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www.suhrkamp.de/foreignrights Authors and Estates represented by Suhrkamp/Insel A selection

Theodor W. Adorno Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Angelika Neuwirth Robert Alexy Jürgen Habermas Juri Andruchowytsch Anna Katharina Hahn Albert Ostermaier Friedrich Ani Michael Hampe Katja Petrowskaja Andreas Pflüger Zsófia Bán Marion Poschmann Wolfgang Bauer Heinz Helle Doron Rabinovici Ulrich Beck Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Andreas Reckwitz Jurek Becker Dieter Henrich Bärbel Reetz Ulla Berkéwicz Christoph Ribbat Hartmut Rosa Barbara Beuys Ludwig Hohl Ralf Rothmann Axel Honneth Sasha Marianna Salzmann Ernst Bloch Eva Illouz Judith Schalansky Hans Blumenberg Rahel Jaeggi Wilhelm Schmid Felix Bohr Uffa Jensen Gershom Scholem Karl Heinz Bohrer Hans Joas Lutz Seiler Szilárd Borbély Clemens J. Setz Friedrich von Borries Hans Jonas Peter Sloterdijk Nora Bossong Dževad Karahasan Manfred Sommer Anna Kim Andrzej Stasiuk Esther Kinsky Maria Stepanova Julia Kissina Wolfgang Streeck Simone Buchholz Carlo Strenger Bernd Cailloux Peter Szondi Siegfried Kracauer Uwe Tellkamp Ann Cotten Benjamín Labatut Philipp Ther Sigrid Damm Christian Lehnert Stephan Thome Zoltán Danyi Svenja Leiber Hans Traxler László Darvasi Gertrud Leutenegger Hans-Ulrich Treichel Ljubko Deresch Galsan Tschinag Ulrike Edschmid Niklas Luhmann Ernst Tugendhat Nana Ekvtimishvili Thomas Macho Peter Turrini Enis Maci Siegfried Unseld Urs Faes Nicolas Mahler Kevin Vennemann Erika Fischer-Lichte Andreas Maier Marieluise Fleißer Philipp Manow Rainer Forst Friederike Mayröcker Manfred Frank Thomas Meinecke Philipp Weiss Robert Menasse Lambert Wiesing Valerie Fritsch Christoph Menke Markus Gabriel Winfried Menninghaus Katharina Winkler Steinweg Heike Photo: Gunther Geltinger Andreas Michalsen André Georgi Alice Miller Raul Zelik Dagmar von Gersdorff Heiner Müller Serhij Zhadan Stefan Müller-Doohm Ulf Erdmann Ziegler Durs Grünbein Melinda Nadj Abonji Slavoj Žižek Literary Fiction Literary Fiction

»Where others might still be searching for the appropriate language to capture and describe the mess of the big wide Nora Bossong Longlisted for the SZ world, Bossong has found it in that very place.« German Book Rules of Engagement Prize 2019 »You don’t even know what people are capable of when they’re not crying.«

2017: After postings with the UN in New Nora Bossong York and Burundi, Mira is working for Rules of Engagement the United Nations Office at and (Original title: Schutzzone. mediates talks on the reunification of Roman) Cyprus. At a reception at the luxury hotel 332 pages Beau-Rivage, she encounters Milan, with Clothbound whose family she has lived for a few months September 2019 after her parents’ separation in 1994. Even though Milan is married with a son and is International Sales: soon going to move his family to The Hague,

r Netherlands (Wereld- the two begin an affair. bibliotheek); Domestic 2012-2017: During her years of working Rights Sales: German for the UN, Mira has often asserted herself (DAV) against the doubts of her superiors and was deployed to conflict areas time and again. Steinweg Heike Photo: Nora Bossong, born in 1982 One of her talents has helped her with that: in Bremen, is a writer of poetry, Mira gets the most tight-lipped people to talk and essays, and has – generals, militiamen, important politicians »Nora Bossong is one of been the recipient of several who unexpectedly confide in her. During her the intellectually most awards for these, including time in war-torn Burundi, Mira covered for a the Peter Huchel Prize, the general who had taken part in a massacre for stimulating and curious Art Prize Berlin and the Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis months because she believed that he could voices of her generation.« 2019. Her works have been be an important agent in the democratic Denis Scheck translated into various restoration of the country. But in light of the languages. renewed crisis the country finds itself in, her Selected Backlist: decision seems all the more unjustified. Her actions in the past could not just have ethical Kreuzzug mit Hund (2018) International Sales: English but also legal consequences in the present. world rights (Seagull) Rules of Engagement is told in premoni- tions and flashbacks from Mira’s perspec- tive. In her masterfully crafted novel, Nora Bossong explores fundamental questions in private relationships as well as on the grand stage of politics in a clear-sighted and empathetic manner and juxtaposes the conflicts of the past with the hopes for reconciliation. What do trust and responsibility mean? In what way are protection and authority intertwined? »Nora Bossong finds poetic images for the How does testimony relate to truth? Who sits in judgement on that? And is dilemmas of our time.« Frankfurter Rundschau peace a corruptible makeshift solution or something that can succeed permanently after all?

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Emma Braslavsky Ann Cotten The Night Was Pale, the Lights Lyophilia Were Twinkling »We wanted to be better, but at the same time An urban with a morbid sense of humour didn’t want to change.«

Berlin, in a near future. The city thrives Emma Braslavsky Ann Cotten has grown up, a fact which Ann Cotten thanks to the Hubot industry: Robotics The Night Was Pale, the catapults us somewhat into the future. She Lyophilia companies create artificial partners indis- Lights Were Twinkling claims that all she is interested in now is (Original title: Lyophilia) tinguishable from real humans; every kind Novel a constructive approach to a functioning, 463 pages (Original title: Die Nacht Clothbound of wish for a relationship can be fulfilled, reasonable life for everyone (if possible). war bleich, die Lichter March 2019 unconditional private bliss and the complete A philanthropic robot, so to speak. But her blinkten. Roman) abolition of loneliness are just about to strangely labyrinthine yet overly respectful 270 pages Rights available become reality. But the number of suicides Clothbound way of confronting problems still shows has increased tenfold. Because the new traces of the experiences she gathered as a August 2019 Ann Cotten, born in Iowa in beings have mastered the art of simulating young poet. 1982, grew up in . She love, but they can’t take any responsibility Rights available In Proteus both the eternally young has been living in Berlin since for those they live with. More and more 2006. In 2011, she spent four protagonist and his lover, a successful people perish of social alienation. That’s why Emma Braslavsky, born months in Nagoya, Japan. For Slovenian politician with two children, are Roberta comes on the market: She is designed in Erfurt in 1971, has been her first poetry , working as a free-lance author exported into a parallel universe in which Fremdwörterbuchsonette to find the relatives of the people who have and curator since 1999. In any thought at all becomes reality. (2007), she was awarded the committed suicide to save the social welfare 2007, her debut novel Aus In the meantime, however, the aging Reinhard Preissnitz Prize and department the funeral costs. If she fails, she dem Sinn was awarded the the Prize inhabitants of the settlement asteroid Amore will be taken apart and her components sold Uwe-Johnson-Advancement for Literature of the city of (KAFUN), which went bankrupt shortly after to manufacturers of domestic robots. And Award as well as the Franz Heidelberg. For Florida-Räume Tumler Literary Prize and its foundation, continue to hold to clichés (2010), she received the not everyone is invested in the success of her was nominated for the and running gags. They hope to discover an Hermann Hesse Literature investigations. Buddenbrookhaus Debut Prize. end to grief, which proves to be a greater Prize. In 2014, Ann Cotten was Her second novel, Das Blaue danger than being without the Internet, awarded the Adelbert-von- Emma Braslavsky takes a look into the vom Himmel über dem Atlantik, Chamisso-Prize; in 2015, she cosmic radiation or humanitarian instant night life of a city and takes us on the was published in 2008. Emma was the first recipient of the noodles combined. However, an Antigone- dark side of an energetic metropolis. Her Braslavsky lives in Berlin. newly founded Klopstock-Prize like mission saves the heroes from going to for Contemporary Literature. novel is an urban fairy tale and crime Selected Backlist: ground in their own survival. In 2017, she was awarded the story in one and talks about the radicali- Hugo-Ball-Prize for her œuvre. zation of the individual, about the fine Leben ist keine Art mit A collection of stories like a shot in the einem Tier umzugehen line between natural and artificial life knee. What Ann Cotten has somewhat Selected Backlist: (2016) and about the omnipotence of algorithms cheekily referred to as » fiction Verbannt (2016) in a witty and fast-paced manner. on a Hegelian basis« over the last few Der schaudernde Fächer years has finally arrived.Lyophilia is like (2013) International Sales: the special effects in a Tarkovsky film: a Netherlands (Leesmagazijn)

formulation held up to the real world, Florida-Räume (2010) where, once the possibly realistic has Photo: Inge Zimme rmann Inge Photo: Photo: Stefan Klüter Stefan Photo: come to an end, hot and throbbing emo- tion bursts forth. »Everything gets better, and this is especially true for »Politics, philosophy and intelligent machines. Emma Braslavsky explores the aesthetic calculation come consequences of this in an intelligent novel.« together in oscillating Paul Jandl, Neue Zürcher Zeitung structures which are as engaged in revolt as they are in beauty.« From the decision of the jury for the Hugo-Ball-Prize 2017 4 5 Literary Fiction

Helga Bürster Luzie’s Legacy A big, forbidden love in tumultuous times

Shortly after the invasion of Poland in the Helga Bürster autumn of 1939 the Polish soldier Jurek Luzie’s Legacy Mazur is captured and deported to Northern Novel as a forced labourer. He ends up (Original title: Luzies on a farm in Lower . Concurrently, Erbe. Roman) 288 pages the novel tells the story of the rural worker Clothbound Luzie Krusenbusch and her family. The September 2019 Krusenbusch family is long-established in the village and fully integrated. This changes Rights available when it becomes known that Luzie is pregnant with Jurek Mazur’s first and later Helga Bürster, born in 1961, his second child. After that, the young family grew up in a village near lives in constant mortal danger because Bremen, where she lives again relations between Germans and forced today. She studied Theatre labourers constitute »racial defilement«, a Studies, Literary History and criminal offence. With the help of Luzie’s History, worked as an editor for father, who knows the police officer in radio and television, and has been a freelance author since charge, they survive and are married in 1996. Her publications include July 1945. But it is not a happy end. Jurek works of non-fiction, crime is mobbed by the village. And then Luzie’s novels, and radio dramas. fiancé, who was presumed dead, returns to the village. When Luzie dies 70 years later, her Helga Bürster describes with wonder- granddaughter Johanne decides to explore ful delicacy and in a deeply moving way the story of her grandparents in more detail how a fate can outlast decades and how in order to put an end to the family’s long staying silent about the past over-shad- silence. Johanne knows about Jurek, but he ows a family. She talks about four gen- remains a spectre that no one ever talks erations of strong women – and about »When Luzie realized that they were no about. When she finally finds out Jurek’s how it’s never too late for reconciliation. longer German, she cared little about it in address and goes to visit him, she finds him desolate and lonely. He is already suffering this first summer of peace that was like from the early stages of dementia; but a waltz and smelt of wheat. What did it Johanne still recognizes a few pieces of the matter? They had survived the war.« puzzle in his confused stories. In the end, Based on a true story she knows more, but not everything. Yet what she discovers is enough to make peace A German family history across with the family history and the whispers in the village that have lasted to this day. four generations of women

For readers of Dörte Hansen and Katharina Hagena

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Gunther Geltinger Kristin Höller Fuel Better Than Anywhere Else A gripping road trip through southern Africa Existential, comforting, captivating A brilliant novel about growing up

This isn’t the first time Alexander and Vinz Gunther Geltinger It starts like a road movie: Martin and his best Kristin Höller have taken a trip together because their Fuel friend Noah are driving along the autobahn Better Than Anywhere relationship has reached a crisis point. The Novel in a rented van. Their cargo: the spear of the Else road trip through South Africa is meant to (Original title: Benzin. bronze Athena on König Square in , Novel give them clarity, and Vinz, the writer, hopes Roman) a trophy of an ecstatic summer’s night. Six (Original title: Schöner als 377 pages überall. Roman) to get a new idea for a novel. Careening past hours later they are back at the places of Clothbound 219 pages street markets, Chicken Inns and hitchhikers, their childhood: The play streets, the fennel March 2019 Clothbound the two Germans make their way through a fields, the gravel quarry they left behind August 2019 country where wealth and poverty collide, years ago. Mugo is back too, smart, angry Rights available where homosexuality is taboo, and where Mugo who always dreamed about escaping Rights available they must face up to the part they too play in the backwoods and infected Martin with Gunther Geltinger was born the general obliviousness of the white tourist. in 1974 in Erlenbach, and that dream. She wanted to leave the small Kristin Höller, born in 1996, After running into a young man, they are currently lives in . He town, the apartment block with a view of the grew up in Bonn and has dragged ever deeper into contradictions: on studied Script-Writing and single-family homes and carports. Now she been studying Philology, the one hand, they feel responsible towards Drama at the University of works at the petrol station on the outskirts Literary and Cultural Studies him and pay him when he offers to be their Music and Performing Arts in of the town and doesn’t want anything to do in since 2015. She Vienna and at the Academy of worked freelance for numerous guide. On the other, their new companion with Martin. Even Noah becomes a stranger Media Arts in Cologne. newspapers and magazines, increases the tension between them, and His critically-acclaimed debut in the familiar environment. Left to his was the Artist in Residence Vinz begins to fear more and more for their Mensch Engel was published in own devices, Martin is forced to rethink his at the Prosanova Festival in own safety. When he finally comes upon an 2008, followed by his second relationship with his origins. 2017. She is the winner of the idea for his novel that will take him to the novel, Moor, in 2013; Fuel is his In her debut novel, Kristin Höller talks about Audience Award and the Preis third novel. Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, all three toss growing up, empathetic and witty: about des Buchhandels at the 10. Poet|bewegt as well as the their original plans to the wind. Selected Backlist: vulnerability, curiosity, about love and anger, prize of the about big plans and the dead ends they often festival Literaare 2018. Since With Fuel Gunther Geltinger articulately Moor (2013) International lead to. She talks about the determination of October 2017 she has been co- and hauntingly depicts what it means for Sales: English world rights the mothers and the pressure of the fathers’ organiser of OstKap, a series one’s own world to fall apart. He spells (Seagull) expectations, about the end of a friendship of for contemporary out the inner turmoil of his figures in literature in Dresden. Better and the beauty of small-town train stations. twenty-six chapters, from A to Z, while Than Anywhere Else is her first Existential, comforting, captivating. conjuring up atmospheric images that, novel. little by little, lead to a larger whole – a story about stereotypes and sovereign- ty, trust and betrayal. Photo: Jürgen Bauer Jürgen Photo: Steinweg Heike Photo:

»The world of Fuel is hopeless, but it is crafted brilliantly.« »The idea that everyone used to be a child once, Christoph Schröder, Süddeutsche Zeitung that everyone used to have parents who maybe cried with emotion when they were born, every »Fuel is an existential novel, disturbing, gripping, pervaded by soldier, every president, every janitor – all of this brutality and desire, shaped by profound humaneness. gives me such a vague sense of the contradictions, And it’s a linguistic masterpiece. A great book written by an of all the false bottoms underneath us and the important author.« Dirk Kruse, BR certainty that everything is somehow connected.«

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Dževad Karahasan Sibylle Lewitscharoff A House for the Wearied From Above Masterful short stories by one of the great European writers The new novel from the recipient of the Georg-Büchner-Prize

