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FICTION
FICTION || LITERARY FICTION
Christoph Ransmayr
The Lockmaster
• Over 1.2 million books sold in Germany
• Sample translation available
Rights sold to: to previous titles: Cox or The Course Of Time: N (Pelikanen) |
SLO (Cankarjeva Zalozba Zaloznistvo) | PRC (Phoenix-Power (Simplified Chinese
(world without Taiwan))) | HU (Pesti Kalligram) | PL (Jagiellonski) | RO (Humani-
tas) | SRB (Geopoetika) | BG (Atlantis KL) | ES (Editorial Anagrama (Spanish
World)) | HR (Leykam) | EG Al Kotob | F (Albin Michel) | TR (Yapi Kredi) | WEL
(Seagull) | NL (Prometheus) | I (Feltrinelli)
March 2021 · 224 pages
Christoph Ransmayr returns with a short tale about killing.
© Magdalena Weyrer
A longboat plunges down the raging rapids and over the White
River’s dreaded cascades. Five people drown. The man who tends the
sluice gates, known respectfully in the riverside villages as the ‘lock-
master’, lord of life and death, ought to have prevented this disaster.
When the lockmaster subsequently disappears, his son begins to sus-
pect that it wasn’t an accident.
Christoph Ransmayr, born in Austria
in 1954, studied philosophy and ethnol- Has this irascible man, so obsessed by the past, turned to murder? The
ogy in Vienna. Alongside popular and
son’s quest for the truth takes him back to long-forgotten days and to
internationally acclaimed novels such as
Die letzte Welt, Cox oder Der Lauf der Zeit
his beloved sister. Like his father, he is familiar with the incredible
and Atlas eines ängstlichen Mannes (Atlas forces of water through his work as a hydraulic engineer on the
of an Anxious Man) he has published ten planet’s great rivers, the focal points of the new water wars. His
works of prose in which he experiments search takes him across a European continent that has disintegrated
with narrative form, including Damen into a mosaic of megalomaniac small states.
und Herren unter Wasser, Geständnisse
eines Touristen and Der Wolfsjäger. The Christoph Ransmayr has written a consummate, gripping tale about a
edited volume Bericht am Feuer is dedi-
world on the brink of breakdown, a tale of guilt and forgiveness.
cated to his work.
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FICTION || LITERARY FICTION | FEMINISM | SOCIETY
Sharon Dodua Otoo
Ada's Realm
• A resounding feminist novel in the tradition of Virginia
Woolf
• NBG review (Spring 2021) available soon!
• Sample translation by Jon Cho-Polizzi available
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (2016) for Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin
February 2021 · 320 pages
The long-awaited first novel from Ingeborg Bachmann Prize-
© Ralf Steinberger
winning author Sharon Dodua Otoo
Sharon Dodua Otoo’s courage and passion for narration and her
curiosity for understanding the present day are breathtaking. Every-
thing in her world hangs by a silken thread: threatening to fall at any
moment, floating in wondrous suspense.
Since winning the Bachmann Prize in So, too, with Ada, the protagonist of Otoo’s first novel. Ada is not one,
2016, Sharon Dodua Otoo has become but many women: She revolves in orbits between Ghana and London
a fixture in German-language media,
before eventually landing in Berlin. But she is also all women —
and the charismatic voice of a new gen-
eration: Black, self-confident, feminist. because these loops transport her from one century to the next. And
Her opening address for the 2020 Inge- so, she experiences the misery but also the joy of womanhood: she is a
borg Bachmann Prize was a sensation. victim, she offers resistance, and she fights for her independence.
Born in London in 1972, she now lives
with both the English and German lan- With vivid language and infinite imagination — with empathy and
guages in Berlin. Her first humor — Sharon Dodua Otoo’s novel Ada’s Realm paints an astonish-
novellas, the things i am thinking while ing picture of what it means to be a woman.
smiling politely and Synchronicity, were
written in English; since the publication
of her Bachmann Prize-winning short
story Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin, she
writes primarily in German.
“Sharon Dodua Otoo will leave a lucid trail of words across the German-
language literary scene. Some may find this journey arduous, but it will do
all of us immense good.”
TAZ
S. FISCHER 4
FICTION || LITERARY FICTION
Judith Hermann
Home
• Over 1.5 million Judith Hermann books sold
• English sample translation by Katy Derbyshire available
"This is a triumph of the novelist's art" The Guardian on Alice
• Blixenprisen 2018 for »Lettipark«
• Erich-Fried-Prize
• Friedrich-Hölderlin-Prize
• Kleist-Prize
Rights sold to: CZ (Vetrne Mlyny) | SK (Artforum); previous titles: Lettipark: CZ
April 2021 · 192 pages
(Vetrne Mlyny) | DK (Batzer) | F (Albin Michel) | NL (Vleugels) | N (Pelikanen)
| IR (Ofoq) (Farsi worldwide) | UK and Commonwealth (Profile Books) |
Judith Hermann tells the story of a departure: an old world is
© Gaby Gerster
lost and a new one comes about.
Her daughter is a traveller, on the road far away. In little letters to her
ex-husband, she tells him how she’s doing in her new life by the sea,
in the north. She sets up house, forges cautious friendships, tries love
for size, wonders whether she might feel at home here or ought to
move on.
Judith Hermann tells the story of a woman who leaves a great deal
behind her, builds resilience and becomes another person in the
Judith Hermann was born in Berlin in intense landscape of the coast.
1970 and lives there with her family. Her
extraordinary debut Sommerhaus, später She tells a story of remembering. And a story of a moment in which
was followed by the short story collec- life splits in two, an old world is lost and a new one comes about.
tion Nichts als Gespenster, the five stories
in Alice, her first novel Aller Liebe
Anfang and the short stories Lettipark.
Judith Hermann’s work has become In this new novel, Judith Hermann admirably recreates the ‘dancing,
required reading in schools and has feather-light and yet melancholy tone’ (Uwe Wittstock) that makes her
been adapted for the silver screen, work so unique.
internationally celebrated, and awarded
numerous prizes, including the Kleist
Prize and the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize.
