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Foreign Rights Catalogue
Frankfurt 2020
Table of Contents Frontlist
Atlas, Syd: Five Seasons of Love ..................................................................................... 3
Berger, Clemens: The President ...................................................................................... 4
Dusse, Karsten: Murder Mindfully I .............................................................................. 5
Dusse, Karsten: Murder Mindfully II ............................................................................. 6
Hennig von Lange, Alexa: The Mad One ................................................................... 7
Klüpfel, Volker & Kobr, Michael: Outside .................................................................... 8
Klüpfel, Volker & Kobr, Michael: The Kluftinger Series ............................................ 9
Kuhrt, Henriette & Paulsen, Sarah: In The Jungle of Human Interaction ........... 10
Kutzenberger, Stefan: Jokerman ................................................................................. 11
Lewina, Katja: She's Up for It ....................................................................................... 12
Quaderer, Benjamin: Forever the Alps......................................................................... 13
Scheerer, Johann: Uncannily Close ............................................................................... 14
Schirach, Ferdinand von: God ...................................................................................... 15
Schirach, Ferdinand & Kluge, Alexander: Nevertheless .......................................... 16
Schulte- Markwort, Michael Prof.: Family Years ...................................................... 17
Weiler, Jan: The Grown-Ups ......................................................................................... 18
Weiler, Jan: The Kühn Series ......................................................................................... 19
Wisser, Daniel: We're Going to Stay ............................................................................. 20
Backlist
Gesthuysen, Anne: Girls Night .................................................................................... 22
Krausser, Helmut: Breakup. Burns. .............................................................................. 22
Krausser, Helmut: The Small Gardens of Maestro Puccini ..................................... 22
Schamoni, Rocko: Great Freedom ............................................................................... 23
Drees, Jan: Sandberg's Love ........................................................................................... 23
Scheerer, Johann: We're Then Next of Kin ................................................................ 23
Schirach, Ferdinand von: The Collini Case ................................................................. 26
Schirach, Ferdinand von: Dignity is touchable ........................................................... 27
Schirach, Ferdinand von: Coffee and Cigarettes ........................................................ 24
Schirach, Ferdinand von: Guilt .................................................................................... 25
Schirach, Ferdinand von: Punishment ......................................................................... 25
Schirach, Ferdinand von: Taboo ................................................................................... 26
Schirach, Ferdinand von: Terror ................................................................................... 27
Schirach, Ferdinand von: Crime ................................................................................... 25
Schirach, Ferdinand von & Kluge, Alexander: The Cordiality of Reason ............ 27
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Syd Atlas
Five Seasons of Love
A love story like no other -
That's no exaggeration
It all began with a great love. Syd first meets Theo at a
café in Berlin. He is a filmmaker, and he’s smart and
charismatic. Syd knows immediately this is the kind of
love you only find once in your life. They quickly move in
together and have a baby. Their lives are filled with deep
joy as they ride the carousel of life together.
But then Theo receives a devastating diagnosis: ALS, the
rare disease from which Stephen Hawking also suffered.
Day after day, Syd fights for the man she’d fallen in love
with, determined to preserve what is left of their
happiness. Until one day, she makes an extraordinary
discovery that changes everything.
• Rowohlt, Wunderlich
• Five Seasons of Love is salted with more than a dash of • Memoir
humour, stripped of any self-indulgence, disturbing and • Hardcover
compelling, unflinching and ironic. • September 2020
• 256 pages
• "Syd Atlas's Five Seasons of Love is an earthquake. It's funny and • English manuscript available
romantic, shattering and profound. Her story is too strange for fiction, • World Rights available (apart from
with twists and turns that will leave you gasping, yet you'll relate to her Italy)
every step of the way. She writes about her life with great wit, great
depth and great honesty. The insights she's earned by fire are given to us,
the readers, with love. Read Syd's story and get to know her. You'll find
yourself transformed, and I promise you’ll be grateful to have her in your
life." - Brian Selznick, author of "The Invention of Hugo
Cabret" and "Wonderstruck"
Syd Atlas is a top-level
communication coach, keynote
speaker and the face of the Books
at Berlinale. Born in Brooklyn,
N e w Yo r k , S y d m o v e d t o
Germany and was an integral part
of the Berlin performance art
scene in the mid-90s. She lives
with her two boys in Berlin.
