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RIGHTS GUIDE Autumn 2018
FICTION
4 María Cecilia Barbetta *
6 Nather Henafe Alali
7 Michael Lentz SHORTLISTED
FOR THE GERMAN
8 Christian Metz BOOK PRIZE
8 Roger Willemsen 2018
9 Thomas Hürlimann
10 Reiner Kunze
10 Günter de Bruyn
11 Melanie Levensohn
12 Elke Vesper
12 Patricia Koelle
13 Judith Pinnow
13 Alexandra Holenstein
14 Mia Williams
15 Jörg Maurer
15 Klaus-Peter Wolf
16 Stephan Ludwig
16 Eva Ehley
17 Arno Strobel
18 Dennis Ehrhardt
18 Bernhard Hennen
NON-FICTION
20 Andreas Rödder
21 Volker Ullrich
22 Florian Illies
23 Dietrich Grönemeyer
24 Thilo Bode
25 Frido Mann
25 Werner Hamacher
26 Harald Welzer
26 Martin Seel
27 Ahmad Mansour
27 Andreas Bernard
28 Valentin Groebner
28 Peter Trawny
29 Björn Kern
29 Maike van den Boom
30 Peter Modler
31 Katja Kraus
31 Raquel Erdtmann
FICTION
FICTION 4
MARÍA CECILIA BARBETTA SHORTLISTED
Nightglowing
FOR THE GERMAN
WINNER
BOOK PRIZE OF THE
2018 ALFRED
DÖBLIN PRIZE
2017
An evocative portrait of the spectral atmosphere hovering
over Buenos Aires on the eve of a political coup.
Buenos Aires, 1974. People have flocked to the neighbor-
hood of Ballester from across the globe and put down roots.
Twelve-year-old Teresa practices liberation theology and car-
ries around a plastic Madonna from door to door to dispense
protection. The autoshop is a hotbed of utopian thought.
Men follow the news with bated breath, and the local hair-
dresser loses his mind over the President’s death. The people
of Ballester listen to the voices of the dead, sing songs, and
celebrate life. Yet political turmoil, violence, and an encroach-
ing military dictatorship soon turn the country into a deeply
sinister land. Those wanting to survive must find a vision to
cling to.
In virtuosic prose, the Argentine author María Cecilia Barbetta
tells the story of how soaring dreams can illuminate dark
times. 528 pp., Hardcover
August 15, 2018
• The Argentine writer is among the most fascinating authors S. Fischer Verlag
in German-language literature Sample Translation Link
“Storytelling is about moving beyond taboos and
looking backward; one must search for the ghosts
and the dead inscribed in a country’s history.
Only then, with some luck, will they allow them-
selves to be brought back to life.”
María Cecilia Barbetta
MARÍA CECILIA BARBETTA was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1972 and grew
up in Ballester, the neighborhood in which this novel takes place. She studied
German as a foreign language and received a DAAD-stipend in 1996 to come to
Berlin, where she has remained ever since. Prior to the appearance of her first
novel, she received the Alfred Döblin fellowship from the Akademie der Kün-
ste in 2007 and participated in the reknowned prose writers’ workshop at the
Literarisches Colloquium Berlin. Her first novel, The Los Milagros Tailor Shop, was
published in 2008, and was awarded prestigious debut novel prizes, including the
Aspekte Prize for Literature and the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize. She received a
© Markus Hoehn
fellowship for a residence at the Villa Massimo in Rome in 2013. In 2017, she was
awarded the Alfred Döblin Prize for the manuscript of her second novel, Night-
glowing. María Cecilia Barbetta writes in German and lives in Berlin.
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FICTION 5
“Her lack of pretention conceals tremendous literary power.”
Süddeutsche Zeitung
“High-spirited and melancholy, playful and wise.”
Börsenblatt
“A highly intelligent, literary delight, and a truly entertaining
page-turner. Impressive.”
Neue Presse
“An amusing, sparkling little marvel.”
Literaturen
“A dreamy, romantic fairy-tale.”
Celebrity
BACK LIST
The Los Milagros Tailor Shop
336 pp. / July 3, 2008 / S. Fischer Verlag / Sample Translation Link
Rights sold: FIN (Atena), HR (Novela), I (Keller), NL (Ailantus), ROK (Mun-
hakdongne)
When beautiful Analía Morán walks into the Los Milagros
tailor shop in Buenos Aires and enters the life of the young
tailor Mariana Nalo, everything changes. As she alters Analía’s
wedding dress, Mariana becomes more and more involved
in the other woman’s life, which seems both foreign and
strangely familiar…
María Cecilia Barbetta’s debut novel brims over with emotion,
charm, and wit, chronicling the tale of two young women and
the curious miracle of love.
• An extraordinary debut – 30 000 copies sold to date
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FICTION 6
NATHER HENAFE ALALI
Room With No Windows
Nothing is more difficult than to be free
Alali tells of a Syrian couple who are in love. When he is
severely wounded and disappears, she sets off on the danger-
ous journey to Europe. Abroad she meets one of his closest
friends. Her story appears to have reached a turning point,
nothing is improbable in the turmoil of this century.
Alali’s extremely emotional debut novel is about loss and
exhaustion, of how the war steals away one’s Heimat – but
not the hope, the optimism, the power of resistance. It is a
gripping and forceful book about loneliness and exile. Angela
Merkel’s term ‘We can do it’ has an existential meaning to
Alali’s heroes.
238pp., Hardcover
October 4, 2018
S. Fischer Verlag
Sample Translation Link
NATHER HENAFE ALALI was born in Deir Azzor, Syria, in 1989. He has been
living in Germany for four years. In 2011, he was one of the students who pro-
tested peacefully against the Assad regime. He wrote for freedom, democracy
and human rights in Syria. He was arrested, his family bought him free from
prison, and he fled via Egypt and Turkey to Germany. Now he has written a
© Michael Zargarinejad
novel that deals with his experiences.
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FICTION 7
MICHAEL LENTZ
Gloomy Delight
A Requiem
‘Gloomy Delight’ is Michael Lentz’s response to his story collec-
tion ‘Muttersterben’, which saw his breakthrough. The 1 000-
page novel is a mind-blowing journey into the past and the
darkness of the inner self. It tells of his father’s death and
leads the writer son into the worst life crisis ever.
