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Theodor W. Adorno
Felix Bohr
Hans Blumenberg
Volker Braun
Michael Brenner
Paul Celan
Ann Cotten
Zoltán Danyi
Suhrkamp
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Insel
Urs Faes
Gunther Geltinger
Durs Grünbein
Jürgen Habermas
Lea Haller
Christoph Hein
Heinz Helle
Eva Illouz
Uffa Jensen Rights List
Dirk Jörke
London Book Fair 2019
Dževad Karahasan
Angela Krauß
Benjamín Labatut
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Janina Loh
Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf
Philip Manow
Lutz Raphael
Judith Schalansky
Karl Schlögel
Clemens J. Setz
Maria Stepanova
Carlo Strenger
Stephan Thome
Philipp Weiss
Michael Wildt
Roman Yos
Authors and Estates
represented by Suhrkamp/Insel
A selection
Theodor W. Adorno Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Ivan Nagel
Robert Alexy Jürgen Habermas Angelika Neuwirth
Juri Andruchowytsch Anna Katharina Hahn Hans Erich Nossack
Friedrich Ani Michael Hampe Albert Ostermaier
Ingeborg Bachmann Peter Handke Katja Petrowskaja
Zsófia Bán Christoph Hein Andreas Pflüger
Wolfgang Bauer Heinz Helle Marion Poschmann
Ulrich Beck Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Doron Rabinovici
Jurek Becker Dieter Henrich Andreas Reckwitz
Ulla Berkéwicz Hermann Hesse Bärbel Reetz
Thomas Bernhard Wolfgang Hildesheimer Hartmut Rosa
Barbara Beuys Ludwig Hohl Ralf Rothmann
Marcel Beyer Axel Honneth Sasha Marianna Salzmann
Ernst Bloch Eva Illouz Judith Schalansky
Hans Blumenberg Rahel Jaeggi Wilhelm Schmid
Felix Bohr Uffa Jensen Gershom Scholem
Karl Heinz Bohrer Hans Joas Lutz Seiler
Szilárd Borbély Uwe Johnson Clemens J. Setz
Friedrich von Borries Hans Jonas Peter Sloterdijk
Nora Bossong Dževad Karahasan Manfred Sommer
Volker Braun Anna Kim Andrzej Stasiuk
Bertolt Brecht Esther Kinsky Maria Stepanova
Hermann Broch Julia Kissina Wolfgang Streeck
Simone Buchholz Alexander Kluge Carlo Strenger
Bernd Cailloux Wolfgang Koeppen Peter Szondi
Paul Celan Siegfried Kracauer Uwe Tellkamp
Ann Cotten Benjamín Labatut Philipp Ther
Sigrid Damm Christian Lehnert Stephan Thome
Zoltán Danyi Svenja Leiber Hans Traxler
László Darvasi Gertrud Leutenegger Hans-Ulrich Treichel
Ljubko Deresch Sibylle Lewitscharoff Galsan Tschinag
Ulrike Edschmid Niklas Luhmann Ernst Tugendhat
Nana Ekvtimishvili Thomas Macho Peter Turrini
Hans Magnus Enzensberger Enis Maci Siegfried Unseld
Urs Faes Nicolas Mahler Kevin Vennemann
Erika Fischer-Lichte Andreas Maier Martin Walser
Rainer Forst Philipp Manow Robert Walser
Manfred Frank Friederike Mayröcker Peter Weiss
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Max Frisch Thomas Meinecke Philipp Weiss
Valerie Fritsch Robert Menasse Bruno E. Werner
Markus Gabriel Christoph Menke Lambert Wiesing
Efrat Gal-Ed Winfried Menninghaus Josef Winkler
Gunther Geltinger Andreas Michalsen Christa Wolf
André Georgi Alice Miller Raul Zelik
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Dagmar von Gersdorff Heiner Müller Serhij Zhadan
Rainald Goetz Stefan Müller-Doohm Ulf Erdmann Ziegler
Durs Grünbein Melinda Nadj Abonji Slavoj Žižek
Prose Poetry
Volker Braun Paul Celan
Relocating the Secret Point Poems
Celan Year 2020 – 100th birthday and
50th anniversary of his death
Volker Braun’s poems, plays, essays, Volker Braun Celan’s collected poems – for the first Paul Celan
and prose are published in more than Relocating the Secret Point time in their entirety and with new com- Poems
20 countries. On his 80th birthday, 7th Writings and Speeches mentary. Close to 60 more poems than New complete and
May 2019, Suhrkamp Verlag is proud to (Original title: Die the 2003 edition. annotated edition
Verlagerung des geheimen Edited by Barbara
present new texts: writings, speeches, and The history of their origins, sources,
Punkts. Schriften und Wiedemann. With 25
burlesques. cross-references: broken down with sum-
Reden) etchings by Gisèle Celan-
maries and individual notes.
approx. 320 pages Lestrange
Relocating the Secret Point gathers under- Clothbound (Original title: Die
For Paul Celan reading was always an
ground texts and speeches. The collection Release: April 2019 Gedichte. Neue
experience as well: the books, journals, and
opens with a satire of expatriation written in kommentierte
daily newspapers he read were as much a
January 1977 and is followed by the radical Rights available Gesamtausgabe)
source of his poems as personal encounters
pamphlet Büchner’s Letters; it contains essays 1.262 pages
and political events. When a complete and
on Shakespeare and Rimbaud, Goethe and Born in 1939 in Dresden, Volker Clothbound
annotated edition of Celan’s poems first Release: July 2018
Kafka: poetry and politics, and points to a Braun started working in a print
appeared in 2003, the indexing of such
shift in the work that will grow into a radical shop and an open pit. Thereafter
he studied Philosophy in Leipzig sources was still at its beginning. In the
change. Rights available
and worked at the Berliner meantime editions of his most important
Ensemble until 1990. Today he epistolary exchanges have been published,
lives in Berlin. Paul Celan was born in 1920
the critical editions have been completed, in Czernowitz and passed
and research in Celan’s bequest library with away in April 1970 in Paris.
its literary traces and annotations has forged He is recognized throughout
ahead. the world as one of the most
important authors of the
Coup On this basis, the 2003 edition could be
expanded by close to 60 poems, some of them
appearing for the first time, and all of his
twentieth century.