Sarajevo, September 1914. In a newspaper Dževad Karahasan »Before death. After death. Those are two Sibylle Lewitscharoff editorial office, at the national bank and in A House for the Wearied fundamentally different ways of experiencing From Above other official locations, letters arrive with Five Stories and looking at one’s own existence. I know Novel considerable delay, often years later. Yet it (Original Bosnian title: what I’m talking about, because I am above.« (Original title: Von oben) is not the war that has thrown the imperial Kuća za umorne. Pjesme o Sibylle Lewitscharoff’s narrator is looking 240 pages ljubavi u smrti) Clothbound and royal mail into confusion, but rather down onto his own grave, the bereaved (Translated German title: September 2019 a postman in love who has fallen on the friends and neighbours, onto the strange Ein Haus für die Müden. battlefield of the world war just unfolding. and the familiar in the city that is moaning Fünf Geschichten) Rights available under the oppressive heat from a bird’s-eye Love and loss, progress and memory are the 239 pages view. With no body and no will of his own themes of these five long short stories with Clothbound Selected Backlist: Release of the German he drifts through the sky above Berlin, which Dževad Karashan leaves the far-distant by Suhrkamp: appears here and there, a silent messenger, Abraham trifft Ibrahîm (2018) epoch of the setting of his opus magnum, International Sales: Russia January 2019 witness to beautiful and horrible things, The Solace of the Night Sky and returns to the (Medina) with supernatural hearing and vision, but twentieth century. Communism arrives in Rights available condemned to the complete inability to Das Pfingstwunder (2016) the backwoods of Bosnia. In the small towns, act. His memories are sketchy, his future surrounded by lonely, majestic landscapes, , born in Dževad Karashan uncertain. What can he hope, what does International Sales: Karahasan’s protagonists sense that a time Duvno, Yugoslavia, in 1953, he have to fear: Hell? Purgatory? Heavenly English world rights is beginning in which there will not be a lives in Graz and Sarajevo. He is a great romancer, short story paradise? (Seagull), France place for them any more. They are in denial – writer, a dramatist, essayist (Piranha); Domestic radical old men, stubbornly facing the world, and academic. His works have In her new novel, Sibylle Lewitscharoff – »the Rights Sales: German insisting on their right to dream, to grieve, been translated into more than shrewd lock keeper between this mortal world Audiobook (Audi- and to be tired, quite simply. ten languages. In 2004, he was and the beyond« (Süddeutsche Zeitung) – obuch); German Entire awarded the Book Prize fearlessly questions our conception of God Letters that do not reach their destina- for European Understanding. Radio (NDR) and our existence, our perception of self tion because death and world history and world, of living and dying. At the end get in the way of love, are a leitmotif in Selected Backlist: Apostoloff (2009) International of this bold journey of the soul through Sales: English world rights A House for the Wearied. Karahasan de- Što pepeo priča (Simurg contemporary Berlin, into the intermediate (Seagull), Spanish world rights scribes growing older – a looking back at Media, 2015) (German: Der (Hidalgo), Chinese simplex Trost des Nachthimmels, realm of the living and the dead, every sense a world changing more quickly than the rights (Beijing Qingyan), Suhrkamp 2016) International of order is dissolved: It ends in an apotheosis individuals in it can keep up with. Chinese complex rights (China Sales: Chinese simplex that holds a surprising understanding of Times ), France rights (Shanghai Translation ourselves. (Piranha), Italy (Del Vecchio Publishing House), Bulgaria Editore), Hungary (Bookart), (Paradox), Slovenia (Beletrina), Sibylle Lewitscharoff, born in in 1954, Bulgaria (Atlantis), Republic of (Iletisim), Greece lives in Berlin. Moldova / Romanian Rights »A brilliant storyteller.« (Hestia), Iran (Donya-e- (Cartier), Estonia (Atlex), Der Standard Eqtesad), Part 1: Macedonia Serbia (Presing Izdavastvo), (Templum) Photo: Jürgen Bauer Jürgen Photo: Photo: Claus Gretter Photo: Macedonia (Ars Lamina); »An event of the decade.« Domestic Rights Sales: German NZZ about The Solace of the Night Sky Book Club (Bertelsmann), »Lewitscharoff’s great mastery consists of blending realistic German Audiobook (Der narration with the sphere of the supernatural in such a way that Hörverlag) even the world beyond the rationally perceptible seems entirely rational and believable.« Sigrid Löffler

»Sibylle Lewitscharoff is a linguistic temptress.« Joachim Dicks, NDR

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Benjamín Labatut Blind Light Strayings of Science

In his literary exploration Blind Light, Benjamín Labatut Benjamín Labatut writes about the fine line Blind Light between genius and insanity and about the Strayings of Science ambivalence of scientific discoveries in four (Original title: Un Verdor chapters that are as sensuous as they are Terrible, to be published by Anagrama, Barcelona bizarre. The text portrays the life of scientists in 2020) Fritz Haber, Werner Heisenberg, Alexander (Title of the German Grothendieck and Erwin Schrödinger as edition by Suhrkamp: Das that of daredevil dreamers and passionate BENJAMÍN blinde Licht. Irrfahrten der trailblazers. We read of their Eureka!- LABATUT Wissenschaft ) moments, their triumphant epiphanies, approx. 184 pages but also of their ethical shortcomings, their Clothbound mental lows and their narcissism. With Release of the German virtuosity, in rich and strikingly vivid detail, edition by Suhrkamp in Labatut unlocks historic connections and D A S Spring 2020 writes, seemingly en passant, a history of BLINDE 20th-century European science that is not LICHT International Sales: UK only shaped by the great wars, but that, & ANZ (Pushkin Press), Irrfahrten in turn, also has a major influence on the der Wissenschaft Suhrkamp Spanish world rights course of those wars. A literary gem about (Anagrama), Portu- human eccentricity and the glorious yet guese rights (Elsinore), terrifying power of science. France (Seuil), Italy (Adelphi), Netherlands (Atlas|Contact) »Among the few possessions Fritz Haber had with him when he Benjamín Labatut was born in died was a letter written to his wife. In it, he confessed that he Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in felt an unbearable guilt; not for the part he had played, directly 1980. He grew up in The Hague and Buenos Aires and currently or indirectly, in the death of untold human beings, but because lives and works in Santiago de his method of extracting nitrogen from the air had so altered Chile. His literary works have the natural equilibrium of the planet that he feared the world’s been awarded various prizes, including the 2013 Premio future belonged not to mankind, but to plants, as all that was Municipal de Literatura de needed was a drop in population to premodern levels for just Santiago de Chile. When We Cease to Understand the World a few decades to allow them to grow without limit, taking is his third book. advantage of the excess nutrients humanity had bestowed upon them to spread out across the earth, increase in number, be fruitful, multiply, and finally cover it completely, suffocating all forms of life beneath a terrible verdure.«

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Andreas Maier Clemens J. Setz The Family The Comfort of Round Things On the madness of family life On the absurd and the grotesque of human coexistence

Andreas Maier describes the self- Andreas Maier An Alsatian soldier in the First World War Clemens J. Setz destruction of the familial idyll in a highly The Family discovers the constellation of the Great The Comfort of Round comical and profound way. Where the Novel Young Kid in the night sky, but it is so Things ancestors used to drink the family’s own (Original title: Die Familie. awful that he can’t tell anyone about it. A Stories apple cider, most comfortably it seems, Roman) young man, who has fallen in love with the With illustrations 166 pages (Original title: Der surrounded by fruit trees and chickens and blind Anja, discovers that her apartment is Clothbound Trost runder Dinge. goats, the later generations have to deal with covered with insults from floor to ceiling. June 2019 Erzählungen) inheritances, a huge plot of land, a malicious Marcel, sixteen years old, leaves his mobile 320 pages monument preservation office, excavator number behind in the toilet-stall of a sex Rights available Clothbound operator in tow, with weird children and shop along with the name Suzy. February 2019 chaotic grandchildren constantly – or so it Andreas Maier, born in Bad The completely unexpected smashes into seems. Everybody appears infected with a Nauheim in 1967, lives in International Sales: destructive virus until the narrator, born in the lives of Clemens J. Setz’ figures. Their . Among numerous France (Jacqueline 1967, finally realizes as a representative of other honors, he was awarded creator compassionately, almost tender- Chambon), Denmark his entire generation: »We are the children of the ZDF aspekte Prize, the ly, tells their stories. Through trapdoors Robert Gernhardt Prize, the (Vandkunsten), Greece the children of silence.« The understanding he allows us glimpses into the puzzling Prize and the occurrences and secret abysses of eve- (Gutenberg); Domestic of his own family history begins in front of a Franz Hessel Prize. tombstone, far beyond the familiar city. ryday life, while we run into revenants Rights Sales: German Selected Backlist: and sentences that make us click our Audiobook (Griot) tongues. The Comfort of Round Things is Die Universität (2018) a book full of will-o-the-wisps and false Clemens J. Setz, born 1982, Der Kreis (2016) floors – radically told and full of thrilling lives in Graz. Der Ort (2015) International details. Prizes and distinctions »Maier’s are slim; Sales: Italy (Del Vecchio), (selection): marking the by-now familiar Denmark (Batzer) »›I was never sixteen.‹ Berliner Literaturpreis 2019 Die Straße (2013) with sketch-like sentences ›You weren’t?‹ Literaturpreis der Steiermark International Sales: Italy (Del 2017 they prefer instead to deepen Vecchio), Denmark (Rosenkilde ›No. Why should I have been? I simply themselves in analytical & Bahnhof) upgraded from fourteen to eighteen, Wilhelm Raabe-Literaturpreis 2015 observations that circle around Das Haus (2011) International bam, like that.‹ Longlisted for the German Book Sales: Italy (Del Vecchio), And Gregor smiled, which made the self.« Die Welt Prize 2015 (for Die Stunde Denmark (Rosenkilde & endearing little wrinkles appear around zwischen Frau und Gitarre) Bahnhof) »Andreas Maier continues his his eyes. Literaturpreis des Kulturkreises Das Zimmer (2010) ›Ah, I see‹, I said, though I didn’t der deutschen Wirtschaft 2013 International Sales: English eleven-part Heimat saga, as Shortlisted for the German world rights digital (Frisch understand a thing.« Book Prize 2012 (for Indigo) excellent as it is profound.« & Co.), Spanish world rights Frankfurter Rundschau (Adriana Hidalgo), Italy (Del Prize 2011 Photo: Max Zerrahn Photo: Photo: Markus Kirchgessner Markus Photo: Vecchio), Denmark (Rosenkilde (for Die Liebe zur Zeit des & Bahnhof), Norway (Hovde Mahlstädter Kindes) » Each of his […] memory sketches is chosen with care. And & Brekke), Czech Republic Selected Backlist: Literature Prize of the City of (Archa), Macedonia (Goten) [each of them] unfailingly leads to metaphysical Proust-like Die Stunde zwischen Frau und Gitarre (2015) International Sales: Spanish world rights (Malpaso), Bremen 2010 France (Jacqueline Chambon), Italy (La Nave di Teseo), Bulgaria (Paradox) Shortlisted for the German moments.« Gerrit Bartels, Der Tagesspiegel Indigo (2012) International Sales: USA (W. W. Norton / Liveright), UK (Serpent’s Tail), Chinese complex rights Book Prize 2009 (for Die (China Times), Japan (Kokusho Kankokai), France (Jacqueline Chambon), Denmark (Vandkunsten), Czech Republic Frequenzen) (Fra), Hungary (Europa), Bulgaria (Funtasy), Croatia (Hena Com) Ernst-Willner-Preis 2008 at Die Liebe zur Zeit des Mahlstädter Kindes (2011) International Sales: world rights (Al‘Asreya), the Ingeborg-Bachmann- France (Jacqueline Chambon), Denmark (Vandkunsten), Czech Republic (Fra), Hungary (Europa), Wettbewerb Bulgaria (Funtasy), Romania (Univers), Macedonia (Blesok) 14 15 Literary Fiction

Deniz Utlu Towards Morning What is the cost of life?

When Kara flies from Berlin to Frankfurt, Deniz Utlu the plane gets caught up in a heavy Towards Morning thunderstorm. In face of the looming crash, Novel he suddenly sees Ramón sitting a few rows in (Original title: Gegen front of him. Ramón, who was never invited Morgen. Roman) 269 pages but still came, who stayed on the couch in Clothbound Kara’s and Kara’s best friend Vince’s kitchen September 2019 until he disappeared from one day to the next. After the emergency landing, Kara Rights available restlessly returns to Berlin where he sets out on the search for Ramón and therefore on Deniz Utlu, born in Hanover retraces his own past. He finds the long-lost in 1983, studied Economics in friend in an estate of prefabricated houses Berlin and . From 2003 and offers him to move into Vince’s former to 2014 he was the publisher room. That’s where Ramón is paid a visit of freitext, a magazine on by some strangers one night. Shortly after culture and society. His debut that he disappears again. Kara realises that novel Die Ungehaltenen (The Indignant) was published in Ramón is gone for good when he follows 2014 and was adapted for him to Paris but finds nothing but a city in the stage at the Maxim Gorki turmoil. Theatre in Berlin in 2015. From In Towards Morning, Deniz Utlu presents 2017 to 2019 he wrote the a profound shock and asks what defines column Einträge ins Logbuch (Entries to the Logbook) for the us: that which we have left behind or that newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. which lies ahead of us. In shimmering In addition, he is the author images he traces the mistakes and the of plays, poetry and essays potentials of a life as well as humanity, (for newspapers such as FAZ, which starts at the point where we don’t SZ, Der Tagesspiegel und pay attention to ourselves but to others. Der Freitag). He conducts research at the German Institute for Human Rights and is the organiser of a series of readings entitled Prosa der Verhältnisse at the Maxim Gorki Theatre. Photo: Heike Steinweg Heike Photo:

Atmospheric and moving, full of overtones and nuances Letters & Poetry 16 18 Verlag in2011. Fioretos,Aris was publishedby Suhrkamp collected works ofNelly Sachs, edited by complete andcommentated edition of the A countries. been publishedinnumerous works andvolumes ofselected poemshave Representative collected editionsofthe topicality ofNelly Sachs’ oeuvre. power,bear witnessto the and spirituality by worldinspired the her around and to poemshave musicanddramatic been haveCountless poemsofhers beenset toword communicate isrequired this. power andthe lyrical oneanother ofthe hurt Sachs topical remains for aslong aspeople correspondences. her estate, asevidenced by exhaustive the Enzensberger, whom she named trustee of Unseld Siegfried andHansMagnus with languages. alively She maintained exchange 40 has beentranslated into than more have herwork fact that to contributed the mostSwedish of all Selma Lagerlöf, authors, poetry. ButNelly Sachs’ associationwith Paul Celandeeply authors’ influencedboth with relationship andartistic close personal and , Metamorphosis world: received the profound reception throughout Shoah,haveby experience ofthe the Sachs’ volumes ofpoetry, influenced greatly editions and memorial events.editions andmemorial May 2020, various with itsauthor honours ofpoet Nelly death ofthe Sachs anniversary in 50th On the Sachs Nelly great lamentsofliterature, but great the feeling which ofmourning message ofsolaceto allthose speech onthe bestowal ofthe Nobel Prize inspired you isfreehate from Sternverdunklung first and foremost. Her suffering ofman. suffering We honour you today asthe bearer ofa man.« In the Habitations ofDeath, Flightand »Your anddramatic lyrical writing nowwriting belongsto the and lendssublimityto the who despairofthe fate of Ingvar Andersson, laudatory Ingvar laudatory Andersson, Journey into aDustlessJourney Realm, Stockholm onMay 12,1970,the day ofPaul Celan’s funeral. Literature in1966together NellySachs diedin with SamuelAgnon. BookTradethe German in1965andwas awarded the for Nobel Prize citizen in1953.Shewas thewoman first receiveto the of Peace Prize she went into exile inSweden with hermother andbecameaSwedish the death In1940,after ofherfather,December 10,1891inBerlin. Nelly Sachson into was Jewish born ofentrepreneurs aliberal family

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Paul Celan Celan Year 2020 – 100th birthday and 50th anniversary of his death

»Actually, there is nothing I would rather do than writing letters.« Paul Celan »an entirely personal Paul Celan’s exceptional oeuvre of letters – half of them unpublished so far matter« Letters 1934-1970 An oeuvre, on par with the poetic works, of immense stylistic range Edited and commented by Biographically insightful and poetologically fruitful Barbara Wiedemann (Original title: »etwas ganz und gar Persönliches« Paul Celan, the most-interpreted German-speaking poet after 1945, is also the author of an Briefe 1934-1970) eminent opus of letters. In this edition, it becomes visible as its own oeuvre for the first time: approx. 1282 pages in 691 letters, 330 of them unpublished so far, to 252 addressees. Who are these addressees? Clothbound They are members of Celan’s family, women he loved, authors he was friends with, young Release: December 2019 and enthusiastic readers, fellow translators, French philosophers as well as German scholars and the employees of numerous publishing houses. All of these letters create a life in letters Rights available in chronological order spanning across four decades. Paul Celan was born in 1920 They show Celan as an exceptional correspondent with an immense stylistic range, dis- in Czernowitz and passed tinguished by his ability to defer to strangers. The letters reveal a multitude of thus far away in April 1970 in Paris. unknown biographic facts, allow for the specification of his poetology while showing him as He is internationally recognized a person in his ordinary everyday life at the same time. as one of the most important authors of the twentieth century.

