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Foreign Rights Guide
Autumn 2021
NON-FICTION
C O N TA C T S & A G E N T S
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CONTENTS
Highlight titles 4
Self-help 6
Popular science 12
Current affairs 14
General Non-fiction 16
Contemporary Non-fiction 18
History 20
PREVIEW Spring 2022 21
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HIGHLIGHT NON-FICTION
Anne Fleck
The Five-Minute-Energy!-
Book
Get healthier day by day with Doc
Fleck’s method
BEST
SELLINRG
Ein Mitmachbuch, AUTHO
das Ihr Leben verändertt
224 pages
November 2021
With 4c-illustrations by Katharina Fleck
Energy to go – simple five-minute health tips for every day
The head-to-toe health coach for those short on time. Would you like to do something for your
health, and are you looking for quick, everyday tips? Doc Anne Fleck has compiled the best ideas,
most useful advice, and simplest exercises from her well-known Doc Fleck's method in a compact
form. She invites you to discover a new proven ENERGY! practice tip for yourself every day. You do
not need any prior knowledge – just five minutes of time and the joy of trying out new things. You
will quickly feel not only healthier, but also more energetic. For example, detox your liver with a
soothing wrap, find restful sleep with the optimal sleep foods, or get your bowels going with a short
abdominal massage. Learn to relax and program your body to be healthy.
This colorfully designed health book is fun and energizing. Open it and get started!
• The ten-week program for increased energy and a higher quality of life – an upmarket
layout and four-color illustrations throughout
• A treasure trove of recipes, self-tests and motivational affirmations
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HIGHLIGHT NON-FICTION
Anne Fleck
Energy!
Escaping fatigue in a
© Asja Caspari PHOTOGRPHY
healthy way
ENGLISLHE
M IT 30 -T AG
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PR OG RA M M ANNE FLECK, M.D., internist
AVA
and rheumatologist, is an expert
in the field of preventative and
nutritional medicine. She is
considered a pioneer in holistic
health care. The bestselling author
makes regular appearances on
432 pages TV, and frequently helps patients
March 2021 suffering from chronic fatigue to
find the causes of their affliction.
Anne Fleck lives and works in
Hamburg.
A fresh start, new energy and a healthier life!
Lack of energy, just like hunger and thirst, is a bodily function which keeps us alive and safe from
fatigue and exhaustion. But when sleep is no longer restorative, we experience a different kind of
tiredness. One that makes us feel ill and the roots of which we are often unable to identify.
Indeed, in this difficult time where many of us are struggling with fatigue – from lack of sleep,
stress, lack of exercise, lack of access to the right foods, doom scrolling, and the countless
other things stopping us from thriving – Fleck is here to help with her invaluable self-tests,
recipes, stories from her practice, and checklists for your GP visits. With this being the first
ever comprehensive book on fatigue, she gets to the bottom of the matter, doing so clearly and
engagingly.
Anne Fleck, M.D., closely examines the secret causes of constant fatigue: undetected infections
or metabolic dysfunctions, food intolerances, cell diseases or environmental pollutants can all sap
our strength. She explains how we can strengthen cellular and organ functions, how we can detox
correctly, reduce stress and use nature’s powers to gain a new lease on life.
• Why lipstick makes you feel tired, café latte puts you to sleep and parking permits
are exhausting
• Anne Fleck unmasks hidden energy drainers and pushes you towards a healthier
and more energised life
• Includes a 30-day-self-help-program
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SELF-HELP
Marianne Koch
DR. MED. MARIANNE KOCH
I'll Get Old Later
Neue Wege,
New ways to stay fit
um geistig und
körperlich
DR. MED. MARIANNE KOCH
fit zu bleiben
©private
MARIANNE KOCH , is an
internist, and also working as a
160 pages medical journalist and author. She
August 2021 hosts the weekly radio program
Das Gesundheitsgespräch.
“We all grow old. It’s the how that matters.” Marianne Koch has been honored
numerous times for her work
Marianne Koch, M.D., shows us how we can remain mentally young, healthy and in the media communication of
energetic. She has dubbed this “successful aging”, and in this book, she describes medical topics. In May 2019, she
what all that involves. received the Paracelsus Medal,
In nine chapters, Marianne Koch illuminates both the physiological and the the highest honor granted by the
German Medical Association.
psychological aspects that accompany the aging process. She addresses self-
confidence, nutrition and exercise, lifelong learning, the problem of loneliness,
how to cope with losses, and the importance of never losing the desire to try
something new.