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Clemens Berger
The President
He was a policeman when he became the
President of the United States of America
The adventurous story of a simple Chicago policeman,
whose physical resemblance to Ronald Reagan opens up a
completely new career path shortly before his retirement:
Hired by an agency, he now travels the country as a well-
paid double, opening trade fairs, supermarkets, factory
buildings or taking part in hot dog competitions as a guest
of honour. At first, the journey through the United States
seems like the fulfilment of the American dream: a
rushing entry into a luxurious and carefree world. But the
doppelganger, initially inexperienced in political matters, is
increasingly confronted with the social and ecological dark
sides of the Reagan era until he finally develops his own • Residenz
political agenda. • Novel
• Hardcover
• A profound, ironic, debunking, elegant narrative about • July 2020
a decade in the "American Century" that reflects the • 336 pages
problems and debates of our time in an astonishing • Sample translation available
way.
• English language rights available
• “Clemens Berger amusingly explores the possibilities of being a
double of a famous man.” - Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Clemens Berger is an Austrian author
and playwright. He studied philosophy
in Vienna and has published numerous
novels, essays and story collections. His
work has earned him numerous awards
and scholarships.
4
Karsten Dusse
Murder Mindfully
“One thing first. I'm not a violent person. On the contrary. For example, I've
never been in a fight in my life. And I didn't kill anyone until I was 48 years
old. In my current professional environment, this is rather late. Well, the
following week, I had almost half a dozen full.
Now, this may sound unpleasant at first. But everything I did, I did with the
best intentions. It was the logical result of a mindful change of life. To have
my work and family life in balance.”
The lawyer Björn Diemel is forced by his wife to go to a
mindfulness seminar to sort his marriage out, prove himself
a good father and recover his work-life balance.
The course really does bear fruit and Björn can make
practical use of all the things he learned at his job, albeit in
a completely unexpected way. When a client, a brutal and
more than guilty big-time criminal, starts making huge • Heyne
problems, Björn simply kills him – according to all the rules • Crime Novel
of mindfulness. • 416 pages
• June 2019
• Rights sold to: Korea, Poland,
"Murder Mindfully" is the story of a deliberate and slowed
Estonia, Russia, The Netherlands,
down murder. Italy
The mindfulness and crime genres have closed ranks and the
result is, more than anything else, highly unusual and
entertaining fiction.
• 550.000 copies sold
• Constantly reaching #1 on the Spiegel Bestseller-list
• 60 weeks on the Spiegel Bestseller-list
Karsten Dusse is a lawyer and has
been writing for television formats
for a number of years. He has won
the German Television Award and
the German Comedy Prize several
times. He has previously published
three nonfiction books and now
writes succesfull crime novels.
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Karsten Dusse
My Inner Child Wants to Murder
Mindfully (Murder Mindfully II)
"I would never have thought that it was possible to keep a person
trapped in a slightly converted cellar for months in such an uncomplicated
way. That is uncomplicated for everyone except the person in the cellar."
Björn Diemel has decided to stop murdering. But the job as a
mafia boss, the kindergarten he runs, and of course the boss
of the other mafia clan, who is imprisoned in his basement,
make it difficult for Björn to keep his good intentions.
The situation gets really complicated when an unknown
person learns about his secrets and blackmails Björn.
• 240.000 copies sold in the first six weeks
• #1 on the Spiegel Bestseller-list
• On the Spiegel Bestseller-list since publication • Heyne
• Crime Novel
• "Dusse's black humour is brilliant; the […] abstruse scenes are • 480 pages
• May 2020
Tarantino- like."- Bonner General-Anzeiger
• Rights sold to: Korea, Russia, The
• "A truly wonderful crime novel… A genius plot, a black- Netherlands, Italy
humoured story, and you can even use the mindfulness tips. An
absolutely grand novel" - Deutschlandfunk Kultur Lesart
• "Hilarious and at times a bit brutal. But always educational." -
Stuttgarter Zeitung
• "An absolutely hilarious crime novel on mindfulness, organised
crime, meditation, and murder – Dusse managed a crazy balancing
act providing a lot of joy."- brigitte.de
6
Alexa Hennig von Lange
The Mad One
Joanna the Mad, a queen who was
imprisoned because she showed feelings
Spain, 1502: In the fortress of La Mota, Joanna of Castile
should finally come to her senses. Too much is at stake for
her mother, Isabella the Catholic. The queen rules the
country with unrelenting toughness. She has driven out
the Moors and has thousands burned at the stake of the
Inquisition. She cannot give her kingdom into the hands
of her daughter Joanna, who does not pray, does not
confess and does not value power. Joanna does not want
to rule over others. All she wants is to rule over herself.
But that seems to be a freedom reserved for men only.
