Wolfgang Bauer 31
Gernot Böhme 35
Karl Heinz Bohrer 36
Hans Magnus Enzensberger 13
Suhrkamp
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Rainer Forst 37
Efrat Gal-Ed 38
Alisa Ganieva 14
Durs Grünbein 15
Anna-Katharina Hahn 11
Christoph Hein 6-7
Heinz Helle 16-17
Axel Honneth 39
Dževad Karahasan 8-9
Julia Kissina 18
Niklas Luhmann 40
Christoph Menke 41
Christoph Möllers 42
Andreas Pflüger 28-29
Doron Rabinovici 19
Christoph Ribbat 32-33
Hartmut Rosa 43
Ralf Rothmann 20-21
Clemens J. Setz 22-23
Peter Sloterdijk 24, 44
Manfred Sommer 45
Robert Stockhammer 46
Natan Sznaider 19
Hans-Ulrich Treichel 10
Martin Walser 25
Lambert Wiesing 47
Katharina Winkler 12
Serhij Zhadan 26-27
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Literary Fiction
Christoph Hein
Dževad Karahasan
Hans-Ulrich Treichel
Anna-Katharina Hahn
Katharina Winkler
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Alisa Ganieva
Durs Grünbein
Heinz Helle
Julia Kissina
Doron Rabinovici / Natan Sznaider
Ralf Rothmann
Clemens J. Setz
Peter Sloterdijk
Martin Walser
Serhij Zhadan
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6-7
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12
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15
16-17
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19
20-21
22-23
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25
26-27
Highlight Commercial Fiction
Andreas Pflüger
28
28-29
General Non-Fiction
Wolfgang Bauer
Christoph Ribbat
30
31
32-33
Academic Non-Fiction
Gernot Böhme
Karl Heinz Bohrer
Rainer Forst
Efrat Gal-Ed
Axel Honneth
Niklas Luhmann
Christoph Menke
Christoph Möllers
Hartmut Rosa
Peter Sloterdijk
Manfred Sommer
Robert Stockhammer
Lambert Wiesing
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Humanity/ies without Borders
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Gallery of Authors (Page 2): Credits: Greg Bal (Alisa Ganieva); Jürgen Bauer (Gernot Böhme, Karl Heinz Bohrer, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, AnnaKatharina Hahn, Heinz Helle, Axel Honneth, Christoph Menke, Hartmut Rosa, Manfred Sommer); Andrea Felske (Lambert Wiesing); Heinz Heiss
(Wolfgang Bauer); Hans Hochstöger / FOCUS (Clemens J. Setz); Alan Kaufmann (Julia Kissina); Stefan Klüter (Andreas Pflüger, Katharina Winkler);
Tineke de Lange (Durs Grünbein); Isolde Ohlbaum (Dževad Karahasan, Serhij Zhadan); Sven Paustian (Peter Sloterdijk); Anita Schiffer-Fuchs (Efrat
Gal-Ed); Heike Steinweg (Christoph Hein, Christoph Ribbat, Ralf Rothmann, Hans-Ulrich Treichel); Teutopress (Niklas Luhmann); Anna Weise (Christoph Möllers), Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (Robert Stockhammer) – Further references are available from the picture archive of
Suhrkamp Verlag.
Literary
Fiction
Photo: Heike Steinweg
Literary Fiction 6
Christoph Hein
Portrait of a Son With Father
What does Konstantin Boggosch, whom
his mother described as “child of fortune”,
owe to his father? In Christoph Hein’s new
novel, which mobilises all the registers of
his storytelling prowess and his historicaldiagnostic skills, the father is the driving
force. But by no means in a positive sense:
ever since his birth in 1945, the son, now
growing up in the early days of the GDR,
has been trying to get away from his war
criminal father: psychologically, physically,
professionally, geographically, even in his
love life.
Christoph Hein
Portrait of a Son With
Father
Novel
(Original title: Glückskind
mit Vater)
527 pages
Clothbound
Release: March 2016
English sample available
International Sales:
France (Métailié),
Italy (e/o),
Denmark (Gyldendal),
Bulgaria (Atlantis)
He makes numerous attempts to step outside his
father’s shadow: he assumes a new name, tries
to join the Foreign Legion in Marseilles, moves
back to the GDR just after the Wall was built,
but isn’t allowed to finish secondary school
there; nevertheless, he is able to make the most
of fortunate circumstances – he is a “child of
fortune” after all – to become the principal of
a grammar school by the end of the GDR. A
success story… almost.
Born in 1944, Christoph Hein lives
in Berlin. He has written novels,
novellas, short stories, plays, essays
and children’s books.
Photo: Heike Steinweg
In the end he realises that an emancipation
from collective and his personal history is
doomed to failure. The imbrications of past and
present make the child of fortune into a child of
misfortune. And in this way he comes to embody
all the political, social, and private realities of
Germany. With irony and humour, movingly but
without sentimentality or sarcasm, Christoph
Hein tells the story of an extraordinary and yet
paradigmatic life over more than sixty years of
German history.
Domestic Rights Sales:
German Audiobook (DAV),
German Entire Radio Reading (MDR)
Awards (selection):
2013: Stefan-Heym-Prize
2012: Uwe-Johnson-Prize
2010: Eichendorff-Literaturpreis
2008: Walter-HasencleverLiteraturpreis
2004: Schiller-Gedächtnispreis des
Landes Baden-Württemberg
2002: Österreichischer Staatspreis
für Europäische Literatur
2000: Solothurner Literaturpreis
1998: Peter-Weiss-Preis der Stadt
Bochum
1994: Bundesverdienstkreuz
1990: Erich-Fried-Preis (Wien)
1983: Deutscher Kritikerpreis
Literary Fiction 7
Christoph Hein
Portrait of a Son With Father
Excerpt from the English sample translation:
The officer did not say a word about his delay. He came with four soldiers, did not greet my
mother, but just stared at her forcefully and without a word. When my mother asked him if
she could offer him anything, a tea or a glass of water, he remained silent. His glance was so
contemptuous, Mother said, that she shivered and awaited the worst. [...] [A]fter a seemingly
endless amount of time said only: Gerhard Müller. You are Gerhard Müller’s wife.
Mother replied affirmatively, and the Russian asked her: Do you know your husband, this
Gerhard Müller?
The question seemed strange to her, and she simply nodded.
Do you really know him? Do you know what he did in my homeland and in Poland?
Mother told him that he never spoke about what happened at the front. [...] [O]ver the last
few months she had not heard from him at all, she did not even know whether he was still
alive or was a prisoner of war.
And that there, that is his child? he had asked, pointing to my mother’s stomach. And when
Mother nodded, he said: Your husband, this Gerhard Müller, he is not a prisoner of war like
you think. Or as you perhaps would like me to believe. We are looking for this Gerhard
Müller, he will come before a military tribunal. Your husband is a criminal. A war criminal.
And he is one of the worst. Please show me what you are taking with you from this house,
you and your personnel. And then go. You must find your own place to stay. The flat that I
had confiscated for you was given back to its tenants. I can make no flat available for the
wife of Gerhard Müller.
Thereafter all the questions that Mother asked him went unanswered. Instead, he ever more
forcefully called for her and the other residents of the house to open their suitcases. With a
single word he ordered the accompanying soldiers to go through their things. From out of
Mother’s and the housekeeper’s suitcases they pulled letters, two little bundles, one wrapped
with a rubber-band and the other, the housekeeper’s letters, stuck into a tin of pralines. With
a movement of his head he ordered the soldiers to lay the letters on the table. When Mother
asked him why and told him that they were private, he answered curtly that no written
documents whatsoever, whether files, papers or letters, were to be removed from the house.
She was only allowed to take her personal documents, her passport. Then he motioned them
to the door.
The gardener carried Mother’s suitcases and bed things out of the house, threw them onto
the wooden wheelbarrow, which he had thoughtfully placed next to the separate entrance
by the coal cellar, then turned back into the house in order to collect his own possessions
while Mother went to her two year-old son and left the house with him in hand, the house
in which she had lived since being married and into which she would never step foot again
in her lifetime.
And that I was allowed to go, that is thanks to you alone, she said to me, I owe my very life to
you. You were my child of fortune, Boy, for being so pregnant with you the Russian officer
did not dare have me picked up. Otherwise I no doubt would have been arrested, and I will
not even attempt to imagine what would have happened to me then.
Selected Backlist:
Landnahme (2004) International
Sales: English world rights
(Metropolitan), Arabic world
rights (Kanaan), France (Métailié),
Italy (e/o), Denmark (Gyldendal),
Slovakia (Kalligram), Hungary
(Europa), Bulgaria (Emas),
Georgia (Ibis), Israel (Hakkibutz
Hamecheud); Domestic Rights
Sales: German Book Club
(Bertelsmann), German Book
Club Special Edition (Büchergilde
Gutenberg)
Willenbrock (2000) International
Sales: English world rights
(Metropolitan), Spanish world rights
(Anagrama), France (Métailié), Italy
(e/o), Denmark (Gyldendal), Norway
(Gyldendal Norsk), Czech Republic
(Volvox Globator), Bulgaria (Emas),
Greece (Kastaniotis), Ukraine
(Junivers)
Horns Ende (1985) International
Sales: English world rights
(Metropolitan Books), France
(Métailié), Italy (Edizioni e/o),
Japan (Dogakusha); published –
rights reverted: Russia (Raduga),
Netherlands (Van Gennep), Denmark
(Gyldendal), Sweden (Norstedts),
Norway (Gyldendal Norsk),
Finland (Otava), Poland (PIW),
Czech Republic (Odeon), Slovakia
(Slovensky Spisovatel), Hungary
(Europa), Bulgaria (Emas), Romania
(Univers), Estonia (Eesti Raamat),
Bosnia (Svjetlost), Israel (Sifriat
Poalim)
Der fremde Freund/Drachenblut
(1982) International Sales:
English world rights (Pantheon
Books), Spanish world rights
(Saymon), France (Métailié), Italy
(e/o),Hungary (Magvetö), Bulgaria
(Emas), Macedonia (Goten), Georgia
(Ibis), Armenia (HGM „Areviq“
Himnadram)
Literary Fiction 8
Dževad Karahasan
The Solace of the Night Sky
A narrative masterpiece on the golden age and the collapse of
an Islamic empire
In Isfahan, capital of the Seljuq Empire, a
highly respected man dies unexpectedly. The
son of the deceased demands an investigation
into the circumstances of his father’s death.
Court astronomer Omar Khayyam is part of
this investigation. He comes to the conclusion
that the man was poisoned. Still, he had tried
to convince the mourning son that it would be
better to remember the father as he had been,
rather than calling his image into question by
investigations. Now what are they supposed
to do with the truth?
Dževad Karahasan
The Solace of the Night Sky
Novel
(Original Bosnian title: Što
pepeo priča, published in
2015 by Simurg Media,
Sarajevo)
(Translated German title: Der
Trost des Nachthimmels)
724 pages
Clothbound
Release of the German
edition by Suhrkamp:
February 2016
English exposé and sample
available
Shortly after that, calamity begins to loom in
the distance. Intrigues at the court and social
tensions threaten the Empire from within, while
crusaders and Mongols become a danger from
the outside. But the sultan refuses to establish a
secret service in order to fight these dangers. A
fatal mistake, as it turns out…
Fore more information about the
author please see the following page.
Photo: Isolde Ohlbaum
When the famous mathematician and poet gives
an account of his life years later, the Empire has
collapsed. A terrorist organisation, led by one of
Omar Khayyam’s former companions, fills the
whole region with fear.
With an epic power, keeping the astuteness and
helplessness of his protagonists in mind, the
great Bosnian writer Dževad Karahasan depicts
the destruction of a prosperous era shaped by
intellectual diversity and tolerance by looming
religious fundamentalism.
International Sales:
Part 1: Macedonia (Templum)
A great European writer who trusts in the power of storytelling
Literary Fiction 9
Dževad Karahasan
Sara and Serafina
A young couple is supposed to be smuggled
out of the besieged city of Sarajevo with
forged baptism documents. The plan fails.
The participating rescuers are tormented by
guilt. Serafina, the mother, cannot bear the
loss of her daughter and the destruction of
love, and thus decides to die.
