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CONTEMPORARY LITERARY FICTION

       ISABELLE LEHN                                                                                     “Highly
                                                                                                         Commended” honor
       Spring Awakening                                                                                  in Best Original
                                                                                                         Fiction at the 2018
                                                                                                         Stack Awards!

      A novel about growing old, laconic, funny and unapologetic.

      Isabelle Lehn writes about a woman in freefall - a woman called
      Isabelle Lehn. Does she have to want everything that’s possible? A
      young woman struggles and fails with her own goals, society’s
      expectations and having children. What if you don’t want to seize
      every opportunity? Isabelle Lehn immerses herself deeply in this
      self-interrogation. Poetic, ironic, funny and wonderfully honest,
      the book describes Isabelle’s life, her friends and the people she
      works with – until she goes aground, reaches the point of
      existential pain. And that’s when she understands: Life is good. It
      doesn’t have to measure up to the way we once imagined it.

                                                                                                                       256 pp., hardcover
                                                                                                                       February 27, 2019
      “No book has shaken me up like this for a long                                                                   S. Fischer Verlag
      time. It’s radical, unsparing, ironic, feminine,                                                                 Sample translation available
      devastating, bloody and damned genuine. A
      novel that blows up boundaries.”
      Lucy Fricke

      Isabelle Lehn, born in Bonn in 1979, now lives in Leipzig and
      leads a successful life, at first glance: a PhD in rhetoric, the author
      of the award-winning debut novel Tie Two Birds Together, a
      lecturer and research fellow at the German Institute for Literature
      in Leipzig. Everything else is a matter of interpretation.

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       SARAH KUTTNER
       Kurt

      “The world doesn’t stop turning for one fucking second.                                                          Cover
      It doesn’t even slow down.”

      Lena has bought a house with her boyfriend Kurt, who brings
      along his six years old son: little Kurt. It seems like her biggest
      challenge will be getting used to the new family arrangement and
      to rural Brandenburg now being her home. But when little Kurt
      dies in a fall, he leaves behind three adults whose centre implodes
      in grief.

      Sarah Kuttner has written a novel about grief, about the strength
      people can develop and about the fact that some questions don’t
      have an answer. Kurt tells the gentle, humorous and above all
      calm story of how people can find themselves again after a
      terrible loss, and how to be there for someone who can’t be
      consoled.

                                                                                                                       240 pp., hardcover
                                                                                                                       March 13, 2019
         ●       Sarah Kuttner has sold over 680,000 books to date                                                     S. Fischer Verlag
         ●       Spiegel bestseller writer                                                                             Sample translation available

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                                                                                                                       (Giunti), NL (Bezige Bij),
                                                                                                                       NOR (Cappelen), ROK
                                                                                                                       (Eunhaeng)
      Sarah Kuttner’s first novel Mängelexemplar was published in
      2009 and spent weeks on the bestseller list. Then as now, Kuttner
      writes about serious, existential issues, directly and honestly, a
      mix of empathy and flippancy which made her a popular TV
      personality in her shows “Sarah Kuttner – Die Show” (VIVA) and
      “Kuttner.” (MTV). She has presented various formats of her own
      on national and regional public channels, such as “Bambule” and
      “Kuttners Kleinanzeigen”. Since 2016, she has been producing
      and presenting the monthly event series “Kuttners schöne
      Nerdnacht” and since 2017 has co-presented the podcast “Das
      kleine Fernsehballett” on Deezer. She’s also on Instagram:
      @diekuttner | Twitter: @KuttnerSarah | Facebook:
      @SarahKuttner.
                                                                                                                             © Katharina Hintze

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       REINHARD KAISER-MÜHLECKER
       Expropriation

      An existential, stirring novel about how a world in crisis                                                       Cover
      alters our feelings and relationships. Reinhard
      Kaiser-Mühlecker describes a time of deep uncertainty –
      the time we are living in now.

      After years on the road, a journalist returns to the place where he
      grew up, but was never at home. He writes for the ailing local rag,
      begins an affair and works for a pig farmer whose land was
      repossessed. Ines, Flor and Hemma, his girlfriend, the farmer and
      his wife, draw him into the conflicts of a life which is being taken
      from them.

      ‘The way he makes literature from the mute helplessness
      afflicting his characters is virtuoso.’
      Christoph Schröder, Zeit Online                                                                                  224 pp., Hardcover
                                                                                                                       February 27, 2019
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      ‘I see it as a kind of duty to make the world as I                                                               Sample translation available
      see it tangible to people who don’t know it.’                                                                    Rights to previous titles sold:
      Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker                                                                                        Fremde Seele, dunkler Wald:
                                                                                                                       NL (Aldo Manuzio)

       Kaiser-Mühlecker’s previous novel, Fremde Seele, dunkler Wald,
       (Dark Forest, Foreign Soul) was shortlisted for the German Book
       Prize and longlisted for the Austrian Book Prize.

      Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker, was born 1982 in the Krems
      Valley, Austria, and lives in Vienna. He has won many awards for
      his six novels and short-story collection. “Fremde Seele, dunkler
      Wald” (2016) was on the German Book Prize shortlist. Siegfried
      Lenz said of his work, ‘It is wonderful, the way you write,’ and Peter
      Handke, ‘After Stifter and Hamsun, you’re next.’

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       JUAN S. GUSE
       Miami Punk

       Over night, the Atlantic Ocean has retreated from the coast of
       Florida, leaving behind a wasteland. Cruise liners are rusting in the
       sand off Miami, hotels stand empty, the harbour is deserted and
       even the glamorous advertising industry, once broadcasting
       ceaselessly, has shut down completely. A city is searching for an
       anchor in a reeling reality. Inmidst all this, we encounter a
       struggling working-class family, an overly ambitious indie game
       programmer, a young sociologist and an e-sports team from
       Wuppertal. Funny and sad, gloomy and labyrinthine: “Miami
       Punk” is a novel about the meaning of work, about authority and
       power and about lonely nights in front of the computer screen.

       ”Juan S. Guse has captured the eerie mood of the
                                                                                                                       640 pp., Hardcover
       present.“                                                                                                       February 27, 2019
       Christoph Schröder, Deutschlandfunk radio                                                                       S. Fischer Verlag

         ●       Precarious work, existential fear and the quest for meaning
                 – it has been a long time since a German-language novel
                 has had such a deeply contemporary feeling.
         ●       Guse’s debut “Lärm und Wälder” has won multiple awards.
         ●       “His language is artificial, precise, subtle, ironic. [...] This
                 is an author to keep an eye on.” Felix Stephan, Zeit Online

      Juan S. Guse, born 1989, studied Literature and Sociology. His
      debut Lärm und Wälder was published by S. Fischer in 2015. He
      has received multiple awards for his work, most recently the
      “Villa Aurora Fellowship” and the Hannover Literature Prize. He
      is currently working on his PhD thesis about the sociology of work
      and organisations.