Celan’s collected poems – for the first time in their entirety and with new commen- Paul Celan tary. Close to 60 more poems than the 2003 edition. Poems New complete and The history of their origins, sources, cross-references: broken down with summa- annotated edition ries and individual notes. Edited by Barbara Wiedemann. With 25 For Paul Celan reading was always an experience as well: the books, journals, and daily etchings by Gisèle Celan- newspapers he read were as much a source of his poems as personal encounters and Lestrange political events. When a complete and annotated edition of Celan’s poems first appeared (Original title: Die in 2003, the indexing of such sources was still at its beginning. In the meantime editions Gedichte. Neue kommentierte of his most important epistolary exchanges have been published, the critical editions Gesamtausgabe) have been completed, and research in Celan’s bequest library with its literary traces and 1.262 pages annotations has forged ahead. Clothbound July 2018 On this basis, the 2003 edition could be expanded by close to 60 poems, some of them appearing for the first time, and all of his texts underwent careful examination. The com- Rights available mentary has also been reorganized and expanded considerably, especially thanks to the Photo: Wolfgang Oschatz Wolfgang Photo: editor’s intensive research of Celan’s reading of the press. Special attention has been Barbara Wiedemann, literary paid – in line with his poetology – to the ›inscribed date‹ of every poem. With this new scholar and a professor at the edition the reader is given a great wealth of clearly demonstrable information for University of Tübingen, is the understanding Celan’s poetry. editor of Paul Celan’s works and letters. Biography, Memoirs & Diaries

20 Photo: Stephan Pramme own to liesinreturning future Germany. her together andhelpherunderstandthat Piece by family pieceherwords the bring way herpast. ofsetting upadialoguewith who were by Nazis, murdered the adirect to letters write: starts to hergrandparents sheneedsto overcome that silence.She the toshesuddenlyIn order survive, realizes escape to Jamaica she where almost dies … guys, wrong an debts,the too long,drugs, 1970sLondon.Thenights through drifts astableof herparents, life impossible she And yet, Maya wounds cannot escapethe Auschwitz things. aboutthese –nobodytalks Women’sas acellist inthe Orchestra of survived hermother Holocaust that the Maya past, grows upinsilence.TheGerman Breslau to Letter Taylorwith Downing Lasker-Wallfisch Maya past. always dependsonwhathappenedinthe together shereveals how one’s own history her life unravels. Now shehasputitback experiences transgenerational trauma and survived; Maya post-war in the generation were parents suffered but murdered; the generations ofonefamily. Thegrandparents impact Holocaustthe onthree ofthe exploration This bookisaunique of numerous prizes. prizes. numerous have productions received TV the Brink(2016).Hisfilmand (2012) and1983–TheWorld at Sky (2012),TheWorld atWar his works includeSpiesinthe books onhistorical subjects, He isthe author ofnumerous at the War Imperial Museum. Cambridge andwent onto work producer. in History Hestudied writerfreelance andfilm Taylor Downing isahistorian, other displacementtrauma. impacted by the and Holocaust people whoselives have been specialized inworking with and educator. Shehas psychoanalytic psychotherapist sheworksLondon where asa Maya Lasker-Wallfisch lives in Rights available Release: 2020 Spring Clothbound approx. 260pages Generationen) über drei MeineGeschichteBreslau. nach title:Briefe (Original Generations My StoryThree across Letter to Breslau T with Maya Lasker-Wallfisch aylor Downing Memoir 23 Biography Biography

Peter Goßens Philipp Lenhard Paul Celan Friedrich Pollock 100th birthday on November 23, 2020

Paul Celan’s work has been cultivated at Peter Goßens Philipp Lenhard’s book is the first biog- Philipp Lenhard Suhrkamp Verlag for more than six decades: Paul Celan raphy on Friedrich Pollock (1894–1970). Friedrich Pollock Numerous editions of the collected works Life, Work, Impact It talks about the life of a man who played The Éminence Grise of the and many volumes of letters attest to a (Original title: Paul Celan. a defining role in German-Jewish intel- Frankfurt School work that has had no equal in regard to its Leben, Werk, Wirkung) lectual history but always kept to the (Original title: Friedrich approx. 190 pages Pollock. Die graue Eminenz impact after 1945. But what was missing background. der Frankfurter Schule) until now was a topical, brief and illustrated The son of an industrialist who wanted Release: December 2019 approx. 382 pages introduction to the life, work, and impact of to abolish private property. A Jew who Clothbound the poet. didn’t want anything to do with Judaism. Rights available Release: November 2019 This gap has now been filled. With an A professor who published little. An illustrated biography and a clear account economist who squandered his wealth on Peter Goßens, born in 1966, Rights available of his poetry, prose and translations as the stock market. A communist who thought is a Professor of Comparative well as a reception history focused on the Marxism was anachronistic. And finally: Literary Studies at the Ruhr- Philipp Lenhard, born in most important aspects the introduction University Bochum. He was co- a critical intellectual. 1980, is an academic advisor by Peter Goßens on the 100th birthday and editor of the Celan exhibition When dealing with the political culture at the chair for Jewish History 50th anniversary of the death of the poet »›Displaced‹. Paul Celan in of the , the development and Culture at the Ludwig facilitates an initial engagement with Paul Vienna 1947–1948« at the of »Critical Theory« and German-Jewish Maximilian University of Munich. Jewish Museum Vienna (2001) Celan just as much as a more specialized emigration to the USA, there is no way He is the editor of the Collected and co-editor of the Celan Works by Friedrich Pollock. reading and biographical approaches. Handbook. For Suhrkamp around dealing with Friedrich Pollock. Max Verlag he has edited Celan’s Horkheimer’s companion and the founder of Ungaretti translations (2006). the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt The much-anticipated plays an important part in German- Jewish intellectual history as a prominent introduction on the »I think of you with all the representative of »Critical Theory«. occasion of the poet’s warmth and friendship, behind 100th birthday which is not just disposition and subjective behaviour, but that draws its substance from a long life that I can’t imagine without you.« Theodor W. Adorno

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Max Frisch Josef Winkler Questionnaire The City Chronicler of Kolkata »What are you missing in order to be happy?« Exploring Kolkata with Josef Winkler – a brilliant text

Max Frisch’s legendary collection of eleven Max Frisch »Josef Winkler is somebody who negotiates Josef Winkler questionnaires on existential topics such as Questionnaire the frontiers and transforms his anxiety into The City Chronicler of friendship, marriage, home or humour is (Original title: Fragebogen) desire by the act of writing, and with the Kolkata presented here in an extended version: In approx. 128 pages risky balancing act on the brink of the abyss (Original title: Der addition, there are three newly discovered Paperback finds a firm equilibrium in the long term. Stadtschreiber von Release: October 2019 Kalkutta) and thus far unpublished questionnaires on He is not glorifying the other world […] but approx. 109 pages technology, alcohol and ethics from the estate liberating the self in grand style. To this end, International Sales: Clothbound of Max Frisch. These both enlightening and however, he initiates an unsettling process Release: November 2019 entertaining questionnaires also invite you Denmark (Basilisk); evoking matters previously suppressed, and Domestic Rights to think about yourself and to get talking to by no means does he spare the reader in the Rights available others through the intensity of the questions. Sales: German Book process.« Süddeutsche Zeitung Club (Büchergilde Born in Austria in 1953 For the first time with three newly dis- Gutenberg) »On New Market two white roosters and an author since 1982, covered, thus far unpublished question- with sickle-shaped tails and red, jagged, Josef Winkler today lives in naires (on the topics of technology, alco- Max Frisch was born in 1911 . in Zurich, where he died in translucent, upright combs that keep hol and ethics) flapping to one side like rubber with every 1991. Selected Backlist: movement are standing in a basket. All around the shining light bulbs are coated Lass dich heimgeigen, Vater oder Den Tod ins Herz mir in silver foil, so that the light falls focused schreibe (2018) International on the piles of papayas, mangos and the Sales: Czech Republic (Archa), Selected Backlist: fruits of the pineapples from Kerala.« This Bulgaria (Black Flamingo); is one of the headings – and right Domestic Rights Sales: German Aus dem Berliner Journal (2014) International then and there we’re amidst the plethora of Audiobook (Der Diwan) Sales: English world rights (Seagull), French world »Winkler captures rights (Zoé), Italy (Armando Dadò), Poland (Czarne), observations and shortest stories that Josef ’s raving presence Roppongi (2007) International Czech Republic (Archa), Turkey (Yapi Kredi); Domestic Winkler has noted down. Sales: France (Verdier), Rights Sales: German Audiobook rights (DAV), This time, the traveler of India hasn’t set that oscillates between Czech Republic (Archa), German Book Club rights (Büchergilde Gutenberg) out for Varanasi to the cremation sites by the mercantile and the Bulgaria (Black Flamingo), (2010) Serbia (Leykam), Slovenia Entwürfe zu einem dritten Tagebuch the holy Ganges but to Kolkata. There, he International Sales: English world rights (Seagull), spiritual: in his Indian (Hermagoras/Mohorjeva) takes his readers on his tours of the city, into France (Grasset), Italy (Casagrande Edizioni), Sweden notebooks written (2001) the electrifying, colourful hustle and bustle Natura morta (Faethon), Finland (Lurra), Poland (W.A.B.), Czech with blue ink.« International Sales: English Republic (Paseka), Bulgaria (Lege Artis) of a big food market. Peter von Becker, Der Tagesspiegel world rights (Contra Mundum), Tagebuch 1966–1971 (1972) International Sales: In Kolkata, Winkler also visits the cremation Spanish world rights (Galaxia English world rights (Seagull), France (Gallimard), Italy site at the holy Hooghly River, a distributary Gutenberg), Russia (AST (Felltrinelli), Korea (Segaellbo), Poland (W.A.B.), Czech of the Ganges River in Bengal, and describes Publishers), Arabic world Republic (Archa), Slovakia (Slovensky Spisovatel), rights (Le Fennec), France

Photo: Andrej Reiser Photo: the sacrifice of many small white goats. Romania (Univers), Slovenia (Studentska Zalozba (Verdier), Italy (Forum Editrice Beletrina), Turkey (Yapi Kredi), Macedonia (Magor Among them the favourite animals of Universitaria Udinese), Norway Doo) children who lead them to the temple with (Solum), Czech Republic Tagebuch 1946–1949 (1950) International Sales: Total print run of the German their parents so that the Goddess Kali can (Archa), Bulgaria (Black English world rights (Seagull), France (Gallimard), single editions of the drink the blood of the animals. Flamingo), Lithuania (Kitos Italy (Felltrinelli), Poland (W.A.B.), Czech Republic Kolkata is a metropolis of opposites: The Knygos), Croatia (Leykam), (ERM Nakladatelstvi), Bulgaria (Bakalov), Romania Questionnaire: more than Bosnia (Vrijeme), Turkey (Pan), former capital of the British colony makes (Univers), Serbo-croatian world rights (BIGZ), Serbia 150.000 copies Ukraine (Knihy XXI) (AED-Studio), Turkey (Yapi Kredi), Greece (Kohlias), tradition within art, music and literature Azerbaijan (Alatoran) just as visible as the structural change within the castes and the integration of the rural population.

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Hans Magnus Enzensberger 90th birthday on 11 November 2019 of one of the most Survival Artists – 99 Literary Vignettes influential and internationally renowned German intellectuals from the 20th Century Windfalls A subjective-historical revue »One of Germany’s leading public intellectuals.« London Review of Books

The 20th century was the heyday of writers Hans Magnus »How’s the confidence of the financial Hans Magnus who had survived state terror and purges Enzensberger astrologers doing? What does the gibberish Enzensberger with all the ethical and political ambivalences Survival Artists of the daily papers tell us? How much Windfalls that this entailed. How did they manage 99 Literary Vignettes reality is contained in the mythical models Just a Notebook to do that? Were they too steadfast to bend from the 20th Century of contemporary physics and cosmology? With drawings by Bernd With 99 images Bexte to the powers that be? Did they owe their Towards which ultimate goal is our (Original title: (Original title: Fallobst - survival to their foresight, their intelligence contemporaries’ pathological mobility Überlebenskünstler. 99 Nur ein Notizbuch) drifting? What is the ubiquitous craze for or sharpness, their belief in themselves, literarische Vignetten aus approx. 450 pages their connections or their tactical skill? Was dem 20. Jahrhundert) abbreviations hiding? And down which Clothbound it serendipitous circumstances bordering 366 pages garden path are the fine arts trying to lead Release: November 2019 on a miracle that helped them escape from Clothbound us?« As shrewd as he is wise, the author does not claim that his answers to these prison, camps and death, or was it strategies April 2018 Rights available that spanned from ingratiation to disguise? questions are fruit off the tree of absolute If only it was possible to make a clear-cut International Sales: knowledge. »Windfalls« is what he calls

distinction! Bauer Jürgen Photo: English world rights them, »which have been collected in various big and small baskets.« In 99 pointed, deliberately subjective (Seagull), France (Alma), With sharp wit, straightforward and portraits, Hans Magnus Enzensberger Italy (Einaudi), Serbia stridently, Hans Magnus Enzens- describes the lives and particular surviv- (Laguna); Domestic berger confronts us with zeitgeist and al strategies of international writers, but Rights Sales: German mainstream in an entertaining series spirit. And last but not least there is na- also the objective reasons for which they Book Club (Büchergilde of observations, notes, short essays, ture in both its wondrous as well as its managed to survive the 20th century, the Gutenberg) memories, dialogues, poems and com- capricious manifestations. »Age of Violence«. Despite the seemingly mentaries. And yet, there is no short- overwhelmingly powerful opponent of Hans Magnus Enzensberger age of acknowledgements: of trusted and thoroughly formed societies and authori- was born in Kaufbeuren in beloved people, brothers and sisters in tarian, death-or-glory governments. That 1929. As a poet, essayist, writer, publisher and translator, we could learn from this in our present he is one of the world’s most situation is not, according to the author, influential and internationally out of the question. renowned German intellectuals. A Handful of Anecdotes

Through impressions, leaps and digressions, A Handful of Anecdotes we follow the author’s memories of his Also Opus incertum childhood, youth and student days, from With 122 illustrations 1929 to the beginning of the 1950s. Hans (Original title: Eine Handvoll Magnus Enzensberger writes subjectively, Anekdoten, auch Opus incertum) with energy, wittily and with deliberate Selected Backlist: 239 pages gaps about family bonds and first love, an Clothbound Tumult (2014) International Sales: English world rights (Seagull), Spanish world rights (Malpaso), Chinese simplex early passion for reading and an addiction to Release: October 2018 rights (Beijing Fonghong Books), Brazilian Portuguese Rights (Todavia), France (Gallimard), Italy (Einaudi), Denmark the media, a plethora of evasive manœuvres (Gyldendal), Greece (Hestia); Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook rights (Der Hörverlag), German Entire around false authority, an unsuccessful Radio Reading (HR), German Book Club (Büchergilde Gutenberg) International Sales: foray into explosions, desertion, the black France (Gallimard) Hammerstein oder Der Eigensinn (2008) International Sales: English world rights (Seagull), Spanish world rights market and then the happiness in academic (Anagrama), Chinese simplex rights (Beijing Fonghong Books), Brazilian Portuguese (Companhia das Letras), freedom at university. France (Gallimard), Italy (Einaudi), Netherlands (Cossée), Denmark (Gyldendal), Sweden (Norstedts), Norway (Press), Japan (Shobunsha), Poland (Swiat Ksiazki), Croatia (Disput), Serbia (Prometej), Turkey (Everest), Greece (Kastaniotis)

28 29 Biography Literary Fiction / Art Memoir / Music

Kia Vahland Hanns-Josef Ortheil Leonardo da Vinci and the Women How I Learnt to Play the Piano »In this biography, Kia Vahland shows why [Leonardo’s] art must be An autobiographical story that is not only for piano­ and music-lovers interpreted as a milestone in the history of women’s emancipation.« Die Zeit

