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FICTION
FOREIGN
Autumn 2020
RIGHTS GUIDE
C O N TA C T S & A G E N T S CONTENTS
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CRIME FICTION 13
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HIGHLIGHT FICTION HIGHLIGHT FICTION
Daniel Mellem Alena Schröder
Junge Frau, am Fenster stehend,
Abendlicht, blaues Kleid
daniel mellem
The Invention of the Young Woman, Standing
die erfindung Countdown Roman
by the Window, Evening
© Bogenberger Autorenfotos
d e s c o u n t d ow n s
Light, Blue Dress
© Gerald von Foris
Junge Frau,
roman am Fenster
stehend,
SCHRÖDER
Abendlicht,
ALENA
blaues
ENGLPISLH Kleid
SAM TEION
ENGLPISLH
»Daniel Mellem hat nicht nur einen mitreißenden Roman
geschrieben – er hat eine Rakete gezündet!« DANIEL MELLEM, born in ALENA SCHRÖDER is a
_ TRAANVASILLAABLE _
Saša Stanišić
SAM TEION
1987, lives in Hamburg. He freelance journalist and author,
TRAANVASILLAABLE
studied physics in Hamburg living in Berlin. She studied
288 pages and London, and completed his 368 pages History, Political Science and
September 2020 Ph.D. before dedicating himself January 2021 Latin American Studies in Berlin
to writing his first novel at the and San Diego and attended
German Literature Institute in the renowned Henri Nannen
A story of human longing and failure, German history, and the ethics of science Leipzig. He received a fellow-
The heritage of our mothers School for journalism. Alena
ship at the Jürgen Ponto Schröder is the author of
Against his father’s will, Hermann Oberth moves to Göttingen in 1920 in order to study Foundation’s writing workship, Berlin, 2017: 27-year-old Hannah finds a letter from a lawyer, identifying her several non-fiction titles. She
physics – the most exciting science of his age in the most exciting city there is. Hermann and was awarded two prizes for grandmother and her as possible heirs to a Jewish art collection which had been has previously also published
wants to turn the human dream of sending rockets to the moon into reality. The young excerpts of his debut novel. confiscated under the Nazi regime. However, this is the first time the young student hears fiction under a pseudonym.
man is considered very talented, but right before his major breakthrough, funding for his anything about possible Jewish roots. And why has her beloved grandmother Evelyn, her
research is stopped. only living relative, never lost a word about the past?
It now falls to Hermann's wife Tilla to keep their lives above water until Wernher von Rostock, 1924: 18 year-old Senta Köhler unintentionally falls pregnant by a highly
Braun, a member of the SS Corps becomes interested in Hermann's work. Instead of decorated war hero from WWI. They do get married but the marriage fails within
moon rockets, Hermann is invited to help develop a retaliatory weapon for the Nazis to two years. In the end, Senta’s husband will only agree to a divorce if Senta leaves their
use. Hermann and Tilla are suddenly confronted with the question of their own personal daughter, Evelyn, with him, thus forcing her to decide between her freedom and her child.
responsibility when faced by the march of history. This question becomes all the more
important when they lose both their son Julius and their daughter Ilse to the war. PRAISE Berlin 1927: The metropolis is the hub of life itself and more specifically of a new life for Rights sold –
Senta who has found work at a newspaper and quickly rises from typist to journalist. She
In a countdown from 10 to 0, we follow a narrative about human errors, setbacks, and “Daniel Mellem hasn’t just marries a Jewish colleague, Julius Goldmann, whose father is a respected art dealer and pre-publication:
written a sweeping novel – he enters Berlin’s vibrant art and culture scene. When the Nazis rise to power, Senta and
people picking themselves back up again. Scientific ethics come alive in this story plucked
has ignited a rocket! He has
Italy, The Netherlands
from modern history. her husband decide to flee abroad, leaving everything behind … their family as well as
resurrected rocket scientist priceless pieces of art. Young Woman, Standing by the Window, Evening Light, Blue Dress
Hermann Oberth, a great, by Vermeer becomes the epitome of loss for Senta, as she will not see any of them ever
pugnacious dreamer, in a again.
• The improbable, yet true, story of the life of physicist Hermann Oberth fantastic story that will fascinate
• A young, prize-winning author those of us who dreamily gaze Interweaving the fate of these women, Alena Schröder empathically traces the question of
at the stars.” how we deal with our personal history and the legacy of our ancestors.
