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Suhrkamp
Insel Rights List
Frankfurt Book Fair 2022
www.suhrkamp.de/foreignrights
Authors and Estates
represented by Suhrkamp/Insel
A selection
Theodor W. Adorno Hans Magnus Wolfgang Koeppen Bärbel Reetz
Robert Alexy Enzensberger Siegfried Kracauer Christoph Ribbat
Carolin Amlinger Urs Faes Michael Krüger Hartmut Rosa
Juri Andruchowytsch Yannic Han Biao Federer Benjamín Labatut Gerhard Roth
Friedrich Ani Erika Fischer-Lichte Christian Lehnert Ralf Rothmann
Ingeborg Bachmann Marieluise Fleißer Svenja Leiber Sasha Marianna Salzmann
Zsófia Bán Rainer Forst Philipp Lepenies Philipp Sarasin
Polina Barskova Manfred Frank Gertrud Leutenegger Judith Schalansky
Priya Basil Günter Frankenberg Sibylle Lewitscharoff Wilhelm Schmid
Wolfgang Bauer Max Frisch Niklas Luhmann Gershom Scholem
Barbara von Bechtolsheim Valerie Fritsch Nicolas Mahler Lutz Seiler
Ulrich Beck Markus Gabriel Andreas Maier Clemens J. Setz
Zoë Beck Gunther Geltinger Philip Manow Peter Sloterdijk
Jurek Becker Rainald Goetz Steffen Mau Manfred Sommer
Jürgen Becker Johannes Groschupf Friederike Mayröcker Philipp Staab
Ulla Berkéwicz Durs Grünbein Thomas Meinecke Andrzej Stasiuk
Thomas Bernhard Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Robert Menasse Angela Steidele
Barbara Beuys Jürgen Habermas Christoph Menke Maria Stepanova
Marcel Beyer Anna Katharina Hahn Winfried Menninghaus Wolfgang Streeck
Peter Bichsel Michael Hampe Andreas Michalsen Natascha Strobl
Ernst Bloch Peter Handke Alice Miller Peter Szondi
Hans Blumenberg Sabine Hark Robert Misik Uwe Tellkamp
Karl Heinz Bohrer Christoph Hein Christoph Möllers Philipp Ther
Szilárd Borbély Heinz Helle Heiner Müller Stephan Thome
Nora Bossong Florian Henckel von Stefan Müller-Doohm Hans Traxler
Emma Braslavsky Donnersmarck Hans-Wilhelm Müller- Hans-Ulrich Treichel
Volker Braun Dieter Henrich Wohlfahrt Galsan Tschinag
Bertolt Brecht Hermann Hesse Martin Mulsow Ernst Tugendhat
Fritz Breithaupt Jörg Hilbert Oliver Nachtwey Peter Turrini
Hermann Broch Wolfgang Hildesheimer Melinda Nadj Abonji Siegfried Unseld
Ulrich Bröckling Ludwig Hohl Angelika Neuwirth Kia Vahland
Simone Buchholz Axel Honneth Jakob Nolte Kevin Vennemann
Paul Celan Eva Illouz Hans Erich Nossack Martin Walser
Ann Cotten Rahel Jaeggi Christoph Nußbaumeder Robert Walser
Sigrid Damm Uffa Jensen Deniz Ohde Peter Weiss
Zoltán Danyi Hans Joas Albert Ostermaier Philipp Weiss
Photo: Werner Geiger
László Darvasi Uwe Johnson Emine Sevgi Özdamar Lambert Wiesing
Adrian Daub Hans Jonas Katja Petrowskaja Josef Winkler
Ljubko Deresch Dževad Karahasan Andreas Pflüger Katharina Winkler
Hans Peter Duerr Anna Kim Marion Poschmann Christa Wolf
Ulrike Edschmid Esther Kinsky Doron Rabinovici Serhij Zhadan
Fiction
Günter Eich Julia Kissina Hanno Rauterberg Ulf Erdmann Ziegler
Nana Ekvtimishvili Alexander Kluge Juliane Rebentisch Slavoj Žižek
Sirka Elspaß Ariane Koch Andreas Reckwitz Maxim Znak
Literary Fiction
»A gripping novel with an urgent political purpose.«
Fintan O’Toole, New York Review of Books on ›The Capital‹ Robert Menasse
»Drolly comic. A major book about coincidences, of linked
and overlapping meanings. Deeply humane.«
Enlargement
Dwight Garner, The New York Times on ›The Capital‹
Finally: The sequel to The Capital
»A first-class read.« The Guardian on ›The Capital‹
2019 – membership negotiations between Robert Menasse
the European Union and the Western Balkan Enlargement
countries have come to a standstill; France Novel
and the Netherlands have put in a veto. (Original title: Die
Erweiterung. Roman)
This has toppled many a political career,
approx. 650 pages
including the one of Albania’s charismatic
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and unconventional Prime Minister, who
Release: October 2022
won his last election with the promise of
leading Albania into the EU. But what to do
International Sales:
when the political base is crumbling? Fate
France (Verdier),
Vasa, poet laureate, has an idea: The Prime
Italy (Sellerio); Domestic
Photo: Rafaela Pröll
Minister must take on the role of the great
national hero Skanderbeg, who defended his Rights Sales: German Au-
country against the Ottomans in the 15th diobook (Der Hörverlag)
century and who is a symbol for the unity
Robert Menasse was born
of all Albanians. For the one who rallies the
in Vienna, where he currently
Albanians of the Kosovo, North Macedonia,
Menasse aims once again at the great resides again, in 1954.
