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FICTION
SPRING 2020
FOREIGN RIGHTS GUIDE
C O N TA C T S & A G E N T S CONTENTS
ANDREA SEIBERT English language CONSTANZE CHORY Scandinavia
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FRONTLIST SPRING 2020 CRIME FICTION 10
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FICTION 15
WOMEN’S FICTION 16
DOCU-FICTION 18
CHINA (MAINLAND) HUNGARY ROMANIA
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Ms. Wang Xing Ms. Margit Gruber Ms. Simona Kessler INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 19
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CZECH & SLOVAK REPUBLIC ISRAEL RUSSIA & UKRAINE
Dr. Ivana Beil Literary Agent The Deborah Harris Agency Maria Schliesser Literary Agent EISELE VERLAG 20
Ms. Ivana Beil Ms. Efrat Lev Ms. Maria Schliesser
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DUTCH LANGUAGE ITALY SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES
PREVIEW AUTUMN 2020 24
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FRANCE JAPAN (NON-EXCLUSIVE) SPANISH & PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE
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HIGHLIGHT SPRING 2020 HIGHLIGHT SPRING 2020
Praise for Dear Child
ENGLPISLH
SAM TEION
“THE surprise bestseller.” EXPRESS, TRAANVASILLAABLE
Köln, April 7, 2019
“She is a master of insinuation.”
Georg Pepl, Hessische Allgemeine,
April 2019
“Readers will be captivated by the Flagship Title
plot, which will keep them completely
enthralled from the first page to the
last.” Manuela Haselberger, Freie
Presse, March 2019
Her past makes her the perfect victim.
And the perfect murderer...
Romy Hausmann
Marta, Asleep
© Astrid Eckert
352 pages
A murder has occurred, and it must be undone. This leaves April 2020
only one possibility. The murder has to happen again, and
the real culprit has to provide the police with a different
Romy Hausmann course of events - as well as a plausible culprit. And he finds
one in the mentally unstable young woman who works as
ROMY HAUSMANN was born in the former
GDR in 1981, and became the chief editor of
a TV station at age 24. There she has met a
an assistant at a law firm. Her past alone makes her the
Marta, Asleep perfect victim - or better said, the perfect murderer.
variety of protagonists, whose stories she told:
Stories of domestic abuse, Somalian refugees
of war and neglected children. Since the birth
The young woman already has a guilty past. She was still of her son she is working as a freelancer for
Rights sold – pre-publication: practically a child, when a crime took place that never several TV formats. Her thriller debut Dear
Child has been sold to 17 languages so far.
English language, Sweden, The Netherlands should have occurred. She did her penance, but as an adult,
she seems to be working through her guilt via a kind of
non-existence. Instead of actually living, she observes the
• Following the phenomenal success of her debut novel Dear Child, the new psychothriller lives of others. However, she refuses to bear any more guilt
from the Spiegel bestselling author Romy Hausmann than she already feels. So when she sees through the actual
• Highly emotional, top-class psychological thriller murderer’s plot, she decides to turn the tables.
• Rights sold for Dear Child in 17 languages
A deeply disturbing book about guilt, retribution, and the
question of whether a perpetrator can ever be truly free
again...
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HIGHLIGHT SPRING 2020 HIGHLIGHT SPRING 2020
Christopher Kloeble – Backlist titles Christopher Kloeble
ENGLPISLH
The Immortal Family Salz
Resplendent with glamour but overcast by many a shadow, the
The Museum of the World
SAM TEION Rights sold:
TRANSLA E story of the Salz family centres on Leipzig’s up-market
AVAILABL
Fürstenhof hotel. Salz Sr. buys it in 1914, but his actress Persian language
daughter Lola refuses to set foot in it for many years—not
© Jens Oellermann
during the Second World War, nor later when the hotel has
become GDR state property and Lola is living in Munich with
her frail daughter Aveline. It is not until 1989, after her son Kurt ENGLPISLH
has restored the Fürstenhof to family ownership, that Lola steps SAM TEION
in to preside not only over the hotel but also the fortunes of a TRAANVASILLAABLE CHRISTOPHER KLOEBLE
family worn down by the relentless winds of change.
