GS_englische.4-05-1-06.ietzte 31.08.2005 9:55 Uhr Seite 53 Stanislav Komárek Kirsten Fuchs Dezsö Kosztolányi Alexandra Guggenheim Angela Thompson Imre Kertész Christian Nürnberger Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre Theo Herrlein Moon Suk Maria Frisé Dietmar Holland Reinhold Beckmann Daniel Kehlmann Ulla Lachauer e.a. Verena Mayer Joachim Franz Roland Koberg Attila Csampai Klaus Bednarz Wolfgang Büscher Jochen Buchsteiner Uwe Naumann Rudolf Hickel Jens König Jens Bisky Reinhard Mohr Helmut Schmidt Martin Walser Friedrich Christian Delius Georg Klein Helmut Krausser Moritz Rinke Erika Mann Max Goldt Stephan Katz Ildikó von Kürthy Claudia Singer Dietrich Grönemeyer Anette Göttlicher Susanna Calaverno Rocko Schamoni Carlo Schäfer Roman Rausch Petra Oelker Ines Thorn Nicolas Remin Petra Schier Karin Jäckel Elke Loewe Boris Meyn Melanie Unseld Friedemann Bedürftig Urs Bitterli Carola Stern Rolf Hochhuth Gertrud Koch Notker Wolf Detlef Soost Bernhard Jakoby Hanife Gashi Joachim Fest Moritz Müller-Wirth Urs Willmann Imanuel Geiss Karlheinz Deschner Borwin Bandelow Alexa Hennig von Lange Jan-Uwe Rogge Gerlis Zillgens Christian Matzerath Jan Seghers Andrea Wandel Foreign Rights | Autumn and Winter 05/06 Rowohlt | Rowohlt·Berlin | Wunderlich | Kindler Verlag | Alexander Fest | rororo | paperbacks GS_englische.Korrektur 06.09.2005 8:31 Uhr Seite 54 Table of Contents Hardcover 1 Fiction 1 Historical Fiction 6 Crime 7 Non-Fiction 8 Paperback Fiction 18 Crime 21 Historical Fiction 22 Memoir 23 Non-Fiction 24 General Interest 27 Children’s Books 28 Monographs 33 Encyclopaedia 34 Science+Sports 35 Spring Highlights 36 Contact 37 GS_englische.Korrektur 05.09.2005 15:28 Uhr Seite 1 Foreign Rights Autumn & Winter 05/06 Rowohlt Daniel Kehlmann fiction September 2005 Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich in 1975 and now lives in Vienna. He has won numerous awards for previous novels and short stories, most recently the Candide Award 2005. His novel Ich und Kaminski [Me and Kaminski] became an international bestseller. «His books exude the provocative attraction of masters like Nabokov or Proust.» (Stern) contemporary fiction 304 pages 03528 / u 19,90 Photo: Sven Paustian Measuring the World Towards the end of the 18th century,two young Daniel Kehlmann portrays the lives of two geniuses, Germans set out to measure the world. One of them, their yearnings and weaknesses, their tightrope walk Alexander von Humboldt, negotiates savanna and between love and loneliness, ridicule and greatness, jungle, travels down the Orinoco, tastes poisons, failure and success with a great deal of humour and counts head lice and explores every hole in the imagination. A philosophical adventure novel of rare ground.The other, mathematician and astronomer power and brilliance. Carl Friedrich Gauß does not need to leave his hometown Göttingen to prove that space is bent, Rights sold to France (Actes Sud), Holland (Querido), cannot imagine a life without women and yet jumps Hungary (Magvetö), Italy (Feltrinelli), Korea out of bed on his wedding night to jot down a (Minumsa), Latin America (Diana), Spain (Maeva), Turkey (Can), USA (Knopf/Pantheon). mathematical formula. Famous and slightly eccentric with age, the two meet in Berlin in 1828. Gauß has hardly climbed out of his carriage before the two are embroiled in the political turmoil sweeping through Germany after the fall of Napoleon. 1 GS_englische.Korrektur 05.09.2005 15:28 Uhr Seite 2 Rowohlt Martin Walser fiction September 2005 Living and Writing Martin Walser was born in In September 1951 – the month in which 1927 in Wasserburg and lives Martin Walser’s diaries begin – he is 24 and in Überlingen by Lake Constance. He has received years away from his first book. «Nobody can numerous awards for his know me yet. I am not here yet», he reflects. work, among them the He writes about ideas for novels, about Georg Büchner Award in travels and New Year’s Eve parties, hospital 1981 and the Peace Prize of stays, various encounters and conversa- the German Book Trade in tions.The pages reflect his initial tentative- 1998. He has also been ness and doubt about his talent as an decorated with the Pour le Mérite medal and appointed author, as well as his lust for life and his Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et stated desire to «slide along the gently des Lettres. His most recent painful paths of life and eat the world publications are the novel empty like a field of berries». Der Augenblick der Liebe Yet Martin Walser is a master of transform- [The Moment of Love] and ing life into literature. His novels are always the collection of essays Die suspected, rarely with any foundation, of Verwaltung des Nichts [The Management of Nothing]. being autobiographical and opening the pages of his diaries, we find that even they Martin Walser’s works document his writing rather than his life. have been translated into diaries This is what makes them a truly distinctive 30 languages. 