The narrator is locked in a cell and forced to write a book. It
is meant to be the book of all books and to expose everyone
through its length alone – those who read it, but above all the
person who wrote it. Writing will lead the hero into the moth-
er of all catastrophes. Only one thing can save him: he must
stop writing.
1008 pp., Hardcover
August 29, 2018
S. Fischer Verlag
Rights to previous titles sold: Mutterster-
ben: F (Quidam), TR (Iletism); Pazifik Exil:
TR (Iletism); Liebeserklärung: TR (Iletisem)
MICHAEL LENTZ was born in 1964. He is an author, musician and publisher.
Recent works include: Pazifik Exil (novel), Warum wir also hier sind (play), Offene
Unruh (poetry) and the essay collection Textleben and the Frankfurt poetry read-
ing Atmen Ordnung Abgrund.
© Jörg Steinmetz
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POETRY / CRITICISM | FICTION 8
CHRISTIAN METZ ROGER WILLEMSEN
Thinking Lyrically: Music!
Poetics of Today About a Sense of Life
We live in the age of the poem. Poetry is more More than 1.5 Million of Roger Willemsen’s
successful than ever, and some of the best books sold
authors of an entire generation are poets. In
this radical essay, Christian Metz explores why No other form of art was more important to
and investigates what the hallmarks of today’s Roger Willemsen than music. A companion
poetry are. Contemporary poetry, he argues, is from an early age that helped comprehend the
driven by the profound changes of our age to intricacies of life. Willemsen’s declaration of
force a poetic mode of thought: thinking with love to jazz, his bow to the classic composers,
the tools of poetry, which gives us the room for his harsh defence of the artistic existence, but
passion, for play, and for sensual experience legendary above all, his deep understanding of
of the world. Metz systematically introduces musicians and their themes. His unique texts
the reader to this poetic thinking. Taking their ‘about music’ are far more than that: they are
similarities as a starting point, he follows some the expression of a life ‘along those lines where
of this new poetry’s most significant authors – one does things for happiness or excitement,
Monika Rinck and Jan Wagner, Uljana Wolf and but never for indifference’. Roger Willemsen’s
Steffen Popp – into their poetic worlds. Eve- homage to music and its heroes makes one feel
rything, in short, you always wanted to know alive.
about modern poetry, but were afraid to ask.
ROGER WILLEMSEN (1955 – 2016) started out as a uni-
CHRISTIAN METZ , born 1975, is a research fellow at versity lecturer, translator and London-based news-
the Institute of German Literature and its Didactics at paper correspondent before working as a television
Frankfurt’s Goethe University. He is also a literary critic presenter, director and producer from 1991 onwards.
for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and has taught His best-selling books Deutschlandreise, Gute Tage, Af-
at Berlin’s Humboldt University and the University of ghanische Reise, Kleine Lichter, Der Knacks, Bangkok Noir,
Tromsø (Norway). He wrote his doctoral dissertation on The Ends of the Earth, Momentum, and Das Hohe Haus have
the narrational dynamics of love; his habilitation Kitzel: been translated into many languages.
Studien zur Kultur einer menschlichen Empfindung tackled
tickling and its cultural representations. He has also re-
searched and lectured on literary theory, literary history
from the seventeenth century to the present, and the 512 pp. Hardcover
links between anthropology and literature. October 4, 2018
S. Fischer Verlag
Rights to previous titles sold (selec-
tion): Die Enden der Welt: F (Flam-
160 pp., Hardcover marion), UK (Haus Publishing); RUS
(AST), Afghanische Reisen: PL (Panst-
October 4, 2018 wowy), UK (Haus Publishing)
S. Fischer Verlag
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FICTION 9
THOMAS HÜRLIMANN
Homecoming
Heinrich Übel crashes into the railing of a bridge above a
Swiss lake in his borrowed American road cruiser. When he
comes round, he finds himself on a Sicilian beach. He knows
who he is but has no idea how he got there. The people in
the small coastal town treat him differently than those from
his former life. He, who used to be a rather unlucky fellow, is
suddenly a hero and a ladies’ man. But has the world around
him changed, or has he? What really happened on the bridge
above the lake?
Thomas Hürlimann writes about the most weighty and seri-
ous things – in the lightest and cheeriest way imaginable.
“A lost cause is not a bad position for
a writer to be in. He is there to retain a
fading world in his books.” 528 pp., Hardcover
Thomas Hürlimann August 29, 2018
S. Fischer Verlag
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tion): BG (Pygmalion); HK (Durieux); DK
(Lindhardt & Ringhof ); F (Le Seuil); GR
(Kastaniotis); I (Marcos y Marcos); NL
(de Geus); PL (Longin); RUS (Amphora);
SP (Témpora, rr); TUR (Pan)
THOMAS HÜRLIMANN, born 1950 in Zug, Switzerland, studied philosophy in
Zurich and Berlin. He has written numerous plays, stories and novels, most re-
cently Vierzig Rosen (2006). His novel Der große Kater was adapted for the screen,
with Bruno Ganz in the title role. Hürlimann’s work has won him numerous
prizes, including the Rauris Literature Prize (1982), the Joseph Breitbach Litera-
ture Prize (2001), the Jean Paul Prize (2003), the Thomas Mann Prize (2012), and
the Hugo Ball Prize (2014). He is a Corresponding Member of the Bavarian Acad-
© janniskeil.de
emy of Fine Arts and a member of the Academy of the Arts, Berlin. His work has
been translated into 21 languages. He lives in Switzerland and Berlin.