• Daniel Mellem (Ph.D., physics) is able to conceive and write about science
in an intriguing and relatable manner Saša Stanišić, Author
• A page-turning read for fans of Dörte Hansen and Annette Hess
• An exciting setting well-known and beloved from the series Babylon Berlin
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HIGHLIGHT FICTION HIGHLIGHT FICTION
Anne Freytag Frank Goldammer
Out of Black Water Two Distant Lives
© Jens Oellermann
© Studio Tasca
ENGLPISLH
SAM TEION
TRANSILLAABLE
AVA
ANNE FREYTAG holds a FRANK GOLDAMMER was
degree in International born in Dresden in 1975.
Management, and worked A painter and varnisher by
592 pages as a graphic designer before trade, he began writing in his
August 2020 she devoted herself fully to 400 pages early twenties, self-publishing
writing. She has received July 2020 his first novels. For dtv he has
multiple awards for her Young written several successful
Adult novels. Out of Black historical crime thrillers set in
The sea is the source of all life – and it conceals a deadly threat Water is her first thriller for
Two women on a lifelong search for the truth about a child Dresden and its surroundings.
adults. A single parent, he lives with
In her company car, highly respected scientist and Minister of the Interior Dr. Patricia Ricarda Raspe and her fiancé are delightedly expecting their first child. But then the his twin children in Dresden.
Kohlbeck hurtles without stopping into the Spree River. Her daughter Maja is sitting in birth at a Dresden hospital takes a turn for the worse, and Ricarda’s baby dies. According
the passenger seat and the last sentence she hears before her mother drowns is: “You can’t to the regulations, she can’t even see her child’s body one last time. Such is daily life in
trust anyone. They’re all involved.” the GDR in 1973. And yet Ricarda Raspe doesn’t believe that her baby has died. She is
more firmly convinced that her child has been the target of a government-sanctioned
Maja dies as well, but a short time later, she wakes up unhurt – in a body bag in the abduction. Young police officer Thomas Rust, an eyewitness of the dramatic incident, is
hospital. How could this happen? She sets off in search of answers, which she gets from also suspicious and jumps headfirst into a very dangerous investigation. Sixteen years
various people, including Prof. Arthur Stein, her mother’s long-time research partner and later, young Claudia Behling starts her own search for the truth of her heritage and for
lover. And then there is Efrail, who pulled Maja out of the sinking car. She feels strongly the woman who supposedly gave her away at birth – her mother.
attracted to the young man – but she doesn’t know yet that he is actually the enemy.
As Maja tries to find answers, one devastating natural disaster after another happens. And • A thrilling social novel about a much-discussed suspicion that was never
against her will, she ends up caught up in a conflict generated by lies, intrigue and power
struggles, the consequences of which will be fatal.
proven, but could never be dismissed either
• A highly insightful and emotional narrative voice: Bestselling crime author
Frank Goldammer reveals his versatility
• Brilliantly written, bestselling author Anne Freytag focuses on one of the most
controversial topics of our age: environmental destruction
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
• Deep, authentic characters and special twists
Summer Act The Air Raid Killer (vol. I)
240 pages 336 pages
Pub. date 2019 Pub. date 2016
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FICTION FICTION
SABINE FRIEDRICH
WA S SICH Sabine Friedrich Judith Zander
LOHNT
ROMAN Something Johnny Lackland
Worthwhile (vol. II)
© Heike Bogenberger
© Astrid Eckert
©
JUDITH ZANDER, was born
_ SABINE FRIEDRICH, born in
_
1958 in Coburg, studied in Anklam in 1980, and today
German and English in Munich she lives in Jüterbog. She has
400 pages 480 pages
and gained her PhD in 1989. In received multiple awards for
January 2021 August 2020
2012, she published her her publications, including
comprehensive novel Who We the 3sat Prize of the Ingeborg
“Isn’t a deep passion the only justification for living?” Are about the German A girl named Johnny Bachmann Competition as
resistance. She lives in well as the Uwe Johnson
Clarita von Trott zu Solz sets a pail beside her bed in which she can quickly burn Coburg with her family. Early on, Joana Wolkenzin knows that she is different. She spends hours reading Advancement Prize. Her last
dangerous documents if needed. Annedore Leber has fought for years to get her husband and learns song lyrics by heart. As she grows older, she falls in love with both boys novel Things We Said Today
freed from prison. Freya von Moltke and Marion von Yorck transport secret documents and girls. In the No Man’s Land of Western Pomerania in the 1990s, she gives her- was shortlisted for the German
back and forth between their estates in Eastern Germany and Berlin. However, more than PRESS ACCLAIM
self a new name: Johnny. But will a new name bring her new happiness? Book Prize. With dtv, she most
anything else, the women provide the facade of private gatherings behind which their recently published a poetry
husbands grapple with what a sustainable post-war future for Germany and Europe could “A thrilling novel about people,
When her mother ups and leaves one night, Johnny, her brother Charlie and her volume titled manual
look like. When Count von Moltke is arrested, most of the others throw their lots in with their roots and the decisions
father find themselves shakily circling an empty center. Johnny eventually sets off numerale.
