Foreign Rights Catalogue Spring 2014

Wallstein Verlag Foreign Rights Catalogue | Spring 2014

Literature About Literature Editions History History of Science Backlist Highlights

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Literature

4 Gregor Sander What Would Have Been

5 Ludwig Laher Bitter

6 Lukas Bärfuss Koala

7 Marie-Luise Scherer Beneath Every Lamp, they were Dancing

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About Literature Wolfgang Matz The Art of Adultery

Editions

9 Joseph Roth Three Sensations and Two Catastrophes History

10 Hans Mommsen The Nazi Regime and the Extermination of Judaism in Europe

11 Notker Hammerstein The Circle of Friends surrounding the »White Rose«

12 Steafn Hördler Order and Inferno

13 Peter Burschel The Invention of Purity

14 Nils Güttler The Cosmoscope

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Backlist Highlights Lukas Bärfuss A Hundred Days Lukas Bärfuss Alice goes to Switzerland – The Test – Amygdala Lukas Bärfuss The Death of Meienberg – The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents – The Bus Lukas Bärfuss Malaga – Parcifal – Twenty Thousand Pages Ralph Dutli The Song of Honey Ralph Dutli Soutine’s Last Journey Maja Haderlap Angels of Oblivion Dea Loher Bugatti Surfaces Joseph Roth and Stefan Zweig »A Friendship with me is a Perishable Thing« Patrick Roth My Journey to Chaplin Gregor Sander Absent Gregor Sander Winter Fish Matthias Zschokke The Man with Two Eyes

Wallstein Verlag Literature

Gregor Sander is a great teller of stories on the theme of human destiny.

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Gregor Sander What Would Have Been Novel

The story begins today, in a run-down luxury hotel in Budapest.

Astrid has been given this short trip as a forty-fourth birthday pres­ ent from her new boyfriend, Paul. He thought it would be good for them to spend a few days away from the pressures of her children and his work. Another reason for planning the trip was that Paul wanted to look into Astrid’s past. However, he ends up seeing more than he had wished for. For this story also begins twenty-five years earlier at a wild artists’ party in East Germany, when Astrid fell head over heels in love with Julius. She has never really forgotten this Julius. And suddenly, everything is as it never was.

Gregor Sander interweaves past and present, telling tales of German life histories that almost make your head spin. He succeeds in creating delicate images that are full of surprises: Love, friendship, escape, betrayal. Nothing is how it seems at first glance. Or at second, or even third.

Gregor Sander What Would Have Been Novel 236 pages, hardback, dust cover

»The urgency with which Gregor Sander intertwines layers of time and points towards the continuum beneath the discontinuity, with great psychological and historical precision, reminds us of the obsessive attention to detail of Uwe Johnson.« Nicole Henneberg, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Gregor Sander was born in Schwerin in 1968, studied medicine, German and history for several semesters. Before studying, he completed apprenticeships as a fitter and a male nurse. After attending the Berlin School of Journalism, he now lives in Berlin and works as a freelance author. He was awarded several times for his novels and stories.

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Ludwig Laher Bitter

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A highly political novel about the eventful life of a war criminal, his atrocious deeds and successful attempts to evade all responsibility after 1945.

Novel

Up until his death at the end of the nineteen-fifties, Bitter had always managed to get away with his crimes, remaining complete­ ly unscathed. Now, he is finally brought to trial through this act of narration. In several variations of pitch, Ludwig Laher traces – meticulously researched – the remarkable career and private development of the Vienna-Neustadt Gestapo boss and Charkow mass-murderer. Sometimes the narrator keeps his distance like a chronicler; at other times he comes up so close to the action that he almost appears to be inside the head of his protagonist. Then, unable to stand the close proximity, he breaks out again to regain his breath.

There is no doubt of the underlying moral judgement, and yet Laher’s narrative approach allows us to observe this man and the conditions under which he committed his monstrous deeds at close quarters.

Ludwig Laher is a »cicerone of contemporary history«.

Christiane Zintzen, Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Ludwig Laher was born in 1955, studied German, English and classical philology in Salzburg. Since 1988 Laher has lived in St. Pantaleon and Vienna, where he works as a full-time freelance writer.