When she is married to Philip the Fair to distant Flanders,
it seems for a moment that the improbable is possible: a
life of love in a world of betrayal. But even when that • Dumont
hope does not come true, Johanna holds on to what • Novel
everyone around her thinks is madness - the outrageous • Hardcover
wish that the world could be different. • 208 pages
Against this historical background, Alexa Hennig von • August 2020
Lange asks a very modern question: How can we become • Rights sold to: Italy
who we are if this is not intended for us?
• “Orchestrated like a Netflix series.” - Tagesspiegel“
• "Alexa Hennig von Lange tells in a captivating and empathic
way on unfortunately only 200 pages of the fate of an unbending
woman who provokes agitation and asks questions that reach up
to the present day.” - STERN
• „Hennig von Lange has succeeded in making a long-faded life
and fate present and comprehensible. Hennig von Lange writes
something like the first historical pop novel.” -
WELTWOCHE
Alexa Hennig von Lange
became one of the best-known
authors of her generation with
her debut novel "Relax" in 1997.
Numerous other novels, young
adults books and stories followed.
The award winning author lives
with her husband and her five
children in Berlin.
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Volker Klüpfel and Michael Kobr
Outside
Harder and more exciting than ever. The
first thriller of the bestseller duo
A life out in the woods, no home, always on the run:
That's all Cayenne and her brother Joshua know. Only
their leader Stephan knows why they are here and what
danger threatens them. He lives with them outside society,
drills them with all his strength and does not tolerate
contact with others. Cayenne longs for a normal everyday
life as a teenager. But she has no idea that she will soon
need everything Stephan has taught her. Because the fight
for survival has already begun. And suddenly he stands in
front of her: the man who wants to kill her.
• Over 100.000 copies sold!
• Ullstein
• # 5 on the Spiegel Bestseller-list immediately upon • Thriller
publication • Hardcover
• November 2019
• An action-packed survival thriller with a strong, • 400 pages
young heroine • Rights sold to: Italy
Volker Klüpfel and Michael Kobr
have been friends since their school
days. They write the Chief Inspector
Kluftinger bestsellers as a team - five
of these have also been made into
films.
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Volker Klüpfel and Michael Kobr
Spark Murder
Kluftinger Crime Series 11
Germany’s most successful writing duo
A cruel crime that went unpunished, an innocent man who
was in prison for years: a mistake from the past weighs
heavily on Kluftinger. The inspector is determined to reopen
the "spark murder" case, but his colleagues show little
interest in this cold case. Only his new colleague Lucy Beer
supports him in finding the real culprit. Kluftinger is
impressed by the self-confident young woman who brings a
breath of fresh air to his department. At home, however,
such female power is missing in Kluftinger's life because Dr.
Langhammer relieves the weakened Erika of all domestic
chores - just when the baptism of her grandchild is
imminent. The Commissioner must therefore, for better or
worse, do both: play housewife and find a murderer... • Ullstein
• Crime Novel
• More than 7 million copies of Klüpfel/ Kobr’s books have • Hardcover
been sold • September 2020
• 496 pages
• Consistently reaching Number 1 in the SPIEGEL bestseller • World Rights Available
list
• "The two authors achieve a rare feat: they get the Germans
laughing at themselves." Focus
Backlist:
Rights sold: "Milchgeld" Japan, Italy and Poland, "Erntedank":
Japan, "Seegrund": Italy and Poland, "Laienspiel": Italy,
"Rauhnacht": Poland, "Herzblut": Poland
9
Henriette Kuhrt & Sarah Paulsen
In The Jungle Of Human
Interaction
A guide for the life of today
The world as we know it has been turned upside down for
some time now: social media, a flat hierarchy at work and
a new image of gender and family make our everyday life
more interesting and varied, but at the same time more
inscrutable. Nobody tells you how communication and
behaviour work today. We know, of course, how to say
"please" and "thank you". But how do I prepare for my
first tinder-date after a long relationship? How honest can
I be in bed? Do I really have to celebrate Christmas with
my family? Should I share the photo from the last wet and
happy party on Instagram? And is it okay to wear
sweatpants at work? In their "In The Jungle Of Human
• Goldmann
• Non-fiction
Interaction" NZZ style columnist Henriette Kuhrt and
• Hardcover
co-author Sarah Paulsen give entertaining and helpful tips • April 2021
on how we can perfectly master today's challenges. The • 240 pages
ultimate behaviour guide for the 21st century! • World Rights available
Henriette Kuhrt is a
journalist and author. She
is the author of the
popular " Has this style?"
column in the NZZ am
Sonntag, in which she
advises readers on
questions of style,
etiquette and fashion. She also gives lectures on fashion and style
topics.
