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2009 FOREIGN RIGHTS Berlin Verlag Bloomsbury Berlin Berliner Taschenbuch Verlag

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Daniela Dröscher The Lights of George Psalmanazar 'One of the most important debuts of this fall.' SWR Who is George Psalmanazar? It was a minor footnote that prompted the young writer Daniela Dröscher to investigate: a momentary impulse that grew into a debut of unprecedented mastery of language.

Daniela Dröscher The Lights of George Psalmanazar Novel 364 pages. Hardcover August 2009

'Fishman!' the children tease the strange boy who turns up in a village on the Scottish coast in 1749. He catches breams with his bare hands, and as he sells them he sings ever-new exotic songs of foreign fates. The old bishop of Innes, a man of great business acumen, plays witness to this spectacle. He entices the boy away

from his beloved sea, gives him the name of George Psalmanazar and takes him to London. There they encounter the great English scholar Dr. Samuel Johnson who buys the miraculous boy from the bishop, taking him home to his voluptuous wife Elizabeth and his stepdaughter Lucy on Fleet Street. George and Lucy are small, innocent, not of this world. Their first meeting is the start of a tender love story in 18th century London, in which fear of authority, of the end of applause, and not least of death itself are omnipresent. What remains in the end is nothing more than the entry to a world where paradoxes can survive: the work of art.

'In her first novel, the Berlin writer Daniela Dröscher elaborates on this swindler’s story with great imagination – far removed from sober literary history, as a historical novel rich in fantasy and as a poetic love story. … a touching story about authenticity and invention, deception and enchantment.' NDR Kultur 'A strange and yet absolutely wonderful love story.' Freundin 'Her metaphors are enchanting!' DIE ZEIT

This debut novel is masterful language, knowledge, truth – in short: a minor miracle.

Daniela Dröscher, born in Munich in 1977, studied German and English literature and philosophy in Trier and London and wrote her PhD at the University of Potsdam on the poetology of Yoko Tawada. She writes prose, plays and essays, receiving the Essay Prize of the Young Academy Berlin in 2005 and the Schiller Essay Prize of the City of Weimar. In 2008 she was invited to take part in the Klagenfurt Literature Course and the Author’s Workshop at the Literary Colloquium Berlin. © Katrin Hiller / Berlin Verlag

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Nina Jäckle Sevilla 'Nina Jäckle has done something that has become uncommon in German-language literature. She has created a style with her books.' DEUTSCHLANDFUNK A woman without a past, a drawer full of cash, a lover who keeps her waiting too long – Nina Jäckle’s Sevilla is a perfidious page-turner of a novel about the fleeting nature of identity, the instability and the unruly dynamics of life. She has left her name, her country, her city and her language behind her, and the new city is Sevilla. She has plenty of money, yet she does not start a new life. She is waiting – for her lover, her accom-

plice, who has sent her ahead with the stolen money. But with every day that passes without a message from him, the waiting gradually transforms into a life on her own. Almost unnoticed, the unfamiliar city, the unfamiliar language, break into her vacuum, taking possession of her, changing her until she realises she is no longer prepared to share the money and her life with him. Her plan is perfectly logical: no one will miss a man on the run… With her characteristic precision and musicality, Nina Jäckle writes about forgetting and disappearing into another language, about the uncontrollable dynamics of life itself.

Nina Jäckle Sevilla Novel Approx. 180 pages. Hardcover March 2010

'Nina Jäckle is a true discovery!' Literaturen 'Jäckle's language is like music, tenderly, sometimes comically making storytelling the meaning of existence, even if one is lost for words in the end.' Glamour 'This literary debut is intricately woven and tremendously compelling. It's written with breathtaking precision and without a trace of sentimentality.' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

'… quiet, rather demanding, with a wonderful sense of rhythm.' Brigitte

Nina Jäckle was born in the Black Forest in 1966. She has received numerous literary awards and grants, including the Hamburg Literary Prize for young writers, the Karlsruhe radio play award, and working grants from the German Literature Fund, the Land BadenWürttemberg and the Heinrich Heine Fund. She has published several books with Berlin Verlag: Es gibt solche (2000, BvT 2004), Noll (2004, BvT 2006) and Gleich nebenan (2006, BvT 2008).