studied at the German
440 pages Literature Institute in Leipzig,
Pub. Date: 2016 528 pages was writer-in-residence at
February 2020 Cambridge University (UK),
at the Goethe Institute in
Bangalore (India) and at the
Home Made in India An extraordinary adventure and an unforgettable hero Deutsches Haus in New York
ENGLPISLH Indians, Germans, and an author seeking to answer the Bartholomew is an orphan from Bombay, he’s twelve years old and speaks almost as (USA). He won several prizes
SAM TEION question: What is home? Since his marriage to Indian native for his work and lives in Berlin
NSLLAABLE
TRAAV many languages. This is why, in the year 1854, he is hired as a translator by the brothers
AI
Saskya, Christopher Kloeble is a notarized “Person of Schlagintweit from Germany, who, with the support of Alexander von Humboldt and the and Delhi.
Indian Heritage.” In this insightful, nuanced, amusing book, he East India Company, embark on the greatest expedition of their time, taking them across
strives to convey what it feels like to be suspended between two India and the Himalayas. But Bartholomew is also pursuing his own agenda: He wants to
cultures. Of course, cliches and preconceptions abound here as found the first museum of his astonishing, contradictory native land. For this he is willing
well as there - Indians enjoy chiding Germans for their to risk everything. Even his life.
impatience and dogmatism, while Germans frequently have A fantastic adventure that will change the way we see the history of colonialism.
very exotic stereotypes about life in India.
Orphaned teenager Bartholomew could be Kim’s older brother. (…) But The Museum of the
288 pages
World, unlike Kipling’s classic, also shows the unsettling nature of those personal encounters
Pub. Date: 2017
– colonial but very human nevertheless – which shaped world history.
Francesca Melandri, author of the bestseller The Rightful Blood
More Often than Not All Very Fast
For years, Albert has been visiting Fred during the holidays and Rights sold: English • Laugh-out-loud funny and at times almost unbearably tender, The Museum of the
at weekends, but they’ve never really grown close. Albert only
ETE ever called Fred Fred, never Father. Fred is a child trapped in language, Israel, Italy, World examines in depth the ambivalent nature of all colonial human relationships.
COMPLLIS
ENG TH the body of an old man, he spends his time reading Turkey (Francesca Melandri)
TEX
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E encyclopaedias, waves at green cars and guards his prize
possession jealously. Albert is 22, grew up in a children’s home
and never knew his mother. Somehow he senses that Fred is the
only one who can help him find out more about his
background. But Fred has only five months left to live...
380 pages
Pub. Date: 2012
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HIGHLIGHT SPRING 2020 HIGHLIGHT SPRING 2020
Dora Heldt – Backlist titles
Dora Heldt
Three Women at the Lake Dora Heldt
They had been close friends since childhood: Marie, Rights sold:
Alexandra, Friederike, and Jule. Regardless of where their
lives took them, they gathered every Friday before Pentecost, Italy Mathilda, or
at Marie’s enchanting house by the lake. Marie, the sensitive
Someone Always Dies
© Franz Schepers
Drei
Frauen ROMAN photographer, had held the four of them together, but that was
am See a long time ago. ENGLPISLH
The message of Marie’s early death comes as a shock to all of SAM TEION
NSLLAABLE
TRAAV
them. Since their quarrel ten years ago, they hardly have had AI
any contact with each other. Marie presents a last surprise to DORA HELDT was born in 1961
her friends, provided that they have to meet again.
BEST G on Sylt, and has written herself
SELTLHIN
_
Over 300,000 copies sold to the top of the bestseller list
premium
576 pages
AU OR and into the hearts of millions
576 pages March 2020 of readers. She knows the book
Pub. date 2018
market better than almost
any other author in Germany.
