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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
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Geisteswissenschaften International
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5 Hardcover Non-Fiction
8 February 33 | Uwe Wittstock 22 Made in Washington | Bernd Greiner
9 Angela Merkel | Ralph Bollmann 23 Sorting Machines | Steffen 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 Conflict 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 Höffe
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. Jansen 61 Our Games do not End | Dirk von Petersdorf 46 Charlemagne | Matthias Becher 62 The golden Pot | E.T.A. Hoffmann 47 The Ottonians | Hagen Keller 48 The Celts | Alexander Demandt 49 The Bible | Konrad Schmid 50 The Jesuits | Markus Friedrich 51 Vergil’s Aeneid | Markus Janka 52 Caspar David Friedrich | Werner Busch 53 Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease | Hans Förstl 54 Vaccination | Stefan H. E. Kaufmann
Translation Funding by
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Geisteswissenschaften International
for Translations of Outstanding Research into English
Our following titles have received funding:
Title Author Licensee
Kafka. Der ewige Sohn Peter-André Alt Northwestern UP
Den Islam neu denken Katajun Amirpur The Ginko Library
Tambora und das Jahr ohne Sommer Wolfgang Behringer Polity Press
Florenz und Bagdad Hans Belting Harvard UP
Götter und Mythen des Nordens Klaus Böldl I.B. Tauris
Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart Michael Brenner Indiana UP
Kleine jüdische Geschichte Michael Brenner Princeton UP
Propheten des Vergangenen Michael Brenner Princeton UP
Grubengold Franz-Josef Brüggemeier Oxford UP
Caravaggio Sybille Ebert-Schifferer Getty Publications
Der lange Sommer der Theorie Philipp Felsch Polity Press
Das Selbstbestimmungsrecht der Völker Jörg Fisch Cambridge UP
Meister Eckart Kurt Flasch Yale UP
„Ein Leben wie im Traum“ Kultur im Dritten Reich Moritz Föllmer Oxford UP
Das Mittelalter Johannes Fried Harvard UP
Bild und Mythos Luca Giuliani University of Chicago Press
Europa ja – aber welches? Dieter Grimm Oxford UP
Geschichte Deutschlands im 20. Jahrhundert Ulrich Herbert Verso
Erlöste und Verdammte Thomas Kaufmann Oxford UP
Der Schrecken Gottes Navid Kermani Polity Press
Gott ist schön Navid Kermani Polity Press
Ungläubiges Staunen. Über das Christentum Navid Kermani Polity Press
Die Büchse der Pandora Jörn Leonhard Harvard UP
Latein Jürgen Leonhardt Harvard UP
Gottes Körper Christoph Markschies Baylor UP
Die Wahrsagekunst im Alten Orient Stefan M. Maul Baylor UP
Carl Schmitt Reinhard Mehring Polity Press
Die Welt der mittelalterlichen Klöster Gert Melville Liturgical Press
Über das Glück des philosophischen Lebens Heinrich Meier University of Chicago Press
Die Verwandlung der Welt Jürgen Osterhammel Princeton UP
Die Entzauberung Asiens Jürgen Osterhammel Princeton UP
Die Ära der Ökologie Joachim Radkau Polity Press
Das letzte Jahrhundert der Pferde Ulrich Raulff Penguin
Das islamische Recht Mathias Rohe Brill Academic
Fröhliche Scholastik Frank Rexroth Pennsylvania UP
Der katholische Rubens Willibald Sauerländer Getty Publications
Der Islam und die Frauen Irene Schneider Markus Wiener
Die Entstehung der Bibel Jens Schröter | Konrad Schmid Harvard UP
Des Kaisers alte Kleider Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger Berghahn Books
Maria Theresia Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger Princeton UP
Das Heilige Römische Reich Deutscher Nation Barbara Stollberg Rilinger Princeton UP
Der Kalte Krieg Bernd Stöver Cambridge UP
Philosophie des Traums Christoph Türcke Yale UP
Egozentrizität und Mystik Ernst Tugendhat Columbia UP
Theoderich der Große Hans-Ulrich Wiemer Yale UP
Geschichte des Westens, Bd. 2 Heinrich August Winkler Yale UP
Papst und Teufel Hubert Wolf Harvard UP
Die Nonnen von Sant‘Ambrogio Hubert Wolf Alfred A. Knopf
NON-FICTION
Uwe Wittstock
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February 33
The Winter of Literature
„Gripping and frightening: the transformation of
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
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Angela Merkel
The Chancellor and her Time
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. From
„Kohl‘s girl,“ the minister and secretary-general of the CDU,
The Chancellor and her Time
she has become Germany‘s most popular politician and one
848 pages including 70 illustrations
of the most powerful women in the world. In his funda-
€ 29,95
mental biography, Ralph Bollmann traces Merkel‘s life with
German title: critical sympathy. He also unfolds the story of her chancel-
Angela Merkel lorship placing enormous demands on her, beginning with
Die Kanzlerin und ihre Zeit the financial crisis, reaching to the refugee crisis and also in-
cluding the Covid 19 pandemic. His brilliantly written book
Dutch translation rights sold to
shows us an extraordinary woman at the center of power,
De Arbeiderspers/Het Getij
who decisively shaped an entire age.
During Angela Merkel‘s reign, the familiar world order of
the postwar period dissolved, and a new uncertainty took
its place, most recently in the Corona Crisis even reaching
into people‘s everyday lives. Thanks to her experience of the
systemic breakdown of 1989/90, the former East German
politician was better prepared for this challenge than many
of her colleagues. She became so popular not least because
she consistently kept all impositions away from Germans
who were reluctant to change. But this harmony suddenly
ended with the refugee debate.
Ralph Bollmann‘s biography is not only a captivating read,
but also an impressive history of Germany and Europe since
the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Ralph Bollmann is a historian, journalist and correspondent
for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. He already
has written a previous book about Angela Merkel and the
Germans in 2013 and, among other things, has interviewed
companions of Angela Merkel.