von Stauffenberg, deciding that the future cannot be ushered in without an assassination. they made during a dark
in search of a life and a story to meet her own needs – in Germany, Finland and
period.” buch aktuell
Australia.
A fascinating novel about the members of the Kreisau Circle and the civilian arm of the
July 20 conspiracy. Thoroughly researched, this book provides a powerful commentary on “Sabine Friedrich hones in on
what counts as “something worthwhile” through its diverse narrative perspectives. the actual people behind the • A linguistically powerful novel about what constitutes femininity today
historical figures, their personal • Judith Zander is one of the most important authors of her generation,
• A deeply moving novel about the people – particularly the women – development, their feelings,
and she has received numerous awards for her works
involved in the German Resistance their relationships with each
other.” Neue Presse
• Vivid, lived history in an intriguing novel
IN THE SAME SERIES BY THE SAME AUTHOR
J u dith
The Night has
Judith Zander dinge, die wir heute sagten
But Some Did (vol. I) Things We Said Today
SABINE FRIEDRICH SABINE FRIEDRICH
EINIGE DIE NACHT HAT
Zander
ABER DOCH
ROMAN
ZWÖLF S T U N D E N
ROMAN
Twelve Hours (vol. III) dinge,
• Shortlisted for the German Book Prize
di e wi r
448 pages
heute
Pub. date 2019
To be published in 2021
sagten 480 pages
Pub. date 2012
_ _ roman
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WOMEN'S FICTION WOMEN'S FICTION
MARLENE AVERBECK studied
German literature, in addition to
theater/film/television studies, in
Marlene Averbeck college. She works as a freelance
author and a researcher for film
Felicity Whitmore
Lichtenstein's – and television productions. She
lives with her family in Berlin. The Thread of the Past
© Melanie Grande
Department Store of The Hampton Hall Trilogy (vol. I)
Dreams
The Lichtenstein Trilogy (vol. I) FELICITY WHITMORE manages,
along with her husband, an
independent theater in Hagen,
480 pages 464 pages where she works as a drama
August 2020 November 2020 consultant, director and actress.
Once a year, she travels to
England to satisfy her passion for
the Victorian era and old English
Where dreams are at home Lady Abigail’s secret diaries country houses.
“There it was again – that inner trembling, the flickering anticipation, the burgeoning pride. This Who was Lady Abigail Hampton, and what actually happened 180 years ago? Did
was where the heart of Berlin’s fashion world beat.” she leap to her death after her lover Oliver Rashleigh was hanged for the murder of
her brother-in-law George?
1913. In the heart of Berlin, Lichtenstein’s offers a wide assortment of items, mainly in the
category of respectable women’s clothing. The small department store is a diverse microcosm in When Crown prosecutor Melody Stewart relocates to an old family property, an
which the paths of vastly different people cross. Shop girl Hedi plunges into the world of industrial-era villa called Abigail’s Place, she stumbles across her ancestor’s diaries
fashion, while seamstress Thea only has eyes for Ludwig, the younger Lichtenstein son, who in a secret chamber. Fascinated, she follows the threads of her past back to the year
wishes to maintain the status quo. On the other hand, his brother Jacob has big plans for how 1841, to Hampton Hall and the smart, resourceful woman who rebelled against her
he will lead Lichtenstein’s into the future against the overwhelming competition within the city. fate.
Despite widespread resistance, he starts to implement his ideas. But then Lichtenstein’s goes up in PRESS ACCLAIM
flames – along with the livelihood of all its employees and owners ...
• The first volume in a trilogy about the strong women of Hampton Hall “A romantic, suspenseful
• Romantic and opulent woman’s fiction structured around artfully page-turner.” Bild
• The dramatic opening to an epic trilogy about a Berlin department store intertwined time periods “A combination of a modern
• A shimmering world full of wishes, hopes and fears • For readers of Lucinda Riley and Kate Morton mystery and a historical novel.
