08_foreign_rights_autumn.qxp:08_7_foreign_rights_spring.qxp 18.4.2008 13:43 Uhr Seite 1 Diogenes Foreign Rights List Autumn 2008 Beck’s Last Summer the debut by Benedict Wells … and other books by Esmahan Aykol · Paul Flora Yadé Kara · Loriot · Walter Muschg · Ingrid Noll Bernhard Schlink · Toni Sepeda Urs Widmer & Tatjana Hauptmann F. K.Waechter & Bernd Eilert and TomiUngerer 08_foreign_rights_autumn.qxp:08_7_foreign_rights_spring.qxp 18.4.2008 13:43 Uhr Seite 2 Ivana Jeissing Loriot Christian Reinhart Lempp Schünemann Awards Loriot was awarded the 50th Cultural Prize of Anniversaries the City of Munich. The laudation was given by Joachim Kaiser. Ivana Jeissing 50th birthday on 6 October 2008 Doris Dörrie’s new motion picture film ›Cherry Blossoms – Hanami‹ was awarded the Bavarian Film Reinhart Lempp Prize. The leading actor Elmar Wepper received a 85th birthday on 21 October 2008 Best Actor award. In German cinemas since 6 March Loriot 2008. 85th birthday on 12 November 2008 ›Cherry Blossoms – Hanami‹ is also on the long-list for the German Film Awards, namely in the catego- Christian Schünemann ries ›Best Picture‹, ›Best Actor‹ (Elmar Wepper), 40th birthday on 29 November 2008 ›Best Supporting Actress‹ (Hannelore Elsner, Birgit Minichmayr), ›Best Costume Design‹, ›Best Sound‹, ›Best Script‹ and ›Best Direction‹. The winners will be announced on 25 April 2008. Tomi Ungerer was awarded the Saarland Order of Merit on 27 February 2008 for his contribution to good German-French relations. On 26 February 2008, Tomi Ungerer had already received the Zeralda Prize for Illustrators. Theatre Doris Dörrie Kirschblüten For her translation of Hartmut Lange’s ›Leptis Hanami Laura de Weck Ein Filmbuch ›Peer Pleasures‹ Magna‹, Monica Pesetti has received the German- Diogenes Italian Translation Prize in the category ›Young Euro Theater Central, Bonn Translators‹. The prize was for the first time Theater an der Sihl, Zurich awarded in Rome on 21 February 2008. Junges Theater, Göttingen Staatsschauspiel, Dresden Anthony McCarten’s novel ›Death of a National Theatre, Mannheim Superhero‹ has been nominated for the German Theatre Basel Youth Literature Award 2008 in the segment Theater am Sachsenring, Cologne ›Books for Young People‹. Anthony ›SumSum‹ McCarten The readers of Buchmarkt have elected the Publi- Superhero Theatre Chur Landestheater, Tübingen shing House of the Year 2007. In the current rating, Roman · Diogenes Diogenes is number 3. In the permanent list of top Doris Dörrie publishing houses, Diogenes is number one. ›Happy‹ Junges Theater Hürth, Bergheim Friedrich Dürrenmatt ›The Visit‹ Exhibitions National Theatre, Brünn Martin Suter Business Class Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord, Paul Flora. Poets in the Soup. Centre Dürren- Geschichten aus der Welt des Managements Wilhelmshaven matt, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 18.5.–31.8.2008. Theatre Oberhausen www.cdn.ch. Diogenes Vienna Also exhibition in the Thomas Flora Gallery, Volkstheater, Budapest Innsbruck, 24.6.–6.9.2008. József Attila Theatre, Habimah Theatre, Tel Aviv 08_foreign_rights_autumn.qxp:08_7_foreign_rights_spring.qxp 18.4.2008 13:43 Uhr Seite 3 Cinema Bernhard Schlink. A film adap- Martin Suter. Filming of ›Lila Karl Fischer, Annett Renneberg, tation of the story ›The Other Man‹, Lila‹ will continue until July 2008. Michael Degen and Julia Jäger. from the volume ›Flights of Love‹ With Daniel Brühl, Hannah Herz- Actors appearing in individual epi- will be made with Oxford, Milan and sprung and Henry Hübchen. Direc- sodes include: Bettina Zimmermann, Lake Como as settings. Starring Laura tor: Alain Gsponer. Screenplay: Axel Milberg, Mina Tander, Helmut Linney, Liam Neeson and Antonio Alex Buresch. Producer: Falcom Media Zierl and Hannah Herzsprung. Banderas. Director: Richard Eyre. Group/Film I. Planned theatrical Director: Sigi Rothemund. Producer: Screenplay: Charles Wood, Richard release: spring/summer 2009. teamWorx Television and Film GmbH Eyre. Producer: Rainmark Films/ commissioned by ARD Degeto for Gotham Films. Theatrical release Anthony McCarten. A film Das Erste. This means that screen (UK): end of 2008. version of ›Endurance‹, the fourth adaptations have been made of 14 novel by the New Zealand author cases by Donna Leon. Planned broad- Stephen Daldry will make a film (Diogenes publication in the pipeline) cast: November 2008 on Das Erste. adaptation in Berlin and Görlitz of was made by the writer himself star- the novel ›The Reader‹. Starring Kate ring Melanie Lynskey and Craig Hall. Martina Borger & Maria Winslet, Ralph Fiennes as well as The film title is ›Show of Hands‹. Elisabeth Straub. In Hamburg, David Kross, Bruno Ganz, Karoline Planned theatrical release: 2009. director Kai Wessel (›The Flight‹) Herfurth, Volker Bruch, Hannah