What remains at the end is a single question: Who am I today – and who would I BEST
like to be tomorrow?
SELLHIN G
• Marianne Koch’s books have sold over half a million copies OR
AUT
• Wise, charming and wonderfully comprehensible – with personal
tips from Germany’s famous doctor
• #2 on the SPIEGEL bestseller list
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Our Astonishing Preventive Healthcare
Immune System How to keep your body and
soul healthy
208 pages
September 2020
ENGLISLEH
240 pages
November 2016
SAMP TION
TRANVASILLAABLE
A
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SELF-HELP
DR. MICHAELA MUTHIG
Michaela Muthig
UND MORGEN FLIEGE ICH AUF
UND Tomorrow My
MORGEN Cover Will Be Blown
FLIEGE
ICH Recognising and
overcoming the
DR. MICHAELA MUTHIG
AUF
Das
Impostor-
"imposter syndrome"
©private
Syndrom
erkennen und
überwinden
MICHAELA MUTHIG , a
_
specialist in general medicine and
240 pages psychosomatics with a focus on
May 2021 behavioral therapy, was a senior
physician at the University Clinic
Are you feeling as if you didn't earn your success in Tübingen. She now offers online
coaching and courses.
People who suffer from imposter syndrome do not ascribe their success to their
own abilities, but rather to lucky circumstances or to coincidence. Even when
esteemed and recognized in their professional and private spheres, they live in
ongoing fear that they will be found out and exposed as phonies and frauds.
Michaela Muthig explains the various aspects of this widespread phenomenon. ENGLISLHE
She describes the ways you can free yourself from this specific form of inferiority SAMP TION
complex and can develop a healthy sense of pride. TRANSLAABLE
AVAIL
• Destructive self-doubt: an expert throws light on the causes and
effects
• Learn how to help yourself: with clear instructions, tips and Rights sold:
coaching exercises PR China
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
The Little Saboteur Within Us
Identifying and resolving our
subconcsious resistance
240 pages
May 2019
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SELF-HELP
IRIS SEIDENSTRICKER
Iris Seidenstricker
Fühl dich gut - dein Leben lang!
Fühl Feel Good -
dich gut - All of Your Life!
d e i n Leben Stay young with the
lang! Jung
bleiben mit den
BIG FIVE Big Five
SEIDENSTRICKER
© private
IRIS
IRIS SEIDENSTRICKER ,
studied German, philosophy and
pedagogics. She was responsible
208 pages for the press and publicity
January 2022 departments of various German
publishing houses for many years
Being young is not a question of age and now works as a coach and
trainer in personal and career
We all grow older, but wether this process takes a positive direction largely lies development.
in our own hands. Far more than our genes, it is our lifestyle that determines
how long we can retain our youthfulness. Iris Seidenstricker sums up what it
takes for us to feel good in the long term. Five points to be precise - the Big Five
for a powerful second half of life: a positive attitude, a healthy diet, physical and
mental activity, a purpose in life, and social contacts. The true fountain of youth
exists within each one of us. All we have to do is make it bubble. An inspiring do-
it-yourself book.
• Effective, easy-to-implement self-coaching based on the latest research
findings
• A holistic concept - with checklists, ideas and tips
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Happiness - Self-Love -
Iris Seidenstricker Iris Seidenstricker
a Pocket Reader a Pocket Reader
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DER D
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KLEINE
KL 160 pages KLEINE
KLEI
KL
160 pages
TASC
CHEN October 2016
TASC
CHEN
CH February 2018
COACH COACH
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SELF-HELP
FICTION
Tessa Randau
The Mountains, the
Tessa Randau
Fog, Love and I
An encounter that
opened my heart again
© Ulrike Schacht
Von einer Begegnung,
die das Herz wieder öffnete
TESSA RANDAU, born in 1976,
worked at a women’s magazine.
When she was faced with the
next career step, she decided to
160 pages rethink her life. She made a choice
September 2021
for more personal latitude, and
started her own business as a
An enchanting story about the mystery of love stress and burnout consultant.
This is the story of a woman in her early 40s. What had once begun as a great
love often has lost its charm, and turned into a feeling of great emptiness. Hoping
to recapture the closeness that once connected her and her husband, the woman
books a weekend at a remote cabin in the mountains. But the plan does not
work out; a quarrel ensues, and she sets off alone, disappointed and hurt. At an
ancient stone circle, the woman meets an old man and ends up embarking on a
hike that will change her view of love forever.