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       MARION BRASCH
       Preferably Elsewhere

      A moving story about guilt and coincidences, told like a                                                         Cover
      light breeze.

      Toni and Alex do not know each other. And yet, there is a fateful
      link between them. Toni struggles to cope with the loss of her
      little brother, for whose death she feels responsible. Alex is
      leading a double life and is burdened by feelings of guilt for
      something he has never talked about. For 24 hours, the
      trajectories of these two move towards each other until, despite
      some bizarre encounters and odd incidents, their paths eventually
      cross.

      Marion Brasch tells a tale of life and survival. Her language is
      concise, rebellious and yet warm, skilfully depicting those
      moments that decide whether Lady Fortune will smile or frown.                                                    160 pp., Hardcover
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      “Marion Brasch’s style is refreshing and                                                                         Rights to previous titles sold:
                                                                                                                       Ab jetzt ist Ruhe: FIN (Lurra),
      amusing, entertaining without being trivial. Her                                                                 Wunderlich: FIN (Lurra)
      language is at times reminiscent of Erich
      Kästner, or of Hans Fallada.“
      Ulf Heise, MDR Figaro

      Marion Brasch was born in 1961 in Berlin. After finishing high
      school, she became a typesetter and worked in a printers’ shop,
      then with a number of publishing houses and with the
      Composers’ Association of the GDR, and later for radio
      broadcasters. Her novels “Ab jetzt ist Ruhe” and “Wunderlich
      fährt nach Norden” have been published by S. Fischer.

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       MARLENE STREERUWITZ
       Wall of Flames.

      “As a woman, she was a territory. The territory of a female                                                      Cover
      nation that had to be occupied. And Gustav had occupied
      her. Dominated. Ruled.“

      It is March in Stockholm. It’s been a hard winter, it is still 15
      below zero, and ice crunches underneath Adele’s feet. As she
      returns from doing the shopping, she sees from afar how her
      lover leaves the building. She follows him. The closer she gets to
      him, the more he becomes invisible. Why do we keep following
      the same images? What can we actually rely upon? And why does
      love have to become hell? In a world where the waiting loop turns
      out to be the truth, Adele is negotiating a fine line between
      liberation and loss of self: “She had to resist being driven out of
      herself. She had to think slowly and carefully.“ In Marlene
      Streeruwitz’s dizzying novel, a treacherous love story is the                                                    414 pp., Hardcover
      vehicle for the crisis of our present time.                                                                      May 22, 2019
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                                                                                                                       Rights sold: Nachkommen.: MACE
                                                                                                                       (Congress Service); Kreuzungen.: BG
                                                                                                                       (Gea-Libris); Partygirl.: PL
      “Feminist literature, and the emphasis here is on                                                                (Czytelnik); Nachwelt.: JP
                                                                                                                       (Choeisha), RUS (Limbakh); Lisa’s
      literature: yes, it does exist.“                                                                                 Liebe.: ROK (Moonhwa);
                                                                                                                       Verführungen.: PL (Czytelnik);
      Christine Lötscher, Tagesanzeiger                                                                                Waikiki Beach. Und andere Orte.: JP
                                                                                                                       (Ronso), ROK (Sung Kyun
                                                                                                                       Kwan); Verführungen.: CZ (Ikar), JP
                                                                                                                       (Choeisha Rogosu Kikakubu), RUS
                                                                                                                       (Symposium)

      Marlene Streeruwitz, born in Baden near Vienna, studied
      Slavic Languages and Literature and History of Art and then
      began a career as author and director for the stage and for radio.
      She has received numerous awards for her novels, most recently
      the Bremen Literature Prize and the Franz Nabl Prize. Her novel
      “Die Schmerzmacherin.“ was shortlisted for the 2011 German
      Book Prize. Her latest publications include the novel “Yseut.“ and
      lectures on “Das Wundersame in der Unwirtlichkeit“.

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       RUTH SCHWEIKERT
       Days Like Dogs

      In her new, very personal book, Ruth Schweikert writes                                                           Cover
      about her battle with breast cancer.

      “Days Like Dogs“ is a moving account of loneliness and shame, of
      sickness and death. Yet at the same time, it is a cheerful,
      encouraging book about friendship and love and about the
      freedom of literature.
      It’s a Tuesday, just a few months after her 50th birthday, when
      Ruth Schweikert is diagnosed with a particularly aggressive form
      of breast cancer. Foreboding and fear turn into reality. But what
      kind of reality is this? What goes on inside someone who finds
      herself caged in by thoughts and images, by technology and
      appointments? What happens with her body? What do I think I
      know about cancer? And what, actually, is it that I am waiting for,
      sleepless in my bed at night or in one of the many doctors’                                                      208 pp., Hardcover
      anterooms when the next “results“ are due?                                                                       March 13, 2019
      Nothing is certain in Ruth Schweikert’s new book, in which she                                                   S. Fischer Verlag
      attempts to give a radically precise account of her own illness.
      This book is about sleepless nights, about needles and catheters.
      And it is about writing and reading and the possibilities offered
      by text messages.

      “And what is it I’m waiting for now?“

      Ruth Schweikert, born 1965, lives in Zurich, where she works
      as an author and playwright. Her widely noticed debut was a
      collection of short stories, “Erdnüsse. Totschlagen“ (1994),
      followed by the novels “Augen zu“ (1998), “Ohio“ (2005) and
      “Wie wir älter werden“ (2015). She has received numerous
      awards and prizes, such as the Bertelsmann Scholarship as a
      result of the Ingeborg Bachmann competition (1994) and the
      Swiss Schiller Foundation Prize (1999); she was awarded the
      position of writer-in-residence Bergen-Enkheim (2015), the City
      of Zurich Arts Prize (2016), and the Solothurn Literature Prize
      (2016).
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       GERHARD ROTH
       Hell is empty, and all the devils
       are here
                                                                                                                       Cover
       Venice as you have never seen it before.