Maurus Reinkowski
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History of Turkey
From Atatürk to the Present Day
From Atatürk‘s Republic to Erdogan‘s Presidential
State: The Standard Work on the History of Turkey
Turkey‘s republican order has remained virtually
unchanged since the founding of the state in 1923,
but the astonishing continuity conceals dramatic
changes such as the inflicted Europeanisation un-
der Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, military coups, con-
flicts with minorities and last but not least Recep
Tayyip Erdogan‘s Islamist-authoritarian presiden-
tial regime. With sovereignty, precision and won-
derful readability, Maurus Reinkowski tells the
story of a country at the crossroads of different
cultures and power blocs.
When Turkish President Erdogan converted the Hagia Maurus Reinkowski
Sophia from a museum to a mosque in the summer of 2020, History of Turkey
he said the prayer himself like an Ottoman sultan, demonst-
From Atatürk to the Present Day
rating Turkey as an Islamic country. The Republic of Turkey,
496 pages including 51 illustrations and
built on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, has repeatedly
6 maps
redefined its identity in the course of its hundred-year his- € 29,95
tory: Under the military regime after 1980, the nation-state,
which Atatürk forced to be secular and European, strived German title:
for a Turkish-Islamic synthesis; after 1990, it saw itself as Maurus Reinkowski
the leading power of all Turkic peoples; at the turn of the Geschichte der Türkei
Von Atatürk bis zur Gegenwart
millennium, it saw itself as a future member of the European
Union; and today, it seeks to close ranks with the former-
ly Ottoman-dominated Arab world. Maurus Reinkowski
tells the story of Turkey along the lines of its domestic and
foreign policy upheavals, masterfully illustrating the social,
economic and cultural tensions that continue to shape the
country between Orient and Occident to this day.
Maurus Reinkowski teaches Islamic Studies at the University
of Basel. He was a staff member of the Orient Institute in
Istanbul, a fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and
the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, and a visiting
professor at Sabanci University in Istanbul.Andreas Schwab
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Time of the Escapists
A Journey to the Artists’ Colonies from
Barbizon to Monte Verità
From the 1830s until the 20th century, people all
over Europe set out to establish living and working
communities in natural, harmonious, and some-
times even wild surroundings far away from big
cities. Life in Barbizon, the archetype of all artists‘
colonies, in Capri, Worpswede or Ascona is deter-
mined by a conscious separation from bourgeois
society. The escapists seek a counter-world to life
in the cities, to exaggerated nationalism and the
omnipresent sense of crisis.
Andreas Schwab Without much social control, new lifestyles develop begin-
Time of the Escapists ning to assert themselves much later, some of them only
in the 21st century as for example women‘s emancipation
A Journey to the Artists’ Colonies from
Barbizon to Monte Verità and the play with different gender roles as well as living
out of a freer sexuality. Over time, a network of subcultures
320 pages including 70 illustrations and
an illustration part emerges that stretches from Skagen on the northern tip of
€ 24,95 Jutland and to Corfu. Often, even artists commute from one
drop-out location to another. Swiss author and exhibition
German title: organiser Andreas Schwab has arranged them into a colour-
Andreas Schwab ful round dance: Eleven characters, including Alma Mahler-
Zeit der Aussteiger
Werfel, Arthur Schnitzler and Truman Capote, take us to
Eine Reise zu den Künstlerkolonien von
Barbizon bis Monte Verità ten different artists‘ colonies. After a period of residence in
which we immerse ourselves in the special atmosphere of
Pont-Aven, Altaussee or Taormina, we set off with a person
living there to the next colony - until we arrive at the end of
the this journey at Monte Verità, where the „wild thinker“
Harald Szeemann welcomes us.
Andreas Schwab, born in 1971, is an author, exhibition orga-
niser and mayor of Bremgarten near Bern. He has published
books on Monte Verità and the Longo maï rural cooperative.
As a member of the exhibition group Palma3, he has curated
numerous exhibitions on cultural-historical themes, inclu-
ding the permanent exhibition in the Casa Anatta on Monte
Verità and, most recently, „Live better! In Search of the Ideal
Life“.Uwe M. Schneede
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Paula Modersohn-Becker
The Painter who set out on the Path to
Modernity.
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876 - 1907) was one of
the great, singular artists of modernism. She cou-
rageously went her own way as a woman - got to
know Paris and its art and became a pioneer of the
German avant-garde with her intense and expres-
sive paintings.
Determined, against all odds and full of passion, Paula Uwe M. Schneede
Becker pursued her goal of becoming a painter at the end Paula Modersohn-Becker
of the 19th century. She initially found inspiration in the
The painter who set out on the path to
artists‘ colony of Worpswede, where she met her future hus- modernity
band Otto Modersohn. Her artistic hub, however, was Paris,
240 pages including 119 coloured
the world capital of art at the time. During several stimula- illustrations
ting stays there, she became acquainted with contemporary € 28.-
French painting. In his comprehensive monography, Uwe
M. Schneede, one of the best experts on Paula Modersohn- German title:
Becker‘s work, shows how the artist translated these im- Uwe M. Schneede
Paula Modersohn-Becker
portant impressions into her own pictorial language. She
died in 1907 at the age of only 31, but her oeuvre has shaped
the epoch between the old and the new, the 19th and 20th
centuries, and paved the way for the German avant-gardes.
Today she stands paradigmatically for the first generation of
independent, courageous women painters of modern age.
Uwe M. Schneede was director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle
from 1991 to 2006, before he taught modern art history at
the University of Munich.
Further works published by C.H. Beck:
Vincent van Gogh (3rd edition 2019)
Simplified Chinese: Beijing Publishers
Turkish: Repar Tasarim Matbaa ve
Reclamcilic Tic Ltd Sti
Spanish: Alianza Editorial S.A.
Geschichte der Kunst im
20. Jahrhundert (2001)
Simplified Chinese: China Federation
of Literary & Art Circles PressArmin Nassehi
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Discomfort
Theory of the Overburdened Society
In his new book, Armin Nassehi shows why mo-
dern complex societies are notoriously overburde-
ned with the management of crises
Armin Nassehi In our handling of the pandemic and the climate crisis, it
Discomfort becomes clear that the various political, economic, familial,
and scientific instances of society follow their own logics of
Theory of the Overburdened Society
operation contradicting each other internally and externally.