His works have been translated into English, French, Japanese, Croatian and Spanish. Laher has received a large number of literary prizes; in 2011 he was nominated for the German Book Prize. His last publications were the novels »Herzfleischentartung« (Heart Flesh Degeneration, paperback, 2009), »Einleben« (Settling Down, 2009), »Verfahren« (Procedure, 2011) and the volume of prose »Kein Schluß geht nicht« (No Such Thing as no Ending, 2012).

Ludwig Laher Bitter Novel 237 pages, hardback, dust cover

Wallstein Verlag Literature

What reasons are there for committing suicide?

And what reasons for deciding to live?

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Lukas Bärfuss Koala Novel

Nothing about the story told in Lukas Bärfuss’s new novel seems normal. For the story culminates in an act of suicide, committed by the author’s brother. Even though statistics say that suicide is the second most frequent cause of death between the ages of twenty and forty, this does not help anyone to come to terms with it. The inevitable questions that arise simply cannot be answered in a way that gives consolation to those left behind.

Bärfuss tries to track down his brother’s fate, of which he knows very little. He encounters silence. Somehow the theme appears to be hidden behind a high wall; there is a huge taboo. And a secret. Why did his friends call him Koala? How did he get the name? And did it perhaps somehow influence his brother’s fate, does a person start behaving as his name suggests he ought? »Lukas Bärfuss looks deep into the heart of darkness.« Martin Halter, Tages-Anzeiger

Lukas Bärfuss Koala Novel ca. 220 pages, hardback, dust cover

Lukas Bärfuss was born in 1971 in Thun, Switzerland, one of the most successful German-speaking dramatists. His plays are staged all over the world. His extremely successful debut novel »Hundert Tage« (A Hundred Days) was nominated for the German and Swiss Book Prizes and translated into 17 languages. He received numerous prizes for his plays and his novel. Lukas Bärfuss lives in Zurich.

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Marie-Luise Scherer Beneath Every Lamp, they were Dancing Marie-Luise Scherer once described her writing as a labour of syllables; every sentence has to fit like a glove. Her exacting standards as far as the accuracy of observation and artistry of formulation are concerned to be one of the reasons why so few of her texts have made their way to the public. However, the small number she has released for publication have been met with great and lasting admiration. Readers, fellow authors, the juries of literary prizes have all been equally fascinated by her work.

In recent years, Marie-Luise Scherer has been awarded several famous literary prizes. Being required to write notes of thanks, she used this opportunity to produce pieces of prose about the people who have been and are important to her in her life: her grand­ parents, her parents, family relationships. She turns her attention to things that are often overlooked, things that appear to have little consequence, the creaturely world, animals. The way in which she raises these topics is quite unique.

This volume is a collection of four of these notes of thanks, addressed not only to the prize-givers, but primarily to the people they refer to. Great literature. »Marie-Luise Scherer can do anything.« Gustav Seibt, Süddeutsche Zeitung

Marie-Luise Scherer was born in Saarbrücken in 1938, worked as a journalist in Berlin for many years. She earned her legendary reputation for her literary reports in the magazine Spiegel, for which she worked for over 25 years. Prizes awarded to MarieLuise Scherer include the Ludwig Börne Prize (1994), the Italo Svevo Prize (2008), the Heinrich Mann Prize (2011) and the Saarland Art Prize (2012).

Wallstein Verlag Literature

For the first time in book form: four notes of thanks

by Marie-Luise Scherer for prizes awarded to her. But more importantly, four feats of prose, in which she writes about her life.

Marie-Luise Scherer Beneath Every Lamp, they were Dancing ca. 80 pages, hardback, dust cover

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A surprisingly new look at three masterpieces of the modern age – Wolfgang Matz gives us breathtaking reading material.

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Wolfgang Matz The Art of Adultery

Emma, Anna, Effi and the Men in their Lives

Love and deceit have always been the eternal themes of literature, from Tristan and Isolde to Don Giovanni – but in the middle of the 19th century, a new variation on an old theme in the social novel suddenly appeared: adultery in the bourgeois family. Emma Bovary, Anna Karenina and Effi Briest – these are the three famous women who do the forbidden thing and risk losing their entire existence for the sake of another man. Emma, the radical player, Anna, the passionate lover, and the naïve Effi, who is far too young and fails to resist a fleeting opportunity.