We Might Still Be Hot The deceptive demeanor of Dettebüll As a trained bookseller, she
Dora Heldt
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worked for over thirty years as a
Dora Heldt Bei Hitze ist es wenigstens nicht kalt
What could be worse than the prospect celebrating your 50th Rights sold: representative for a large trade
Bei Hitze ist es wenigstens birthday in a humdrum suburban restaurant in the company “What a splendid, sunny October day, Mathilda thought contentedly publisher. In her consistently
nicht kalt of your entire family? Especially if you suffer from cataclysmic Czech Republic, as her dog George peed on the the tree in Selma’s front yard.” sold-out readings, she delights
mood swings and occasionally find yourself glowing like Denmark, Norway readers of all ages.
burning embers even in the snow. Doris (49.9) seeks refuge Mathilda loves Dettebüll, her village in North Frisia, its inhabitants, and her
in doing a runner: she’d far rather defy the dreaded date and family. Well, everyone except for Ilse, her mother, that spawn of malevolence.
escape with her one-time school friends Katja (49) and Anke One day, turmoil spreads throughout the village as strangers express interest in
(48) to enjoy a pampering spa-weekend with all the trimmings the meadows of Dettebüll. However, change of any kind is torture for Mathilda.
on the Baltic coast. Way back when they were still at school, And so she starts battling for peace in her village. Unfortunately, her efforts
the three of them had high expectations for the future. But who prove deadly for several villagers. She really couldn’t help that, though.
likes to admit they’ve missed the boat? Hot stone massages,
_ _ Roman Turkish steam baths and pedicures help to gloss over things,
until the bubble bursts over strawberries and champagne...
336 pages
Pub. date 2011 Over 700,000 copies sold • A tender, odd comedy about an idyllic country village into which the
disdainful, coarse outside world finds its way
Chaperoned (Vacation with Dad) • Bestselling author with over 5 million copies sold
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Dora Heldt Urlaub mit Papa
Actually it was meant to be a relaxing working holiday: Rights sold:
Christine (45) and Dorothea (40) were going to spend a few
Dora Heldt Urlaub days on a Northsea island, helping a friend renovate her pub. English World Rights,
English Edition Estonian Edition Norwegian Edition of
Roman mit Papa But then Christine is compelled by her mother to take her Estonia, Norway, of Chaperoned We Might Still be Hot
father along. And they’ve barely set foot on the island when of Chaperoned
Heinz (73) assumes command of the building site. Of course, Russia
things can only go from bad to worse…
ETE
COMPLLIS
Over 750,000 copies sold ENG TH
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_ TEX E
AVAILABL
320 pages
Pub. date 2009
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CRIME FICTION CRIME FICTION
Patrick Illinger Linus Geschke
QUANTUM – Tannenstein (vol. I)
Lethal Matter
© Süddeutsche Zeitung
© Heike Bogenberger
384 pages
January 2019 ENGLPISLH
SAM TEION
TR ANVASILLAABLE
A
PATRICK ILLINGER worked LINUS GESCHKE, born in
for years as an antimatter When the Hiker comes, people die: eleven in the remote town of Tannenstein near 1970 in Cologne, works as a
researcher at CERN, the the Czech border, then a gas station attendant in the Harz region, and a real estate freelance journalist for Spiegel
320 pages
European Organization for agent in the Allgäu area. The killer materializes out of nowhere, murders without Online, Manager magazine,
March 2020
Nuclear Research, before he warning, and vanishes without a trace. The only person who stands in the Hiker’s and the Frankfurter Allgemeine
decided to devote himself way is Alexander Born, an ex-cop turned criminal. Years ago, the Hiker killed his Sonntagszeitung. He has won
fully to his writing career. In girlfriend, and now Born wants revenge. He soon finds himself embroiled in a hunt several journalism prizes for
A new superweapon. A determined scientist. And a race against time. 1997, he became a senior that will end where everything started: in Tannenstein. his travel reportages.
editor at the Süddeutsche
Zeitung, where he established Rights sold: Poland
Physicist Nicola Caneddu is enjoying a post-work beer – but only a few the online editorial
moments later, he finds himself in the hands of brutal kidnappers who department. Since 2002, he
want to force him to give up information about a secret tunnel at CERN. has been responsible for the
Nicola escapes and starts to investigate this matter, on his own at first science department.