S. FISCHER 5
FICTION || LITERARY FICTION
Roland Schimmelpfennig
The Line between Day and
Night
• Debut novel One Clear, Ice-cold January Morning... was short-
listed for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize
• One of Germany’s most-performed and internationally
successful playwrights
• Sample translation available
• NBG review available soon
»A 21st century Döblin« Der Freitag
February 2021 · 208 pages
Rights sold to: to previous titles: One clear, ice-cold January morning: CZ (Alba-
tros) | ES (Periferica) | I (Fazi) | NL (Ambo/Anthos) | PL (Jagiellonski) | UK (Quercus); The Language of the Rain: Span-
ish (Bolivia)(El Cuervo)
A fast-moving and emotionally charged trip through the chaos
© Adriana Jacome
of contemporary life
During a police operation Tommy, a successful drug squad detective,
kills an innocent child. Afterwards, nothing is the same. The young
policeman no longer sees the point of his job, his long-term relation-
ship breaks up, he goes further and further off the rails and the only
person he can turn to is Csaba, a drug dealer – until ultimately
Roland Schimmelpfennig, born in Tommy is suspended. Not until he recovers a young woman’s dead
1967, is Germany’s most-performed
body at a techno party in Görlitzer Park, does Tommy find something
contemporary dramatist. He worked as
a journalist in Istanbul, going on to that moves and motivates him: Who was this woman? Why was she
study directing. His first position as a wearing a wedding dress? And what is the significance of the mysteri-
director was at the Munich Kammer- ous tattoo on her back? In his third novel, Roland Schimmelpfennig
spiele. He has been working as a free- takes us on a journey through all the fascinating facets of vibrant con-
lance writer since 1996. Schimmelpfen- temporary Berlin. This pulsating, cosmopolitan city is also a place lost
nig’s plays have been staged in more
between day and night – a city full of hidden depths.
than 40 countries, to great success. Fis-
cher Taschenbuch Verlag has published
ten years of his dramatic work in the
volume Die Frau von früher and Trilogie
der Tiere. His first novel An einem klaren, »Sometimes there would be these rare evenings when I was sober and clear-
eiskalten Januarmorgen zu Beginn des 21. headed, evenings when I could be certain of putting one step ahead of
Jahrhunderts, published in 2016, was on another, even though everything in my life had fallen apart.«
the shortlist for the Leipzig Book Fair from: The Line between Day and Night
Prize.
S. FISCHER 6
FICTION || LITERARY FICTION
Lisa Krusche
Our Anarchistic Hearts
• Nominated for Lit.Cologne's Debut Prize 2021
• Deutschlandfunk Prize 2020
“Lisa Krusche’s sinewy and poetic use of language brings every-
thing to life as she mixes registers into a quicksilver flow, and her
inexhaustible imagination shows me — and most other writers in
German — how fossilized and robotic we have become.”
April 2021 · 448 pages
How are you meant to rebel when everything already seems
© Charlotte Krusche
lost?
Two young women: Charles and Gwen. Charles is dead against mov-
ing to the countryside with her post-hippie parents. Luckily, she can
count on a newsagent’s, a palm tree and wifi. And Gwen? She lives
nearby, her wild, grimy lifestyle an escape from her parents’ prosper-
ity. She steals money from the boys she sleeps with and gives it away.
It is high time these two women met.
Lisa Krusche’s debut novel Our Anarchistic Hearts is about the
Lisa Krusche was born in 1990 in impossible demands of modern life. How are you meant to rebel
Hildesheim and lives in Braunschweig. when everything already seems lost? All that remains is friendship.
She studied Art History and Aesthetics And this friendship develops its own explosive impetus...
at Braunschweig University of Art
(HBK). Her writing has appeared in
magazines and anthologies including
“Mindstate Malibu. Criticism is just “I think of Sartre. How totally unspecific he was. Hell is not other people.
another form of escapism”. She won the Hell is parents.” From Our Anarchistic Hearts
2019 Edit Radio Essay Prize, followed in
2020 by the Hans-im-Glück Prize, and
the Deutschlandfunk Prize at the Festi-
val of German-Language Literature in
Klagenfurt. Our Anarchistic Hearts is
“Lisa Krusche maps out a fantastic panorama . . . Powerful in its literary
Lisa Krusche’s first novel. technique and highly political.” Klaus Kastberger, Ingeborg Bachmann
Prize jury member
S. FISCHER 7
FICTION || LITERARY FICTION
Ulrich Peltzer
That's You
• Ulrich Peltzer's last novel, Das bessere Leben (The Better
Life), was shortlisted for the German Book Prize in 2015.
• 'A Storyteller of European stature' Heinrich Böll Prize Jury 2011
Rights sold to: to previous titles: A Better Life: E (ARG) (Universidad Nacional de
San Martín) | Arabic: (Atlas); Part of the Solution: ES (Eterna Cadencia) | I (ISBN
Edizioni) | PT (Liberdade) | SLO (Sanje) | WEL (Seagull) | TR (Sel)
February 2021 · 288 pages
Ulrich Peltzer, born in Krefeld in 1956, Jump cuts through time: Ulrich Peltzer's portrait of the artist as
studied philosophy and psychology in a young man
Berlin, where he has lived since 1975. He
has published the novels Die Sünden der Suddenly this woman is sitting at a corner table next to the bar, and
Faulheit (1987), Stefan Mar-
you have no choice but to approach her. Straight across the room like
tinez (1995), Alle oder keiner (1999), Bryant
Park (2002) and Teil der Lösung (2007). a sleepwalker. What was it that started back in snowy West Berlin in
His work has won numerous awards, the early eighties, when Potsdamer Platz was a wasteland torn apart
including the Prize of the SWR-Besten- by border installations, and the city was not yet stripped bare of its
liste, the Bremen Literature Prize and dreams? Could everything have unfolded quite differently? Ulrich
the Berlin Literature Prize. Teil der Peltzer writes in this moving story of love and of an artist, of the dan-
Lösung was nominated for the Prize of gerous freedom, coolness and euphoric eruptions of a wild era that
the Leipzig Book Fair in 2009. Ulrich
Peltzer was invited to hold the Frank-
now seems completely alien. What has survived is the impulse to
furt poetics lectures in winter semester write. And the belief that each new word, each image, each sound or
2010/2011. tone can signify a new world.
'Ulrich Peltzer is quite simply a romantic.'
from the Laudatory speech on the occasion of the Kranichsteiner Lit-
eraturpreis (awarded by the German Literature Fund) in 2016
S. FISCHER 8
FICTION
Orkun Ertener
What happened so far (and
never should have)
• The new novel by Orkun Ertener, recipient of the presti-
gious Grimme Preis television award
For readers of Blackbird, The Goldfinch and Why we Took the
Car
•
Rights sold to: to previous titles: Lebt: TR (Pena)
February 2021 · 336 pages
A book about friendship and how it feels when a single moment
© Gaby Gerster
changes everything forever
Finn and Paul have been inseparable since early childhood. Now,
shortly before their A levels, everything is different. Their future is
uncertain, and this frightens them. And then there’s Khalil, who has
suddenly come between them. Unpredictable and erratic Khalil,
whom Paul idolises, and Finn doesn’t trust an inch.