In his temperamental book, Wolfgang Matz traces the stories of these completely different women, their husbands and their lovers, to ascertain why their private failure – between the desire for personal freedom and the constraints of social order – held such a fascination for their creators Gustave Flaubert, Leo Tolstoi and Theodor Fontane, and what effect this had on their writing.

Wolfgang Matz The Art of Adultery Emma, Anna, Effi and the Men in their Lives ca. 320 pages, hardback, dust cover

Wolfgang Matz has a gift for presenting literary history in a brand new way.

Jan Süselbeck, Jungle World

Wolfgang Matz, born in 1955, lived in Poitiers (France) from 1987 to 1995, where he taught at the Institute of German Language and Literature and worked as a literary translator. Since then he has worked as a publishing editor in Munich. He was awarded the Paul Celan Prize and the Petrarca Prize for his translations of French prose and lyric poetry.

Publications include: 1857. Flaubert, Baudelaire, Stifter (2007); Gewalt des Gewordenen. Zum Werk Adalbert Stifters (The Power of what has become. The Work of Adalbert Stifter, 2005)

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Joseph Roth Three Sensations and Two Catastrophes

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Measuring the world of cinema through the medium of feature articles.

Features on the World of Cinema

In the Weimar Republic, Joseph Roth was one of the most respec­t­ed feature writers in the German-speaking world. As well as writing reports, travel features, book reviews and theatre critiques, he also became an established film critic.

This volume contains almost a hundred texts, some of them published here for the first time in book form, reflecting an abundance of very different views on the phenomenon of the cinema.

Roth writes about premiere screenings, examines »cinematic drama«, visits film locations and reports on the film industry and the newly developing cult of stardom. The whole world of Weimar Republic film and cinema is brought to life again in his texts.

Joseph Roth (1894 –1939) is one of the most wonderful and significant German-speaking storytellers and journalists of the 20th century. He was born in 1894 in the Galician town of Brody and died in exile in Paris in the year 1939.

The Editors Helmut Peschina, born in 1943, author; editor of the anthology »Joseph Roth. Sehnsucht nach Paris, Heimweh nach Prag. Ein Leben in Selbstzeugnissen« (Longing for Paris, Homesick for Prague.

A Life in Self-Testimonies, 2006), author of radio play adaptions of novels by Joseph Roth and a theatre version of the novel »Radetzkymarsch« (Radetzky March).

Rainer-Joachim Siegel, born in 1948, is a mathematician and the author of the authoritative Joseph Roth bibliography (1995). Editor of a collection of newly discovered texts by Joseph Roth entitled »Unter dem Bülowbogen« (Under the Bülowbogen,1994).

Joseph Roth Three Sensations and Two Catastrophes Features on the World of Cinema Edited and with a commentary

by Helmut Peschina and Rainer-Joachim Siegel ca. 400 pages, cloth, dust cover

Wallstein Verlag History

Hans Mommsen describes the individual components and phases of the development leading up to the National Socialist atrocities.

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Hans Mommsen The Nazi Regime and the Extermination of Judaism in Europe Hans Mommsen, one of the leading contemporary German historians, gives a compact overall interpretation of the complex events leading up to the unleashing of the holocaust. He begins by sketching the hostility against Jews in the Weimar Republic and the role of anti-Semitism during the rise of the Nazi party. He describes how the Nazi regime radicalized the persecution of the Jews, resulting in their complete disenfranchisement.

For this issue, Hans Mommsen has extended the volume »Ausch­witz, July 17, 1942« (2002) and brought it into line with recent research. In this way, a fundamental work on the subject of 20th century German history is made available again. »For almost fifty years, Hans Mommsen has been one of the most influential contemporary historians in Germany and one of the few whose works are known all over the world. … Almost all research on the Weimar Republic and the history of National Social­­ism is based in one way or another on the works of Mommsen.«

Hans Mommsen The Nazi Regime and the Extermination of Judaism in Europe ca. 240 pages, hardback, dust cover

Ulrich Herbert

Hans Mommsen, born in 1930, is a professor emeritus at the University of Bochum. He was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, St. Antony’s College in Oxford and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and has held guest professorships at a large number of institutions abroad. He received many awards and his books have been translated into English and other world languages.

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Notker Hammerstein The Circle of Friends surrounding the »White Rose«

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A portrait of the people associated with the re­sistance group led by Hans and Sophie Scholl.