      The translator Emil Lanz, who lives all alone in a house on the
      Lido, decides to put an end to his dull life. Scouting for a good
      place to die, he gets drunk and falls asleep. When he wakes again,
      he witnesses a murder. But did what he saw really happen? Or
      was his suicide attempt successful and he is now moving in a
      different dimension? However, as the only witness to this
      murder, Lanz is now in grave danger. The man who had just
      resolved to die now badly wants to survive and sees the world
      through different eyes. What part does the mysterious
      photographer Julia Ellis play, or the dead refugee girl on the
      beach? Is reality truly only that which we observe? Lanz takes on
      a formidable opponent – the invisible.                                                                           368 pp., Hardcover
                                                                                                                       April 24, 2019
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       “In Venice, the mystery of the invisible was                                                                    Rights to previous titles sold to
                                                                                                                       (selection): Winterreise: F (Laffont), I
      revealed to me.“ Gerhard Roth                                                                                    (Lubrina), SVN (Sou), UK/USA
                                                                                                                       (Continuum); Der große Horizont: F
                                                                                                                       (Actes Sud); Der Wille zur Krankheit:
                                                                                                                       UK/USA (Burning Deck); Der stille
      “Discoveries that you will not find in a travel                                                                  Ozean: RUS (Symposium), USA/
                                                                                                                       Canada (Ariadne); Am Abgrund: TR
      guide.“                                                                                                          (Iletisim), UK/USA (Atlas Press); Der
                                                                                                                       See: GR (Livani), I (Marcos),
      Frankfurter Rundschau, on “Die Irrfahrt des                                                                      USA/Canada (Ariadne); Das Labyrinth:
                                                                                                                       UK/USA (Ariadne); Die Autobiographie
      Michael Aldrian“.                                                                                                des Albert Einstein: UK/USA (Atlas
                                                                                                                       Press)

      Gerhard Roth was born in Graz in 1942, has published
      numerous novels, short stories, essays, and plays. Gerhard Roth’s
      oeuvre has been awarded many literature prizes, including the
      Grand Austrian State Prize in 2016. After “Die Irrfahrt des
      Michael Aldrian“, “Hell Is Empty, the Devils Are All Here“ is his
      second novel set in Venice – a city with which Roth has had a
      decade-long love affair.

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POETRY

       MONIKA RINCK
       Champagne for the Horses
       A Reader
                                                                                                                             Cover
     The first comprehensive selection from Monika Rinck’s
     overall oeuvre

      In a passage in “Risiko und Idiotie“, her acclaimed pamphlet,
      Monika Rinck writes about Marilyn Monroe: how the famous diva
      only ever drank champagne from freshly opened bottles, and only
      ever the first glass, so that there was always champagne for
      everyone. And now even the horses should benefit from that.
      Together with her publisher Daniela Seel, Monika Rinck has
      compiled a voluminous reader, a veritable cornucopia: over 20
      years’ worth of poems, essays and short stories. They deal with
      jokes and literature, love and friendship, swimming and sleeping,
      happiness and exhaustion. They are about collecting and
      throwing away, about poetry and psychoanalysis, prefixes and
                                                                                                                             528 pp., Hardcover
      post scriptums and the ecstasy of repetition. An opulent, wild
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      book, a foray into Monika Rinck’s oeuvre and a celebration of
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      poetry.

      “One of the most prominent protagonists of
      contemporary poetry.“
      Christian Metz, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

      “Monika Rinck’s writing moves along, and it
      moves us along on a rollercoaster ride through
      time and language.“
      Heinrich Detering, Kleist Prize laudation 2015

      Monika Rinck, born 1969, lives and writes in Berlin. Monika
      Rinck has received many awards, including the Ernst Meister
      Prize 2008, the Georg K. Glaser Prize 2010, the Peter Huchel
      Prize 2013, the Kleist Prize 2015 and the Ernst Jandl Prize 2017.

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       DIETER FORTE
       Before Heaven Had a Name

      “Our words make our reality.“                                                                                    Cover
      A poetic history of humanity

      A writer walks through an old library. He wants to know more
      about the beginnings of humanity, about how humans entered the
      world and time. What path led them from early cave paintings to
      the first written characters? When did stories first appear, when
      did they become memories, and those memories become past?
      What did the first cities look like, such as 5,000-year-old Uruk
      where there were libraries of clay tablets?
      Dieter Forte’s book is the endpoint of a long journey of thinking
      about humans. Where do they come from? What is their essence?
      What can they truly know about the world? This is a moving
      invocation of language, our greatest achievement. When we lose
      language, we lose the world.                                                                                     96 pp., Hardcover
                                                                                                                       February 27, 2019
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                                                                                                                       Das Muster: PL (Ksiaznica)
                                                                                                                       RUS (Azbooka); Der Junge
                                                                                                                       mit den blutigen Schuhen: F
                                                                                                                       (Albin)

      Dieter Forte, born 1935 in Düsseldorf, lives in Basel. His highly acclaimed novels “Das Muster“,
      “Tagundnachtgleiche“ (initially “Der Junge mit den blutigen Schuhen“), “In der Erinnerung“ und
      “Auf der anderen Seite der Welt“ together make up the “Tetralogie der Erinnerung“. As a
      playwright, Forte achieved worldwide success with “Luther, Munzer and the Bookkeepers of the
      Reformation“; this was followed by further plays, successes on television and award-winning
      radio plays. His most recent publication is “Das Labyrinth der Welt. Ein Buch.“ Information about
      his oeuvre can be found in the compendium “Es ist schon ein eigenartiges Schreiben...“, published
      by Jürgen Hosemann.

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POETRY

       WULF KIRSTEN
       Gravity
       Poems
                                                                                                                         Cover

      oh, I am pretty much in the pink, nothing to complain about,
      believe me, truly splendiferous

      Wulf Kirsten’s poems defy any trends; like the River Elbe, they
      flow through the mountains and find their way into the reader’s
      feelings, tell of yearning, evoke childhood days long gone, are
      earthy and yet have names for emptiness, for silence, for those
      landscapes where nothing but memories dwell and nature takes
      over.

                                                                                                                         96 pp., Hardcover
                                                                                                                         May 22, 2019
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                                                                                                                          (Belin)

       Wulf Kirsten, born in 1934 in Klippach near Meißen,
       studied Pedagogy and briefly worked as a teacher; from
       1965 to 1987 he was an editor at the Aufbau publishing
       house. He has been living and writing in Weimar since
       then. His literary oeuvre was awarded the Peter Huchel
       Prize, the Joseph Breitenbach Prize, and more.

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FISCHER CLASSICS

       DIETER KÜHN
       Clara Schumann, Piano

      The life story of Clara Schumann has become a legend. A
      childhood dominated by deprivation, an enormous talent as a
      pianist and composer, the early romance – pursued against her
      father’s will – with Robert Schumann and the fact that she raised
      seven children are the stuff of mythology. In his biography of
      Clara Schumann, Dieter Kühn traces her life’s journey and,
      calling upon fact and imagination, creates the portrait of a highly
      sensitive, confident woman whose life reflects most of the 19th
      century.