• For readers of Anne Jacobs and Carmen Korn, and fans of Downton Abbey • Felicity Whitmore’s total sales at dtv: 87,000 copies Felicity Whitmore’s style is both
tense and captivating.” Fantasia
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WOMEN'S FICTION CRIME FICTION
Linus Geschke – Alexander Born series
ENGLPISLH
SAM TEION
NSLLAABLE
Astrid Ruppert LINUS GESCHKE Tannenstein (vol. I)
TRAAVAI
Wild Years (vol. II) When the Hiker comes, people die: eleven in the remote
© Bogenberger Autorenfotos
town of Tannenstein near the Czech border, then a gas
station attendant in the Harz region, and a real estate
agent in the Allgäu area. The killer materializes out of
nowhere, murders without warning, and vanishes without
© Peter Porst
a trace. The only person who stands in the Hiker’s way is
Alexander Born, an ex-cop turned criminal. Years ago, the
Hiker killed his girlfriend, and now Born wants revenge.
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premium He soon finds himself embroiled in a hunt that will end LINUS GESCHKE, born in
ASTRID RUPPERT worked where everything started: in Tannenstein. 1970 in Cologne, works as a
as a dramatic consultant and 384 pages
freelance journalist for Spiegel
producer for television January 2019 Rights sold: Poland Online, Manager magazine,
480 pages productions after completing and the Frankfurter Allgemeine
October 2020 her degree in literature. She Sonntagszeitung. He has won
lives in the countryside, and several journalism prizes for
"I wish I had been a good mother to you" works as an author and LINUS GESCHKE Finsterthal (vol. II) his travel reportages.
screenwriter. Young women are being abducted and then murdered
In the waning years of the 1960s, young Paula – chomping at the bit to escape the despite the payment of ransoms. Is this an act of revenge
provincial world of her Hessian hometown and the clutches of her bitterly silent against their fathers, who have made their fortunes through
mother Charlotte – runs away. She lands on her feet as a singer and actress in illegal business dealings? Ex-cop Alexander Born appears
London during the wild Seventies. Even when she becomes pregnant and her on the scene, along with his former colleague Carla Diaz, to
husband leaves her, she refuses to tell her parents the truth. hunt down the man who calls himself “The Darkness”.
However, in this game of lies and betrayal, nothing is as it
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The only kindred spirit Paula has is her aged grandmother Lisette. Against all seems, and Born is forced to eventually admit that it would
disapproval and reproof, Paula raises her daughter Maya on her own. However,
_ have been better if he hadn’t opened the gates to hell.
“A sweeping family saga and
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she fails to notice that the girl is increasingly growing apart from her… until the touching read.”
416 pages
day Maya announces that she is moving to Germany immediately to live with her www.literaturmarkt.info PRESS ACCLAIM
February 2020
grandmother Charlotte, to the town that Paula left years before in protest.
“A cool cop thriller about street
• A novel about the special bond that holds grandmothers, mothers LINUS GESCHKE Engelsgrund (vol. III) justice.” Playboy
and daughters together despite all differences Highly alarmed, Carla Diaz, Born’s former colleague
“A thriller that plays in the same
from the vice squad, turns to the ex-cop. Two prostitutes,
• For readers of Elena Ferrante members of the Cernunnos sect – to which Carla’s league as Jo Nesbo and Stieg
daughter Malin also belongs – have been found murdered. Larsson.” Aachener Nachrichten
Carla cannot reach Malin inside the cult. Born’s attempt to
IN THE SAME SERIES
rescue her also fails. And so Born brings his old adversary “A sensation!” BR
Andrej Wolkow, who owes him a favour, on board. The
Russian sends in a young killer who manages to slip into “A knockout thriller.”
Days of Light A Place Called Home _
premium the cult. But Wolkow is playing a double game on the side WDR 2 Krimitipp
...
(vol. I) (vol. III) 464 pages
January 2021
• Spiegel bestseller trilogy: 40,000 copies of vol. I & II sold
480 pages
Pub. date 2019
To be published in 2021 • For readers of Ian Rankin and Tess Gerritsen
• Intense suspense and explosive action guaranteed: with ex-cop
Alexander Born who follows his own moral code
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I N T E R N AT I O N A L B E S T S E L L E R I N T E R N AT I O N A L B E S T S E L L E R
US Edition:
ROMY HAUSMANN
Romy Hausmann Romy Hausmann
Dear Child Marta, Asleep
THRILLER
© Astrid Eckert
UK Edition: ROMY HAUSMANN ENGLPISLH
SAM TEION
NSILLAABLE
TRAAVA
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_ ROMY HAUSMANN was
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born in the former GDR in
1981. At the age of twenty-
432 pages
four she became chief
352 pages
Pub. date 2019
editor at a film production
Pub. date 2020
company in Munich. Since
the birth of her son she
has been working as a
You escaped. But your nightmare has just begun. Spanish Edition: Her past makes her the perfect victim. And the perfect murderer... freelancer in TV. Dear Child
A windowless shack in the woods. Lena’s life and that of her two children follows the rules set A murder has occurred, and it must be undone. This leaves only one possibility. The murder has was her thriller debut.