• This wonderful inspirational book touches both head and heart
• True to life, inspiring, thought-provoking
• The Forest, Four Questions, Life and I has been on the SPIEGEL bestseller list
since its publication
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
The Forest, Four Questions, Life and I
34976
A meeting that changed everything
Tessa Randau
128 pages
May 2020
ENGLISLHE
SAMP TION
Tessa Randau
TRANVASILLAABLE
Von einer Begegnung,
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The Netherlands, A
Norway, Spain
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SELF-HELP
BODO SCHÄFER
Bodo Schäfer
I Can Do It
A tale of four words that
can change your life
BODO
SCHÄFER
© BSA
ENGLISLHE
SAMP TION
TRAANVASILLAABLE
Eine Geschichte
über die drei Worte,
die unser Leben verändern _ BODO SCHÄFER is an
internationally renowned seminar
256 pages leader and conference speaker.
March 2021 As a successful entrepreneur, he
is one of Europe’s top financial
Self-confidence can be acquired: A guide to success coaches and the author of
numerous bestsellers. In this book,
“Academy for Self-Confidence” – Karl cannot repress a feeling of awe as he he shows us that self-confidence
approaches the sign. Why has Marc, whom he has only just met, brought him determines the quality of our
here? lives – and teaches us how we
can improve it. He has acquired
Self-confident? Karl is far from it. He is an unhappy student with a badly paid part- this knowledge from his own
time job. And try as he might, Karl can’t imagine how to improve his lot in life. experience and is eager to help
Since meeting Marc, though, his life has taken a turn for the better. Marc helps others realize their potential with
him meet the lovely Anna, and Karl starts to feel the magic of self-confidence. what he has learned.
These new experiences guide Karl in his search for answers to the three
fundamental questions “Who am I?”, “Am I worth of love?”, “Can I do this?”. After
all, self-confidence is the very foundation of happiness and success.
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worldwide of over 15 million copies
• SPIEGEL Bestseller Author
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
A Dog named Money
34965
BODO SCHÄFER
MONEY
EIN HUND NAMENS
MONEY
EIN HUND NAMENS
224 pages
October 2019
First published in 1999
BODO SCHÄFER
Spielerisch zu Erfolg
und Wohlstand
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Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam
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Michaela Hubermann
Melanie Hubermann
Wie wir Kindern
in der Pubertät
Orientierung
Lighthouse Parents
How to provide guidance for
geben
adolescent children
Hubermann
Melanie
Das
ENGLISLHE
Konzept der
© Helen Nicolai
New
Authority
_ SAMP TION
TRANSILLAABLE
AVA
256 pages
March 2021
MICHAELA HUBERMANN is
How to use "New Authority" to create a a systemic therapist for families,
fulfillling relationship between parents and teenagers couples and individuals. She is
also a “New Authority” trainer
In families with adolescent children, intense discussions, withdrawal, anger, and
and the executive director of the
conflict are frequent occurrences. But the cause for these tensions often isn’t Balagan Therapy Center. She has
rooted in the children’s behavior – but rather in the actions of their parents. three daughters and lives with her
Drawing on various case studies from her own practice, family therapist Melanie family in Berlin.
Hubermann explains how the concept of “New Authority” can help parents get
back in touch with their inner self, enabling them to have a stronger presence,
introduce new rules and structures, and solve conflicts constructively. This will
transform them into lighthouses who will be in a position to help their children
glide smoothly through adolescence.
Sandra Winkler
SANDRA
WINKLER
DAS
KINDER
VERSTEHBUCH
Understanding Children
Alles über
Gemüseverweigerer,
Popelmonster und
Matratzenhüpfer
© Sandra Semburg
320 pages
First published in 2020
SANDRA WINKLER, is a
Understanding children made easy
freelance journalist and author.
Our little fellow humans are strange creatures. They mainly move by skipping, Her writings have appeared in
rarely do what they are told, and want to subsist on noodles and sweets. Sandra various periodicals, including
Winkler, mother of two daughters, gets to the bottom of this matter. Using Welt am Sonntag, Nido, Barbara,
and SZ-Magazin. Like most other
findings from the fields of psychology, development pediatrics, and neurology,
parents, she is constantly amazed
she provides an entertaining and vivid description of why little ones operate so by her children. With the help of
differently than we do. A book that will enable us to understand children better, experts in various fields, she has
while opening our eyes to the wonderful and wondrous aspects of them. finally found answers.