There are only roughly twenty minutes that
lie between beginning and end of this novel,
but the story spirals back as far as the year
1942, when Serafina, who called herself Sara
back then, wanted to follow her Jewish friend
to Auschwitz. Dževad Karahasan, the most
important poetic chronicler of Bosnian history
next to Ivo Andrić, has never documented the
magic and tragedy of his native city in a more
inexorable way than he does in this book.
»Readers let Dževad Karahasan take them by the hand with
great pleasure. The Bosnian novelist and essayist, who grew
up with the Quran, well-versed in Goethe and Georg Büchner,
appears as a welcome pilot amidst the perils of West-East
misunderstandings.« Ilma Rakusa, NZZ
Dževad Karahasan, born in Duvno/Yugoslavia in 1953, is an author, playwright and
essayist. The Siege of Sarajevo was the subject of the diary Exodus from a City (1993),
translated into ten languages, of the essay collection entitled The Book of Gardens (2004)
and of his novels The Rink of Shahrijar (1997) and Sara and Serafina (2000). His works
also include the novel The Nocturnal Council (2006), Reports from a Dark World (2007),
a collection of stories, as well as The Shadows of Cities (2010), a collection of essays.
His work has been distinguished with numerous awards. Karahasan lives in Graz and
Sarajevo.
Dževad Karahasan
Sara and Serafina
Novel
(Original Serbo-Croatian
title: Sara i Serafina,
published in 1999 by
Durieux, Zagreb)
(Translated German title:
Sara und Serafina)
187 pages
Paperback
Release of the German
paperbak edition by
Suhrkamp: June 2014
International Sales:
Spanish world rights (Galaxia Gutenberg – published,
rights reverted),
Sweden (Bosnisk-Hercegovinska Riksförbundet i
Sverige – published, rights
reverted),
Slovenia (Cankarjeva
Založba – published, rights
reverted)
Selected Backlist:
Noćno vijeće (Profil, 2005) (German
edition by Suhrkamp under the title
Der nächstliche Rat) International
Sales: Bulgaria (Paradox), Slovenia
(Cankarjeva Založba), Turkey
(Apollon)
Literary Fiction 10
Hans-Ulrich Treichel
Daybreak
»There are things you withhold even from the dead.«
Daybreak leads into the centre of Hans-Ulrich
Treichel’s writings, up and close to the pain
points of loss and forlornness. This is the
powerful, doleful story of a woman who tries
to finally say everything she never said before
at her child’s deathbed. And who, in the end,
has to acknowledge that words fail her.
Hans-Ulrich Treichel
Daybreak
(Original title: Tagesanbruch)
86 pages
Clothbound
Release: May 2016
English sample available
A mother is holding her grown-up son in her
arms. He is dead, which soon becomes clear; she
took care of him during the last months of his
illness. Before the old woman calls the doctor,
she begins one last conversation with her son, a
monologue that becomes account and memory:
of a life at the side of a man left disabled after
the war, of the jointly led textile business in
post-war Germany, the joy of being able to buy
a piano, »something to last«, a shiny black piano
for the only son, whom she loved and who had
always remained a stranger to her nonetheless.
Because his existence is possibly the result of
a traumatising experience of violence that has
haunted her all her life.
Hans-Ulrich Treichel was born in
Versmold, Westphalia in 1952. He
now lives in Berlin and Leipzig and
is professor of German literature at
the University of Leipzig.
Selected Backlist:
Photo: Heike Steinweg
»Hans-Ulrich Treichel’s books
are a testament that we know
nothing, least of all about
ourselves.« Neue Zürcher Zeitung
International Sales:
France (Gallimard)
Der Verlorene (1998) International
Sales: USA (Pantheon), UK
(Picador), Spanish World Rights
(Galaxia Gutenberg), Catalan World
Rights (Enciclopedia Catalana),
Chinese complex rights (Eurasian
Publ. Group), Russia (AST Press
Kniga), Brazilian Portuguese
(Companhia das Letras), France
(Hachette), Italy (Einaudi),
Netherlands (Ambo), Denmark
(Rosinante Munksgaard), Sweden
(Wahlström & Widstrand), Norway
(Pax), Finland (Söderström),
Iceland (Mal og menning), Korea
(Chaeksesang), Poland (Czytelnik),
Slovakia (Slovart), Hungary
(Europa), Bulgaria (Atlantis),
Croatia (Croatian Philological
Ass.), Turkey (Ayrinti), Greece
(Periplous), Albania (K&B), Ukraine
(Tandem), Thailand (schau-Thai),
Israel (Achuzat Bayit); Domestic
Rights Sales:German Book Club
(Bertelsmann); Film Rights
Sold (Claussen+Wöbke+Putz
Filmproduktion with WDR, MDR,
BR and ARD-Degeto)
Literary Fiction 11
Anna-Katharina Hahn
My Mother’s Dress
Anna Katharina Hahn
My Mother’s Dress
Novel
(Original title: Das Kleid
meiner Mutter. Roman)
311 pages
Clothbound
Release: March 2016
English sample available
Madrid in the summer of 2012: the repercussions
of the latest economic crisis are blatantly obvious
in the capital. The young woman Ana María,
called Anita, belongs to the »lost generation«
that is being denied every possibility of a selfdetermined existence. Her brother, with a PhD in
German studies, has moved on to Berlin to make
a living off construction work. Out of necessity,
Anita has moved back into her childhood home.
The only things that provide her with stability
are her family and her friends, who share her
fate of chronic unemployment, and the regular
demonstrations on the Puerta del Sol in the heart
of the overheated capital. But everything bad
can become worse: One day, Anita’s parents are
found dead in their shared apartment. Without
intending to, Anita becomes entangled in her
mother’s life. All she has to do is slip into one
of her mother’s dresses and everyone – even her
mother’s mysterious German lover – mistakes
her for Blanca. Whose everyday life is much
more exciting than could ever have imagined:
»It felt good to be my mother. I was beautiful, in
a way that was strange to me… I even saw some
women’s faces light up.«
Anna Katharina Hahn was
born in 1970 and studied German
and English literature, as well as
Folklore in Hamburg. She lived in
Berlin for several years and now
lives and writes in Stuttgart.
Her previous works include the
collection of stories Kavaliersdelikt,
for which she was awarded the
Clemens Brentano Prize in 2005,
as well as the novels Kürzere
Tage, which was longlisted for the
German Book Prize in 2009 and
Am Schwarzen Berg, which was
shotlisted for the Prize of the Leipzig
Book Fair in 2012 Anna Katharina
Hahn has been awarded with the
Heimito von Doderer Literary Award
in 2010 and the Wolfgang-KoeppenLiteraturpreis in 2012.
Photo: Jürgen Bauer
In her third novel, Anna Katharina Hahn
boldly targets one of the most pressing
problems of our times: My Mother’s Dress is
a fantastic generational and romantic novel
from the times of the Euro crisis and at the
same time, it is poetic global theatre that
moves between Spain, Berlin and Stuttgart.
In the end, almost all the loose threads
seem to point towards a writer shrouded in
mystery, who is said to stop at nothing. But
maybe this is also a mere illusion.
Rights available
Selected Backlist:
Am Schwarzen Berg (2012)
Domestic Rights Sales: German
Audiobook (Griot)
Kürzere Tage (2009) International
Sales: English world rights digital
(Frisch & Co.), Finland (Lurra)
Literary Fiction 12
Katharina Winkler
Blue Jewellery
Based on a true story
Katharina Winkler
Blue Jewellery
Novel
(Original title: Blauschmuck.
Roman)
196 pages
Clothbound
Release: February 2016
English sample available
Filiz grows up in a Kurdish village in Turkey.
She is twelve when she falls in love with Yunus,
only a couple of years older than her, and they
start to dream of a life together in the West:
»›How do we want to live, Yunus?‹ / ›In jeans.
We’ll be wearing blue jeans. In Germany.‹«
When she is fifteen, she marries Yunus – in
secret, and against her father’s wishes. But the
wedding bursts the bubble of their dreams of
freedom and autonomy: instead of blue jeans,
Filiz is now wearing a veil; together with the
three children that were born into this marriage,
she is subjected to physical and mental abuse
by her husband and her mother-in-law. And the
family’s emigration to the West doesn’t change
anything about that – at first. Because after the
violence escalates one last time, Filiz manages
the seemingly impossible: escape from physical
and psychological dependency.
Rights available
Katharina Winkler, born in Vienna
in 1979, studied German philology
and theatre studies. Blue Jewellery
is her debut novel. The author lives
in Berlin.
»Blue jewellery bears the
hallmarks of men. The tools,
wood or iron, and the
number of punches determine
the shade of blue.«
Photo: Stefan Klüter
Katharina Winkler‘s debut novel Blue
Jewellery is based entirely on true events.
It describes the abysses of dependence and
brutal subjugation vividly and depicts a
woman’s life, in which love and violence
aren’t merely inseparable, but have become
indistinguishable.
»Winkler’s language is sparse, simple and rough, like beatings
with a log of wood, like the worldview of that young woman.
Every word hits home, none is too much. There’s a poetry
of wordlessness in [Winkler’s] densification. The poetry of
impuissance. The abyss finds room in what is left unsaid.«
Frankfurter Rundschau, Sabine Vogel
Literary Fiction 13
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Nothing but Money!
A subversive educational course on the origin, meaning and
value of money and our way of dealing with it
Hans Magnus
Enzensberger
Nothing but Money!
A Brief Economic Novel
(Original German title:
Immer das Geld! Ein kleiner
Wirtschaftsroman)
213 pages
Clothbound
Release: October 2015
Every time Aunt Fé comes to visit, the rather
ordinary daily life of the Federmann family is
turned upside down. Elderly, jaunty Aunt Fé
is a sly lady. She lead an adventurous life and
wasn’t spared from inflation, inheritances and
bankruptcies, has experienced poverty and
squandering, exile and abundance. Now she is
rich and lives alone in her villa next to Lake
Geneva.
But what does Aunt Fé want from the
Federmanns, her only relatives? One thing is
for certain: she does not want to bore them.
Which is why she invites the three Federmannchildren to a luxury hotel. She pampers, baffles,
and excites them. Finally they feel taken
seriously and receive answers to questions such
as: Where does money come from? Why is it
never enough, even though we’re dealing with
millions and billions of it? Why would a central
bank incur debts by printing endless amounts of
money? Why are the black economy, the black
market, black money and working under the
table so essential everywhere? And why ever
is the management constantly showered with
bonuses?
Aunt Fé does away with the brokers’ nonsense.
She explains the current operating system of
greed and fear to the children matter-of-factly.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger was
born in 1929 in Kaufbeuren. As a
poet, essayist, writer, publisher and
translator, he is one of the world’s
most influential and internationallyrenowned German intellectuals.
Selected Backlist:
Photo: Jürgen Bauer
This is the right book at the right time: when
phrases like Eurozone crisis, »Grexit«, bailouts, quantitive easing, negative interest,
and warnings of new financial bubbles
building in the stock and property markets
pop up everywhere, Enzensberger’s book
deals with children’s questions on economy,
starting from one basic question: What is
money and where does it come from? This
is not a theoretical treatise, but a novel with
fascinating and vivid characters.
International Sales: English
world rights (Seagull),
Spanish world rights (Anagrama), Catalan rights (Ed.