– and then on behalf of the US President. What he uncovers is a plot to
build a superweapon of tremendous dimensions. As an unwilling agent,
Linus Geschke
Nicola lands in a scenario that he had only ever encountered in action
films. However, his immense knowledge in the field of elementary particle Finsterthal (vol. II)
research makes him a valued ally in a struggle that could change the entire
world as we know it.
416 pages
February 2020
• Action fireworks extraordinaire
• For readers of Mark Elsberg and Tom Clancy
Young women are being abducted and then murdered despite the payment of
• The author knows what he is writing about, having spent years as a CERN researcher ransoms. Is this an act of revenge against their fathers, who have made their fortunes
through illegal business dealings? One year after the Tannenstein murderers, former
police officer-turned-criminal Alexander Born appears on the scene. Along with his
former colleague Carla Diaz, he wants to hunt down the man who calls himself “The
Darkness”. However, in this game of lies and betrayal, nothing is as it seems, and
Born is forced to eventually admit that it would have been better if he hadn’t opened
the gates to hell.
• Spiegel bestseller trilogy – volume III in preparation
• For readers of Ian Rankin and Tess Gerritsen
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CRIME FICTION CRIME FICTION
JUDITH BERGMANN is the Benjamin Cors Normandy crime series
pseudonym of an internationally
bestselling author. She originally
Judith Bergmann wanted to be a gardener,
goldsmith, or timber builder.
Death is the Only However, her great interest in
people, their feelings and
Deadly Gale (vol. V)
© Markus Kirchgessner
emotions, won out, and since
Justice then, she has dedicated herself to
writing. 400 pages
March 2020
BENJAMIN CORS is a
journalist and television
320 pages presenter who spent many
February 2020 years covering world news for
evening news programmes
and in-depth political analysis.
How far can you go in the name of Justice? On the remote, wind-tossed Normandy island of Chausey, a couple discovers a
Today he works as a regional
message in a bottle on the beach. It contains a list of five names, including that
political correspondent for a
of the man who just found it. He dies on the return trip to the mainland. A short
On his way to the altar on his wedding day, a prominent businessman is shot in broadcasting station. He grew
time later, the second man on the list is found dead. This sets in motion
front of all his wedding guests. This is a spectacular case for Superintendent Rolf up as a Franco-German
charismatic bodyguard Nicolas Guerlain’s race against time.
Schellenberg. His team includes psychologist and journalist Ina Reich, who is national and spent his
supposed to be examining the psychological impact of crimes on victims, witnesses childhood summers in
and investigators. However, not every member of the team is glad to have Ina on Normandy.
board. What is the psychologist hiding behind her professional facade? To Normandy crime series: Over 110,000 copies sold
everyone’s dismay, one of the team members falls under suspicion. And when Ina
Reich disappears without a trace, the tense situation quickly escalates.