Sarah Paulsen studied history and art history. For the last ten
years she has been in charge of customer communications for a
medium-sized company. She is a passionate cook and hostess.
10Stefan Kutzenberger
Jokerman
Why Trump's fate lies in Bob Dylan's
hands
A man in the White House, armed with a lethal injection,
only an arm's length away from Donald Trump - this is
the finale of Stefan Kutzenberger's novel "Jokerman".
The assassin's name: Stefan Kutzenberger.
But from the beginning: Kutzenberger is devastated. He
gladly accepts the invitation to give a lecture on the Bob
Dylan song "Jokerman" in summer 2016. The Bob Dylan
Society is enthusiastic about his presentation and thinks
that Kutzenberger's text analysis announces that Bob
Dylan will win the Nobel Prize and the presidency of
Donald Trump. When both events actually happen, the
Society reveals Kutzenberger that he is chosen to
• Berlin Verlag
eliminate Trump.
• Novel
As unlikely as this may sound, it seems plausible in
• Hardcover
"Jokerman".
• August 2020
• 352 pages
• A novel in which reality and fiction, wishful fantasies • World Rights available
and conspiracy theories are virtuously interwoven.
• “Read Stefan Kutzenberger's new novel, which will finally bring
us lost and deluded people to the light.” - Cicero
• "It's pretty cheeky how the real Stefan Kutzenberger mixes the
genres here, how he mixes and boils up autofiction and thriller to
create an action satire and thus creates a pretty unique character
[...] who, together with Kafka and Kirkegaard, walks in the
footsteps of James Bond." - ORF 1
Stefan Kutzenberger is an
Austrian comparatist,
curator and writer. His
highly acclaimed novel debut
Friedinger was published in
2018. He lives and works in
Vienna.
11Katja Lewina
She's Up for It
What's sexist about our sex?
Katja Lewina is up for it, and she writes about it. Since
#metoo the calls for the potent woman became louder
and louder. But does someone who lives her sexual
potential beyond "always shaved smooth and compliant"
really have a place in our society? Lewina continues the
debate about female desire and explores along her own
erotic biography how much sexism is in our sex. Childlike
masturbation, visits to gynaecologists, porn preferences or
fake orgasms: no subject is too intimate for her. And none
of it as individual as we like to think. But the crusts of
our socialization can be scraped off! And so her book is
more empowerment than denunciation, more guidance on
potency than sacrificial thinking. For after the perception
of injustice and taboos it is time to take the path to self- • Dumont
empowerment. • Non-Fiction
• Hardcover
• "There's a tingling sensation between the legs, sweats, laughter and • February 2020
shame. What more could you ask for? It is so well written! I love it". • 223 pages
- Charlotte Roche • Sample translation availabe
• "This book is a fight for freedom." - ELLE • World Rights available
• "Lewina has written an entertaining book about screaming sexual
injustice that is crude and direct. And funny, too." - Die ZEIT
• "Compulsory reading for students, parents & everyone else." - Die
Literarische Welt
Katja Lewina, born in Moscow,
studied Slavic Studies, Literature
and Religious Studies and worked
as an editor, translator and in
management. Today she writes as
a freelance author and journalist
for everything from parent to
men's magazines.
12Benjamin Quaderer
Forever the Alps
Being a whistleblower isn't easy.
To escape from those who want him dead, Johann Kaiser
lives under a false name in the Witness Protection Program
in Australia. But neither the millions he collected for the sale
of the tax CD, nor the daily view of the Indian Ocean, can
comfort him that he is considered the biggest traitor of all
time in his homeland Liechtenstein. In order to clear himself
from the accusations, he reaches for pen and paper.
Benjamin Quaderer has written a daring debut novel about
the power of money and the power of storytelling. The
portrait of an impostor who reflects the society he betrays.
• “Six hundred pages bursting with fantastic ideas and extraordinary
stylistic experiments: Benjamin Quaderer's novel "Forever the Alps"
is a bookish performance pleasure.” - Süddeutsche Zeitung
• “You follow the author gladly even into the narrowest of sideways • Luchterhand
paths, willingly going along with every artistically designed detour, so • Novel
brilliant, so exciting, so funny he wrote all this down.” - DER • Hardcover
SPIEGEL • March 2020
• “You can hardly escape the contagious ontological cheerfulness of the • 592 pages
narrator.” - Die ZEIT
• Rights sold to: France
• "The 30-year-old, who grew up in the Alpine state himself, succeeds
in creating a kind of modern Eulenspiegel, an absurd persiflage that
will find no equal in the literary world.” - Focus
• “Benjamin Quaderer has created with "Forever the Alps" a
miraculous parable of our disappearance.” - Deutschlandfunk
• “Read. Read this book. It has risks and side effects. That’s a good
thing about books.” - SWR2
Benjamin Quaderer was born
in Feldkirch in 1989, Austria,
and grew up in Liechtenstein.