Leonardo da Vinci is considered modern Kia Vahland The first time he has a piano lesson, Hanns- Hanns-Josef Ortheil for his take on and for being the Leonardo da Vinci and Josef Ortheil is four years old. Guided by How I Learnt to Play the inventor of a number of visionary technical the Women his mother, he makes rapid progress and Piano instruments. But that’s not all. The artist An Artist’s Biography is placed in the care of a Russian pianist. (Original title: Wie ich also revolutionized European thought as (Original title: Leonardo da Soon he makes the decision to become Klavierspielen lernte) Vinci und die Frauen. 318 pages a friend to women too: centuries before a concert pianist and to shine on the Eine Künstlerbiographie) Clothbound women’s emancipation movements, in his important stages of the world. For the young 348 pages May 2019 paintings he developed the image of the Clothbound piano student this means years of practice, modern woman. Indeed, Leonardo outright often many hours a day. Shortly after March 2019 Rights available invented the image of autonomous woman graduating from grammar school, the who thought for herself, the self-assured and twenty-year-old receives a scholarship to International Sales: Hanns-Josef Ortheil, born simultaneously vulnerably beautiful woman study in Rome, where he experiences a English world rights in 1951, is a writer, pianist, and who looked men straight in the eye from the completely unexpected breakdown. His big (Black Dog & Leven- Professor for Creative Writing canvas and seemed to reciprocate their love. dream is shattered ... and Cultural Journalism at thal), Brazilian Portu- Neither Leonardo’s worldview nor his artistic the . guese rights (Editora and scientific output can be understood In How I Learnt to Play the Piano Hanns- His literary work has received numerous awards, including the without recognizing his sympathy for the Novo Seculo), Portugal Josef Ortheil recounts the often bizarre (Temas e Debates), Prize of the city of other sex in general and his female models details of a pianist­’s life from where he Lübeck in 2002. in particular. Thus, the central thesis of this Turkey (Marti), Greece stands today, from his first lessons to new biography is that the particular allure (Nissos) his favourite composers, early preludes,­ of Leonardo’s œuvre up to today is due to his exalted teachers, and the great titans on open-minded portrayal of the woman. Art historian Kia Vahland is the stages of Salzburg and elsewhere. In Focusing on the real as well as the depicted a specialist in Renaissance art an amusing and thrilling way he leads the and editor for arts and culture woman, the book talks about Leonardo in the opinions section of the reader up a steep ladder ­into the heaven of da Vinci’s life in a new way and describes Süddeutsche Zeitung. She is the pianists, where since the time of Vladimir some of his important paintings, while author of books on Sebastiano Horowitz massive psychoses as well as locating them in the context of the history of del Piombo, Michelangelo and legendary triumphs have been the order attitudes and intellectual thought. A general Raphael and teaches at the of the day. History of Art Department at biography of Leonardo da Vinci’s life and Ludwig Maximilian University work -- panoramic, research intensive, of Munich. Among other Not only for piano and music enthusiasts and vividly written – the book aims at a accolades, her work was this is a book that, thanks to a wealth of wide audience of general readers and at awarded Michael-Althen Prize knowledge and details, tells the tale of the specialists. for Criticism 2016 by the hidden, daemonic side of manic practicing Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. and playing as well as the history of the Insel Verlag has previously published Ansichtssachen, world of a virtuoso. a collection of op-eds. Photo: Ofer Chen Ofer Photo: Photo: Alessandra Schellnegger Photo: Photo: Isolde Ohlbaum Photo:

»Leonardo da Vinci and his liberating look at women: Possibly the most fascinating discovery 500 years after his death.« aspekte, Die Kultursendung im ZDF

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Friedrich Ani All The Empty Rooms From international bestselling author Friedrich Ani, a fantastic new novel

In Friedrich Ani’s new novel, »the four« must Friedrich Ani spring into action: Polonius Fischer (the All The Empty Rooms former monk), Tabor Süden (the returned (Original title: All die missing person’s investigator), Jakob Franck unbewohnten Zimmer) (the former inspector, now retired, but still 494 pages Clothbound the deliverer of the worst news) and Fariza June 2019 Nasri (the civil servant with Syrian roots, saved from her banishment to the provinces). Rights available All of them must employ their unique methods to solve the murder of a woman Friedrich Ani was born in and the beating death of a police officer, 1959. His first novel was incidents which receive great attention after published in 1996, and since igniting social and political debates (coming then he has gone on to write from the right) about the incompetence of crime novels, poetry and the police, migrant children, East and West YA-fiction, as well as writing for TV, radio and theatre. His Germany, and »the system«. books have received many And that is why in their fight to find the prominent awards, among culprit »the four« must struggle with them the Bavarian Cultural possible clues and witnesses who claim Ministry’s Advancement Award not to have seen anything, look for missing for Literature and the German Crime Fiction Prize. So far, persons who could, in theory, help solve he is the only author ever to the crime and constantly deal with fake receive the German Crime confessions. In the meantime, they are Fiction Prize for three titles in unable to prevent copycat crimes – until the the same year. various investigative methods of »the four« make chance discovery a necessity. Selected Backlist: Ermordung des Glücks. Jakob In his new mystery, Friedrich Ani beats a Franck # 2 (2017) International path through the thicket of our political Sales: English world rights (Seagull), Italy (Emons); and individual dispositions. In so doing Domestic Rights Sales: German he allows a view from the edge of the Audiobook (Hörbuch Hamburg), abyss into the indescribable. German (Deutschlandfunk Kultur)

After All The Empty Rooms we must Der namenlose Tag. Jakob learn to look at literature, crime litera- Franck # 1 (2015) International ture, writing about true and false, evil Sales: English world rights (Seagull), Italy (Emons), Greece

and (the ever unreachable) good, life and Steinweg Heike Photo: (Gutenberg); Domestic Rights death, anew. Sales: German Audiobook (Hörbuch Hamburg), German

Photo: Achim Multhaupt / laif Multhaupt Achim Photo: Entire Radio Readings (HR and BR) For the first time with four inspectors: Polonius Fischer, Tabor Süden, Jacob Franck, and Fariza Nasri. Crime Fiction All known from previous novels, now a team: Terrific. Thriller Thriller

Andreas Pflüger Merle Kröger Blindsided The Experts More than 140.000 sold copies of the Jenny-Aaron-series An explosive political thriller on the German arms industry »In the end, it’s not your opponent you defeat but yourself.«

Blind Special Agent Jenny Aaron pins all her Andreas Pflüger The 1960s have started and with them the Age Merle Kröger hopes on a therapy that is meant to give her Blindsided of Aquarius. Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to The Experts back her eyesight. But the men who died for Thriller death in Tel Aviv. Konrad Adenauer agrees Thriller her last winter won’t let go of her. Jenny Aaron #3 on military aid for Israel. At the same time, (Original title: Die Jenny Aaron was forced to decide between (Original title: Geblendet. however, German aeronautical engineers, Experten. Thriller) Thriller) approx. 350 pages life and death many times before, often in engine builders and rocket scientists are 508 pages Paperback the fraction of a second. She never hesitated. drawn to Egypt in great numbers. Clothbound Release: January 2020 But now she finds herself at a crossroads. August 2019 Rita Hellberg, daughter of an engineer, just What is more important: the possibility of wants to visit her parents in Cairo. But Rights available getting back her eyesight or protecting the Domestic Rights Sales: her father decides that the family belongs Department, the secret elite unit to which together. Egypt’s president Nasser dreams German Audiobook Merle Kröger, born in Plön/ she has dedicated her life, from its biggest of an African arms industry and so the Schleswig-Holstein in 1967, ( Audio) threat? father builds a fighter bomber. While her lives in Berlin where she works The Department’s code: It’s never easy. And mother refuses to accept life in Cairo, Rita as a producer, screenwriter and this holds true now more than ever. Because Selected Backlist: soon realises that there is no better place for novelist. In addition, she has been co-director, mentor and its obliteration is within a hair’s breadth. Niemals. Jenny Aaron #2 her to enter her own future. She lets herself lecturer on story development But is the Department really what Aaron (2017) International Sales: be carried off into a fascinating world on at the Professional Media thought it was? English world rights (Head of the move. Only gradually she realises that Master Class for documentary Andreas Pflüger’s new thriller featuring the Zeus; US/Canada sublicense: she has arrived at the centre of a conflict films in Halle (Saale) since Dover), Netherlands (Xander), blind heroine Jenny Aaron is an adrenaline- in which people fight tooth and nail about 2011. She has also been Czech Republic (Euromedia); working in selection and as fueled rollercoaster ride through darkness historical and future, about global and Domestic Rights Sales: German an expert for the Doc & Script and the merciless result of a life that may Audiobook (Random House regional political interests. Everybody is More than 100.000 books sold by Station of the Berlinale Talent Audio) have been built on a lie. watching everybody, bombs explode, people the winner of the German Crime Campus since 2007. In the USA, her texts are used in Endgültig. Jenny Aaron #1 die. Rita Hellberg has to decide whose side Fiction Prize A new thriller featuring Special (2016) International Sales: she is on. coursebooks. She belongs to the elite of German crime Agent Jenny Aaron English world rights (Head of Zeus; US/Canada sublicense: fiction. Her novels have received numerous awards, The new book by the bestselling author Dover, UK large print & audio sublicense: WF Howes), Spanish including Best Crime Novel of world rights (Penguin Random the Year, the Radio Bremen House / Suma, Spanish bookclub Prize for Crime Fiction and the sublicense: Círculo de Lectores), German Crime Fiction Prize. Andreas Pfluger was born in 1957. He is one Arabic World rights (Dar Oktob), »You can now turn down the on the popular record with of Germany’s most renowned scriptwriters. France (Fleuve, French bookclub Among his multiple-award-winning scripts are sublicense: Le Grand Livre du the constant lament about how German authors have nothing to The Ninth Day and Strike, both directed by Volker Mois), Italy (Emons), Netherlands offer compared to the Anglo-American market. Merle Kröger has Schlöndorff, as well as over twenty episodes of (Xander), Poland (Otwarte; Polish Tatort. Blindsided is the third instalment of his audiobook sublicense: Biblioteka long since provided evidence to the contrary.« Hannes Hintermeier,

trilogy on the blind heroine Jenny Aaron. Max Zerrahn Photo: Akustyczna), Czech Republic Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Euromedia), Turkey (Salon), Greece (Metaichmio); Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook »Pflüger writes in a league (Random House Audio) of his own, violent, with powerful eloquence and great delicacy. Brilliant, addictive.« Rose-Maria Gropp, FAZ

34 35 Thriller

Johannes Groschupf Berlin Preppers At last: a contemporary thriller of high calibre set in Berlin

As an online-editor for a large daily Suspense, action, Johannes Groschupf newspaper, Walter Noack is in charge of and Berlin Preppers eliminating rude remarks and hate speech Thriller from various comment sections. He is political­ perspectives (Original title: Berlin confronted with the most odious insults a Prepper. Thriller) 236 pages thousand times a day. His nerves become The first thriller by Paperback even more frayed after he and subsequently May 2019 a colleague are beaten seemingly at random the successful­ YA- by strangers, and his private life is shaken writer Film Rights sold by loss. The police seem powerless. The daily poison of long-term hatred finally begins to (filmpool fiction) seep into Noack’s soul as well. He gradually #1 on the KrimiZEIT slides into the dark scene of weapon- Best of Crime List Rights available hoarding preppers and Reich citizens, and Johannes Groschupf, born finds himself both repelled and fascinated at June 2019 in Braunschweig in 1963, grew the same time. During a brutal heat wave in up in Lüneburg. After studying Berlin that leads to fires, unrest, and open German Studies, American anarchy, he begins to realise that he has Studies and Journalism at the fallen in with the wrong people. Now it is a Free University of Berlin, he matter of life and death. worked as an independent travel journalist for many years for publications such as Die Zeit, »An urban novel with a FAZ, and FR, among others. In 1994, he experienced a sound grasp of contemporary helicopter crash in the Sahara. developments.« Peter Körte, Based on this experience, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 1998 saw the creation of the radio feature Der Absturz (»The Crash«), which was awarded »A fast-paced and raw book the Robert Geisendörfer Prize the following year. After that, he nurtured by the subtle wit mainly focused on literary work, of its author, who creates a above all in the realm of young adult literature, as well as articles an electric atmosphere with for Der Tagesspiegel and Die his sense for the seemingly Welt. His latest books include: Lost Places (2013), Der Zorn des Harry Nutt, Frankfurter peripheral.« Lammes (The Fury of the Lamb) Rundschau (2014), Das Lächeln des Panthers (The Panther’s Smile) (2015), Lost Girl und Lost Boy (2017).

»›Berlin Prepper‹ is a Berlin novel, a contemporary novel, a crime novel: fast, hard, and good.« Sonja Hart, Deutschlandfunk Kultur

36 37 Crime Fiction / Noir

Simone Buchholz Hotel Cartagena Cartels, Coke and Caribbean

A chilly hotel bar in the Port of Hamburg. Simone Buchholz Down on the docks, the lights are Hotel Cartagena shimmering, above the tables are rather Crime Novel sparsely occupied. Suddenly the doors Chastity Riley #4 open, twelve heavily armed men hijack the (Original title: Hotel Cartagena) bar, take patrons and staff hostage. Right in 229 pages the middle of it all: Chastity Riley, who had Paperback actually been bracing herself for a painful September 2019 reunion with old friends, but now she and all the other hostages have to learn that there English world rights are injuries that just can’t be repaired… (Orenda)

St. Pauli, Hamburg’s red-light district, in the Simone Buchholz was born 1980s. A young man wants out. He gets on a in Hanau in 1972. She studied ship to Colombia and learns what happens if Philosophy and Literature, worked you party with the wrong people on the beach as a waitress and a columnist, and of Cartagena. The raging party is followed trained to be a journalist at the prestigious Henri-Nannen-School by hell. At first, it’s big drug business, then in Hamburg. She has been writing betrayal, escape, going to ground. Later still: for various magazines for more the chance for revenge. The man, no longer than 15 years. Blue Night (2016) all that young, decides to take it. was her first novel in the series featuring state prosecutor Chastity And so, St. Pauli is rocked by a spectacular Riley to be published by Suhrkamp and was #1 on the KrimiZEIT-Best hostage situation. The police are on the of Crime List for months. Mexico outside and seem to be condemned to the Ring (2018) won the German role of spectators while state prosecutor Crime Fiction Prize 2019. Together Chastity Riley is forced to activate her inner with her husband and their son, John McClane. Simone Buchholz lives in Sankt Pauli, in the heart of Hamburg.

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Mexikoring. Chastity Riley # 3 (2018) International Sales: English world rights (Orenda) » ... the way Simone Buchholz Beton Rouge. Chastity Riley # 2 arranges hard-boiled dialogue (2017) International Sales: English as if it was just a casual game world rights (Orenda); Domestic Photo: Gerald von Foris Gerald von Photo: Rights Sales: German Audiobook of table tennis – balls zinging (Hörbuch Hamburg) here and there, smashes The new novel from the Blaue Nacht. Chastity Riley # 1 coming out of nowhere –, this (2016) International Sales: English Matsas/Opale/Leemage/laif Photo: winner of the German world rights (Orenda Books), is real literary talent.« Italy (Emons), Finland (Huippu); Oliver Jungen, Die Zeit Crime Fiction Prize 2019 Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Hörbuch Hamburg) Political Non-fiction & Current Affairs 38 Technology / Reportage Political Science

Dirk Peitz Emanuel Richter Looking Ahead The Pensioners’ Democracy Exploring the world of tomorrow The Overageing of Society and the Consequences for Politics

We can’t foresee the future. If you believe Dirk Peitz Which consequences does the dramatic Emanuel Richter that you’re already living it, as some Looking Ahead: How We overageing of society have for our The Pensioners’ people in the Silicon Valley do, you need to Are Narrating the Future democracy? Are a few well-off »best agers« Democracy adjust yourself because the future global (Original title: Fernblick: und »silver surfers« going to seize political The Overageing of Society power China is preparing to take over Wie wir uns die Zukunft participation and dismiss the interests of the and the Consequences for erzählen) Politics interpretational sovereignty. What, then, can younger age groups? Or will the democratic approx. 200 pages (Original title: we say about what is to come? Do we have hope of the senior citizens for an expanded Paperback Seniorendemokratie. reason to rejoice? Do we need to be scared? Release: January 2020 and more intensified political participation Die Überalterung der Writer for Die Zeit and technology expert that benefits all generations be fulfilled? Gesellschaft und ihre Dirk Preitz has travelled across the USA, According to Emanuel Richter, the prevailing Rights available Folgen für die Politik) towards the old future, and further still to conceptions of ageing need to be rethought, approx. 250 pages Shenzhen, the new Silicon City of the East. social division among senior citizens need Paperback Dirk Peitz was born in Release: February 2020 On his travels he spoke to those who are Mönchengladbach in 1971. He to be reduced and the spare possibilities for already working on the world of tomorrow: wrote for the arts section of participation need to be expanded creatively professors at Stanford, think tank scientists, Süddeutsche Zeitung for a long for the latter to succeed. Democracy instead Rights available employees at tech companies, managers, time, then went on to become of dementia is the name of the game. the managing editor of Wired urban planners and dreamers. The result Emanuel Richter is a and is now responsible for is a travelogue from the present and the Professor at the Institute for the technology section at Zeit Political Science at the RWTH past of what is imaginable. A fascinating Online. outlook on tomorrow as well as a smart, Aachen University. profound examination of the pressing matters of today.