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DI R K Dirk Bockmühl
BOCK MÜHL
Invisible Death
UNSICHTBARER Mankind's struggle
TOD against viruses and
Der Kampf
der Menschheit
bacteria – from first
settlements to lockdown
gegen Viren
© private
und Bakterien
Von der
Sesshaftwerdung
bis zum
Lockdown
DIRK BOCKMÜHL, born in 1972,
was already researching germs as
384 pages a doctoral student. In 2010, he was
October 2021 appointed Professor of Hygiene and
Microbiology at the Rhine-Waal
University of Applied Sciences in
"The microbes have the last word." Louis Pasteur Kleve.
In the beginning, there was a lockdown: humans settled down, and animals
joined them. It was convenient. But deadly. As our ancestors could not explain
why death occurred, they looked to the gods for answers. This is how religious
hygiene and food regulations came into being. Humans eventually figured out
the value of clean streets, fresh water, and well-ventilated apartments; they
discovered germs and penicillin.
Dirk Bockmühl, Professor of Hygiene and Microbiology, takes us on a
fascinating journey through the history of civilization, religions, architecture,
medicine, and science. He tells a story with no conclusion, as we are writing
an essential chapter at this very moment.
• The first 10,000 years of civilization's eventful fight against microbes
• A fascinating overview by the leading German hygienist
• For readers of Siddhartha Mukherjee, Jared Diamond, Yuval Noah
Harari
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D I R K B R O C KM ANN Dirk Brockmann
IM WALD VOR LAUTER BÄUMEN
Do You See the Forest
or the Trees?
How to better understand
our complex world
© Monika Keiler
DIRK BROCKMANN
UNSERE
KO MPL EX E WEL T
B ESSE R DIRK BROCKMANN, born in
VE RS T E H EN 1969, is a professor at the Institute
of Biology at Berlin's Humboldt
240 pages University. He is also the head of
September 2021 a research group at the Robert
With 80 b/w-illustrations Koch Institute. Previously, he was a
professor of applied mathematics
Stop looking at the trees and see the forest! at Northwestern University
in the US and a researcher at
Discover hidden patterns in nature and society and what this will tell you about the Northwestern Institute on
Complex Systems. He is particularly
global crisis management: In an interconnected world, we need to think in
interested in the structures
a networked way and to examine complex phenomena, such as pandemics, inherent to complex biological and
climate crises and the destabilization of ecosystems, as parts of a larger whole. social networks, and how these
Complexity scientist Dirk Brockmann takes a look at the crises of our time, structures affect those processes
searching for patterns, regularities and similarities between them and the that operate within them.
complex processes in nature. In doing so, he draws highly insightful connections
– for example, between forest fires and epidemics, and between populism and
fish in search of food - and reveals what we can learn from them.
Can we save humanity, that is, ourselves? There is hope - if we have the courage
to embrace reductionism, think in an anti-disciplinary way, and focus on
cooperation.
• An internationally renowned researcher
• A highly topical subject, a novel approach to thinking;
fascinatingly illustrated
• For readers of Yuval Noah Harari and Hans Rosling
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Asfa-Wossen
Wer hat Angst vorm schwarzen Mann?
Asserate
Who's Afraid of the
Bogeyman?
A personal statement
© Gaby Gerster
ASFA-WOSSEN ASSERATE
born in 1948 in Addis Ababa, lives
in Frankfurt am Main and works as
a management consultant, author
160 pages
and political analyst. He is the
August 2021
grand-nephew of the last Ethiopian
emperor and one of the most
This voice has been missing from the racism debate knowledgeable experts on Africa.
Several of his critically acclaimed
The refugee crisis has reawakened fears and concerns in Germany about books have been SPIEGEL
"foreign influences." At the same time, debates about political correctness and bestsellers, including Manieren
racism are getting more heated. The Corona pandemic with its consequences (2003), Draußen nur Kännchen
(2010) and Deutsche Tugenden
- global recession, rising poverty, wars, and migration - threatens to further
(2013).
exacerbate these conflicts. How can we deal sensibly with these challenges?