                                                                                                                          768 pp., Paperback
                                                                                                                          August 28, 2019
         ●       In celebration of Clara Schumann’s 200th birthday on                                                     S. Fischer Verlag
                 September 13, 2019
         ●       The novel of Clara Schumann’s life – and a panoramic view
                 of the entire 19th century

      Dieter Kühn, born 1935 in Cologne, died in Brühl in 2015. His
      biographies, novels, stories, audio plays and critically acclaimed
      translations from Middle High German (the Medieval Quartet) earned
      him many awards, including the Herman Hesse Prize, the High
      Literature Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Arts, and most recently the
      Carl Zuckmayer Medal. His works range from vast biographies (of Clara
      Schumann, Maria Sibylla Merian, Gertrud Kolmar, and perhaps most
      famously Oswald von Wolkenstein) and novels (Geheimagent
      Marlowe) to historical-biographical studies (Schillers Schreibtisch in
      Buchenwald) and volumes of stories (Ich war Hitlers Schutzengel). He
      most recently published two autobiographical volumes, Das magische
      Auge and Die siebte Woge.

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       HEINRICH MANN
       Eugénie
       Preface by Holger Pils
                                                                                                                       Cover

      Heinrich Mann’s great novel about marriage and society

      It’s the summer of 1873. Gabriele West, bored, starts a flirt with
      her neighbour – the same man her husband, Consul Jürgen West,
      has engaged with for some dubious stock exchanges. When the
      neighbour is arrested for fraudulent speculation, it seems the
      Consul is ruined and his marriage in tatters...
      Heinrich Mann tells this tale of a crisis with a superbly light touch
      while offering a view of the beginnings of the German
      “Gründerzeit“, or “founders’ period“. First published in 1928, this
      social novel recalls the values of the bourgeoisie as well as Mann’s
      own childhood in Lübeck.                                                                                         480 pp., Hardcover
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      Heinrich Mann was born in Lübeck in 1871. After dropping out
      of school, he trained briefly in the publishing trade, and
      subsequently wrote novels, short stories, essays, and plays. In
      1933, he emigrated to France and later to the US. He was
      appointed head of the newly formed Academy of the Arts in East
      Berlin in 1949, but died in Santa Monica, California in 1950
      before he could take up the position.

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       THOMAS MANN
       The Blood of the Walsungs

      Thomas Mann’s “Wälsungenblut“ (“The Blood of the
      Walsungs“) in a special edition (Schmuckausgabe), with
      illustrations from the first edition by Th. Th. Heine.

      Thomas Mann’s “Wälsungenblut“ is a parody on Wagner’s opera
      “The Valkyrie“, a sparkling gem with a mercurial backstory. The
      novella was written in 1905, but due to personal reasons and the
      suspicion of anti-Semitism it was published only in 1921, and only
      in a private edition. Our edition contains the magnificent
      illustrations by Thomas Theodor Heine, created specifically for
      the first edition.

                                                                                                                         80 pp., Hardcover
                                                                                                                         March 27, 2019
                                                                                                                         S. Fischer Verlag

      Thomas Mann (1875 – 1955) is one of the 20th century’s most
      significant writers. He is credited with bringing the German novel
      to the international stage, and his multifaceted works have
      received a worldwide positive reception which has rarely been
      equalled. From 1933 onwards, he lived in exile, first in
      Switzerland, then in the US. Only in 1952 did Mann return to
      Europe, where he died 1955 in Zurich.

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       TOMMY JAUD
       The Lion Woars
      You can’t run away from your problem - at least not
      when your mom’s along
      Nick Snod doesn’t understand the world anymore. Why is                                                                Cover
      everyone around him constantly getting dumber? Why is his wife
      Mia suddenly sinking into a meditative state not into the Netflix
      sofa with him and a glass of wine? And since his father died, why
      does his mother need to announce exactly what she’s cooking and
      how she cleans every day?
      Nick is soon so stressed that he grinds through a new retainer
      weekly. Even the robovac flees across the open-plan office when
      he gets near it. When Nick chucks a cup at his company’s CFO,
      his boss sends him on a compulsory vacation: Either Nick gets it
      together, or he’s out of a job. And he has to prove it by producing
      the password on his fitness tracker.
      After initially hesitating, Nick seizes the opportunity to prove it to
      himself and the world. In just one week of vacation he plans to
      catch up everything he can’t get done at home: exercise, sleeping,                                                    320 pp., Trade paperback
      healthy eating and drinking less. When Mia refuses to go with                                                         April 30, 2019
      him, a defiant Nick simply takes his lonesome mother instead.                                                         Scherz Verlag
      Relaxing and do something nice for mom at the same time can’t                                                         Sample translation available
      be that hard. But Nick’s mother has her own ideas about how “her                                                      Rights to previous titles sold
      baby” ought to unwind.                                                                                                (selection): Vollidiot: Belgium
                                                                                                                            (Dutch), Brazil, Bulgaria,
                                                                                                                            China, Czech Rep., Denmark,
      The book for everyone who’s ever been on holiday with their
                                                                                                                            Estonia, Hungary, Israel,
      parents.                                                                                                              Italy, Korea, Lithuania,
                                                                                                                            Poland, Russia, Slovakia,
      More than 5 million books sold and numerous No. 1 positions                                                           Slovenia, Taiwan, Turkey;
      on the bestseller lists                                                                                               Einen Scheiß muss ich: RUS
        ●    Hummeldumm sold more than a million copies. Tommy                                                              (Eksmo), Chinese (Nutopia), F
             Jaud’s last book, Einen Scheiß muss ich!, sold more than                                                       (Favre)
             800,000

      Tommy Jaud has already written two bestsellers about
      spontaneous vacations and peculiar travelling companions:
      following Resturlaub and Hummeldumm, Der Löwe büllt (The
      Lion Woars) is perfect holiday reading for anyone who’s ever
      taken a trip with their parents – and for anyone who’s always
      asking themselves why they can’t relax.

                                                                                                                       © Friedemann Meyer
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COMMERCIAL FICTION | ROMANCE

       LISA KEIL
       Why Don’t You Stay Where I Am

      Happiness has an address in the countryside                                                                      Cover

      Kaya, a true country bumpkin, feels very much at home in
      Neuberg, a serene place too big to be called a village, too small to
      be called a city. The new teacher in town, however, can’t wait to
      get back to the Big City. Between school and bookshop, vet’s
      practice and horses’ stables, Kaya and Lasse get to know each
      other better. Together they experience the highlights of life in the
      countryside: a barn party, a bonfire at Easter, a book club run by
      the catholic women’s group. Everything could be perfect – until
      suddenly there’s a big bang.