Orkun Ertener, born in 1966, lives After Paul has a bad accident, he has to accept that his memory
with his family in Cologne. He writes
doesn’t extend beyond a day. In the rehab facility, Paul receives an
predominantly for TV and has received
numerous awards for his work, e.g. the alarming letter from Khalil, which leads him to fear the worst. Paul
Adolf Grimme Preis for the series convinces Finn that they must stop Khalil. So, they embark on a road
KDD-Kriminaldauerdienst, which he trip, which takes them from Cologne via Berlin and London to the
developed. His first novel, Lebt, was G20 Summit in Hamburg. And changes everything forever.
number one on the crime fiction best-
seller list, and was praised by critics and
readers alike.
FISCHER Scherz 9
FICTION || LITERARY FICTION | CLASSICS
Thomas Mann, Hans Rudolf Vaget
(Hg.)
Late Stories 1919-1953
• Thomas Mann's late stories critically edited
for the first time
• With commentary by the renowned Thomas
Mann expert Hans Rudolf Vaget
• All of Mann's stories now available in the
expanded commentated Frankfurt edition
May 2021 · 900 pages
Thomas Mann, (1875 - 1955) is one of Thomas Mann's Late Stories critically edited
the most significant writers of the 20th
century. He is credited with bringing In Thomas Mann' work, short stories have a special place. From the
the German novel to the international start of his writing career until shortly before his death, Mann fre-
stage, and his multifaceted works have
quently wrote shorter prose pieces of world literary status.
received a positive reception world-
wide, a feat that has rarely been
equalled. From 1933 onwards, he lived in
exile, first in Switzerland, then in the The volume Späte Erzählungen opens in 1919 with the idyll 'Herr und
US. Mann did not return to Europe Hund' ('Master and Dog'), which is followed by such famous stories as
until 1952. He died in Zurich in 1955. 'Unordnung und frühes Leid' ('Disorder and Early Sorrow') and
'Mario und der Zauberer' ('Mario and the Magician'). It closes in 1953
Hans Rudolf Vaget, who was born in
Marienbad in 1938, is Professor of Ger-
with 'Die Betrogene' ('The Black Swan').
man Studies and Comparative Litera-
ture at Smith College (Northampton,
Massachusetts). He has published For the 'expanded annotated Frankfurt Edition', Hans Rudolf Vaget
numerous works on Thomas Mann and has critically edited the late stories and provided scholarly commen-
received the Thomas Mann Medal. tary, which traces the texts' origins and impact, and outlines bio-
graphical, literary and historical connections to provide new points of
access to this epochal body of writing.
S. FISCHER 10FICTION || LITERARY FICTION | CLASSICS
Heinrich Mann, Ariane Martin (Hg.)
The Loyal Subject.
Expanded New Edition
• Embossed cloth-bound edition
• Carefully edited on the basis of the scholarly
edition by Ariane Martin, President of the Hein-
rich Mann Society
• 150th anniversary of the birth of Heinrich Mann
in March 2021
February 2021 · 640 pages
Heinrich Mann was born in Lübeck in Heinrich Mann's most famous and most successful novel – in an
1871. After dropping out of school, he expanded new edition with an extensive appendix containing
trained briefly in the publishing indus- pictures and other material
try, working as a volunteer in S. Fischer
Verlag from 1891-92. Subsequently, he
'Over the past week, I had great fun re-reading The Loyal Subject: a book
wrote novels, short stories, essays, and
plays. In 1933, he emigrated to France that is not only quite extraordinary in literary terms but a totally horrify-
and later to the US. He was appointed ingly prophetic work,' Klaus Mann wrote in exile in Amsterdam in Feb-
head of the newly formed Academy of ruary 1936, three years after Hitler's "seizure of power". Today, Hein-
Arts in East Berlin in 1949, but died in rich Mann's novel still invites such reading and re-reading. What
Santa Monica, California, in 1950, remains horrifying to this day is that (male) 'craving to command and
before he could take up the post. obey', which Kurt Tucholsky pointed to in his legendary review in the
Weltbühne already in 1919. Nevertheless, or perhaps precisely for this
reason, this social novel of the 20th century is not only a great reading
pleasure for a Nazi opponent like Klaus Mann.
With an extensive appendix containing pictures and other material,
including numerous newly discovered, and previously unpublished,
documents on the book's origins and reception.
S. FISCHER 11FICTION || LITERARY FICTION || LITERARY FICTION | TRAVEL
Gerhard Roth
There Is No Evil Angel But Love
Art historian Lilli Kuck travels to Venice after her husband Clemens dies
there under mysterious circumstances. Following his death, she suddenly
feels that she no longer knows who Clemens - a famous comic illustrator -
really was. In Venice, she retraces her husband's steps. Where did he visit,
and where had he lived? Did he have a lover? Was he looking for his
father? Lilli lets herself drift as she follows chance encounters and her
intuition, looking for access to another mode of perception and "second
reality", where his secrets might be uncovered. When she witnesses the
murder of a policeman, she herself becomes endangered, but she continues
her investigations undeterred. In a fairy-tale world of beauty and death,
her departure from the city turns into a new beginning.
February 2021 · 256 pages
Arnold Stadler
On Day Seven I Flew Back. My
Trip to Kilimanjaro
The first-person narrator of this wonderful book, behind whom the
author is clearly discernible, travels to Mount Kilimanjaro. His task is to
write a reportage, but he doesn't want to go to the summit or on safari.
Quite the opposite, in fact: he is afraid of wild animals and has a tuxedo
and patent-leather shoes in his luggage. He is also quite happy just to con-
template the amazing mountain, which hung as an oil painting in his par-
ents' livingroom, producing in him a longing to visit it ever since.
For the narrator, the journey to Africa turns into a tragicomic tour de
force through contemporary Germany, the colonial past, and touristic
dreams. And, as always with this author, it becomes a meandering poetic March 2021 · 240 pages
exploration of his own soul and that of all human life.