672 pages work of art. 07355 / u 24,90 Rowohlt Rolf Hochhuth fiction January 2006 New Plays, Poems and Prose Rolf Hochhuth was born in Among the five selected plays in this 1931 in Eschwege. Whilst volume are the controversial Wessis in working in Rome as a publisher in 1959, he Weimar and McKinsey is Coming, both conceived his first drama highly political.Veteran critic Marcel Der Stellvertreter [The Reich-Ranicki commented that Hochhuth Deputy]. It was premiered «has an affinity for topical issues». In by Erwin Piscator in Berlin McKinsey is Coming, it is the problem in 1963 and caused a of mass unemployment. worldwide sensation. The dramas are followed by Hochhuth’s Rolf Hochhuth’s works new poems. Poet Karl Krolow said: «He have been translated into turns poems … into weapons, into a form 20 languages. of resistance, of memory,of justification – sometimes a form of self-defence.» His latest short stories prove that Hochhuth pushes the boundaries of this genre with intricate subtlety. The most important work of recent years to celebrate the author’s 75th birthday on April 1st 2006. contemporary fiction / drama 1600 pages 02983 / u 68,– 2 GS_englische.Korrektur 05.09.2005 15:30 Uhr Seite 3 Foreign Rights Autumn & Winter 05/06 Rowohlt Imre Kertész fiction January 2006 Imre Kertész, born in 1929 in Budapest, was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 and freed in Buchenwald in 1945. After the war, he first worked as a journalist, then as a writer and translator in Budapest. His novel Fateless was published in Hungary in 1975 and brought him international fame after the political changes in Europe. In 2002, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. contemporary fiction 288 pages 03530 / u 19,90 Photo: Isolde Ohlbaum Dossier K. – An Investigation Imre Kertész is considered one of the great intellec- of pre-war Hungary and the horrors of National tual and philosophical interpreters of the post Socialism to a politicised life between Stalinist Auschwitz world. His writing is read as autobio- show trials and popular uprising. graphical, yet it follows the compositional laws of fiction. How exactly is it connected to his life? Imre Kertész’ works have been translated Under what circumstances was it written? into 41 languages. With Dossier K., Kertész offers a form of autobio- graphy.It is a scrupulous self-interrogation in the service of personal and historical truth. Not only does it reveal the intimate connections between life and work, it is also an eye-witness account of an epoch – from Kertész’ roots in the lost Jewish culture 3 GS_englische.Korrektur 05.09.2005 15:31 Uhr Seite 4 Rowohlt·Berlin Stanislav Komárek fiction September 2005 Kaplan’s Dream Stanislav Komárek was born In the early Eighties, the young Czech in 1958 in Bohemia and studied biology in Prague. Turkologist Viktor Kaplan can no longer He spent 1983 to 1990 in resist the call of the Orient. He dreams of Vienna, travelling Europe, refining his studies of the Janitshars – the the Middle and Far East, Ottoman Empire’s elite division – and sets USA and China. Since 1990, off to Austria as the first stop on his way to he has lectured in philo- Turkey.Here, Kaplan researches an exhibi- sophy, the history of natural tion about the failed Turkish siege of Vienna sciences and cultural anthropology at Prague in 1683 and meets the dubious businessman University. Following Karakash who procures him a grant for a several scientific publica- research trip to the Bosporus. Kaplan soon tions as well as poems, discovers he has become involved with a Kaplans Traum [Kaplan’s secret order that claim the spiritual heritage Dream] is his first novel. of the Janitshars … Bursting with historical information, the novel takes us from Prague to New York via Vienna and Istanbul as it charts Kaplan’s journey from naïve young idealist to knowing hero. It is also a classy,high-tension contemporary fiction mystery adventure drawing us into a con- 224 pages spiratorial world – breathtakingly gripping, 537 / u 18,90 ingenious and beautifully written. Rowohlt·Berlin Dezsö Kosztolányi fiction January 2006 The Adventure of Kornél Esti Dezsö Kosztolányi Esti is particularly enamoured of Paris – (1885–1936) is considered th a love that is not shared by all his country- the great reformer of 20 century Hungarian litera- men.Thus his companion Bandi forces him ture. Hugely talented, he to live a plain and simple Hungarian life in created a significant body this stronghold of sophisticated savoir-vivre. of work in poetry, novels, Another, a bankrupt cigar manufacturer, novellas and essays. He gets Esti into trouble when he disappears translated Shakespeare, without trace and leaves Esti with a flock of Wilde, Heine, Hölderlin and relatives and creditors. Even in the Hunga- Rilke into Hungarian. Kosztolányi was especially rian countryside, Budapest’s most attractive fond of his hero Kornél Esti.