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40 41 / Political Literary Economy Fiction Current Affairs / Essay

Philipp Staab Carlo Strenger Digital Capitalism Those Damned Liberal Elites What is new about digital capitalism? »The book is fantastically angry and sensational in a polemic manner.« Politiken about Civilized Disdain

Where conglomerates, energy companies and Philipp Staab In the debate on the rise of nationalistic Carlo Strenger banks dominated the rankings of the highest- Digital Capitalism and anti-liberal parties, an ancient ghost Those Damned Liberal valued businesses only 20 years ago they Market and Hegemony has reappeared – the ghost of liberal Elites have long since been superseded by internet in the Economy of cosmopolitans: well-educated, internationally Who They Are and Why giants like , Apple, and Superabundance connected scientists, journalists or politicians We Need Them (Original title: Digitaler (Original title: Diese Tencent. Digital technologies are ubiquitous: who assure each other of their moral Kapitalismus. Markt verdammten liberalen We carry around supercomputers in our superiority. The rift between cosmopolitans und Herrschaft in Eliten. Wer sie sind und pockets, washing machines can connect to der Ökonomie der and patriotic communitarians is considered warum wir sie brauchen) the internet. But is that all the innovation Unknappheit) one of the central conflicts of our time. 180 pages digital capitalism has to offer? approx. 320 pages An accurate diagnosis? On the other hand, Paperback Philipp Staab examines digital capitalism Paperback May 2019 does the concept of uprooted liberal elites from different perspectives in order Release: October 2019 paint a distorted picture? Psychoanalyst to capture it more precisely. He shows Rights available and writer Carlo Strenger knows this group how practices of digital surveillance Rights available all too well: because he himself is one of except for English and evaluation increasingly penetrate them – and because he sees them in his economic areas and thereby aggravate is a philosopher Philipp Staab, born in 1983, therapeutic practice. By consulting relevant Carlo Strenger social inequality. The specific feature of is a Professor for the Sociology and psychoanalyst, Professor sociological literature, he generalizes his digital capitalism, according to Staab, is of the Future of Work at the of Philosophy and Psychology findings. Moreover, his self-critical conclusion the development of »proprietary markets«: Humboldt-University of Berlin. at Tel Aviv University and Chair finds that indeed, the liberal elites are often of Clinical Psychology. The Where it was important in the past to too arrogant. Still we need their expertise. author of six previous books produce things and sell them for a profit, Strenger concludes with a twofold plea: for is an internationally renowned the focus in the age of superabundance commentator on Israeli affairs, liberal cosmopolitans to be more down to is shifting towards ownership of the writing primarily for Haaretz, earth and for a basic liberal-cosmopolitan markets themselves. Israel’s leading liberal newspaper, education for everyone. but also for Neue Zürcher Zeitung, , Huffington Post, and Foreign Policy.

»Carlo Strenger is one Selected Backlist: of the great liberal Zivilisierte Verachtung (2015) International Sales: Russia intellectuals of Israel.« (Moscow Bureau of Friedrich Deutschlandfunk Kultur Naumann Foundation), France (Belfond), Netherlands (Klement), Denmark (Gyldendal), Czech Republic (Adora) Photo: Aljoscha Jakobi Aljoscha Photo: Photo: Ofer Chen Ofer Photo:

42 43 Current Affairs / Reportage Contemporary History

Tuvia Tenenbom Philipp Ther Alone Among Brits The Other End of History A fascinating, wistful, a loving and equally angry 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall portrait of Great Britain

For months, people in Germany and the Tuvia Tenenbom In 1989, the West appeared to be the lone Philipp Ther rest of Europe have been wondering: Alone Among Brits victor of history. Today, the triumphalism The Other End of History What do the British want? Do they even An Expedition of that time sounds more than stale. What Das andere Ende Essays on the Great know what they want? And why is Brexit With photos by Isi went wrong? Multi-award winning historian der Geschichte Transformation pursued with such frenzied dedication Tenenbom Philipp Ther is searching for an answer in a (Original title: Das andere (Original title: Allein Über die Große Ende der Geschichte. by its proponents and fought against with series of thematically interwoven essays. He unter Briten. Eine Essays zur großen such vehemence by its opponents? There deals with topics such as economic-political Transformation Entdeckungsreise) Philipp Ther Transformation) are no fast answers to all these questions approx. 350 pages errors after the reunification (from escrow 160 pages and a remote diagnosis won’t help. If you Paperback to Hartz IV, the German welfare system), edition suhrkamp Paperback want to know what this historical turn- Release: November 2019 analyses the development of the USA after SV September 2019 ing point means for the British people – the Clinton years and asks why Russia and and for us – you need to go into the field Rights available Turkey have turned their backs on the West. Rights available and talk to them – or follow Tuvia Tenen- Drawing on Karl Polanyi’s groundbreaking

bom on his journey across the four na- Tuvia Tenenbom, born 1957 in book The Great Transformation, Ther Professor Philipp Ther tions that make up the United Kingdom Tel Aviv, works as a playwright recapitulates the rapid changes of the past (born 1967) teaches Modern where he takes a humorous yet painful and journalist in New York. thirty years that had no less of a dramatic European and East European look at the British society of our time. effect west of the former Iron Curtain as they History at the University Alone Among Brits examines Britain at Selected Backlist: did east of it. of Vienna. He has already published five books in English, one of the country’s most defining histor- Allein unter Deutschen and his publications have been ic moments: It’s the politicians who say (2012) International Sales: Italy translated into various other that the battle is between staying or not (Bollati), Poland (Od Do) languages. He has received staying in Europe, but Alone Among Brits several prizes and awards, exposes the underlying battles and con- Rankin, to name but a few. The answers including the John-F.-Kennedy Fellowship at the Center for flicts within a fractured society fighting Tuvia Tenenbom elicits from them draw European Studies, Harvard bitterly for its identity, grappling with not only an enlightening picture of the University (in 1997/98), and acute antisemitism. current mood within the British society the 2012 Translation Award Alone Among Brits is also a journey into but also show that it is deeply divided, of the German Book Trade British theatre, politics, and social classes fighting for its identity and its future. Association (Börsenverein des and as such, it is a bittersweet portrayal of the deutschen Buchhandels) for The Dark Side of Nation-States: UK, written with humor, sadness, love and At times, Alone Among Brits penetrates Ethnic Cleansing in Modern anger. On his journey, Tuvia Tenenbom talks the hidden corners of British racism Europe. to Lords and Ladies, city Council Leaders, and antisemitism but it never neglects Lord Mayors, MPs, religious leaders, real to celebrate the magnitude of British Selected Backlist: estate tycoons, scientists, student leaders, history and the beauty of the English Die Außenseiter. Flucht, migrants, a philosopher and a gangster, language. Flüchtlinge und Integration a bestselling author and a kilt maker, a im modernen Europa (2017) football team manager and a TV presenter Barbara Mair Universität Wien Photo: International Sales: English in villages and cities, castles and mosques, world rights (Princeton University Press), Italy (Keller) universities and pubs, on battlefields of Die neue Ordnung auf dem centuries ago and battlefields yet to come. alten Kontinent (2014) His interview partners include Nigel Farage, International Sales: English Jeremy Corbyn, Jürgen Klopp and Ian world rights (Princeton University Press), Chinese complex rights (Rye Field), Finland (Vastapaino), Poland (Kurhaus Publishing), Czech Republic (Libri), Bulgaria (KX Critique & Humanism), Ukraine 44 (Laurus Press) 45 Media Studies

Guido Zurstiege Tactics of Disconnecting The history and the current state of renouncing the media

In a time where everybody is constantly Guido Zurstiege posting and on stand-by, the ability to Tactics of Disconnecting disconnect is one of the most important Taktiken The Yearning for Quiet in conditions of the individual’s self-assertion the Digital Age and self-determination. Universally increas- der Entnetzung (Original title: Taktiken der Entnetzung. Die Sehnsucht ing communication and connectivity create Die Sehnsucht nach Stille nach Stille im digitalen an equally heightened need for communicative im digitalen Zeitalter Zeitalter) withdrawal and renunciation. Whether it’s Guido Zurstiege approx. 240 pages for reasons like the irritation caused by the edition suhrkamp Paperback decay of political discourse or as a reaction Release: November 2019 to the coercion to constantly expose oneself, SV the fear of permanent surveillance or as an Rights available attempt to win back control over one’s own media user behaviour: Nowadays, everyone Guido Zurstiege, born in needs tactics to disconnect in order to 1968, is a Professor of Media face the challenges of the digital age Studies at the Eberhard Karls successfully. University of Tübingen. Photo: Heinrich Hecht Photo: Photo: Ilse Mayer-Gerken Photo:

Academic Non-fiction 46 Philosophy / Current Affairs Philosophy

In 1948 Theodor W. Adorno wrote a text Theodor W. Adorno Theodor W. Adorno on the authoritarian personality which Theodor W. Adorno Remarks on ›The remained unpublished until today and Bemerkungen zu Authoritarian that is not so much a retrospective look at ›The Authoritarian Personality‹ and Other Texts Three Publications from the Estate the barbarism of the Nazis but first and Personality‹ Herausgegeben und Edited by Eva-Maria Ziege foremost and more generally a reflection mit einem Kommentar von Eva-Maria Ziege (Original title: on the individual in late capitalism that is suhrkamp taschenbuch Bemerkungen zu ›The wissenschaft forced into immaturity but that also seems Authoritarian Personality‹ to choose it. He discusses the dialectics und weitere Texte) of Enlightenment and the significance 161 pages of antisemitism for Critical Theory with Paperback When Theodor W. Adorno returned to Theodor W. Adorno particular intensity – issues, that is, that September 2019 Germany from his American exile in 1949, Posthumous Writings have not lost any of their topicality in light he not only resumed his teaching and Section V: Lectures and of the current crisis of the political. Next to Rights available research at the Goethe University Frankfurt Conversations the »Remarks«, published for the first time, and the Institute for Social Research, but Volume 1: Lectures 1949-1968 this volume contains further key texts on Edited by Michael Schwarz he also quickly established a reputation as the authoritarian personality and on public (Original title: Nachgelassene a public intellectual. Adorno’s considerable opinion. The introduction and the afterword Schriften. Abteilung V: Vorträge influence on the debates of the post-war by the editor explain the context of their und Gespräche. Band 1: creation and draw connections to current period was also due to his lectures given Vorträge 1949-1968) debates. outside the context of the university in 786 pages which he pointedly spoke about different Clothbound societal developments. September 2019 This volume contains 20 of these lectures given between 1949 and 1968. They deal Rights available This volume of approximately 100 pages is a Theodor W. Adorno with a wide range of topics: the addictive selection from Volume 1: Lectures 1949-1968 Aspects of Contemporary potential of Proust’s prose and the com- of Theodor W. Adorno’s Posthumous Writings Right-Wing Radicalism A Lecture With an positional technique of Richard Strauss, Theodor W. Adorno was and contains only the lecture Aspects of born on September 11, 1903 afterword by Volker Weiß, questions of urban construction and ped- Contemporary Right-Wing Radicalism and the in Frankfurt am Main and (Original title: Aspekte des afterword by Volker Weiß. agogy, superstition and antisemitism, died on August 6, 1969 from neuen Rechtsradikalismus) the authoritarian personality and new »It is very often the the consequences of a heart 86 pages, Paperback, July right-wing radicalism. The lectures gain case that convictions attack while on vacation in On 6 April 1967 Theodor W. Adorno gave 2019 their unique appeal from their free form: Visp/Valais. From 1921 to a lecture at the as a 1923 he studied Philosophy, They don’t strive to be treatises but are and ideologies assume guest of the Socialist Students of Austria, Sociology and Musicology International Sales: understood as improvisations designed their demonic, their a lecture which, from today’s point of in Frankfurt and obtained English world rights to encourage listeners to use their own his doctorate in 1924 with a view, is not only of historical interest. truly destructive nature (Polity), Spanish mind. Or, as Adorno put it himself: »I leave once they are no longer thesis on »Transcendence of Against the backdrop of the rise of the this with you to ponder.« the Material and Noematic in NPD, which in the first two years after its world rights (Taurus), that substantial in the Husserl’s Phenomenology«. founding in November 1964 had already Brazilian Portuguese objective situation.« He became friends with seen surprising success at the polls, Adorno rights (UNESP), Siegfried Kracauer in his school days and later with analyses the goals, resources, and tactics of Portuguese rights »How these things Max Horkheimer and Walter the new right-wing radicalism of his time. (Edições 70), France continue, and the Benjamin during their years Contrasting it with »old« Nazi-Fascism, he (Flammarion), at university. Alongside them, gives a close examination of the reasons Italy (Marsilio), Adorno is one of the most responsibility for for which extreme right-wing movements Volker Weiß, born in 1972, is a important representatives Netherlands (), were finding a positive reception – 20 years historian and publicist. His research and how they continue, of the »Frankfurt School«, Denmark (Klim), publications focus on 19th-century and which emerged from the after the end of the war – in segments of the ultimately lies with us. 20th-century German history as well as Sweden (Nirstedt/ Institute for Social Research population of the Federal Republic. the history and present state of right-wing litteratur), Finland at the Goethe University extremism in Germany. He is considered Frankfurt. The collected (Vastapaino), Since then a lot has changed, but some one of today’s most knowledgeable works of Theodor W. Adorno Korea (Moonji), things have remained the same or even, experts on the new-right scene and was are published by Suhrkamp nominated for the Japan (Horinochi Verlag and have been 50 years on, come back again. And thus in the category of Non-fiction/essay for translated into more than 40 Aspects of Contemporary Right-Wing Rad- Shuppan), Greece his 2017 book Die autoritäre Revolte. languages. icalism reads like a message-in-a-bottle to (Nissos); Domestic Die neue Rechte und der Untergang des the future, whose value for our present Abendlandes (The Authoritarian Revolt. The Rights Sales: German Volker Weiß presents in his afterword. New Right and the Decline of the West). Audiobook (CC Live), German Book Club (Büchergilde 48 49 Gutenberg) Philosophy Philosophy

Hans Blumenberg Michael Esfeld The Naked Truth Science and Freedom Hans Blumenberg: 100th birthday on 13 July 2020

Since the early modern period and the Hans Blumenberg In his new book, philosopher Michael Esfeld Michael Esfeld Enlightenment divine privilege was meant Hans Blumenberg The Naked Truth defends scientific realism against conspiracy Michael Esfeld Science and Freedom to be democratized by the unconditional Die nackte Edited by Rüdiger Zill theorists and antirealists, but he also points The Scientific Worldview possession of truth. The revelation of (Original title: Die nackte out the limits of scientific explanations. Wissenschaft and the Status of the truth was also a theme of the critique of Wahrheit Wahrheit) Contrary to many exaggerated ambitions, Individual suhrkamp taschenbuch 199 pages (Original title: Wissenschaft domination. In this late posthumous text, wissenschaft they do not have the power to prescribe und Freiheit Paperback Das naturwissenschaftliche Weltbild und Freiheit. Das natur- Hans Blumenberg explores the motif of norms for the shaping of individual and und der Status von Personen September 2019 suhrkamp taschenbuch wissenschaftliche Weltbild the naked truth through the history of societal life to people who have the ability wissenschaft und der Status von philosophy, but with enhanced awareness for to act freely. Scientific findings do not imply Rights available Personen) the costs of this act of revelation. Nietzsche, a predetermination of human actions and approx. 212 pages the defender of rhetoric, and Freud, who thoughts. The determinism in physics, Paperback Hans Blumenberg (1920- had pursued the development of his theory biology or the neurosciences does in no way release: December 2019 1996) was Professor of without considering the wellbeing of Philosophy at the University of curtail human freedom. On the contrary: individual patients, are the central antipodes Münster. Science presumes the freedom to formulate, Rights available for Blumenberg here. test and justify theories in the first place. Selected Backlist: Michael Esfeld is a Professor Schiffbruch mit Zuschauer. of Philosophy at the University Paradigma einer of Lausanne. Daseinsmetapher (1993) International Sales: English Selected Backlist: world rights (MIT Press), Spanish world rights (A. Naturphilosophie als Machado Libros - published, Metaphysik der Natur (2007) rights reverted), France Holismus in der Philosophie (L’Arche), Italy (Il Mulino - des Geistes und in der published, rights reverted), Philosophie der Physik Netherlands (Historische (2002) Uitgeverij - published, rights reverted), Korea (Saemulgyul), Japan (Tetsugako Shobo - published, rights reverted), Hungary (Atlantisz), Slovenia (Krtina), Turkey (Alfa), Greece (Antipodes), Israel (Shalem Press) Die Legitimität der Neuzeit (1969) International Sales: English world rights (MIT), Spanish world rights (Pre- Photo: www.michaelesfeld.com Photo: Photo: Peter Zollna Peter Photo: Textos), Chinese simplex rights (The Commercial Press), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Via Veritas), Arabic world rights (Arab Network for Research and Publishing), France (Gallimard), Italy (Marietti), Korea (Saemulgyul), Japan (Hosei UP), Serbia (Zoran Stojanovic)

50 51 Philosophy Philosophy

Jürgen Habermas Habermas Global This Too a History of Philosophy The Reception History of a Work