S. FISCHER 12BACKLIST || LITERARY FICTION || BIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL Katerina Poladjan Here be Lions • Nominated for the German Book Prize • over 15.000 copies sold in Germany An old Armenian family bible is the only thing sister and brother Anahid and Hrant manage to rescue when they are forced to flee from their hometown on the coast of the Black Sea. One hundred years later, in Yere- van, someone entrusts a bible to Helen, an art restorer. ‘Hrant doesn’t want to wake up,’ reads a note in the margins of one page. Helen immerses herself in the mysteries of the old book and modern Armenian life and falls in love. Shaken by what she learns about the country’s past and pre- June 2019 · 288 pages sent, she sets off on a trip to the Black Sea coast and the land beyond Mount Ararat. Rights sold to: (ALB) SHTEPIA BOTUESE PA | (AM) Actual Art Publishing | (BG) Riva | (F) Rivages | (I) SEM | (NL) WERELDBIBLIOTHEEK | (TR) NEBULA KITAP Zsuzsa Bánk Death in Summer • More than 1.5 million copies of Bánk’s books sold • selected for New Books in German, edition Autumn 2020 • Sample translation available An elderly man spends his final summer in the Balaton, in Hungary, his former homeland. Once again he sits under the acacia trees in his garden paradise, once again he goes into the lake for a swim. But his return to Germany will require a medical rescue helicopter and an ambulance to a clinic in Frankfurt am Main where his cancer is diagnosed as terminal. In these dogdays of summer his daughter sits at his bedside. She looks back on their years together with gratitude; she looks on the years to come September 2020 · 240 pages with despair. She takes stock of what will be lost and what can be sal- vaged, what must be done and what rearranged. How will his death change the family and how will it change her? What do we experience in the year of loss and what in the year after? Rights sold to: F (Rivages), NL (Nieuw Amsterdam) | former titles (selection): Schlafen werden wir später: E (Acantilado ) | NL (Nieuw Amsterdam); Die hellen Tage: CZ (Host) | E (Acantilado)| F (Piranha)| HR (Fraktura)| I (Neri Pozza)| NL (Bezige Bij)| PL (Czarne); Heißester Sommer: DK (Aschehoug)| E (Acantilado)| F (Bourgois)| PL (Czarne); Der Schwimmer: BG (Tonipress)| CZ (Vetrne Mlyny)| DK (Samleren)| E (Catalan + Spanish: Acantilado ) | F (Bourgois) | GR (Melani)| HU (Kossuth)| I (Neri Pozza)| IL (Keter)| MNE (Plima)| NL (Bezige Bij)| NO (Bastion)| PL (Czarne)| ROK (Sigongsa)| SE (Bonniers)| USA (Hartcourt) S. FISCHER 13
NON FICTION
NON-FICTION || NATURE & KNOWLEDGE | NARRATIVE NON-FICTION
Hans Jürgen Balmes
The Rhine. Biography of a
River
• A unique blend of nature writing and journeys into the
past
• Including pictures, maps and drawings
• Sample translation available
“I have never read such a sensual description of the
Rhine.” Alexander Wasner
April 2021 · 560 pages
A poetic natural and cultural history about the Rhine and the
© Jörg Steinmetz
soul of a landscape
The Rhine once rose in the middle of its present-day course, where
manatees frolicked in a tropical sea. Having eked out its bed back to
its later headwaters, its geology is astounding. The river is still home
to the oldest creatures in Europe, but from source to delta the Rhine
has also been shaped by human hand. No other river encompasses so
many contradictions — border, transport artery, escape route and
lifeline.
Hans Jürgen Balmes takes us with him on a river journey. We meet
Hans Jürgen Balmes was born in 1958 people like William Turner, for whom the Rhine came to be an obses-
in Koblenz and is an editor and transla- sion and the focus of his life’s work. We see woods and animals come
tor. He wrote for Mare magazine about alive in Balmes’s sublime reflections on nature and his meditative
“The Sources of the Seas”. His portraits images. This book about the Rhine beguiles us with its inexhaustible
and essays have appeared in the Neue
stream of stories and its quiet contemplation. Nature writing at its
Zürcher Zeitung and the Süddeutsche
Zeitung among many others, and he has best!
translated works by John Berger and
Barry Lopez as well as poetry by Robert “Rivers have more to say than mountains, landscapes or cities do. All they
Hass, W. S. Merwin and Martine Bellen need is an intelligent, knowledgeable storyteller like Hans Jürgen Balmes,
from English into German. The Rhine whose magnificent book records the river’s stories, the pitter-patter of wag-
has always played a major role in his tails and the tinkling of white alders.” Michael Krüger
life. He has hiked many times to its
sources in the Alps, paddled along the
Rhine in his father’s old folding canoe,
savoured the deep silence and observed
the shifting play of light on the water
and the animals in and around the river.
S. FISCHER 15NON-FICTION || HISTORY | SOCIETY
Stefan Klein
How We Change the World. A
Short History of the Human
Mind
• Stefan Klein is Germany's most successful science writer:
over 1 million books sold
• The history and future of creative thinking in a grand nar-
rative
• sample translation available
Science Book of the Year (2011) for Survival of the Nicest
Deutscher Lesepreis (2016) for Dreams March 2021 · 272 pages
Rights sold to: to previous titles: Das All und das Nichts: F (Dunod) | KOR (EWHA) | PRC (Simplified Chinese) (China
Citic) | Arabic (Atlas) | Spanish World (Planeta) | USA (The Experiment) | UK (Octopus) | NL (Amsterdam University
Press) | I (Bollati)
A short history of the human mind: on the power of commu-
© Andreas Labes
nity
Bestselling author Stefan Klein takes us on a thrilling journey through
the history of creative thinking. From the innovations of the Stone
Age, such as painting, via the invention of writing to the achievements
of the computers of tomorrow, Klein shows us vividly and in an
entertaining way how the human mind has repeatedly reinvented the
world. In the process, we encounter Neanderthals and Steve Jobs,
Stefan Klein, who was born in Munich Leonardo da Vinci and Ada Lovelace, Archimedes and AlphaZero.
in 1965, is Germany’s most successful And it becomes increasingly clear: We do not owe innovation and
science writer. His book The Science of progress to the brilliant ideas of solitary geniuses – they come about
Happiness (2002) topped all German through intellectual exchange. For creativity, imagination, and inno-
bestseller lists for over a year and also
vation are not gifts of individuals, but are derived from human inter-
brought the author international
renown. This was followed by the much action.
praised All by Chance, The Secret Pulse of How did the world we live in come to be as it is? How did we come to
Time, Leonardo’s Legacy: How Da Vinci be as we are? And what will happen next? All change starts with a new
Reimagined the World, and Survival of the idea! The renowned science writer's gripping new book about the
Nicest, Science Book of the Year 2011. power of community, the future of thought, and the unlimited possi-
His bestseller, Träume: Eine Reise in bilities of our creativity.
unsere innere Wirklichkeit (Dreams: A
Journey into our Inner Reality), received
the Deutsche Lesepreis in 2016. His
most recently published Das All und das
Nichts (How to love the Universe) has been
translated into nine languages.
S. FISCHER 16NON-FICTION || CULTURAL HISTORY
Götz Aly
The Luf Boat, A Looted
Treasure. How German
Colonialists Raided South Sea
Culture
• The “Luf Boat” is one of the highlights of Berlin’s Hum-
boldt Forum – and the silence surrounding its provenance
remains a scandal.