      It all goes to prove that even out in the countryside, love is
      wonderfully complicated and yet very straightforward.
                                                                                                                       352 pp., Paperback
                                                                                                                       March 27, 2019
                                                                                                                       FTV

         ●       A wonderfully complicated and yet straightforward love
                 story set between bookshop and horses’ stables
         ●       Lisa Keil, the vet who fell in love with writing and lives the
                 life of a city chick in the country

      Initially, Lisa Keil wrote “Why Don’t You Stay Where I Am“ just
      for her girl-friends as she was already working in her dream job:
      in a veterinarian’s practice in the countryside, treating large and
      small animals. She lives in North-Rhine Westphalia, somewhere
      between the Sauerland and the Soest Boerde, together with her
      husband, two children and two horses. Her first novel draws upon
      her experiences both as a vet and as a city girl in the countryside.

                                                                                                                             © Stefan Gelberg
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COMMERCIAL FICTION | ROMANCE

       PATRICIA KOELLE
       The Whisper of the Tides

      The marvellous finale of the North Sea trilogy!                                                                  Cover

      Amrum, 1932. Young Skem Rasmussen loves the tidal flats. When
      his father dies, he has to work hard to keep himself and his
      mother going. As he does, he makes a discovery in the tidelands
      that changes his life.
      Cut to: present-day Berlin. Art student Valerie is hit hard by the
      news that the man she thought was her father actually is not.
      Researching her roots, she goes to Amrum.
      There she encounters old Skem, who is guarding a secret. Can
      Valerie help him lift the veil and make peace with the past? And
      can she find her real father?
      Help appears from an unexpected corner ... and she meets
      someone who wins her heart.                                                                                      480 pp., Paperback
                                                                                                                       April 24, 2019
                                                                                                                       FTV
      “A wonderful book, worth reading to the very last word.“
      ReiseTravel on “Wenn die Wellen leuchten“

         ●       “Wo die Dünen schimmern“: Top 10 of the Spiegel Online
                 bestseller list
         ●       Total print run of Patricia Koelle’s books: 400,000 copies

      Patricia Koelle lives in Berlin but has a passion for the sea – and for writing. Her books give
      expression to her never-ending amazement about life, humans and our marvellous, improbable
      planet. The Baltic Sea trilogy “Das Meer in deinem Namen“, “Das Licht in deiner Stimme“ and “Der
      Horizont in deinen Augen“ are available from FISCHER paperback, as is the stand-alone novel “Die
      eine, große Geschichte“. Her North Sea trilogy is comprised of the novels “Wenn die Wellen
      leuchten“, “Wo die Dünen schimmern“ and “Was die Gezeiten flüstern“. She has also written a
      collection of Christmas stories, “Ein Engel vor dem Fenster“, and the Christmas-themed novel “Der
      Himmel zu unseren Füßen“.
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COMMERCIAL FICTION | EROTIC

       MIA WILLIAMS
       Pure Desire – Close to You

      Hazel has been in love with Jake ever since she can remember.
                                                                                                                       Cover
      But he’s never seen more in her than a good friend. Now, after
      five years, he finally returns to Lake Tahoe, but his time abroad
      with an aid organisation has changed him profoundly. He refuses
      to talk about his experiences and lets nobody get close to him.
      Except for Hazel. The more time they spend together, the more
      Hazel feels the spark between them intensify. But the images of
      the past five years won’t leave Jake alone. In order to give him
      space, Hazel makes a risky offer: just sex, no obligations. But her
      heart might throw a spanner in the works...

      “Hot stuff!“
      Inside                                                                                                           300 pp., Paperback
                                                                                                                       May 22, 2019
                                                                                                                       FTV

         ●       Heated passion, true love and a stunningly beautiful
                 landscape – exactly what the female readers want
         ●       For all fans of Audrey Carlan and Marie Force

      When Mia Williams first came to Lake Tahoe, it immediately cast a spell over her with its deep blue coves,
      craggy rock faces, golden beaches and romantic timber huts. When she’s not there, she dreams her way
      back there and takes her readers on a sizzling and romantic journey.

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PSYCHOTHRILLER

       WIEBKE LORENZ
       Someone’s Going to Die
      One morning, out of the blue, it’s just parked there. The black car.
      In the quiet street in a well-off residential area. Inside, a man and                                               Cover
      a woman, just sitting, not moving. For hours, for days. This silent
      provocation makes the neighbours increasingly nervous. Above
      all Stella Johannsen, who keeps asking herself: what do these two
      know? About the horrible night six years ago when Stella and her
      husband Paul had a serious accident. An accident that left one
      person dead.

      Is that why they are here? What are they going to do? And how
      much time does Stella have?

      “I lost myself completely in this story – at some point I
      didn’t know any more what was up and what was
                                                                                                                         352 pp., Trade Paperback
      down. Superbly thrilling. A must-read!“
                                                                                                                         February 27, 2019
      Melanie Raabe, bestselling author of “The Trap”
                                                                                                                         Scherz Verlag

      “If you like Sebastian Fitzek’s psychological journeys to
      hell and back, you will devour Wiebke Lorenz’ thriller.“
      Express

      A short news item gave Wiebke Lorenz the idea for her
      psychological thriller “Someone’s Going To Die“: for over a week, a
      couple sat in a car parked in a quiet street without ever getting out.
      And nobody understood why. Fascinated, Wiebke Lorenz
      immediately began to spin her story. What if these two knew
      something that must be kept secret? This is how the novel’s
      protagonist Stella feels, and together with her, the reader experiences
      days filled with fear, never knowing what new ambiguities the story
      will present. This, precisely, is what fans love about Wiebke Lorenz;
      reviews have compared her psychological journeys to hell and back
      with those of Sebastian Fitzek. She is a bestselling author and her
      novels have been translated in over twenty countries.
                                                                                                                           © Pressebild.de/ Bertold
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CRIME FICTION

       MARK RODERICK
       Post Mortem
       Hearts Made of Ire
      Kyril Owalischenko is one of the most influential men in the
      entire Baltic region. He delivers everything and anything the East
      has to offer: vodka, sable, caviar, drugs, and girls. When a female
      undercover agent sends word to Emilia that this man is holding
      several women captive in his hide-out, she sets out for the Baltic
      states. However, Avram Kuyper also has an interest in this crime
      boss, since he is responsible for his escape from prison. But why
      did he want him on the outside? When Avram and Emilia
      discover the hide-out, there is a deadly show-down.