Montenegro, Serbia and even the Albanian
questions: how can people living in
communities in southern Italy, Germany and Selected Backlist:
very different political systems, shaped
Turkey under one cause, will turn Albania Die Hauptstadt / The Capital
by different cultural surroundings and
into Greater Albania and into a major (2017) International Sales:
histories, find a common ground and
European power. In order to do so, he should USA & Canada (W.W.Norton/
form a union or alliance? Do all so called
wear Skanderbeg’s helmet with the bizarre Liveright), UK & Commonwealth
Western societies in the 21st century (MacLehose Press), Spanish
goat’s head, that is currently displayed in a
really share the often-invoked common world rights (Seix Barral),
museum in Vienna. Unfortunately, it’s too
values? In a kaleidoscope made of more Chinese simplex rights
small for the Prime Minister, which is why (People’s Literature Publishing
than a dozen voices, he interweaves fas-
an ornamental blacksmith from Tirana is House), Chinese complex
cinating individual stories with the his-
tasked with recreating it. But before he rights (Linking), Russia (Text),
tory of Europe of the last century – plac- Portuguese rights (Dom
can fix the issue, both helmets disappear
ing it in a global perspective. The result Quixote), Arabic world rights
simultaneously and a furious international
is a unique narrative, a haunting novel. (AFAQ), France (Verdier),
hunt starts, involving members from Europol Italy (Sellerio), Netherlands
as well as members from the Albanian (Arbeiderspers), Denmark
mafia, and some others who wish to remain (Vandkunsten), Sweden
unrecognized. Awards (selection): (Weyler), Poland (Noir sur
21st Century Best Foreign Novel Blanc), Czech Republic (Plus),
of the Year award 2020 (China) Hungary (Geopen), Bulgaria
Meanwhile, politics go on and Albania’s (Lege Artis), Lithuania (Tyto
Prix littéraire des lycées français
Prime Minister invites the heads of the d’Europe 2019 (France) Alba), Croatia (Fraktura),
governments of the Balkan countries, the Nominated for the Prix du livre européen 2019 Serbia (Arhipelag), Slovenia
foreign ministers of the EU countries as (France) (Cankarjeva založba), Turkey
well as the entirety of the EU delegates Nominated for the Premio Strega (Everest), Greece (Patakis),
Europeo 2019 (Italy) Georgia (Intelekti), Armenia
to gather on the SS Skanderbeg, a large
Deutscher Buchpreis 2017 (Germany) (Antares), India/Hindi (Saar
Albanian cruise ship on its maiden voyage. Max-Frisch-Preis 2014 (Switzerland) Sansaar); Domestic Rights
What happens during this unofficial Balkans Sales: German Audiobook (Der
Summit, is the kind of stuff dreams are made Hörverlag), German Book Club
of – or rather nightmares? (Büchergilde Gutenberg)
Correspondence
One of the most spectacular correspondences of literary history between one of the most
illustrious couples of German-language literature: the letters of Max Frisch and Ingeborg Ingeborg Bachmann / Max Frisch
Bachmann, published from the estates after decades of non-disclosure – a major literary event!
We Didn’t Do Well. The Correspondence
A unique document of a love affair with all its ups and downs
Ingeborg Bachmann /
Max Frisch
»We Didn’t Do Well.«
Photo: Estate of Ingeborg Bachmann
The Correspondence
With Letters from
Relatives, Friends and
Photo: Jürgen Becker
Acquaintances
Edited by Hans Höller,
Renate Langer, Thomas
Strässle and Barbara
Wiedemann. Coordination:
Barbara Wiedemann
Spring 1958: Ingeborg Bachmann – celebrated poet, winner of Literary Prize of Gruppe 47 With photographs and
and cover star of Der Spiegel – is broadcasting the radio play Der gute Gott von Manhattan. Facsimiles
Max Frisch, busy with productions of Biedermann und die Brandstifter, writes to the »young (Original title: »Wir haben
poet« and expresses his enthusiasm for her radio play. Bachmann’s reply in June 1958 marks es nicht gut gemacht.« Der
the beginning of an exchange of letters that – from the time they met until long after their Briefwechsel)
separation – bears witness to the life, love and suffering of one of the most famous couples approx. 700 pages
in German-language literature in almost 300 surviving documents: closeness and distance, Clothbound
Release: November 2022
admiration and rivalry, jealousy, impulses to flee and fear of loss, but also the difficulties
of working in a shared flat and the tension between being writers and being a couple – the
themes of the autobiographical testimonies are timeless. Their love has left traces in both Domestic Rights Sales:
Bachmann’s and Frisch’s books, some of which can only be illuminated through the lens of German Audiobook
their correspondence. The letters show once again that life and work cannot be separated; (offers pending)
they are intimate messages and world literature at the same time.
Selected Backlist:
The dramatic, hitherto unpublished correspondence, expertly annotated by Bach- Herzzeit. Ingeborg
mann and Frisch scholars, paints a new, surprising picture of the relationship and Bachmann – Paul Celan.
calls into question traditional assessments and assignments of blame. Der Briefwechsel (2008)
International Sales: English
world rights (Seagull), Chinese
simplex rights (China Renmin
UP), Portuguese rights
Ingeborg Bachmann was born in 1926 in Klagenfurt. Max Frisch, born in Zurich in 1911, first worked
(Antígona), France (Seuil),
She began to write when she was at school. She as a journalist, later as an architect, until his
Italy (Nottetempo), Denmark
studied Philosophy in Innsbruck, Graz and eventually breakthrough as a writer with his novel Stiller
(Vandkunsten), Sweden
in Vienna, where she met, among others, Hans Weigel. (1954). This was followed by the novels Homo faber
(Ellerströms), Japan (Seidosha),
She subsequently started working for the Allied radio (1957) and Mein Name sei Gantenbein (1964) as
Turkey (Kirmizi Kedi), Georgia
station Rot-Weiss-Rot. Her friendship with Paul Celan well as short stories, diaries, plays, radio plays and
(Ibis); previously published
majorly influenced her thought. Ingeborg Bachmann essays. Frisch died in Zurich on April 4, 1991.
in the respective language /
is considered one of the most important German-
territory; rights available again:
language poets and writers of the 20th century. She
Spanish world rights (Fondo
died in Rome on October 17, 1973.