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FICTION 10
REINER KUNZE GÜNTER DE BRUYN
The Hour with The Ninetieth
Yourself Birthday
Poems A Country Idyll
Ten years after Lindennacht, Reiner Kunze has Wittenhagen in Brandenburg: Hedwig Leyden-
written new poems. Using original poetic imag- frost is living in the village of her childhood
es, he allows the reader to share in what makes with her brother Leonhardt, a retired librarian.
him happy or unsettles him. Wherever he goes Her family wants to celebrate her ninetieth
in the world, be it Helsinki, Czernowitz or Kiev birthday next summer and combine this with
– the reader never just finds out what he sees, a fundraising campaign for refugees. It is the
but also always what happens to him. He takes year in which the Chancellor says: ‘We can do
a resolute stand against violence, coarsening it’. The months go by, winter comes, and it is
and oblivion. A particular characteristic of his bitterly cold in the margraviate province. Ice
poems is gentleness. Reiner Kunze speaks of and snow is followed by sloes and apple blos-
old age and leave-taking with great beauty and som. The seasons change, and Hedwig Leyden-
tenderness. ‘Bow yourselves before old trees / frost’s big celebration grows closer. Possibly the
and send my greetings to all beauty’. last spring, the last summer after a long life …
For the first time in thirty years, following his
highly-praised autobiographic and cultural
“(…) the eminent poet who gave us
historic books about Brandenburg and Prussia,
some of the most beautiful poems in
Günter de Bruyn has written a story set in con-
the German language.”
temporary Germany. It is a moving story about
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung the suffering from politics, about the value of
our memories and an unaccustomed era.
REINER KUNZE (1933) was born in Eastern Germany as
the son of a miner. He graduated from Leipzig Univer- “One of the best German writers.”
sity in philosophy and journalism and moved to the Klaus Hübner, Tagesspiegel
Federal Republic of Germany in 1977. He published vari-
ous volumes of poetry and was awarded many literary GÜNTER DE BRUYN (1926) has been awarded numer-
prizes, among them the Georg Trakl Prize, the Geschwis- ous prizes, including the Heinrich Böll Prize and the
ter Scholl Prize and the renowned Georg Büchner Prize. Thomas Mann Prize. Among his most significant works
are the two cultural-historical essays Als Poesie gut and
Die Zeit der schweren Not, the autobiographical volumes
Zwischenbilanz and Vierzig Jahre, as well as the novels
Buridans Esel and Neue Herrlichkeit.
72 pp., Hardcover
July 25, 2018
S. Fischer Verlag 272 pp., Hardcover
Rights to previous titles sold (selec- September 26, 2018
tion): F (Cheyne, Seuil); I (Adelphie, S. Fischer Verlag
Einaudi); JAP (Shobunsha); NL
(Liverse); SP (Alfaguara, Circulo de Rights to previous titles sold:
Lectores); USA (Green Integer) Buridans Esel: I (Costa & Nolan), SRB
(Fabrika); Das Leben des Jean Paul Frie-
drich Richter: JP (Kyushu); Märkische
Forschungen: JP (Dogakusha); Neue
Herrlichkeit: UK/USA (Northwestern
University Press); Vierzig Jahre: NL
(Arbeiderspers); Zwischenbilanz: NL
(Arbeiderspers)
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FICTION 11
MELANIE LEVENSOHN
A Whole Life Between Us
Three women, separated by more than half a century,
bound together by a promise
Paris, 1940: The City of Lights under German occupation.
Christian, the son of a bank director, falls in love with Judith,
a Jewish girl. The young couple secretly plans to flee, but sud-
denly Judith disappears. Christian begins a frantic search.
Montreal, 1982: Shortly before his death, Lica Grunberg con-
fesses to his daughter, Jacobina, that she has an older half-
sister, Judith. Lica escaped the Nazis but lost all contact with
his first-born daughter. Jacobina must promise the old man
that she will find the sister she never knew. It takes her twen-
ty years to begin her search, assisted by her much younger
friend, Béatrice, a French diplomat, who is going through a
painful midlife crisis. At the Holocaust Museum in Washing-
ton D.C., they meet Grégoire. Not only does he turn Beatrice’s
404 pp., Paperback
head, he also uncovers clues to Judith’s whereabouts.
August 22, 2018
Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
Soon the two women discover a dark family secret, stretching
Sample Translation Link
over two continents and six decades. It will change their lives
forever.
• One destiny, two great loves – hugely gripping women
fiction
• Inspired by a true story
• For readers of Alex Capus, Jojo Moyes, Kristin Harmel
and Hanni Münzer
Melanie Levensohn, the cousin of
the autohr’s father in law
When MELANIE LEVENSOHN took on her husband’s last name at their wed-
ding, she became the namesake of his French second cousin who was killed in
Auschwitz. Her tragic story inspired this novel. Melanie Levensohn lives on a
vineyard in Napa Valley in California together with her family. She was born in
© Melanie Levensohn
1970 near Frankfurt, studied political sciences and literature in France and Chile
and later worked as a press aide for the World Health Organisation in Geneva
and for the World Bank in Washington D.C.
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COMMERCIAL FICTION | FICTION 12
ELKE VESPER PATRICIA KOELLE
Loss and Emergence Heaven at Our Feet
The Story of the Wolkenraths Christmas novel
(Volume 5)
Amrum, Christmas Eve 1944. Surf crashes
1952: The entire Wolkenrath family now lives onto the island’s beach. But a lamp is burning
together again in the house in Kippingstraße. in Birke’s house. Huddled together, the oc-
Lysbeth and Aaron work as doctors and are ap- cupants sit around the small Christmas tree.
palled to see how many old Nazis are still hold- Fuel has to be saved; food for the festivities is
ing important positions within society. Stella meagre. While everyone stares into the flicker-
is continually drawn to the city of her birth, ing candlelight, Birke begins to recount how it
Dresden, where she is confronted with the real- all started one autumn. When they found two
ity of Eastern Germany. Meanwhile the Beatles refugees hidden in a cave on the coast and took
are singing in clubs in Hamburg, students are them in …
protesting on the streets against a thousand
years of fustiness and women start fighting for • Wonderful Christmas novel by the
their rights. What will the new era bring for the successful author of Das Meer in deinem
Wolkenrath family? Namen and Wenn die Wellen leuchten
• SPIEGEL bestseller author Patricia
• The story of the family from Hamburg Koelle: more than 300 000 books sold
continues
• More than 70 000 copies of the entire PATRICIA KOELLE is an author from Berlin with a
passion for the sea and writing, through which she
series sold
expresses her never-ending wonder about human
• For fans of Carmen Korn’s centennial beings and our incredible planet.
trilogy
• Volume 5 of the Wolkenrath series
ELKE VESPER was born in Hamburg. She studied French 224 pp., Paperback
literature to PhD level. She has had various professions, October 24, 2018
spending a year in France and nine years in Spain.