Nina Jäckle There Are Some Short stories 134 pages. August 2002

Nina Jäckle Noll Novel 194 pages. March 2004 Sold to: France

Nina Jäckle Next Door Novel 126 pages. August 2006

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Leif Randt House of Lights 'Leif Randt combines wit with experimentation – a highlight in our literary world!' DEUTSCHLANDFUNK

Leif Randt House of Lights Novel 236 pages. Paperback February 2010

Just moved from Frankfurt to London, Eric meets Helen. A few days later the two of them open a hairdressing salon together. Eric loves kiwi and coconut ice cream, and the salon itself is rather like an ice cream parlour: there are hairdos of the month in different colours, not only sported by the members but soon imitated all around the city. One morning they find the salon’s walls painted with slogans and pictures by their favourite artist: Bea, a mysterious Swiss woman who never reveals herself. Who is she and what is she planning? The two of them

would give anything to find out, and they set out to look for her. But could there be more connecting Eric to Helen than their admiration for Bea? House of Lights is colourful, quiet, glaring and tender: a pyrotechnic display of our zeitgeist. Leif Randt, born in Frankfurt am Main in 1983, studied creative writing and journalism in Hildesheim, Gießen and London. He has presented his performance readings at the Prosanova Festival for young literature and the Open Mike competition. House of Lights is his first novel.

Backlist Fiction

Fridolin Schley Wild, Beautiful Animal Short Stories 140 pages. August 2007

Nikola Richter Ending it on an Island Short Stories 144 pages. October 2007

Gerhard Falkner

Jan Peter Bremer

Bruno

Still Life Short Novel 88 pages. Feburary 2008

Novella 112 pages. May 2008

Keto von Waberer Embraces Short Stories 194 pages. February 2007

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It's hot. Boiling hot. Alex Böhm is standing at a motorway service station. All he wants is to get from Berlin to Munich airport by the shortest route. But nothing in Alex Böhm's life is predictable. The dark side of things is part of his IT E life – no wonder for a man whose character distip’ DIE Z g n i k ‘Insider a t plays a chronic lack of morals. A wicked debut h ’s breat r le z z a novel that leaves the reader behind, wide-eyed ‘A d gue’ dpa lo ISCHE and breathless! o K R n Ä o M m tten’

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‘The novelist skillfully toys with our urges to trust, excuse, sympathize or identify with the narrator, finally forcing us to regret any faith we might have invested in Alex Böhm.’

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Bernadette Calonego Under Dark Waters Novel 384 pages. August 2007 Sold to: Netherlands

Patricia Görg Meier with a Y A year book 172 pages. January 2008

Gila Lustiger Mr Grinberg & Co. A story about happiness Illustrated by Vitali Konstantinov 186 pages. February 2008 Sold to: Korea

Thomas Klupp Paradiso Novel 160 pages. Hardcover February 2009 Sold to: Lithuania Film Rights sold Sample Translation available www.paradiso.berlinverlage.de

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Wolfdietrich Schnurre As Fathers beard was red Short Stories 320 pages. November 2008

Matthias Göritz The short dream of Jacob Voss Novel 192 pages. August 2005 Sold to: Poland

FICTION SUSPENSE

Moritz Wulf Lange Cold Abyss. Dallinger’s Second Case 'Everything the crime-lover’s heart desires!' EMOTION

Moritz Wulf Lange Cold Abyss. Dallinger’s Second Case Crime Novel Approx. 260 pages. Hardcover February 2010

Dallinger is at the end of his tether. It’s been snowing for days, there are no jobs coming in, and bad dreams haunt him by night. And then his ex-girlfriend gets in touch. Ina is in Berlin unexpectedly and wants to see him. Urgently. But before they manage to meet up, she is dead. A farewell letter suggests she hadn’t got over the end of her relationship with Dallinger. The case is clear enough for the police. Only Dallinger doubts the suicide theory. He opens his investigations – and discovers a side to Ina concealed from him for years.

'Moritz Wulf Lange’s debut Little Aster is an excellent multi-dimensional crime novel, cleverly interweaving the controversial subject of abuse in 1950s children’s homes with a whodunnit plot.' Motor FM 'Exciting up to the last page.' Hörzu Moritz Wulf Lange Little Aster. Dallinger's First Case 264 pages. Hardcover February 2009

'Moritz Wulf Lange has written a page-turning Berlin crime novel that not only throws light on the present but also takes a look at the conflicts of the postwar years. ' Schreibfeder.de 'The novel has everything the crime-lover’s heart desires: an eccentric investigator, an exciting plot, a dark city backdrop and last but not least a wild showdown. ' emotion

Moritz Wulf Lange was born in Hamburg in 1971. He has written a number of audio versions of Henning Mankell's Wallander books, among others. His own audio series Edgar Allan Poe (under the pseudonym Melchior Hala) was nominated for the German Audiobook Award in 2006. The accompanying novel Lebendig begraben was published in 2007. Moritz Wulf Lange lives in Berlin and on the River Oste near Bremervörde.

