Ch. Links Verlag Foreign Rights Catalogue Spring 2012 foreign rights spring 2012 Ed Stuhler The Kremlin Aviator Mathias Rust and his air adventure How a youthful prank embarrassed a superpower Ed Stuhler On May 28, 1987 nineteen-year-old Mathias Rust Mathias Rust und die Folgen eines Abenteuers from the town of Wedel near Hamburg lands his sports plane on Red Square in Moscow. The entire air-defense system of the Eastern military alliance proves helpless. A global power is ridiculed. Mik- hail Gorbachev uses the opportunity to replace his military command. Rust’s stunt helped break de- cades of rule by old hardliners, end the war in Af- ghanistan, lower armament expenditures, and give Soviet allies more room for maneuver. Twenty-fi ve years after this curious incident, an ARD television documentary and the accompa- nying book by Ed Stuhler reconstruct the historical consequences of this airborne adventure. Inter- views with: Mathias Rust, the former West Ger- man foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the head of the West German Federal Intelligence Ser- vice Hans-Georg Wieck, Soviet military offi cers 192 pages 25 illustrations and the writer Wladimir Kaminer. ISBN 978-3-86153-666-6 Published: April 2012 Ed Stuhler Born in 1945; 1965 – 68 degree in che- mical engineering in Magdeburg; 1973–78 degree in cultural studies and literature at Humboldt University in Berlin; as of 1976 editor at the “Haus für Kulturarbeit” in Berlin; since 1979 freelance writer. Numerous publica- tions including Margot Honecker – A Biography (Vienna 2003); The Final Months of the GDR (Berlin 2010). Ch. Links Verlag ∙ Schönhauser Allee 36 ∙ 10435 Berlin ∙ [email protected] foreign rights spring 2012 Lars Hellwinkel Hitler’s Gateway to the Atlantic German military bases in France, 1940 – 1945 Nazi megalomania on France’s Atlantic coast – the Lars Hellwinkel political history of gigantic submarine pens in Brest, Lorient, Saint Nazaire, La Pallice and Bor- deaux. Die deutschen Marinestützpunkte in Frankreich 1940 – 1945 The Wehrmacht overran France in May and June 1940, fulfi lling the German Navy’s dream of ac- cess to the Atlantic. In Brest, Lorient, St. Nazaire, La Pallice and Bordeaux they converted the exi- sting ports into bases. Forty-fi ve thousand workers of the Todt Organization built monumental bun- kers there in which up to 20 submarines could be serviced and repaired simultaneously. The bunkers were so massive – in Brest alone it was 330 meters wide and 190 meters long, with six- meter-thick concrete ceilings – that they withstood about 200 pages Allied bombings virtually unscathed while the ci- about 180 illustrations ties around them were laid to ruin. ISBN 978-3-86153-672-7 To be published: July 2012 Naval historian Lars Hellwinkel tells the history of these bases – from their construction in 1940 to their downfall in 1944-45, as well as their subse- quent use. He is the fi rst to focus on the ambivalent relationship between the French population and the Germans, including both collaboration on the Lars Hellwinkel part of local shipyards and the French Navy as well as resistance to the occupying power. Born in 1974; Studied French and histo- ry in Brest and Kiel; 2003 – 06 fellow of the Centre d’Études d’Histoire de la Dé- fense (CEHD) and the German Histori- cal Institute in Paris; 2006 Ph.D.; 2008 – 09 research assistance at the Kiel Maritime Museum; since 2009 teacher at the Athenaeum Gymnasium in Stade. Numerous publications on military to- pics, most recently: The German Navy Base in Brest (Bochum 2010). Ch. Links Verlag ∙ Schönhauser Allee 36 ∙ 10435 Berlin ∙ [email protected] foreign rights spring 2012 Wolfgang Klietz Baltic Sea Ferries During the Cold War Secret military transports of the Soviet Army The fi rst comprehensive documentation of the gi- Wolfgang Klietz ant train ferries and the exciting story of the ferry Ostseefähren port Mukran near Sassnitz. im Kalten Krieg Between 1982 and 1986, the largest transport pro- ject of the GDR was carried out in Sassnitz on the island of Rügen. Thousands of workers and hundreds of construction soldiers built a four-kilo- meter-long ferry port with 120 kilometers of rail- road tracks costing a total of two billion marks. Five giant double-decker ferries with wide-gauge tracks henceforth handled a large portion of the freight traffi c between the GDR and the Soviet Union, thus circumventing more time-consuming and costly transport through Poland. At the same time it enabled dangerous military goods to be 192 pages transported across the Baltic Sea, unseen by third 112 illustrations parties. Inside, the ferries had secret quarters for ISBN 978-3-86153-673-4 300 soldiers. Published: March 2012 Wolfgang Klietz