Fischer Taschenbuch
She has worked for several different broadcasters and Verlag
published numerous novels revolving around strong
female characters. Alongside her writing, Elke Vesper is
a psychotherapist, has three adult children and lives in
Hamburg.
544 pp., Hardcover
September 28, 2018
Krüger Verlag
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FICTION 13
JUDITH PINNOW ALEXANDRA HOLENSTEIN
The Giraffe Prophecy The Heinrich
Problem
A humorous and poetic novel for all those who
yearn for more magic in their daily life. Exacting revenge on a man – what could be
nicer?
Suddenly there is a series of strange changes in
the life of the completely inconspicuous prima- Berti Fischer, a woman no longer in the prime
ry school teacher Hanna: mineral water starts of life, hardly believes her ears when her hus-
flowing from her taps, and she receives parcels band Heinrich tells her that he is not intending
of things she never ordered. A stranger moves to grow old with her. Berti soon finds out that
into a caravan in her garden. Not to mention she’s not the only one Heinrich is playing dirty
the giraffe that she catches eating leaves from tricks on. It seems he’s been beguiling several
her acacia tree. Hanna’s best friend Svenja, women at the same time, giving each of them
who has a penchant for romance, knows that the feeling that she was the only one.
this accumulation of strange events means Berti wants revenge. Should she collude with
something. Now Hanna has to find out what the other women to do so? What if they don’t
and how she can stop this magical series. If she all lay their cards on the table and long-hidden
actually wants to that is … things suddenly come to light? The women
make their plan between Zurich and Ascona on
• In the modern fairy tale for adults trend Lake Maggiore. Now Heinrich really does have a
• For readers of Mariana Leky and Frederik problem …
Backman
• The perfect book for the best age reader:
JUDITH PINNOW (1973) works as an actress and televi- a huge target group
sion presenter. Her novels Läuft da was? and Versprich
mir, dass es großartig wird were published by Krüger ALEXANDRA HOLENSTEIN lives and works in Swiss
Verlag. Ticino. The Heinrich Problem is her first novel. The
occasional Heinrich has crossed her path, but luckily,
without lingering for too long.
416 pp., Hardcover
September 26, 2018
Krüger Verlag 368 pp., Paperback
February 20, 2019
Fischer Taschenbuch
Verlag
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FICTION 14
MIA WILLIAMS
Pure Desire – Only You
(Volume 1)
256 pp., Paperback / October 24, 2018 / Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
Since her parents’ death, Liz is responsible for her sisters, her
families indebted American diner and her old timber house
on Lake Tahoe. Relationship? Love? Sex? No such luck. This
changes instantly when she meets Cole. He is sexy and confi-
dent and makes her forget all the rules in an irresistible whirl
of desire and feelings. What Liz doesn’t know: the hot affair
could soon cost her a lot more than just her heart.
• The new irresistible series for fans of CALENDAR GIRL
and LOST IN LOVE
• Sizzling passion and strong feelings at the most beautiful
place in the world
Pure Desire –
Between Us
(Volume 2)
256 pp., Paperback / January 23, 2019 / Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
Fiona leads a breathless life between parties and meaningless
affairs far away from her home on Lake Tahoe – all in order to
forget the painful memory of her parents’ death. But now she
has to return to the lake. Attractive bad boy Evan is a wel-
come distraction, and the two of them dive into a passionate
adventure. Fi is determined not to let this go any further. As
she’s meaning to leave again soon …
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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CRIME FICTION 15
JÖRG MAURER KLAUS-PETER WOLF
Death Never Catches Frisian Nights
Cold (13th Case)
Inspector Jennerwein wants to celebrate with A murderer is on the loose in Frisia. One who
his team in a snow-covered mountain hut, kills women in their holiday homes. They don’t
sitting cosily around the fireplace, telling know each other and yet the women have
stories, without the pressure of an investiga- something in common: they all had a tattoo
tion or a manhunt. But what is the meaning of – a so-called power animal. A strange feeling
these blood-red drops in the snow? Why is a creeps over Frank Weller. His daughter has a
drone circling above the hut? And what are the new boyfriend and not only that. She also has a
sinister shadows roaming through the night? tattoo like that.
While the police station in the town below lies
abandoned and a lifeless body is found tied up • A total of 5 Million copies sold
in the cellar, Jennerwein realises he has fallen • The new book from the number 1 rated
into a trap. If he wants to save his team, he has thriller series
to go sledging with death … • On the SPIEGEL bestseller list for more
than 45 weeks
• Nr.1-Bestselling author Jörg Maurer:
sold more than 2 million books
• Suspense and humour: Maurer masters KLAUS-PETER WOLF is one of the most successful
this art like no other German crime author crime writers in Germany. His Ann Kathrin Klaasen
novels are mega bestsellers and are regularly found in
JÖRG MAURER is a No.1 bestselling author, he lives and the prime position of SPIEGEL bestseller list.
works in Bavaria. He has received numerous awards,
both as an author and musical cabaret performer.
500 pp., Paperback
432 pp., Hardcover February 21, 2019
October 24, 2018 Fischer Taschenbuch
Verlag
Scherz Verlag
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Totenstille im Watt: NL (Storte-
beeker); Karma Attacke: TR (Yurt);
Mord am Leuchtturm: NL (Sybesma);
Ostfriesenblut: EST (Atlex), PL (Media
Rodzina); Ostfriesenfeuer: F (Piranha);
Ostfriesengrab: PL (Media Rodzina);
Ostfriesenkiller: PL (Media Rodzina);
Ostfriesenwut: RUS (AST)
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CRIME FICTION 16
STEPHAN LUDWIG EVA EHLEY
Zorn 8 – Blood and Fake Lustre
Punishment
Thriller
In their seventh case, Bastian Kreuzer, Sven
Winterberg and Silja Blanck get a deep insight
When Inspector Claudius Zorn makes his into the chasms of the human soul, where the
usual weekly visit to an elderly gentleman one need for admiration and desire don’t stop even
Wednesday evening, he suddenly finds himself before death.
