KLETT-COTTA FOREIGN RIGHTS GUIDE AUTUMN 2020 FICTION & NON-FICTION Iris Wolff GERMAN BOOK PRIZE 2020 (LONGLIST) The Blurriness of the World ENGLISH SAMPLE AVAILABLE 216 pages Hardcover Iris Wolff, born in 1977 in Hermannstadt, August 2020 Transylvania, studied German language and literature, religious studies, graphics ISBN: 978-3-608-98326-5 and painting. For many years she worked at the German Literature Archive in Rights handled by Michael Gaeb Marbach. She received several awards for Literary Agency (World, except IT) • her literary work. She was nominated for Berla & Griffini (IT) the highly regarded Alfred-Döblin-Prize and received Scholarships of the Art Foundation Baden-Württemberg, the state of Baden-Württemberg and the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben. Wolff is a Recommended by New Books in German • Highly acclaimed Author: Ernst-Habermann-Prize 2014 • ALPHA Prize member of the international exile PEN. She for Literature 2018 • Otto Stoessl-Prize 2018 • Thaddäus-Troll-Prize 2019 • Alfred-Döblin-Prize 2018 (Shortlist) • lives in Freiburg, in the south west of Marie-Luise-Fleißer-Prize 2019 (oeuvre) Germany. Rights sold to: France (Éditions Grasset), Italy (Rizzoli), Netherlands (Signatuur) Fiction | 2 Zaia Alexander FULL ENGLISH MANUSCRIPT AVAILABLE A Long Spell of Earthquake Weather Approx. 320 pages Hardcover August 2020 ISBN: 978-3-608-50459-0 Zaia Alexander lives in Potsdam and Los Angeles. She holds a PhD in German Studies from UCLA, was a research assistant at the Getty Research Institute and program director of the Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades/ Los Angeles. In 2008 she was awarded the Lannan Residency in Marfa, Texas. ›Erdbebenwetter‹ is her first novel. An exciting, cosmopolitan, new literary voice • For readers of Mariana Leky and Olga Grjasnowa Fiction | 3 Michael Wildenhain Inventing Zero 304 pages Hardcover July 2020 Michael Wildenhain was born in 1958 in Berlin. After his studies in Industrial ISBN: 978-3-608-98305-0 Engineering and Philosophy he got involved with the Squat-Scene – this inspired his first literary publications. Wildenhain wrote several pieces for theatre and received numerous well-known prizes and scholarships. His novel ›The Alligators‘smile‹ was shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2015. Wildenhain’s previous novel ›Das Singen der Sirenen‹ was published in 2017 and was nominated for the German Book Prize. In 2018, the Literary Forum in the Brecht House dedicated an Works by Michael Wildenhain sold more than 17,000 times in Germany • Award-winning author: entire symposium to his work. nominated for the German Book Prize and the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair • Winner of the Alfred Döblin Award and the Ernst Willner Award Fiction | 4 Ulla Lenze | The Radio Operator ENGLISH BOOKLET AVAILABLE 302 pages | ISBN: 978-3-608-96463-9 Rights handled by Michael Gaeb Literary Agency (World, except IT) • Berla & Griffini (IT) Ulla Lenze, born in Mönchengladbach in 1973, received several awards for her literary works, including the ›Jürgen-Ponto-Prize‹ for best debut, the ›Rolf-Dieter-Brinkmann Ulla Lenze received the Lower Rhine Literary award 2020 for this outstanding novel based Förderpreis‹ and the ›Ernst-Willner-Prize‹ at the Ingeborg Bachmann-Competition. In 2010 on a true story she was writer-in-residence in Mumbai. In 2016 Ulla Lenze was awarded the ›Literaturpreis des Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft‹ for her complete oeuvre up to date. Rights sold to: Brazil (Harper Collins), Croatia (Fraktura), Finland (Like), France (Lattès), Greece (Patakis), Italy (Marsilio), Netherlands (Meridiaan), Spain World (Salamandra), US WER (HarperVia) Backlist Fiction | 5 Ingeborg Villinger Gretha Jünger The Invisible Woman Approx. 464 pages Hardcover September 2020 ISBN: 978-3-608-98352-4 Ingeborg Villinger studied political science and literature, history and comparative literature. After her doctorate on Carl Schmitt and her habilitation on Ernst Cassirer, she was Professor of Political Science at the University of Freiburg until 2009. Among other things, she is the editor of the correspondence between Gretha Jünger and Carl Schmitt. For readers of »Frau Thomas Mann« • First biography on Ernst Jünger's wife • Brilliantly narrated Memoir | 6 Ernst Jünger | Storm of Steel NUMEROUS RIGHTS REVERSED AND AVAILABLE AGAIN 1920 • 2015 | 301 pages | ISBN: 978-3-608-96080-8 Ernst Jünger was born on 29th March 1895 in Heidelberg. In 1913 he ran away to join the Foreign Legion. During the First World War he volunteered for the army, serving as a lieutenant on the Western Rights sold to: China (People's Literature Publishing House), Czech Republic (Divize Front. He was taken over into the Reichswehr in Hannover and Academia), France (Bourgois), Italy (Guanda), Turkey (Jaguar Kitap), WER (Penguin served for some time on the Regulations Committee in Berlin. He UK) left the Reichswehr in 1923, and studied philosophy and zoology in Leipzig and Naples. From 1925 onwards he was active as a freelance writer in Leipzig, Berlin, Goslar, Überlingen and Kirchhorst near Ernst Jünger | On the Marble Cliffs Hannover. 