• This book is certain to provoke debate about the contro-
versial intersections of racism, colonialism and looted art. May 2021 · 192 pages
• Sample translation available
Rights sold to: to previous titles: Europa gegen die Juden: UK/USA (Holt) | NL (Verbum) | S (Daidalos); Die Belasteten:
CHN (Guangming) | E (Critica)| F (Flammarion) | I (Einaudi) | PL (Czarne); Warum die Deutschen? Warum die Juden?: E
(Critica) | I (Einaudi) | UK/USA (Holt); Unser Kampf: PL (Fronda); Hitlers Volksstaat: CHN (Yilin) | CZ (Argo) | DK
Texto) | PL (Finna) | S (Daidalos) | UK / USA (Holt); Endlösung: CZ (Argo) | JP (Hosei) | RO (Hasefer) | UK/USA (Hod-
(Gyldendal) | E (Planeta) | F (Flammarion) | GR (Kedros) | HR (Fraktura) | I (Einaudi) | JP (Iwanami) | P (Asa Leya
der & Stoughton)
Along with monuments and street names, the delightful objects in
© Andreas Labes
many Western museums are remnants of colonialism. Götz Aly
uncovers the brutality with which German colonialists went about
looting in the South Seas, using the example of the island of Luf.
There, the invaders destroyed islanders’ huts and boats and nearly
completely exterminated the population. In 1902, Hamburg mer-
chants seized the final surviving example of the island’s artistically
built, high-seaworthy outrigger boats. Today, this unique culture trea-
Historian Götz Aly has been honored
many times for his books with awards sure serves as decoration in an entranceway of the Humboldt Forum
including the Heinrich Mann and Lud- Museum in Berlin.
wig Börne Prizes. In 2018, he received
the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis for Götz Aly documents the brutality, destructive fury and greed with
"Europa gegen die Juden 1880–1945" (S. which profiteers, ethnologists, navy men and museum directors fell
Fischer – English: Europe Versus the upon cultural treasures. Even today, these looted items are admired
Jews). His latest work deals with Ger- by museum visitors, who remain oblivious to the suffering of the peo-
man colonial history, a departure from
ple whose cultural treasures were stolen.
his usual subject matter but nonetheless
a “true Aly.” In it, he documents the bru-
tality and greed with which Germans
seized the cultural treasures of subju-
gated peoples.
S. FISCHER 17NON-FICTION || SOCIETY
Carolin Emcke
Journal. Diary of a Crisis
• Carolin Emcke's SZ 'Journal' now in expanded form
• A subjective and exacting analysis of the time of the
Corona virus
Peace Prize of the German Booktrade
Johann Heinrich Merck Prize for Essay Writing
Carl von Ossietzky Prize for Contemporary History and Politics
Rights sold to: to previous titles: Gegen den Hass: BR (Ayiné) | GR (Polis) | PRC
(SSAP) | WEL (Polity Press) | BY (PWUP) | Spanish World (Penguin Random March 2021 · 272 pages
KOR (Dasan) | FIN (Vastapaino) | SLO (Mladinska) | F (Le Seuil) | NL (De Geus); Yes means yes and...: I (La nave di
House) | TW (Rye Field | GR (Polis) | I (Teseo) | JP (Misuzu Shobo) |
Teseo) | JP (Misuzu Shobo) | F (Le Seuil) | WEL (Polity Press) | BR (Ayiné)
How will this state of emergency change us?
© Andreas Labes
In this personal and political journal, bestselling author and peace
prize recipient Carolin Emcke considers the exceptional year 2020.
On 22 March 2020, the federal government and the federal states of
Germany voted in "social distancing measures" – the new reality of
the pandemic begins to encroach on our psychic, social, and political
condition. The following day, Carolin Emcke starts work on her Jour-
nal. She jots down nightmares and impossible farewells to people she
loves, and analyses Europe's nationalistic reactions as well as the
authoritarian tendencies that the virus calls forth. These are subjec-
Carolin Emcke studied philosophy in tive, philosophical observations, which trace this historical caesura.
London, Frankfurt/Main, and Harvard. Again and again, Carolin Emcke resists the temptation to consider
From 1998 to 2014, she reported from only her own city or region. She repeatedly extends her focus, reflect-
regions in crisis around the globe as a ing on the pandemic as something global. The result is a candid, yet
journalist before becoming a freelance
reflective chronicle of a state of emergency. No one knows when it
writer. Her books have been translated
into fifteen languages, and since 2019,
will end and how it will have changed us.
she has been touring with her solo show
“Yes Means Yes and …”. She has been
awarded the Peace Prize of the German
Booktrade, the Johann Heinrich Merck
Prize for Essay Writing, and the Carl
von Ossietzky Prize for Contemporary
History and Politics, among others.
S. FISCHER 18NON-FICTION || POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS
Wolfgang Kaleck
The Concrete Utopia of Human
Rights. A Look Back into the
Future
• Wolfgang Kaleck is one of the most important European
human rights lawyers
• A history of resistance from the French Revolution through
the women's liberation and workers' movements to the
civil rights movement
March 2021 · 176 pages
The international revolution of human rights starts now!
© Nikita Teryoshin
All over the world, inequality and poverty are on the increase, and
human rights are being trampled on. But does this mean they are no
longer significant? Or do they simply have to be thought anew in
order to unfold their transformative potential?
Not only is Wolfgang Kaleck Edward Snowden's lawyer, he was also
involved in numerous legal actions against Donald Rumsfeld and the
Argentinian military dictators, among others. As a practising lawyer
Wolfgang Kaleck, born in 1960, is a in worldwide struggles, for example against transnational companies,
lawyer and journalist. In 2007, he he outlines here a new, concrete utopia. He criticises the currently
founded the European Center for Con- much too narrow conception of human rights and broadens the per-
stitutional and Human Rights spective by looking into the past and at interrelated struggles world-
(ECCHR), which fights worldwide for wide. So that everything doesn't stay the same and something really
human rights. He has participated in changes.
numerous trials, against the German
Federal Republic in the Kunduz case as
well as against transnational companies.
And he has received numerous awards
for his activism, including the Hermann 'When the history of our time is not written by the torturers and their apol-
Kesten Prize from the PEN Centre Ger- ogists but by those who have not given up the promise of the Universal Dec-
many (2014) and the Prize of the Bruno laration of Human Rights, Wolfgang Kaleck will be one of the most impor-
Kreisky Foundation (2017). He lives in tant authors.' Edward Snowden
Berlin.
S. FISCHER 19NON-FICTION || POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS | SOCIETY
Vitali Alekseenok
The White Days of Minsk. Our
Dream of a Free Belarus
• With a foreword by Belarusian poet and academic Valzhyna
Mort
• Combines an outsider's view of his country with insider
knowledge of the protest movement
March 2021 · 192 pages
A personal report by the Belarusian conductor
© privat
Vitali Alekseenok.
Vitali Alekseenok, who now lives in Germany, writes in a moving and
illuminating way about the struggle for freedom in his former home
country, which he left several years ago, not least out of frustration at
the political situation there.