      “High speed, a thrilling plot and sympathetic
      protagonists.“                                                                                                   500 pp., Paperback
      Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung                                                                                             March 27, 2019
                                                                                                                       FTV

         ●       Volume 5 of the Post Mortem series with professional
                 hitman Avram Kuyper and Interpol agent Emilia Ness
         ●       Over 150,00 copies sold in the series

      Mark Roderick is a pseudonym. His gripping thrillers originate in the early hours of the
      morning, when nothing and no one can disturb his writing. Mark Roderick lives near
      Stuttgart with his family

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CRIME FICTION

       NIKOS MILONÁS
       Cretan Feud
       DI Charisteas’ First Case
      Curtain up for Detective Inspector Michalis Charisteas –                                                         Cover
      proud Cretan, dogged investigator, in love with a
      German woman and trying to solve a bloody feud

      When DI Michalis Christeas looks out his window in the morning
      and takes in the picturesque harbour of his hometown Chania, he
      cannot imagine living anywhere else in the world. From the
      mountains, the breeze carries the aroma of blossoming olive trees
      and from the sea, the scent of salt and shells. Everything would be
      perfect – if only his girl-friend Hannah could be with him at this
      moment. But Hannah is German and only comes to Crete every
      few months, which is always a major occasion for Michalis and
      his extended family. As it is this day at the end of April. But
      before Hannah arrives, Michalis is thrown into a new case: the                                                   400 pp., Trade Paperback
      mayor of a neighbouring town has gone missing and is soon                                                        April 17, 2019
      discovered dead, in a car wreck along the rocky coast. A tragic                                                  Scherz Verlag
      accident, it turns out. But Michalis, contrary to his colleagues,
      won’t accept this easy explanation. His investigations – not
      always quite official – lead him to discover old feuds that are
      bound to claim further victims...

       ●       Every year, Crete proves to be a highly popular holiday
               destination
       ●       For readers who enjoy Jean-Luc Bannalec, Gil Ribeiro and
               Alexander Oetker

      Nikos Milonás a.k.a. Frank D. Müller fell in love with Crete at the age of 17, on his first journey to
      the Mediterranean island. Coming from a cool summer in northern Germany, he found himself
      overwhelmed by the view of the coast from the ship and the intense scent of wild thyme drifting across
      the water. Ever since then, he’s been spending as much time on Crete as possible, and both the island
      and the people have found a permanent place in his heart. Born in Hamburg, he now lives in Munich
      when in Germany and works as assistant director and documentary filmmaker. He has also
      co-authored several television series (e.g. “München 7“). “Cretan Feuds“ is his first crime novel and DI
      Michalis Charisteas’ first case.

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CRIME FICTION

       KLAUS-PETER WOLF
       Deadly Game In The Harbour
       Sommerfeldt to the Rescue
      He’s charming. He’s intelligent. And he can kill.                                                                 Cover
      The third volume with Dr. Bernhard Sommerfeldt from
      number-1 bestseller author Klaus-Peter Wolf.

      Only those who give up are lost. You can fell damn far in life. But
      you can also get up again and start playing the game again. As
      Johannes Theissen I was a victim. Unhappy. A sad figure. As Dr.
      Bernhard Sommerfeldt, I grew to become a respected, beloved
      man in East Frisia. Now that Ann Kathrin Klaasen has arrested
      me, I’ll choose another way to get out of this prison: I’m getting
      sick.

      As Dr. Bernhard Sommerfeldt, with good knowledge of the
      human body, it’s not hard for me to simulate an illness. I still
      have a couple scores to settle…                                                                                   400 pp., Paperback
                                                                                                                        June 26, 2019
      “Sometimes Sommerfeldt frightens me, but then I’d like to be                                                      FTV
      friends with him again, and would even be willing to hide him.
      He’s the typical anti-hero of our age, likable, well-read, a                                                     Rights to previous titles sold
      connoisseur, but quite dangerous. That’s exactly why so many                                                     (selection):
      people like reading about him.” Klaus-Peter Wolf                                                                 WEL (Manilla), EST (Atlex), F
                                                                                                                       (Piranha), NL (Sybesma), NL
                                                                                                                       (Stortebeeker), P (Medina
          ●       Number 1 in the thriller category: over 6 million copies                                             Rodzina), TR (Yurt Kitap)

                  sold
          ●       From zero to the top of the Spiegel Online bestseller list for
                  the seventh time in a row
          ●       Sympathetic, intelligent and highly dangerous: Dr
                  Bernhard Sommerfeldt is admired and feared

      Klaus-Peter Wolf lives and writes in the East Frisian town of Norden, the same place where Dr
      Bernhard Sommerfeldt runs his medical practice as a GP. After years spent in the Ruhr region, in the
      Westerwald and in Cologne he moved to the East Frisian coast. Klaus-Peter Wolf’s books have been
      awarded numerous prizes, and many of his screenplays were filmed as part of the “Tatort“ and
      “Polizeiruf 110“ television series. Both the East Frisian crime stories with Ann Kathrin Klaasen and the
      novels with Dr Bernhard Sommerfeldt regularly occupy number 1 of the Spiegel Online bestseller list.
      Currently, several of his books are being filmed for the German public broadcaster ZDF.
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CRIME FICTION

       JÖRG MAURER
       Drop Dead Dangerous
       A Crime Story Set in the Alps

      DI Jennerwein’s most perplexing case -– Volume 12 of
      the “Alpenkrimi“ series by No 1-bestselling author Jörg
      Maurer

      The old fire wheel was a marvellous piece of decoration for the
      house of the Rusches in the idyllic Bavarian spa town. But now
      Alina Rusche lies dead in her garden, slain by the falling wheel.
      DI Jennerwein is convinced that this was no accident but murder.
      But why did the cleaning woman have to die? Did she discover
      dangerous secrets on the job? Jennerwein interviews peeved
      dignitaries and talkative shop owners. When the director of the
      local Bank admits that Alina was cleaning for him, the trace leads
      directly to the vault, a room that is famously impenetrable. Here,
      hidden and locked away, are secrets aplenty that would make
      murder pay. Jennerwein follows every single clue, and the entire
      spa town is in turmoil. The only thing the DI does not anticipate                                                 384 pp., Trade Paperback
      is who will drop dead next...                                                                                     May 22, 2019
                                                                                                                        Scherz Verlag

         ●       Over 2 millions books sold
         ●       Maliciously funny, criminally fast: with this case, Maurer
                 surprises even the most experienced crime readers

      Jörg Maurer is a number 1 bestselling writer who has received numerous awards both as author of
      eleven crime novels and as a cabaret artist, including the Cabaret Award of the City of Munich, the
      Agatha Christie Crime Award, the MIMI Crime Award (awarded by readers) and the Radio Bremen
      Crime Award. Jörg Maurer is a native of Garmisch-Partenkirchen; after studying German Literature
      and Drama he worked as a teacher, then as a cabaret artist until turning his talents to writing.