in the middle of a crime scene. The old man
has been brutally murdered, and Zorn knows The young and extremely attractive salesman
that he now has to carry out one of the most Adnan Jashari is found dead in a jewellery shop
difficult tasks of his career. The daughter of the in Kampen on the island of Sylt. His throat has
murdered man is no other than Frieda Borck, been cut, his eyeballs removed. Two expensive
Zorn’s former boss and girlfriend. Zorn and earrings are found in the eye sockets, a ring in
Schroeder work at fever pitch to find the per- his mouth.
petrator. But another murder soon takes place. First indications show that the dead man came
Both victims have a row of numbers burned from a criminally active Arab clan that is based
into their skin, but otherwise there seem to be in Berlin. Because large amounts of money
no connections between them. And then the were moved in and out of his account, a case of
most important person in Zorn’s life is put in money laundering is presumed. When Winter-
danger and he’s about to lose his mind … berg, Kreuzer and Blanck find out about Jasha-
ri’s relationship to his much older female boss,
• 370 000 books from the Zorn series sold jealousy also becomes a motive. But then the
discovery of another body, also decorated with
jewellery, causes all theories to collapse …
STEPHAN LUDWIG has worked as a theatre technician,
musician, and radio producer. He has three daughters,
one son, and no cats. He discovered writing through an EVA EHLEY has been a regular instigator of murder on
accidental concatenation of unplanned events. He lives the island of Sylt – if only on paper. She has twice been
and smokes in Halle. nominated for the Agatha-Christie-Prize for Crime Fic-
tion, in 2012 and 2013.
384 pp., Paperback
362 pp., Paperback
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PSYCHOTHRILLER 17
ARNO STROBEL
In the Mind of the Murderer
– Death Scream
Thriller
Inspector Max Bischoff is afraid. For his sister Kirsten, who
hasn’t felt safe for weeks. A stranger is watching her, knows
where she is, sends her threatening messages. And then the
event that Max always feared the most happens. A stranger
kidnaps Kirsten and wants to force Max to take the bullet for
her. If he doesn’t, Kirsten will die.
• The grand finale: the third volume of the bestseller trilogy
‘In the Mind of the Murderer’
• Arno Strobel is one of the most successful thriller authors
in Germany
• A total of 900 000 Arno Strobel books sold by FISCHER
Taschenbuch
384 pp., Paperback
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ARNO STROBEL , born in 1962, is among Germany’s most successful thriller
writers. All his thrillers are bestsellers.
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FISCHER
FICTION
TOR 18
DENNIS EHRHARDT BERNHARD HENNEN
Sinclair – Dead Zone The Chronicles of
Azuhr – The White
The Rebirth of a Cult Figure
Queen
London, December 2017: The Baltimore ex- The Living Pulse Beat of Magic
plodes in a remote dock. One victim on board: In the island of Cilia, the conflict between the
Detective Inspector John Sinclair, who at the league of city states and the Duchess of the
time of the accident is investigating a serial Sword Forest escalates. The league’s military
killer case. Sinclair’s death throws up ques- supremacy is overwhelming, and the forest
tions: was the killer also on board? What did inhabitants’ hope rests on an old saga that the
Sinclair discover on The Baltimore? Sinclair’s White Queen, the former ruler of the forest, will
partner Detective Sergeant Gan Zuko takes return in the greatest hour of need. But how
up the investigation, together with Sinclair’s great must the need be until this is fulfilled?
replacement Shāo Sadako. The inconsistencies Milan Tormeno tries to evade the turmoil of
mount up, and the boundaries to reality be- war, as in his eyes neither side is fighting for
come blurred. All the more so when the two of a just solution. But there is further danger:
them realise that John Sinclair is alive… mythical figures are coming to life all over the
‘Sinclair – Dead Zone’ tells the development island. Milan slowly begins to understand how
history of the ghost hunter – completely new he can control these magical creatures – and
and right from the beginning. Sinclair was change reality.
never more contemporary, scary or darker.
• Germany’s No. 1 fantasy author
• John Sinclair is cult – now as a modern • More than five million books sold
mystery thriller worldwide
• The Ghost Hunter John Sinclair is the most
successful German dime novel series, “Bernhard Hennen is currently the most
Alongside Perry Rhodan successful fantasy author in the
German-speaking world.” Express
• For newcomers and all those who want
to rediscover John Sinclair “Bernhard Hennen’s Elven novels are
among the best fantasy books ever
DENNIS EHRHARDT is publisher, radio play creator and
written.” Wolfgang Hohlbein
author.
BERNHARD HENNEN, born in 1966, is a German schol-
ar, archaeologist and historian. Since publishing The
400 pp., Trade Paperback Elves (Die Elfen), his books
January 23, 2019 regularly top both German
FISCHER Tor and international bestseller
lists.
624 pp., Trade Paperback
September 26, 2018
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NON- FICTION
HISTORY / EUROPE 20
ANDREAS RÖDDER
Who’s Afraid of Germany
The Story of a European Problem
How strong can Germany be? How weak can Germany be?
Why is a German leadership so difficult – and what oppor-
tunities does it provide?
Germany faces a dilemma. Everyone expects it to take over
the political leadership. But if it does so, there is an immedi-
ate allegation of German domination.
The renowned historian Andreas Rödder tells the story of the
ambivalent feeling that a strong German nation generates
among its neighbours ever since the end of the 19th century.
How can the country face these fears and conflicts today?
How can German power and European common good be com-
bined? And how can Germany use its position in Europe to
position itself in the world? Andreas Rödder guides the his-
torical analysis through to up-to-date proposed solutions.
Written by the historian and SPIEGEL bestseller author
Andreas Rödder.
• Important perspective/contribution to a highly-topical 368 pp., Hardcover
issue: how to continue with Europe? September 26, 2018
• 35 000 copies of 21.0. Eine kurze Geschichte der S. Fischer Verlag
Gegenwart sold
“Germany and Europe – a pressing book
on one of the most pressing subjects
of our time written by the ‘Historian of
the hour’.” Tagesspiegel
ANDREAS RÖDDER, born in 1967, is considered one of the most renowned
German historians. In brilliant manner, he makes history seminal to an under-
standing of our immediate presence. His articles are well-received both nation-
ally and internationally. He has been Professor for Modern History at the
Johannes Gutenberg University since 2005. His most recent work 21.0 – Eine
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kurze Geschichte der Gegenwart was on the SPIEGEL bestseller list for several
weeks.