As a musician, he has found a new home in Germany, but Belarus has
Vitali Alekseenok, born in Belarus in never fully released him. When he travels to Minsk in summer 2020
1991, has been the conductor and artistic
to vote in the election, he experiences a protest movement which
director of the Abaco Symphony
Orchestra of the University of Munich would have been inconceivable a few years earlier, and wonders:
since 2017. As prize winner of the MDR What has happened to people in his homeland?
radio conducting competition in 2018,
he has conducted the MDR Symphony In a personal report, which overlays current observations with past
Orchestra, the Jena Philharmonic experiences, Alekseenok writes of change taking place in a country
Orchestra, the Weimar Staatskapelle, that we do not know. Of life under Lukashenko's totalitarian regime.
among others. In August 2020, he trav- Of why he left Belarus, and now takes risks in order to participate in
elled to Minsk to take part in the elec-
the protest. Of how Belarusians' hope grew greater than their fear.
tions there. After Lukashenko claimed
victory for himself, Alekseenok decided And of how the message from Belarus is a wake up call for us all.
to remain in Minsk for several weeks, Because the Belarusians know very well what it means to have to live
to support the protests and strikes. without freedom and democracy.
Valzhyna Mort, born in Minsk, is a
writer. Her most recent book of
poetry, Music for the Dead and Resur-
rected, came out last month at FSG.
Born in Minsk, she teaches at Cornell
University and writes in English and
Belarusian.
S. FISCHER 20NON-FICTION || HISTORY
Gerd Schwerhoff
Cursed Gods. The History of
Blasphemy
• The first comprehensive history of blasphemy from
antiquity to the present day
• From one of the most important experts in the field
• A book spanning over 3,000 years of history, which also
sheds new light on the present day
February 2021 · 528 pages
The first comprehensive history of blasphemy from Moses to
© Robert Jentzsch
Charlie Hebdo
The worldwide outrage over the caricatures of Mohammed and the
terror attack on Charlie Hebdo in 2015 have made it clear that blas-
phemy is not a relic of the Inquisition, but is more relevant today than
a hundred years ago.
But why do people berate God, prophets, and saints? And why do
Gerd Schwerhoff, born in 1957, is a such words and deeds call forth such heated reactions? The historian
Professor of early modern history at the
Gerd Schwerhoff writes of cursing, blaspheming peasants, and the
Technical University in Dresden. His
books focus on marginal figures in the Protestant Reformers, who insult madonna figures and are sentenced
early modern period - criminals, to death. He describes how the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire
witches, and heretics. He works on blas- argued against punishment for blaspheming, and why a woman of the
phemy in the context of the special radical feminist activist group Femen was accused of offending reli-
research area "Invective. Constellations gious sentiment by the Cologne cathedral chapter.
and Dynamics of Disparagement", for This large sweep of history, recounted in a sovereign manner, opens a
which he is the spokesman.
new perspective on contemporary conflicts: Certainly, "hate speech" is
currently disseminated worldwide via digital media. However, such
abuse of those who think and believe differently is not at all new.
Gerd Schwerhoff has been researching blasphemy for several years.
He is one of the most renowned experts on the subject.
S. FISCHER 21NON-FICTION || HISTORY | MEDICINE
Philipp Kohlhöfer
Pandemics. How Viruses
Change the World
• Philipp Kohlhöfer reports directly from the heart of sci-
ence
• Scientifically sound, competent and comprehensive: an
overview that goes far beyond COVID-19
• With a preface by the leading German virologist Christian
Drosten
May 2021 · 352 pages
The history and future of pandemics.
© Achim Multhaupt
We live in a world of viruses. A single successful cross-species trans-
mission anywhere in the world is enough to unleash a new epidemic.
Against the backdrop of the new strain of corona virus, this book dis-
cusses how pandemics come about and why so-called zoonosis is
occuring with greater frequency: new illnesses, which leap across
from animals to people and can become extremely dangerous.
Because even if we like to believe that Covid-19 is unique, we live in a
world of viruses. Epidemics are not natural catastrophes like earth-
quakes. They don't just drop out of the sky. A single successful cross-
Philipp Kohlhöfer works, among species transmission anywhere in the world is enough to unleash a
other things, for the research network new pandemic.
Zoonotic Contagious Diseases, spon-
sored by the Bundesministerium für Philipp Kohlhöfer, who works for the research network Zoonotic
Bildung und Forschung (the German Contagious Diseases, presents here an unsettling, but, at the same
Federal Ministry of Education and time, optimistic book. He shadows leading scientists such as Christian
Research). He is an author and colum-
nist for GEO, among other publica-
Drosten as they search for the origin of pandemics, observes them at
tions. He got shot while covering a story work on viruses, such as MERS and Ebola, and in their attempts to
in the Pacific, and for another story, he discover the next pandemic before it breaks out. His journey takes
lived for months with street gangs. him through German-speaking countries as well as to West Africa
Already in 2003, he wrote a reportage and Asia. To laboratories, museums and the rain forest. In the process,
on corona viruses. The protagonist then the book tells of the greatest weapon that humanity has in the strug-
was Christian Drosten.
gle against a new kind of pathogen: science.
S. FISCHER 22NON-FICTION || SOCIETY
Jean Peters
When Hope Dies, We Go On.
True Stories from the
Subversive Resistance
• From the founder of the Peng! collective
'Finally, the veil over the activist spectacle of the devilishly clever
Peng! collective has been lifted.' Mike Bonanno, The Yes Men
March 2021 · 256 pages
'One of the smartest activists I know.' Sibylle Berg
© Ivo Mayr
When it became apparent that the right was on the rise, when climate
researchers warned of the consequences of exponential growth and
everyone simply carried on just as before, Jean Peters felt politically
impotent. To escape this feeling, he and others like him founded the
Peng! collective: Using disguise, subversion and irony, they are break-
ing through the crusts of power.
In a clever, funny, reflective and entertaining fashion, Jean Peters
writes of how they put Shell and Vattenfall into panic mode, hacked
Jean Peters, 36, is a journalist and per- into the websites of weapons dealers, and helped refugees flee within
formance artist, who lives in Berlin. He Europe. And while his pessimistic self repeatedly reminds him that
studied political science in London and hope is the first step on the road to disappointment, his optimistic self
Berlin, and founded the tactical media constantly seeks out new plans of action. For when hope dies, Peng!
collective Peng!, through which he reg- goes on …
ularly infiltrates companies. He has
exhibited at several Berlin Bienniale,
and received the Aachen Peace Prize. In
2018, he co-founded the NGO See-
'Jean Peters treads where others only wish to go.' Titanic
brücke, an organisation rescuing
refugees in the Mediterranean, and in
2019 he went undercover in the global
climate change denial scene on behalf of 'Jean Peters shows what we can achieve in concrete terms through creativity
the research centre Correctiv. and determination.' Carola Rackete
S. FISCHER 23NON-FICTION || MEDICINE | SOCIETY
Dietrich Grönemeyer
There’s only one world for all
of us. It’s time to act
• Over one million books by Prof. Dr. Dietrich Grönemeyer
sold
Rights sold to: to previous titles: Weltmedizin: ES (Grijalbo) | NL (Atlas Con-
tact)
March 2021 · 80 pages
Bestselling author Professor Dietrich Grönemeyer describes in
© Gaby Gerster 2020
this highly personal book what is wrong with the world, and
how it can recover. It is time to take action. Now!