320 pages
As a result, the attempt to combine all political forces to
€ 26,-
overcome the crisis is bound to fail. Calls for more solidarity
German title: and cohesion sound good, but against this background they
Armin Nassehi are illusory. In his book, Armin Nassehi argues that complex
Unbehagen societies continuously experience themselves as being in cri-
Theorie der überforderten Gesellschaft sis, without ever returning to a form of prestabilized harmo-
ny. At the same time, he suggests what can be learned from
our handling of the pandemic and the climate crisis in order
to be better equipped for future crisis situations.
Armin Nassehi holds the Chair of General Sociology and So-
cial Theory at the University of Munich and has been editor
of the cultural journal „Kursbuch“ since 2012.Andreas Guski
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Dostoevsky
A Biography
Dostoevsky‘s life was one of extremes. Literally
overnight, at the age of 24, he became the star of
the Petersburg literary scene. When he was arres-
ted for political reasons at the age of 27, he only
escaped his death sentence at the very last minu-
te. After ten years in Siberia, he returns a changed
man and begins his literary comeback. Later he
flees from material hardship into gambling.
Andreas Guski follows Dostoevsky‘s political transforma- Andreas Guski
tions between revolt and reaction, his attempts to survive Dostoevsky
as a professional writer, and his struggle for readers. While
A Biography
Dostoevsky himself often lived psychologically at the limit,
Special edition 2021
in his works he illuminates the most secret corners of the
464 pages including 30 illustrations
human soul perfectly. His confrontation with the modern € 20.-
world made him a „prophet of the 20th century“ (Albert German title:
Camus). Dostoevsky‘s novels and stories charged with tre- Andreas Guski
mendous tension belong to the most widely read works of Dostojewskij
world literature and are brilliantly explored in this biogra- Eine Biographie
phy.
Serbish translation rights are sold to
Laguna
Andreas Guski taught Slavic philology at the University of
Simplified Chinese translation rights
Basel. He is one of the best German experts on Dostoevsky‘s
are sold to Social Sciences Academic
work, on which he has published widely... PressVolker Leppin
C.H.BECK FALL 2021 15
Resting in God
History of Christian Mysticism
Greek monks attained rest in God through asceti-
cism, Bernard of Clairvaux allowed himself to be
embraced by the Crucified, and Mechthild of Mag-
deburg gave herself to her bridegroom Christ. Vol-
ker Leppin tells the story of Christian mysticism in
a completely new way by showing that the search
for the immediate nearness of God was already
part of the core of early Christian teaching.
Volker Leppin Mystics felt so close to God that differences between clergy
Resting in God and laity, men and women, became obsolete for them.
In his brilliant account, Volker Leppin shows how early
History of Christian Mysticism
Christian teachings, in conjunction with Platonic philoso-
480 pages including 17 coloured illustra-
phy, shaped mystical world views and paths to salvation and
tions
€ 32.- became the core of orthodox spirituality. The question of
common ground with other religions and a growing distance
German title: from the Church show how essential mysticism is for Christi-
Volker Leppin anity, especially in the modern age.
Ruhen in Gott
Geschichte der christlichen Mystik
Volker Leppin teaches church history at the University of
Tübingen (from August 2021 at Yale University) and is a
member of the Saxon and Heidelberg Academies of Sciences
and Humanities. For his research on the late Middle Ages, he
has been awarded the Ruprecht Karls Prize of the University
of Heidelberg, the Hanns Lilje Prize of the Göttingen Academy
of Sciences and Humanities and the Gerhard Hess Prize of the
German Research Foundation, among others.Bernhard Maier
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The Conversion of the World
A history of Christian Mission
in the Modern Era
How Christian mission changed the world
„Convert in disciples all nations!“ The age of
discoveries and conquests gave the „Great Com-
mission“ a completely new thrust. Bernhard Maier
impressively describes how Christian missionaries
transformed cultures and religions all over the
world from the Spanish Conquista to the compe-
tition of great powers for lands and resources to
decolonisation.
Bernhard Maier shows how missionaries morally flanked Bernhard Maier
the subjugation of the world, reaching their own limits soon. The Conversion of the World
Forced conversions were rarely sustainable. They had to
A History of Christian Mission in the
learn the languages of the pagans, translate the Good News, Modern Era
interpret myths and rituals in Christian terms, and had to
500 pages including 30 illustrations and
found schools, provide medical care, and, if necessary pro- 2 maps
tect the entrusted peoples against their own colonial power. German title:
Bernhard Maier‘s commanding history of mission offers a Bernhard Maier
unique key to better understanding the globalisation of cul- Die Bekehrung der Welt
tures in the Modern Era. Eine Geschichte der christlichen Mission
in der Neuzeit
Bernhard Maier teaches General Religious Studies and Euro-
pean History of Religions at the University of Tübingen.
Further works published by C.H. Beck:
Die Kelten (2016)
English: Edinburgh University
Geschichte Schottlands (2015)
Simplified Chinese: Beijing Phoenix-
Power Cultural Development
Die Druiden (2009)
Turkish: Repar Tasarım Matbaa ve
Reklamcılık Tic Ltd Sti
Stonehenge (2nd ed. 2018)
Italian: Il Mulino
Turkish: Repar Tasarım Matbaa ve
Reklamcılık Tic Ltd StiC.H.BECK FALL 2021 17
Wolfgang Röd (Ed.) Wolfgang Röd (Editor)
History of Philosophy
Vol. I - XIV | Special edition in Kassette
History of Philosophy
14 volumes Complete Work in 14 Volumes
6.126 pages
€ 228.- In the fourteen-volume History of Philosophy, renowned au-
thors present an introductory and generally understandable
German title: account of the development of Western thought through all
Wolfgang Röd (Hg) epochs up to the present day.