Cultura), Russia (Ad marginem),
Netherlands (Meulenhoff),
Awards (selection): Awards (selection):
Poland (A5), Czech Republic
Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature 1968 Georg-Büchner-Preis 1958
(Pulchra), Romania (Art),
Büchner Prize 1964 Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels 1976
Croatia (OceanMore), Ukraine
Deutscher Kritikerpreis 1961 Heinrich-Heine-Preis der Stadt Düsseldorf 1989
(Knihy XXI)
Literary Prize of Gruppe 47 1953
Literary Thriller
Fiction Literary Essays
Juri Andruchowytsch Katja Petrowskaja
Radio Night The Photograph Looked Back at Me
Jury Andruchowytsch’s long awaited new novel After the international bestseller Maybe Esther
»I have always dreamt of writing a Juri Andruchowytsch An image catches the viewer’s eye and Katja Petrowskaja
novel that has a sound,« says Juri Radio Night captivates her. The photograph of a ghostly The Photograph Looked
Andruchowytsch, who has spent his life Novel plant in a book about Chernobyl. The face of Back at Me
singing, rehearsing with his band and (Original Ukrainian title: a miner clouded in smoke in an exhibition With 52 black-and-white
playing countless concerts. His latest Радио Нiч, published in 2021 and colour images
in Kiev. A couple of Syrian refugees arriving
by Meridian Czernowitz) (Original title: Das Foto
work has already been classed an »acous- on Lesbos, published in The New York Times.
(Translated German title: schaute mich an. Kolumnen)
tic novel«. In the novel Radio Night, the What makes up the present? Maybe the
Radio Nacht) 256 pages
author creates a linguistic firework, pre- 448 pages images displayed in exhibitions, wasting Clothbound
senting himself as an artist inspired by Clothbound away on billboards or flittering across our Release: May 2022
music, at the height of the political events Release of the German screens? How can an intimate moment of
in Eastern Europe. It is set at the time of edition by Suhrkamp: bewilderment or wonder be put into words? International Sales:
climate protests, the onset of a pandemic October 2022 Italy (Adelphi)
and the unchanged threat from Russia – With her columns about photographs,
a time when hopes for radical change are published in the Frankfurter Allge-
International Sales: Katja Petrowskaja, born in Kiev
buried. meine Sonntagszeitung since 2015, Katja in 1970, moved to Berlin in 1999.
France (Noir sur Blanc),
Petrowskaja has created her own genre: She read literary studies at the
Hungary (Helikon), short prose that condenses landscape, bio- Universities of Tartu, Stanford
Andruchowytsch’s hero, rock musician Romania (Trei), Croatia graphy, contemporary history and form and Moscow and now works
Josip Rotsky, supported the revolution in his
(Fraktura) into a minimal space. Precisely because as a journalist for German- and
home country by being a »barricade pianist«. Russian-language publications.
Forced into exile, he earns his living playing she has a personal approach to every- Her literary debut Maybe Esther
salon music. In a Swiss hotel he is forced to
Juri Andruchowytsch was thing – whether it’s the image of an old received numerous awards.
born in 1960 in Ivano-Frankivsk, woman being carried heavenwards by Petrowskaja lives in Tbilisi and
perform for his country’s dictator. He throws Ukraine. He is considered the
an egg at him, accidentally killing him. a chairlift in the Caucasus or that of a Berlin.
leading contemporary Ukrainian
writer. He writes poems, prose,
house wall in Brussels after the terror- Selected Backlist:
essays and translates from ist attacks – her texts develop a force that Vielleicht Esther (2014)
After his release from prison, Rotsky retreats German and Polish. wrings truth from the moment. International Sales: USA &
to the Carpathian Mountains, where he is Canada (Harper Collins US),
soon found by secret service agents and UK & Commonwealth (Fourth
Awards (selection): Estate), Spanish world rights
other sinister characters who are out to get Goethe-Medaille 2016
him. His escape takes him as far as Greece Hannah-Arendt-Preis 2014 »Short, gripping reflections on (Adriana Hidalgo), Russia (Iwan
Limbakh), Brazilian Portuguese
– with his raven Edgar and his lover Animé Leipzig Book Award for European life, contemporary history rights (Companhia das Letras),
Photo: Ekko von Schwichow
as his faithful companions. He ends up on a Understanding 2006 and her own way of storytelling,
Photo: Gunter Glücklich
Portuguese rights (Quetzal),
prison island on the prime meridian, where Sonderpreis des Erich-Maria-
Remarque-Friedenspreises 2005
condensed into miniatures. France (Seuil), Italy (Adelphi),
he hosts his own radio programme: »Radio Petrowskaja is one of the most Netherlands (De Bezige Bij),
Denmark (Tiderne Skifter),
Night« – his own label that allows him to Selected Backlist: important literary voices of our Sweden (Norstedts), Norway
broadcast music, poetry and good stories Коханці Юстиції (Meridian time.« Die Zeit (Gyldendal Norsk), Finland
into a darkening world. Czernowitz, 2017) (German: (Tammi), Poland (Jagiellonian
Die Lieblinge der Justiz, 2020) University Press), Slovakia
Awards & nominations (selection):
International Sales: Poland (Premedia), Hungary (Magvetö),
Andruchowytsch’s previous novels were A revolutionary saga, biographical (Warstwy), Bulgaria (Paradox) »The arsenal of images that Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2019
Bulgaria (Paradox), Romania
written in the 1990s. Recreations (Рекреаці (shortlist)
burlesque and agent thriller set Katja Petrowskaja lends Warwick Prize for Women in Translation (Humanitas), Estonia (Hea
1992; The Moscoviad (Московіада, 1993) against the backdrop of the immediate Лексикон інтимних міст voice to in her miniatures is Lugu), Slovenia (Ebesede),
2018 (longlist)
and Perverzion (Перверзія, 1996) represent present – Andruchowytsch pulls out (Meridian Czernowitz, 2011)
(German: Kleines Lexikon intimer
inexhaustible. Petrowskaja's Premio Strega Europeo 2015 Greece (Kapon), Ukraine (Knihy
a radical renewal of Ukrainian literature. all the artistic stops to counter the fears XXI), Georgia (Sulakauri);
Städte, 2016) International Sales: impressive texts intensify the Ernst-Toller-Preis 2015
Domestic Rights Sales: German
With Twelve Circles (Дванадцять обручів, and real threats with the sovereignty »aspekte«-Literaturpreis des ZDF 2014
2003), Galician postmodernism reached its of imagination. Radio Night received
Spanish world rights (Acantilado), glimpses that jut out of history Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse 2014 Audiobook (DAV), German Entire
temporary peak. After almost twenty years, great acclaim from readers and critics
France (Noir sur Blanc), Croatia
(Fraktura)
and into the present.« (nominated) Radio Reading (SWR), German
Book Club rights (Büchergilde
the author now presents his fifth novel, alike. Jörg Magenau, Deutschlandfunk Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis 2013
Gutenberg)
Radio Night.