62), France (Alma), Italy
(Einaudi), Japan (Shobunsha); Domestic Rights
Sales: German Audiobook
Rights (Der Hörverlag)
»Nameless gods reign the
economy: coincidence and
arbitrariness.«
»Perceptive, amusing,
inspiring« Weltwoche
Tumult (2014) International Sales:
English world rights (Seagull),
Spanish world rights (Malpaso),
France (Gallimard), Italy (Einaudi),
Denmark (Gyldendal), Greece
(Hestia); Domestic Rights Sales:
German Audiobook rights (Der
Hörverlag), German Entire Radio
Reading (HR), German Book Club
(Büchergilde Gutenberg)
Josefine und ich (2006)
International Sales: Spanish
world rights (Anagrama), France
(Gallimard), Italy (Einaudi), Poland
(Wydawnictwo Literackie), Romania
(Universitara); Domestic Rights
Sales: German Audiobook rights
(Der Hörverlag)
Literary Fiction 14
Alisa Ganieva
Bride and Groom
Shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize 2015
Patimat, Patja for short, and Marat are
young, successful and live in Moscow. They
have made it: they were able to escape the
Caucasian back country that is still stuck
between tradition and modernity, as well
as police brutality, corruption and Islamist
terror. Patja and Marat don’t know one
another, but when they both return to
their home village one summer, their story
unfolds…
Alisa Ganieva
Bride and Groom
Novel
(Original Russian title:
Жених и невеста, published
in 2015 by AST, Moscow)
(German title: Eine Liebe im
Kaukasus)
285 pages
Release of the German
edition by Suhrkamp: August
2016
English and Arabic samples
available
Immediately upon their return, they find
themselves confronted with their mothers’
marriage plans and are helplessly subjected
to a never-ending presentation of a seemingly
infinite number of marriage candidates, a
travelling circus of eligible men and women who
stem from all sorts of social backgrounds. But
when the two betrothed-to-be meet by chance,
they find in the other what was being searched
for them. Patja and Marat fall in love head over
heels and dare to decide their fate on their own.
It’s a long, difficult journey until their wedding
day, since – of course! – the parents would prefer
any other to the ones their children have chosen.
But their big day finally arrives. However, life
in the Dagestan province is unpredictable, and
so the happiness of two young lovers is never a
sure thing.
Photo: Greg Bal
Alissa Ganiewa has written a tension-filled
novel that takes us on a literary journey to the
edge of Europe. Full of dialogues, and told in
funny, occasionally quirky scenes, Bride and
Groom paints the fascinating portrait of a society
that hasn’t overcome its Soviet past and is faced
with a new, and quickly growing, nationalism,
and that is caught between globalised life-styles
and Islamist radicalisation.
International Sales:
English world rights (Deep
Vellum), Netherlands
(Wereldbibliotheek)
A multi-layered novel about private happiness, family structures
and power relations in Dagestan
Alissa Ganieva, born in 1985, grew
up in Makhachkala, the capital of
Dagestan, and currently lives in
Moscow.
Her literary debut, the novella
Salaam, Dalgat!, published under
a male pseudonym, provoked
contradictory reactions in Russia:
astonishment, especially among
young Russians, at this unknown
part of their country; and anger
among radical Islamists at this
negative portrayal of their homeland
by one of their own. Ganieva works
as a journalist and literary critic.
Selected Backlist:
Праздничная гора (Ast, 2007)
(German edition by Suhrkamp
under the title Die russische Mauer;
English edition published under the
title The Mountain and the Wall)
International Sales: English world
rights (Deep Vellum), Spanish
world rights (Turner libros),
Catalan rights (L‘Altra Editorial),
France (Gallimard), Italy (La
Nuova Frontiera), Netherlands
(Wereldbibliotheek), Turkey (Tekin)
Literary Fiction 15
Durs Grünbein
The Years at the Zoo
A memoir in prose, poetry, and photography, stretching from
the turn of the 20th century to the fall of the Berlin Wall
In this book full of stories, verse, and rare
photographs, the poet Durs Grünbein presents
himself in an autobiographical light. And yet
he reaches further back to a time when the
early contours of the twentieth century were
just beginning to emerge. During this period,
Hellerau, a garden city on the outskirts of
Dresden, is the epicentre of a life-reform
programme that extends far beyond the limits of
the suburb: it becomes a way-point for Kafka,
Rilke, Benn, and many more. For Grünbein,
Hellerau becomes a starting point, a site of
formative power for his own life. From here,
we proceed further into the century: the fates
of his ancestors and the accounts of the trauma
of Dresden’s destruction form narratives that
penetrate deep into the sphere of his own
experiences.
Durs Grünbein
The Years at the Zoo
(Original German title: Die
Jahre im Zoo)
400 pages
Clothbound
Release: November 2015
What emerges is the image of a childhood – at
the edge of history in the long summers of the
Cold War.
Friendships and the early experience of loss,
schoolboy memories and the first exposure to
books, favourite toys and dreams of becoming
a writer unfold in a colourful kaleidoscope of
autobiographical prose, poetry, reflections
and, last but not least, a treasure trove of
photographs from the poet’s rich collection.
Georg-Büchner-Prize (1995)
International Sales:
Sweden (Ersatz)
Durs Grünbein, born 1962 in
Dresden, lives in Berlin.
Awards (Selection):
Tomas-Tränströmer-Prize (2012)
Pier-Paolo-Pasolini-Preis of the City
of Rome (2006)
Friedrich Nietzsche-Prize (2004)
Peter-Huchel-Prize (1995)
Photo: Tineke de Lange
For more information about Durs
Grünbein‘s extensive poetic and
essayistic work, please contact the
respective Rights Manager.
»From the top. And so here you are once again, just like before – !«
»A book of memories made of sparkling pieces of prose […]
The pattern that Grünbein’s miniatures inscribe into our mind is
of irresistible charm.« Stuttgarter Zeitung
Literary Fiction 16
Heinz Helle
Euphoria
Longlisted for the German Book Prize 2015
What is the difference between living and surviving?
A group of young men spends a weekend in
a mountain cabin. When they return to the
lowlands, they find devastated villages. The
people are dead or have fled, houses and
stores have been looted, and burnt-out cars
line the streets. Left with no other option,
they try to make their way back to their home
town on foot. They function, as well as they
can under the circumstances.
Heinz Helle
Euphoria
Novel
(Original German title:
Eigentlich müssten wir
tanzen; Literal translation of
the German title: Actually,
We Should Dance)
173 pages
Clothbound
Release: September 2015
They roam the destroyed land during the day
and their memories during the night, searching
for a reason to stay alive. For days, they wander
through forests covered with snow and empty
villages. Hunger, thirst and the cold affect them
more and more and their hopes of getting home
without severe losses fades with every passing
day that they fight for survival in the forbidding
mountains. They search for food desperately,
build improvised shelters to protect them against
the cold of the night, but their former lives as a
pilot, an insurance salesman and a pharmacist
have not prepared them for this existence. And
as their strength fades, solidarity within the
group diminishes. In the fight for survival, it’s
each for their own and the weaker ones among
them are left behind…
International Sales:
English world rights
(Serpent‘s Tail), Chinese
simplex rights (People‘s Literature Publishing House),
France (Piranha)
Photo: Jürgen Bauer
»This is bold. More please!«, is what the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung demanded after
the publication of Heinz Helle’s debut novel.
Helle is not one to hesitate, and he raises the
stakes with Euphoria. In his new novel, Helle
deals with the question of whether it’s enough to
maintain basic bodily functions in order to call
oneself »alive«. The answer that this book gives
is, possibly, not comforting. But it takes your
breath away with suspense.
English sample available
»Despite of all the darkness, the apocalypse, there hasn’t been
that much of the present evident in German literature for a long
time.« Tagesspiegel
Literary Fiction 17
Heinz Helle
Euphoria
Selected praise for Euphoria
»[Helle] finds images that burn themselves into the readers’ mind. He
combines radical hopelessness and detached cruelty with such a clear,
thoroughly arranged and simultaneously poetic language to the effect that
the unsettling content comes down on the reader in an eerily soft way. [A]
moving experience.« Alexandra von Arx, NZZ
»Powerful, impressive short scenes, some of which will remain etched into
your mind after reading because they are so unsettling, so cruel and cold.
But also: so beautiful. […] [Helle’s] second novel, that one would have
wished a nomination for the short- as well as the longlist of the German
Book Prize, is more thrilling in its subject, more precise, but in its form not
less radical [than Superabundance].« Frankfurter Rundschau
»[A] wonderfully dark novel […] Helle creates powerful, moving, even
funny scenes. […] [He] hasn’t just written a merely post-apocalyptic
novel, but also one about male friendship; a novel that tells as much about
the passing of time as it knows to juxtapose nature and civilization (and
the fatigue thereof). Despite of all the darkness, the apocalypse, there
hasn’t been that much of the present evident in German literature for a
long time.« Tagesspiegel
»Heinz Helle forces his readers to radically ask themselves: wherein do
I actually find the meaning of my existence? In the end this sinister book
is, despite its superficial maliciousness, deeply life-affirming.« neues
deutschland
»This [book] is not about the heroic survival in a dystopia as it is
portrayed in Hollywood. This is where, step by step and page by page,
hope disappears. But still you cannot put the book down. Still you hold
out in breathless excitement until the end. A must-read.« Nürnberger
Nachrichten
»Euphoria is a book that gives you chills. In a language that is clear as
crystal, but also poetic, Helle touches upon something existential. He
speaks of beauty and of the indifference of nature at the same time, of the
human’s will to survive, of his mercilessness, but also of his ability to form
friendships.« Focus online
»Euphoria is a brilliant novel about the fragile structures of our
civilisation, about the evanescence of friendship and the fine line on which
we balance between the abysses of barbarianism.« lustauflesen.de
Heinz Helle was born in 1978.
He studied philosophy in Munich
and New York. He has worked as
copywriter for advertising agencies,
and is a graduate of the Swiss
Literature Institute in Biel.
Prizes received for his work
(selection):
Shortlist Swiss Book Prize 2014
Ernst-Willner-Preis at the IngeborgBachmann-Competition 2013
Selected Backlist:
Der beruhigende Klang von
explodierendem Kerosin (2014)
International Sales: English world
rights (Serpent’s Tail, published as
Superabundance), Russia (Text),
Bulgaria (Funtasy), Turkey (Kafka
Yayinevi); Domestic Rights Sales:
German Audiobook (Hörbuch
Hamburg)
Literary Fiction 18
Julia Kissina
Elephantina’s Moscow Years
An éducation sentimentale in powerful colours, rich in
episodes and full of esprit and laughter.
The story of a young woman who left Kiev to
seek her fortune in Moscow
Julia Kissina
Elephantina’s Moscow
Years
Novel
(Russian Original title:
Элефантина, или
Кораблекрушенция
Достоевцева)
(Translated German title:
Elephantinas Moskauer
Jahre)
Appr. 200 pages
Clothbound
Release of the German
edition by Suhrkamp: May
2016
Gripped by the desire for the free life of an
artist, young Elephantina follows her idol to the
catacombs of Moscow. The red-faced poetry
guru Pomidor, a man in the prime of his life,
famous thinker of the avant-garde, has called her
the »new Akhmatova«. Forget about provincial
Kiev, about boring art school. Wandering from
one sleeping place to the next, through train
stations, theatre cloakrooms and museums, the
nomad dressed like a nun finds an apartment
that she soon transforms into an artists’ colony.
Poetry readings in overcrowded student bars
with KGB-informants in the back, forbidden
art happenings in Moscow and its surroundings,
meeting Allen Ginsberg, a summons from the
KGB – yet all of that is only the setting for
Elephantina’s yearning for Pomidor.
Photo: Alan
Autorenfoto
Kaufmann
»Absurd, wonderfully excited,
humorous episodes.« Zeit Online
Rights available
Julia Kissina, born in Kiev in 1966,
belonged to the circle of the Moscow
conceptionalists around Vladimir
Sorokin and Pavel Pepperstein in
the 1980s. She gained international
recognition for her spectacular art
events and as a photo artist. In 2005,
Vergiß Tarantino (Forget Tarantino)
and the children’s book Milin
und die Zauberkreide (Milin and
the Magic Chalk) were published
in German. In 2013, Suhrkamp
published her novel Frühling auf
dem Mond (Spring on the Moon).
Julia Kissina lives in Berlin.
Selected Backlist:
Весна на луне (2011; German
edition by Suhrkamp: 2013)
Literary Fiction 19
Doron Rabinovici
Natan Sznaider
Herzl Reloaded
Herzl Reloaded. Doron Rabinovici and Natan
Sznaider receive e-mails from none other
than Theodor Herzl, the founding father of
Zionism. Herzl, Rabinovici and Sznaider
enter into a dialogue about Judaism, presentday Israel and the Jewish Diaspora.
What does Herzl have to say to us today? About
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, for instance?
How closely is his work The Jewish State aligned
with today’s Israel? Whither the dream of the
Viennese coffeehouse in the Orient, of European
modernity in the Biblical Zion, of a Europe in
the Middle East? Rabinovici and Sznaider put
Herzl to the test. Is there such a thing as a Jewish
society? How do tradition and startup modernity
mix in Israel? How important is the memory of
the Holocaust? Through an engagement with
Theodor Herzl, two contemporary thinkers look
for answers from the past and the present for the
future.