Geschichte der Philosophie
Band I – XIV | Sonderausgabe in Kassette
I: The Philosophy of Antiquity 1: From Thales to Democritus
Czech translation rights are sold to Oikoymenh II: The Philosophy of Antiquity 2: Sophism and Socraticism.
Portugese translation rights are sold to Editore Plato and Aristotle
da Universidade de Brasilia (1+2) III: The Philosophy of Antiquity 3: Stoa, Epicureanism and
Scepticism
Korean translation rights are sold to Hangilsa
Publishing Co. (vol. I,II,III,VII, VIII, X) IV: The philosophy of the late ...
V: The Philosophy of the High and Late Middle Ages
VI: The Philosophy of Humanism and the Renaissance
VII: Modern Philosophy 1: From Francis Bacon to Spinoza
Further works published by C.H. Beck: VIII: Modern Philosophy 2: From Newton to Rousseau
IX,1: Critical Philosophy from Kant to Schopenhauer
Eureka! (2013)
Korean: Eun Hang Namu Publishing IX,2: Classical German Philosophy from Fichte to Hegel
X: Positivism, Socialism and Spiritualism in the 19th Century
The Path of Philosophy, 2 vols. (2nd ed. 2008/9)
XI: Pragmatism and Analytic Philosophy
Portuguese: Editora da Universidade de
Brasilia XII: Neo-Kantianism, Idealism, Realism, Phenomenology
Ukrainian: Ukrainian Philosophical XIII: Philosophy of Life and Existential Philosophy
Foundation XIV: The Philosophy of Recent Times: Hermeneutics, Frankfurt
Dialectical Philosophy of the Modern Era School, Structuralism, Analytic Philosophy
(2nd ed. 1986)
Portuguese: Editora da Universidade de Wolfgang Röd (1926-2014) was professor of philosophy at
Brasilia the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Innsbruck
Hungarian: Latin Betük Kiadó and editor of the History of Philosophy.
Spanish: EUNSA EdicionesHartwin Brandt
C.H.BECK FAL 2021 18
Ancient Orient, Greek History,
Roman History Vol.11:
The Imperial Period
Roman History from
Octavian to Diocletian
31 B.C. - 284 A.D.
In a chequered history, from the 5th century BC
onwards the small central Italian town of Rome
had become the Roman Empire.
When its legions had subjugated the peoples of the Mediter- Hartwin Brandt
ranean, they were led against each other by their comman- Ancient Orient, Greek History,
ders. The bloody civil wars ended in 31 BC with the naval Roman History Vol.11:
battle of Actium, in which Marc Antony and Cleopatra were The Imperial Period
defeated by Caesar‘s adopted son Octavian and his loyal Roman History from
paladin Agrippa. The winner takes it all: Rome‘s traditional Octavian to Diocletian
republican decision-making and ruling structures had outli- 31 B.C. - 284 A.D.
ved - the time of the emperors had dawned.
784 pages including 3 maps and 4 genea-
Hartwin Brandt succeeds in a masterly synthesis with his logical tables
great portrayal of the Roman imperial era. This concise € 112,-
volume offers orientation and at the same time original
interpretations. In this volume, 300 years of Roman history German title:
shine in bright and clear light of modern historiography. Hartwin Brandt
Die Kaiserzeit
Römische Geschichte von Octavian bis
Hartwin Brandt teaches Ancient History at the University of Diocletian
Bamberg 31 v.Chr. – 284 n.Chr.
Further works published by C.H. Beck:
The Heritage of the Antique (2017)
Italian: Mulino
Simplified Chinese: Social Sciences
Academic Press
Turkish: Repar Tasarım Matbaa ve
Reklamcılık Tic Ltd Sti
Konstantin the Great (3rd ed. 2011)
Spanish: Herder Editorial, S.L.
Hungarian: Gabo KönyvkiadóHeinrich August Winkler
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Conflict of interpretation
The Dispute over German History
To this day, German history is a contested terrain on
which political conflicts are often fought out: Is the-
re a historical German “special path”? Does Germany
bear a greater responsibility for the outbreak of the
First World War than other nations? How did Hitler‘s
rise to power, and how could the Holocaust happen?
These are just some of the historical-political ques-
tions which Heinrich August Winkler has treated
repeatedly. This volume brings together some of
the most important contributions by the prominent
historian, who has participated in these „conflicts
of interpretation” for more than half a century and
often played a decisive role in shaping them.
Heinrich August Winkler A Germany that opens itself unreservedly to the political
Conflicts of interpretation culture of the West and at the same time develops a critical
relationship to its own past - such a Germany had to be won
The Dispute over German History
after 1945 against all odds. Heinrich August Winkler‘s new
304 pages
book tells of this often bitterly fought disputes. Regardless of
€ 25,-
whether the attempts to instrumentalize history came from
German titel: the left or the right, Winkler‘s interventions always pursued
Heinrich August Winkler a dual purpose: correcting legends and backing the culture
Deutungskämpfe of democratic pluralism - knowledgeably, astutely and, so-
Der Streit um die deutsche Geschichte metimes with a strong shot of polemic.
Heinrich August Winkler taught modern history at the
University in Berlin from 1991 to 2007. In 2014, he received
the Hans Ringier Foundation‘s European Prize for Political
Culture, and in 2016 the Leipzig Book Prize for European Un-
derstanding. In 2018, the Federal President awarded him the
Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Further works published by C.H. Beck:
How we became who we are (2020)
Simplified Chinese: Social Sciences
Academic Press A History of the West:
The Era of the World Wars 1914 – 1945 (2011)
Is the West Collapsing? (2017) English: Yale University Press
Simplified Chinese: CITIC Pess Corporation Simplified Chinese: Social Sciences
Serbian: Albatros plus d.o.o. Academic Press
The Long Way West, 2 vols. (2010) Weimar (3rd ed. 1997)
English: Oxford University Press Italian: Donzelli
Italian: Donzelli Editore Russian: DHI Moscow
French: Librairie Artheme Fayard Simplified Chinese: Social Sciences
Polish: Wydawnictwo Universytetu Academic Press
Wroclawskiego
Hungarian: Osiris Kiado Wie wir wurden, was wir sind (3rd ed. 2020)
Japanese: Showado Publishing Co. Simplified Chinese: Social Sciences
Simplified Chinese: Moveable Type Legacy Academic PressFrank-Walter Steinmeier (Ed.)