Literary Fiction
»What happens when we cultivate inconspicuousness in our desires?
What happens when we curb our hopes until there is barely anything left?« Anna Kim
Story of a Child
Longlisted for
the German
Book Prize 2022
How the gaze of others can make lonely
In a small town in the US state of Wisconsin, Anna Kim
twenty-year-old telephone operator Carol Story of a Child
Truttman gives birth to a child in July 1953. Novel
That same night, she gives the boy up for (Original title: Geschichte
eines Kindes)
adoption. Daniel, as he is called, remains in
220 pages
the care of social services. Soon the nurses
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tending to him are confronted with what
Release: August 2022
they see as a serious suspicion: Contrary
to the mother’s statement, the baby does
Rights available
not appear to be »white« but, as the official
language of the time put it, »Indian«, »Polish«
Photo: Werner Geiger
Selected for New Books in
or »negroid« – a scandal in a homogeneously
German – translation funding
white society subjected to the rigorous laws guaranteed
of racial segregation. The social worker
Marlene Winckler, originally from Austria, Anna Kim was born in
is tasked with determining the true ethnicity Daejeon, South Korea, in
1977. In 1979 her family
of the child. To do so, however, she must first
find the child’s father, whose identity the »Wielding language like a moved to Germany and then
to Vienna, Austria, where
biological mother refuses to reveal. Neither scalpel, the author carefully and she also lives today. She has
society nor its institutions do anything to confidently exposes the deepest received numerous prizes and
stop her on her obsessive and increasingly layers of human existence.« fellowships for her belletristic
destructive search for truth. Readers are and essayistic work, including
Carsten Hueck, Deutschlandradio Kultur
the European Union Prize for
as unsparingly confronted with her report, on ›Anatomie einer Nacht‹ Literature.
the »file Daniel Truttman«, as the narrator,
a writer with Austrian-Korean roots – »Anna Kim’s novel is full of Selected Backlist:
whom Daniel’s wife asks to find Marlene
smells and sounds, melodies Die große Heimkehr
Winckler sixty years after these events in
order to maybe finally help Daniel, who is
and atmospheric images, which (2017) International Sales:
English world rights (Granta),
now critically ill. The further the narrator
are impossible to forget. When Netherlands (Signatuur)
delves into Daniel’s story and into the search a story of such unfathomable
for Winckler, the more her view of her own atrocities resonates so Anatomie einer Nacht (2012)
past and her family background begins to poignantly, it is a sign of International Sales: English
unravel. magnificent literature. « world rights digital (Frisch
& Co.), France (Jacqueline
Frankfurter Rundschau Chambon), Denmark (Tiderne
Anna Kim’s Story of a Child is about the on ›Die Große Heimkehr‹ Skifter), Korea (Eulyoo), Poland
powerful and fatal idea of »race«, which (Jagiellonian UP), Bulgaria
not only still shapes societies today, but »Stunningly visual language. (Paradox), Turkey (Alti Kirk Bes)
also permeates the private sphere, di- Kim proves herself an excellent
vides families, prevents careers and de- storyteller.« Buchkultur
termines life paths. Clever and touching, on ›Die Große Heimkehr‹
this novel, based on a true incident, talks
about the way we look at one another and
about what we believe we see in the other.
Literary Fiction Literary Fiction
Esther Kinsky Longlisted for
the German Heinz Helle
Rombo Waves
Book Prize 2022
»Of uncompromising poetic sincerity and subtle About a father, his love and his anger
linguistic beauty.« Marianna Lieder, Literarische Welt
In Rombo nature and oral history com- Esther Kinsky He has become a father for the second time. Heinz Helle
bine into a fascinating narrative about Rombo One night his little daughter won’t stop Waves
the effects of catastrophic events, both Novel crying, the next he wonders if she is still Novel
physical as well as psychological. (Original title: Rombo. breathing. During the day he finds himself (Original title: Wellen.
Roman) Roman)
amidst nappies and bottles and his older
267 pages 284 pages
In May and September 1976, two severe child’s Playmobil. And while his wife is the
Clothbound Clothbound
earthquakes rip through north-eastern Italy, main breadwinner, he dreams of living in
Release: February 2022 Release: September 2022
causing severe damage to the landscape and a big house by the sea or of sex with other
its population. About a thousand people die people. He is overwhelmed as a father,
International Sales: Rights available
under the rubble, tens of thousands are left insecure as a man. Why does he find it so
USA & Canada (NYRB),
without shelter, many will leave their home in difficult to fit into his role? What are the Heinz Helle was born in 1978.
Friuli forever. The displacement of material UK & Commonwealth dark sides of his masculinity, what potential He studied philosophy in Munich
as a result of the quakes is enormous, new (Fitzcarraldo), Spanish for anger and violence lies dormant in him? and New York. He has worked
terrain is formed that reflects the force of the world rights (Periférica), With his child in his arms, he searches as a copywriter for advertising
catastrophe and captures the fundamentals Catalan rights (Angle), for answers and finds moments of love, agencies and is a graduate of the
Swiss Literature Institute in Biel.
of natural history. But it is far more difficult France (Grasset), Italy closeness and happiness.