Barbara Wiedemann, literary
texts underwent careful examination. The scholar and a professor at the
Considering contemporary conditions, what Volker Braun commentary has also been reorganized and University of Tübingen, is the
possibilities does a writer have of effecting Coup editor of Paul Celan’s works
expanded considerably, especially thanks and letters.
change? On intimate terms with all literary (Original title: to the editor’s intensive research of Celan’s
traditions, Volker Braun makes use of tried Handstreiche)
reading of the press. Special attention has
and tested prose forms to come closer to approx. 112 Seiten
been paid – in line with his poetology – to
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an answer: aphorisms, pieces of dialogue, the ›inscribed date‹ of every poem. With
Release: April 2019
quotes. In his workshop dreams, puzzling
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this new edition the reader is given a
fragments, and stubborn truths all come to great wealth of clearly demonstrable
light. Rights available
information for understanding Celan’s
This series of coup-like attacks unfolds Selected Backlist:
poetry.
from a rogue’s-eye-view: for a rogue Collected Poetry International
founds his thinking and actions on Sales: English world rights
the practical plane of how to deal with (Seagull), France (Gallimard)
things, making use of coarse appeals, at- Collected Works International
tacks and defences, burlesques, manipu- Sales: Chinese simplex rights
lations, hints, and jabs to the ribs. (People’s Literature Publishing
House), Italy (Mimesis)
Literary Fiction
Ann Cotten
Lyophilia
»We wanted to be better, but at the same time
didn’t want to change.«
Ann Cotten has grown up, a fact which Ann Cotten
catapults us somewhat into the future. She Lyophilia
claims that all she is interested in now is (Original title: Lyophilia)
a constructive approach to a functioning, approx. 437 pages
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reasonable life for everyone (if possible).
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A philanthropic robot, so to speak. But her
strangely labyrinthine yet overly respectful
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way of confronting problems still shows
traces of the experiences she gathered as a
Ann Cotten, born in Iowa in
young poet. 1982, grew up in Vienna. She
Photo: Inge Zimmermann
has been living in Berlin since
In Proteus both the eternally young
2006. In 2011, she spent four
protagonist and his lover, a successful months in Nagoya, Japan. For
Slovenian politician with two children, are her first poetry collection,
exported into a parallel universe in which Fremdwörterbuchsonette
any thought at all becomes reality. (2007), she was awarded the
In the meantime, however, the aging Reinhard Preissnitz Prize and
the Clemens Brentano Prize
inhabitants of the settlement asteroid Amore
for Literature of the city of
(KAFUN), which went bankrupt shortly after »Politics, philosophy and Heidelberg. For Florida-Räume
its foundation, continue to hold to clichés
and running gags. They hope to discover an
aesthetic calculation come (2010), she received the
Hermann Hesse Literature
end to grief, which proves to be a greater together in oscillating Prize. In 2014, Ann Cotten was
danger than being without the Internet, structures which are as awarded the Adelbert-von-
Chamisso-Prize; in 2015, she
cosmic radiation or humanitarian instant engaged in revolt was the first recipient of the
noodles combined. However, an Antigone-
as they are in beauty.« newly founded Klopstock-Prize
like mission saves the heroes from going to for Contemporary Literature.
From the decision of the jury for the
ground in their own survival. In 2017, she was awarded the
Hugo-Ball-Prize 2017 Hugo-Ball-Prize for her œuvre.
A collection of stories like a shot in the
knee. What Ann Cotten has somewhat Selected Backlist:
cheekily referred to as »science fiction Verbannt (2016)
on a Hegelian basis« over the last few Der schaudernde Fächer
years has finally arrived. Lyophilia is like (2013) International Sales:
the special effects in a Tarkovsky film: Netherlands (Leesmagazijn)
a formulation held up to the real world, Florida-Räume (2010)
where, once the possibly realistic has
come to an end, hot and throbbing emo-
tion bursts forth.
Literary Fiction Literary Fiction / Illustrated
Zoltán Danyi Urs Faes
The Carcass Remover The Twelve Days of Christmas
»The Carcass Remover is a perfect book of paradoxical beauty that »A gentle, thoughtful book!« Annette König, SRF 1
deals with the ugly within us.« Süddeutsche Zeitung
They had heard about five dead foxes, Zoltán Danyi After years abroad a man returns to the Urs Faes
lying in the road by the Hungarian-Serbian The Carcass Remover forlorn yet familiar valley in the Black The Twelve Days of
border. But when the men from the disposal Novel Forest. He walks the old paths through Christmas
(Original title: A the heavy snow, remembers the bitter With illustrations by
unit arrive, there are dozens of carcasses,
dögeltakarító, published Nanne Meyer
dogs and cats, too – shot, it seems, by border inheritance dispute surrounding his fa-
in June 2015 by Magvető, (Original title: Raunächte)
guards to pass the time. The war in the ther’s farm, and Minna, who rejected him
Budapest) 84 pages
Balkans is long over, and yet incidents like for his brother. He listens for the call of
(Translated German title: Clothbound
these haul the narrator back into his past. Der Kadaverräumer. the dark goblins, who during the twelve Release: September 2018
Roman) days of Christmas, that strange space of
Sitting in the garden of a Berlin clinic where
264 pages time between Christmas and the Epiph-
he is stuck until his terrible digestion issues International Sales:
Clothbound any, commit their deeds, gazes into the
are treated, he is overcome by the music of a English world rights
Release of the German ceaselessly falling white, and, marked by
Kusturica film and he starts to sob: »perhaps (Harvill Secker)
edition by Suhrkamp: illness, waits for his brother in order to
because it brought it all back to the surface, September 2018 finally have a conciliatory talk.
all he tried to run away from, those desolate Urs Faes, born in Aarau in
years of hollowing-out, years that seemed Rights available 1947, lives and works in Zurich
and in San Feliciano (Italy).
without end, nor desirous of an end, and on
In 2008 he was awarded the
they endured.« Zoltán Danyi, born in 1972
Preis der Schweizerischen
in Senta, Yugoslavia, studied
Schillerstiftung.
Who is this narrator, who stumbles back Philosophy and Literature in
and forth between the scenes of his life in a Novi Sad and Szeged. In 2003, Selected Backlist:
torrent of speech that threatens to sweep him he made his debut as a poet,
Liebesarchiv (2007)
away; part of a carcass-collecting unit that publishing poems and short International Sales: Chinese
had once completed a rather different task? »The great success of stories. He completed a PhD
»Cautious and tender,while at simplex rights (Alpha Books),
Is he a victim, a perpetrator? A survivor who in 2008 on the Hungarian Bulgaria (Atlantis)
is seeking a cure through speaking?