The new book by Jürgen Habermas is Jürgen Habermas Jürgen Habermas’ writings have found Habermas Global also a history of philosophy. Employing This Too a History of an international audience – and not only The Reception History a genealogical style it examines how Philosophy in academic circles but readers who are of a Work today’s dominant forms of western post- Volume 1: The Occidental interested in politics. The current volume Edited by Luca Corchia, metaphysical thought came into being. Constellation of Faith and sees the international reception history Stefan Müller-Doohm and Knowledge William Outhwaite Using the discourse on faith and knowledge, of the prominent philosopher and public Volume 2: Rational Liberty. (Original title: Habermas which emerged from out of two strong intellectual illuminated by more than Traces of the Discourse on 30 authors, who represent more than 15 global. Wirkungsgeschichte axial-period traditions in the Roman Faith and Knowledge eines Werks) languages and scientific cultures. In so Empire, as a guide, Habermas traces how (Original title: Auch eine 891 pages doing, for the first time ever this edition philosophy successively disengaged itself Geschichte der Philosophie Paperback from its symbiosis with religion and became Band 1: Die okzidentale grants a comprehensive look at the inter- Release: October 2019 secularised. From a systematic perspective Konstellation von Glauben national impact of Habermas’ thought, while simultaneously casting a new light on all and in great detail he presents the decisive und Wissen; Band 2: Rights available conflicts, lessons learned, and turning Vernünftige Freiheit. Spuren of his work, which is inseparable from his

Photo: Katharina Kreye Katharina Photo: des Diskurses über Glauben concept of communicative rationality. points, as well as their accompanying Luca Corchia is a Fellow und Wissen transformations in science, law, politics, and at the Institute of Political Selected Backlist: society. »I am moved by the question Approx. 1500 pages in two Science at the University of volumes Stefan Müller-Doohm: Jürgen Habermas. Eine Pisa. Stefan Müller-Doohm of what will remain of Clothbound The new book from Jürgen Habermas, Biographie (2014) International Sales: English world is an Emeritus Professor of philosophy once it no longer Release: November 2019 rights (Polity), Chinese simplex rights (SSAP), Spanish Sociology at the University of however, is not only a history of philos- world rights (Trotta), France (Gallimard), Korea Oldenburg. William Outhwaite ophy. It is also a reflection on the func- attempts to contribute to a International Sales: (Saemulgyul) is an Emeritus Professor tion of a philosophy that adheres to the of Sociology at Newcastle rational explanation of our English world rights rational liberty of communicatively so- understanding of self and University. cialised subjects: it should explain »what (Polity), France (Galli- our growing scientific knowledge of the the world.« mard) world means for us – for us as human Roman Yos beings, as modern contemporaries, and Jürgen Habermas, born in 1929, is an Emeritus Professor as individuals«. of Philosophy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/ The Young Habermas Main. He is the recipient of numerous honorary doctorates Roman Yos Roman Yos’ analysis of the origins of one and awards. In 2001 he was The Young Habermas awarded the Peace Prize of the of the most influential works of recent A Philosophical Analysis German Book Trade. His work is philosophy is an original examination of of His Early Thought published by Suhrkamp Verlag. how early in his career Jürgen Habermas 1952–1962 was already gradually at work transposing (Original title: Der his distinct philosophical-political thought junge Habermas. Eine into a viable system. This can be understood ideengeschichtliche as a process of learning, the development of Untersuchung seines which saw contrary intellectual influences frühen Denkens 1952– come together that called for complex 1962) mediation. Yos reconstructs the exciting 521 pages Paperback emergence of Habermas’ thought from the June 2019 interrelationship of his early writings, while at the same time providing insight into their temporal and historical background. Rights available

Roman Yos holds a Doctorate in Philosophy and is currently a Lecturer in Philosophy and Social Sciences. 52 53 have shapedthe global flow ofgoods 54 »Lea Haller’s ground-breaking study »Lea Haller’s ground-breaking sheds lightonthe key players that the emergence of the world emergence ofthe market.the of ahistory less than isnothing The result for multinationalcompanies. privileges tax way andallthe courts upthrough arbitration derivative exchange international through from century: 19th middleofthe the since ofglobalisation process the forming techniques andinstitutions have been world today, Hallershows how centralised the rawthe in ofall material handles afifth Using as an example, which economy. global makes ofthe part upanenormous transitdetailed history trade that ofthe Lea Hallerpresents for first the timea middlemen. consumers,not butthe the oceans. the any are not goods that shipped across there are hardlyCoffee, cotton, rubber: to the creation of the world ofthe creation marketto the From derivative markets to privileges tax Trade Transit Haller Lea from 1850upthroughfrom today.« he driving force,The driving however, is Adam Tooze

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Steffen Mau Lütten Klein A tale of two countries 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall

Steffen Mau grows up in the 1970s in Steffen Mau Lütten Klein, a neighbourhood of newly Lütten Klein constructed residential buildings in Rostock. Life in the East-German When the Berlin Wall falls, he is serving Transformative Society with the National People’s Army, after With numerous images (Original title: Lütten Klein. the reunification he goes to university, Leben in der ostdeutschen eventually becomes a professor. All the while Transformationsgesell- his home is battling with the drawbacks of schaft. Mit zahlreichen the reunification: Instead of a prospering Abbildungen) economy, rusty industrial ruins dominate 284 pages the landscape. With new freedom and mass Clothbound consumerism come the experiences of social August 2019 downgrading. Rights available 30 years after 1989 Mau takes stock Marten Körnerr Photo: from the perspective of a Lütten Klein- Steffen Mau, born in 1968, is born sociologist that is both sharp and Professor of Macrosociology empathetic. He talks to people who left at the Humboldt University of and people who stayed, he looks back on »It’s not just its products, Berlin. life in a state that no longer exists. How its symbols and its did the social structure, did mindsets Selected Backlist: change? What are the reasons for the everyday aesthetics that Das metrische Wir (2017) current dissatisfaction and political disappeared along with International Sales: English alienation in the new eastern federal the GDR, there was at the world rights (Polity) states? How did the city in which he spent same time a devaluation Lebenschancen (2012) his youth together with children from all Rights available kinds of backgrounds become a place of of the wealth of experience social division? His conclusion: many accumulated there.« of the divisions that can be observed in eastern Germany stem from the time of the GDR. But they weren’t dissolved by the transformation. Rather, they were aggravated into the societal fractions that shape our country to this day.

56 57 Philosophy / Ethics History

Janina Loh Michael Wildt Robot Ethics The Volk’s Ambivalence Artificial Intelligence and ethical norms: the hot topic of the day

In her essential book, philosopher Janina Janina Loh Whoever speaks of the »Volk« cannot fail Michael Wildt Loh addresses the moral challenges that Robot Ethics to mention the void at its heart. There is The Volk’s Ambivalence play a role in the construction of robots An Introduction always a struggle to define who belongs and National Socialism as as well as in dealing with them: Are ro- (Original title: who is to be kept out. Not only do language Social History bots autonomous? Can they act morally? Roboterethik. Eine and history determine who is included and With numerous Einführung) illustrations Do they have a moral value? Should they who is excluded but ancestry and ethnic approx. 241 pages (Original title: have rights? Who is responsible when a attributes as well. In National Socialism Paperback Die Ambivalenz robot harms a human being? Release: December 2019 the Volk assumed its anti-Semitic and racist des Volkes. Der form, with violence and self-empowerment The question as to the attribution of Nationalsozialismus als becoming central elements. The concept of responsibility not only relates to ethical Rights available Gesellschaftsgeschichte) the Volksgemeinschaft is thus a key term 423350 pages considerations about robots, but offers an for a political theory and social history of Paperback incredible bridge to further areas of human Janina Loh is a teacher National Socialism, whose components August 2019 interaction; for example, in decisions about and researcher in the field Michael Wildt gathers in this book. the use of and handling of robots in politics of Technology and Media Philosophy at the University of Rights available (political responsibility), economics (economic Vienna. responsibility, consumer responsibility, and is Professor corporate responsibility, also known as Michael Wildt »Michael Wildt is to thank for the for 20th-Century German corporate social responsibility) and law fact that research focuses ever History, focussing on National (legal responsibility). Socialism, at the Humboldt more strongly upon processes University of Berlin. Loh critically discusses these as well as other ethical questions and introduces some of communication in which of the most important solutions. ›Volksgenossen‹ appropriated the concept of ›Volksgemeinschaft‹.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Photo: Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch Photo: Gossow Katharina Photo:

58 59 Contemporary History

Lutz Raphael Beyond Coal and Steel When the chimneys disappeared and the robots came The prehistory of our post-industrial present

In the 1970s many western European states Lutz Raphael were gripped by unprecedented structural Beyond Coal and Steel transformation: the factories of the old A Social History of Western industries disappeared, millions of jobs Europe after the Boom were lost, previously booming cities were Frankfurt Adorno Lectures beset by crises, and new social questions 2018 determined the political agenda. But what With numerous illustrations (Original title: Jenseits happened to the proud industrial citizen– von Kohle und Stahl. Eine to his jobs, career path, and residential Gesellschaftsgeschichte districts? How did the social rights and Westeuropas nach dem political participation of workers change Boom. Frankfurter Adorno- when competition went global, management Vorlesungen 2018) was streamlined, and financial capitalism 525 pages became dominant? Which ideas and Clothbound

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Using the example of industrial work Rights available in Great Britain, France and the Federal Republic of Germany, Lutz Raphael Lutz Raphael, born in 1955, is recounts the incredibly complex and »Top-notch historical Professor for New and Recent exciting history of western European de- History at the University of taz industrialisation. Lasting three decades, clarifications.« Trier. He has also held Guest it corresponded with an increase in pro- Professorships in Oxford and Paris, among others. He is a ductivity and living standards, but also member of the Mainz Academy of brought low wages, growing inequality Sciences and Literature as well and a crisis of democratic representation as the Historical Commission in its wake. And perhaps the most impor- in the Bavarian Academy of tant point: It has carried on until today– Sciences and Humanities. In as the prehistory to our post-industrial 2013 he received a Gottfried Wilhelm of the present. This book helps us understand German Research Foundation. it all.

60 61 62 »Reckwitz’s theory isimpressive.«»Reckwitz’s theory Reckwitz.« time shoulddefinitely read Andreas convincing image ofwhatunderlies The Society of Singularities isthe »The Society ofSingularities Tagesspiegel aboutTheSociety ofSingularities »Those wanting to understand our alism. ofliber- crisis of self-realisation andthe imperative from the arises fatigue that culture andidentity,conflicts within the features of a post-industrial economy, the new the classsociety, present: the the central structural characteristicsthe of Andreas Reckwitz pointedly mapsout ofessaystricably entwined.Inaseries doxes –progressandanxiety are inex- byterized new andpara- polarisations by age, late-modern which the ischarac- hasbeenreplaced old industrial modern structural change becomevisible:the Only now ofsociety’s degree hasthe itwas allanillusion. that painful understanding people came to the however, election of Donald Trump, the latest At Brexit future. the with and of the lifestyles guidingconcepts to appeared bethe society,information of pluralisation and the andemancipation,the liberalisation marketthe economy seemedunstoppable; worldwidethe and ofdemocracy triumph ofsocialprogress: assumedcertainty the societies seemedto bemoving in forward Up untiljust afew years ago,Western Die ZeitaboutTheSociety ofSingularities »A sociologist ofourtimes.« delivers shrewd general theories Illusions of End The Reckwitz Andreas our coexistence.« first to show a recognisable and Deutschlandfunk Kultur aboutThe Society ofSingularities Süddeutsche Zeitung Der than 25.000hardcoverthan copiessold more (The Society ofSingularities): Die Gesellschaft derSingularitäten Photo: Jürgen Bauer

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Photo: Mannheim. Philosophy atthe University of Ursula Wolf isaProfessor of Rights available 2020 Release: January Paperback approx. 350pages Philosophische Aufsätze) Handlung, Glück, Moral. title: (Original Philosophical Essays Morality Action, Happiness, Ursula Wolf Literary Fiction Literary Philosophy 63 Literary Studies Literary / FictionEssay

Karl Heinz Bohrer Speaking with Daggers Hate as the pivotal literary medium of expression

Particularly in recent times, the term »hate« Karl Heinz Bohrer has made a career in public importance. In Speaking with Daggers the journalistic and socio-historical critique The Literary Hate Effect of the reaction to the refugee crisis prevalent (Original title: Mit Dolchen in Germany and Europe it moved to the sprechen. Der literarische Hass-Effekt) forefront of the discourse alongside terms 493 pages like »identity« and »racism«. Clothbound But Karl Heinz Bohrer’s study in twelve September 2019 chapters searches for something entirely different in the literary hate effect. It’s Rights available not about hate as the emotion accompa- nying a political-ideological programme, Karl Heinz Bohrer, born in but about the role of hate as a medium Cologne in 1932, is a literary of excessively heightened poetry. This critic, publisher, scientist, shows a privileged role of characters of creator of many works revolving hate and their expressive powers within around the central ideas of literature used as a model along which Momentanism and »suddenness«. He worked as a secondary school the expressivity of literary language it- teacher in Germany, England and self develops. the USA. He was awarded the Bohrer’s studies take us from the beginning Heinrich-Mann-Prize in 2007 and of the early modern periods, from received the Order of Merit of the Shakespeare, Kyd and Marlowe, to Milton, Federal Republic of Germany in Swift, Kleist, Baudelaire, Strindberg and 2014. Karl Heinz Bohrer lives in London. Céline to the present: to Sartre, Bernhard, Handke, Jelinek as well as Brinkmann and Selected Backlist: Goetz. And to Houellebecq, in whose works the malicious affirmation of the hateful, a Jetzt. Geschichte meines contemporaneity without hope, culminate. Abenteuers mit der Phantasie (2017)

Das Erscheinen des Dionysos. Antike Mythologie und moderne Twelve analyses of world literature’s Metapher (2015) great creators of hate-characters: From the Renaissance to the present Photo: Jürgen Bauer Jürgen Photo:

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65 History Literary / FictionEssay History / Psychoananalysis

Karl Schlögel Uffa Jensen Russian Berlin How the Couch Came to Calcutta The first comprehensive global history of psychoanalysis

Berlin welcomed almost half a million Karl Schlögel At the end of the 19th century in Vienna, Uffa Jensen Russian refugees at the beginning of the Russian Berlin Sigmund Freud founded psychoanalysis. How the Couch Came 1920s. In the inter-war period, the city was New and expanded edition It developed into a global phenomenon in to Calcutta not only the »stepmother of Russian cities«, With photos just a few decades. Concepts like »super- A Global History of Early but also the secret centre of the world (Original title: Das ego«, »narcissism« or »the Oedipus com- Psychoanalysis russische Berlin. With numerous revolution. This is where those totalitarian plex« have long been a part of our every- Erweiterte Neuausgabe) illustrations movements which would mark Europe in the day speech. In order to understand this 667 pages (Original title: Wie die »age of extremes« first ran into one another. Clothbound dynamic development, Uffa Jensen con- Couch nach Kalkutta kam. siders three cities which, in addition to Karl Schlögel uncovers the great within the April 2019 Eine Globalgeschichte der Vienna, were of great importance for the small. He follows the dramatis personae and frühen Psychoanalyse) development of the psychoanalytic move- Clothbound reconstructs the networks through which Rights available ment: Berlin, London and Calcutta. 538 pages they moved. The world of the train stations March 2019 and the salons of the Tiergarten area of Karl Schlögel, born in 1948, Jensen shows how teaching and treatment Berlin, the poets of the silver age and the taught Eastern European techniques were adapted to the background History up until his retirement Rights available agit-prop artists of Soviet power, receptions of existing therapy forms and local tradi- as Professor Emeritus, first at at the Soviet embassy and Nabokov’s the University of Constance, tions, and the ways in which these develop- Uffa Jensen, born 1969, observations on the rise of the Nazis, taxi and from 1995 onwards at the ments in turn influenced Freud. By means teaches History at the TU drivers’ perceptions of the city and the European University Viadrina of narrative »keyhole texts« Jensen looks di- Berlin and conducts research in Frankfurt/Oder. His most scandal surrounding the »tsar’s daughter rectly into the consulting room, while also at the university’s Center for important publications include Anastasia«. Timetables and directories shedding light on the political and social Research on Antisemitism. Moskau lesen, Petersburg. Das play an important role for Schlögel, as do Laboratorium der Moderne aspects of global psychoanalysis. Conceived cafés and cabarets, the ceremonial aspects 1909-1921, In Space We Read from the beginning as a kind of »technology of diplomacy and the practices of the Time and Moscow 1937. His of the self«, it paved the way for today’s cul- underground struggle, the polyglot world book Das sowjetische Jahr­ ture of counsellors und coaching. This global of Comintern-functionaries and the maps of hundert. Archäologie einer history also demonstrates how the thera- untergegangenen­ Welt (The the geo-politicians. peutic handling of emotions was of central Soviet Century: Archaeology of importance: Freud himself understood his Russian Berlin is no romantic place, but a Vanished World), published in 2017, received the Prize of the therapy as »a cure through love«. the arena of an age that was both post- Leipzig Book Fair that year. war and pre-war in one. Ever since Rus- sia and the European Union have become estranged, the highly interconnected »We should be less »Russkij Berlin« of the present has been surprised by the fact that politically divided. The double view of the former as well as current Russian psychoanalysis was of such Berlin reveals itself unexpectedly actual interest in Calcutta and more Photo: Jürgen Bauer Jürgen Photo: and productive. Isolde Ohlbaum Photo: by the fact that, almost 100 years later, this remains surprising.« »Schlögel’s great strength lies in his talent for empathy combined with an encyclopaedic knowledge of German-Russian relations. Through his brilliant essays an image of that very ›Russian Berlin‹ that existed before the rise of Hitler grows before the reader’s eyes.« Peter Merseburger, Die Zeit