He was longlisted for the German
to find expression for the human trauma, (Iperborea), Netherlands Book Prize 2015 for his second
the experience of an abruptly shattered (Pluim) novel, Eigentlich müssten wir
existence. Waves is a novel about the ups and downs of a tanzen. For his most recent novel,
Esther Kinsky was born in young father’s everyday life, an examination Die Überwindung der Schwerkraft,
In Esther Kinsky’s new novel, seven in- Engelskirchen in 1956. She has of the miracle of life and the love for one’s he was awarded the Förderpreis
zum Bremer Literaturpreis 2019
habitants of a remote mountain village, been awarded numerous prizes child. It’s the story of a modern man striving
for her extensive œuvre, which and was shortlisted for the Swiss
men and women, talk about their lives, for equality in a society where old ideals and Book Prize 2018. He lives in
includes translations from the
which have been deeply impacted by the Polish, Russian and English as
gender relations still prevail. Heinz Helle’s Zurich with his wife, writer Julia
earthquake that has left marks they are well as poetry, essays and works most personal book to date and a highly po- Weber, and their two daughters.
slowly learning to name. From the shared of fiction. Kinsky’s previous etic text of great power and topicality.
novel Grove won the Leipzig Selected Backlist:
experience of fear and loss, the threads of
Book Fair Prize 2018 and the Die Überwindung der
individual memory soon unravel and be-
Düsseldorf Literature Prize 2018, Schwerkraft (2018) International
come haunting and moving narratives of was shortlisted for the Europese
A literary examination of masculinity Sales: Bulgaria (Funtasy), Greece
a grave past hurt. Literatuurprijs 2021, longlisted and fatherhood (Gutenberg)
for the Warwick Prize for Women Eigentlich müssten wir tanzen
in Translation 2021, and the
About the miracle of life and the chal- (2015) International Sales:
Photo: Heike Steinweg
Photo: Tobias Bohm
English translation by Caroline English world rights (Serpentʼs
Schmidt (published in the UK by lenges a family faces
Tail), Chinese simplex rights
Fitzcarraldo editions and in the (Peopleʼs Literature Publishing
US by Transit) was nominated For readers of Rachel Cusk, Karl Ove House), France (Piranha)
»The book sensitises us to the for the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld
Knausgård and Ben Lerner Der beruhigende Klang von
fragile balance that underlies Prize. An unpublished and
explodierendem Kerosin (2014)
all concepts of existence, and
anonymously entered extract »Heinz Helle writes International Sales: English world
pushes the contrast between
from Rombo was awarded the
newly founded W.-G.-Sebald-
sentences that seem to float rights (Serpentʼs Tail), Russia
the descending force of nature Literaturpreis 2020. in their depth of focus.« (Text), Turkey (Kafka Yayinevi);
previously published in the
and human comprehension Paul Jandl, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
respective language / territory;
Selected Backlist:
to the extreme.« rights available again: Bulgaria
Ingeborg Harms, Die Zeit
Hain (2018) International Sales: UK
»A literary work of art (Funtasy); Domestic Rights Sales:
& Commonwealth (Fitzcarraldo),
USA & Canada (Transit Books), that sounds out the depths German Audiobook (Hörbuch
Hamburg)
Spanish world rights (Periférica), of human existence.«
France (Grasset), Italy (Il Saggiatore), Martina Läubli, NZZ am Sonntag, on
Netherlands (Pluim), Greece ›Die Überwindung der Schwerkraft‹
(Potamos), Ukraine (Knihy XXI)
Literary Fiction
»This last instalment is so great, so touching, so brutal, and shockingly
so topical that its publication may be considered an event. Rothmann’s trilogy is, as Ralf Rothmann
if incidentally, also this: an absolutely horrific, an incredibly beautiful love story.«
Adam Soboczynski, Die Zeit The Night under the Snow
The conclusion of Rothmann’s critically acclaimed, widely translated
trilogy of novels on World War II and the post-war years in Germany
Luisa is studying to become a librarian at Ralf Rothmann
university, which is housed in a former arms The Night under the Snow
factory in Kiel. Elizabeth is working at the Novel
officers’ mess in the port and all she strives (Original title: Die Nacht
unterm Schnee. Roman)
for is a little contentedness and everyday
304 pages
comfort. Two women who are trying to
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regain control of their lives after the war. But
Release: July 2022
when is war truly over for those who have
experienced it?
Domestic Rights Sales:
Over time, Luisa notices that there is a
heaviness in Elizabeth that weighs her down German Audiobook
Photo: Heike Steinweg
and prevents her from finding happiness. (Hörbuch Hamburg)
She tries to stay close to her friend, after her
suicide attempt and through the extreme Ralf Rothmann was born in
1953 in Schleswig and grew
poverty of country life, but for Elizabeth,
up in the Ruhr. He lives in
there will always be that emptiness that Berlin. For his work, he has
stems from the winter of 1945. »So plausible, gripping been awarded numerous prizes
and heavy the overall set-up, including the Heinrich-Böll-Preis
2005, the Max Frisch-Preis
In a breathtakingly written panorama of so brilliant the scenes, 2006, the Kleist-Preis 2017,
the early post-war years, Ralf Rothmann
flawless realism as if you the Premio San Clemente
creates the portrait of a woman whose
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Poetry Poetry
Durs Grünbein Sirka Elspaß
Equidistance i am blow-drying my lashes
»Only in a foreign land do we become close to ourselves.« »no one is above things / we are all in the midst of it«
In his new volume of poetry, his twelfth, Durs Grünbein Everything begins with birth, but »no one Sirka Elspaß
Durs Grünbein pursues his course of Equidistance comes into the world / and knows how i am blow-drying my
poetic-historical poetry through history Poems things work«. But then the doctor says lashes
and the present. This poet conceives of his (Original title: Äquidistanz. straight away that she is capable of great Poems
Gedichte) (Original title: ich föhne
wanderings through times and spaces, on things, with which he means: hunger. And
183 pages mir meine wimpern.
which he encounters not only Germany but so her own body becomes an area of crisis
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also the antipole of many Germans, Italy, and conflict from the very beginning. All the
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both here and there, the past crosses the of love and pain, of longing and healing –
wanderer’s path. His verses lead through the (primal) longing for a mother, perhaps,
Durs Grünbein, born in Rights available
murderous territories and across clearings, »besides the one I have«.