The coronavirus pandemic has shocked the world, and prompted us
to question our egotistical tendencies – those of individuals, coun-
tries, and nations. It has become clear what has to happen for us to
return to a better form of co-existence. Germany‘s most prominent
doctor demonstrates in this book what it all comes down to: that we
are all equal, that life is a gift, and that we must bring body, mind and
soul into balance. Experiencing life in all its diversity, and bringing
Prof. Dr. Dietrich Grönemeyer, one faith, freedom and tolerance into harmony are enormous tasks. But in
of Germany’s most prominent doctors, the end, everything boils down to how we view life. In words that
a bestselling author and presenter of the speak directly to the heart, Professor Grönemeyer reveals what has to
ZDF TV programme "Dietrich Gröne- be done.
meyer - Leben ist mehr (Life is More)"
held the chair of Radiology and
Microtherapy at the University of Wit-
ten/Herdecke until his retirement in
2012. As a scientist, he is one of the most
influential champions of an approach to
medicine situated between high-tech
and traditional methods. In 2018, S. Fis-
cher published his bestseller Weltmedi-
zin. Auf dem Weg zu einer ganzheitlichen
Heilkunst (World Medicine. On the Path to
Holistic Medicine). Fischer has also pub-
lished Naturmedizin und Schulmedizin.
Mein gesammeltes Gesundheitswissen
wichtiger Volkskrankheiten (Natural and
Conventional Medicine: My Collected
Knowledge of Important Common Ill-
nesses).
FISCHER Taschenbuch 24NON-FICTION || CULTURAL HISTORY Peter Stephan Jungk Market Whisperings. A Hidden Home in Paris At the Marché d'Aligre, a bustling market of sensual pleasures and multi- cultural encounters near the Bastille in Paris, Peter Stephan Jungk has found what he has been looking for all his life: a place where he feels at home. He is consequently plagued by homesickness after he takes up a post as guest professor in Ohio. »Enfin!« Like a prodigal son, he is greeted on his return by Hamza, Min, Habib and other market traders – exiles from Algeria, China and Tunisia, who, despite their very different views on life, are like family to him. Their stories, hopes, longings, and disappointments awaken in him memories of his own sense of homelessness, which he believed he had put behind him. April 2021 · 224 pages Elmar Schenkel On the Way to Xanadu. East-West Encounters Asia and Europe: A cultural history in portraits and encounters Xanadu – Asia's place of longing for researchers, theosophists, and those seeking salvation. It represents a secret something that unites the gods with the self as well as a meeting place of the cultures of the world. Elmar Schenkel writes of the two-way perceptions of the other: from the first clashes of western and eastern culture in Japan and India, to the western discovery of Japanese Zen, Chinese thinkers, and Indian gurus. What is the role of Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore, or, con- versely, of Madame Blavatsky, C. G. Jung and Hermann Hesse? How did May 2021 · 320 pages Taoism come to the West, and what do Zen or Yoga have to do with pol- itics? In short, sparkling pieces of prose, Elmar Schenkel familiarises us with the search of cultures for things that will offset their own deficits. S. FISCHER 25
BACKLIST || PHILOSOPHY || NON-FICTION | PHILOSOPHY
Eva von Redecker
Revolution for Life
• NBG review available (Spring 2021)
“One of this country’s most exciting young philosophers.” Philoso-
phie Magazin
A radical social critique — and a heartfelt endorsement of the power
of human action.
The future of democratic societies is under intense pressure from the rise
of authoritarianism and the imminent threat of climate change. However,
resistance is forming in the gaps of the power matrix. In her philosophical
analysis of these new forms of resistance, the philosopher Eva von
September 2020 · 320 pages
Redecker sheds light on the potential for a revolution for life.
“This book might turn into the bible of intellectual resistance against real existing capital-
ism”. Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Rights sold to: F (Payot-Rivages) | KOR (Minumsa)
Martin Hartmann
Trust - The Invisible Power
• Science Book of the Year 2021 (Federal Ministry of Educa-
tion, Science and Research, Austria)
• Realistic, comprehensible and concrete
• Sample translation available
An Appeal for a Value in Crisis
It’s coveted by everyone everywhere – in banks, politics, science, the
internet and love: our trust! Yet there’s a crisis of trust. Many feel betrayed
by the media, political parties and companies.
Philosopher Martin Hartmann analyses this crisis in an inspiring diagno- March 2020 · 304 pages
sis of the present. And he discovers a fundamental dilemma: We glorify
trust, we miss it and lament its loss. But many are afraid of the vulnerability that goes hand in glove with it.
New forms of surveillance are undertaken and apparently confirmed opinions are adhered to. This leads to
conflicts, insecurity and gridlock. Reason enough for trust-building initiatives!
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CRIME
SCIENCE FICTION
NON FICTIONTHRILLER | CRIME
Arno Strobel
Killer Hunter - Tracking the
Lost Girls
• Max Bischoff, a highly gifted profiler and former detective,
investigates on his own initiative
• Fischer has sold far more than 1 million Arno Strobel
books
• Strobel's new thriller series forthcoming in spring 2021
'You don't need a bookmark when reading one of Arno Strobel's
thrillers, as you simply can't put them down. Gripping and nail-
biting!' Sebastian Fitzek March 2021 · 352 pages
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(Pencil) | PL (Prószynski) | RUS (Eksmo)
Nothing is more familiar to him than the dark criminal mind...
© Gaby Gerster
Max Bischoff, a highly gifted profiler, recognises evil face to face
-
The new thriller by No. 1 bestselling author Arno Strobel
His time in the KK11 murder investigation unit in Düsseldorf belongs
to the past. Now profiler Max Bischoff is starting over again at the
Police Academy in Cologne, where he is educating those who want to
be as good as him. But the cases find him nevertheless.
Arno Strobel loves liminal experiences
and likes to share them with his readers.
When the father of Leni Benz, who disappeared six years ago, asks
This makes his thrillers suspenseful
voyages of discovery into the dark Max for his help, his immediate impulse is to turn him down. But he
recesses of the human soul, evoking the realises that he can't. Too many questions remain unexplained in the
worst primal fears. case of the ten year old girl who disappeared on her way to school
and was never seen again.