The Carcass Remover is writer Béla Hamvas, and went the same time confident
not entirely down to its on to work as an editor and and without a word too many.« Ombra (1997)
International Sales: Czech
The war in Yugoslavia and its afterlife
aesthetic quality, but also schoolteacher. His first novel, Hans Ulrich Probst, SRF Republic (Archa - published,
have never lessened their hold on Zol- The Carcass Remover, won the
tán Danyi – for almost two decades he its shocking timeliness, the Miklós-Mészöly-Prize. Danyi,
rights reverted), Lithuania
failed in his attempt to comprehend the permanent contemporary a member of the Hungarian
»There are certain texts in which (Alma Littera - published, rights
reverted)
monstrous reality that almost entirely nature of history, its minority in Serbia, now lives as everything fits –
devoured him. One day, the sound was continual return, the death
a rose grower in Senta. the tone, the atmosphere, the
there – a sound that makes for compelling
of culture, of humanity, of rhythm, the choice of words –
reading. The writing shimmers like the
the myth of Europe. The and this slender book by Urs
Photo: Ekko von Schwiechow
surface of a contaminated body of water.
Layer by layer it is laid bare. A book con- fact that here and now we Faes is just such a text.«
Charles Linsmayer, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
structed like a complex musical composi- are also living in wartime.«
tion whose beauty contains both distance Orsolya Bencsik, Müut
and an intimate touch. »The Twelve Days of Christmas
»The beauty of the is an atmospherically rich,
language with which a incredibly empathetic tale. ...
manic narrator wrestles Urs Faes’ language settles itself
his demons, chapter after down like a soft, white coat
chapter, is astonishing.« across the reader’s shoulders.«
Literatur Spiegel Gallus Frei-Tomic, literaturblatt.ch
Prose
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
An Expert Review in 89 Numbers
On the winning formula of humanity:
the division of labour without any morals
Nature has treated people somewhat like Hans Magnus
a stepmother would. Other animals are Enzensberger
stronger, can swim and fly better, give birth An Expert Review in 89
less awkwardly and do not need as much time Numbers
With a Dialogue between
to become adults. How can it be then that
Nature and an Unhappy
this weak creature came to be the strongest
Man: On the Demon that is
on earth? The answer, if you believe the
the Division of Labour
author, has to do with the division of labour. With illustrations
Thanks to this trick every one of us, he (Original title: Eine
believes, can achieve something pretty good, Experten-Revue in 89
even if it remains impossible for a person to Nummern. Mit einem
do everything. Dialog zwischen der Natur
und einem Unzufriedenen:
But when every person can be an expert Vom Dämon der
the question becomes: what exactly is his Arbeitsteilung)
speciality, what makes him the best? In order 380 pages
to find out, one has to pay close attention. Clothbound
It doesn’t matter whether we’re looking at Release: May 2019
a passionate bus driver, a comet hunter, a
specialist for mousetraps or plastic bags, Rights available
a con artist or a number theorist – we can
thank the demon of the division of labour for Hans Magnus Enzensberger
our temporary victory over this planet, for was born in Kaufbeuren in
1929. As a poet, essayist,
our insanity and our defeats.
writer, publisher and translator,
Through eighty-nine familiar and he is one of the most
influential and internationally
spectacular variations Enzensberger
renowned German intellectuals.
unfolds this fancy of nature, which
compensates our defects and has made
our survival possible. His examples range
from the ancient world to the present day,
from the discovery of the spiral and the
alphabet to the art of making manhole
covers more attractive.
90th birthday on 11 November 2019 of one of the most influential and internationally renowned German intellectuals
Photo: Jürgen Bauer
Literary Fiction
Prose
A Handful of Anecdotes Survival Artists – 99 Literary Vignettes
from the 20th Century
»One of Germany’s leading public intellectuals.« London Review of Books A subjective-historical revue
»It is hard to shake off one’s date of birth. Hans Magnus The 20th century was the heyday of writers Hans Magnus
M. drags his around with him, too.« The Enzensberger who had survived state terror and purges Enzensberger
first twenty years of life are baggage that A Handful of Anecdotes with all the ethical and political ambivalences Survival Artists
a person is forever stuck with. But mem- Also Opus incertum that this entailed. How did they manage 99 Literary Vignettes
With 122 illustrations from the 20th Century
ory is a fragmentary and untrustwor- to do that? Were they too steadfast to bend
(Original title: Eine Handvoll With 99 images
thy guide. That is why the author avails to the powers that be? Did they owe their
Anekdoten, auch Opus (Original title:
himself of the freedom of stage director survival to their foresight, their intelligence
incertum) Überlebenskünstler. 99
and collage-maker, gathering together 239 pages or sharpness, their belief in themselves, literarische Vignetten aus
themes, images, and anecdotes into an Clothbound their connections or their tactical skill? Was dem 20. Jahrhundert)
Opus incertum. That is how the ancient Release: October 2018 it serendipitous circumstances bordering 366 pages
Romans referred to a particular construc- on a miracle that helped them escape from Clothbound
tion technique: »irregular work«. International Sales: prison, camps and death, or was it strategies Release: April 2018
France (Gallimard) that spanned from ingratiation to disguise?
Through impressions, leaps and digressions,
If only it was possible to make a clear-cut International Sales:
we follow the author’s memories of his
distinction! English world rights
childhood, youth and student days, from
1929 to the beginning of the 1950s. Hans In 99 pointed, deliberately subjective (Seagull), France
Magnus Enzensberger writes subjectively, portraits, Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Alma), Italy (Ein-
with energy, wittily and with deliberate gaps describes the lives and particular surviv- audi), Serbia (Laguna);
about family bonds and first love, an early al strategies of international writers, but Domestic Rights Sales:
passion for reading and an addiction to the also the objective reasons for which they German Book Club
media, a plethora of evasive manœuvres managed to survive the 20th century, the (Büchergilde Guten-
around false authority, an unsuccessful A childhood and young »Age of Violence«. Despite the seemingly berg)
foray into explosions, desertion, the black adulthood in a totalitarian overwhelmingly powerful opponent of »Enzensberger shares the
market and then the happiness in academic state and beyond (1929- thoroughly formed societies and authori- various strategies authors
freedom at university. 1955) – freely narrated tarian, death-or-glory governments. That employed to make it
we could learn from this in our present
situation is not, according to the author,
through the 20th century
Witty, exuberant, with el- and in so doing has
out of the question.