C.H.BECK FAL 2021 20
Pioneers of German Democracy
30 courages women and men 1789-1918.
The democratic freedom movements still have
not found their place in the collective memory
of Germans. Never again“ is rightly at the core of
Germany‘s culture of remembrance. But anyone
who wants to strengthen our democracy must also
know those who fought for it, often at the risk of
their lives.
Freedom and democracy have deep roots in German history. Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Ed.)
Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has made it one Pioneers of German Democracy
of the goals of his term in office to make these roots more vi-
30 courages women and men 1789-1918
sible. The volume he has edited portrays courageous women
320 pages including 30 illustrations
and men who stood up for freedom and human rights bet-
€ 24,95
ween the French Revolution and the Weimar Republic. The
foundations of democracy and parliamentarism, emancipa- German titel:
tion, fundamental rights and the constitutional state were Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Hg.)
laid in this era. Nevertheless, actors such as Georg Forster, Wegbereiter der deutschen Demokratie
Robert Blum, Louise Otto-Peters, Emma Ihrer or Hugo Preuß 30 mutige Frauen und Männer 1789-1918
are too often still too much in the background in public
memory. Nevertheless they show us what has brought us
forward in our history and what we can build on.
With contributions by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, Norbert
Lammert, Barbara Sichtermann, Christopher Clark, Hedwig
Richter, Herfried Münkler, Ute Gerhard, Dietmar Süß, Heri-
bert Prantl and many others.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier is President of the Federal RepublicWolfgang Niess
C.H.BECK FALL 2021 21
The 9th of November
The Germans and their Fateful Day
“The 9th of November is Germany‘s fateful day.“
This is how the President of the Bundestag, Wolf-
gang Schäuble, began his address to the comme-
moration ceremony of the German Bundestag on
9 November 2018. „On this date, our recent history
condenses in its ambivalence, with its contradic-
tions, its contrasts. The tragic and the happy, the
futile attempt and the success, joy and guilt: all
these belong together. Inseparably.“
Wolfgang Niess The revolution of 1918/19, the Hitler putsch, the Reich
The 9th of November Pogrom Night, Georg Elser‘s assassination attempt on Adolf
Hitler and the peaceful revolution of 1989 - all these events
The Germans and their Fateful Day
are linked to this date. Wolfgang Niess tells the story of the
288 pages including 20 illustrations
respective days and describes the struggle for remembrance.
€ 26,-
Since 1918, 9 November has been a special day in German
German title: history with its own historical significance. The events are
Wolfgang Niess not merely anecdotal but have a real context. A German
Der 9. November history of the 20th century can therefore be written in the
Die Deutschen und ihr Schicksalstag mirror of this date. More than any other day of the year, 9
November illustrates the long struggle for democracy in Ger-
many, interrupted by terrible relapses into barbarism, but
ultimately successful. It is time to declare it a national day of
remembrance.
Wolfgang Niess has a doctorate in history and was an editor
at SWR television for many years. Niess is the author of nu-
merous radio and television programmes, essays and book
publications on aspects of contemporary history.Bernd Greiner
C.H.BECK FAL 2021 22
Made in Washington
What the USA has done to the World
since 1945
The USA is generally considered as the essential
nation. Without its protective hand, seemingly the
world would sink into chaos. Bernd Greiner tests
this thesis. What does the order power do when it
puts things in order? And what do the areas of the
world look like after Washington has intervened?
Bernd Greiner‘s book shows how the USA developed its
claim to be the guardian of international order. It also shows
how the idea arose that the condition for stability is Ameri-
can superiority. And it provides a critical balance of Ameri- Bernd Greiner
can regulatory policy since the Second World War including
Made in Washington
its terrible consequences in South and Latin America, for
example in Guatemala. But also the Vietnam War, the Iraq What the USA has done to the World
since 1945
wars or the policy in Indonesia. After the end of the Cold
War, the USA clung to its military understanding of secu- 240 pages
€ 16,95
rity, thus achieving the opposite of what was originally
desired. What matters is not the assertion but the balancing German title:
of interests, not the language of power but a grammar of Bernd Greiner
trust. Europe should advocate a policy of collective security. Made in Washington
Without claiming dominance and demanding allegiance, Was die USA seit 1945 in der Welt ange-
without arrogance and nationalism. In other words, beyond richtet haben
American attitudes, claims and practices.
Bernd Greiner is the founding director and staff member
of the „Berliner Kolleg Kalter Krieg / Berlin Center for Cold
War Studies“. He taught non-European history at the Uni-
versity of Hamburg and headed the research area „Theory
and History of Violence“ at the Hamburg Institute for Social
Research until 2014.Steffen Mau
C.H.BECK FALL 2021 23
Sorting Machines
The Reinvention of the Border
in the 21st Century
According to a common narrative, nation-state
borders are becoming increasingly porous in
globalisation. Cross-border mobility is thus beco-
ming a universal experience - at best temporarily
interrupted by the return of nationalist politics.
Steffen Mau shows that this view is deceptive:
from the very beginning, borders are not getting
more permeable in globalisation, but have become
powerful sorting machines. Today they fulfil their
separation function better and more effectively
than ever.
While the cross-border movement of people has steadily
increased in recent decades, a counter-development has
taken place at the same time: in many places new deterrent
Steffen Mau walls and militarised border crossings can be observed.
Borders have also become increasingly selective . Supported
Sorting Machines
by digitalisation they have been upgraded to smart borders,
The Reinvention oft he Border in the and border control has expanded spatially on a massive
21st Century
scale, even becoming a global enterprise that is detached
192 pages from territory. Sociologist Steffen Mau analyses how the
€ 14,95
new sorting machines create mobility and immobility at
German title: the same time: for desired travellers, borders are supposed
Steffen Mau to open like department stores‘ doors, for others they are
Sortiermaschinen remain more firmly closed than ever. While a small circle of
Die Neuerfindung der Grenze privileged people are allowed to travel almost everywhere
im 21. Jahrhundert today, the vast majority of the world‘s population continues
to be systematically excluded. Nowhere is the Janus face of
globalisation more evident than at the borders of the 21st
century.