IN THE SAME SERIES
Jetsam (vol. I) Coastline (vol. II)
• An internationally successful thriller author writing now under a
pseudonym 432 pages 384 pages
• This plot will pull the rug out from even the most seasoned crime Pub. date 2015 Pub. date 2016
fiction readers
Epreuve de traduction en français à disposition
Tidal Game (vol. III) Beacon (vol. IV)
448 pages 432 pages
Pub. date 2017 Pub. date 2018
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CRIME FICTION FICTION
Christian Linker Lars Simon
Influence – Bugs in the The Second-Hand
System Bookshop of Dreams
© Ulrike Wolf & Alf Leue
© Barbara Dünkelmann
CHRISTIAN LINKER, born in LARS SIMON was born in '68
1975, studied theology in Bonn (which may explain a lot, but
and worked in youth policy not everything); after his
304 pages before dedicating himself fully 336 pages studies, he spent many long
February 2020 to writing. His novels, which May 2020 years working as marketing
always grapple with manager of an IT company
controversial themes, have before moving to Sweden,
The world, enveloped in digital darkness... received numerous awards. “Some books are magical, and in your second-hand bookshop, I think where he resided as a tourist
you sell more than books. You give away dreams.” artisan in a wooden house
with his family for more than
Today is actually supposed to be Amir’s big day. With the handover of secret In late summer 1983, Johan Andersson loses the love of his life, Lina Berglund, six years. Meanwhile he has
material to the internet activist, Habakuk, he is about to catalyze the biggest in a boat accident. He burns all his bridges and starts a new life as an returned to live in the
scandal in the history of the internet. However, shortly before their meeting, the antiquarian dealer and cafe owner. He is rather shy, which is why he prefers to Frankfurt area.
internet collapses worldwide. The person behind this is unknown. converse with the characters of his favorite books, who seem alive to him.
However, William of Baskerville, Pippi Longstocking and Sherlock Holmes do
What does Whistleblower Manfred know? He supplied Amir with the material more than console and distract him. They force Johan to make a choice: Does he
for the leak and had remarked that something of huge significance was about to want to start a new life, or is he going to do everything to find Lina again?
happen.
In the midst of the erupting chaos, Amir searches for the mysterious Habakuk.
The moment he finds him, a car races out of nowhere towards them, just barely
missing them. Who had the driver been trying to hit? Amir or Habakuk? And is
there a connection with the digital blackout? BY THE SAME AUTHOR:
• An explosive and timely thriller set in the near future Rights sold:
• For readers of Kevin Brooks, Hank Green, and Talk Talk by T.C. Boyle Czech Republic,
Poland
Buri Bolmen´s Rather The Utterly Fantastical Guest Olaf Tryggvason's Surprisingly
Peculiar Pug (vol. I) from Trindemossen (vol. II) Perfidious Plan (vol. III)
432 pages 320 pages 384 pages
Pub. Date: 2016 Pub. Date: 2017 Pub. Date: 2018
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WOMEN'S FICTION WOMEN'S FICTION
Heike Stöhr The Devil's Trilogy Katrin Einhorn
The Devil’s Snares (vol. I) A Postcard to Happiness
Pirna, 1541. The number of mysterious deaths are multiplying,
almost as if the Devil himself has a hand in them. Nineteen-year-
© Melanie Grande
© Christine Fenzl
old Sophia has just returned to her hometown, with a serious 320 pages
interest in medicine, which dates back to her mother and brother’s May 2020
plague-related deaths during her childhood. While looking around
her father’s office, she discovers a peculiar book – and she hopes to
find within its pages a cure for the Black Death. However, someone
else knows about the existence of this book: the town clerk, Wolf HEIKE STÖHR born in Pirna
Come in and burn out KATRIN EINHORN was born
512 pages Schumann. He is obsessed with the idea of procuring this volume in 1964, earned degrees in in 1979. After studying
Pub. date: 2017 for himself, and is not adverse to murder as a means to his ends. German Literature and German and French she went
History, and works as a In his mid-thirties, Jakob is a marketing expert and an incorrigible workaholic – a on to work as a teacher. She
teacher in Berlin. She did classic candidate for burnout. A Slow Movement center in a sleepy coastal village in lives in Trier with her fam-
the research for her thesis Spain seems to be just the ticket for him – at least, that is what his sister thinks. Jakob ily and uses the hours her
on Saxon history in the Pirna grudgingly agrees to go, but intends to spend the whole time working. However, he children sleep to write her
The Devil’s Handwriting (vol. II) Municipal Archive, focusing
on the subject matter she has
makes these plans without reckoning with his pretty therapist Mona.