He studied creative writing in
Hildesheim and Vienna.
He won the second prize at the
open mike 2016 for an excerpt
of his debut novel.
13Johann Scheerer
Uncannily close
A moving Coming-of-Age Story
This coming-of-age novel is a revelation: never before has
the desire for freedom and normality been written about in
such a self-ironic and comical way.
While at home nothing is the same anymore, but nobody
talks about it, Johann cannot take a step outside without
announcing it beforehand. As soon as he is outside, he is
under surveillance. But it is precisely this surveillance that he
has to keep from friends, at school, at side jobs and dates and
at parties. He even seems to succeed in this, he finds a
girlfriend, rehearses with his band and gets a record deal. But
he constantly gets into grotesque and embarrassing situations
because he is forced to be dishonest.
The excuses, half-truths and white lies threaten to overwhelm
him. Can he escape this life of lies?
• The sequel of "We are then next of kin" • Piper Verlag
• Novel
• Hardcover
• January 2021
• 256 pages
• World Rights available
Johann Scheerer was born in
Henstedt-Ulzburg in 1982 and is a
musician and music producer. He
founded the Clouds Hill label in
2009, and has produced albums
with artists such as Pete Doherty,
Bosnian Rainbows, Karamel,
Stella, Rocko Schamoni &
L'Orchestre Mirage, and At the
Drive-In.
14Ferdinand von Schirach
God
To Whom Does Our Life Belong?
Richard Gärtner, 78, a physically and mentally healthy man,
does not want to live on since the death of his wife. He is
demanding a medication that will kill him. Doctors, lawyers,
priests, ethicists, the state and society doubt whether they can
help him with his suicide. The ethics committee discusses the
case.
In his new play, Ferdinand von Schirach deals with death,
with questions concerning human freedom, autonomy and
self-determination. Questions that have been discussed for
years in different and passionate ways in the field of tension
between morality, Christianity and politics.
And like in his first drama "Terror", we have to pass our own
verdict in the end. To whom does our life belong? Who
decides about our death? Who are we? And who do we want • Luchterhand
to be? • Play
• Hardcover
• More than 4 million copies of Ferdinand von Schirach's • September 2020
books have been sold • 160 pages
• Rights sold to: France
• The volume is supplemented by essays by three renowned
scientists who examine the topic of medical suicide
counselling from a medical-ethical, legal and theological-
philosophical perspective.
• World Premiere on the 10th of September 2020 in Berlin
Ferdinand von Schirach was born in
Munich in 1964. He worked as a criminal
defence lawyer for 20 years, before
publishing his first book at the age of
45. He lives in Berlin.
15Alexander Kluge & Ferdinand von
Schirach
Nevertheless
A Converstation.
The Corona virus has brought us to a turning point in
history. Both the brilliant and the terrible are now possible.
Is the current shutdown of our society also a shutdown of
our fundamental rights? Ferdinand von Schirach and
Alexander Kluge examine the question of what the Corona
pandemic means for our social order and our civil liberty.
"Months ago, no one could have imagined that we would experience this
state of emergency. Some people today claim that this is the time of the
executive. But this is wrong. We live in democracies, we have a
separation of powers. Parliament still has to decide, and that must not
change. Our democracy does not yet seem to be under threat. But things
can topple. Authoritarian structures can become entrenched, people get
used to them. Erosions are slow demolitions, not sudden events." - • Luchterhand
Ferdinand von Schirach • A conversation
• Hardcover
• “"Nevertheless" is a stimulating guide to one's own efforts to • May 2020
understand the behaviour during an epidemic and to do justice to it • 80 pages
both rationally and emotionally.” - Frankfurter Rundschau • World Rights Available
• "One of the first constructive thought-provoking impulses of the
Corona crisis in book form” - Wiener Zeitung
• Five weeks #1 on the Spiegel Bestsellerlist
Ferdinand von Schirach was born in Munich in 1964. He
worked as a criminal defence lawyer for 20 years, before
publishing his first book at the age of 45. He lives in Berlin.
Alexander Kluge, born 1932 in Halberstadt, Germany, is a
lawyer, filmmaker and writer. He is one of the most versatile
German intellectuals. He lives in Munich.