adapted ›In the Ring‹. Screenplay: Herzsprung. Screenplay: David Hare. Donna Leon. In the two new Martina Borger. Starring Robert Production: Mirage Enterprises/ Commissario Brunetti film adapta- Atzorn, Axel Milberg, Judith Studio Babelsberg. Distribution: tions ›Wilful Behaviour‹ and ›Blood Rosmair and others. A Typhoon Senator Film. Planned start in from a Stone‹, Uwe Kockisch production. Planned theatrical release: Germany: spring 2009. investigates again. Also starring autumn 2008 on ZDF. ›The Conformist‹ S¥awomir Mro‡ek Martin Suter Divadlo Na Zábradlí Theatre, ›Out at Sea‹ ›Business Class‹ Prague GNM Szinitanoda Theatre, Casino Theatre, Winterthur Staatstheater Kosice, Bratislava Budapest ›Above Things‹ ›Hercules and the Augean Faro Teatro, Madrid Theater Rampe, Stuttgart Stables‹ Nationaltheater, Szeged F. K.Waechter Theatre, Buenos Aires ›The Fox as a Philosopher‹ ›The Devil with the Three Golden The Khan Theatre, Jerusalem National Theatre, Constanta City Hairs‹ Divadlo Na Vihoradech Theatre, ›Emigrants‹ Schauspielhaus, Nuremberg Prague Kenter Theatre, Istanbul ›Prince Hamlet‹ ›Play Strindberg‹ ›Karol‹ Theater Pfütze, Nuremberg Companhia de Teatro de Sintra, GNM Szinitanoda Theatre, Budapest Theater Waidspeicher, Erfurt Lisbon ›Tango‹ ›The Match‹ Ungelt Theatre, Prague Gardonyi Géza Theatre, Eger Theater der Jungen Welt, Leipzig Neomluvene Divadlo Theatre, Bez Zábradlí Theatre, Prague Prague Academic Regional Dramatic Taras Proa Produções Artisticas, Shevchenko Theatre, Ternopil São Paulo ›Serenade‹ ›Romulus the Great‹ National Theatre, Constanta City Vychodocestke Divadlo Theatre, ›The Contract‹ Pardubice Theatergesellschaft Haupt, Prague Ingrid Noll Jazekszin Theatre, Budapest ›Vazlav‹ More news at: ›Ladylike‹ Terszinhaz Theatre, Prague Westfälisches Landestheater, www.diogenes.ch Castrop-Rauxel 08_foreign_rights_autumn.qxp:08_7_foreign_rights_spring.qxp 18.4.2008 13:44 Uhr Seite 4 »But I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.« Bob Dylan, ›My Back Pages‹ A novel about music, love and life – odd, witty, wise and touching. The debut of a 23-year-old author – a real discovery! • A lovesick teacher, • an eccentric German-African man and • a musical child prodigy from Lithuania together on the trip of their lifetime, from Munich through Eastern Europe to Istanbul, all under the protection of an aging rock star and his immortal songs. g a l r e V s e n e g Benedict Wells was born in Munich in 1984 and ini- o i D tially grew up in Switzerland. At the age of six began / n n a his journey through three Bavarian boarding schools. m i s Following his graduation from high school in 2003, o M e n he moved to Berlin where he decided not to go to i g e university. Instead, he devoted himself to his first R © : o novel. He made a living doing odd jobs, most recently t o h working for the editorial board of a talk show. P 08_foreign_rights_autumn.qxp:08_7_foreign_rights_spring.qxp 18.4.2008 13:44 Uhr Seite 5 Benedict Wells Beck’s Last Summer Seventeen-year-old Rauli from Lithuania is an outsider in his class until his music teacher Robert Beck discovers that the boy is fantasti- cally talented: his voice and E-guitar playing are divine. Beck, himself a failed musician, wants to help the boy get on the fast lane to success. But it is not all pure altruism: as the man who discovered Rauli and as his manager, the thirty- seven-year-old Beck may yet find his way back into the world of glamour. But as is the case with Beck himself, Rauli too has his secrets. Benedict Other protagonists: young waitress Lara who Wells is also in the process of conquering the world Becks letzter and who tries hard not to fall in love with Beck. A Lithuanian family with a mysterious past. Sommer Anna Lind, the incarnate erotic dream of every ul, teacher and student. Colossal German-African Charlie, Beck’s only friend who is a philoso- pher at heart and has just failed in his attempt to become a bouncer. And an ageing rock star Roman·Diogenes as a guardian angel. All the figures are on a long road to discover themselves and they will arrive – though not Novel necessarily where one would expect. 464 pages September 2008 Beck’s Last Summer is an artist’s novel, a road movie and an Odyssey through the onslaughts World rights are handled by Diogenes. of genius and mediocrity. Film rights are available. g a l r e V s e n e g o i D / n n a m i s o M e n i g e R © : o t o h P 5 08_foreign_rights_autumn.qxp:08_7_foreign_rights_spring.qxp 18.4.2008 13:44 Uhr Seite 6 »A novel about a vibrant multi-cultural city.« Neue Zürcher Zeitung Yadé Kara Selam Berlin Roman · Diogenes 2003 Praise for Yadé Kara’s first novel Selam Berlin: »We have been waiting for the great ›fall-of-the-wall novel‹ for a long time, and finally a young Turkish woman has written it. A wonderful