»[The] blunt presentation of the situation in the area between
the Mediterranean and Jordan and Sznaider’s unorthodox
handling of the history of Zionism, his renouncing of the debate
forever oscillating between a one-state and a two-state solution,
guarantee a moving read that is far reaching without ever
becoming entangled. Breaking off from the circular discussion
on Israel/Palestine, and with its unexpected, inspiring
approaches, the book makes a contribution to the Middle East
conflict as well as Jewish history that’s highly worth reading.«
Günter Kaindlstorfer, WDR5
Doron Rabinovici, Natan
Sznaider
Herzl Reloaded
No Fairytale
(Original title: Herzl
reloaded. Kein Märchen)
207 pages
Clothbound
Release: January 2016
International Sales: Czech
Republic (Archa)
Natan Sznaider was born in 1954
in Germany, the child of Polish
Holocaust survivors. At the age
of 20 he went to Israel to study
sociology, psychology and history
at the University of Tel Aviv. He is
currently Professor of sociology at
the Academic College of Tel AvivYafo.
Doron Rabinovici, was born in
1961 in Tel Aviv, and grew up in
Vienna. He is a writer and historian.
His works include short stories,
novels and scholarly articles.
In Austria he is a frequent and
outspoken opponent of racism and
anti-Semitism. His awards include
the Jean Améry Prize for essay
writing (2003) and the Wildgans
Prize (2011).
Selected Backlist:
Rabinovici: Andernorts (2010)
International Sales: English world
rights (Haus Publishing), Italy (La
Giuntina), Czech Republic (Archa),
Bulgaria (Elias Canetti Society)
Sznaider: Erinnerung im globalen
Zeitalter. Der Holocaust (2001,
with Daniel Levy) International
Sales: English world rights (Temple
UP)
Literary Fiction 20
Ralf Rothmann
To Die in Spring
»In contemporary German literature, there is nothing that can
be compared to this book.« FAS
Ralf Rothmann
To Die in Spring
Novel
(Original German title: Im
Frühling sterben)
234 pages
Clothbound
Release: June 2015
English sample available
»When I mentioned my father’s thick hair to
him during my childhood, he’d say that it was
because of the war: one actually rubbed fresh
birch sap onto one’s scalp every day. I didn’t
ask any further questions; I probably wouldn’t
have received a more specific answer anyway,
as always when we talked about that particular
time. The answer only came about when, decades later, I held photographs of soldiers’ graves
in my hand and saw that behind the front, many
crosses were made from young birch trunks.«
Ralf Rothman describes the last spring during the war in Hungary with impressive
images. It’s the spring in which the German
officers throw hand grenades at their men’s
heels in order to make them attack, and in
which the soldiers behind the front lines celebrate desperate orgies in the face of death.
And we experience the first weeks of a peace
that people like Walter can never get used
to and in which still they sigh, even on their
deathbed: »They’re coming closer and closer,
man! If only I knew a place for us…«
Photo: Heike Steinweg
To Die in Spring is the story of Walter Urban
and Friedich »Fiete« Caroli, two seventeen-year-old farm hands from Northern Germany who
are both forced into military service in February
1945. While one of them is deployed as a driver
for the supply unit of the Waffen-SS, the other,
Fiete, is sent to the front. He deserts, is captured and sentenced to death – and Walter, whose
cynic superior is unwilling to reason with him,
finds himself facing his best friend with his weapon at the ready…
»[This novel] haunts you like Goya’s Disasters of War or the
atrocities committed by the soldiers in Grimmelshausen’s Simplicissimus.« NZZ
»Ralf Rothmann is one of the best living German authors.« taz
International Sales:
English world rights (Picador, US/Canada sublicense:
FSG), Spanish world rights
(Libros del Asteroide),
Catalan rights (L’Altra
Editorial), Arabic world
rights (Kalima), France
(Denoël), Italy (Neri Pozza),
Netherlands (Arbeiderspers), Denmark (Rosinante), Sweden (Wahlström
& Widstrand), Norway
(Gyldendal Norsk), Finland
(Atena), Poland (W.A.B.),
Czech Republic (Argo),
Slovakia (Premedia),
Hungary (Magvetö), Bulgaria (Atlantis), Romania
(ART), Estonia (Hea Lugu),
Croatia (Fraktura), Turkey
(Yapi Kredi), Greece (Kastaniotis), Albanian world
rights (Buzuku)
Domestic Rights Sales:
German Audiobook (Hörbuch Hamburg), German
Entire Radio Reading
(NDR)
Literary Fiction 21
Ralf Rothmann
To Die in Spring
»The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth
are set on edge.«
»One reads Ralf Rothmann’s new novel about a friendship overrun by
evil with great excitement and full of admiration for the closeness to the
protagonists. To Die in Spring is, without a doubt, one of the important,
thrilling publications of this season and a moral challenge at the same
time. One can justifiably say that To Die in Spring heralds the post-Grass
era with force, especially because the patricide doesn’t, symbolically
speaking, take place.« Die ZEIT
»The internal necessity that drives the new book is apparent to the reader
immediately. A vacuum had to be filled: with truth, with a story.« Der
Spiegel
»He phantasises the characters, landscapes, dialogues with hallucinatory
precision, doesn’t spare the reader any detail of the brutality […], lets
objects – a footstool, a coat, the hem of a dress – speak. But there’s one
thing he never is: proud of the virtuosity with which he creates the illusion
of his presence during the spring of 1945. […] He doesn’t comment, he
narrates.« Süddeutsche Zeitung
»With his powerful poetics, Ralf Rothmann belongs to the most important
German authors, and as a narrator, he is possibly the most sensitive of
his generation. He visualises thoughts, gestures and noises masterfully.«
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
»The best book I read this year.« Spiegel Online
»[An] important, shocking novel […]That the realistic reconstruction of
the war needs, despite all the radicalism that Rothmann is also capable of,
a subversive composition is shown by the spiritual empathy Rothmann is
able to convey. […] You cannot shed this novel. Rothmann’s realism is one
that can’t be overcome, an inspired realism« Frankfurter Rundschau
»Those who think they have been made familiar with the horrors of war
through literature and film still experience moments of shock due to
Rothmann’s art of succinct, atmospheric description. […] Rothmann’s
work [is] one of the most substantial of contemporary German literature.«
Tagesspiegel
»And so he filled the vacuum of silence that he mentions once exemplary
with that which might have happened or could very well have had
happened. And in that he succeeds masterfully, with great power of
imagination, in his novel To Die in Spring.« Bayern 2
Ralf Rothmann was born in 1953 in
Schleswig and grew up in the Ruhr.
He lives in Berlin. He is the recipient
of numerous awards, including:
Friedrich-Hölderlin-Prize 2013
Hans-Fallada-Preis 2008
Literaturpreis der Konrad-AdenauerStiftung 2008
Max-Frisch-Preis 2006
Heinrich-Böll-Preis 2005
Wilhelm Raabe Literaturpreis 2004
Selected Backlist:
Feuer brennt nicht (2009)
International Sales: English world
rights (Seagull), Arabic world rights
(Kalima), Lithuania (Lithuania
Writers Union Publishers); Domestic
Rights Sales: German Book Club
(Büchergilde)
Rehe am Meer (2006) International
Sales: Turkey (Metis)
Junges Licht (2004) International Sales: English world rights
(Seagull), Russia (Ast Press Kniga),
Finland (Avain), Poland (Atut), Turkey (Metis); Domestic Rights Sales:
German Audiobook (Hoffmann
& Campe), German Book Club
(Büchergilde)
Hitze (2003) International Sales:
Russia (Ast Press Kniga - published,
rights reverted), Croatia (Fraktura),
Macedonia (Antolog)
Milch und Kohle (2000) International Sales: France (Laurence Teper
- published, rights reverted), Sweden
(Thoren & Lindskog), Serbia (Clio)
Literary Fiction 22
Clemens J. Setz
The Hour Between
Woman and Guitar
Wilhelm Raabe Prize 2015
Longlisted for the German Book Prize 2015
Clemens J. Setz
The Hour Between Woman
and Guitar
Novel
(Original German title: Die
Stunde zwischen Frau und
Gitarre)
1.021 pages
Clothbound
Relase: September 2015
In a residential home for people with physical
and mental disabilities, a young woman –
Natalie Reinegger – is employed as a caregiver
to Alexander Dorm. The man is confined to a
wheelchair, has an unpredictable temper and is
regarded as »difficult«. Nevertheless, he has a
visitor every week. That visitor, of all people, is
Christoph Hollberg – the man whose life Dorm
allegedly ruined years ago when he stalked him
so relentlessly that he drove Hollberg’s wife
to suicide. The »arrangement« was based on
mutual benefit, Natalie is being assured, and
they liked one another very much. But soon the
blatant aversion that Hollberg shows towards
his supposed friend unsettles Natalie. She tries
to uncover the enigmatic visitor’s secret and
to understand the motives for his actions. She
quickly realises that her new environment is
shaped by nearly inscrutable relationships: the
way the other carers behave among themselves
is unfathomable, opaque are their relationships
with the patients. Natalie is slowly drawn into
a subtle, double-edged power play, the rules of
which she only begins to understand gradually.
The Hour Between Woman and Guitar is a
rollercoaster ride into the world of Clemens J.
Setz. He reveals its inner order, its secrets and
principles: power and the lack thereof, the
search for meaning and loss of orientation,
submission and love in all forms and shapes:
nurturing, respectful, obsessed love, love as
delusion and as a tool of manipulation. And
of revenge. So subtle and painful that the
question of who is the victim and who the
perpetrator leads into a nameless abyss.
International Sales:
Spanish world rights (Malpaso),
France (Jacqueline Chambon),
Italy (La Nave di Teseo),
Bulgaria (Paradox)
Fore more information about the
author please see the following page.
Photo: Hans Hochstöger / FOCUS
The novel spans over 1.000 pages – a book like
»a lively micropolis«, as the author describes it
– and is filled with peculiar niches and asides,
full of outrageous and shocking moments, but
also full of tenderness and moving scenes.
English sample and exposé
available
»In Clemens J. Setz’s
works, all roads lead into
the eerie vale in which
things look like their
opposite.« FAS
Literary Fiction 23
Clemens J. Setz
The Hour Between
Woman and Guitar
»A cunning attack on the mental integrity of the reader.« Lit. Welt
»[An] ingenious novel […] [that] has the potential to become a cult
novel.« Die Zeit
»This book is a fascinating imposition« taz
»The greatest manipulator [in this novel] is, of course, Clemens J. Setz
himself who presents his readers with insights into the cabinets of wonder
and horror and leads them into the raptures of reading until they don’t
know what hit them.« Tagesanzeiger
»A synaesthetic brain massage that last for a thousand pages. […]
Emotional dissection from Mach to Musil, form-fragmentation from Bahr
to Bernhard.« FAZ
»The Hour Between Woman and Guitar by Clemens J. Setz is a cunning
attack on the mental integrity of the reader. […] [It] is a philosophical,
psychological thriller that leaves the reader with the uncomfortable
feeling of being followed by something. By something? It’s the novel itself
that stalks us.« Literarische Welt
»It’s inevitable that Setz will be compared to Thomas Pynchon,
for his narrative has a similar complexity, nuance and, yes, even
paranoia.« Kirkus Reviews, UK, about Indigo
»The questions [Indigo] raises regarding empathy and loneliness are
explored in moving and idiosyncratic ways.« New Yorker about Indigo
»Alarming and surreally beautiful« Times Literary Supplement, UK, about
Indigo
»If it’s possible to discover a cult novel in the moment of its publication,
then the unclassifiable Indigo by Austrian prodigy Clemens J. Setz could
easily join that category. Firstly because of its subject, madly original.
Curious, disturbing and indispensable.« L’Obs, France, about Indigo
» A dark and metaphysical scifi-crime novel by a new literary star.«
Politiken, Denmark, about Indigo
»Clemens Setz […] himself is somewhat of the ›Indigo child‹ of Austrian
literature, at once young, multi-award winning prodigy, expert of
perverse scenography and logical depravities. In short, an indigo novel,
ingeniously morbid.« Le Monde des Livres, France, about Indigo
Clemens J. Setz, born 1982, lives
in Graz.