16Prof. Michael Schulte- Markwort
Family Years
For modern parents wanting to care for
children in keeping with the times
Family years are a challenge: today, there are so many ways
of living together and no matter how you approach it you
will be criticised. In thirty years of professional experience,
child and youth psychiatrist Professor Schulte Markwort has
got to know innumerable families and has addressed
parenting techniques. He gives advice for how everyone in
the family can strike the right note and effectively act as
equals. What should you do when the baby won’t sleep?
When other children are always allowed to do everything?
How do you set real boundaries? From the pressing
questions about pregnancy to dealing with teenagers: Prof.
Dr. Schulte-Markwort helps families to be more relaxed and
explains how we can make the right decisions.
• Droemer
• More than 50.000 copies of Schulte- Markwort’s books • Non Fiction
have been sold • Hardcover
• Prof. Dr. Schulte-Markwort has more than thirty years’ • October 2019
experience as a child and youth psychiatrist • 304 pages
• Rights Sold to: Poland
Dr Michael Schulte-Markwort
(1956) is the medical director of
the Department of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry at the
University Hospital Hamburg-
Eppendorf and Altona
Children's Hospital in Hamburg.
He has been researching the impact of social trends on
children for several years and has published many academic
articles and books on the subject.
17Jan Weiler
The Grown Ups
Jan Weiler’s new, delightfully amusing stories
about parents whose children leave parental
home.
At some point, the time has come: when pubescent children
become adults, it is up to dad and mum to transform
themselves. And of course they are very badly prepared for
this, because, let’s be honest: You're 49, you feel like you're
29, but you're treated like you're 79. And you face an
uncertain future without piles of laundry, boys' deodorant
and empty crisp bags. Worried, you might ask yourself: Will
the pubescent animals ever find their way back to their
home stable? And what will actually happen when all direct
debit orders for the children have expired? Will we then be
alone forever?
• Piper Verlag
• More than 3.5 million copies of Jan Weiler’s books have • Non Fiction
been sold • Hardcover
• August 2020
• 176 pages
• World Rights available
Ja n We i l e r wa s b o r n i n
Düsseldorf in 1967 and works
as a journalist and author. He
wrote several bestsellers, some
of them were turned into
succesfull movies and TV-
series. Jan Weiler lives in
Munich.
18Jan Weiler
Kühn Series
• Kühn Has a Lot to Do (I)
• Kühn Is in Trouble (II)
• Kühn Is Hungry (III)
Martin Kühn is in his mid-forties with quite ordinary
problems - and a lot more professional ones, because he is a
police commissioner. And so he not only has to deal with
the fact that his marriage could use a little drive, his son
hardly talks to him and his daughter has desires that his
salary can hardly fulfill. He has murders to solve. In so
doing, he repeatedly comes across socially relevant topics
that make him reflect - for example, when he moves in the
world of the rich or when he looks into the abyss of human
emotions.
With his series around Commissioner Kühn, Jan Weiler
manages an amusing balancing act between serious and
thoroughly current topics and the usual everyday problems,
which are sometimes just a laugh.
• More than 3.5 million copies of Jan Weiler’s books have
been sold
• "The book is about the growing overload of everyday life and I
think many people in many professions have this problem." - Jan
Weiler
• "Everything he does is successful and of high quality. (...) Kühn and
his whole environment are a reflection of each one of us, his
professional cases let us look into the black soul of perpetrators." -
WDR 1
• "Jan Weiler waves clever social observations, historic apprehensions
and insights into the human heart into an exciting whodunit plot." -
Die Welt
• Crime Novel
• Hardcover
• Rights sold to: Italy
19Daniel Wisser
We're Going to Stay
A Family and Anti-Family Novel
With captivatingly laconic wit, Daniel Wisser tells of four
generations of a family through which the trenches of an
entire country run. He paints the picture of a society that is
beginning to realise that the dream of unstoppable progress
is turning against them.
The world around Victor Jarno has changed - and as always,
he noticed this too late. Victor is in his mid-forties, childless
and the last social democrat in a Viennese family with
socialist roots going back to the imperial era. But nobody
seems to remember, even his mother and aunt have been
affected by the political shift to the right. With the return of
Victor's cousin Karoline from abroad, a thirty-year-old secret
love flares up again: Both despise e-scooters, stand-up • Luchterhand
paddling and the ruling right. But when they become a • Novel
couple, the family threatens to break up because of the • Hardcover
scandal. On top of that, their grandmother bequeaths them • March 2021
her house in the countryside before her death, into which the • 380 pages
cousins now move, much to the displeasure of their parents, • World rights available
who would have liked to inherit the house for themselves.
But what can be saved in a world where their ideals are in
decline and their family is falling apart?