FICTION HISTORY

Tatjana Gräfin Dönhoff, Johannes Betz The Last Flight of the Hindenburg The dramatic end of the worldfamous airship On 3 May 1937, the zeppelin Hindenburg takes off from Frankfurt airfield for its 63rd Atlantic crossing to North America. Jennifer van Zandt and her mother are among the 36 passengers on board. Her father Edward van Zandt, a US congressman and oil magnate, is a key player in helium export, which is essential for the development of the German zeppelin industry. The engineer Merten Kröger, to whom Jennifer is secretly engaged, is targeted by a conspiracy concerning the airship, and manages to board the Hindenburg at the

last minute as it lifts off. He goes to great lengths to find and defuse a bomb that has been smuggled on board. But the zeppelin still goes up in flames on landing in Lakehurst, New Jersey on 6 May. Miraculously, most of the passengers struggle to safety.

The novel about the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff. 30 January 1945. The great luxury liner of the 1930s, the passenger ship Wilhelm Gustloff, is anchored in Danzig Bay. It is to take on board thousands of women, children and old people desperate to escape the approaching Russian army. Its destination of Kiel is a beacon of hope uniting all those on board.

Tatjana Gräfin Dönhoff / Johannes Betz The Last Flight of the Hindenburg Novel 320 pages. Hardcover September 2009

Tatjana Gräfin Dönhoff / Rainer Berg The Gustloff Novel 320 pages. February 2008 Sold to: Czech Republic, Poland

Tatjana Gräfin Dönhoff is a freelance journalist, writing for various German and Englishlanguage newspapers and magazines. Her most recent publications are Weit ist der Weg nach Westen (2004), Camilla (2006), Die Flucht (Bloomsbury Berlin 2007, BvT 2008) and Die Gustloff (Bloomsbury Berlin 2008).

Johannes Betz has written screenplays for the movies Nichts als die Wahrheit, Der Tunnel, Die weiße Massai and numerous episodes of the long-running cult detective series Tatort.

FICTION

Péter Esterházy No Great Art 'High art à la Esterházy!' FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU

No Great Art is the book of the reawakened mother, a mother who knows the offside rule, and whose language, which determines her relationship to the world, is the language of football. The son only exists in relation to it, just as everything and everyone else only exists in relation to this mother's football language. Football, in the author's last book a stage and a medium for private historiography, now

Péter Esterházy No Great Art Novel Approx. 240 pages. Hardcover February 2009 Sold to: Slovac. Republic, Romania, USA, Poland, Sweden, Spain, Croatia, Italy, France, Turkey

Péter Esterházy Helping Verbs of the Heart Novel 128 pages. First Published in 1985 Republished in 2009

Péter Esterházy Celestial Harmonies Novel 922 pages. September 2001

acts as a worldview, its roots in his relationship to his mother and his mother tongue: a mother's language complex. Readers will find irony, beauty, history, the Magnificent Magyars, father, grandmother, aunt, uncle, mother, life and death, especially death, but beautifully written. And life too, of course, which comes before death.

‘No Great Art is high art – à la Esterházy, that goes without saying; in other words a daring balance of glittering, coquette, dark sentences about a miracle team and a miracle mother.’ Frankfurter Rundschau ‘The book is a patchwork of stories and histories with coldly political and tacitly touching descriptions of his father and mother. […] An amusing and sad book for lovers of complicated family and political affairs, a new Estherháziana.’ Literaturen ‘A wonderfully multi-vocal work of linguistic art.’ NZZ ‘No less a man than John Updike has highly praised his prose […] with a flood of adjectives, calling it “jumpy, allusive, and slangy. ...there is vividness, an electric crackle.” (…) All these qualities are there to be discovered and savoured sentence by sentence in No Great Art.’ FAZ

Péter Esterházy was born in 1950 into a family belonging to Hungary's oldest aristocratic dynasties. He studied mathematics at the University of Budapest's department of Natural Sciences, and began his career as a writer in 1978. He is a member of the German Acadamy for Language and Literature, and lives in Budapest with his family.