Steffen Mau teaches macrosociology at the Humboldt
University in Berlin. He was awarded the Leibniz Prize of the
German Research Foundation in 2021.Stefan Mey
C.H.BECK FAL 2021 24
Darknet
Weapons, Drugs, Whistleblowers
How the Darknet works.
A 19-year-old who sells almost a tonne of drugs
from his parents‘ living room. Whistleblowers who
transmit explosive information under the protec-
tion of anonymity, political collectives who want
to prevent authorities from accessing their plat-
forms.
What does the Darknet look like, what makes it as frigh-
tening as attractive to many people? Is it good, evil or
something in between? And is it worth to visit? Journalist
Stefan Mey has gone into the depths of the Darknet. He Stefan Mey
quickly realised how much of the information circulating is
Darknet
myth and how little we know. He elicits the secrets of this
hard-to-explore place. In his intense research, he scoured Weapons, Drugs, Whistleblowers
dozens of scientific Darknet studies for usable results and How the Digital Underworld Works
sought out conversations with people „out there“ via tap- 3rd revised and updated edition
proof channels.
240 pages
€16,95
Stefan Mey studied sociology and journalism and is a free-
lance journalist in Berlin. For years he has been reporting on German title:
technology and on the question of what the internet is doing Stefan Mey
to politics, the economy and society. He has written about Darknet
Waffe, Dorgen, Whistleblower
the Darknet for more than a dozen renowned media.
Wie die digitale Unterwelt funktioniert
Korean translation rights sold to
HanulMPlus IncMuriel Asseburg
C.H.BECK FALL 2021 25
Palestine and the Palestinians
A History from the Nakba to
the Present Day
The history of Palestine and the Palestinians is a
story of war, expulsion, loss and exile, and of a
still unfulfilled quest for national self-determi-
nation. Muriel Asseburg tells the dramatic story
of a small fragmented country, a people without
a state struggling for liberation since almost a
century. Her clear, factual book helps us to better
understand the Palestinian people.
The founding of the state of Israel in May 1948 and the
following war were perceived by the Arabs in the British
Mandate of Palestine as a Nakba, a catastrophe. Hundreds of
Muriel Asseburg thousands lost their houses, their property and their homes.
Muriel Asseburg explains the prehistory and background
Palestine and the Palestinians
of this key year, tells the story of the Palestinian national
A History from the Nakba to movement and depicts its most important protagonists. She
the Present Day
describes wars, uprisings and peace initiatives, reports on
320 pages including 10 illustrations the experiences of Palestinian self-government and portrays
€ 16,95
important personalities from politics and culture. Her sen-
German title: sitive account lets us see Palestine and the Palestinians with
Muriel Asseburg different eyes.
Palästina und die Palästinenser
Eine Geschichte von der Nakba bis zur Muriel Asseburg is a Middle East expert and Senior Fellow
Gegenwart in the Middle East and Africa Research Group at the Stiftung
Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) of the German Institute for
International and Security Affairs in Berlin.Susan Arndt
C.H.BECK FAL 2021 26
Understanding Racism
Racism is one of the greatest catastrophes in his-
tory. It affects even the smallest contexts of global
and local structures – as a result of its far too long
history, which this book concisely analyses.
Every day, people all over the world experience racism in the
form of everyday discrimination, become victims of politi-
cal and institutional racism and suffer from racist violence.
When the police officer Derek Chauvin took the breath Susan Arndt
away from the Black American George Floyd, an anti-racist
Understanding Racism
wave of protest surged around the world, which also moved
Germany. Susan Arndt introduces the history and present 384 pages
€ 18,95
of racism and shows that it cannot be overcome by the mere
will of individuals. Anti-racism requires active action and German title:
appropriate skills and necessitates knowledge and argu- Susan Arndt
ments which this both is providing. Rassismus begreifen
Susan Arndt teaches English Literature and Anglophone
Literatures at the University of Bayreuth.
Further titles published by C.H. Beck:
Sexism (2020)
Turkish: Tohum Yayincilik Turizm
ReklamRuud Koopmans
C.H.BECK FALL 2021 27
The Decayed House of Islam
The Religious Causes of Deprivation of
Freedom, Stagnation and Violence
The „house of Islam“ has become the house of
war, terror, economic stagnation and dictatorship
in many places. In his groundbreaking analysis of
this desolate situation, the renowned social sci-
entist Ruud Koopmans sets hard facts against the
Islam-critical general verdict of the West and its
fashionable self-criticism. He shows how funda-
mentalism has a stranglehold on Islam worldwide
and asks what paths could lead out of this
impasse.
Ruud Koopmans is Director of the Department „Migration,
Integration, Transnationalization“ at the Science Center Ber-
lin and Professor of Sociology and Migration Research at the
Ruud Koopmans University of Berlin. He also performs important advisory
functions, for example as a member of the Scientific Adviso-
The Decayed House of Islam
ry Council of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees.
The Religious Causes of Deprivation of To a large audience he is known through regular contribu-
Freedom, Stagnation and Violence
tions in major newspapers and television appearances.
300 pages including 16 illustrations and
20 graphics
€ 14,95
German title:
Ruud Koopmans
Das verfallene Haus des Islam
Die religiösen Ursachen von Unfreiheit,
Stagnation und Gewalt
Only English translation rights
available.Sophie Schönberger
C.H.BECK FAL 2021 28
What should be Returned?
The Restitution of Cultural Artefacts in
the Age of Nostalgia
The restitution of cultural property is one of the
most explosive and most discussed topics of recent
years. Can past injustice be redressed through late
restitution? What must, what should, what can be
returned?