lipses
produced a portrait gallery
of that most ideological of
»... not only is he one of
centuries.« Die Welt
the most influential, he
is also one of the busiest
German intellectuals in the »This book is a gallery of authors, some addicted to the
global cultural scene. He is great man theory, some becoming great success stories,
always ahead of the times. some flashy in the way of the parvenu, and some going
He is versatile, witty, quick. to ruin in grinding poverty. But Enzensberger knows
With his Anecdotes, Hans how to talk about all of these intellectual heavyweights
Magnus Enzensberger from first-hand experience.« Frankfurter Rundschau
has published one of his
most beautiful late works.«
Manfred Papst, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
am Sonntag
Literary Fiction
Gunther Geltinger
Fuel
A gripping road trip through southern Africa
This isn’t the first time Alexander and Vinz Gunther Geltinger
have taken a trip together because their Fuel
relationship has reached a crisis point. The Novel
road trip through South Africa is meant to (Original title: Benzin.
Roman)
give them clarity, and Vinz, the writer, hopes
377 pages
to get a new idea for a novel. Careening past
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street markets, Chicken Inns and hitchhikers,
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the two Germans make their way through a
country where wealth and poverty collide,
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where homosexuality is taboo, and where
they must face up to the part they too play in Gunther Geltinger was born
the general obliviousness of the white tourist.
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in 1974 in Erlenbach, and
After running into a young man, they are currently lives in Cologne. He
dragged ever deeper into contradictions: on studied Script-Writing and
the one hand, they feel responsible towards Drama at the University of
Music and Performing Arts in
him and pay him when he offers to be their
Vienna and at the Academy of
guide. On the other, their new companion Media Arts in Cologne.
increases the tension between them, and His critically-acclaimed debut
Vinz begins to fear more and more for their »As long as he had been Mensch Engel was published in
own safety. When he finally comes upon an 2008, followed by his second
idea for his novel that will take him to the
able to think his life novel, Moor, in 2013; Fuel is his
Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, all three toss had revolved around the third novel.
their original plans to the wind. touch that would save Selected Backlist:
With Fuel Gunther Geltinger articulately him, it was the nucleus Moor (2013) International
and hauntingly depicts what it means for of his unhappiness and Sales: English world rights
one’s own world to fall apart. He spells the motor of his writing, (Seagull)
out the inner turmoil of his figures in and those people he
twenty-six chapters, from A to Z, while
conjuring up atmospheric images that,
incorporated into himself
little by little, lead to a larger whole – in the process were the
a story about stereotypes and sovereign- fuel he consumed at great
ty, trust and betrayal. speed.« Gunther Geltinger
»With an ear perfectly tuned to registering emotional shade and
recognizing the involuntary episodes of self-deception within our
emotional and psychological landscapes, Geltinger manages to
tell a tale that would not have itself be told. That is something that
only great literature can do.« Die Zeit on Moor
Meticulously researched, atmospherically told »Geltinger risks everything and wins.« KulturSpiegel
Poetry Literary Essays
Durs Grünbein Christoph Hein
From the Dream (Files) Counter Eavesdropping
A philosophical-poetic arc of prose, poems, By autumn 2019 the Wall will have been gone 30 years.
and photographs This is Christoph Hein’s most personal book yet.
The title of a book of poetry could not be any Durs Grünbein He is considered the chronicler of German- Christoph Hein
more provocative, and still the poet allows no From the Dream (Files) German relationships, the precise dissector Counter Eavesdropping
room for doubt: »In general, that which we call Essays and Notes of a formerly divided nation which still hasn’t Anecdotes from the Last
reality is greatly overestimated.« Therefore, With illustrations found its way back together completely, and German-German War
(Original title: Aus der (Original title: Gegen-
with all the power of his imagination, in the as a powerful teller of stories. On the occasion
Traum (Kartei). Aufsätze Lauschangriff. Anekdoten
first half of his book he leads us into the stormy of his seventy-fifth birthday, bestselling
und Notate) aus dem letzten deutsch-
areas of that reality which most people consider author Christoph Hein, who, until now, has
approx. 573 pages deutschen Kriege)
the measure of all things. Clothbound been telling other people’s stories above all, approx. 123 pages
Release: February 2019 now relates his own personal experiences Paperback
The discrepancy between reality and dream
at last: including how Thomas Brasch was Release: March 2019
is visible in the world-historical experience
betrayed by his father. How the director of
of the collapse of a state, the GDR, and the Rights available
»The Lives of Others« asked him about his Rights available
metamorphoses of that society up through
personal experiences. About censorship and
today. Examining the binaries of freedom and Durs Grünbein, born 1962
in Dresden, lives in Rome and the (lack of) freedom to travel. And, last but
solidarity on the one hand, hate and division, Born in 1944, Christoph Hein
Berlin. not least, how all of this became history.
Germany and Europe, on the other, in the lives in Berlin. He has written
second half of his book the author develops his novels, novellas, short stories,
Awards (selection): This time around Christoph Hein ap- plays, essays and children’s
idea of resistance to the fetishization of crude proaches German-German relations dif-
Peter-Huchel-Prize (1995) books. He has garnered
reality through imagination. In addition, where ferently: on the basis of personal experi-
Georg-Büchner-Prize (1995) numerous literary awards for his
do dream and reality lie closer together than in Friedrich Nietzsche-Prize ences which are at times funny, at times work. When the PEN Centres
art? (2004) bitter, and sometimes both at the same in East and West merged,
Premio Pasolini (2006) time. Christoph Hein was President
In the third section, the author turns to those Tomas-Tränströmer-Prize of the German PEN Centre from
poets and philosophers whose aesthetics and (2012)
1998 to 2000.
ideas have sharpened his own. The arc spans
from the ancient world to the present, from
Selected Backlist: Awards (selection):
Ovid to Pascal, from Descartes to Celan.