2004 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 2004 Grinzane Cavour Prize 2002 Herder Prize 2001 Hungarian Literature Prize 2001 Sándor Márai Prize

1999 Austrian National Prize for European Literature 1996 Kossuth Prize 1993 Premio Opera di Poesia 1986 József Attila Prize

FICTION

Ingo Schulze Adam and Evelyn A great tragicomedy about forbiddance and discovery and the search for the true paradise. ‘Ingo Schulze is a master of polished, spare simplicity. In Adam and Evelyn, he exceeds himself.’ Tagesspiegel ‘With Adam and Evelyn, Ingo Schulze follows Neue Leben with a second wonderfully readable and at the same time highly complex literary novel about reunification.’ Die Welt ‘Although this extremely palatably narrated story is quickly read, it unfurls a wealth of themes and motifs. Adam and Evelyn is an immaculate novel.’ Süddeutsche Zeitung

‘Handy is a literary event. With his thirteen new short stories, Ingo Schulze shows with ease how to hide the greatest literary ingenuity behind a simple narrative tone.’ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

‘Ingo Schulze has brought a kind of writing to the peak of perfection here, which seduces the reader through the appearance of being life itself.’ Süddeutsche Zeitung

Ingo Schulze 33 Moments of Happiness Novel 272 pages. August 1995 Sold to: USA, UK, France, Israel, Russia, Estonia, Netherlands, Turkey, Italy, Greece, Spain, Hungary, Poland, Croatia, Bulgaria, Korea, Romania

‘A tender multiple love story of Jules et Jim format, in which – despite all its pain – the beauty of humanity reigns supreme. A wonderfully light story.’ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ‘Schulze wrests a handful of individuals from anonymity, making them so real that we almost feel we are sitting at the table eating potato salad with the characters.’ Berliner Zeitung ‘Ingo Schulze masters his material with admirable aplomb and serenity, giving us something that has become unusual in contemporary German literature: a political comedy with poetic depth.’ NDR Kultur

Ingo Schulze Adam and Evelyn Novel 314 pages. Hardcover August 2008 Sold to: Sweden, Italy, Brazil, France, Finland, Netherlands, Hungary, Czech Republic, Spain, Catalan, Denmark, Korea, Macedonia, Lithuania, Greece, USA, Iceland, Turkey, Albania, Arabic language, Bulgaria

Ingo Schulze Cell Phone Thirteen Stories in the Old Style Short Stories 280 pages. February 2007 Sold to: USA, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungaria, Korea, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Norway, Romania, Serbia, Slowenia, Marcedonia, Brazil

Ingo Schulze Simple Storys 304 pages. March 1998 Sold to: USA, UK, France, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Estonia, Netherlands, Turkey, Italy, Greece, Spain, Hungary, Russia, Czech Republic, Brazil, Latvia, Egypt, Korea, Croatia, Ukraine, Romania

Ingo Schulze New Lives Novel 794 pages. October 2005 Sold to: USA, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Catalonia, Slovac Republic, Korea, Sweden, Hungaria, Brazil

FICTION

Ingo Schulze What do we want? 'Speaking, for me, is a dialogue, naming and enduring the contradictions, the tension of all life’s forces.'

Ingo Schulze What do we want? Essays 256 pages. Hardcover October 2009

Why is Ingo Schulze such a fantastic storyteller? In part because his texts reveal how closely he looks at the world, how precisely he is able to put that which he sees into language. In these speeches and essays, we once again encounter Ingo Schulze as a vigilant and critical observer of the society in which we live, showing the author’s dedication to politics and culture – through the powerful medium of language.

‘My problem has always been not the disappearance of the East, but the disappearance of the West, a West with a human face. Since 1989/90 at the latest, politics has been on the retreat. It has been surrendering competence voluntarily, paving the way for an economisation of all areas of our lives, a capitalism of excess. Politics regards itself as management, citizens are reduced to consumers.’ For Ingo Schulze resistance begins with realisation. His essays, speeches and comments on literature and society speak a language that shows how changeable the world is. And they remind us of an all but forgotten question: ‘What do we want?'

Coming in May 2010 – the NEW Ingo Schulze: Oranges & Angels. Sketches from Italy.