Prizes received for his work
(selection):
Literaturpreis des Kulturkreises der
deutschen Wirtschaft 2013
Shortlisted for the German Book
Prize 2012 (Indigo)
Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2011
(for Die Liebe zur Zeit des
Mahlstädter Kindes)
Selected Backlist:
Indigo (2012) International Sales:
USA (W. W. Norton / Liveright), UK
(Serpent‘s Tail), Chinese complex
rights (China Times), France
(Jacqueline Chambon), Netherlands
(Leesmagazijn), Denmark
(Vandkunsten), Czech Republic
(Fra), Hungary (Europa), Bulgaria
(Funtasy)
Die Liebe zur Zeit des Mahlstädter
Kindes (2011) International Sales:
Arabic world rights (Al‘Asreya),
France (Actes Sud / Jacqueline
Chambon), Denmark (Vandkunsten),
Czech Republic (Fra), Hungary
(Europa), Bulgaria (Funtasy),
Romania (Univers), Macedonia
(Blesok); Domestic Rights Sales:
German Audiobook (Griot)
Literary Fiction 24
Peter Sloterdijk
The Schelling-Project
A liaison of erotic novel and foundational research in
anthropology
A group of five ageing people, three
men, two women, applies to the German
Research Foundation for financial support
of a project entitled »Between Biology and
the Humanities: On the Problem of the
Development of Pullulating Sexuality from
the Hominid-Female to the Homo-sapiensWomen In Reference to Evolutionary Theory
With Constant Consideration of the Nature
Philosophy of German Idealism«. According
to one of the female participants, »vita
femina« would have been a more appropriate
title.
Peter Sloterdijk
The Schelling-Project
A Report
(Original title: Das SchellingProjekt. Ein Bericht)
approx. 255 pages
Clothbound
Release: May 2016
Rights available
Peter Sloterdijk was born in 1947
and is a professor of Aesthetics and
Philosophy at the Institute of Design
in Karlsruhe.
Peter Sloterdijk’s new novel departs from the
letter of rejection the proposition receives, and
develops as an epistolary novel, followed by
a report on a working session among people
equally interested in the subject.
Selected Backlist:
Du mußt dein Leben ändern
(2009) International Sales: English
world rights (Polity Press), Spanish
world rights (Pre-Textos), Chinese
simplex rights (ViHorae), Russia
(AST), Brazilian Portuguese rights
(Estaçao Liberdade), France (Meta),
Italy (Raffaelo Cortina), Netherlands
(Boom), Korea (Maybooks),
Poland (PWN), Croatia (Sandorf),
Slovenia (Slovenska matica), Turkey
(Kirmizi/Opus)
Photo: Sven Paustian
In this novel, Peter Sloterdijk explores – in
form and content – the anachronistic and the
surprising. En route, one erotic story inevitably
crosses over into the next: irony and directness
enter a surprising liaison in the work of this
philosophising writer and writing philosopher.
Der Zauberbaum (1985)
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Portuguese rights (Milmam –
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(Flammarion), Netherlands (De
Arbeiderspers – published, rights
reverted), Japan (Iwanami Shoten –
published, rights reverted), Hungary
(Balassi Kiado – published, rights
reverted), Croatia (Demetra –
published, rights reverted)
Literary Fiction 25
Martin Walser
90th Birthday on March 24th, 2017
»Time goes by the fastest when one is on the move and slowest when one is at home. So
one should always be on the move.« from Meßmers Gedanken
Martin Walser was born on March 24th, 1927 in Wasserburg, on Lake Constance. He lives in
Überlingen on Lake Constance. Next to Hans Magnus Enzensberger, he is one of Germany’s
most prominent and prolific living postwar writers, and was a contemporary of Christa Wolf,
Günter Grass and Siegfried Lenz. He has been awarded numerous international and national
prizes for his extensive literary œuvre, among them the Peace Prize of the German Book
Trade. He gained international fame with works such as A Runaway Horse and A Gushing
Fountain.
»Walser is in a class with Günter Grass and Max Frisch.«
The New York Times
Ehen in Philippsburg (1957, first English editions: The Gadarene Club, 1960 / Marriage in Philippsburg,
1961) This is richly-detailed picture of postwar life plays in Phlippsburg, a typical West German city in
the fifties. The novel reads love in a variety of forms, including the adulterous and illicit.
With a touch that is both satiric and compassionate, Walser traces interweaving affairs and fortunes
of four men and the women with whom they are involved – four very different lives in a new and
prosperious postwar Germany.
International Sales: France (Librairie Plon); published, rights reverted: USA (New Directions), UK (Longmans, Green & Co.),
Spanish world rights (Allianza), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai Translation), Russia (Progress), Italy (Feltrinelli), Netherlands
(De Bezige Bij), Sweden (Almqvist & Wiksell/Gebers ), Norway (Aschehoug), Poland (Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy), Czech
Republic (Svoboda), Slovakia (Slovensky Spisovatel), Bulgaria (Narodna Kultura), Latvia (Liesma), Turkey (Can)
Ein fliehendes Pferd (1978, first English edition: Runaway horse, 1980) Helmut and Sabina Halm have
always managed vacations of lazy privacy in their favourite retreat on Germany’s Lake Constance. So
when the energetic, handsome Klaus Buch turns up with his beautiful wife Hella, Helmut is quite ready
to dismiss this dimly familiar acquaintance. Runaway Horse is an extraordinary novella, that comprises
at once the concision and wit of a short story and the grace, narrative intrigue and psychological
complexity of a longer novel.
International Sales: Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai 99) Russia (Raduga), France (Gallimard), Japan (Dogakusha); published,
rights reverted: USA (Holt, Rinehart & Winston), UK (Secker & Warburg), Spanish world rights (Altea, Taurus, Alfaguara),
Chinese complex rights (W&K), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Guanabara), Portuguese rights (Com Quixote), Arabic world
rights (Al-Kamel), Italy (Garzanti), Netherlands (Elsevier), Sweden (Norstedts), Denmark (Centrum), Norway (Gyldendal
Norsk), Finland (Tammi), Indonesia (Katalis), Poland (Czytelnik), Czech Republic (Svoboda), Slovakia (Slovenský Spisovatel),
Hungary (Magvetö), Bulgaria (Na Otetschestwenia Front), Romania (Humanitas), Estonia (Periodika), Croatia (Znanje), Slovenia
(Cankarjeva Zalozba), Turkey (Alef), Israel (Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Cvir)
Ein springender Brunnen (1998, first English edition: A gushing fountain, 2015) An indelible portrait
of Nazism slowly overtaking and poisoning a small town. Semi-autobiographical, it is also a remarkably
vivid account of a childhood fraught with troubles, yet full of remembered love and touched by miracle.
International Sales: English world rights (Skyhorse); published, rights reverted: Spanish rights / Latin America (Penguin Random
House), Spanish rights / Spain (Lumen), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai Translation), Chinese complex rights (W&K), France
(Robert Laffont), Italy (Sugarco), Netherlands (De Geus), Norway (Solum), Korea (Jongmunhwasa), Czech Republic (Volvox
Globator), Hungary (Europa), Bulgaria (Delakort), Croatia (Miob), Turkey (Can), Greece (Kastaniotis)
Literary Fiction 26
Serhiy Zhadan
Mesopotamia
Angelus Award 2015
The setting of Serhiy Zhadan’s latest book is
the Eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, here and
now, which the author imagines as a modern
Babylon. A city in Mesopotamia, set at the
riverbank of diverse languages and cultures:
in the West there is the river Dnepr, in the East
the Donez, a sidearm of the river Don – all of
the rivers that could represent the Ukraine and
Russia. In the prologue the author cites from a
folktale of the ancient Sumerians, who settled
at two rivers, spoke one language that lent itself
to singing as just as well as it did to cursing;
the women gave birth to brave children and
thus to serious problems. Zhadan’s Kharkiv is a
place that changes its shape in each of the short
stories: a Russian, a Ukrainian, and a Tartarian
version of this multilingual and multicultural
city exist.
Serhiy Zhadan
Mesopotamia
(Original Ukrainian title:
Месопотамія, published
in 2014 by Klub simejnogo
dozvillja, Kharkiv)
(Translated German title:
Mesopotamien)
368 pages
Release of the German
edition by Suhrkamp: August
2015
English exposé available
Serhij
Zhadan
Suhrkamp
Roman
International Sales:
English world rights (Yale
UP), France (Noir sur
Blanc), Italy (Voland),
Poland (Czarne), Georgia
(Intelekti)
»[Mesopotamia] is a knockout.«
Serhiy Zhadan was born in 1974 in
Starobilsk, near Luhansk in eastern
Ukraine, and studied German at
Kharkiv University. Since 1991, he
has been one of the leading figures
on the Kharkiv scene.
»[Zhadan] writes in a poetic
language full of power and
sound that profits from the fact
that he isn’t just a narrator
and poet, but also a musician.
He places his words – tender,
painfully sweet, brash – with a
delicate sense for melody and
association.« Die ZEIT
Photo: Isolde Ohlbaum
Süddeutsche Zeitung
»[P]oetry dominates causality, the secret dominates logic and
the metaphors create a timeless magic, the same that is befitting
of fairytales and epics. […] And then there’s the language
that uses all available nuances between the ordinary and the
sublime, the casual and the emphatic and only refuses to do one
thing: to judge timidly, let alone denounce something entirely.«
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
For more information
concerning Serhiy Zhadan’s
backlist please see the
following pages.
Literary Fiction 27
Serhiy Zhadan
Backlist
»I live here and am part of this society. That’s why I can‘t
stand at the sidelines.« Serhiy Zhadan in an interview with Der Spiegel
Voroshilovgrad
Novel
(Original Ukrainian title: Ворошиловград, published in 2010
by Folio, Kharkiv)
(Translated German title: Die Erfindung des Jazz im Donbass)
441 pages
Release of the German edition by Suhrkamp: October 2012
International Sales:
English world rights (Deep
Vellum), Russia (Astrel),
France (Noir sur Blanc),
Italy (Voland), Netherlands
(Leesmagazijn), Poland
(Czarne), Hungary (Europa), Bulgaria (Paradox),
Romanian rights (Cartier),
Latvia (Janis Roze), Belarus (Logvinau)
Democratic Youth Anthem
(Original Ukrainian title: Гімн демократичної молоді,
published in 2006 by Folio, Kharkiv)
(Translated German title: Hymne der demokratischen Jugend)
185 pages
Release of the German edition by Suhrkamp: August 2009
International Sales:
Russia (Amphora),
Poland (Czarne),
Anarchy in the UKR
(Original Ukrainian title: Anarchy in the UKR, published in
2005 by Folio, Kharkiv)
(Translated German title: Hymne der demokratischen Jugend)
185 pages
Release of the German edition by Suhrkamp: August 2009
International Sales:
Russia (Amphora)
France (Noir sur Blanc),
Sweden (2244/Bonniers),
Norway (Pax),
Poland (Czarne),
Bulgaria (Paradox),
Lithuania (Kitos Knygos)
Depeche Mode
Novel
(Original Ukrainian title: Депеш Мод, published in 2004 by
Folio, Kharkiv)
(Translated German title: Depeche Mode)
245 pages
Release of the German edition by Suhrkamp: February 2007
International Sales:
English world rights
(Glagoslav), Russia (Amphora), Italy (Castelvecchi),
Sweden (2244/Bonniers),
Poland (Czarne), Hungary
(Europa), Bulgaria (Paradox), Lithuania (Kitos
Knygos)
Highlight from our Commercial Fiction Rights List / Crime Fiction 28
Andreas Pflüger
Once And For All
»Better than Bond« Tobias Gohlis, Die Zeit
In her previous life, Jenny Aaron was a police
detective of exceptional physical ability
and belonged to a group of distinguished
policemen, a special task force so secret and
elite that one could not apply but had to be
called upon to be a part of it. But ever since
a catastrophically unsuccessful operation in
Barcelona, Jenny Aaron is blind.