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HISTORY 21
VOLKER ULLRICH
Adolf Hitler
The Years of Decline 1939 – 1945
Volume 2 of the much-praised Hitler biography – the path-
way to war, the holocaust and decline
1939, the beginning of the Second World War, followed by the
war of destruction in eastern Europe and the systematic mur-
der of Jews. Which role did Adolf Hitler play in the dynamic
that led to the greatest crime in the 20th century? Which
characteristics of his personality were decisive here? How did
Hitler use his power as supreme commander, which decisions
did he take alone, which in consultation with the Wehrmacht
leadership, with his generals? Volker Ullrich approaches these
deciding questions cautiously, always on the basis of sources
and literature. Once more, he manages to make the person
Adolf Hitler palpable, while at the same time painting a por-
trait of German society within National Socialism: it is only
the interaction of both factors that allows the reader to un-
derstand how it all happened – and which place Adolf Hitler
occupies in history.
832 pp., Hardcover
• Volume 1 was a US bestseller, numerous international October 4, 2018
licences sold, hymnal reviews S. Fischer Verlag
• Volume 2 is not just the sequel to volume 1, but a
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CHN (People’s Oriental);
• More than 40 years after Joachim Fest comes the great F (Gallimard); I (Mondadori),
Hitler biography by a German historian N (Arbeiderspers); PL (Prós
zynski); SP (Libros del Lince);
“A masterful book.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung UK/US (Bodley Head)
Die Jahre des Aufstiegs 1889 – 1939 Biographie
1088 pp., Hardcover / October 8, 2013
S. Fischer Verlag
• New York Times Bestseller
VOLKER ULLRICH, born 1943, studied philosophy, literature and history, in
which he also holds a doctorate. He writes for Die Zeit, is co-editor of the Zeit-
Geschichte magazine, and lives in Hamburg. From 1990 to 2009, he headed the
Hamburger Wochenzeitung’s political book review department. Ullrich has written
numerous works on 19th and 20th century history, most recently Adolf Hitler: Die
© Gunter Glücklich
Jahre des Aufstiegs 1889 – 1939: Biographie, published by S. Fischer. For his work in
publishing he has been awarded the Alfred Kerr Prize and an honorary doctor-
ate from Jena’s Friedrich-Schiller-University.
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HISTORY 22
FLORIAN ILLIES
1913
What I Really Kept Meaning to Say
1913 – The year before the storm – new, surprising and delightful
stories
In his brilliant bestseller 1913, Florian Illies masterfully unfolds the
panorama of an unforgettable year. 1913 is the year our present day
begins, a key moment in history. A magnificent book, a great best-
seller. But there is so much more to say, further surprising, delight-
ful and remarkable moments: Hermann and Mia Hesse want to give
it another go, Egon Schiele can’t get enough of his muse Wally, after
several rejections, Proust is desperately searching for a new pub-
lisher, Tilla Durieux is driving all men crazy and the high-wire artist
and rogue Otto Witte from Berlin-Pankow is crowned King of Alba-
nia. The elegant stylist Florian Illies was unable to relinquish the
year 1913 and so he has gathered together additional stories and
events from a splendid year in which our present day began in this
wonderful new volume.
• One of the most successful and accomplished German
authors of non-fiction continues with his bestseller 140 pp., Hardcover
• ‘1913’ was translated into 24 languages and sold October 24, 2018
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• With familiar and new protagonists, incredible source Rights to 1913 sold: BR (Estação
Liberdade); CHN (Yilin); CZ (Host) ; DK
findings, entertaining and remarkable references (Gyldendal); EST (Tänapäev); F (Piranha);
• Literature and art, gossip and tittle-tattle, knowledge HNG (Park); HR (Fraktura); I (Marsilio);
JAP (Kawade); LT (Sofoklis); LV (Sia); NL
and history: all in one volume! (Atlas Contact); NO (Cappelen Damm);
PL (Czarna Owca); RO (Polirom); ROK
• For the first time with an index for both this and the first (Munhakdongne); RUS (Ad Marginem);
volume of ‘1913’ in order to gain quicker access to all heroes SP (Salamandra); SE (Norstedts); TÜR
(Can); UK (Profile); USA (Melville House)
FLORIAN ILLIES was born in 1971, studied art history in Bonn and Oxford, and
became features writer of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 1997. From 1999
to 2001 he headed the FAZ’s “Berlin pages” and went on to edit the magazine for
the newly-founded Sunday paper, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. He
was a co-founder and editor of the art journal Monopol. In 2008, he became head
of features and literature at Die Zeit. Illies is now a partner in “Villa Grisebach”,
the Berlin auction house, where he is responsible for 19th-century art. His four
© Franziska Sinn
previous books, including Generation Golf (2000) and 1913 – The Year Before the
Storm (2012), have sold over a million copies.
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HEALTH 23
DIETRICH GRÖNEMEYER
World Medicine
On the Pathway to Holistic Healing
The entire medical knowledge from cultures around the
world compiled in one book for the first time ever. An indis-
pensable compendium.
World medicine – that is Professor Dietrich Grönemeyer’s life
project. For decades he has dedicated himself to the question
how alternative healing methods can enrich our conventional
medicine. In order to find the answer, Germany’s most well-
known doctor travelled around the world and asked healers
and shamans to share their centuries of knowledge with him:
from herbal medicine, to meditation, right up to traditional
Chinese healing. He travelled to Africa, Tibet, Brazil, Australia,
Korea and many other countries. Now Professor Grönemeyer
uses his knowledge to answer essential questions: how can
meditation help regulate the heart? Can people be healed
through the laying on of hands? Why do Acupuncture and
Ayurveda work? Professor Grönemeyer shows us what really
works. 288 pp., Hardcover
How century-old knowledge can regenerate conventional August 22, 2018
medicine. S. Fischer Verlag
• Medical knowledge from all cultures: what really heals?