Dresden in 1962, read theatre
to dives in the Mediterranean, along the studies in Berlin, after which he Sirka Elspaß, born in
sand paths and concreted roads of a unified worked as a freelancer writing In her debut, Sirka Elspaß strikes a Oberhausen in 1995, studied
Germany, through gravel pits and bunkers, for various literary magazines. unique note between pop and poetry, ex- creative writing and cultural
along the east-west axis of the restless He is one of the most
istential force and effortless ease. Emo- journalism in Hildesheim and
important and internationally
continent confronted yet again with war. tional injuries, moments of loneliness and language arts at the University
influential German poets and of Applied Arts in Vienna (under
Anyone who has followed Grünbein on his essayists and the recipient of psychological crises are captured in crys- Monika Rinck, among others).
path will not be surprised by the fact that numerous prestigious literary tal-clear, precise imagery. So beautiful She was a prize-winner at the
the European idea – as reality and a utopia– prizes. His debut volume of and so sad, so heartrending and wise, be- Treffen junger Autor:innen
comes into play as the result of these poetry published in 1988 was cause the author knows: »no one is above 2010 & 2012 and postpoetry-
impressions. »Just in case, poetry can also entitled Grauzone morgens Nachwuchspreisträgerin 2013,
things / we are all in the midst of it«.
and he went on to publish she co-edited the magazine
be that: a device for capturing the future.«
nearly twenty collections of BELLA triste (no. 41-45)
His verses combine the precise obser- poetry including Vom Schnee and has published her work
vations of small things with the subtle oder Descartes in Deutschland in various magazines and
irony of an observer who is especially (2003), Der Misanthrop auf anthologies, including STILL,
concerned with what is often buried un- Capri (2005), Porzellan. Poem Edit and Lyrik von Jetzt 3. The
vom Untergang meiner Stadt collection of poetry ich föhne
derneath the big issues. Conjuring up a
(2005) and Zündkerzen (2017). mir meine wimpern is her
poem with just a few strokes is his craft, He is also the author of a debut.
one that has matured over the years. collection of essays and opera
librettos. He has translated
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the tragedies of Aeschylus and
Localizations at the edges of history
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Seneca into German as well
as the works of contemporary
authors such as Sara Kane,
Awards (selection): Ted Hughes, Wallace Stevens,
Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award 2020 Samuel Beckett, John Ashbery
(Poland) and Tomas Venclova. Grünbein
Premio Internazionale di Poesia 2019 (Italy) »Then a sentence materialises lives in Berlin and Rome.
European Poet of Freedom Award 2012 (Poland)
– one word leads to another, »interpersonal relationships
are / my nemesis«
Tomas Tränströmer Prize 2012 (Sweden) Selected Backlist:
Samuel Bogumił Linde Prize (together with Adam tentatively. They break the seal
Jenseits der Literatur (2020)
Zagajewski) 2009 (Poland) of realities, International Sales: English
Premio Internazionale Pier Paolo Pasolini 2006 (Italy) the surfaces crack.« world rights (Seagull)
Berliner Literaturpreis 2006 (Germany)
Friedrich Hölderlin Prize 2005 (Germany) Aus der Traum (Kartei) (2019)
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Peter Huchel Prize 1995 (Germany) Zündkerzen (2017)
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Fiction
A combination of ›Flying Dutchman‹, ›Groundhog Day‹ and ›Friends‹
Simone Buchholz
Only the Others are Immortal
Who wants to live forever?
Tarik and two other men disappear without Simone Buchholz
a trace on the MS Rjúkandi, a ferry on the Only the Others are
North Atlantic. Two women, Iva and Tarik’s Immortal
partner Marlin, set out to find their missing Novel
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friends – and board the ship to Iceland
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Simone Buchholz, born in Hanau
all his grandeur and coolness, and what the
in 1972, studied Philosophy
hell is wrong with that bartender? As it turns and Literature and trained to be
out, the crew and some of the passengers a journalist at the prestigious
are »cursed« – they stay forever young and Henri-Nannen-School in Hamburg.
carefree, but they cannot leave the ferry. She has been writing for women’s
magazines for more than 15 years
Tarik and his mates have succumbed to this
and published her first novel in
curse and Mila and Iva also give in to the
temptation of staying onboard forever. But
»If James Joyce and 2008. Together with her husband
very quickly Iva realizes that this might Bruce Willis had a and their son, Simone Buchholz
lives in Sankt Pauli, in the heart of
have been a mistake, as there is a lot that literary daughter, her Hamburg.
she has had to leave behind.
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name would be Selected Backlist:
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Finland (Huippu)
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Maxim Znak Uwe Tellkamp
Zecameron The Slumber in the Clocks
100 scenes from the everyday life of a political prisoner A continuation of the bestseller The Tower
In a world shrunk down to the size of a Maxim Znak August 2015: Fabian Hoffmann, the Uwe Tellkamp
prison cell, every detail becomes important: Zecameron former dissident, is a chronicler employed The Slumber in the
the cockroach doing its job, the mousetrap Stories from Prison by the »One Thousand and One Nights Clocks
that can be used to kill time, the strange (Original Russian title: Department« at Treva. Here, in the Novel
Зекамерон) (Original title: Der Schlaf
rhythms of the collective snoring heard by labyrinths of an underground world, the
(Translated German title: in den Uhren. Roman)
the insomniac. »Security« pursues activities that once
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Italy (La Nave di Teseo),
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published on the 25th anniversary of the Hungary (MCC)
Zecameron (from »zek«, the Russian ac-
ronym for prisoner), which he wrote dur- Rights available reunification. But things take a different
Uwe Tellkamp was born in
ing his first year in prison, he proves to turn and Fabian begins a journey that takes
Dresden in 1968. He studied
be a gifted writer – pointedly, ironically Maxim Znak, born in 1981, is him deep into Treva’s society and its utopias. medicine in Leipzig, New
and with astonishing humour, he tells a lawyer and leading member York and Dresden. He then
of his new everyday life in one hundred of the opposition movement in He analyses notions of order and the worked as a doctor. Now living
Belarus. He is also a member of principles by which power is exercised, the as a writer in Dresden, his
»mini stories«. His stories bear witness
the board of the Coordination novel Der Turm, published in
to resistance and self-assertion, to going interrelations of politics, state apparatus
Council that advocated for 2008, won that year’s German
mad quietly and loudly. a peaceful transfer of power and the media, observes the changes in
Book Prize. Der Turm has been
during the mass protests everyday life. In the process, his chronicle translated into 15 languages.