Most of his themes are derived from But how is it that Leni's satchel has now turned up again in its usual
everyday life, but it is only when an idea
place in her parents' home, as if nothing had happened? How can this
takes hold of him, and he feels com-
pelled to get to the bottom of it happen after all this time? And, above all, why are there so many par-
straightaway with the help of his net- allels with a current case? Max sets off on the trail of the perpetrator
work of experts, that he knows that the ...
groundwork for his next novel has been
laid. All of his thrillers have been best-
sellers and were No. 1 on the bestseller
list for weeks. He lives as a freelance
writer near Trier.
FISCHER Taschenbuch 28CRIME
Klaus-Peter Wolf
Rupert Undercover - On the
Hunt in East Frisia. A New
Assignment. Vol. 2. Crime Novel
The second assignment for Detective Inspector Rupert as an undercover
agent - the popular colleague of Frisia's most famous Inspector, Ann
Kathrin Klaasen, by no. 1 bestselling author Klaus-Peter Wolf
Criminal Director Liane Brennecke should have been fearing for her
life. But that was not the case. She looked in the mirror, and didn't
recognise herself. Something had happened to her in this torture cellar.
Something had flown the physical prison and got itself out of harm's June 2021 · 352 pages
way. A part of her soul had escaped.
She was worried about her mental state. Was she close to losing her
mind, or had she already passed that stage in this rat hole where he was holding her captive? In order to
become whole again, she had to kill him. And for that she needed bait and a tool. Nothing and no one
seemed more suitable to her than this Rupert alias Frederico Müller-Gonzáles.
Eva Ehley
Lonely Grave. A Sylt Crime Novel
The woman's dead body at Morsum Kliff is just the beginning: Their
eighth criminal case leads Silja Blanck, Bastian Kreuzer and Sven Win-
terberg directly into the dark heart of the island of Sylt – and places
Inspector Blanck in imminent danger.
Frost glistens on the heather stalks on Morsum Kliff as excavations
uncover a gruesome secret. For 15 years, the headless skeleton of a
young girl has lain beneath the idyllic landscape. Inspector Silja Blanck
is particularly shocked by the find: Could there be a connection to her
little sister, who was killed around the same time, and whose murderer
has never been found? Or is the inspector chasing a fantasy?
March 2021 · 416 pages
FISCHER Taschenbuch 29CRIME Tom Voss Dog Days for Beck State Office of Criminal Investigations Detective Nick Beck, who has been demoted, has to investigate himself. Nordbek – nature, peace and solitude characterise this village north of Hamburg. And precisely for these reasons, it is attractive to Nick Beck when he is transferred after a traumatic police operation. But his peace soon comes to an end after he runs over a woman while intoxicated. But did he actually kill her? The damage to his car suggests otherwise. But what happened? When Beck, together with Cleo Torner from the State Office of Crimi- nal Investigations in Hamburg, takes up the investigation he comes across human abysses that are deeper than he could ever have June 2021 · 400 pages imagined ... Nick Beck and Cleo Torner's first case Nikos Milonás Cretan Silence. A New Case for Michalis Charisteas Two skeletons on the shore and the silence of those who knew of them – Inspector Michalis Charisteas investigates his third case It is the end of May on Crete, and the island is in full bloom. In the south of the island several tourists have gathered on Frangokastello beach, because they want to see the drosoulites, the "souls of the dew“ at dawn. According to local legend, these souls rise up from the sand every year at this time, and move across the beach in great swathes. But this year, it is not the souls that turn up: The skeletons of two men are discovered in the sand. Both contain bullet wounds. Murder, then? But when Michalis April 2021 · 384 pages Charisteas begins his investigations, he discovers something entirely dif- ferent. FISCHER Taschenbuch | FISCHER Scherz 30
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Björn Kern
Solikante Solo
• The social novel of the hour: a modern love story about a
Over 40,000 copies sold of Das Beste, was wir tun können, ist
couple caught between the city and the countryside
nichts (The Best We Can Do Is Nothing)
•
• For readers of Dörte Hansen and Jan Brandt
March 2021 · 336 pages
The idyll lasts barely five minutes.
© Suskia
A couple as different as the city and the countryside. While he seeks
refuge in Solikante, she longs for joie de vivre and the urbanity of
multicultural Berlin: Village pubs versus nights out in the city. The
end of the relationship seems to be sealed. But then it becomes appar-
ent that being single makes everything even worse.
Björn Kern interweaves the fate of middle-aged parents with the
social dislocations that have defined our country for several years.
Teaming with contemporary allusions, the novel is at once a reflec-
tion of a society that is out of touch with its core values, and a precise
Björn Kern, born in the Black Forest in literary portrait of a couple searching for a new sense of belonging in
1978, lived for over ten years in Berlin, a deeply divided country.
and now lives on a farm with his family
in Oderbruch near the Polish border.
His books have received the Brothers
Grimm Award and featured on SWR
radio's Best List.
FISCHER Taschenbuch 31COMMERCIAL FICTION | WOMEN'S FICTION
Patricia Koelle
The Dreams of Bees. An
Island Garden Novel
• Volume three of the Island Gardens series takes us to the
Island of Fehmarn
• Over 500,000 copies sold by this top 10 bestselling
author
'What do bees dream about?'
'Freedom, scent and peace, the simple things of life.'
March 2021 · 528 pages
Bees and people don't actually need very much more than to
© Gaby Gerster
know that spring will recur.
44-year-old Sila Beer works as a carpenter in Berlin. When she learns
that she has inherited an old farm in the Oderbruch, she sets off not
only on a journey into her old homeland, but into the past, in which
painful memories are awoken, of her childhood in East Germany and
fleeing to the West. But good memories also resurface - of the bees
and plants that accompanied her throughout her childhood. However,
Sila isn't sure if she should risk starting out all over again here and at
this time, and if the Oderbruch really is the right place for her to find
Patricia Koelle is a Berlin-based happiness. But through a garden blog, she gets to know a 27-year-old
author who is passionate about the sea - teacher named Lexi Rehling, who tends a garden on the island of
and about writing, in which she Fehmarn, which she uses to familiarise her pupils with nature, and the
expresses her constant amazement for two women develop a friendship, which inspires both of them to try
life, people and our wonderful planet.
out new things and to set new goals ...
Alongside novels and short story collec-
tions, Fischer Taschenbuch has pub-
lished her Baltic trilogy and North Sea
Patricia Koelle skilfully combines the topical subjects nature, nature
trilogy. The Time of the Fireflies, The preservation and insects with contemporary history.
Smile of Dragonflies, and The Dreams of
Bees belong to her Island Gardens
series.
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