Andreas Pflüger
Once For All
Thriller
(Original title: Endgültig)
459 pages
Clothbound
Release: March 2016
English sample available
Five years after Barcelona Aaron gets a call:
her former colleagues in Berlin need her help.
And with her going to Berlin, a breath-taking
race against time is set into motion. Old enemies
resurface, but so do her former colleagues and
friends, and together they chase a ruthless killer
who seems to have only one target: Jenny Aaron.
But far from being helplessly handicapped,
Aaron has remained what she always was:
strong-willed, fearless and with skills and
reflexes just as deadly as her opponent’s.
She soon realizes that her entire life has been
preparing her for the next thirty-six hours. And
now she will have to fight for her life like never
before.
Domestic Rights Sales:
German Audiobook (Random House Audio)
Andreas Pflüger was born in
1957. He is one of Germany’s most
renowned scriptwriters.
Photo: Stefan Klüter
Renowned screenwriter Andreas Pflüger has
created the first installment of a new series
that you are going to love. Not only for its
unique heroine, but also because he turns one’s
perception upside down by describing the world
consistently and with great atmospheric density
from the perspective of a blind person.
International Sales:
Spanish world rights
(Penguin Random House /
Suma),
France (Fleuve),
Poland (Otwarte),
Greece (Metaichmio)
»When the times comes, if there’s time, I don’t want to be asking
myself why I have to die. I want to know why I have been alive.«
Among his multiple-award-winning
scripts are The Ninth Day and Strike,
both directed by Volker Schlöndorff,
as well as over twenty episodes
of Tatort. Once And For All is his
second novel.
Highlight from our Commercial Fiction Rights List / Crime Fiction 29
Andreas Pflüger
Once And For All
One of the Top Three Crime Novels in
March (KrimiZEIT)
»Extremely gripping, full of twists and
turns, filled with action, constantly
surprising« Ulrich Noller, WDR
»Andreas Pflüger is a master of precision.
Everything in his stories, up until the
smallest cog, is connected and intertwined.
If he were a watchmaker, he would surely
have invented the watch that tells us the
time backwards. He doesn’t write, he works
magic.« Dominique Horwitz
Five years ago she lost her eyesight.
She thought that was the worst day of her life.
She was wrong.
The worst day of her life is today.
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Photo: Andy Spyra, from the book by Wolfgang Bauer: Die geraubten Mädchen
Current Affairs 31
Wolfgang Bauer
Stolen Girls
Boko Haram and the Terror in the Heart of Africa
Wolfgang Bauer
Stolen Girls
Boko Haram and the
Terror in the Heart of
Africa
(Original title: Die geraubten
Mädchen. Boko Haram
und der Terror im Herzen
Afrikas)
appr. 200 pages
with 15 photographs
Clothbound
Release: May 2016
In the night from April 14th to April 15th 2014,
members of the terrorist organization Boko
Haram raided the small town of Chibok in the
Northeastern part of Nigeria and abducted 276
young girls from the local boarding school.
The event caused massive outrage across the
globe. Under the hashtag »Bring Back Our
Girls«, politicians, activists and celebrities from
all around the world, among them First Lady
Michelle Obama and recipient of the Nobel
Peace Prize Malala Yousafzai, stood up to raise
attention and lend their voices to those held
captive.
Acclaimed journalist Wolfgang Bauer
from the German newspaper Die Zeit has
managed to find and meet some of the girls
who suffered a similar fate but were able to
escape. In his new book, he makes sure they
can finally speak for themselves – about their
lives before the abduction, about the horrors
during their captivity and their dreams of a
better future in freedom.
Wolfgang Bauer, born 1970, works
for the weekly German newspaper
Die Zeit. For his reportages he has
been awarded the Katholischer
Medienpreis (Catholic Media Prize)
and the Prix Bayeux-Calvados des
Correspondants de Guerre.
Selected Backlist:
Photo: Heinz Heiss
Bauer diligently examines the historical and
political background of the Islamist terror in
the heart of Africa and describes the damage
it has done to the fragile balance of ethnicities
and cultures in one of the most diverse
regions of the world. His book tells a story of
violence, fear and uncertainty but also a story
of hope, of strength and of courage.
International Sales:
English world rights (The
New Press), Italy (La
Nuova Frontiera), Czech
Republic (Grada)
Über das Meer (2014) International
Sales: English world rights (And
Other Stories), Arabic world rights
(Al-Arabi), French world rights (Lux
Éditeur), Italy (La Nuova Frontiera),
Poland (Czarne), Czech Republic
(Grada), Croatia (Sandorf), Turkey
(Ayrinti)
Cultural History 32
Christoph Ribbat
In the Restaurant
Nominated for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2016
Eating is never all that’s going on in a
restaurant. Since the first »restored«
establishments opened in 18th-century Paris,
visiting a restaurant is also about seeing
and being seen, about showing off style and
distinction – and about the feeling of being
both with strangers and at home at the same
time. The impatient guests keep the staff on
their toes with special requests. But it’s the
waitresses, the garçons and the chefs who
control the events in the background and
who, sometimes quite intentionally, spoil
the gentlefolks’ broth. In the kitchen, at the
counter and at the table, indulgence and hard
work, elegance and exploitation, cultural
diversity and racism collide. Whether they
are fancy or grimy: restaurants are a mirror
of society.
International Sales:
English world rights (Pushkin Press), Spanish world
rights (Planeta/Gastro),
Catalan rights (Grup 62/
Portic), Chinese simplex
rights (Shanghai 99), Italy
(Marsilio), Netherlands
(Atlas/Contact), Korea
(The Open Books), Poland
(Media Rodzina), Czech
Republic (Prostor), Turkey
(Yapi Kredi), Greece (Hestia); Domestic Rights Sales:
German Audiobook Rights
(Headroom)
Photo: Heike Steinweg
Christoph Ribbat assembles the fascinating
experiences of kitchen staff and ingenious
chefs, waitresses and philosophers, gourmets
and sociologists. He takes a look behind the
scenes and forges a bridge from the first Parisian
gourmet restaurants to the rise of fast food and
to the most innovative chefs of our time. But he
doesn’t merely present a cosmopolitan history
of the restaurant, but also a fast-paced narrative
experiment located between cultural studies and
documentary novel.
Christoph Ribbat
In the Restaurant
A History from the Belly of
Modernity
(Original title: Im Restaurant.
Eine Geschichte aus dem
Bauch der Moderne)
228 pages
Clothbound
Release date: March 2016
English sample available
With guest appearances by Ferran Adrià, Simone de Beauvoir,
Paul Bocuse, George Orwell, Elvis Presley, Marcel Proust,
Wolfram Siebeck, Eckart Witzigmann and many more, this book
is an exciting insight into culinary history.
Christoph Ribbat, born 1968, is a
professor for American Studies at
the University of Paderborn after
holding posts in Bochum, Boston
and Basel.
Cultural History 33
Christoph Ribbat
In the Restaurant
Praise from his international publishers
»Ribbat’s Im Restaurant is the reading equivalent of saltimbocca washed down with a cool glass of
Frascati: a brilliant cultural and social history of the restaurant, and of the world and people it has served
down the ages. Ribbat denies us a single dull moment in his many-layered narrative – Im Restaurant
is an intelligent and fun fount of knowledge, a splendid work all round.« Gesche Ipsen, Pushkin Press
(English world rights)
»Never before have I read something so entertaining yet so erudite, about the phenomenon ‘restaurant’
in its broadest sense. With broad strokes and many wonderful, illustrative anecdotes, Ribbat describes
most convincingly how a restaurant, any restaurant, ultimately is society in a nutshell. A delightful
geographical and historical sampling that is a must-read for everybody interested in the what, where,
when and how of food, restaurants and food trends.« Nelleke Geel, Atlas|Contact (Netherlands)
»Im Restaurant is an intelligent and agile essay, sometimes funny and sometimes surprising, which
offers the reader a panoramic view over the captivating social and cultural history of the restaurant, from
the beginning of these fanciful places til the present day. Full of funny anecdotes, Im Restaurant draws a
fascinating portrait of our gastronomic culture and confirms once more that man does not live by bread
alone.« Dina de la Lama, Portìc|Grup 62 (Catalan world rights)
»When did we originate as a restauranting species? In his docudrama Im Restaurant. Eine Geschichte
aus dem Bauch der Moderne Christoph Ribbat delivers a bodacious history of the restaurants set against
history of Europe and the United States. Gripping like a thriller, informative like encyclopedia, Im
Restaurant is for those who love eating and love to know. A book to devour.« Joanna Nowakowska,
Media Rodzina (Poland)
»One of the highlights is the introduction itself, telling the story of a former teacher finding a job as a
waitress.« Sungyeol An, The Open Books (Korea)
»I thoroughly enjoyed this fascinating (and highly instructive) book. Christoph Ribbat succeeds in
creating an entertaining and enlightening investigation into the social aspect of food. In his brilliant
cultural history of restaurants, facts, curiosities, anecdotes - even literature - are very well researched
and skilfully woven into a captivating narrative. It’s a delight to travel far and wide with waiters, chefs,
writers, sophisticated gourmets and culinary critics to learn how taste changes and evolves over time.
Well-written, intriguing, original, Im Restaurant captures and details everything that has revolved around
the culinary arts over the past two hundreds years, giving the reader the genuine pleasure of discovery.«
Francesca Varotto, Marsilio Editore (Italy)
»Im Restaurant is very literary, full of interesting stories and all related to eating and food. In
contemporary urban China, a society crawling with foodies and hipsters, it is difficult to imagine that
Ribbat‘s book does not have a wide readership.« Kangqin Li / Shanghai 99 (China)
Academic Non-Fiction
Photo: Jürgen Bauer
Philosophy 35
Gernot Böhme
Aesthetic Capitalism
Gernot Böhme
Aesthetic Capitalism
(Original title: Ästhetischer
Kapitalismus)
120 pages
Paperback
Release: April 2016
When a new smartphone is released, queues of
people form in front of the palatial shops in the
early hours of the morning. This goes to show
that nowadays it’s not only about the practical
value of an article (i.e. that these devices
allow us to make calls or surf the internet),
but also about that which Gernot Böhme calls
the »presentational value«. The presentation
of products and life styles is a central feature
of aesthetic capitalism, the manifestations of
which Böhme explores. By occupying himself
with the ideology of growth, the soundscape
of shopping centres and the connection
between an achievement-oriented ideology and
consumption, he offers a valuable contribution
to a reconstruction as well as an expansion of
the theory of cultural industry into the realm of
economic life.
International Sales:
English world rights (MIM
Edizioni)
Gernot Böhme, born 1937, is a
professor emeritus for philosophy
at the Technical University of
Darmstadt.
Selected Backlist:
Atmosphäre (2013) International
Sales: Chinese simplex (China
Social Sciences Press)
Ethik im Kontext (1997)
International Sales: English world
rights (Polity)
Photo: Jürgen Bauer
Einführung in die Philosophie
(1994) International Sales: Chinese
simplex (East China Normal UP)
Literary Theory / Aesthetics 36
Karl Heinz Bohrer
The Appearance of Dionysus
Classical Mythology and Modern Metaphor
Has Dionysus only become Dionysian in the
course of modernity? Dionysus, son of Zeus,
god of ecstasy, has been ascribed many characteristics. But only one of them discerns him from
all the other gods: his sudden »appearance«, that
mysterious eventfulness that is connected to his
entrance and which was already thematised in
the Greek texts. In his new book, Karl Heinz
Bohrer explores the traces of this Dionysian feature and shows how it has been detached from
the myth successively and became the token of
romantic-modern literature and philosophy after
1800.
Karl Heinz Bohrer
The Appearance of Dionysus
Classical Mythology and
Modern Metaphor
(Original German title: Das
Erscheinen des Dionysos.
Antike Mythologie und moderne Metapher)
389 pages
Clothbound
Release: October 2015
Hölderlin’s Dionysian moment, Nietzsche’s
Dionysian aesthetics and the mythopoetical
metaphor of modern poetry in the works of
Pound, T.S. Eliot, Rilke and Paul Valéry are
the most prominent instances in which the
Dionysian feature of the modern Dionysus is
observable: it serves as the form of expressing the »incident« and the »appearance«,
both of which become central categories of
contemporary theories of art and literature.