against the fraudulent becomes more and more detached from
presidential election in Belarus. its original official assignment, meanders Selected Backlist:
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back into the Dresden of his childhood, into Der Turm (2008) International
Znak has been imprisoned in
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Empuries), France (Grasset;
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Netherlands (Arbeiderspers),
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to me, disappearing (Bonniers), Norway (Press),
into the unreal. What happened, Hungary (Magvetö), Bulgaria
where did this gloom come from?« (Atlantis), Romania (Curtea
Veche), Serbia (Zlatni Zmaj),
Turkey (Ithaki), Greece
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Serhiy Zhadan Peace Prize
Sky Above Kharkiv
of the
German Book
Trade 2022
A chronicle of ongoing events
He doesn’t have time to keep a diary. He Serhiy Zhadan
is on the go in Kharkiv, day and night, to Sky Above Kharkiv
evacuate children and the elderly from the Messages of Survival in
suburbs that have come under fire; he sends War
With numerous colour
list of medications to the West, coordinates
photographs
food deliveries, collects money for military
(Original title: Небо над
equipment, cares for pets and organises
Харковом. Нотатки про
concerts. We see him pose in front of three виживання на війні)
Nobel Prize winners that went to the same approx. 200 pages
university he attended that will be but rubble Clothbound
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photographs, we meet Oleg Pyrotechnics, his
(Yale UP)
secret bodyguard, who accompanies him on
the dangerous trips to visit the soldiers and
Serhiy Zhadan was born in
Cyril and Timofey, two young boys who have Starobilsk, near Luhansk in
sought refuge in the subway stations turned eastern Ukraine, in 1974 and
into bomb shelters with their families. studied German at Kharkiv
University. He has been one
Pictures of the open sky are interspersed – lone observer, but an active civilian in of the most influential figures
an allegory of beauty and transcendence, of a society that has, over the past eight in the Kharkiv scene since
threat and vulnerability. He shows the people years, learnt what it means to be strong the early 1990s. He made his
literary debut at 17 and has
of Kharkiv how beautiful their city is – still, together.
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despite the destruction of its familiar face. He
published numerous volumes
Soviet era, Serhiy Zhadan speaks to this experience Internat (Original Ukrainian title: Інтернат, published by
juxtaposes images of rubble with his defiant
of poetry and prose. In 2022,
Zhadan was named Man of
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of national and personal upheaval ...« The Times Literary world rights (Yale UP), English Audiobook (Blackstone), credo: We are going to rebuild everything, we Awards (selection): the Year by Gazeta Wyborcza
Supplement Spanish world rights (Galaxia Gutenberg), Catalan are going to improve it, »everything will be Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 2022 (Poland). Zhadan lives in
rights (Quaderns Crema), Portuguese rights (Elsinore), Ukraine.« (Germany) Kharkiv.
»A literary master of enormous force.« Ilya Kaminsky France (Noir sur Blanc), Italy (Voland), Netherlands (de Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought 2022
Geus), Denmark (Jensen & Dalgaard), Norway (Pax), The city is emptying out. Friends are killed. EBRD Literature Prize 2022 for
»Serhiy Zhadan is one of the most important creators Finland (Sammakko), Japan (Bulrush), Poland (Czarne), Death is omnipresent, hate is growing. When The Orphanage (UK)
of European culture at work today.« Timothy Snyder, author Czech Republic (Argo), Slovak Republic (Absynt), images of Bucha travel around the world, his
Drahomán Prize 2020 for
Antenna (Ukraine)
of ›On Tyranny‹ Hungary (Magvetö), Republic of Moldova / Romanian
voice falters too. »There are no words. None
rights (Cartier), Estonia (Hea Lugu), Latvia (Janis Roze), ANGELUS Literary Award 2015 for Mesopotamia
at all. Persevere, my friends. Now there is
»I live here and am part of this society. That’s why I Lithuania (Kitos Knygos), Croatia (Edicije Božičević), (Poland)
only resistance, fight and mutual support.« BBC Ukraine Book Of The Decade 2014 for
can’t stand on the sidelines.« Serhiy Zhadan in an interview Slovenia (Beletrina), Greece (Dioptra), Belorussia
(Januškevič), Georgia (Intelekti), Israel (Hakkibutz But Zhadan is committed to the survival of Voroshilovgrad (Ukraine)
with ›Der Spiegel‹ (2014) Brücke Berlin Prize for Literature and Translations
Hameuchad); Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook Kharkiv and its citizens.
(Lindhardt & Ringhof / Saga Egmont) 2014 for Voroshilovgrad (Germany)
»Of course, books can’t end the war. But books can This volume contains a selection of texts Jan Michalski Literature Prize 2014 for
help you stay yourself in war, not lose yourself, not go Mesopotamien (Original Ukrainian title: Месопотамія, that Serhiy Zhadan has been publishing Voroshilovgrad (Switzerland)
under.« Serhiy Zhadan in »Wer braucht schon Bücher im Krieg?« published by Klub simejnogo dozvillja) (2014)
on Facebook since the start of the war on
Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski Literary Prize 2009
(Poland)
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(Noir sur Blanc), Italy (Voland), Denmark (Jensen &
events, the testimony of a person who enters
»The bard of Eastern Ukraine, where things are Dalgaard), Norway (Pax), Poland (Czarne), Latvia (Janis
into a new reality as he writes and who
Roze), Georgia (Intelekti); Domestic Rights Sales: German
falling apart.« The New Yorker Audiobook (Schall & Wahn) breasts the destruction of everything. Not a
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Angela Steidele
Enlightenment
A declaration of love for the idea of Enlightenment
Leipzig in the 18th century, in its most Angela Steidele
brilliant period. Merchants carry not Enlightenment
only goods but also ideas to the whole of A Novel
Europe from the fairs. Johann Sebastian (Original title: Aufklärung.