• A journey around the world with Professor Dietrich
Grönemeyer, Germany’s most well-known doctor
• How centuries of knowledge enrich conventional medicine
and change it into a new form of holistic medicine
• From Ayurveda to the Aborigines’ herbal medicine right up
to shamanic medicine and meditation – The quintessence
of medical world knowledge
• For those interested in medicine and adherents of
alternative healing methods
Professor Dr. DIETRICH GRÖNEMEYER , one of the most well-known doctors in
Germany, held a chair of radiology and microtherapy at the University of Wit-
ten/Herdecke. In 1997, he founded the interdisciplinary-focused Grönemeyer
Institute for Microtherapy in Bochum. As a doctor, scientist and author, Dietrich
Grönemeyer is considered one of the most determined advocates of medicine
between high tech and traditional healing. He has committed himself to numer-
ous such projects in his foundation. His books Mensch bleiben, Mein Rückenbuch,
Lebe mit Herz und Seele, Der kleine Medicus and Grönemeyers neues Hausbuch der
© Gaby Gerster
Gesundheit were all bestsellers as was his most recent work Dein Herz, which
appeared with S. Fischer in 2010.
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CURRENT AFFAIRS / GLOBALISATION 24
THILO BODE
Corporate Dictatorship
How Global Companies Are Damaging Us and
Destroying Democracy
The whole picture – for the first time: how global companies
are damaging us and destroying democracy
International companies are evading taxes, damaging the en-
vironment, contravening human rights and dictating bills to
politicians. Most of the time quite legally. But that is not all:
they are growing evermore brazen, using leeway and loop-
holes more unrestrainedly, a new level of exploitation has
been achieved.
In his new book, Thilo Bode presents the whole picture of this
corporate dictatorship, whose stranglehold citizens increas-
ingly get into. Using numerous examples, the independent
and passionate ‘Advocate of the people’, graphically explains
the connections and clarifies: the power of the companies can
be broken – we can reclaim our sovereignty!
240 pp., Hardcover
August 22, 2018
S. Fischer Verlag
THILO BODE, born in 1947, studied sociology and economics. He became the
Chief Executive of Greenpeace Germany in 1989 and of Greenpeace Interna-
tional in 1995. In 2002, he founded the consumer law organisation ‘foodwatch’,
which he heads up to this day. Thilo Bode’s works include: Die Demokratie verrät
ihre Kinder (2003), Abgespeist (2007) as well as Die Essensfälscher (2010). Recently
he published the huge bestseller: TTIP – Die Freihandelslüge. Warum TTIP nur den
Konzernen nützt – und uns allen schadet (2015).
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HISTORY 25
FRIDO MANN WERNER HAMACHER
The White House Justice in Language
of Exile
A political place of exile – then and now: the In the current debate about human rights and
‘Thomas Mann House’ in Pacific Palisades rational law, personal rights and international
law, reference is often made to justice. But how
Thomas Mann moved into his new house in Pa- should it be understood? Following on from
cific Palisades in 1942. It was a refugium for the classic political philosophy, internationally
writer, an exile meeting place and a place of renowned literary theorist Werner Hamacher
refuge for his grandchild. In March 2018, Frido assumes that language is the foundation of
Mann sets off on the vestiges of his memories, justice. Using studies on Plato, Aristoteles,
shortly before the house was to be opened as a Kant, Milton, Locke, Mendelssohn, Hamann,
centre of transatlantic dialogue by the Federal Celan and Legendre, he portrays the history of
Government. Frido Mann recalls the politi- language reduction in prevailing legal theories
cal commitment of the man in exile and finds and responds with a reminder of language
himself confronted with the question what that is not restricted to rulings, but that works
effect open dialogue can still develop today – in towards the extension and dissolution of the
Trump’s America. His essay is a radical plea for boundaries of language. An inspiring and im-
responsibility and understanding in a time of portant contribution to an essential debate.
global crisis.
FRIDO MANN, born in 1940 in Monterey/California, “Human rights do not ensure human
worked as a clinical psychologist in Münster, Leipzig justice.” Werner Hamacher
and Prague following his university studies of music,
theology and psychology. He now lives in Munich as a
freelance writer. He recently published: An die Musik.
WERNER HAMACHER (1948 – 2017) was, until recently,
Professor of General and Comparative Literature at the
Ein autobiographischer Essay and together with Christine
Goethe University Frankfurt and Emmanuel Levinas
Mann, Es werde Licht. Die Einheit von Geist und Materie in
Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate
der Quantenphysik.
School Saas Fee. From 1984 to 1998 he was Professor of
German and Humanities at John Hopkins University in
the USA. From 2003 to 2006 he was Distinguished Global
Professor at New York University.
208 pp., Hardcover
With Illustrations
August 22, 2018 400 pp., Hardcover
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Sample Translation Link S. Fischer Verlag
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CURRENT AFFAIRS / ESSAYS | PHILOSOPHY 26
HARALD WELZER MARTIN SEEL
Welzer Marvels Not Wanting to
Retrospectives on the Future Be Right
of Today Mind Games
Harald Welzer’s popular column from National Do those who philosophise always have to be
Geographic magazine right, even then when they write? No, says
Martin Seel: They don’t have to if they’re free
Every month since 2014, Harald Welzer marvels enough to play mind games without being
in the German version of National Geographic afraid of the adventures of art. This book shows
magazine: about our inner cities that always how it works in three rounds. The first explores
look the same, about roast goose in the South ways of escaping the need to always be right.
Pacific, the efficiency pitfall, smartphones and The second relinquishes itself to these paths
their users, about summit meetings, beeping in a firework of thoughts and images. The third
diggers, old environmentalists, instant grati- recounts how the author came to be someone
fication, hyper consumerism and whatever who does not want to be at peace with himself.
else he comes up with. Always concise, always A simultaneously philosophical and literary
funny, always political. These columns have venture develops along the fine line between
now been compiled for fans, newcomers and philosophy and literature around the relation-
all those who want impulses for their thought ship of both styles of writing and their position
processes. towards the rest of life.
HARALD WELZER , born 1958, is the director of Futur- “Those who take thinking too seriously,
zwei – Stiftung Zukunftsfähigkeit as well as professor don’t take it seriously enough.”
of transformation design at the University of Flensburg. Martin Seel
He also lectures at the University of St. Gallen. His
works have been published in 21 countries. “No philosopher today writes as elegantly
as the Professor from Frankfurt!”