offers a vivid documentation of this ferry traffi c during the Cold War, illuminating the political backdrop as well as the surveillance activities of secret services and plans for similar connections to Lübeck and Kiel. Wolfgang Klietz Born in 1963; Degree in political sci- ence, history and literature from Chri- stian Albrecht University in Kiel; free- lance journalist at NDR, Holsteinischer Courier, and since 1989 editor at the Hamburger Abendblatt; since 1991 numerous trips to Lithuania via the ferry port of Mukran; lives with his fa- mily in Hamburg. Ch. Links Verlag ∙ Schönhauser Allee 36 ∙ 10435 Berlin ∙ [email protected] foreign rights spring 2012 Frank Nordhausen / Thomas Schmid (eds.) The Arab Revolution Democratic awakening from Tunisia to the Golf A compact survey of the events and developments in eleven countries of the Arab world and of the perspectives opened up by the revolution. Ten renowned experts of the region outline the causes of the democratic awakening, depict the course of events, and introduce the protagonists. Tunisia and Libya (Thomas Schmid, Berliner Zei- tung), Egypt (Frank Nordhausen, Berliner Zei- tung), Algeria (Helmut Dietrich, DAAD), Morocco (Marc Dugge, ARD), Syria (Martina Doering, Ber- liner Zeitung), Lebanon (Markus Bickel, Frankfur- ter Allgemeine Zeitung), Jordan (Heiko Flottau, Süddeutsche Zeitung), Yemen (Jens Heibach, Mar- burg University), Saudi Arabia (Henner Fürtig, GIGA Institut) and the Gulf states (Alexander Smoltczyk, Spiegel). A captivating chapter of con- temporary history that is also an indictment against the absurdity of a law that, though somewhat wea- kened, still exists today. 2nd edition 224 pages ISBN 978-3-86153-640-6 “Nordhausen and Schmid poignantly Published: October 2011 depict the course of these revolutions.” Die ZEIT Frank Nordhausen Thomas Schmid Born in 1956; studied history, German Born in 1950; studied Romance languages in Zu- and philosophy in Berlin; freelance rich and sociology in Berlin; foreign correspondent journalist and writer for Spiegel, Stern for numerous newspapers; since 2008 managing and Zeit till 1996; since 1996 reporter editor of the Berliner Zeitung and its fo- for the Berliner Zeitung; several so- reign correspondent, specializing in the journs in war zones since 1999, inclu- Maghreb region (Morocco, Western Sa- ding Irak (2003) and Egypt (2010-11). hara, Algeria and Tunisia). Ch. Links Verlag ∙ Schönhauser Allee 36 ∙ 10435 Berlin ∙ [email protected] foreign rights spring 2012 Heidrun Hannusch Death Penalty for Suicide A Historical Crime Case “A curious and touching piece of European con- temporary and legal history.” Der Spiegel “Heidrun Hannusch tells the life of a mother and daughter in London exile, as captivating as a detec- tive story. Though always close to her female pro- tagonists, she’s careful never to lose the big picture. In a detailed and sympathetic fashion, she describes their growing desperation with each new Nazi mi- litary victory, ultimately culminating in a suicide pact.” Deutschlandradio Kultur „As interest in the movie The King‘s Speech sweeps the world, the story of the stammering monarch‘s intervention to save the life of Irene Coffee makes fascinating reading.“ 184 pages 18 illustrations The Evening Standard ISBN 978-3-86153-616-1 Published: March 2011 „A shameful chapter of British wartime justice has been exposed in a new book which reveals how an English court passed the death sentence on a young and terrifi ed German Jewish refugee who entered a Heidrun Hannusch suicide pact with her mother because both feared Born in 1954; M.A. in cultural studies; they would be murdered by the Nazis.“ 1980 – 86 culture editor at the Sorbian The Independant daily Nowa Doba; 1987 – 91 employed as a theatre dramaturge; 1991 – 2009 Selected for New Books in German editor at Dresdner Neueste Nachrich- ten newspaper; 2005 fi rst place in the Film rights sold “Saxon Journalism Prize” competiti- on. Heidrun Hannusch lives and works Sample translation in English in Dresden as a freelance journalist available! and writer. Ch. Links Verlag ∙ Schönhauser Allee 36 ∙ 10435 Berlin ∙ [email protected] foreign rights spring 2012 Jürgen Gottschlich The Bible Hunter The Adventurous Search for the Original Version of the New Testament Jürgen Gottschlich takes his readers on an intelle- ctual and emotional journey through 2,000 years of cultural history. German Bible scholar Constantin von Tischendorf made a sensational discovery in the mid-nineteenth century. After years of adventurous, exhausting and dangerous pursuit, he stumbled upon a pile of parchment leaves at ancient Saint Catherine’s Mo- nastery, in the midst of the Sinai desert. This so- called »Codex Sinaiticus« from