Ein Roman)
Bach surveys the universe in musical
603 pages
notes, assisted by his wife, the singer
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Anna Magdalena, and his eldest daughter
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Dorothea. Meanwhile, Johann Christoph
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light of the Enlightenment. Outraged by the
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Angela Steidele, born in
biography published by Johann Christoph
1968, researches the history
after the early death of his wife, Dorothea of lesbianism before 1869,
Bach decides to put her own memoirs to when the term homosexuality
paper. That was not how things happened was first characterized by Karl
with Voltaire, Lessing and the young Goethe! Maria Kertbeny. Scientific
research, literary writing – that
After all, we are living in the age of the
»highly educated gentlewoman«! »An opulent tableau of skilfully is Angela Steidele’s signature
feature. For her novel
placed historical facts and Rosenstengel (2015, Matthes
With ease and hilarity, Angela Steidele poetic imagination, which und Seitz) she was awarded
paints a witty portrait of the Enlighten- Angela Steidele sets in motion the Bavarian Book Prize, her
ment from a woman’s point of view. Her with a brilliant sense of scenery biography Anne Lister (2017,
Matthes und Seitz) was an
novel tells of musicians and printers, and the wit of a language that international success.
poets and actresses, of turbulence of the is completely contemporary
mind, scientific flights of fancy and of but plays with the peculiarities Selected Backlist:
worldly wisdom in music. Historically of the 18th century.« From the In Männerkleidern (2021)
versed, with our present in mind, she jury statement of the Dieter-Wellershoff- Geschichte einer Liebe:
describes the fateful years of an epoch Stipendium 2021 Adele Schopenhauer und
in which it seemed possible, for a short Sibylle Mertens (2010)
while, that women and men together
»Steidele’s biography is impeccably
could make the world see reason.
researched. It is a veritable page-
turner.« Susanne Kord, The Modern
Language Review on ›In Männerkleidern‹
On promises and abysses in the
Age of Reason
»Academic literature is seldom
as fascinating and entertaining
A novel of astonishing currency
to read as this double biography
by Angela Steidele.« escape on
Witty, clairvoyant and surprisingly
›Geschichte einer Liebe‹
political
»Angela Steidele has erected a
literary memorial in her tale of
love: astonishing in its disclosure,
captivating in its narration.«
Der Spiegel on ›Geschichte einer Liebe‹Literary Noir Thriller
Friedrich Ani Johannes Groschupf
Bull’s Eye Hyaenas
Forlornness & Extremism The new sublime thriller by the two-time winner
of the German Crime Fiction Prize
Police officer Kay Oleander was hit in the face Friedrich Ani In the past few months, more and more Johannes Groschupf
with a beer bottle during a demonstration Bull’s Eye luxury cars are set ablaze once night falls Hyaenas
and lost his left eye as a result. Released Novel over the capital. Drivers in Berlin feel left Thriller
from active duty, he struggles to get through (Original title: Bullauge. alone and set out on communal »citizen (Original title: Die Stunde
Roman) der Hyänen. Thriller)
the day – until fate leads him to Silvia Glaser. patrols« in their neighbourhoods, while
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She, too, has been disabled ever since a the police suspect left-wing scum. The
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bicycle accident. Unexpectedly, the two find young police officer Romina Winter has
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support in each other – despite the fact that just been transferred to the arson squad
she is suspected of being responsible for as a disciplinary measure and is patrolling
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Oleander’s misfortune. Silvia Glaser found the city at night. Also trolling the streets is
refuge with a right-wing populist party after Friedrich Ani was born in
postman Maurice Jaenisch, who is convinced
Johannes Groschupf, born in
the accident that turned her life upside 1959. His first novel was that the city is ruled by Satan. And because
Braunschweig in 1963, grew
down. She wants to leave this scene but published in 1996, and since he wants to do everything right, he must face up in Lüneburg. After studying
doesn’t dare for fear of reprisal. When she then he has gone on to write Him now. Jette Geppert is on the go as well. German studies, American
learns of the party leadership’s plot to carry crime novels, poetry and She is a journalist reporting on criminal studies and journalism at the
YA-fiction, as well as writing
out an assassination, she turns to Oleander trials in the borough of Moabit, and she is Free University of Berlin, he
for TV, radio and theatre. He worked as an independent
and the two decide to thwart the plan. For is an award-winning script a »super recognizer«: She has the ability to
travel journalist for publications
this they need allies, but those are not easy writer (Grimme Prize 2021 recognize faces without fail. Three people such as Die Zeit, Frankfurter
to find for two people like them. together with Ina Jung for the are roaming the big city whose nightly Allgemeine Zeitung and
script for Wir wären andere face is mysterious, fascinating and highly Frankfurter Rundschau for many
Menschen), while his books
With compassion and laconism, Frie- dangerous… years. In 1994, he survived a
have also received many helicopter crash in the Sahara.
drich Ani tells the story of two damaged prominent awards, among Based on this experience,
people who, against all odds, find each them the Bavarian Cultural A hot, hellish trip through a Berlin 1998 saw the creation of the
other and come together to do something Ministry’s Advancement Award entirely unlike the one we know radio feature Der Absturz (»The
right for once in a life that has felt wrong for Literature and the German Crash«), which was awarded
for a long time. Crime Fiction Prize. So far, the Robert Geisendörfer Prize
he is the only author ever to Johannes Groschupf looks into the
the following year. After that,
receive the German Crime dark heart of our society he focused on literary works,
A psychological study of people Fiction Prize for three titles in first and foremost in the field of
who have been left behind the same year (2003). YA literature, and on articles for
Der Tagesspiegel and Die Welt.
Highly topical in our current politi- Awards (selection):
»A book with fast-paced laconic He was awarded the German
cal climate German Crime Fiction Prize dialogues à l’Elmore Leonard. Crime Fiction Prize in 2019 for
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2016, 2014, 2013, 2012, A rhapsody of noir, atmospheric his thriller Berlin Preppers and
like James Ellroy, and deprived
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2010, 2003, 2002 again in 2021 for the thriller
Crime Novel of the Year 2013, Berlin Heat.
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of any hope that Berlin has
Letzte Ehre (2021)
never seen before.« Alexander Kluy, Selected Backlist:
All die unbewohnten Zimmer (2019)
Buchkultur Krimi on ›Berlin Prepper‹ Berlin Heat (2021)
Ermordung des Glücks. Jakob Franck # 2 (2017)
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