66 67 Practical Literary Philosophy Fiction Positive Psychology / Lifestyle

Wilhelm Schmid Mechthild Grossmann / On the Power of Touch Dorothea Wagner Gaining more equanimity through touch Better Late Than Never A declaration of love to age – and to life

We see, we hear, we smell, we taste. But Wilhelm Schmid What does being old feel like? Mechthild Mechthild Grossmann / what about the sense of touch? Yes, touch On the Power of Touch Grossmann is 79 and enjoys it. In this book, Dorothea Wagner can be quite nice. It offers stimulation, (Original title: Von der she talks about the big and small moments Better Late Than Never encouragement, reassurance, connection Kraft der Berührung) of getting older. About the wonderful A Declaration of Love to with others. It strengthens the physical 101 pages freedom as well as about the phenomenon Old Age Clothbound (Original title: Besser and social immune system. But the great that friends suddenly want to talk about September 2019 spät als nie. Eine longing for being touched that many people nothing but their illnesses – and no longer Liebeserklärung an das feel is thwarted by an equally great shyness, about good books or films. Rights available Alter) by reservations of various kinds. The She talks about pistachio ice cream in Rome, approx. 254 pages MeToo Debate has created awareness for about the new experience of eating a burger, Wilhelm Schmid, free Clothbound the occurrences of touch that is undesired philosopher, born in 1953, what comforts her after the death of a friend, Release: October 2019 and violent, but it would be a great pity to lives in Berlin and teaches what sex and love are all about and how become suspicious of every kind of touch Philosophy at the University of much she is enjoying having breakfast in Rights available as a response to that. Many of us only know Erfurt and as visiting Professor bed in peace and spending an afternoon in touch from a touchscreen anyway. Wilhelm at the State University of Tiflis/ sweatpants. Humorous and affectionate, she Dorothea Wagner, born in Georgia. Schmid makes suggestions as to how a new describes why age doesn’t have to be scary – 1990, is the granddaughter sensuality can be discovered with analogous but that it is actually the best time of one’s of Mechthild Grossmann. She Selected Backlist: studied at the German School touch beyond digital devices. And he life. (2014) of Journalism in Munich and demonstrates that the phenomenon of touch Gelassenheit International Sales: English works as an online and social far exceeds the physical plane. world rights (Upper Westside With great humour and a refreshing media editor for Süddeutsche Zeitung. For the column Philosophers), Spanish world attitude to life »Senior Editor« and for this The new book by the bestselling rights (Kairos), Catalan rights (Angle), Chinese complex rights book, she has recorded her author of What We Gain as We Grow The successful columns from the (Emily Publishing Co.), Portugal grandmother’s thoughts on Süddeutsche Zeitung now for the first Older. On Gelassenheit (more than (/ the big and small moments of 500.000 copies sold) and Happiness Objectiva), France (Piranha), time as a book getting older. (more than 200.000 copies sold) Italy (Fazi), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Denmark With numerous articles that have never Mechthild Grossmann is 79 years old and has been An inspiration on how life can be (Informations Forlag), Danish been published before Audiobook Rights (Lindhardt & a widow for six years. As a given more meaning through touch Ringhof), Sweden (Lind & Co.), housewife, she raised her kids Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), and made sure to pass on Wilhelm Schmid puts all levels of Finland (Aula & Co.), Korea an affectionate outlook onto touch into focus: sensual, emotional, (Chaek Se Sang), Japan (Mikasa the world to them. She has been living alone in a small mental and transcendent. Shobo), Poland (W.A.B.), Czech Republic (Euromedia), Serbia apartment for a few years and (Laguna), Latvia (Zvaigzne), writes about getting older. Slovenia (Narava), Turkey (Iletisim), Ukraine (Knihy XXI), Photo: Fritz Beck Fritz Photo: Photo: Heike Steinweg Heike Photo: India (Malayalam; Sahitya Pravarthaka), Israel (Modan); Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV), German Book Club (Club Bertelsmann)

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I T e Bettina Rust U R P L O A C Berlin V E A S »Bettina Rust’s book about this city is meant as a declaration F of love, filled with anecdotes and stories.«Angie Pohlers, Der Tagesspiegel

N G S N G S n g N G S L I O R L I O R L i s o L I O R Bettina Rust E B T E B T b r t E B T You love Berlin and know the extraordi- I E I E i e e I E L L L L Insel Insel Insel Insel nary city on the Spree like the back of Berlin R I T E P L O U A Favourite Places your hand? You’ll be surprised by how V C AMSTERDAM BARCELONA Florenz HAMBURG A E F S BETTINA BALTSCHEV PETER SCHWAAR b irgit Haustedt BIRGIT HAUSTEDT With colour photographs and much is still waiting to be discovered! Insel This book will take you to places that illustrations (Original title: Berlin. may soon become some of your favourites Lieblingsorte) and where you’ll want to return over and BERLIN BETTINA RUST English translation over again. published by Insel Verlag. What would a perfect day in Berlin look like? Translated by Alexander Start off with a panorama view of the city Booth from the ›Skyline‹ canteen on the 20th floor 236 pages Our insel taschenbuch travel series takes you to places that could soon become your favourite of the Technical University. Afterwards make Paperback places and to which you’ll want to keep returning. Discover hidden locations and parks, shop your way to the teahouse with the thatched September 2019 on the most beautiful markets and enjoy the best cafés, restaurants and bars of the city! Our roof in the English Garden and snap a selfie, authors have rediscovered their (chosen) home like strangers but with the »home advantage«. signing it ›Warm Greetings from Sylt!‹ In Rights available Two pages are dedicated to each favourite place with colour photographs, special tips, directions the cabinet of curiosities that is the antique and opening hours. With the practical arrangement according to neighbourhoods you can explore shop on Winterfeldtstrasse you’ll encounter Bettina Rust studied marketing and communications in Hamburg. the surroundings of your favourite place at the same time. mysterious things like flying pufferfish and dinosaur teeth. Then head on over to Moabit, In 1992 she began working for various radio and TV stations as Our »favourite places« – books to travel with, to give away and to enjoy that hold many which to many of the city’s inhabitants is the surprises and invite you to rediscover the most beautiful cities! a presenter. Since 2002 she has new Kreuzberg, or rather, the old Kreuzberg been the presenter of »Hörbar of 30 or 40 years ago, when the makeshift Rust« for Radio Eins, interviewing counted for far more than the perfect. Finish prominent figures from the world off the evening just a stone’s throw from of politics, show business, and L I N G S O L i n g s o L i n g s o L i n g s o B R T b r t b r t b r t I E E i e e i e e i e e beyond, receiving the European L L L L Zoo Station at the Hat Bar, where you’ll find Insel Insel Insel Insel Award for her efforts in LONDON NEAPEL OSLO & PARIS musicians from the whole world jamming 2008. You can listen to her latest ULRIKE DRAESNER Maria CarM en Morese BERGEN s tefan UL rich the night away. podcast, »The Columnist«, at Knut Hoem .de.

With insider’s tips on art & culture, the country & its people, culinary delights & cherished sites With colour photographs and illustrations Photo: Dirk Dunkelberg/photoselection Photo:

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Bledar Kola / Ursula Heinzelmann New Albanian Cuisine Mediterranean, Modern, Mullixhiu

Mullixhiu (pronounced: Moulijou) means Bledar Kola / Ursula »miller« in Albanian, and in Bledar Kola’s Heinzelmann restaurant three mills are turning around New Albanian Cuisine the clock grinding up wheat, corn, barley Mediterranean, Modern, and oat, the latter two of which have become Mullixhiu With texts by Ursula rare in Albania. He generally only uses Heinzelmann and photos local products as he has been taught to do by Manuel Krug at the world-famous restaurant Noma in (Original title: Die neue Copenhagen. »Noma has changed my life,« albanische Küche. he says, »I understood that good food has to Mediterran, Modern, be simple.« So too in Albania, where he has Mullixhiu) returned to in order to reinvent Albanian 192 pages cuisine at his own restaurant. Whether it’s Clothbound courgette salad with plums, a refreshing September 2019 salad with a fruity note; »deconstructed« burek, in its simplicity quite a spectacular Rights available dish; dolma made from vine leaves, vegetarian finger food at its finest; lamb Bledar Kola went to London meat balls filled with cheese and braised at age 15 and made a living on tomatoes, or »qumeshtor«, the Albanian washing dishes at a Japanese restaurant. Then he trained version of crème brûlée, and much more: as a chef and worked at refined, simple, good. restaurants such as the The traditional cuisine of Albania, legendary Noma in Copenhagen shaped by the country’s Ottoman past as and at Fäviken in Järpen/ well as by Italy and Greece, yet still dis- Sweden. In 2016, he opened tinct and authentic, reinterpreted here in his own restaurant, Mullixhiu, in Tirana/Albania, which by now 70 recipes by Bledar Kola and the team at attracts foodies from all around his restaurant Mullixhiu. the world.

From cooking at Noma to Ursula Heinzelmann is a trained chef, sommelière, revolutionizing the Albanian cuisine successful gastronome, journalist and writer with a special focus on culinary and wine-related subjects. Photo: JManuel Krug Photo:

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Juan Danilo Ofir Raul Graizer Ceviche Ofir’s Kitchen

»I would happily eat Ceviche my whole life!« Mario Vargas Llosa Secrets of Israeli-Palestinian cuisine

The legendary Peruvian dish ceviche – Juan Danilo The regional cuisine of Israel and Palestine Ofir Raul Graizer fish marin­ated in lime juice and salt – is Ceviche. The Cookbook is Ofir’s kitchen, familiar to him from his Ofir’s Kitchen currently becoming a major trend in in- Peruvian Magic childhood in Israel and presented to us now Israeli-Palestinian Family ternational gastronomy. This is not sur- With numerous in this book. The passionate chef shares 80 Recipes prising, as ceviche is a culinary sensa- photographs by Patrick vegetarian recipes with us, rich in variation, With 80 vegetarian recipes Nagtegaal With numerous photographs tion: a sophisticated and fresh dish with elegant and yet easy to recreate at home. (Original title: Ceviche. by Manuel Krug lots of possible variations – a true explo- With the help of a handful of ingredients Das Kochbuch. Peruanisch (Original title: Ofirs Küche. sion of flavour and colour. magisch) and herbs, he leads us into his homeland. Israelisch-palästinensische Ocean, rain forests, high mountain ranges: 168 pages Elegant and colourful variations of Tahini, the Familienrezepte) Peru is full of natural treasures – and it is Clothbound famous sesame paste, for example; Mejadara, 240 pages the home of ceviche. The great diversity June 2019 a one-pot dish of black lentils, plentiful onions Clothbound of indigenous species and impulses from and Freekeh, roasted green wheat; Labane, November 2018 immigrants from all over the world have Rights available homemade cheese made of sour cream and created the country’s spectacular cuisine in yoghurt – for Ofir one of the highlights of Arab Rights available which there’s still much to discover, among Juan Danilo was born in cuisine. them the multifarious world of ceviche. Lima, Peru, and has lived in Ofir expands on the origins of his recipes, Ofir Raul Graizer, born in Berlin for more than ten years. Every harbour by the Pacific, every city in from Israel­, from Palestine and from his Israel in 1981, is a successful After training to be a chef, he filmmaker and lives in Berlin the Amazon region or in the Andes swears worked in various restaurants. family. and Jerusalem. His prize- by its own recipe. At present, he is working with winning documentaries have Ceviche is an exciting taste adventure – and The culinary sensation from Peru multiple renowned international been widely screened at moreover, it’s a light and healthy dish that companies in order to develop A small number of ingredients and easy to recreate – festivals. only requires few ingredients. The German- new spices and hot new for the home With a natural history of Peruvian recipes. In addition, Juan Danilo Peruvian chef Juan Danilo knows all the superfoods­ was head chef of the Peruvian Simple, healthy, vegetarian, delicious secrets of Peruvian cooking and shares 50 restaurant Nauta in Prenzlauer recipes in this book: from the sophisticated Incredible, easy-to-cook dishes Berg, Berlin. Director, screenwriter, chef de cuisine – while his filmThe Cakemaker is ceviches of the Japanese-inspired Nikkei screened all over the world, here are Ofir’s personal recipes cuisine to his grandmother’s classics and his own, vegetarian and fruity-exotic creations. Photo:

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Knowing about nutrition Prof. Dr. Andreas Michalsen is the key to our health Healing Through Nutrition Eat Better – Fast Easier – Live Longer The Latest Findings from Research and Practice

Andreas Michalsen dedicates his new book Healing Through Prof. Dr. Andreas to his biggest concern: making us healthier. the Power of Nature: Michalsen In his very personal, knowledgeable and Healing Through convincing style, he guides the reader More than 200.000 copies Nutrition towards a balanced and improved diet that sold Eat Better – Fast Easier – Live Longer can prevent illnesses or be directed at The Latest Findings from healing them. The book contains detailed On the Spiegel- list for 71 weeks Research and Practice schedules for regular fasting that are easily With assistance from Dr. implemented into one’s daily routine. The Suzann Kirschner-Brouns author shows that the right diet not only Edited by Friedrich-Karl provides the body with stimuli to activate Sandmann regeneration and self-healing. It’s nothing (Original title: Mit less than the key to a longer life. Ernährung heilen. Besser essen – einfach fasten – What are the essential foodstuffs and their länger leben. Neuestes nutrients, and which forms of nutrition – Wissen aus Forschung und from a Mediterranean diet to a vegetarian or Praxis) 368 pages vegan diet – are the healthiest? Which type Clothbound of fasting – therapeutic fasting, intermediate February 2019 fasting or intermittent fasting – suits what type of person? International Sales: English world rights The latest findings from practice and (Viking Books), Rus- the Charité Hospital’s own studies are supplemented with further current re- sia (Komsomolskaja search findings. Michalsen’s new book is Pravda), Arabic world enlightening and groundbreaking, easily rights (Kalima), applied to everybody’s life, always follow- Poland (Muza), Korea ing the credo: indulgence instead of ab- (The Open Books); stinence. Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Argon)

Prof. Dr. Andreas Michalsen is Professor of Clinical Selected Backlist: Complementary Medicine at the Charité University Medical Healing Through the Power of Nature. A Plea for Modern Naturopathy (2017) International Sales: English world rights (Viking Books; UK sublicense: Yellow Kite/Hodder; US large Centre Berlin and Head of the print sublicense: Thorndike), Spanish world rights (Planeta), Chinese complex rights (Eurasian/Fine Department of Internal and Press), Russia (Komsomolskaja Pravda), France (Albin Michel), Portuguese rights (Luna de Papel), Complementary Medicine at Italy (Sonzogno), Netherlands (Ambo|Anthos), Denmark (People's Press), Korea (The Open Books), Immanuel Hospital Berlin. Japan (Sunmark), Poland (Muza), Czech Republic (Kazda), Hungary (Central Media), Bulgaria (Bard), Clinically and scientifically, the Estonia (Tänapäev), Lithuania (Alma Littera), Serbia (Laguna), Turkey (Epsilon), Greece (Patakis), internist focuses on mind-body- Already more than 70.000 copies sold Albania (Ejal), Israel medicine (meditation, yoga, (Or Am - Sefer Lakol); Domestic Rights Sale: German Audiobook (Argon) stress reduction), nutritional medicine and therapeutic fasting as well as purging methods. In cooperation with his team, he conducts research 76 into the efficacy of Ayurveda. 77 Illustrated Classics

Adalbert Stifter/Gerda Raidt Rock Crystal

Sanna and Konrad, the children of a cobbler, set out on the morning of December Rock Crystal 24th to bring Christmas presents to their With colour illustrations grandparents in the neighbouring mountain by Gerda Raidt village. The grandmother urges them to (Original title: Bergkristall. Mit farbigen llustrationen leave early enough to reach their home von Gerda Raidt) before nightfall. But a heavy snowfall sets 101 pages in and Sanna and Konrad get lost in the Clothbound high mountain ranges. An extensive search September 201 begins … For the first time, Adalbert Stifter’s story Rock Crystal has been illustrated by Text by Adalbert Gerda Raidt for the Insel-Bücherei. Stifter in the public domain, illustration rights available