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CRIME FICTION

       PIERRE LAGRANGE
       Shadows In Provence
       A New Case for Albin Leclerc

      The past casts dark shadows across the Provence

      Commissaire Albin Leclerc just doesn’t get to enjoy his
      well-deserved retirement. A truck carrying very valuable pieces of
      art is ambushed, right outside Carpentras. The heist fails; the
      police discover an unknown painting by Cézanne and a Van Gogh
      in the robber’s hide-out. Everything points to their provenance
      from a depot where the Nazis had secreted away stolen art. Much
      to the chagrin of policemen Theroux and Castel, Albin –
      accompanied by his pug Tyson – joins the investigation, always
      one step ahead of them. Then a murder occurs, and now the
      perpetrators are aware of Albin. Suddenly it is a question of life
      and death for him...

                                                                                                                       448 pp., Trade Paperback
                                                                                                                       April 24, 2019
         ●       The fourth case in the successful Spiegel Online bestseller                                           Scherz Verlag
                 series with Commissaire Albin Leclerc
         ●       Over 150,000 copies sold in the series

      Pierre Lagrange is the alias for a well-known German author
      who has already published numerous crime novels and thrillers.
      His mother used to run a small hotel, famous for its Provencal
      cuisine, in an old country estate near Avignon. Following “Tod in
      der Provence“, “Blutrote Provence“ and “Mörderische Provence“,
      “Shadows In Provence“ is the fourth volume in the successful
      series about the loveable Commissaire Leclerc and his pug Tyson.

____________________________________________________________________________________                                      © Kerstin Schomburg
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FANTASY

       JENNY MAI-NUYEN
      The Daughters of Ilian

      Four magical artefacts determine the fate of the world                                                           Cover

      A goblet for preserving the past. A flute for speaking to animals. A
      mirror for recognising oneself. A star disk for seeing the future.
      But the knowledge of the magical artefacts seems lost. The Wise
      Women have fled to the forests, and warlords rule humans,
      dwarves and elves. Until the daughters of two tribes go on a
      journey to reawaken the magic and return hope to the world.

       “Jenny-Mai Nuyen has her place in the top
      league of German fantasy authors.“                                                                               656 pp., Trade Paperback
      Bild am Sonntag                                                                                                  March 13, 2019
                                                                                                                       FISCHER TOR

         ●       For readers who enjoy Marion Zimmer Bradley, Ursula K.
                 Le Guin, Leigh Bardugo and Tomi Adeyemi
         ●       Like her readership, the author of “Nijura – Das Erbe der
                 Elfenkrone“ has grown up and now offers her first fantasy
                 novel in ten years.
         ●       400,000 copies of her books sold in Germany so far
         ●       Highly topical themes of “power and gender“: women
                 determine the fate of the world

     Jenny-Mai Nuyen was born in 1988 in Munich to
     German-Vietnamese parents. She has been writing since the age of
     five; at ten, she wrote her first screenplay and at thirteen her first
     novel. Her literary debut “Nijura – Das Erbe der Elfenkrone“ put her
     on the map as one of Germany’s great fantasy authors. Having
     studied film at New York University, Jenny-Mai Nuyen now makes
     her home in Berlin where she studies Philosophy and writes.

____________________________________________________________________________________                                       © Milena Schlösser
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FANTASY

       KAI MEYER
       Star Crown – The Machine
       Gods
      Volume 3 of the magical space adventure                                                                            Cover
      The grand finale of the epic space fantasy

      The galaxy is in flames. The Machine Gods have awakened and
      have plunged the star empire into a cosmic war.
      Amidst the chaos, Iniza Talantis is fighting to keep her family
      safe. On board the “Nightwards“, she chases through space,
      pursued by the henchmen of the Order of the Witches. The
      reason: the witches think Iniza’s daughter Tanys holds the key to
      victory.
      Her journey takes her to the forbidden moon of the Weapons
      Masters, through dried-up oceans, to contaminated jungle worlds
      and to the slums of the Targantum Drift. But it is on Tiamande
      that her fate awaits – the realm of the Goddess-Empress.
                                                                                                                         384 pp., Trade Paperback
                                                                                                                         February 27, 2019
                                                                                                                         FISCHER TOR
      “The master of mythology!“
                                                                                                                         Rights to previous adult fiction titles
      Buchjournal                                                                                                        sold to: Die Alchimistin: E (Bóveda), F
                                                                                                                         (Du Rocher), HR (Mozaik), RUS (Family
                                                                                                                         Leisure Club); Dschinnland (Sturmkönige I):
                                                                                                                         F (L’Atalante), JP (Tokyo Sogensha),
                                                                                                                         TR (Elf ); Wunschkrieg (Sturmkönige II):

         ●       Over two million books sold worldwide                                                                   F (L’Atalante), JP (Tokyo Sogensha),
                                                                                                                         TR (Elf ); Glutsand (Sturmkönige III): F

         ●       “Pulls out all the stops of classic space opera – reminiscent                                           (L’Atalante), JP (Tokyo Sogensha), TR
                                                                                                                         (Elf ); Herrin der Lüge: RO (Editura
                 of modern masters such as Iain M. Banks.“ Das Science                                                   Universitaria); Buch von Eden: CZ (Alpress),
                                                                                                                         E (Roca), GR (Konidaris), I (Mondadori),
                 Fiction Jahr                                                                                            PL (Sonia Draga), SR (Laguna); Die
                                                                                                                         Vatikanverschwörung: E (Algaida), HR
                                                                                                                         (Mozaik), I (Armenia), LT (Alma Littera), SR
                                                                                                                         (Laguna), SV (Ikar); Göttin der Wüste: HR
                                                                                                                         (Mozaik), RUS (Family Leisure Club); Die
                                                                                                                         Krone der Sterne: RUS (AST)

      Since his youth Kai Meyer, born 1969, has been dreaming of
      writing a space opera. He is one of Germany’s most important
      fantasy authors and has published 60 novels; translations have
      been published in thirty languages. His books have been adapted
      for films, radio plays and graphic novels and have been awarded
      prizes in Germany and abroad.