The key to good coexistence, Asfa-Wossen Asserate argues, is the willingness
to openly approach one another. Integration is a process; it will not work
without impositions - especially when it comes to those who do not wish to be
integrated.
• A new tone in the debate on racism: decisive, precise,
authoritative
• A plea for a lively culture of debate
"Correct naming alone will not resolve the actual problems any more than the
renaming of streets, the razing of monuments, and other helpless attempts to
erase the past." Asfa-Wossen Asserate
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Arye Sharuz Shalicar
34980
Arye Sharuz
Shalicar
EIN NASSER HUND
"A Wet Dog is Better
IST BESSER ALS EIN TROCKENER JUDE
than a Dry Jew"
The story of a German-
Iranian who became an
EIN NASSER HUND
Arye Sharuz
Shalicar
»
Israeli
© privat
IST BESSER ALS EIN TROCKENER JUDE «
ARYE SHARUZ SHALICAR was
Die Geschichte eines Deutsch-Iraners, born in 1977 in Göttingen, the son
der Israeli wurde
_ of Iranian immigrants. He studied at
the Hebrew University in Jerusalem,
248 pages and has been working for the ARD
June 2021 (First German television station)
FIrst published in 2010
Middle East studio in Tel Aviv since
"To Germans, I was a foreigner, to Muslims a Jew, and to 2007. Shalicar is deputy chairman
of NOAM (the organisation of
Jews a juvenile delinquent." German-speaking immigrants in
Israel) and since October 2009 also
Arye Sharuz Shalicar was born in Germany, the son of Jewish immigrants from press officer of the Israeli armed
Iran. His background wasn’t an issue for him until his family moved to Wedding, forces
a Berlin neighbourhood with a high proportion of Muslim immigrants. A quarter
where anti-Semitism is the order of the day. When 15-year-old Shalicar’s friends
find out he is Jewish he becomes the target of their aggression. However, with
the help of a Kurdish friend he succeeds in “working his way up” the youth gang
hierarchy. Even at this point, Shalicar's Jewish background doesn’t interest him
much. As time passes, he realizes that he needs to concentrate on graduating
from high school, so he starts to pull out of the gang scene. And it is at this point
he becomes more interested in his Jewish heritage culminating in his emigration
to Isarel in 2001.
In the end, he emigrates to Israel in 2001. A powerful coming-of-age story set in
the heart of Germany. The title of the book refers to an Iranian saying: A “wet
dog” is better than a “dry Jew".
• Adapted to the screen by Damir Lukacevic with Kida Ramadan
• Film released in July 2021
" What makes Damir Lukacevic’s adaptation of a talked-about autobiography such
a success is how it acutely captures the voice of its main character, 15-year-old
Soheil [.... ] Soheil makes for a complicated character, a bully who wants to fit
in but then gets bullied himself once he becomes more impassioned about his
religious and cultural identity. Lukacevic’s film tackles tough and tricky terrain and
it’s both raw and alive. It’s one of the best features in the program."
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 2021 about the film "Wet Dog"
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34990
Vince Ebert
B R OAD WAY S TAT T J AKOB S WE G
Broadway instead of
Camino de Santiago
Deceleration in a different
way
© Frank Eidel
VI NC E E B E R T
ENGLISLHE
SAMP TION
TRANSILLAABLE
AVA
VINCE EBERT, born in
Miltenberg in 1968, studied Physics
_ in Würzburg. Before starting a
career as a cabaret artist in 1998,
368 pages
he worked in a consulting company
September 2020
as well as in market research.
His goal is to present complex
Adventure instead of midlife crisis! scientific ideas in a generally
comprehensible and humorous
way. He made a name for himself
“I didn’t need a sabbatical; I needed a new challenge.”
with his successful solo program
What do you do when you find yourself on the verge of a midlife crisis? Retreat "Big Bang – Physics is Sexy".
into monastic silence? Adopt a strict regimen of fasting and long hikes? Early
retirement? Booooooring! The cabaret performer and bestselling author Vince
Ebert went in the opposite direction, choosing to spend a year in the edgiest and
fastest-paced city in the world: New York City!
Ramping up instead of slowing down. In a shoebox-sized apartment on the Lower
East Side. And thus he took a deep dive into the American Way of Life, where
he relentlessly pursued the most basic of questions. How is it possible that a
nation that sent astronauts to the moon is incapable of producing functional
shower faucets? And can you really go from dish washer to millionaire? Or just to
dishwasher operator?