Otmar Hammerstein – a Biographical Exploration Otmar Hammerstein (1917 – 2003), the author’s elder brother, belonged to the group of friends surrounding the resistance group »White Rose«, fervently participating in their activities and discussions. On the basis of his literary estate, the historian Notker Hammerstein gives us an exact insight into the group’s sphere of influence. He traces how cultural influences and the exchange with scholars and artists served to reinforce each member’s opposition to Nazi rule, and strengthened some of them in their resolve to take specific action.

Following the arrest of the resistance group led by Hans and Sophie Scholl in February 1943, Otmar Hammerstein became a target of the Gestapo. His transfer to the Netherlands removed him from imminent danger. There, he joined the active resistance movement against occupying Nazi forces. Notker Hammerstein describes these events, and also his brother’s view of his own actions and public attitudes towards resistance once the war was over.

Notker Hammerstein, born in 1930, was a professor of medieval and contemporary history at the University of Frankfurt a. M. until 1995. He has published books and essays on the history of universities and science, early modern jurisprudence and political science and the history of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.

Notker Hammerstein The Circle of Friends surrounding the »White Rose« Otmar Hammerstein – a Biographical Exploration ca. 160 pages, ca. 20 illustrations, hardback, dust cover

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A fundamental reassessment of the final phase of the Nazi concentration camps.

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Stefan Hördler Order and Inferno

The concentration camp system during the final year of the war Stefan Hördler calls into question the current state of research on the final phase of Nazi concentration camps, which suggests that they were characterised by disorganisation, chaos and arbi­ trariness. He shows that, from March 1944, a complete reform of the concentration camp system came into effect, and that the last year of the war represented an autonomous phase in the genesis of the camps. From 1944, the Nazi regime pursued two aims: firstly forced economisation, and secondly the stabilisation of the camp system. In order to analyse both dimensions, the author introduces the term of rationalisation, under which both the mass murders and the utilitarian-oriented »selection« of prisoners who were fit for work can be classified together as elements of this development.

Winner of the Tiburtius Prize, awarded by the universities of Berlin (2013).

Stefan Hördler Order and Inferno The concentration camp system during the final year of the war ca. 592 pages, hardback, dust cover

Stefan Hördler, born in 1977, research associate at the German Historical Insitute Washington, 2011– 2012 research associate at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna, 2009 fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Peter Burschel The Invention of Purity

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The early modern European era as an epoch when purity appeared as a cultural code.

A different history of the early modern era

Concepts of purity help to transform ambiguity into clarity, and thus to homogenise, stabilise and last but not least to harmo­nise the perception of oneself and the world. Starting off from this theory, Peter Burschel questions the source of this pattern in the early modern European era. His conclusion: starting from the end of the Middle Ages, purity advanced to become a cultural code, giving direction to the fundamental process of social and confes­ sion­al discipline in the 16th and 17th centuries. In this way it holds the epoch together in a historical-anthropological sense: creating order, providing symbols, governing actions, and remaining incredibly sustainable.

Peter Burschel, born in 1963, Chair for History of the Early Modern Age at the Humboldt University of Berlin and chairman of the Institute for Historical Anthropology in Freiburg i.

Br. He is secretary of the almanac of universal history »Saeculum«, and co-editor of journals including »Historische Anthropologie« (Historical Anthropology) and »Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht« (History in Science and Teaching).

Peter Burschel The Invention of Purity A different history of the early modern era 62 pages, 7 illustrations, partly in colour, folded brochure

Wallstein Verlag History of Science

The development and use of botanical distribution maps in the 19th century.

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Nils Güttler The Cosmoscope

Maps and their Users in 19th Century Plant Geography

Nils Güttler The Cosmoscope Maps and their Users in 19th Century Plant Geography ca. 576 pages, ca. 100 illustrations, partly in colour, and maps, hardback, dust cover

Located at the interface between the history of science, environment and media, »The Cosmoscope« sketches a long development leading from the first plant geographical maps. These emerged in the late 18th century in the circles surrounding Alexander von Humboldt and culminated in a mapping boom in the field of botany around one hundred years later. When did maps become indispensable for botanists? What had to happen before scientists realised that maps were more useful than texts when it came to observing associations? How did the medium change theories on the geography of plants and their ecology? Placing his main focus on the map user, Nils Güttler comes to a remarkable conclusion: botanists did not begin to study plant distribution on paper until a very late stage. The trend towards cartographic observation was forced ahead by institutions assumed to be situated at the periphery of science, e. g. cartographic publishing houses and nature research societies. In the interplay between popular and academic cultures of knowledge, a lively graphic discourse on plant geography arose, which has continued to shape our visual culture up until the present day.