A discussion of the theory of the »incident«
in surrealism as well as its prominence in the
works of Heidegger and Jean-François Lyotard concludes this compelling study on the
Dionysian discourse of modernity.
Rights available
Photo: Jürgen Bauer
Karl Heinz Bohrer, born 1932, was
the editor in chief of the Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung’s literary supplement from 1968 until 1974, as well
as its London correspondent from
1975 until 1981. He was a professor
for Modern German Literary History
and Aesthetics at the University of
Bielefeld from 1982 onwards, before
retiring as an emeritus professor
in 1997. Since 2003 he has been
teaching as a visiting professor
at Stanford University. In 2011,
he was appointed member of the
German Academy for Language and
Literature. Karl Heinz Bohrer lives
in London.
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 2014
Heinrich-Mann-Prize 2007
Selected Backlist:
Das absolute Präsens (1994) International Sales: France (MSH), Korea
(Munhakdongne), Poland (Oficyna
Naukowa)
Die Kritik der Romantik (1989)
International Sales: Spanish Rights
Latin America (Prometeo)
Plötzlichkeit (1981) International
Sales: English world rights (Columbia UP), Poland (Oficyna Naukowa)
Philosophy / Political Theory 37
Rainer Forst
Normativity and Power
An analysis of the social rules of justification
People are justificatory beings; they orient
themselves according to reasons. The rules
and institutions with which they comply are
based on historically formed justificationnarratives and together create a tension-filled
and dynamic normative order. Moving beyond
the traditional dichotomies of “idealistic” and
“realistic” theories, Rainer Forst shows how
closely the concepts of normativity and power
are connected: power is based on the ability to
influence, determine, and eventually finalize the
justificatory space of others. A critical theory of
justification must therefore question the reasons
behind power relationships and, from there,
consider more just rules of behavior.
Rainer Forst
Normativity and Power
Toward an analysis of the
social rules of justification
(Original title:
Normativität und Macht.
Zur Analyse sozialer
Rechtfertigungsordnungen)
254 pages
Paperback
Release: October 2015
International Sales:
English world rights (Oxford University Press)
Rainer Forst is professor for
Political Theory and Philosophy at
the Goethe University in Frankfurt/
Main. He has developed a theory
of radical justice, human rights and
democracy as well as of power and
criticism itself.
Selected Backlist:
Kritik der Rechtfertigungsverhältnisse (2011) International
Sales: English world rights (Polity),
Brazilian Portuguese rights (Saraiva), Arabic world rights (Librairie
Orientale), Italy (Trauben)
Das Recht der Rechtfertigung
(2007) International Sales: English
world rights (Columbia UP),
Chinese simplex rights (Chongqing
Publishing)
Toleranz im Konflikt (2003)
International Sales: English world
rights (Cambridge UP), Spanish
world rights (Paidos), Chinese
simplex rights (Chongqing
Publishing)
Kontexte der Gerechtigkeit
(1996) International Sales: English
world rights (California UP),
Chinese simplex rights (Chongqing
Publishing), Brazilian Portuguese
rights (Boitempo)
Biography 38
Efrat Gal-Ed
No One’s Language
Itzik Manger – a European Poet
Efrat Gal-Ed
No One’s Language
Itzik Manger – a European
Poet
(Original German title:
Niemandssprache. Itzik
Manger – ein europäischer
Dichter)
784 pages
Release: January 2016
This biography of one of the most important
Yiddish poets, the first comprehensive one
worldwide, is extraordinary in form and content.
The life story of Itzik Manger (1901 – 1969)
becomes intertwined with a lively depiction of
the Eastern European Yiddish-secular culture
in between the World Wars. And appropriately,
Gal-Ed’s textual alignment follows the page
layout of the Talmud: with a narrative main text,
images and explanatory side texts.
This book is more than a biography; it is also
a cultural history of Yiddishland. Taking
the life of Itzik Manger as an example, it
depicts a fictitious place, a literary country
of cosmopolites that are connected through
Yiddish, Hebrew and their local languages
and that live an alternative to Zionism.
Rights available
Efrat Gal-Ed, born 1956 in
Tiberias, Israel, studied Judaic
studies, German Philology and
Comparative studies and obtained a
doctoral degree in Yiddish studies.
She lives in Cologne where she
works as a painter and author and
teaches Yiddish literature and culture
at the Heinrich-Heine-University in
Düsseldorf.
Photo: Anita Schiffer-Fuchs
»The development and
abundance of Yiddish culture
up to 1939, its destruction
and the tragic break that the
Shoah left behind are embodied
in Manger’s life story and
creative history. Manger’s work
originates in Yiddish Eastern
Europe with its Romanian,
Galician, Polish and Baltic
landscapes in which Yiddishsecular culture flourished
rapidly in the second half of the
19th century […] Itzik Manger
was drawn, like most of his
colleagues, to Warsaw, because
there one could think, live and
be creatively Yiddish in various
ways.«
English sample available
Philosophy 39
Axel Honneth
The Idea of Socialism
»Social freedom is the truly fundamental idea of socialism.«
Axel Honneth
The Idea of Socialism
Attempt at an Update
(Original title: Die Idee des
Sozialismus. Versuch einer
Aktualisierung)
168 pages
Clothbound
Release: October 2015
The idea of socialism has lost its lustre, as
Axel Honneth argues in this lucid politicophilosophical essay, because the underlying
theoretical assumptions date from the
industrialist period, and have now lost their
explanatory force. They must therefore be
replaced with models of history and society that
are commensurate with actual lived reality in the
twenty-first century. Only then can confidence
be restored in this project which remains
timely and relevant and which also requires a
recalibration of the economy on the basis of a
notion of freedom as solidarity.
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(Iletisim)
Photo: Jürgen Bauer
The idea of socialism, which for the past
150 years has provided the normative
foundation and historical orientation for
the dissatisfaction with the conditions of life
under capitalism, seems now to have lost
all its power of attraction. Despite growing
discontent, it nevertheless seems all but
impossible nowadays for anyone to take
that idea as a basis for a form of life beyond
capitalism.
Axel Honneth was born in 1949.
He is Professor of Social Philosophy
at the Goethe University Frankfurt
am Main; Managing Director of
Frankfurt’s renowned Institute
for Social Research; and Jack
C. Weinstein Professor for the
Humanities in the Department of
Philosophy at Columbia University.
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In 2015, Axel Honneth was awarded the Ernst Bloch Prize for
»distinguished scholarly or literary work of a philosophical
nature […] that makes a significant contribution to our culture
and the critical engagement with the present«.
Das Recht der Freiheit (2011)
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Czech Republic (Filosofia)
Sociology 40
Niklas Luhmann
The New Boss
»The new boss is one of the few organisational problems that
can justifiably be considered to be of universal importance.«
Niklas Luhmann
The New Boss
Edited and with an afterword
by Jürgen Kaube
(Original title: Der neue
Chef)
120 pages
Clothbound
Release: March 2016
Every organisation, as stolid as it may be,
experiences a certain shock when a new manager
or director is about to take over. Water cooler
gossip increases, every advance in knowledge
is used to score extra points, uncertainty fills
the air. But even after the change has been
completed, problems occurs, for instance when
the one who is supposed to supervise »from
above« has to be trained »from below«. In
short: the relationship between superior and
subordinate is complicated.
Niklas Luhmann has scrutinised this relationship
with a sociological eye and shows what strains
it even more: difficulties in communication
and showmanship, difficulties in finding one’s
position and dissonances of moral conceptions.
The shadow of the predecessor can be persistent,
the influence of internal cliques can be hard to
break.
Rights available
Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998) was
a professor for Sociology at the
University of Bielefeld.
Selected Backlist:
Politische Soziologie (2010)
International Sales: Spanish world
rights (Trotta), Chinese Simplex
Rights (China Legal Publishing),
Korea (Ghil)
And across the board, there’s the question
of who actually has all the power. It is,
that much is certain, not the boss per se –
provided that, according to Luhmann, the
subordinates master the art of steering their
superiors. »Sub-servation« is key and tact
the most important means to an end. But this
should be exercise with caution: the one to
achieve mastery in this art is often the one
who becomes – the new boss.
Photo: teutopress
Liebe. Eine Übung (2008)
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America (Prometeo), Chinese
complex rights (Wu-Nan Books),
France (Diaphanes), Italy (Einaudi),
Korea (Saemulgyul), Serbia
(Karpos), Turkey (Edebi)
»Dealing with superiors certainly isn’t easier than dealing with
subordinates.«
Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft
(1998) International Sales: English
world rights (Stanford UP), Spanish
world rights (Herder), Chinese
Simplex rights (China Legal), Russia
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Korea (Saemulgyul), Japan (Hosei
UP), Croatia (Naklada Breza published, rights reverted)
Legal Theory / Philosophy 41
Christoph Menke
Critique of Rights
»Individual entitlement produces social ungovernability.«
Christoph Menke
Critique of Rights
(Original title: Kritik der
Rechte)
485 pages
Clothbound
Release: November 2015
The notion that we have rights is the great
normative idea of modernity, specifically in its
post-Enlightenment iteration. The declaration of
subjective rights marked the birth of bourgeois
society, with liberalism as its dominant theory.
Yet it also proclaimed »the rights of egoistic
man separated from his fellow men and from
the community« as Karl Marx observed—thus
forcing the depoliticisation of politics. This,
Christoph Menke argues, is why we need a
critique of rights.
Christoph Menke is Professor of
Practical Philosophy at the Goethe
Universität Frankfurt am Main, as
well as in the cluster of excellence
»The Development of Normative
Systems« (»Die Herausbildung
normativer Ordnungen«).
Selected Backlist:
Die Kraft der Kunst (2013)
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rights (Metales Pesados), Korea (W.
Media), Turkey (Hece)
Kraft (2008) International Sales:
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Chinese simplex (East China Normal
UP), Italy (Armando Armando),
Korea (Greenbee)
Photo: Jürgen Bauer
Such a critique must not, however, simply
question the justification and the substance
of rights, as liberalism does, but rather must
probe much deeper and examine the way that
desires and actions are shaped by the very
idea of rights. Menke presents such a formal
analysis, building on the work of Marx, Weber,
Luhmann, and Foucault. He demonstrates
how the modern rights-model breaks
with the classical model, and elaborates
the decisive contradiction: rights are the
medium through which normativity becomes
radically self-reflexive, and at the same time
they constitute the mechanism that gives
rise to the paradigms of sovereignty within
bourgeois society that oscillate between
exploitation and normalisation. The aim of
this groundbreaking study is to push this
contradiction to the point where it becomes
possible and necessary to imagine a different
model of rights.
Rights available
»Menke makes an important contribution to the ability of
thinking about political alternatives beyond the liberal
mainstream. And that is a great feat.« WDR3
»A highly complex, intellectually challenging, yet in its pointed
emphasis exhilarating to lovers of dialectics, development of
new and different rights.« Literaturspiegel
Die Gegenwart der Tragödie
(2005) International Sales: English
world rights (Columbia UP), Spanish
world rights (Machado – published,
rights reverted)
Spiegelungen der Gleichheit (2004)
International Sales: English world
rights (Stanford UP)
Die Souveränität der Kunst
(1991) International Sales: Spanish
world rights (Visor Distribuciones
- published, rights reverted), Japan
(Ochanomizu)
Legal Theory / Philosophy 42
Christoph Möllers
The Possibility of Norms
»[A]n intellectual adventure holiday.« Michael Pawlik, FAZ
When we speak about norms we usually think
about precepts governing our lives – precepts
that tell us what we should do or what we are not
allowed to do. Norms, one might be lead to believe, always demand particular actions or omissions and require moral justification. But is that
really true? Does the sum total of all of those social practices we like to consider as norms allow
itself to be grasped by this reasoning? Christoph
Möllers disputes such claims and instead maintains that our relationship with norms suffers
from misleading expectations. According to
his thesis, we demand too much of the praxis
of the normative with moral claims and hopes
for efficacy because the majority of norms that
we encounter are neither convincingly justified
morally, nor do they have clear effects. This is
no coincidence. Indeed, it is not even a problem, for norms serve a different end: in so much
as they indicate particular possibilities as to the
course of the world and ascribe them value, they
allow us to both distance ourselves from the
very praxis we find ourselves within and simultaneously entertain alternatives. And yet, this
only works when norms are able to establish
a perpetual and distanced tension to the world.