Broadway, not Camino de Santiago: Vince Ebert discovers that life after 50 has new
meaning in the Big Apple.
• Personal, smart and very funny: Vince Ebert recounts his break in the Big Apple
• The SPIEGEL bestselling author about his self-chosen challenge in New York
City
• Total print-run of former books by the author: 500,000 copies
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THOMAS
KUNDT Thomas Kundt,
UND TARKAN BAGCI
Tarkan Bagci
After Death, I'll Be
© Christiane Gundlach Fotografie
There
NACH
DEM TOD THOMAS KUNDT is one of the
KOMM ICH most famous crime scene cleaners
in Germany. When he gives a
talk about his daily professional
256 pages
life, he packs lecture halls all
September 2021
over Germany. In the course of
his work on crime scenes, he has
The last one in this case doesn't turn out the lights, but
found forgotten toes, encountered
mops up the blood... countless poignant fates, and met
numerous unusual individuals.
Thomas Kundt is a crime scene cleaner. How did that come about? Pure
coincidence! Podcaster and author Tarkan Bagci tells Thomas Kundt’s crazy
story. He had been an amateur antiques collector, but then one day, he
suddenly found himself on all fours, scrubbing the blood-smeared floor of a
laundry room. He had long wished to have an exciting life – but this?
In this book, he describes the crime scenes in which he discovered missing toes,
the messy apartments crammed with piles of trash, and the fates you can never
forget. A darkly humorous story about death and, above all, human existence.
©private
• A light-hearted book about serious moments TARKAN BAGCI is an author,
• Thomas Kundt’s crazy path to becoming a crime scene cleaner and podcaster and journalist. He writes
his quirky stories for numerous television series,
including award-winning shows
• For fans of true crime such as Neo Magazin Royale and
Kroymann. His debut novel Die
Erfindung des Dosenöffners was
released in 2021 and became a
bestseller. He can be found on
Twitter and Instagram under @
tarkanbagci.
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Roman Deininger,
Roman
Deininger
Uwe
Ritzer
Uwe Ritzer
The Games of the
Die Spiele Century
des Jahr-
hunderts The 1972 Olympics,
© Martin Hagen
Olympia 1972, terrorism and the New
der Terror
und
das neue
Deutschland
Germany
UWE RITZER , born in 1965, has
made a name for himself through
his numerous investigative research
528 pages
October 2021 projects. These have ranged from
crooked dealings in the energy
industry to the ADAC manipulation
A dazzling panorama of an entire epoch, brilliantly scandal. He has received several
narrated awards for his work, including the
Guardian Prize, the Nannen Prize,
and the Helmut Schmidt Journalism
Out of the shadows of the Nazi era, the post-war recovery complete – in 1972, Prize.
Germany tears open the windows. There is a spirit of optimism in the air, and
the Olympic Games are supposed to present to the world the new, easy-going
Germany. These Games are to be a celebration of democracy; they are to
present an alternative to the martial propaganda of 1936 in Berlin.
Under the audacious tent roof, the olympic athletes embody the dream of
peaceful coexistence in the midst of the Cold War. But then a Palestinian
terrorist plot puts a cruel end to all that.
Award-winning journalists Ritzer and Deininger tell a powerful story that spans
almost a century and comes to a head during the two weeks of the 1972
Olympics.
© Martin Hagen
• 70 years of German history condensed into the two weeks of the
Olympic Games
• Extensive research, eyewitness interviews, and a new look at
ROMAN DEININGER , born
the massacre and the failures of both political figures and police in 1978, is a political reporter for
officers the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). He
• For readers of Oliver Hilmes and Harald Jähner grew up in Ingolstadt, and studied
political science and theatre in
Munich, Vienna and New Orleans
graduating with a PhD focused on
politics and religion in the US.
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Friedrich Kießling,
FRIEDRICH KIESSLING
C H R I S TO P H S A F F E R L I N G
Christoph Safferling
STAATSSCHUTZ State Security in the
IM Cold War
KALTEN KRIEG
© Glasgow, Erlangen
Die Bundesanwaltschaft
zwischen NS-Vergangenheit,
Spiegel-Affäre und RAF
FRIEDRICH KIESSLING , born
in 1970, is Professor of Modern
608 pages and Contemporary History at the
November 2021 Catholic University of Eichstätt-
Ingolstadt. He has participated in
several major research projects,
Public servants of dictatorship and lawyers of democracy including one on the history of the
Federal Ministry of Agriculture.