Nils Güttler, born in 1980, is a research assistant at the Gotha Research Centre, University of Erfurt. He studied modern and contemporary history and modern German literature at the HU Berlin and the University of Uppsala. Winner of the sponsorship prize awarded by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik (German Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology, 2013).

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Wallstein Verlag Backlist Highlights

Backlist Highlights

Lukas Bärfuss A Hundred Days Novel | 196 pages Lukas Bärfuss’ meticulously researched novel tells the story of people who set out to do good and finally caused nothing but evil. ›A Hundred Days ‹ relays the darkest chapter of Africa’s history, the Rwanda genozide, a story which concerns us more than we wish to believe. Not least, it is the moving story of love in times of war and the devastation caused by hate.

Alice goes to Switzerland – The Test – Amygdala Plays | 168 pages Euthanasia, paternity test, brain research, these are all only secondary matters – Lukas Bärfuss’s plays in this selestion address all the big moral questions of the present day in a way which is both auspicious and playful.

Rights sold: ·· Arabic World: Kalima ·· Argentina: Adriana Hidalgo Editora S.A. ·· Bulgaria: RIVA ·· France: L’Arche Editeur ·· Israel: Babel ·· Italy: Einaudi ·· Mazedonia: ILI-ILI ·· Poland: Fundacja Korporacja Ha!art ·· Sweden: Norstedts Förlag ·· Turkey: Metis Yayınları ·· Poland: Ha!art ·· China: Shanghai Publishing ·· Russia: Text Publishers ·· English world: Granta ·· Kroatia: Edicije Bozicevic

Rights sold: ·· Bulgaria: Pygmalion Press ·· France: L� Arche (Alice goes to Switzerland; The Test)

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Rights sold: ·· Bulgaria: Pygmalion Press (The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents. The Bus. The Death of Meienberg) ·· France: L� Arche Editeur (The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents.

The Bus. Four pictures of Love) ·· Poland: Ksiergarnia Akademicka (The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents. The Bus) ·· UK: Nick Hern Books Limited (The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents) ·· Romanian: Europress Group (The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents. The Bus) ·· Adapted to a movie by Stina Werenfels

Rights sold: ·· Spanish world: Qatenus / Eduvim ·· Bulgaria: Black Flamingo

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The Death of Meienberg – The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents – The Bus Pieces for Theater | 220 pages In The Sexual Neuroses, the mentally handicapped Dora is in a certain sense such a grain of sand in the works of the good, liberal society – not when she fulfils the role of the merely pitiable, but with immediate effect when she makes her own demands and no longer serves as the projection screen for all the nonsense about tolerance.

Malaga – Parcifal – Twenty Thousand Pages Plays | 208 pages Bärfuss lets things start off like a piece of conversation and swell to a tragedy of Greek proportions. This plays tell stories that are related to our everyday lives and yet discuss wide-ranging themes such as guilt, responsibility, individual fulfillment – funny, tragic, grotesque. Full of unexpected turns. Exciting.

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Ralph Dutli The Song of Honey

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A cultura history of the bee | 208 pages

·· Arabic world: Kana’an ·· Netherlands: Cossee

The bee has provided inspiration for religious rituals, superstitions and miracle stories. It has stood for community spirit, self-sacrifice, provision for the future, well thought-out organization, purity, industriousness and abundance. But also for magic and prophecy, soul and inspiration. Ralph Dutli tells us all these things in a knowledgeable, witty and poetical way. A pleasurable invitation to reflect on the important role of the honey-making hymenoptera in world culture.

Soutine’s Last Journey

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Novel | 272 pages

·· Arabic world: Kana’an ·· French: Le Bruit du temps

August 6, 1943. Chaime Soutine, a Belarussian/Jewish painter and a contemporary of Chagall, Modigliani and Picasso, is driven from the town of Chinon on the Loire to occupied Paris, hidden in a hearse. Suffering from a gastric ulcer, he is in need of an urgent operation which can no longer be put off. Being forced to lie quietly in the car fort he whole trip, his mind starts wandering back in time.