Mud and neuropathy treatments, discussion groups, cell phone prohibitions, and
charming and witty novels.
utilized in her novels. the constant sound of the waves are Jakob’s worst nightmare. But then an old song
Pirna, 1544: Ever since the book with strange writing in it crossed he hears in a harbor bar suddenly whisks him back to a past he long thought he had
her path, Sophia has been devoted to solving its mystery. Master forgotten, one in which his old penpal Flora had also belonged…
Heinrich Fuchs stands solidly by her side, having married Sophia
after the death of Niklas, the father of her son. The unscrupulous
town clerk, Wolf Schumann, has been secretly watching both of
them, and he has his own plans for the book’s magical powers. But
then one day, the presumed dead Niklas suddenly appears in Pirna. Birgit Hasselbusch
576 pages
Pub. date 2019
The Lingering Traces of
Wanderlust
The Devil’s Malice (vol. III)
© Gunter Glücklich
352 pages
May 2020
1545. In Nikolsburg, situated in a lonely and distant valley in the
Alps, Sophia learns the local dialect. And then, the book finally
reveals its knowledge – but it isn’t the anticipated information.
When Sophie receives the tidings that her husband has fallen BIRGIT HASSELBUSCH was
extremely ill, she departs immediately to return to Pirna, the cod-
A woman caught between beginnings and endings born in 1969. She used to
ed text stowed in her baggage. Alexandra and Markus’ daughter Lou has just graduated from high school and is read books backwards out
preparing to spend a year abroad in Madrid. Alexandra also worked there in 1989 of sheer boredom, and since
This is just what the conniving town clerk Wolf Schumann has as an au pair. In that place of longing, she experienced her first taste of freedom, but that time she’s also taught
been waiting for. He still doesn’t know, though, that this long- also went through her first real emotional pain. herself to speak backwards -
512 pages in German, English, Spanish
anticipated, long-yearned-for book will drive him insane... Now, Lou is on the verge of her own great adventure, and Alexandra is struggling
August 2020 and French. Nowadays she
with letting go.
works as a presenter at Radio
• Tense mystery & dramatic romance Birgit Hasselbusch has crafted a tale about a great, overpowering love, a new start
Hamburg (speaking forwards,
into independence, and what is truly important in life.
• A historical story about a mysterious book that holds knowledge and power of course!).
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DOCU-FICTION I N T E R N AT I O N A L B E S T S E L L E R
Stefan aus dem Siepen
Jo Schück The Rope
Das Seil
Naked at the Hotel
Stefan aus dem Siepen
How Friendship Beat Out Love
© Susanne Schleyer
© Katharina Hintze
180 pages
Stefan First published in 2012
aus dem Siepen ENGLPISLH
SAM TEION
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Das Seil TRAAVAI
ROMAN
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JO SCHÜCK born in 1980, premium STEFAN AUS DEM SIEPEN,
studied public relations, born in 1964, studied law and
philosophy, and business in entered a diplomatic career
In a remote village, enclosed by vast forests, a couple of farmers and their families lead a
college. Since 2014, he has in 1992. After postings in
208 pages content and simple life, barely touched by the ongoings in the world. One day, a
moderated the ZDF Bonn, Luxemburg, Shanghai
March 2020 seemingly insignificant occurrence turns the small world of the villagers upside down: a
television series aspekte, and and Moscow, he is currently
piece of rope is found on one of the meadows close to the forest, leading into the woods,
has worked as an author working for the Foreign Office
and it seems that there is no end to it.
and presenter for various in Berlin.
socio-political documentaries. After a quick first foray into the woods, almost all the able-bodied men of the village
Move over, love! Only friendship can save us. Schück has been honored decide to follow the rope until the very end. A kafka-esque trip ensues…
with the Ernst Schneider Prize
A quick glance at the media landscape makes it crystal clear that friendship is in. and the CNN Journalist Award. While the women and children wait for the travellers to return, the men are increasingly Rights sold:
You can see this in the success of novels such as Elena Ferrante’s bestseller My Naked at the Hotel is his first drawn into the spell of the rope. Two of them are killed, the rest are being persecuted
book.