1939 • 2015 | 113 pages | ISBN: 978-3-608-96065-5 After serving as a captain in the Second World War he moved to Wilflingen (Baden-Württemberg) in 1950 where he lived for the rest of his life. In 1982 he was given the Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt. Ernst Jünger died on 17th February 1998, only a couple of weeks before his 103rd birthday. Rights sold to: China (People's Literature Publishing House), Denmark (Gyldendal), Estonia (SA Kultuurileht), France (Gallimard), Italy (Guanda), Serbia (Ultimatum), Turkey (Kirmizi Kedi), WER (New York Review Books) Ernst Jünger | The Glass Bees 1957 • 2015 | 147 pages | ISBN: 978-3-608-96072-3 Rights sold to: Italy (Guanda), France (Bourgois), Poland (Fundacja Korporaja Ha!art), Turkey (Jaguar Kitap), Ukraine (FOP Zhupansky) Backlist Klett-Cotta Classics | 7 Thilo Corzilius The Night Thieves Approx. 480 pages Hardcover September 2020 ISBN: 978-3-608-98330-2 Thilo Corzilius, born in 1986, studied theology in Freiburg and Münster. His fantasy novels ›Ravinia‹, ›Epicordia‹ and ›Dorn‹ were published by Piper (Bonnier). He plays in several bands and has a soft spot for rainy weather. Fantasy | 8 Ronald D. Gerste ENGLISH SAMPLE + FOLDER AVAILABLE Healing the World UPCOMING TOP TITLE 2021 The Golden Age of Medicine 1840 - 1918 ‹ Approx. 400 pages with various illustrations January 2021 ISBN: 978-3-608-98409-5 Rights handled by Michael Gaeb Ronald D. Gerste is a practicing physician Literary Agency (World, except IT) • ‹ and historian. Based in Washington, D.C., he Berla & Griffini (IT) is the science correspondent for leading German-language newspapers including the »Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung«, »Neue Zürcher Zeitung«, »DIE ZEIT« and scientific magazines. Klett-Cotta published his books A fascinating journey along the medical landmarks of modern life • Entertaining and highly on America and on other deciding factors in informative • Works by Ronald Gerste sold more than 64.000 copies in Germany history, like the weather or maladies. Rights of previous works sold to: Hungary (Corvina), Italy (Keller Editore), Korea (Miraebook Non-Fiction | 9 Publishing), Taiwan (Inno-Fair), Turkey (Kolektif Kitap) • Offer pending: China Stefan Bollmann ENGLISH SAMPLE AVAILABLE The Breath of the World UPCOMING TOP TITLE 2021 Johann Wolfgang Goethe and his Nature Experience Approx. 350 pages Stefan Bollmann, born in 1958, studied with various illustrations literature, history and philosophy. He holds a February 2021 doctorate in German studies (thesis on Thomas Mann) and wrote several books on ISBN: 978-3-608-96416-5 the history of reading and alternative ways of living. His unconventional Goethe biography Rights handled by Michael Gaeb "Why a life without Goethe is pointless" as well Literary Agency (World, except IT) • as “Women Who Read Are Dangerous” and Berla & Griffini (IT) “Women Who Read Are Dangerous and Clever” became bestsellers. Bollmann lives in Munich and has been working as a nonfiction editor at C.H.Beck for 13 years. Books by Stefan Bollmann have been translated into 16 languages and sold nearly half a million copies • For readers of Andrea Wulff and Wolfram Eilenberger • A surprisingly new image of Goethe Non-Fiction | 10 Wolfram Eilenberger ENGLISH SAMPLE AVAILABLE The Visionaries • Four Women and the Salvation of Philosophy in Dark Times (1933 - 1943) Approx. 400 pages with various illustrations Hardcover September 2020 Wolfram Eilenberger was born in Freiburg in ISBN: 978-3-608-96460-8 1972. He studied Philosophy, Psychology and Romance Philology in Heidelberg, Berlin and Rights handled by Michael Gaeb Turku, Finland. In 2007 he completed his PhD Literary Agency (World) with a thesis on Mikhail Bakhtin at Zurich’s ETH. In 2011 he founded the ›Philosophie Magazin‹, the major philosophical magazine in Germany. Wolfram Eilenberger is a regular guest on philosophical topics on German television and radio. He lives with his family in Berlin. His • ›Time of the Magicians‹ sold 75.000 copies and is being published in 22 countries For readers of previous book ›Time of the Magicians‹ stayed Philipp Blom, Andrea Wulf and Rüdiger Safranski on the bestseller lists for 36 weeks in Germany, Italy and Spain. Rights sold to: Brazil (Todavia), Croatia (Fraktura), Italy (Feltrinelli), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Spain Non-Fiction | 11 (Taurus), UK (Penguin), US (Penguin) | Offer pending: China, Denmark, Finland, France Heino Falcke • Jörg Römer ENGLISH SAMPLE AVAILABLE Light in