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Durs Grünbein’s latest book is a collection Arabic world rights (Sefsafa), France (Métailié), Italy Literaturpreis
of writings of various genres connected by (e/o), Denmark (Gyldendal), Bulgaria (Atlantis); 2013: Stefan-Heym-Preis
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV), 2012: Uwe-Johnson-Preis
leitmotifs: essays, reflections, dream frag-
German Entire Radio Reading (MDR) 2010: Eichendorff-Literaturpreis
ments, lectures, spoken text and poems. 2008: Walter-Hasenclever-
Their very existence is due to the poet’s In seiner frühen Kindheit ein Garten (2005)
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unique way of working. Using the files he 2004: Schiller-Gedächtnispreis
(Metropolitan), France (Métailié), Italy (e/o), Denmark
keeps of the key words he employs in his (Gyldendal)
des Landes Baden-Württemberg
work, he has created a special kind of re- 2002: Österreichischer
Landnahme (2004) International Sales: English world Staatspreis für Europäische
cord, one that proves productive on every
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page. France (Métailié), Italy (e/o), Denmark (Gyldendal), 2000: Solothurner Literaturpreis
Slovakia (Kalligram), Hungary (Europa), Bulgaria 1998: Peter-Weiss-Preis der
(Emas), Georgia (Ibis), Israel (Hakkibutz Hamecheud); Stadt Bochum
Domestic Rights Sales: German Book Club 1994: Bundesverdienstkreuz
(Bertelsmann), German Book Club Special Edition 1990: Erich-Fried-Preis (Wien)
(Büchergilde Gutenberg) 1983: Deutscher Kritikerpreis
Literary Fiction
Heinz Helle
Overcoming Gravity
»A great philosophical excursion. It revives a genre in a beautiful
way: the brother novel.« SWR
A couple of beers, and then a couple more – Heinz Helle
that’s all it takes for a sense of closeness. Yet Overcoming Gravity
the two brothers know that the warmth of Novel
the alcohol is not really a match for the cold (Original title: Die
Überwindung der
outside as they go from pub to pub. The older
Schwerkraft. Roman)
brother has long been one to cradle a drink
208 pages
with no special occasion required, simply
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pain and suffering, wars and violence. That
evening however, he talks to his younger Rights available
brother not only about Stalingrad and Marc
Dutroux, he also tells him that he is soon to Heinz Helle was born in 1978.
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become a father. What neither of them know He studied Philosophy in Munich
is that this is the last time they will see each and New York. He has worked
other. They talk on the phone once. The next as copywriter for advertising
call, nine months later, brings the news of agencies, and is a graduate of the
the older brother’s death. What he leaves Swiss Literature Institute in Biel.
behind are memories and questions: What is He lives in Zürich.
it all about? What is it we are looking for in
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the world? What is the meaning of it all, this »Heinz Helle has written
living and dying? one of the most beautiful Eigentlich müssten wir tanzen
(2015)
With virtuosic skill, Heinz Helle inter- books about brothers in International Sales: English
weaves the quest for traces of the dead recent German literature.« world rights (Serpent’s Tail),
Chinese simplex rights (People’s
brother with the quest for answers to Paul Jandl, Neue Zürcher Zeitung Literature Publishing House),
the major questions of life. The precision
Arabic world rights (Al Kotob
with which he dissects the brothers’ per-
sonalities is painfully beautiful: a care-
»Overcoming Gravity Khan), France (Piranha)
fully aimed punch in the stomach, shot is written in long, Der beruhigende Klang von
explodierendem Kerosin (2014)
through with solace and hope. elaborately constructed International Sales: English
sentences that one quickly world rights (Serpent’s Tail),
Russia (Text), Bulgaria (Funtasy),
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Shortlisted for the »With a glass-clear but
Swiss Book Prize 2018 poetic voice Helle touches
upon the existential.«
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Dževad Karahasan Angela Krauß
A House for the Wearied Flow
Masterful short stories by one of the great European writers
Sarajevo, September 1914. In a newspaper Dževad Karahasan It’s summer. The poet is having lunch in her Angela Krauß
editorial office, at the national bank and in A House for the Wearied spot next to the piano, her patron is playing Flow
other official locations, letters arrive with Five Stories tennis seventeen hours away by plane, the (Original title: Der Strom)
considerable delay, often years later. Yet it (Original Bosnian title: owner of the French restaurant always approx. 93 pages
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and royal mail into confusion, but rather hard, and sharp. This sensual reference to
(Translated German title:
a postman in love who has fallen on the the world stands in contrast to an ascetic
Ein Haus für die Müden. Rights available
battlefield of the world war just unfolding. Fünf Geschichten) existence to which no one is allowed access.
239 pages Both habitats – the table and hermit’s cell –
Love and loss, progress and memory are the Angela Krauß was born in
Clothbound can be found in the backward part of the city,
themes of these five long short stories with 1950 and lives in Leipzig.
Release of the German that area where thirty years ago they said:
which Dževad Karashan leaves the far-distant Her books have won countless
edition by Suhrkamp: The Russians are gone. Just like the poet prizes, including the Ingeborg
epoch of the setting of his opus magnum,
January 2019 gathers together particles of memory and the Bachmann Prize (1988), the
The Solace of the Night Sky and returns to the
future until there is a sudden compression, Berlin Literature Award (1996),
twentieth century. Communism arrives in Dževad Karashan, born in
one night an unknown source of electricity the City of Hanover’s Gerrit
the backwoods of Bosnia. In the small towns, Duvno, Yugoslavia, in 1953,
shoots through her, as if to cast her out of her Engelke Prize (2001) and the
surrounded by lonely, majestic landscapes, lives in Graz and Sarajevo. He
is a great romancer, short story body with the intense pressure. It is time for Malkowski Prize (2010). In
Karahasan’s protagonists sense that a time
writer, a dramatist, essayist her to pack up her things. 2004, she was the annual
is beginning in which there will not be a and academic. His works have Visiting Lecturer on Poetics at
place for them any more. They are in denial been translated into more than Poetic existence unfolds in Angela Krauß’ the University of Frankfurt/
– radical old men, stubbornly facing the ten languages. In 2004, he was magical language, a language in which Main.