France, Italy
Brilliant Friend, and series like Friends and New Girl. by wolves, they plunder a deserted village and are eventually willing to risk their entire
existence for the sake of the rope.
Jo Schück presents a radical theory: In this day and age, which is typified by social
upheavals, globalization, the erosion of certainties, and the dissolution of
traditional family structures, there is only one constant connection: friendship. It
The Giant
STEFAN AUS DEM SIEPEN DER RIESE
S T E FA N
provides us with a form of stability that we cannot find anywhere else – neither in AU S D E M S I E P E N
DER RIESE
romantic relationships nor in familial frameworks. ROMAN
The author combines fictional episodes about friendship with solidly researched
social analyses. He also incorporates common sayings about the nature of 200 pages
friendship, contemporary phenomena – such as Instagram dates, friends with French Edition:
First published in 2014
benefits, and single households – and the socio-political value that friendship enjoys
these days.
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• The celebration of friendship belongs to today’s age just as much as Tilman was supposed to be a roofer – just like his father and grandfather – but it wasn’t
long before his size prevented him from following in their footsteps. At two metres
yoga, cupcakes, and vegan cuisine. thirty-nine, he is the tallest man in Germany. As Tilman continues to gain in height, he
loses his girlfriend and his job but becomes a media sensation, his fame increasing in
proportion to his size. However, he grows in other ways too, learning to play the piano
and becoming a discerning reader. Before long his frame outstrips its surroundings. He is
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now a giant by profession – and learns how to make the best of it. But ultimately his life is
threatened by his size – if he keeps on growing, his heart will eventually fail him. France
This is the touching story of a man who grows to be an outsider and comes to see it as an
advantage. A poignant novel full of surprising twists, imbued with gentle irony.
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Frank Berzbach
The Beauty of the
Encounter
32 Variations of Love
© Irène Zandel
FRANK BERZBACH, born in
1971, teaches literature
192 pages pedagogy and philosophy
February 2020 at the Technical College of
Cologne. After training to be a
technical draftsman, he
completed degrees in
How did the two of you actually meet? education, philosophy and
32 Stories as an answer to this question literature. He has a weakness
for books, records, bicycles,
The nameless first-person narrator and Linh are in love. When Linh asks her partner tea, monasteries, and analog
to write down the beginning of their story, he refuses to let facts spoil a good tale, so typing devices. He lives in
he starts to invent variations. Out of a single beginning, multiple ones emerge. The Cologne and Hamburg.
narrator feels free to change the settings, situations and events. The stories jump into
various places and times, alternate between humor and contemplation, realism and
magic, philosophy and romanticism. However, each iteration contains an element
of the truth. The couple meets each other 32 times. There are 32 different starts,
however the conclusion is (almost) always the same. Taken together as a whole, the
variations create an image of a passionate relationship.
• Author of the bestseller The Art of Leading a Creative Life
• Former books by the author have been translated into French, Korean,
Russian, Portuguese and Spanish
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MARIE BRUNNTALER was
Martina Bergmann Marie Brunntaler born in the southern Black
Forest and grew up on a
My Life with Martha Wolf farm. She graduated with a
degree in biology, and during
the 1973 oil crisis, she began
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working to promote a new
ecological mindset in the
240 pages
energy sector. She worked
September 2019
as a landscaping specialist.
Today she lives with her son
near the Swiss border.
MARTINA BERGMANN was
ENGLPISLH born in 1979 in Ostwestfalen.
SAM TEION
TRANSILLAABLE
After graduating high school,
224 pages The Black Forest, 1820. A savage boy is found, but no one knows where he comes from. The
AVA she fled to the big cities of
February 2019 adolescent Gabriel is handed over to a farming family for supervision. Because of his beauty and
Munich, Hamburg and Berlin.
elegance, he casts a spell over the people he encounters. He also possesses extensive knowledge
She studied Humanities and is
about homeopathy and saves the life of young Maria. More and more of the villagers fall under
a bookseller by trade.