In our dealings with a historically burdened past, injustice
seems to attach not only to history as such, but also to very
concrete objects. If they were looted, extorted from the
victims or even lost, it is common sense today, that they Sophie Schönberger
have to be returned to their original owners even many de-
What should beRreturned?
cades after their loss. Sophie Schönberger, an expert in art
and cultural law, explains the parameters, difficulties, but The Restitution of Cultural Artefacts in
the Age of Nostalgia
also opportunities that characterise this process, using three
examples shaping current debates in Germany in different 160 pages including 24 illustrations
€ 14,95
ways: the restitution of Nazi looted property, the handling of
colonial objects and, finally, the compensation claims of the German title:
Hohenzollern family. Sopie Schönberger
Was soll zurück?
Sophie Schönberger teaches public law, art and cultural Die Restitution von Kulturgütern im
law at the University of Düsseldorf and is co-director of the Zeitalter der Nostalgie
Institute for German and International Party Law and Party
Research.Günther Anders
C.H.BECK FALL 2021 29
The Emigrant
With an epilogue by Florian Grosser
An Essay
A highly topical rediscovery
„Our essence is not that our lives have been inter-
rupted by an (inescapable) interlude, but that the
disintegration of our lives into several lives has be-
come definitive; and that means that the second life
stands out at an angle from the first, and the third
again from the second, that each time a „bending of
the way“ has taken place, a bending that makes ret-
rospection - I almost wrote: physically - impossible.“
Günther Anders
Every emigration is a fundamental break in life. It uproots
a person, makes him speechless, lonely and invisible. With
unsparing honesty, Günther Anders reports on the shame and
Günther Anders disgrace he had to experience in his own existence as a fugi-
tive. His brilliant essay sheds new light on the „main moral
The Emigrant | An Essay
malaise“ of the 20th century and thus is on a par with other
With an epilogue by Florian Grosser rediscoveries, such as Hannah Arentdt‘s „The Freedom to Be
96 pages Free“, Theodor W. Adorno‘s „Aspects of the New Right-Wing
€ 10.- Radicalism“ or George Orwell‘s „On Nationalism“.
German title:
Günther Anders (1902 - 1992) is one of the most important
Günther Anders
philosophers of the 20th century. His intellectual and political
Der Emigrant | Ein Essay
Mit einem Nachwort von Florian Grosser radicalism is unparalleled in the German-speaking world. His
main work is „The Antiquity of Man“.
Florian Grosser, born 1980, teaches philosophy at the Univer-
Further works published by C.H. Beck:
sity of California, Berkeley and at the California College of the
The Molussian Catacombs (1991) Arts, San Francisco.
Dutch: Lemniscaat Rotterdam
French: Éditions L‘échappée
A Fight of Cherries: Dialogues with Diaries and Poems (1985)
Hannah Arendt (2012) Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen, French: Fage editions
Italian: Donzelli volume 1 (7th edition 1983)
French: editions ivrea Hiroshima is everywhere (1995)
French: Payot
Italian: Bollati Boringhieri Spanish: Ediciones Paidos
Spanish: Paidos
Japanese: Hosei University Press French: Editions du Seuil
Kafka, Pro and Contra (4th edition 1972) Spanish: Editoral Pre-Textos Portuguese: Editora Elefante
Brasilian: Cosac & Naify Man without world (2nd edition 1993)
Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen,
The View of the Tower (3rd edition 1984) volume 2 (4th edition 1983) Japanese: Hosei University Press
Japanese: Hosei University Press French: fario Ketzereien (Heresies) (1996)
Italian: Mim-Edizioni Italian: Bollati Boringhieri Japanese: Hosei University Press
Japanese: Hosei University Press
We – sons of Eichmann (3rd edition 2001) Spanish: Editoral Pre-Textos Visit to Hades (3rd edition 1997)
Japanese: Shobunsh Publishing Italian: Bollati Boringhieri
French: Editions Payot & Rivages To Love Yesterday (3rd edition 1997)
Spanish: Ediciones Paidos French: Fage editions About Heidegger (2001)
Portuguese: Editora Elefante Italian: Bollati Boringhieri Italian: Bollati BoringhieriSusanna Partsch
C.H.BECK FAL 2021 30
Who stole Mona Lisa?
The most famous art thefts in the world
From the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911 to the
jewel heist in the Green Vault in 2019 - this book
is full of gripping and unbelievable stories: it tells
of cunning mafia clans, perpetrators disguised as
police officers, resourceful art detectives, cut-up
paintings, obsessed art lovers and ransom de-
mands amounting to millions - cases like out of a
crime novel, but written by life.
The Mona Lisa only became world famous after she was
stolen. When she disappeared in August 1911, no one noticed
at first. But when museum visitors flocked to the empty wall
and laid flowers in front of it, she soon became the talk of Susanna Partsch
the town. Happily returned to the Louvre, it is now one of
Who stole Mona Lisa?
the best-known and best-kept works of art anywhere. How
could such a theft be carried out, how was it discovered The most famous art thefts in the
world
and what were the perpetrator‘s motives? Susanna Partsch
explores these questions in her book and presents many 240 pages including 18 illustrations
€ 14,95
other spectacular cases besides the Mona Lisa - among them
a Rembrandt that was stolen four times in a row, a getaway German title:
car full of van Goghs that fell by the wayside because of a Susanna Partsch
flat tyre, or a Picasso that was stolen from the yacht of a Wer klaute die Mona Lisa?
Saudi sheik and used as a cheque in the drug-dealing and Die berühmtesten Kunstdiebstähle der
arms-dealing milieu. An exciting yet entertaining read for Welt
any art lover!
Susanna Partsch has a doctorate in art history and lives as a
freelance author in Munich.
Further works published by C.H. Beck:
The 101 Most Important Questions:
Modern Art (2010)
Korean: Kyungdang Publishing Co.Markus Roth
C.H.BECK FALL 2021 31
Holocaust
The 101 most important questions
Who did the National Socialists consider to be
Jews? Was Hitler‘s „Mein Kampf“ a roadmap for
the Holocaust? Did all Jews have to wear a yellow
star? Why did they build the extermination camps
in occupied Poland? Did the National Socialists
murder Jews to get their property? And did the
Germans really not know about the Holocaust?