world, insisting on their right to dream, to awarded the Leipzig Book Prize reality vibrates – and dreams become
grieve, and to be tired, quite simply. for European Understanding. tangible. Selected Backlist:
Im schönsten Fall (2011)
Letters that do not reach their destina- Selected Backlist:
tion because death and world history Što pepeo priča (Simurg Media,
Wie weiter (2006)
get in the way of love, are a leitmotif in 2015) (German: Der Trost des Die Überfliegerin (2002)
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a world changing more quickly than the
Translation Publishing House),
individuals in it can keep up with. Bulgaria (Paradox), Slovenia
(Beletrina), Turkey (Iletisim),
Greece (Hestia), Iran (Donya-
e-Eqtesad), Part 1: Macedonia
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»A brilliant storyteller.«
Photo: Claus Gretter
(Templum)
Sara i Serafina (Durieux, 1999)
Der Standard
(German: Sara und Serafina,
Suhrkamp 2014) International
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about The Solace of the Night Sky published, rights reverted), Italy
(Il Saggiatore – published, rights
reverted), Sweden (Bosnisk-
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i Sverige – published, rights
reverted), Slovenia (Cankarjeva
Založba – published, rights
reverted), Turkey (Ketebe)Literary Fiction
Benjamín Labatut
A Terrible Verdure
In Un Verdor Terrible, Benjamín Labatut »Among the few possessions Benjamín Labatut
writes about the fine line between genius A Terrible Verdure
and insanity and about the ambivalence
Fritz Haber had with him (Original title: Un Verdor
of scientific discoveries in four chapters when he died was a letter Terrible, to be published
in 2020 by Anagrama,
that are as sensuous as they are bizarre. written to his wife. In it, he Barcelona)
The text portrays the life of scientists Fritz
confessed that he felt an approx. 200 pages
Haber, Werner Heisenberg, Alexander
Grothendieck and Erwin Schrödinger as unbearable guilt; not for the Clothbound
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that of daredevil dreamers and passionate part he had played, directly edition by Suhrkamp/Insel:
trailblazers. We read of their Eureka!- or indirectly, in the death 2020
moments, their triumphant epiphanies, but
also of their ethical shortcomings, their of untold human beings,
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mental lows and their narcissism. With but because his method of UK & ANZ (Pushkin
virtuosity, in rich detail and strikingly vivid, extracting nitrogen from Press), France (Seuil),
Labatut unlocks historic connections and
writes, seemingly en passant, a history of
the air had so altered the Italy (Adelphi), Nether-
20th-century European science that is not natural equilibrium of the lands (Atlas|Contact)
only shaped by the great wars, but that, planet that he feared the Benjamín Labatut was born in
in turn, also has a major influence on the
course of those wars. A book about human
world’s future belonged not Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in
eccentricity and the glorious yet terrifying to mankind, but to plants, 1980. He grew up in The Hague
and Buenos Aires and currently
power of science. as all that was needed was lives and works in Santiago de
a drop in population to Chile. His literary works have
been awarded various prizes,
premodern levels for just including the 2013 Premio
a few decades to allow Municipal de Literatura de
them to grow without limit, Santiago de Chile. Un Verdor
Terrible is his third book.
taking advantage of the
excess nutrients humanity
had bestowed upon them
to spread out across the
earth, increase in number,
be fruitful, multiply, and
finally cover it completely,
suffocating all forms of life
beneath a terrible verdure.«
photo: Juana Gomez.Literary Fiction
Judith Schalansky
»A literary sensation.« Stern
An Inventory of Certain Losses
Wilhelm-Raabe-Prize 2018
World history is full of things that have Judith Schalansky
gone astray – willfully destroyed or mislaid An Inventory of Certain
over the course of time. In her new book, Losses. With 12 illustrations
Judith Schalansky dedicates herself to that (Original title: Verzeichnis
einiger Verluste)
which the lost leaves behind: dying echoes
252 pages
and disappearing steps, whispers and
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legends, apostrophes and phantom pains.
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Beginning with objects from nature and
art like an incinerated painting of Caspar International Sales:
David Friedrich, an extinct species of tiger, UK & Commonwealth
a Roman baroque villa, the holy writings of (MacLehose Press),
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a vanished religion or a sunken island in the Spanish world rights
Pacific, she presents a panorama of the long (Acantilado), Catalan
lost and disappeared, a panorama which rights (Mésllibres),
traces the world’s blank spaces together with Chinese simplex rights
those within natural and cultural history
(China CITIC Press /
while opening up areas of knowledge where
Sight), Chinese complex
delivery has failed. The protagonists of these
rights (Locus), Portugal
short stories are outsiders: a bizarre old man depicts the lost. As such, the collection
hoarding the knowledge of humankind in proves itself to be a document of the power (Elsinor), Italy (notte-
his garden in Tessin, a lunar researcher from of print, the book a more efficacious and tempo), Netherlands
Bohemia who gives up all earthly curiosity long-lasting medium of transmission than (Atlas/Contact), Den-
for a position in the Archive of the Moon, an any other. mark (Vandkunsten),
aged Greta Garbo who dreams of appearing Sweden (Pequod), Nor-
After her Atlas of Remote Islands, in this,
on the silver screen as Dorian Gray, Judith way (Press), Greece
her Inventory of Certain Losses, Judith
Schalansky’s own father who left the family (Antipodes); Domestic
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between reality and imagination, truth
him. These texts speak about beginnings Audiobook (DAV)
and myth, fact and fiction. The result is a
and endings – and at the same time are an
lively evocation of the lost and the remote,
autobiographical trip into a country that Judith Schalansky, born in
which suggests that perhaps the difference Greifswald in 1980, lives in
no longer exists: childhood, the GDR of the
between presence and absence is only Berlin as a writer, editor and
1980s.
marginal as long as memory still exists – book designer. Her work, which
Each of the twelve stories in this collection that, and a literature which reveals just how includes the internationally
successful bestseller Atlas of
sketches its own world through a subject- close preservation and destruction, loss and
Remote Islands and the novel
specific language, a world in which the creation, really are. The Giraffe’s Neck, has been
boundaries between presence and absence translated into more than twenty
have disappeared as much as have those languages and has won several
between fiction, memoir and essay, while
»There are no gains without prizes.