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Ingo Schulze was born in Dresden in 1962, studied classical philosophy in Jena and then worked in Altenburg as a playwright and newspaper editor. He has lived in Berlin since 1993. Ingo Schulze is a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts and the German Academy of Language and Literature. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages. 2008 Premio Grinzane Cavour 2007 Thuringian Literature Prize 2007 Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2007 Villa Massimo grant 2006 Peter Weiss Prize of the City of Bochum

2001 Joseph Breitenbach Prize 1998 Johannes Bobrowski Medal 1998 Berlin Literature Prize 1995 Ernst Willner Prize 1995 Aspekte Literature Prize

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Susanne Kippenberger At the Table The Culinary Bohème In At the Table, Susanne Kippenberger writes about pioneers of cuisine, who established the dinner table as a place of enjoyment, sharing food, information and anecdotes, and laid the foundations for a new culture of eating and drinking. Everyone does it, from morning to late at night, our whole lives long: eating and drinking. But nobody has done it with as much lust and enjoyment as the ‘culinary bohème’, self-made chefs, brilliant amateurs and colourful characters: Oswald and Ingrid Wiener, who delighted actors, writers and artists with Austrian delicacies in their Berlin exile.

Elizabeth David, who wrote about Mediterranean cuisine at a time when food was still rationed in Britain – and wrote so beautifully that her readers imagined they were in Italy. Wolfram Siebeck, who drove to France to buy fresh herbs in the 1970s, becoming Germany’s best-known restaurant critic. Daniel Spoerri, actually a dancer, who caused a furore with his installations of tables eaten empty. And Julia Child, who became the world’s most quirky TV chef in 1963. In At the Table, Susanne Kippenberger provides a stage for all these pioneers of cuisine, celebrating the dining table as a place where we come together and meet friends old and new.

'Once in a blue moon, a book comes out that trains a spotlight on an artist’s work with a description of their career, making it literally shine out in a new light. Susanne Kippenberger has written her brother’s biograpy. A monumental picture of the irretrievable 1980s.' LITERATUREN on Kippenberger. The Artist and his Families 'One of the best art books in a long time.' Berliner Zeitung 'Martin Kippenberger lives!' Monopol 'The most insightful portrait of Martin Kippenberger to date.' Süddeutsche Zeitung 'A monumental portrayal of the irretrievable Cologne years.' Literaturen

Susanne Kippenberger At the Table The Culinary Bohème or The Discovery of Lust for Life 256 pages. Hardcover With b/w illustrations November 2009

Susanne Kippenberger Kippenberger. The Artist and his Families 576 pages. 80 b/w Illustrations February 2007

Susanne Kippenberger, born in Dortmund in 1957, is an editor for the Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. Berlin Verlag previously published her celebrated portrait of her brother, Martin Kippenberger.

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Eva Züchner The Vanished Journalist Who was Gerhart Weise? Decades after he was taken away by the Soviet secret police in 1945, his daughter Eva Züchner set out in search of answers. She came across the career of a journalist in the Third Reich, a criminal who never got his hands dirty and a father whose image remains unfamiliar, fragmented and disturbing.

Eva Züchner The Vanished Journalist A Media Career in The Third Reich Approx. 192 pages. Hardcover March 2010

Originating from the provinces of Saxony, Gerhart Weise attended the Reich Press School in Berlin, working his way up through various newspaper editorial offices to Goebbel’s Propaganda Ministry. Although not a member of the Nazi party, he found favour with the minister himself. Originally a specialist on movies and variety, he became a war reporter without ever seeing the frontlines, invented false stories for the enemy, acted as a film censor and finally co-authored the last Nazi propaganda film Das Leben geht weiter. Eva Züchner paints a portrait of a young man spurred on by enthusiasm for the Nazi movement, who gradually

became a cynical opportunist – consequentially betraying his friend, the graphic artist Erich Ohser alias e.o.plauen, and bearing part responsibility for his execution shortly before the end of the war. Gerhart Weise’s disappearance remains a mystery, and the outcome of the author’s research into a father, a romantic lover, a talented journalist, an ambitious Nazi bureaucrat, is most disturbing – the image of her father, romanticised for decades, collapses into paradox fragments that do not fit together, yet do belong together. On the basis of painstaking archive research and from a critical distance, Eva Züchner presents not just a forceful portrait of her father, a journalist who became a lackey for the powers-that-be, but also an unprecedented inside view of media history under National Socialism.

Eva Züchner, born in Berlin in 1942, grew up in Kleinmachnow and Barcelona. She studied comparative literature and modern history in Berlin, and worked as an exhibition curator and head archivist at the Berlinische Galerie. Her previous publications focus on Classic Modernism and Dada Berlin.