Adalbert Stifter was born in Oberplan in the Bohemian Forest on October 23, 1805. From 1826 to 1830 he studied in Vienna, first law then mathematics, natural sciences »People have often and history. After graduating emphasised the he initially worked as a private tutor for the Viennese contradiction between aristocracy, including the Stifter’s bloody-suicidal end Prince of Metternich. In 1837 he married Amalie Mohaupt. and the noble meekness He was acquainted with Franz of his writing. It has less Grillparzer and . In 1848 he moved to Linz often been observed that where he first became school a tendency towards the inspector and supervisor of excessive, elementally elementary schools for Upper Austria and in 1850 received catastrophic, pathologic the title Hofrat. Adalbert Stifter operates behind the quiet, died in Linz on January 28, 1868. earnest precision of his Gerda Raidt, born in Berlin in observations of nature in 1975, initially studied Graphics particular.« Thomas Mann at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle and later transferred to the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig and to the illustration course taught by Volker Pfüller, under whose supervision she graduated. She has been working as a freelance illustrator since 2004, her most recent works include Das kunstseidene Mädchen, Der Käpt’n und die

Photo: Hampus Lundgren Hampus Photo: Illustrated Classics Mimi Kätt and In die neue Welt. 79 Gerda Raidt lives in Leipzig. Illustrated Classics IllustratedLiterary Classics Fiction

E. T. A. Hoffmann/Lisbeth Zwerger The Strange Child Mademoiselle de Scudéri »Lisbeth Zwerger is a magician who enchants us »A lover who fears thieves is not worthy of love.« with her illustrations.« Andreas Platthaus, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Siblings Christlieb and Felix von Brakel live E. T. A. Hoffmann Paris, around 1680. A mysterious series E. T. A. Hoffmann in the countryside with their parents. One The Strange Child of murders is shocking the capital. Mademoiselle de Scudéri day, their rich, worldly uncle Cyprianus Illustrated by Lisbeth Young aristocratic men, on their way to Illustrated by Lisbeth comes to visit and brings them a »modern« Zwerger a rendezvous, are stabbed to death by an Zwerger mechanic toy from the city. He promises to (Original title: Das unknown perpetrator and robbed of the (Original title: Das fremde Kind) Fräulein von Scudéri) provide them with a »suitable« private tutor valuable jewellery they carried with them 86 pages 112 pages so that they won’t »fall behind«. But the as presents for their lovers. The king asks Clothbound Clothbound promised tutor, Master Tinte clad in black, September 2018 his court poet, 73-year-old Madeleine de March 2018 turns out to be a sadist who hates children. Scudéri, to help out with the hunt for the And so they ask the magical »strange child«, murderer. She soon finds out that all the Text by E. T. A. Text by E. T. A. whom they met on their walks in the woods, pieces of jewellery that have been taken Hoffmann in the Hoffmann in the for help. come from the workshop of the famous public domain, goldsmith Cardillac. Is he not simply the public domain, A fairy tale – suitable for adults: E. T. A. illustration rights creator of these masterpieces, but also a Illustration Rights Hoffmann’s masterful story, published in the available murderer and thief? available collection The Serapion Brethren in 1819, is Award-winning artist Lisbeth Zwerger has presented as a complete stand-alone edition E. T. A. Hoffmann was born in illustrated E. T. A. Hoffmann’s classic crime Lisbeth Zwerger, born for the first time in the Insel-Bücherei, Königsberg/Prussia on January novella for the Insel-Bücherei. in Vienna, is an illustrator 24, 1776. He was a jurist, of children’s books. Since illustrated by the incomparable Lisbeth conductor, composer, music the publication of her first Zwerger. critic, painter and writer. His illustrated book, she has most famous works include been working as a freelance The Devil’s Elixirs, The Serapion illustrator, specializing in fairy Brethren and The Life and »It is possible that we review a tales. Her works have received »I don’t know why I have to Opinions of the Tomcat Murr. numerous prizes, including believe in your fairy tales today.« He died in Berlin on June 25, disproportionate number of books the 1822. published by Insel Verlag. Medal, The New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book It’s no surprise: You keep finding and the Silver Brush for her treasures there. Like Mademoiselle illustration of ’s Alice in Wonderland. She has [...]« Brigitte de Scudéri been honoured at the Bologna International Children’s Book »A jewel of the art of crime.« Fair as well as the Biennial of Illustrators in Bratislava. Most Susann Fleischer, literaturmarkt.info recently, Zwerger illustrated J.K. Rowling’s The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Her illustrations have been published in numerous countries. Photo:

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Hermann Hesse Discover Yourself! The Magic of Colours

Self-determination instead of conformation, Hermann Hesse At the age of 40, in the middle of World Hermann Hesse obstinacy instead of submission – this is Discover Yourself! War I, Hermann Hesse started to paint. To The Magic of Colours the common thread that weaves through On the Allure of him it was an »outlet, so as to be able to bear Watercolours from the all of Hermann Hesse’s works. Individuation life even in the direst of times« and to gain Tessin. With Contemplations To him, every person’s disposition is unique With illustrations some distance from literature. »I’m holding and Poems Edited by Volker Michels With illustrations and distinctive. Discovering it, developing, my painting chair,« he writes in 1920, (Original title: Entdecke Edited and with an afterword and asserting it against the resistance of »it is my magic apparatus and Faust coat dich selbst! Vom Reiz der by Volker Michels one’s environment is what encourages each Individuation) with whose help I have performed magic (Original title: Magie der of his works. Only those who motivate and 95 pages thousands of times and won the fight against Farben. Aquarelle aus dem like to practice what makes them unique Clothbound stupid reality.« Tessin. Mit Betrachtungen is protected from identity crises. April 2016 A few coherent sequences of pictures and und Gedichten. Zusammen- This volume gathers the most helpful watercolour albums have been preserved gestellt und mit einem writings on this topic and proves Hesse’s Rights available from some of his painting excursions in the Nachwort von Volker experience: »I have always put my faith in Tessin. This book presents a series of his Michels) the individual because only the individual Hermann Hesse, born 1877 in most appealing works included in one of 104 pages is educable and amendable, and in my Calw/Württemberg as the son of those albums from 1922 but it also features Clothbound a Baltic German missionary and experience it was and is always the small pieces from later years. Together with March 2019 the daughter of a Württembergian elite of benevolent and brave people, willing indologist, died in August 1962 in Hesse’s contemplations on his painting and International Sales: to make sacrifices, that preserves the good Montagnola near Lugano, Italy. In personal testimonials from his letters they in the world.« »Hesse is almost as much a 1946, he was awarded the Nobel make understandable that Romain Rolland Russia (Text – pub- painter as he is a poet. Prize in Literature, and 1955 the writes to Hesse in 1921: »I am delighted lished, rights reverted), Friedenspreis des Deutschen by your album of watercolours. They are as Japan (Iwanami – His poetry and paintings Buchhandels (Peace Prize of succulent as fruit and as graceful as flowers. published, rights show an intimate, the German Book Trade). After an apprenticeship to become a They make one’s heart rejoice.« reverted), Croatia accomplished connection to bookseller, he began to work as (Zagrebacka Naklada – the phenomenal world.« a freelance author in 1904. He is published, rights one of the most famous German André Gide, 28.11.2018 reverted) Butterflies authors of the 20th century. At Christmas Time

From butterflies to other fleeting and Hermann Hesse »My childhood days I think of now, / A long- Hermann Hesse ephemeral beauties Butterflies forgotten fairy tale sound awakens: / Bells At Christmas Time Contemplations, Stories, ring and on silver shoes / The Christkind Contemplations, Poems and »I have always had a connection with Poems walks though the white night.« It’s mainly Watercolours by the Author butterflies and other fleeting and ephemeral Edited and with an afterword childhood memories that the poet Hermann Edited and with an after- beauties, while I have never succeeded in by Volker Michels word by Volker Michels Hesse associates with Christmas. But the maintaining permanent, committed and so- With colour illustrations (Original title: In older he gets the more Hesse distances himself called solid relationships,« writes Hermann (Original title: Schmetterlinge. Weihnachtszeiten. Betrach- from the business-minded sentimentality Hesse in a letter from 1926. This preference, Betrachtungen, Erzählungen, tungen, Gedichte und that by now shapes the »holiday of love«. occasionally resembling an elective affinity, Gedichte. Herausgegeben Aquarelle des Verfassers. A dichotomy between awe and mocking for »flowers and butterflies, / That are of und mit einem Nachwort von Ausgewählt und mit einem distance permeates the contemplations and everlasting things / a fleeting allegory« – Volker Michels. Mit farbigen Nachwort versehen von Illustrationen) recollections gathered here that Hesse wrote Volker Michels) as he says in one of his poems, has left its 99 pages on this »always wonderful holiday despite all 96 pages mark on Hesse’s entire œuvre. This volume Clothbound falsehood«. Clothbound gathers the most alluring of his stories, September 2011 »If you like Hesse, you’re going to love this September 2019 recollections, contemplations and poems on book, because his thoughts on Christmas butterflies. International Sales: present in nuce the poet’s outlook on the International Sales: Korea (Moonye) world – and his language in the most beautiful Hungary (Helikon) bloom.« Deutschlandradio Kultur

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The Nibelungs »The falcon that you tamed is a noble spouse. A J Adorno, Theodor W. 48, 49 Jaeggi, Rahel 55 Staab, Philipp 42 You will win and soon lose him again.« Ani, Friedrich 33 Jensen, Uffa 67 Stifter, Adalbert 79 Strenger, Carlo 43 Swainson, Bill 19 B K Blumenberg, Hans 50 Karahasan, Dževad 10 The Nibelungs, written around 1200, is the The Nibelungs Bohrer, Karl Heinz 65 Kola, Bledar 73 T most famous and most influential German Retold by Gretel and Bossong, Nora 2 Kröger, Merle 35 Tenenbom, Tuvia 44 Braslavsky, Emma 4 Ther, Philipp 45 heroic epic. It is part of the canon of the Wolfgang Hecht Buchholz, Simone 38 great works of world literature alongside With illustrations by Bürster, Helga 6 Homer’s Iliad or Vergil’s Aeneid and was the Burkhard Neie L (Original title: Die Labatut, Benjamín 12 basis for countless literary, musical, artistic U Nibelungen. Nacherzählt Lasker-Wallfisch, Maya 22 Utlu, Deniz 16 and cinematic adaptations. Ever since the von Gretel und Wolfgang C Lenhard, Philipp 25 global success of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Hecht. Mit Illustrationen Celan, Paul 20 Lewitscharoff, Sibylle 11 Rings, it has also found its way into modern von Burkhard Neie) Corchia, Luca (Hg.) 53 Loh, Janina 58 V/W popular culture. 152 pages Cotten, Ann 5 Vahland,Kia 30 This edition of the Insel-Bücherei presents Clothbound Wagner, Dorothea 69 the classic version of this heroic epic by September 2019 M Wildt, Michael 59 Gretel and Wolfgang Hecht – with colour D Mau, Steffen 56 Winkler, Josef 27 illustrations by Burkhard Neie! Rights available Danilo, Juan 74 Maier, Andreas 14 Wolf, Ursula 63 Michalsen, Andreas 76 Burkhard Neie, born in Müller-Dohm, Christoph (Hg.) 53 Berlin in 1965, studied E Y/Z The Nibelungs – with communication design and Enzensberger, Hans Magnus 28, 29 Yos, Roman 53 in 1990 founded the creative Esfeld, Michael 51 N Zurstiege, Guido 46 new illustrations agency »xix«, whose clients Neie, Burkhard 84 Zwerger, Lisbeth 81 include the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and the Friedrichstadtpalast in Berlin. F His illustrations have appeared Frisch, Max 26 O in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Ortheil, Hanns-Josef 31 Zeitung and other publications. Outhwaite, William (Hg.) 53 G gleichen können im Kampf gegen mich nicht bestehen.« Diese Worte reizten Ortwin noch mehr, und voller Wut rief er nach seinem Schwert, doch Gernot fiel ihm in den Geltinger, Gunther 8 Arm und sprach beschwichtigend auf ihn ein. »Siegfried hat nichts getan, was wir nicht in Ehren schlichten könnten. Es wäre besser, wir gewännen ihn Der Sachsenkrieg zum Freund.« Goßens, Peter 24 P Dann verbot er allen Recken, Siegfried weiterhin zu reizen, und an Siegfried gewandt, fuhr er fort: »Was nützt uns ein Streit? Sicher fänden viele Helden den Tod, aber Graizer, Ofir Raul 75 Peitz, Dirk 40 das brächte uns wenig Ehre und Euch wenig Gewinn. Deshalb heiße ich Euch und Eure Mannen nochmals Eines Tages erschienen in Worms Sendboten von Lü- willkommen in unserem Land.« degast und Lüdeger, den Königen von Dänemark und Groschupf, Johannes 36 Pflüger, Andreas 34 Auch Siegfried besann sich, und der Gedanke an Sachsen, um den Bur gunden den Krieg zu erklären. Kriemhild, um derentwillen er nach Worms gekommen Gunther erschrak sehr über diese Nachricht, denn sein war, verscheuchte seinen Zorn. So wurde der Frieden Heer war nicht gerüstet, und selbst Hagen erschien es wieder hergestellt. unmöglich, in kurzer Zeit alle Getreuen der Burgunden- Grossmann, Mechthild 69 Bald war Siegfried am Hofe König Gunthers ein gern könige zur Verteidigung des Landes zusammenzurufen. gesehener Gast, und wenn die Könige und die Recken Siegfried bemerkte Gunthers Sorgen bald, trat zu ihm im Kampfspiel ihre Kräfte maßen, übertraf er sie alle, ob und sprach: »Was bedrückt Euch, König Gunther? Laßt sie nun den Stein warfen oder den Speer schossen. Doch es mich wissen, damit ich Euch helfen kann.« so gastfreundlich man ihm auch begegnete, nie bekam er Kaum hatte er vernommen, daß den Burgunden ein Kriemhild zu Gesicht. Sie jedoch hatte Siegfried längst Krieg drohte, rief er aus: »Macht Euch deshalb keine gesehen, denn seit er sich mit den anderen im Burghof großen Sorgen und verlaßt Euch ganz auf mich. Gebt R im Waffenspiel übte, saß sie oft stundenlang am Fenster mir tausend Eurer Mannen und laßt Hagen und Ortwin, und schaute zu. Keine andere Kurzweil konnte sie seit Dankwart, Sindold und Volker mitreiten. Mit ihnen des Münsters begannen zu läuten. Kriemhild erwachte, will ich den Feinden entgegenziehen und sie in ihrem Raphael, Lutz 60 dieser Zeit mehr verlocken. weckte ihre Mädchen und rief nach Licht, um sich zum H eigenen Land besiegen.« Kirchgang anzukleiden. Ein Kämmerer eilte herbei, vor Gern nahm Gunther die Hilfe an, und er tat alles, Kriemhilds Tür stockte sein Fuß. Er sah den erschlage- was Siegfried ihm geraten hatte. Schon nach wenigen nen Recken am Boden liegen, doch erkannte er ihn nicht. Habermas, Jürgen 52 Reckwitz, Andreas 62 Tagen zog das kleine Heer davon und fiel in das Sach- »Herrin«, sprach er, als er ins Gemach trat, »bleibt einen senland ein. Als sie die Grenze überschritten hatten, Augenblick im Zimmer. Vor Eurer Tür liegt ein Mann in gebot Siegfried haltzumachen und ritt allein voraus, seinem Blut.« Haller, Lea 54 Richter, Emanuel 41 Kriemhild schrie auf. Gleich mußte sie an Hagens Fra- ge denken, wie er wohl Siegfried schützen könne, und 18 19 noch ehe sie den Toten gesehen hatte, brach sie in Tränen aus und weinte laut um Siegfried. Ihre Mädchen suchten Heinzelmann, Ursula 73 Rust, Bettina 71 sie zu trösten. »Es kann ja ein anderer sein«, redeten sie ihr zu. »Siegfried ist es«, schluchzte Kriemhild, »Brünhild Hesse, Hermann 82, 83 hat es geraten, und Hagen hat es getan.« Sie ließ sich vor die Tür führen und kniete an dem Leichnam nieder. Sie hob seinen Kopf hoch, und obwohl das Gesicht blutbefleckt war, erkannte sie Siegfried so- Hoffmann, E. T. A. 80, 81 fort. Heiße Tränen liefen ihr übers Gesicht, und niemand vermochte sie zu trösten. »Seht nur«, rief sie plötzlich, »sein Schild ist unver- Höller, Kristin 9 S sehrt, kein Schwerthieb hat es getroffen. Nicht im ehrli- chen Kampf wurde Siegfried erschlagen, er fiel von Mör- derhand. O wüßte ich, wer das getan hat, der Tod wäre Sachs, Nelly 18 ihm gewiß!« Und sie sandte einen Boten zu König Sieg- mund, um ihm die Unglücksnachricht zu überbringen. In tiefem Schlafe lagen der König und seine Mannen, als der Bote ankam und sie mit dem Ruf weckte: »Wacht Setz, Clemens J. 15 auf, wacht auf, König Siegmund! Kriemhild, meine Her- rin, sendet mich. Schweres Leid ist ihr zugefügt wor- den.« Schlögel, Karl 66 »Was ist geschehen?« fragte der König und erhob sich

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