Gabriel’s mysterious charms. When the farmer’s wife secretly falls in love with Gabriel, the events
Life is Beautiful! escalate and result in the deaths of several villagers. And the questions that occupy all of them
become increasingly urgent: Who is this stranger? Where does he come from? What is he up to?
Martina Bergmann takes care of Martha, a woman in her mid-80s who has a
particularly poetic outlook on life. Neither can say anymore how this came to be, but
they are so happy sharing the same house that it hardly matters.
Marie Brunntaler
Pointedly and true to life Martina Bergmann portrays the experience of living with
Martha, someone who, despite her illness, remains full of humor and wit. Her story
shows that caring for someone suffering from dementia does not have to be a burden
The Simple Life
and, in fact, can be inspiring and life affirming.
And while this unconventional living arrangement strikes passersby as odd, 250 pages
Martina wouldn’t have it any other way. May 2018
• A poignant novel about living with someone suffering from dementia, While still young sisters, Adele and Elisabeth have left home to explore the exciting new
opportunities offered by the post-war economic miracle. In midlife, however, they regret having
someone who was a virtual stranger and now has become family cut themselves off from their roots. They return to the southern Black Forest and decide to
• For readers of Arno Geiger’s The Old King in His Exile and fans of the realize an old dream – their dream of a rose garden. Together they invest all that they have and
tend a piece of wasteland in the hills, on the very spot where their brother Hans’ packaging
movie Iris company once stood.
• # 12 Independant Publisher's List Adele and Elisabeth want to give this land back to nature and create the most beautiful rose
garden the Black Forest has ever seen. Against all odds and the voice of reason this is their
chance to restore their family’s reputation and quite simply to become sisters again after all those
years apart.
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Daniel Mellem
daniel mellem
The Invention of the Countdown
die erfindung
d e s c o u n t d ow n s Against his father’s will, Hermann Oberth moves to Göttingen in 1920 in order
to study physics - the most exciting science of his age in the most exciting city
there is. Hermann wants to turn the human dream of sending rockets to the
roman
moon into reality. The young man is considered very talented, but right before
he makes his major breakthrough, his professor decides to stop supporting
»Daniel Mellem hat nicht nur einen mitreißenden Roman
Hermann’s research. It now falls to his wife Tilla to keep their lives above water
geschrieben – er hat eine Rakete gezündet!«
Sasa Stanišić
_ until someone believes in Hermann’s research again. When that happens,
the person in question is Wernher von Braun, a member of the SS Corps.
Instead of moon rockets, Hermann is invited to help develop the V2 rocket,
c. 336 pages
a retaliatory weapon for the Nazis to use. Hermann and Tilla are suddenly
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confronted with the question of their own personal responsibility when faced
September 2020
by the march of history. This question becomes all the more important when
they lose both their son Julius and their daughter Ilse to the war.
In a countdown from 10 to 0, we follow a narrative about human errors,
setbacks, and people picking themselves back up again. Scientific ethics come
alive in this story plucked from modern history.
Anne Freytag
PRELIMINAR
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Out of Black Water
COVER
The sea is the source of all life – and it conceals a deadly threat
In her company car, highly respected scientist and Minister of the Interior
Dr. Patricia Kohlbeck hurtles without stopping into the Spree River. Her
daughter Maja is sitting in the passenger seat and the last sentence she hears
before her mother drowns is: “You can’t trust anyone. They’re all involved.”.
Maja dies as well – but a short time later, she wakes back up. Her
external body is unchanged, however it seems to be regenerating and
c. 464 pages
healing astonishingly quickly. Her senses also seem to be sharpened. She
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sets off in search of answers, which she finds from various people, including
August 2020
Prof. Arthur Stein, her mother’s long-time research partner and lover. And
then there is Efrail, who pulled Maja out of the sinking car. She feels
strongly attracted to the young man - but she doesn’t know yet that he is
actually the enemy.
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