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Rights Guide Fiction Contemporary Literary Fiction | Debut Spring 2020 RIGHTS GUIDE FICTION CONTEMPORARY LITERARY FICTION | DEBUT OLIVIA WENZEL 1,000 Coils of Fear A young woman attends a play about the fall of the Berlin Wall – and realizes she is the only Black person in the audience. She and her boyfriend are hanging out by a lake outside Berlin – and four neo-Nazis show up. In New York, she is having sex with a stranger on the night of the 2016 presidential election – and wakes up to panicked texts from her friends in Germany about Donald Trump’s unlikely victory. Engaging in a witty Q&A with herself – or is it her alter ego? – she takes stock of our rapidly changing times, sometimes angry, sometimes amused, sometimes afraid, and always passionate. And she tells the story of her family: her mother, a punk in former East Germany who never had the freedom she dreamed of. Her Angolan father, who returned to his home country before she was born to start a second family. Her grandmother, whose life of obedience to party principles brought her prosperity and security but not happiness. And her twin brother, who took his own life at the age of nineteen. Heart-rending, opinionated, and wry, Olivia Wenzel’s remarkable debut novel is a clear-sighted and polyphonic investigation into Hardcover where we’re from and where we’re going, what it really means to 352 pages be the odd one out, what it really means to belong and what price March 4, 2020 wanting to belong can exact. S. Fischer Verlag Sample translation available ‘I have more privileges than anyone in my family ever had. And still I’m fucked I’m hated by more people than my grandmother can imagine. On the day of the German elections, I spend twenty minutes saying exactly this to try to talk her out of voting for a right-wing party.’ Olivia Wenzel Olivia Wenzel, born in Weimar in former East Germany in 1985, read Cultural Studies and Aesthetic Practice at the University of Hildesheim and now lives and works in Berlin. She writes drama and prose and makes music as Otis Foulie. Wenzel’s plays have been performed at leading theatres like Munich’s Kammerspiele, Hamburg’s Thalia Theater, Deutsches Theater Berlin and Ballhaus Naunynstrasse. Alongside her writing, she runs workshops for children and young adults. 1,000 Coils of Fear is her first novel. © Juliane Werner ____________________________________________________________________________________ S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2020 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights CONTEMPORARY LITERARY FICTION INGO SCHULZE The Righteous Murderers What turns an upstanding bibliophile into a reactionary... or a revolutionary? A disturbing tale about all of us. Norbert Paulini is a highly respected antiquarian books dealer in Dresden whose shop attracts booklovers searching for treasures and likeminded people. As times change and customers grow rare, he continues to defend his position. But Paulini is suddenly transformed into an irascible dogmatist and accused of taking part in xenophobic riots. This brilliant piece of sleight of hand turns the story on its head. Is Paulini a reactionary or a revolutionary, a tragic figure or a murderer? Ingo Schulze pulls the rug out from under us in virtuoso fashion. How can a reader and booklover become a right-wing criminal? This is storytelling as its most ingenious and disconcerting. Ingo Schulze’s works have been translated into 30 languages.tlist German Book Prize 272 pp. Hardcover March 4, 2020 “Ingo Schulze is a ‘great storyteller’.” S.Fischer Verlag Günter Grass Sample translation available Rights sold to Peter Holtz: F (Fayard), I (Feltrinelli), RUM “This is not reunification; this is world literature.” (Europress, SLOW (Hronka) Die Welt on Neue Leben Shortlist Leipzig Book Prize Ingo Schulze was born in Dresden in 1962 and lives in Berlin. His books – 33 Moments of Happiness, Simple Stories, New Life, Adam and Evelyne and, most recently, Peter Holtz. His Own Account of A Happy Life – have been hugely successful, feature on school syllabuses and have been made into films. He has won numerous German and international awards including the Joseph Breitbach Prize, the Leipzig Book Fair Prize, the Peter Weiss Prize, the Premio Grinzane Cavour and the Bertolt Brecht Prize. ____________________________________________________________________________________ © Gaby Gerster S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2020 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights CONTEMPORARY LITERARY FICTION ILIYA TROYANOV Two Tracks A journey into the labyrinth of power Investigative journalist Iliya is contacted by two whistleblowers from the US and Russian intelligence services within a few minutes of each other. Scoop or trap? He and his American colleague Boris play