM OF sparks off the global climate protests with her school strike. Fourteen-year-old Netiwit Choti- SPEECH GUN LOBBY EQUALITY KORRUPTION phatphaisal founds a newspaper to campaign DISCRIMINATION CLIMATE CHANGE CONSER- for democracy, freedom of speech and edu- cational reform in Thailand. Malala Yousafzai VATION ENVIRONMENT GUN LOBBY ETHICS writes a blog about the oppression of women in Pakistan when she is eleven years old. And CLIMATE CHANGE DEMOCRACY FREEDOM OF in the fourth grade at school, Felix Finkbeiner comes up with the idea that children in every SPEECH GUN LOBBY EQUALITY KORRUPTION country on Earth should plant a million trees. CONSERVATION ENVIRONMENT GUN LOBBY Young people all over the world are demons- trating their social commitment and bringing EDUCATION DEMOCRACY EQUALITY ETHICS about fundamental change. Their pioneering spirit is an inspiration to us all. CLIMATE CHANGE DEMOCRACY FREEDOM OF SPEECH GUN LOBBY EQUALITY KORRUPTION The environment, discrimination, education – ETHICS DISCRIMINATION CLIMATE CHANGE young people fight for a better world

Sales Christine Knödler Benjamin Knödler Spain (RBA Libros), Turkey (Peta Kitap) Benjamin Knödler born in 1991, studied philosophy and social scien- Felicitas Horstschäfer ces at Humboldt University in Berlin. He works as Young Rebels. • 25 portraits of dedicated children a freelance journalist and is the online and commu- 25 Jugendliche, die nity editor for the weekly newspaper Der Freitag. and teenagers from all over the world die Welt verändern Young Rebels Christine Knödler 25 Young People Who born in 1967, is a freelance journalist, critic and • Galvanises you to become active Are Changing the World moderator and lives in Munich. She writes and edits yourself for publishers, newspapers, magazines and the radio Color illustrations broadcaster Deutschlandfunk. throughout • For the Rebel Girls generation 160 pages Felicitas Horstschäfer From age 10 born in 1983. Since she gained her diploma from • Big social media campaign April 2020 FH Münster she has worked as a freelance graphic Felicitas Horstschäfer Joergensen T. Christian I Fotos: Killius, Nell © designer based in Berlin, specialising in book- cover design, illustration and book concepts. Illustrationen ©: Illustrationen

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