The Holocaust is a crime against humanity that still haunts
us today. Six million Jews were murdered, more than half
of them in extermination camps. Keeping the memory alive
Markus Roth is one of the most important tasks of political education in
Germany. Markus Roth opens up this darkest chapter of Ger-
The 101 most important questions:
Holocaust man history in 101 questions that provide an introduction to
the history, course and consequences of the Holocaust.
160 pages including 5 illustrations
German title: Markus Roth researches the history and impact of the Holo-
Markus Roth caust at the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt am Main.
Die 101 wichtigsten Fragen: HolocaustSusanne Schröter
C.H.BECK FAL 2021 32
Allah‘s Caravan
A Journey Through the
Islamic Multiverse
Muslims who worship not only Allah but also the
goddess of the southern sea, who replace ritual
fasting with work, or who interpret the Koran in
a feminist way: Susanne Schröter takes us on an
entertaining journey through unknown worlds of
Islam that have one thing in common above all:
They belong to the „endangered species“ that fun-
damentalists and radicals are fighting against.
The dancing dervishes in Turkey have developed their own
orthodoxy, while in the Balkans there has long been an
unorthodox, genuinely European Islam. In Sudan, the cult of
the tsar undermines rigid sharia rules. In Senegal, powerful Susanne Schröter
sheikhs guide a life in the rhythm of prayer, work and music.
Allah’s Caravan
In Malaysia, ancient Muslim matriarchies exist, while in
the U.S. a progressive Muslim subculture is flourishing and A journey through the
Islamic Multiverse
liberal associations with female imams are emerging in Ger-
many. With the Ibadites in Oman, a traditionally tolerant de- 208 pages including 11 illustrations
€ 16,95
nomination can be discovered. In Pakistan, Sufi sanctuaries
have developed into social free spaces, including for trans- German title:
gender people. On the island of Java, Islam has merged with Susanne Schröter
Hinduism and Buddhism, and in China, an interfaith Islam Allahs Karawane
is developing under the eyes of the CP. Susanne Schröter‘s Eine Reise durch das islamische
astonishing journey through the Islamic multiverse shows Multiversum
in the most beautiful way that the world‘s second largest
religion is more diverse, more „diversified,“ more creative
and more pragmatic than Islamic fundamentalists and angry
critics of Islam would have us believe.
Susanne Schröter teaches ethnology at the University of
Frankfurt a.M., directs the Frankfurt Research Centre Global
Islam (FFGI). She is also board member of the German Ori-
ent Institute.Francis Breyer
C.H.BECK FALL 2021 33
Black Pharaohs
Nubia’s Kingdoms on the Nile
More pyramids survive in Nubia than in Egypt,
but the fabulously wealthy black kings and their
inscriptions continue to puzzle us today. Fran-
cis Breyer, one of the few experts in the world
working to decipher Meroitic, offers a fascina-
ting overview of the cultures and empires south
of Ancient Egypt, which to this day are unjustly
overshadowed by their northern neighbor.
Looking at maps of Ancient Egypt, one might think that sou-
th of the first cataract of the Nile the world, or at least the
culture, had ended. The Egyptians themselves tried to create
Francis Breyer this impression. Yet there were flourishing empires there,
whose kings also ruled Egypt for a time as „Black Pharaohs.“
Black Pharaohs
Francis Breyer describes the history of Nubian cultures from
Nubia’a Kingdoms on the Nile the first commonwealths in the 5th millennium BC, through
220 pages including 33 illustrations the Cushite empires with their metropolises of Kerma, Na-
€ 18.- pata and Meroë, to the Christian and Islamic kingdoms and
sultanates in the Middle Ages. He follows the archaeological
German title:
Francis Breyer traces of gods‘ beliefs and society and explains what the
Schwarze Pharaonen dark-skinned dignitaries in Egyptian tombs are all about. His
Nubiens Königreiche am Nil vividly written book makes impressively clear what we gain
when we finally look beyond the canonical high cultures.
Francis Breyer is an Egyptologist and Ancient Orientalist at
the University of Bonn, is one of the leading experts on the
ancient cultures of Nubia and Ethiopia. He has published
groundbreaking books on the mysterious land of Punt, the
Meroitic and the Kingdom of Aksum.Philipp Haas
C.H.BECK FAL 2021 34
The Art of Investing
14 Principles for Shares, Financial
Freedom and the Good Life
Philipp Haas has a mission. He wants to help
Germans invest their money more productively.
In times of zero interest rates, savings are gradu-
ally being devalued. Shares and real estate, on
the other hand, are rising in value. In his financial
education novel, Haas introduces the art of in-
vesting in a light and entertaining way and shows
how financial freedom can be achieved. Investing
is an art which makes you independent and enab-
les a free and happy life.
To reach people who would not read a typical financial
book, Philipp Haas invented Felix and Victor. Felix sets off
for a summer trip to Spain to think about what he actually
wants in life. After a few adventures, he finally lands on Philipp Haas
Menorca. There he meets Victor, who tells him his 14 invest-
The Art of Investing
ment principles containing the most important things about
money, decisions, economics, the stock market, shares, 14 Principles for Shares, Financial
Freedom and the Good Life
real estate, luck and the art of investing. They will change
Felix‘s life forever. Just like Felix, many people are currently 304 pages
€ 16,95
asking themselves how they can invest their money in order
to achieve freedom and independence as early as possible. German title:
This book offers them guidance and shows how to become Philipp Haas
better at investing money than 90 percent of Germans in one Die Kunst des Investierens
weekend. 14 Prinzipien für Aktien, finanzielle
Freiheit und das gute Leben
After studying at the University of St. Gallen, Philipp Haas
worked in the digital industry and as a fund manager. Today
he is an independent investor as well as an online entre-
preneur and also manages capital for third parties. He runs
the blog investresearch.net, the newsletter FINANZPOST
and a popular YouTube channel. He is also one of the most
successful portfolio managers on Wikifolio. In all his activi-
ties, Philipp Haas is concerned with making investment in
Germany better, simplier and fairer.You can also read