along and become involved in a two-track investigation that leads them to Hong Kong, Vienna, New York and Moscow. The leaked documents lay bare an abyss of corruption, deceit and collusion between criminal oligarchs and the mafia, implicating the American and Russian heads of state. How much is to be believed? Who wins if lies are propagated? Are the two reporters merely pawns in the hands of the intelligence services? The last to join their team is Emi, a journalist who has made a documentary film about sexual abuse of women and children. Is it merely a coincidence that some of the perpetrators’ names crop up in the leaked intelligence documents? With his unique literary brilliance, Iliya Troyanov juggles fact and fiction in this novel and highlights, as if in passing, how fake news has turned us into accomplices of those in power. 288 pp., Hardcover July 29, 2020 The new novel by international bestselling author S.Fischer Verlag Iliya Troyanov (The Collector of Worlds) explores a web Sample translation available of corruption and collusion between the United States and Russia. Rights to previous titles sold to (selection): Kampfabsage: BG (Ciela), Arabic (Mahrousa/Egypt), IND (English: Yoda); Meine Olympiade: PL (Sonia Draga), TWN (Business Weekly); Macht und Widerstand: BG (Ciela), CZ (Akropolis), DK (Tiderne Skifter), E (Acantilado), NL (De Geus), TR (CAN), TWN (Business Weekly); EisTau: BG (Ciela), BR (Companhia das Letras), DK (Tiderne Skifter), E (Spanish + Catalan: Rayo Verde), F (Libella), NL (De Geus), SVN (Studentska Zalozba), UK/USA (Verso); Der Weltensammler: published in 23 countries Iliya Troyanov was born in Sofia (Bulgaria) in 1965 and fled to Germany with his family in 1971 via Yugoslavia and Italy. Having spent periods of time in Kenya, Paris, Munich, Mumbai and Cape Town, he now lives in Vienna. His novels and travel books have enjoyed critical acclaim and commercial success and won numerous prizes. His most recent books with S. Fischer are his epic novel Power and Resistance, his bestselling non-fiction account My Olympiad, and Fleeing, And Then?, part memoir, part political essay. ____________________________________________________________________________________ S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2020 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights CONTEMPORARY LITERARY FICTION UWE PREUSS A Hop, Skip and a Jump Three Generations. Father, grandfather, the author himself. Professional traders. And many women. Busy. The men. Places of this life: Dresden, São Paulo, Prague, Budapest, West Berlin. Preuss becomes an actor. Where do you actually come from? Where are you at home? “First and foremost, with myself!” Born in Dresden, 1961. Grandad a certified ne’er-do-well. Grandma makes every shopping trip an adventure. Five years in São Paulo with mum and dad. They had their own system. Thanks. Apprenticed as an industrial manager: I’m not stamping all five hundred of these effing dockets. I’d rather be a grave digger. A job requiring no previous knowledge. Main thing no more offices. Kathrin is at the theatre already. Perfect working 176 pp., Hardcover hours. But unless I’ve done military service they won’t let me near March 4, 2020 drama school. So Christmas 1984 it’s the German embassy in S.Fischer Verlag Prague. Emigration. But straight back in for the carnival and for Sample translation available love. And straight back out. Lucky break. “Everything superfluous must be cut. No-one wants it all explaining. Not even the senses.” Uwe Preuss The son of a project engineer and a technical draftswoman, Uwe Preuss grew up in East Germany and Brazil. He tried a multitude of careers, with continual fresh starts: industrial management in the planned economy, boilerman for a church guest house, canteen manager for construction workers, warehouse manager at a steel works, crate builder at a steam sawmill, and accountant, before leaving for West Berlin. There he studied acting. From 1991 he joined the Dresden theatre company and the Berliner Ensemble. Since 2005 he has been freelance, performing on major German stages. For the last ten years he has mainly worked in front of a film camera. © Volker Roloff ____________________________________________________________________________________ S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2020 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights CONTEMPORARY LITERARY FICTION | BERLIN THORSTEN NAGELSCHMIDT WORK Twelve hours on the edges of Berlin’s nightlife In a Kreuzberg hostel, Sheriff is starting his night shift and once again feels like an underpaid social worker. In the corner shop next door, Anna is being robbed for the third time this year. Ten, the bouncer at Lobotomy, is standing in front of the club and realizes that his work schedule threatens
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