The Federal Public Prosecutor's Office is in charge with protecting the state
and contributing to the consistent enforcement of the law. In the early Federal
Republic, it cracked down harshly on Communists, and in the early 1970s,
it had to fight a previously unknown threat presented by the emerging left-
wing terrorist group RAF. At the same time, the Federal Prosecutor's Office
shied away from dealing with the past of its own employees, despite the fact
that many had held important legal positions in the Third Reich. For the first
© LÉROT / Leon Greiner
time ever, this book explores the history of the Federal Prosecutor’s Office
between 1950 and 1974. It sheds light on the highly topical question of how a
democracy can protect the state without betraying its own values.
CHRISTOPH SAFFERLING ,
• The first archive-based historical study of the Federal born in 1971, is Professor of
Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure
Prosecutor's Office and its Nazi past
Law, International Criminal Law, and
• A historical panorama of the early years of the Federal Republic International Law at the University
of Germany of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
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Leonard Horowski
LEO NH A R D H O ROWSKI
Herrlichkeit
und Ewigkeit Glory and Eternity
Drei Familien bauen
das vormoderne
Europa Three families build
pre-modern Europe
© Thorsten Wulff
LEONARD HOROWSKI, born
in 1972, studied history, English
800 pages and political science in college,
November 2021 and he completed his doctorate
with a dissertation on the court
at Versailles. In addition to
Three noble families shape their times through marriages university teaching, he has worked
and intrigues. as a diplomatic trainer and as a
historical consultant for various
The Europe of kings would have been inconceivable without the eminently self- documentary series. Das Europa
confident and powerful dynasties of the Early Modern high nobility. Leonhard der Könige was nominated for
Horowski tells the story of the English Bentincks, the French Richelieus, and the the Leipzig Book Fair Prize and
Austrian Liechtensteins against the astonishing and colorful panorama of the reached the SPIEGEL bestseller list.
period between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. The three families
were linked by their aspirations to power, to the court, and to proximity to the
kings, as well as their ambitions to perpetuate their fame and wealth. They
kept themselves at the top through marriages, intrigues and conniving as much
as through often unintentional inventions, ranging from mayonnaise to the
constitutional monarchy.
• A little-known but tremendously formative epoch in European history
• Leonhard Horowski is known as renowed researcher and terrific
storyteller
Rights sold:
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Christian Bommarius
Christian
Bommarius
IM
RAUS C H
DES The Fever of Unrest: Germany 1923
AU F RU H R S
DEUTSCH LAND
19 23
352 pages
March 2022
The most turbulent and exciting year of the Weimar Republic
1923 is the year of boundless hyperinflation, the year of the occupation of the Ruhr area by the French
and Belgians, and the year of a bitter German national strike. 1923 is the year of violently suppressed
Communist and Nazi uprisings, and it is the year of radical contrasts between abject poverty and an orchid-
like flourishing of the entertainment culture. In its ambivalence, 1923 marks the end of the post-war period
and the prelude to the Golden Twenties of the Weimar Republic.
• A plethora of perspectives, characters and themes linked by a year frantically accelerated
by dramatic evens
"Once again, Christian Bommarius draws from his abundant knowledge and resources,
and unfolds before us, a fateful year in German history. He maps out the big concepts
through small details, making it clear, with seeming nonchalance, the ways in which
1923 was linked to 1933." Volker Kutscher, author of the Babylon Berlin Series
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Christof Mauch
Christof Mauch
Paradise Blues
The scarred face of God's own country
PARADISE
BLUES 368 pages
February 2022
Reisen in die Natur und
die Geschichte der USA
A fresh new, eminently insightful look at America and a brilliant melding
of travel narrative, social portrait and historiography
Christof Mauch lived in the United States for fifteen years, during which time he criss-crossed the country
over and over again. His attention was always drawn to the breathtakingly beautiful stretches of land and
the deep wounds that humans have inflicted on nature over the past two hundred years.
Mauch presents us with an America that goes beyond the postcard-perfect images of national parks and
mega-city street canyons. His America is that of a people defined by internal divisions, which worships
nature and yet ruthlessly destroys it. He tells the stories of the people who have learned to live with the
scars and of those who now choose to powerfully resist the further destruction of their environment.
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