simultaneously questioning the reliability corresponding losses, no losses
»Judith Schalansky’s latest book is a collection of tales on an without corresponding gains.« Selected Backlist:
of our individual and collective memories as
well as future instruments of transmission. Der Hals der Giraffe (2011)
important theme: loss. What we gain, however, is literature, Moreover, every one of the 16-page stories
Agnes Heller
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the kind one encounters on only the rarest of occasions.« begins and ends with a black page, which,
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Maria Stepanova Clemens J. Setz
Post-Memory The Comfort of Round Things
»Post-Memory is the most important Russian novel of 2017.« GQ On the absurd and the grotesque of human coexistence
Montpellier, 1908: the photograph of a Maria Stepanova An Alsatian soldier in the First World War Clemens J. Setz
young woman by an easel or »Grandma Post-Memory discovers the constellation of the Great Young The Comfort of Round
on the barricades«, as the family calls it. (Original Russian title: Kid in the night sky, but it is so awful that Things
Pre-Revolution portraits, postcards from Памяти памяти, published he can’t tell anyone about it. A young man, Stories
by Novoe in November With illustrations
Venice, Montpellier, or Nizhny Novgorod, who has fallen in love with the blind Anja,
2017) (Original title: Der
pieces from the »library of a very different discovers that her apartment is covered with
(Translated German title: Trost runder Dinge.
and lost visual culture«, letters, childhood insults from floor to ceiling. Marcel, sixteen
Nach dem Gedächtnis. Erzählungen)
souvenirs – these are the things that the Roman) years old, leaves his mobile number behind Approx. 320 pages
author examines in astonishment. Who were 408 pages in the toilet-stall of a sex shop along with Clothbound
these people who travelled all throughout Clothbound the name Suzy. Jean-Henri Fabre, an insect February 2019
Europe yet lived in Russia? Who did their Release of the German researcher, receives the 1914 Nobel Prize for
best to remain anonymous and who made edition by Suhrkamp: Literature – a catastrophe for the ninety-one- Domestic Rights Sales:
little effort to make history seem interesting? October 2018 year-old.
German Audiobook
But it is precisely the unspectacular nature The completely unexpected smashes into (Griot)
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of the find which turns the author’s research the lives of Clemens J. Setz’ figures. Their
in the Russian context into something new: USA/Canada (New creator compassionately, almost tenderly, Clemens J. Setz, born 1982,
»Everyone else had a family made up of people Directions), UK/ tells their stories. Through trapdoors he lives in Graz.
participating in history; mine was made up Commonwealth allows us glimpses into the puzzling oc-
Prizes and distinctions
only of their tenants.« Destined to become (Fitzcarraldo), currences and secret abysses of everyday (selection):
victims of persecution and repression, they Spanish world life, while we run into revenants and sen- Berliner Literaturpreis 2019
all still managed to survive the 20th century. rights (Acantilado), tences that make us click our tongues. Literaturpreis der Steiermark
How was that possible? This is the question Chinese simplex The Comfort of Round Things is a book 2017
and point of departure for Maria Stepanova’s full of will-o-the-wisps and false floors – Wilhelm Raabe-Literaturpreis
rights (China CITIC 2015
first great work of prose. Press), France (Stock), radically told and full of thrilling details.
Longlisted for the German Book
In dialogue with, among others, writers Italy (Bompiani), Prize 2015 (for Die Stunde
like Roland Barthes, W.G. Sebald, Jacques Netherlands (De Bezige »›I was never sixteen.‹ zwischen Frau und Gitarre)
Literaturpreis des Kulturkreises
Rancière, and Susan Sontag, imbued with Bij), Sweden (Nirstedt/ ›You weren’t?‹
der deutschen Wirtschaft 2013
a passion for thought and a wonderfully litteratur), Finland ›No. Why should I have been? I simply Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2011
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soft, poetic voice derived from sensual as (Siltala), Poland upgraded from fourteen to eighteen, (for Die Liebe zur Zeit des
well as intellectual observations, Stepanova (Prószyński), Bulgaria bam, like that.‹ Mahlstädter Kindes)
Literature Prize of the City of
assembles her found pieces into a panorama (Janet 45), Romania And Gregor smiled, which made Bremen 2010
of an entire age. At its heart lives a large (Humanitas) endearing little wrinkles appear Shortlisted for the German
family of doctors, architects, librarians,
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around his eyes. Book Prize 2009 (Die
accountants, and engineers, unheroic indi- Maria Stepanova, born in
›Ah, I see‹, I said, though I didn’t Frequenzen, 2009)
viduals who did not attach themselves to any Moscow in 1972, is a poet, Ernst-Willner-Preis 2008 at
essayist, and journalist and understand a thing.« the Ingeborg-Bachmann-
great project but who in uncivilized, violent
one of the most visible figures Wettbewerb
times attempted to live quiet, civilized lives.
of contemporary literary life in
Russia. Editor-in-chief of the
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online newspaper colta.ru, in
»A meta novel like this appears only once every ten years – a great 2018/2019 Maria Stepanova Die Stunde zwischen Frau und Gitarre (2015) International Sales: Spanish world rights (Malpaso),
literary reconstruction, which has created a whole new genre and will take up the Siegfried France (Jacqueline Chambon), Italy (La Nave di Teseo), Bulgaria (Paradox)
Unseld Guest Professorship in
sounds the relation between memory, time, and history.« Literratura Berlin.
Indigo (2012) International Sales: USA (W. W. Norton / Liveright), UK (Serpent‘s Tail), Chinese complex rights
(China Times), Japan (Kokusho Kankokai), France (Jacqueline Chambon), Denmark (Vandkunsten), Czech Republic
(Fra), Hungary (Europa), Bulgaria (Funtasy), Croatia (Hena Com)
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France (Actes Sud / Jacqueline Chambon), Denmark (Vandkunsten), Czech Republic (Fra), Hungary (Europa),
Bulgaria (Funtasy), Romania (Univers), Macedonia (Blesok)Literary Fiction / Historical Novel
Stephan Thome
God of the Barbarians
A master of thorough portraits delivers his first historical novel:
the story of one of the bloodiest wars in human history
China, mid-nineteenth-century. A Christian Stephan Thome
revolutionary movement swamps the Empire God of the Barbarians
with terror and destruction. A young Novel
German missionary, who wants to help with (Original title: Gott der
Barbaren. Roman)
the modernising of the enormous Empire,
719 pages
travels full of idealism to Nanjing, in order
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to gain an impression of the rebellion. There
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where, ultimately, he loses everything that International Sales:
is important to him. At the conflict hotspots– Chinese complex rights
in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing – we (Linking); Domestic
encounter a cast of characters as tattered as Rights Sales: German
they are fascinating: among them Lord Elgin,
Audiobook (Griot),
the British High Commissioner in China;
German Entire Radio
and a Chinese scholar, appointed warlord,
Reading (NDR)
who has grown so powerful that even the
Emperor has reasons to fear him. Stephan Thome, born in
1972 in Biedenkopf, studied
In his enthralling new book, Stephan Philosophy and Sinology at the
Thome tells a story that precedes our cri- Freie Universität in Berlin and
sis-ravaged present day. Under the com- at various universities in China,
mand of a Christian convert who believes Taiwan and Japan. He has worked
in East Asia for ten years and has
to be God’s second son, rebels in China
also lived in Lisbon. His novels
create a religious state that, in a devastat- Border Crossing (original title:
ing way, pre-empts the terror movements
of our days. A major novel with a far-
Shortlisted for the Grenzgang, 2009) and Centrifugal
Forces (original title: Fliehkräfte,
reaching gaze on religious fanaticism, on German Book Prize 2018 2012) were both shortlisted for
the German Book Prize. His work
how easily we can be seduced, and on the
has won several prizes. Stephan
loss of orientation in a radically chang- Thome lives in Taipei.
ing world.