Daniel Wisser, born in Klagenfurt,
has been writing prose, poems and
lyrics since 1990. His most recent
novel "Königin der Berge" was
awarded the Austrian Book Prize
2018 and the Johann Beer Prize
2018. Daniel Wisser lives and works
in Vienna.
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Anne Gesthuysen
Girls Night
Skillfully interweaving past and present, Anne Gesthuysen tells
the turbulent story of female lives on the Lower Rhine, spanning
the Second World War, the stuffiness of the 1950s, the wild 70s
and the present day.
• 150.000 copies sold
• English sample translation available
Kiepenheuer & Witsch - Novel - 384 pages - World Rights available
Helmut Krausser
Breakups. Burns.
A Big-City Kaleidoscope brings couples together. Helmut
Krausser juggles the strange behaviour of people with the means
of a sophisticated soap opera and creates literature with a pull
effect.
Everyone is in relationship with everyone, breakups are imminent.
And also burns, not only because a fire breaks out in the middle
of Wannsee.
Berlin Verlag - Novel - Hardcover - 256 pages - World Rights available
Helmut Krausser
The Small Gardens of Maestro
Puccini
Giacomo Puccini was one of the greatest opera composers. But
he could only write passionate music if he himself had fallen for a
passion. His flirtations, the tragedies he caused, were in no way
inferior to his operatic material.
Helmut Krasser tells in his novel how the love of three women
grew into three operas, how seductive power, genuine love and
deadly desperation have become unforgettable arias and melodies
to this day.
Dumont Verlag - Novel - 382 pages - Rights sold in: The Netherlands (De
Geus), Italy (Lorenzo Barberea Edizioni) and Korea (Suda)
22Rocko Schamoni
Große Freiheit
The world of the post-war years is narrow and stuffy. In 1962 Wolli
Köhler moves to Hamburg. He searches for adventure and
freedom and climbs up to become the most extraordinary Kiez-
legend in the history of St. Pauli. Night after night, whores, clients,
transvestites, bullies and artists, like the still completely unknown
band The Beatles, stimulated by drugs and alcohol, roam the
rundown streets of the Hamburg quarter.
Rocko Schamoni tells the early years of Wolfgang "Wolli" Köhler
as an coming-of-age novel of an antihero.
• English sample translation available
hanserblau- Novel- 288 pages - World Rights available
Jan Drees
Sandberg’s Love
Kristian Sandberg is lonely. As a man of his time, he uses dating
apps, driven by the hope of finally meeting the woman who makes
him happy and protects him. He meets Kalina. A romantic
relationship begins, whose sexual intensity and tender interaction
make Sandberg think that he has actually found the woman of his
life.
Within a few weeks, however, he becomes emotionally addicted to
his "dangerous lover". The initially euphoric relationship turns out
to be a hell of a journey into the abyss of emotional abuse.
Secession - Novel- 190 pages - World Rights available
Johann Scheerer
We’re then next of Kin
How does it feel when someone wakes up your mother to tell her
your father’s been abducted? How do you endure the fear, the
anguish, the uncertainty and the torturous boredom?
In thrilling, moving style, Johann Scheerer tells the story of the 33
days around Easter 1996 when his father Jan Philipp Reemtsma
was kidnapped, the family home was turned into a police operation
centre, and they almost lost all hope of ever seeing him alive again.
• English sample translation available
Piper Verlag - Non Fiction - 240 pages - World Rights available
23Ferdinand von Schirach
Coffee and Cigarettes
Ferdinand von Schirach's Most Personal
Book
Fe r d i n a n d v o n S c h i r a c h ’s n e w b o o k w e a v e s
autobiographical narratives, aperçus, notes and observations
into a narrative whole in which the private and the general
touch, mix and mirror each other. It is about defining
experiences and encounters of the narrator, fleeting
moments of happiness, about loneliness and melancholy,
uprooting and the longing for home, about art and society,
as well as about the great life themes of Ferdinand von
Schirach, strange legal cases and incidents, about the idea
of law and human dignity, the achievements and legacy of
the Enlightenment that must be preserved, and about what
makes human beings human in the first place. In this
complexity and range of narrative approaches and themes,
Coffee and Cigarettes is Ferdinand von Schirach’s most • Luchterhand
personal book. • Stories
• Hardcover
"We must understand how we became, who we are. And • March 2019
what we can lose again. When our consciousness • 192 pages
developed, there was nothing to suggest that we would one • Rights sold to: The Netherlands,
day act according to principles other than those of our Spain, Norway, China, Sweden,
ancestors. But we gave ourselves laws, we created an ethic France, Italy, Japan, UK
that doesn't favour the stronger, but protects the weaker.