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SCIENCE FICTION

       ANDREAS ESCHBACH
       Perry Rhodan – The Biggest
       Adventure
                                                                                                                       Cover

      Perry Rhodan – how it all began

      Cape Kennedy, 1971: After the catastrophic failure of the Apollo
      missions, the Americans undertake one last, desperate attempt to
      win the race to the moon. The name of the space ship: Stardust.
      The name of the commanding officer: Perry Rhodan.
      This was the kick-off event for the “Perry Rhodan” Sci-Fi series,
      which became the most successful serialised story worldwide.
      Yet it is only now that the numerous fans are told how it all
      began: Perry Rhodan’s youth, his political escapades, his
      adventures as a test pilot and the secret story of manned space
      travel – a fantastic story of origins.                                                                           848 pp., Hard Cover
      Andreas Eschbach tells the story of how Perry Rhodan became                                                      February 27, 2019
      the legendary figure that led humanity to the stars.                                                             Fischer TOR

         ●       Anniversary: in February, Perry Rhodan issue no. 3,000
                 will be published
         ●       A spectacular media event: 50 years ago, man landed on
                 the moon (July 20, 1969)
         ●       Major cooperation between the Fischer and Pabel Moewig
                 publishing houses

      Andreas Eschbach has been a massive Perry Rhodan fan ever since his youth and so far has
      guest-authored six novels about the “Heir of the Universe”. He studied aerospace engineering, worked
      in IT and since 2003 has been living and writing in the Bretagne. His breakthrough was “Das Jesus
      Video”; since then, his novels (“One Trillion Dollars”, “Ausgebrannt”, “Lord of All Things”) have all
      made the bestseller lists. His oeuvre has been translated into numerous languages and has won prizes
      in Germany and abroad.

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NON FICTION
BIOGRAPHY | ART

     JULIA VOSS
     “To astonish humanity”:
     Hilma af Klint

    A radical force, ahead of her time – Hilma af Klint,
    pioneer of abstract painting

    She created more than 1,000 paintings, drawings, and
    water-colors, revolutionizing art. A forerunner to Kandinsky and
    Mondrian, the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint created abstract
    works with deeply striking forms and colors. She was a fiercely
    independent and determined woman who refused to bow to the
    rules of the male-dominated art world. Klint knew she was ahead
    of her time: at the age of seventy, she decreed that her works
    should only be exhibited 20 years after her death. The rediscovery
    of her work has caused a sensation in the art world over the past
    years. In this deeply researched account of Klint’s life, Julia Voss
    recounts the unconventional life of this exceptional artist,                                                        368 pp. with color illustrations
    destroying clichés and myths while painting a portrait of an era in                                                 Hardcover
    which art, as well as politics, was set into turmoil.                                                               September 25, 2019
                                                                                                                        S. Fischer Verlag
                                                                                                                        Sample translation available
     ●       The very first biography of Hilma af Klint
                                                                                                                        Rights sold: WEL (Chicago UP),
     ●       Portrays the unconventional life of an exceptional artist                                                  S (Bonniers)
             akin to Frida Kahlo or Camille Claudel
     ●       A major rediscovery in art history, with current exhibitions
             at the Guggenheim and Lenbachhaus, Munich

    Julia Voss encountered Hilma af Klint’s work ten years ago in
    Stockholm. Since then, she has visited many archives in Europe to
    conduct research on Klint and has carefully analyzed the artist’s 125
    notebooks. Her research has taken Voss to Stockholm, Amsterdam,
    Florence, London, and Switzerland. Julia Voss was an editor in chief
    at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In 2005, she received a PhD in
    art history. She is the recipient of multiple writing awards, including
    the Sigmund Freud Prize for academic prose awarded by the Deutsche
    Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. She currently holds an honorary
    professorship at Leuphana Universität in Lüneburg and writes an art
    column titled “Ask Julia Voss” for the Frankfurter Allgemeine
    Sonntagszeitung.
                                                                                                                               © Isolde Ohlbaum
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ESSAY | GENDER

     CAROLIN EMCKE
     Yes means yes and ...

    In the wake of #MeToo, how should we think and talk
    about desire and power, exploitation and racism?

    The #MeToo debates have launched a conversation on sexuality
    and exploitation that is only just beginning. They have raised
    urgent questions: which pictures and notions shape our ideas of
    desire and revulsion? How can we uncover and prevent violence?
    How are structures and norms created into which men, and
    women, and everyone else must fit? Who is silenced, who remains
    powerless? How can desire and sexuality be expressed fully –
    without sacrificing their ambiguity?
    In a searching exploration of her own experiences, social habits,
    music, and literature, Carolin Emcke reveals how tangled and
    complicated the relationship between sexuality and truth can be.

                                                                                                                       ca. 96 pages, Hardcover
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    “In her writings, Emcke explores how people’s                                                                      Available on May 22, 2019
    voices are drowned out and silenced, while                                                                         Sample translation available

    others exercise their power with impunity.”                                                                        Rights sold: F (Seuil), I (Teseo)
    Elisabeth von Thadden, Die Zeit                                                                                    Rights to previous titles sold:
                                                                                                                       “Gegen den Hass”:
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       ●       The recipient of the German Peace Prize weighs in on
                                                                                                                       (Polis), I (Teseo), J (Misuzu),
               #MeToo                                                                                                  KOR (Dasan), NL (De Geus),
       ●       Political, personal, topical                                                                            PRC (SSAP), (Rye Field), SLW
                                                                                                                       (Mladinska)

    Carolin Emcke, a recent recipient of the Peace Prize of the German Book
    Trade, studied philosophy in London, Frankfurt/Main, and Harvard. She
    has reported from regions in crisis around the globe as a journalist and
    freelance writer. Her books explore questions of violence, witnessing, and
    the terms of open, free democracy. “Yes means yes and …” arose out of a
    Lecture Performance held for the Schaubühne Berlin.

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ESSAY | FEMINISM

       JAGODA MARINIĆ
       Sheroes
       We Need New Heroes –
       Men and Women
      Post #MeToo: we must push on!

      Now we finally have the opportunity to talk openly about men
      and women, about power and role assumptions. #MeToo was an
      offer to start a public conversation – let’s do it! Let us not see this
      fail in times when election campaigns try to ensnare voters with
      slogans like “Bikini, not Burka“. Let us give the discussion in
      Germany a proper, specific direction. As women, let us seize the
      opportunity and define ourselves. Let us invent new (s)hero
      models – and get the men on board, because in this fight against
      the abuse of power, we must all pull together. This is what this
      book aims to set in motion, it wants to show new perspectives. A
      call to arms for those who already know this is necessary. And
      even more so for the others.
                                                                                                                       128 pp., Hardcover
                                                                                                                       March 6, 2019
                                                                                                                       S. Fischer Verlag
         ●       Topical subject, important contribution to the current public
                 debate
         ●       A new, young voice, an author with a socio-political agenda
         ●       Demanding, provocative, different: for men and women!

      Jagoda Marinić is a staff writer for the “Süddeutsche Zeitung“, the
      “taz“ and the radio broadcaster “Deutsche Welle“. She regularly
      manages to nudge people into debates and to provoke a multitude of
      reactions. She first made a name for herself as a writer of novels, short
      stories, essays and plays, for which she received numerous awards
      even at the start of her career. After studying Politics, German and
      English Language and Literature, she spent a lot of time working
      abroad, in Croatia, the USA, Canada and Romania.

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