Gerhard Mack, NZZ am Sonntag
176 pp., Paperback
October 4, 2018 MARTIN SEEL , born in 1954 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein,
is a Professor of Philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang
Fischer Taschenbuch Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Previously
Verlag
S. Fischer published Paradoxien der Erfüllung (2006),
Rights to previous titles sold (selec- Theorien (2009), 111 Tugenden, 111 Laster. Eine philosophi-
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cial, People Oriental), CZ (Academia, ‘Hollywood’ ignorieren. Vom Kino (2017).
Argo), DK (Kristeligt Dagblads), E
(Critica, Katz, Prometeo), FI (Gum-
merus), F (Gallimard), HR (Fraktura),
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University Press); 111 Tugen: Arabic
(Kalima)
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CURRENT AFFAIRS | INTEGRATION / INTERNET 27
AHMAD MANSOUR ANDREAS BERNARD
Straight Talk on The Hashtag
Integration Dictate
Against False Tolerance and About a Principle of the Current
Scaremongering Debate Formation
Neither populist scaremongering nor false tol- #MeToo is the most current prominent exam-
erance will get us anywhere! It’s time to speak ple: nowadays discussions are conducted via
frankly. hashtag. With its help, input is bundled and
assigned: everything has to focus on a mutual
The most pressing task in our society is inte- tag. This principle ensures a stronger presence
gration. But no other subject polarises more and orientation of collective arguments, but it
strongly. So far, state and society have faced has a risky and sometimes questionable con-
this task haphazardly – without specific con- sequence. As the hashtag formally reinforces
cepts, or unbiased, objective debates or long- exactly that content which is being criticised,
term plans. The psychologist and bestseller differences blur and the unequal becomes
author Ahmad Mansour, himself a Muslim equal. In his trenchant depiction, Andreas Ber-
immigrant, has been dealing with the problems nard follows the steep rise of the hashtag and
and opportunities of integration for several convincingly shows how our current debates
years. He travelled through Germany, visited are structured by a principle that has become
prisons, schools and refugee shelters and as incidental as powerful. Those wanting to
spoke to politicians, teachers and social work- understand our public discussion culture will
ers. He was able to gain an insight like no one not get around this book.
else, how cohabitation works and how it can
fail. He openly addresses, without false consid- ANDREAS BERNARD, born in 1969, is a Professor of
eration, in which societal areas there is a need Cultural Sciences at the Centre for Digital Cultures at
Leuphana University in Lüneburg and writes for Die
for change, where politics or individuals are
Zeit magazine as well as for the Frankfurter Allgemeine
required to help, and which values are non- Sonntagszeitung. The Fischer Verlag has published: Die
negotiable. Geschichte des Fahrstuhls: Über einen beweglichen Ort der
Moderne (2006), Kinder machen: Neue Reproduktionstech-
AHMAD MANSOUR , born in 1976, is an Arab Israeli and nologien und die Ordnung der Familie (2014) and recently
has been living in Berlin since 2004. He is a qualified Komplizen des Erkennungsdienstes: Das Selbst in der digi-
psychologist and works on projects against extremism. talen Kultur (2017).
He is also a tireless campaigner against antisemitism.
His bestseller Generation Allah appeared in 2015.
96 pp., Paperback
304 pp., Hardcover
October 24, 2018
August 22, 2018
Fischer Taschenbuch
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ESSAY / CULTURAL CRITIC | PHILOSOPHY 28
VALENTIN GROEBNER PETER TRAWNY
Retro Land Heidegger Fragments
Historical Tourism and the A Philosophical Biography
Yearning for Authenticity
What remains of Martin Heidegger? An
Trend topic historical tourism: the absurdity extraordinary portrait by one of the best
and fascination of journeys into a past that we Heidegger authorities in the world
believe really was that way
Martin Heidegger is one of the 20th century’s
Historic old towns decorated with geraniums, most important philosophers, but also one of
colonial idylls on tropical islands, untouched the most controversial. After the publication
Mediterranean beaches and unspoilt Alpine of the ‘Black Notebooks’, which exposed his
villages: journeys to places where time appears antisemitism, Heidegger seemed finished as a
to have stood still are everyday business for the philosopher. But we cannot get away from his
tourism industry. It has to be real, authentic, thinking that easily. In this book, Peter Trawny,
like it used to be – but what exactly is it that renowned Heidegger expert, approaches Hei-
visitors want to find there? Valentin Groebner degger’s life and thinking in an unusual man-
recounts the emergence of historic tourism and ner. He enters into a dialogue with this thinker
its hotspots, from romantic Luzern to pictur- in short fragments, grapples with him, ques-
esque Sri Lanka. In his elegantly written travel tions him, examines his contradictory life,
report, he shows that the actual commodity shirks no conflicts and sounds out what Hei-
of the tourist industry is not culture, sun and degger has to say to both him and us in the
landscapes, but the promise of paradise and present day. A book that is both literature and
the rediscovery of our own roots. But what do philosophy, that draws the reader into Hei-
you do with them once you’ve found them? degger’s thinking, and thinking in general and
touches the substance, the existential heart of
VALENTIN GROEBNER , born in 1962 in Vienna, is a philosophy.
Professor of Middle Age and Renaissance History at
the University of Luzern. He is the author of numerous
books on cultural and scientific history; he has been
PETER TRAWNY, born in 1964, studied philosophy in
Bochum and completed his doctorate at the Univer-
a member of the German Academy for Language and
sity of Wuppertal on the subject of Martin Heidegger.
Poetry since 2017. His most recent publication with
He then taught at several universities in Germany and
S. Fischer was: Ich-Plakate. Eine Geschichte des Gesichts als
overseas and founded the Martin Heidegger Institute
Aufmerksamkeitsmaschine.
at the University of Wuppertal in 2012, which he has
headed up ever since. He is co-editor of the collected
works of Heidegger and was particularly responsible for
224 pp., Paperback
the ‘Black Notebook’ edition,
With Illustrations which has re-ignited the
August 22, 2018 debate around Heidegger’s
S. Fischer Verlag antisemitism.
320 pp. Hardcover
September 26, 2018
S. Fischer Verlag
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