This is what makes us human in the highest sense: respect
for our neighbor." Ferdinand von Schirach
• More than 3.5 million copies of Ferdinand von
Schirach’s books have been sold
Ferdinand von Schirach was born
in Munich in 1964. He worked as a
criminal defence lawyer for 20 years,
before publishing his first book at
the age of 45.
24Ferdinand von Schirach
Stories
Crime
Ferdinand von Schirach had to deal in his profession with
people who have done or experienced extreme things on a
daily basis. The monstrous is the normal case for him. He
represented innocent people who came into conflict with the
law, as well as extremely dangerous criminals.
Piper Verlag - August 2009 - 220 pages
Sold in: Australia, Basque, Brazil, Bulgaria, Catalonia, China, Croatia,
Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Great Britain,
Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Macedonia, Netherlands,
Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia,
South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, USA
Guilt
A husband torments his young wife for years. A boarding
school student is almost tortured to death. A married couple
loses control of their sexual games. A man is accused of child
abuse. Quietly, but certainly, Ferdinand von Schirach asks the
question about the human being’s guilt.
btb - August 2010 - 200 pages
Sold in: Australia, Brazil, Catalonia, China, Croatia, Czech Republic,
Denmark, Finland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Japan,
Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Korea, Spain,
Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, USA
Punishment
What is truth? What is reality? How did we become who we
are? Ferdinand von Schirach depicts the fates of twelve
characters – while never passing judgement. With calm,
distanced serenity, yet with great empathy at the same time, he
writes about loneliness and the sense of being foreign, the
quest for happiness, and devastating failure: his stories are
always narratives about ourselves.
• English sample translation available
Luchterhand - Hardcover - March 2018 - 190 pages
Sold in: China, France, Spain, Norway, Japan, The Netherlands, Italy,
Taiwan, Sweden, Hungary, Turkey, Ukraine, Korea, Thailand
25Ferdinand von Schirach
Novels
The Collini Case
For thirty-four years Collini has worked as an innocent
toolmaker at Mercedes. And then he apparently kills an
old man for no reason. A nightmare for lawyer Caspar
Leinen, who takes over the defence: The victim, a highly
respected man, is the grandfather of his best friend.
Worse still, Collini remains silent about his motive.
Leinen begins researching and finds a trail that leads him
into the middle of a terrifying chapter in the history of
German justice ... Cinema Release
2019
btb - September 2011 - 208 pages
Sold in: Basque, Brazil, Catalonia, China, Czech RepublicDenmark,
Finland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan,
Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Romania, Spain, Sweden,
Taiwan, USA
Taboo
Sebastian von Eschburg loses his foothold as a child due
to his father’s suicide. He tries to save himself through
art. With his photographs and video installations, he
shows that reality and truth are different things. It’s about
beauty, sex and the loneliness of man. When Eschburg is
accused of having killed a young woman, Konrad Biegler
takes over the defense. The old lawyer tries to help the
artist - and thus himself.
btb - September 2013 - 256 pages
Sold in: France, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Japan, Netherlands,
Norway, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan
26Ferdinand von Schirach
Terror
A Play
A terrorist hijacks a plane and forces the pilots to set course
for the fully occupied Allianz Arena in Munich. Against the
orders of his superiors, a fighter pilot of the Luftwaffe
shoots down the aircraft, all passengers die. The man has to
answer to the court for his actions. His judges are the
spectators and readers, they must judge guilt and innocence.
A play of oppressive topicality. It poses the question of
how we want to live in the future. Will we choose freedom
or security? Do we want human dignity to remain in place
despite the threat of terrorism?
btb - December 2015 - 176 pages
Sold in: France, Great Britain, Greece, Japan, Poland, Spain, Taiwan
Dignity is touchable
Essays
In his essays, Ferdinand von Schirach deals with the great
themes of our time - why terrorism ultimately decides on
democracy - and at the same time pursues very personal
thoughts about writing, reading with the iPad and smoking.
btb - November 2014 - 144 pages
Sold in: Netherlands, Spain, Taiwan
The Cordiality of Reason
Ferdinand von Schirach and Alexander Kluge
A Conversation
Socrates or the happiness of modesty, Voltaire or freedom
through tolerance, Kleist or the knowledge of man, terror
or the wisdom of law, politics or the praise of slowness:
Ferdinand von Schirach and Alexander Kluge talk about
fundamental questions of law and society, about theatre
and literature, about the dangers of direct democracy and
social media and about what actually makes man human.
Luchterhand - Hardcover - October 2017 - 192 pages
Sold in: Netherlands, Spain, Taiwan, France, Italy
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