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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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ © A. Sophron S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights
CONTEMPORARY LITERARY FICTION 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 Rights to previous titles sold: Mängelexemplar: ARAB (NCT), BG (Era), CZ (Jota), IT (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 ____________________________________________________________________________________ S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights
CONTEMPORARY LITERARY FICTION 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 S. Fischer Verlag ‘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.’ ____________________________________________________________________________________ S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights © Jürgen Bauer
CONTEMPORARY LITERARY FICTION 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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ © Jörg Steinmetz S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights
CONTEMPORARY LITERARY FICTION 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 February 27, 2019 S. Fischer Verlag “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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ © Daniel Poller S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights
CONTEMPORARY LITERARY FICTION 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 S. Fischer Verlag 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“. © Rita Newman/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights ASAblanca.com
CONTEMPORARY LITERARY FICTION 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). ____________________________________________________________________________________ © Sibylle Meier S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights
CONTEMPORARY LITERARY FICTION 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 S. Fischer Verlag “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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ © Lilian Birnbaum S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights
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 March 13, 2019 book, a foray into Monika Rinck’s oeuvre and a celebration of S. Fischer Verlag 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. © Gene Glover / Agentur Focus ____________________________________________________________________________________ S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights
CONTEMPORARY LITERARY FICTION 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 S. Fischer Verlag Rights to previous titles sold: 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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights
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 S. Fischer Verlag Rights to previous titles sold: fliehende ansicht: F (Dagona); Erdlebenbilder: F (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. © Jürgen Bauerr ____________________________________________________________________________________ S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights
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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ © Jürgen Bauer S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights
FISCHER CLASSICS 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 September 25, 2019 S. Fischer Verlag 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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ © S. Fischer S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights
FISCHER CLASSICS 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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ © S. Fischer S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights
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COMMERCIAL FICTION | HUMOR 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 ____________________________________________________________________________________ S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights
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 ____________________________________________________________________________________ S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights
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“. ____________________________________________________________________________________ S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights
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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights
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 ____________________________________________________________________________________ S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights Fabricius
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 ____________________________________________________________________________________ S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights
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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights
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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights
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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights
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 S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights
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 S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights
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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ © Gaby Gerster S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights
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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights
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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 ____________________________________________________________________________________ S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights
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 S. Fischer Verlag “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”: WEL (Polity), BLR (PWUP), BR (Ayiné), E (Taurus/PRH), F (Seuil), FIN (Vastapaino), GR ● 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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ © Jakob Boerner S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights
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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ © Dorothee Piroelle S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2019 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights
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