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Irina Liebmann Berlin’s Quiet Heart Around Hackescher Markt In the early 1980s Irina Liebmann photographed the area Hackescher Markt in Berlin-Mitte. Planned as material for a novel, the pictures became an unusual photo series. In an accompanying essay, she traces her own memories of living in the neighbourhood in the GDR and the area’s history. ‘Only in the area between the northern part of Friedrichstraße and Alexanderplatz did a genuine slice of the city’s old heart remain, back then. It was not a tourist area like today – more a lumber room containing the furniture of the once cosmopolitan Berlin. A whole parlour was exposed to the dust and the elements there. For us, it was everyday. We loved the area. We knew it was a very old slice

of Berlin and had always been the poor side of the city. We knew next to nothing about the buildings themselves, those who had built them and lived in them. Some, however, had been equipped with plaques or spoke for themselves: the Catholic hospital, the Protestant St. Sophie’s Church and the oldest Jewish graveyard in Berlin. The graveyard had been flanked by an old people’s home; a monument reminded us that this had been a gathering point for transporting Jewish Berliners to the extermination camps. Everything stood as it had stopped in time, in 1945, 1950. But everywhere, remains of something protruded from the walls – every one like the end of a root from which we could not tell the plant.’ Irina Liebmann

About Would it be nice? It would be nice!: 'Irina Liebmann has pulled off a little masterpiece.' Literarische Welt 'A fascinating book about a wild and broken life.' Thea Dorn, Südwestrundfunk

Irina Liebmann Berlin’s Quiet Heart. Around Hackescher Markt 112 pages. Hardcover With 50 colour photos Published in October 2009 www.irina-liebmann.de Irina Liebmann Would it be nice? It would be nice! My father Rudolf Herrnstadt 416 pages. March 2008 Sold to: France Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2008

'A magnificent combination of world, German and private history.' Literaturen 'Post-war German history has rarely been told like this. From the first to the last page, this book about a passionate, wise and very contradictory man is a declaration of love to a father.' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Irina Liebmann, born in 1943, studied Chinese studies in Leipzig. She has been a freelance author since 1975, living in East and later West Berlin. 2008 Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2001 Guest lecturer at Oberlin College, Ohio 1998 Berlin Literature Prize 1989 Aspekte Literature Prize 1987 Ernst Willner Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt

Irina Liebmann Berlin Tenement 218 pages January 2002

Irina Liebmann The Free Women 240 pages September 2004 Sold to: Czech Republic, France

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Backlist

Stefan Heidenreich The Promise of Art 224 pages. January 2009

Michael Klonovsky

Andreas Weber Organic Capital 240 pages. October 2008 Sold to: Korea, Netherlands

Michael Maar Solus Rex The Bad and Beautiful World of Vladimir Nabokov 208 pages. September 2007 Sold to: England, Bulgaria

Manfred Weber-LamberdiĂ¨re The Ferran AdriĂ Revolution. How a Catalan Made Cooking an Art 256 pages with Photos. September 2007 Sold to: France, Korea, Brazil

Andreas Weber Feeling Life. Nature and the Revolution of the Life Sciences 172 pages. February 2007 Sold to: Korea, Slovenia

Wolfram Eilenberger Little People, Big Questions 160 pages. February 2009

Ulrich Renz Beauty 320 pages. March 2006 Sold to: Spain, Korea

Viktor Jerofejew The Russian Apocalypse

Viktor Jerofejew The Good Stalin

Kerstin Holm Rubens in Siberia

304 pages. February 2009 Sold to: Netherlands

164 pages. February 2004 Sold to 15 countries

160 pages. 15 b/w illustrations February 2008

Haralampi G. Oroschakoff The Battenberg Affair. 768 pages with Illustrations Oktober 2007 Sold to: Bulgaria

The Pain of Beauty On Giacomo Puccini 288 pages. 10 b/w illustrations October 2008

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CONSISTENTLY CONTEMPORARY AND RUTHLESSLY POETIC!

Jan Wagner Eighteen Pies 96 pages. August 2007

Jan Wagner Guericke's Sparrow 83 pages. February 2004

Jan Wagner Test Drilling in the Sky 80 pages. February 2001

Tom Schulz Canon of Disappearing 112 pages. September 2009

Gerhard Falkner Hรถlderlin Repair 96 pages. November 2008

Bjรถrn Kuhligk On the Surface of the Earth 86 pages. March 2009

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Bjรถrn Kuhligk In the End the Tourists Come 112 pages. February 2002

Ron Winkler Fragmented Waters

Big Picture 76 pages. February 2005

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