by their captor, the father: meals, bathroom visits, study time are strictly scheduled and me- to happen again, and the real culprit has to provide the police with a different course of events – Romy Hausmann lives
ticulously observed. He protects his family from the dangers lurking in the outside world and as well as a plausible culprit. And he finds one in the mentally unstable young woman who works with her family in a remote
makes sure that his children will always have a mother to look after them. as an assistant at a law firm. Her past alone makes her the perfect victim – or better said, the house in the woods near
perfect murderer. Stuttgart.
One day Lena manages to flee – but the nightmare continues. It seems as if her tormentor wants
to get back what belongs to him. And then there is the question whether she really is the woman The young woman already has a guilty past. She was still practically a child, when a crime took
called ‘Lena’, who disappeared without a trace over thirteen years ago. The police and Lena’s place that never should have occurred. She did her penance, but as an adult, she seems to be
family are all desperately trying to piece together a puzzle that doesn’t quite seem to fit. working through her guilt via a kind of non-existence. Instead of actually living, she observes the
lives of others. However, she refuses to bear any more guilt than she already feels. So when she
sees through the actual murderer’s plot, she decides to turn the tables.
• Spiegel bestseller: 250,000 copies sold PRAISE
• Best sold thriller debut in Germany in 2019 "A peerless exercise in
A deeply disturbing book about guilt, retribution, and the question of whether a perpetrator can
ever be truly free again...
• For fans of Gone Girl and the Academy Award-winning suspense"
Financial Times
motion picture Room
"Claustrophobic, terrifying • Spiegel bestseller: 100,000 copies sold
and fiercely compelling"
• Highly emotional, top-class psychological thriller
Rights sold to 19 languages: Daily Mail
English World Rights, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Greece, "Hausmann makes you care
Italy, Hungary, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, about her characters even Rights sold:
while they keep you guess-
The Netherlands, Turkey ing." Sunday Express
English World Rights, Czech Republic, Denmark, Sweden, The Netherlands
"Intelligent and original"
Sunday Independent
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Those in Darkness Drop From Sight
After the dark years of World War I, the glamour and new-found radiance of
the metropolis Berlin is attracting people from all over the world. Among them
is Magda Fuchs, who hopes for a fresh start in life after losing both husband
and child. However, working for the police as a pediatrician and gynaecologist,
she is confronted with the underbelly of the dazzling city. Every day she sees
the bitter fate of orphaned and starving children. Realizing that these are
virtually sold into slavery with the police looking the other way, Magda decides
to fight for those who have to live in the shadows.
The doctor courageously takes on this world of corruption and crime, thereby
c. 432 pages
reclaiming her own life and, unexpectedly, receives support from the abrasive
To be published in
social worker, Ina Dietrich, as well as the rather erratic but dedicated young
February 2021
police inspector, Kuno Mehring.
Helene Sommerfeld’s novel unfolds with a caleidoscope of strong women
struggling to find their place in a world of extremes – Berlin in the Roaring
Twenties.
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Christoph Wortberg
TRAUMA
CHRISTOPH
KEIN ENTKOMMEN
WORTBERG
Trauma – No Escape (vol. I)
Into the abyss of the human soul
CHRISTOPH
WORTBERG
A body has been found in a quarry pond close to Munich. Superintendent Katja
Sand and her assistant Rudi Dorfmüller head the investigation. The victim was a
petty officer on a naval corvette – and couldn’t swim. Was it suicide? Then another
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corpse is discovered, this time in a refrigerator at a recycling facility.
The detectives soon learn that both men had been clients of well-known
c. 352 pages psychoanalyst Dr. Alexander Hanning, who was helping them cope with personal
To be published in traumas. The parallels between the two causes of death are also striking: In both
February 2021 instances, a severely traumatized man died under strange circumstances which
were reminiscent of the catalyst event that had caused his personal trauma.
In order to figure out the role Dr. Hanning might have played in these crimes,
Katja becomes a patient at his practice. And finds herself in mortal danger.
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