C.H.BECK FOREIGN RIGHTS NEWS FALL 2021 Dear Publishers and Friends, On Monday, 30th January 1933, Joseph Roth no longer wants to wait in Berlin. Early in the morning he walks to the station and takes a train to Paris. He must have sensed that the coming days would become extremely decisive for writers in Germany. In his forthcoming book on February 33, Uwe Wittstock chronicles how, day by day, the brilliant literary life of the Weimar period gave way to a long winter of sufferance for Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht, for Else Lasker-Schüler, Alfred Döblin and many others. In 2005, Angela Merkel became the first woman in the German chancellor‘s office. From „Kohl‘s girl“, the former citizen of the GDR became Germany‘s most popular politician and one of the most powerful women in the world. In his biography on Angela Merkel, Ralph Bollmann traces her life and career, offering an impressive masterpiece of German and European history since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Andreas Schwab in his book Time of the Escapists, takes us to ten artists‘ colonies. We immerse ourselves in the special atmosphere of Pont-Aven, Altaussee, Taormina, Capri, Worpswede and Ascona, ending our journey on Monte Verità. World-famous artists such as Alma Mahler-Werfel, Arthur Schnitzler and Truman Capote welcome us to their preferred hideouts. Determined, against all odds and full of passion, Paula Becker pursued her goal of becoming a painter at the end of the 19th century, finding inspiration in the artists‘ colony of Worpswede together with her husband Otto Mo- dersohn. During several stimulating stays in Paris, she became acquainted with contemporary French painting. In his comprehensive monography, Uwe M. Schneede shows how she translated these essential influences into her own pictorial language and paved the way for other German avant-garde artists. In fiction, we are happy to welcome the renowned cultural journalist and novelist Elke Schmitter to C.H.Beck with her new novel Interior weather. In sparkling language of unconventional beauty, Schmitter offers a slim and razor-sharp family story of interwoven erotic, societal and historical events. Her previous works have been sold to many countries, a sample translation by Katy Derbyshire is available. Unobtrusive and captivating, Janina Hecht’s debut tells of beautiful and terrible days, a family’s search for happi- ness despite a demonic father. “Clever and funny at the same time, contemporary German prose writers rarely entertain their readers”, Der Spie- gel wrote in reviewing The Summer of my Mother. The same can be said about Woelk’s new book, already awarded the Alfred Döblin prize. As a background to the story of the friendship between Niki and Lu, the novel tells the German history of the last fifty years in a terrific reading adventure. © Christoph Mukherjee Jonathan Beck Susanne Simor Jenny Royston Publisher Foreign Rights Manager Foreign Rights Contents 3 4 6 Translation Funding | Geisteswissenschaften International 7 5 Hardcover Non-Fiction 8 February 33 | Uwe Wittstock 22 Made in Washington | Bernd Greiner 9 Angela Merkel | Ralph Bollmann 23 Sorting Machines | Steff en Mau 10 History of Turkey | Markus Reinkowski 24 Darknet | Stefan Mey 11 Time of the Escapists | Andreas Schwab 25 Palestine and the Palestinians | Muriel Asseburg 12 Paula Modersohn-Becker | Uwe M. Schneede 26 Understanding Racism | Susan Arndt 13 Discomfort | Armin Nassehi 27 The Decayed House of Islam | Ruud Koopmans 14 Dostojweskij | Andreas Guski 28 What should be Returnded? | Sophie Schönberger 15 Resting in God | Volker Leppin 29 The Emigrant | Günther Anders 16 The Conversion of the World | Bernhard Maier 30 Who stole the Mona Lisa? | Susanna Partsch 17 History of Philosophy | Wolfgang Röd 31 101 Questions: The Holocaust | Markus Roth 18 The Imperial Period | Hartwin Brandt 32 Allah’s Caravan | Susanne Schröter 19 Confl ict of Interpretation | Heinrich August-Winkler 33 Black Pharaohs | Francis Breyer 20 Pioneers of German Democracy | Frank-Walter Steinmeier 34 The Art of Investing | Philipp Haas 21 The 9th of November | Wolfgang Niess 35 Class Reunion | Julia Onken 36 The Fine Art of Aging | Ottfried Höff e 37 Being for Yourself | Johann Hinrich Claussen and Ulrich Lilie 38 The Secret of the Twelfth Coin | Albrecht Beutelspacher 39 Dictionary of Latin Quotations | Hubertus Kudla Translation: DeepL and Susanne Simor 55 Fiction 40 History of the Federal Republic of Germany | Dominik Geppert 56 Inner Weather | Elke Schmitter 41 German History in the 20th Century | Andreas Wirsching 57 During these Summers | Janina Hecht 42 The Third Reich | Ulrich Herbert 58 For a Life | Ulrich Woelk 43 The European Union | Berthold Rittberger 59 Second Life | Adolf Muschg 44 Human Rights | Angelika Nußberger 60 A Love in Cairo | Amir Hassan Cheheltan 45 Colonialism | Jürgen Osterhammel and Jan C. 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Knopf NON-FICTION Uwe Wittstock 8 February 33 The Winter of Literature FAL 2021 „Gripping and frightening: the transformation of C.H.BECK Germany into a hell of dictatorship and terror.“ Sten Nadolny All happened very quickly. February 1933 was an extremely decisive month for writers in Germany. Uwe Wittstock tells the chronicle of a death that was announced and yet never thought possible. From day to day he follows how the brilliant lite- rary life of the Weimar period gave way to a long winter of sufferance for Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht, for Else Lasker-Schüler, Alfred Döblin and many others. Monday, 30 January. Joseph Roth no longer wants to wait in Uwe Wittstock Berlin for the news the day will bring. Early in the morning February 33 he walks to the station and takes a train to Paris. Thomas The Winter of Literature Mann in Munich, meanwhile, spends the next ten days hard- 288 pages including 25 illustrations ly concerned with politics, but rather with his lecture on € 24,- Richard Wagner. Uwe Wittstock unfolds a mosaic of events and visualises the atmosphere of those days, marked by fear German title: and self-deception among the writers, passivity or deter- Uwe Wittstock mination among others. Who cozied up to the new rulers, Februar 33 who had to fear for their lives and who had to flee? Based on Der Winter der Literatur partly unpublished archive material, a tremendously dense picture of a terrible time emerges. Uwe Wittstock is a literary critic and book author. Until 2018, he was editor of „Focus“, for which he now writes as a columnist. Previously, he worked as a literary editor for the FAZ (1980 - 1989), as an editor at S. Fischer (1989 - 1999) and as deputy head of the arts section and cultural corres- pondent for the „Welt“ (2000 - 2010). He was awarded the Theodor Wolff Prize for Journalism. Ralph Bollmann Angela Merkel 9 The Chancellor and her Time FALL 2021 FALL C.H.BECK Angela Merkel – The Great Biography Ralph Bollmann In 2005, Angela Merkel became the first woman and former Angela Merkel citizen of the GDR to occupy the chancellor‘s office.