A novel about childhood, infirmity and art. About the wounds of exile in Paris, the powerlessness of the letter and the over­ whelming power of pictures.

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Maja Haderlap Rights sold:

Angels of Oblivion

·· Slowenia: Litera ·· France: Editions Métailié ·· Italy: Keller Editore

Novel | 288 pages The story of a young girl and a family, and at the same time relates the story of a nation. This story goes back to the memories of a childhood in the mountains at Kärnten. In a highly sensuous way, the author recalls the scents of summer, her grandmother’s cooking, her parents’ fights and the idiosyncrasies of the neighbours. It tells of a girl growing up and her attempts to understand her family and the people around her.

Although the war is over, it is still omnipresent in the minds of the Slovenian minority to which the family belongs and has more influence on people’s bahavior than she would have ever guessed.

Dea Loher Rights sold:

Bugatti Surfaces

·· Netherlands: Cossee ·· Macedonia: ILI-ILI

Novel | 208 pages No other German-speaking dramatist is so widely read, in her own country and all over the world, and more successfully staged (more than 300 productions, translations in 31 countries) than Dea Loher. This narrative focuses on existential matters: The death of a young man and the desparat efforts to deal with it. It investigates the meaning of life in the face of this completely meaningless death, finding images of great intensity.

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Joseph Roth and Stefan Zweig »A Friendship with me is a Perishable Thing« Correspondence 1927 – 1938 | 624 pages Edited by Madeleine Rietra and Rainer Joachim Siegel. With an epilogue by Heinz Lunzer

Rights sold: ·· Italy: Adelphi ·· France: Payot & Rivages ·· Spanish world: Quaderns Crema

Joseph Roth (1894 –1939) and Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) are still two of the most widely read narrators in German literature.

The correspondence tells the story of a friendship that is broken apart by the political circumstances – and the story of two lives des­troyed by exile. »We exiles don’t live long« Zweig comments when Roth dies in Paris in 1939. In 1942, Zweig commits suicide in Petropolis, Brazil.

Patrick Roth My Journey to Chaplin

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An Encore | 88 pages

·· France: Le Bruit du temps ·· Arabic world: Kana’an

»My Journey to Chaplin« is the story of a passion. It tells us of Roth’s life-long love and veneration for the maker of »City Lights« (1931), whom he follows from the screen of a run-down L. A. cinema all the way to the door of his house in Vevey, Switzerland, just to hand over a letter to him in person.

In its own way, the »Journey to Chaplin« becomes a film à la Chaplin, with the young man in the role of the tramp and the narrator as the director of the story of a memory.

On April 16th 2014 will be Chaplin’s 125th birthday, which will be widely celebrated throughout the world.

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Gregor Sander Rights sold:

Absent

·· Spain: El tercer nombre ·· Arabic: Kana’an

Novel | 156 pages

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Winter Fish

·· Czech: Vetrne mlyny

Short Stories | 192 pages

Christoph Radtke, in his early 30s, has to go back to his home town of Schwerin to watch over his father, who has been in a coma for years. Being pulled out of his everyday life he starts to wonder about his past and future. Who was his father and what did he want out of life? The silence of his father in life, as if in death, is interrupted by a peculiar letter from Switzerland. The son is suddenly far more active than he would like to be.

These stories are set in Rerik, at the Kiel Canal, in Gotland, Helsinki, Klaipeda. They are about people who are on the move and yet bound by their fates: Taciturn seadogs, disillusioned artists, female idols. Although the stories are all different, they do have one thing in common. They are about longing – longing to be with loved ones, to lead a free life or simply to feel understood.

Sander’s writing appears sparse, almost restrained; like the char­acters, like the northern landscape. In just a few strokes, discreet but precise, the author draws fates that never fail to fascinate the reader.

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Matthias Zschokke The Man with Two Eyes

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Novel | 244 pages

·· France: Editions Zoé ·· English-speaking world: Thames River Press

The man with two eyes has a real aversion to anything out of the ordinary, even though, as a legal correspondent, you would expect him to be continually in search of the sensational. But for him normality is far more interesting, not boring at all: on the contrary, he finds it complicated, surprising and fascinating.

Matthias Zschokke writes of seemingly everyday things, discov­ ering their uniqueness, beauty, sadness and humour, and tells a discrete love story along the way.

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