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House), Chinese complex rights
(Linking); Domestic Rights
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characters and the portrait of the times merge seamlessly.« SZ (DAV), German Book Club Rights
(Büchergilde Gutenberg)
Grenzgang (2009) International
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(Jiangsu People’s Publishing
House), Chinese complex rights
»A great master of emotional nuance.« Die Welt (Linking), Netherlands (Cossée);
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(Griot), German Book Club
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(Büchergilde Gutenberg)Literary Fiction
Philipp Weiss
On the edge of the world man
sits and laughs
1000 pages, five volumes – one novel
In On the edge of the world man sits and Philipp Weiss
laughs, Philipp Weiss recounts the world’s On the edge of the world
transformation during the Anthropocene – man sits and laughs
that epoch of earth’s history in which the Novel
(Original title: Am
human being became the central constitutive
Weltenrand sitzen die
power. Between France and Japan, from the
Menschen und lachen.
19th to the 21st century, this bold novel
Roman)
depicts a Panopticon of our fleeting reality. With many colour and black
Each one of the five volumes has its own and white images
form: encyclopaedia, manga, novella, audio- 1064 pages
transcription and notebook. Five volumes with cover
Photo: Max Zerrahn
flaps in a box
One novel, five books – as Release: September 2018
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as they are closely interwoven International Sales:
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» ... an impressive large-scale (East China Normal
novel about progress and University Press / Vi
humanity’s looming self- Horae), France (Seuil)
destruction.« Richard Kämmerlings, Philipp Weiss was born in 1982
Die literarische Welt in Vienna, where he currently
lives and works. He studied
»This project of a novel from German studies and Philosophy
Philipp Weiss is a literary jewel and has published theatre plays
and short stories. On the edge of
of tremendous intellectual,
the world man sits and laughs is
poetic and formal strength. It is his first novel. In 2018, he has
nothing less than the daring and been awarded the Literary Prize
ultimately successful attempt to of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation.
make the complexity of the world
in which we live tellable.« ORF ZIB1Philosophy / Current Affairs
Theodor W. Adorno
Aspects of Contemporary
Right-Wing Radicalism
On 6 April 1967 Theodor W. Adorno gave Theodor W. Adorno
a lecture at the University of Vienna as Aspects of Contemporary
a guest of the Socialist Students of Aus- Right-Wing Radicalism
A Lecture
tria, a lecture which, from today’s point
With an afterword by
of view, is not only of historical interest.
Volker Weiß
Against the backdrop of the rise of the
(Original title: Aspekte des
NPD, which in the first two years after its neuen Rechtsradikalismus.
founding in November 1964 had already Ein Vortrag)
seen surprising success at the polls, Adorno approx. 100 pages
analyses the goals, resources, and tactics of Paperbound
the new right-wing radicalism of his time. Release: July 2019
Contrasting it with »old« Nazi-Fascism, he
gives a close examination of the reasons Rights available
for which extreme right-wing movements
were finding a positive reception – 20 years The collected works of
Photo: Peter Zollna
after the end of the war – in segments of the Theodor W. Adorno (1903-
population of the Federal Republic. 1969) are published by
Suhrkamp Verlag and have
Since then a lot has changed, but some been translated into more than
things have remained the same or even, 40 languages.
50 years on, come back again. And thus
Volker Weiß, born in 1972,
Aspects of Contemporary Right-Wing Rad-
icalism reads like a message-in-a-bottle to »How these things is a historian and publicist.
His research and publications
the future, whose value for our present continue, and the focus on 19th-century and
Volker Weiß presents in his afterword. 20th-century German history
responsibility for how as well as the history and
they continue, present state of right-wing
extremism in Germany.
ultimately lies with us.«
»It is very often the case that convictions and
ideologies assume their demonic, their truly
destructive nature once they are no longer that
substantial in the objective situation.«
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Academic Non-FictionContemporary History
Felix Bohr
The War Criminals’ Lobby
The eternal desire to draw a line under it
Immediately after the Second World War, Felix Bohr
National Socialist war criminals were taken The War Criminals’
into custody by many Western European Lobby
countries. Given the Federal Republic of West German aid for Nazi-
perpetrators taken into
Germany’s links to the West, the majority
custody abroad
were released. In Italy and the Netherlands
(Original title: Die
alone, five Germans remained in police
Kriegsverbrecherlobby.
custody: SS man Herbert Kappler as the Bundesdeutsche Hilfe für
Gestapo commander responsible for the im Ausland inhaftierte
Ardeatine massacre, and the »Breda Four« NS-Täter)
who had played a significant role in the 558 pages
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murder of Dutch Jews. High-ranking German Clothbound
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German Chancellors Brandt and Schmidt,
aided in securing their release. Rights available
Felix Bohr outlines the Federal Repub- Felix Bohr, born in 1982, is an
lic’s activity on behalf of the Nazi perpe- historian and journalist. The
trators arrested abroad. He reveals how War Criminals’ Lobby is his first
»Bohr succeeded in book.
church groups, veterans associations
and diplomats formed an influential
writing a brilliant book
network of interests that offered legal about the way in which
and financial help. While victims of the the remaining Nazis
Nazi regime struggled for re-entry into in West Germany used
society and restitution, the lobby organ-
ized support for the war criminals at the
and manipulated the
highest political level. Based on sources country’s politics and
hitherto inaccessible, Bohr directs an how at the same time they
all-encompassing gaze toward a chapter claimed the prerogative
of West Germany’s history that has been
of interpretation of the
narrowly explored until now.
national memory.«
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