Allowing for their own transgression, however
(and this is one of the book’s conclusions), is not
in the least the task of norms.
Christoph Möllers
The Possibility of Norms
On a Praxis Beyond Morality
and Causation
(Original German title: Die
Möglichkeit der Normen.
Über eine Praxis jenseits von
Moralität und Kausalität)
461 pages
Hardcover
Release: September 2015
Rights available
Christoph Möllers, born in 1969,
teaches Public Law and Legal Philosophy at the Humboldt-University
of Berlin.
Selected Backlist:
Photo: Anna Weise
Der vermisste Leviathan. Staatstheorie in der Bundesrepublik
(2008) International Sales: France
(Editions Dalloz)
»Christoph Möllers shows why and how norms allow for leeway in a sublime study. […] With convincing arguments, he
promotes an understanding of social norms through their potential to burst open the immanence of preexisting societal conditions.« Süddeutsche Zeitung
Sociology 43
Hartmut Rosa
Resonance
»If acceleration is the problem, then perhaps resonance is the
solution.«
If acceleration is the problem, then perhaps
resonance is the solution. This, in the briefest
possible terms, is the central thesis of Hartmut
Rosa’s latest book, which can be seen as the
founding document of a sociology of the good
life. It begins with the assertion that the quality
of a human life cannot be measured in terms of
resources, options, or moments of happiness.
Rather, we should turn our attention to the
connection to the world that informs that life and
which, so long as that connection is intact, is an
expression of stable relationships of resonance.
Hartmut Rosa
Resonance
A Sociology of the
Relationship to the World
(Original title: Resonanz.
Eine Soziologie der
Weltbeziehung)
816 pages
Clothbound
Release: March 2016
International Sales: English world rights (Polity),
France (La Décoouverte)
With this comprehensive reconstruction
of modernity, Hartmut Rosa makes a bold
attempt to sketch the outline of a new critical
theory.
Hartmut Rosa, born in 1965, is
professor of Sociology at the Schiller
University in Jena; Managing
Director of the Max-Weber-Kolleg
in Erfurt; and co-editor of the peer
reviewed journal Time & Society.
Selected Backlist:
Photo: Jürgen Bauer
Acceleration and Alienation (2013)
International Sales: Spanish world
rights (Katz), France (Découverte),
Italy (Einaudi), Netherlands (Boom),
Denmark (Reitzels); English edition
available through Aarhus UP
Weltbeziehungen im Zeitalter
der Beschleunigung (2012)
International Sales: Sweden
(Daidalos)
Beschleunigung (2005)
International Sales: English world
rights (Columbia UP), Spanish
world rights (Katz), Chineses
simplex rights (Peking UP), Arabic
world rights (Librairie Orientale),
France (La Decouverte), Bulgaria
(Critique & Humanism)
Philosophy 44
Peter Sloterdijk
What Happened in the
20th Century?
Towards a Criticism of Extremist Rationality
With the six essays contained in this volume,
Peter Sloterdijk builds on his monumental
Spheres-trilogy which dealt with nothing
less than an explanation of the development
of human history based on an atmosphericecological concept. It allows Sloterdijk to
describe the 20th century in an equally radical
and surprising new way.
Peter Sloterdijk
What Happened in the 20th
Century?
Towards a Criticism of
Extremist Rationality
(Original title: Was geschah
im 20. Jahrhundert?
Unterwegs zu einer Kritik
der extremistischen Vernunft)
348 pages
Clothbound
Release: March 2016
Sloterdijk analyses it as a time of
accomplishments: the 20th century is the century
of triumphant impatience that is capable of
anything; it’s the century of immediate execution
in which the martial law of sanctions replaces
patience, deferral and hope. This era never knew
the Principle of Hope, but only ever a Principle
of Now that was comprised of two cooperating
items, the principle of impatience and the
principle of free-of-charge. These principles
become leading motives: from now on, it’s all
about working in order to never have to work
again. Every endeavour only has a temporary
character. One is patient for one last time, so that
finally, after the big discovery, one never has to
be patient ever again. Europe’s most in-depth
dream is that of unemployment originating from
the material wealth.
Peter Sloterdijk was born in 1947
and is a professor of Aesthetics and
Philosophy at the Institute of Design
in Karlsruhe.
The unmistakable characteristic
of Peter Sloterdijk’s thought and
writings is the way he embeds
current issues in a long history.
In this way, he succeeds in
redefining the current condition
humaine, visualizes it from a
perspective hitherto unknown, and
finds evidence for unexpected or
undesired linkages.
Photo: Sven Paustian
Sloterdijk shows that such a dream can only
come true if it is supported by a »universal
treasure«: the entire globe and its unrestricted
exploitation.
International Sales:
Netherlands (Boom)
With the translations of his works
into a multitude of languages,
Peter Sloterdijk has become one of
the most influential international
philosophers.
Selected Backlist:
Die schrecklichen Kinder der
Neuzeit (2014) International Sales:
English world rights (Columbia
UP), Spanish world rights (Siruela),
Brazilian Portuguese Rights (Estaçao
Liberdade), France (Payot), Italy
(Mimesis), Netherlands (Boom),
Turkey (Edebi Seyler); Domestic
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(WBG)
Phenomenology / Picture Theory / History of Ideas 45
Manfred Sommer
On the Plane
»How was it possible for right angles to rise to the status of
culturally ubiquitous forms?«
Manfred Sommer
On the Plane
An Archaeology of
Lineation
(Original title: Von der
Bildfläche. Eine Archäologie
der Lineatur)
350 pages
Clothbound
Release: May 2016
What do Dürer’s Man Drawing a Reclining
Woman, a window in an office block, and a
poncho all have in common? At first glance,
hardly anything, but upon closer inspection,
something quite fundamental, and moreover
ubiquitous: rectangular planes. Our world is
filled with them, but they occur neither in nature
nor in our imagination.
Starting from the picture plane, the invisible
ground which enables colour and line to form an
image, Manfred Sommer investigates this both
elementary and discreet figuration and related
phenomena, such as border and seam, edge
and frame, grid and square, raster and pixel. He
traces their genealogy, which begins in the late
Neolithic, when, for the first time, fields start to
be ploughed and, later, houses built and fabrics
woven according to a rectangular grid—at the
same time pictures move from the insides of
caves to the white walls of houses, where they
will compete with the open windows for the
privilege of offering the best view.
Manfred Sommer (b. 1945) was
Professor of Philosophy at the
Christian Albrecht University, Kiel,
until his retirement in 2010. In
addition to his own publications,
he is also the editor of numerous
posthumous works by Hans
Blumenberg.
Selected Backlist:
Suchen und Finden (2002)
Sammeln (1999) International
Sales: Poland (Oficyna Naukowa –
published, rights reverted)
Evidenz im Augenblick (1987)
Photo: Jürgen Bauer
On the Plane is a fascinating journey through
our orthogonal world, with unexpected
detours, e.g. to a painters’ contest in Antiquity,
Husserl’s reflections on geometry, or the
Bavarian horse ploughing championships.
Along the way, we learn to look anew at this
aspect of our phenomenal world which we all
take for granted.
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Philology 46
Robert Stockhammer
African Philology
The first comprehensive outlook on a field of research still
nascent in its scientific consideration
Africa is no nonliterate continent, especially
so if one includes its northern coastal area:
more than two thousand years ago, methods
of dealing with scripts - today called philology
- were developed in Alexandria. Robert
Stockhammer discusses contributions to
an African Philology, including works by
Herodotus, Augustine, Ken Saro-Wiwa and
J.M. Coetzee: epics, novels, travelogues,
historical, philosophical and rhetorical
treatises. What becomes apparent is that
Africa, beyond geographical determinations,
is and has been the setting of globalisation
processes which are transported as well as
reflected by philological practices.
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Robert Stockhammer is a professor
for General and Comparative
Literary Studies at the LudwigMaximilian-University in Munich.
Selected Backlist:
Grammatik. Wissen und Macht in
der Geschichte einer sprachlichen
Institution (2014)
Ruanda. Über einen anderen
Genozid schreiben (2005)
Grenzwerte des Ästhetischen
(2002)
Photo: Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin
Stockhammer succeeds in exposing the
differences and similarities of the continent’s
textual world based on examples from antiquity
to the present in such a way that a first answer
to the question of what African philology
actually is becomes possible. This is a question
that remained unasked for a long time despite
the fact that the continent’s importance has
been growing for years. The relationship
between globalisation and literature (in terms of
multilingualism, cosmopolitanism and climate
change), long since the author’s focal area of
research, is only one of the many perspectives
Stockhammer uses to examine the continent’s
written creations.
Robert Stockhammer
African Philology
(Original title: Afrikanische
Philologie)
282 pages
Paperback, stw
Release: January 2016
Philosophy / Phenomenology / Aesthetics 47
Lambert Wiesing
Luxury
What is luxury? How is it experienced?
The first monograph on the phenomenology of luxury
Lambert Wiesing
Luxury
(Original title: Luxus)
223 pages
Clothbound
Release: September 2015
Luxury – even the word itself gives rise to
a variety of mental images: of expensive
gadgets, excess and waste, of wealth, comfort,
conspicuous consumption and status symbols.
And it seems to provoke polarised opinions,
for luxury is usually the object of either sharp
condemnation or vehement defence. But do
the many critics and apologists of luxury
really know whereof they speak? There is no
»luxuriology« in place that could determine,
systematically and before any valuation, what
luxury is.
Rights available
Lambert Wiesing, born in 1963,
is Professor of Philosophy, Image
Theory and Phenomenology at
the Friedrich Schiller University,
Jena. His areas of specialisation
are phenomenology, cognitive
and image theory, and aesthetics.
From 2005 to 2008 Wiesing was
president of the German Society for
Aesthetics. In 2015, he was awarded
the Aby Warburg Foundation Prize.
Lambert Wiesing’s latest book is a pioneering
work of scholarship, for in it he answers this
question using decidedly phenomenological
means. He shows how luxury cannot be seen
as a specific quality of things or actions, but
rather emerges through private aesthetic
experience: the experience of possessing
something that perhaps fulfils a specific
purpose but is not exhausted by it. When the
fact of possessing something immoderate,
excessive or irrationally elaborate is perceived
by an autonomous subject as an idiosyncratic
release from the all-consuming tyranny of
purposive rationalism and efficiency – that is
Luxury.
Selected Backlist:
Sehen lassen. Die Praxis des
Zeigens (2013)
Photo: Andrea Felske
Artificial Presence. Philosophical
Studies in Image Theory (2005)
International Sales: English world
rights (Stanford UP), Poland
(Oficyna Naukowa)
The Philosophy of Perception.
Phenomenology and Image Theory
(2009) International Sales: English
world rights (Bloomsbury), Italy
(Marinotti)
48
Humanity/ies without Borders
A selection of Suhrkamp authors translated into Arabic,
Turkish, Greek, Bulgarian, Albanian, Serbian, Croatian,
Slovenian and Hungarian
from left to right
Axel Honneth: Kampf um
Anerkennung – Arabic edition published by Librairie
Orientale, Beirut
Theodor W. Adorno: Minima
Moralia – Turkish edition
published by Metis, Istanbul
Jürgen Habermas: Zur
Verfassung Europas – Greek
edition published by Patakis,
Athens
18 лв.
за
за
конституцията на Европа
Х
конституцията на Европа
о п и т
абермас
юрген
Jürgen Habermas: Zur Verfassung Europas – Bulgarian
edition published by K&X
Critique & Humanism, Sofia
Хабермас
юрген
Jürgen Habermas: Zur Verfassung Europas – Albanian
edition published in Macedonia by Asdreni, Skopje
Ulrich Beck: Weltrisikogesellschaft – Serbian edition
published by Akademska
Knjiga, Novi Sad
Ulrich Beck/Edgar Grande:
Das kosmopolitische Europa
– Croatian edition published
by Skolska Knijga, Zagreb
Theodor W. Adorno: Minima
Moralia – Slovenian edition
published by Založba /*cf.,
Ljubljana
Ulrich Beck: Weltrisikogesellschaft – Hungarian edition published by Belvedere
Meridionale, Szeged

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