Rights ListFrankfurt Book Fair 2017

Insel

Ingeborg Bachmann

Georg Baselitz

Marcel Beyer

Hans Blumenberg

Nina Bußmann

Ulrike Edschmid

Nana Ekvtimishvili

Didier Fassin

Daniel Martin Feige

Durs Grünbein

Peter Handke

Christoph Hein

Hans Joas

Alexander Kluge

Niklas Luhmann

Steffen Mau

Robert Menasse

Thomas Macho

Bodo Mrozek

Melinda Nadj Abonji

Angelika Neuwirth

Marion Poschmann

Doron Rabinovici

Andreas Reckwitz

Beate Rössler

Ralf Rothmann

Sasha Marianna Salzmann

Peter Sloterdijk

Philipp Ther

Serhij Zhadan

Suhrkamp

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Authors and Estatesrepresented by Suhrkamp/InselA selectionTheodor W. AdornoRobert AlexyJury AndruchowytschFriedrich AniIngeborg BachmannZsófia BánWolfgang BauerUlrich BeckUlla Berkéwicz Thomas BernhardBarbara BeuysMarcel BeyerErnst BlochHans BlumenbergKarl Heinz BohrerSzilárd BorbélyFriedrich von BorriesVolker BraunBertolt BrechtHermann BrochSimone BuchholzNina BußmannBernd CaillouxPaul CelanAnn CottenSigrid DammLászló DarvasiLjubko DereschUlrike EdschmidHans Magnus EnzensbergerUrs FaesErika Fischer-LichteRainer ForstManfred FrankMax FrischValerie FritschMischa GabowitschMarkus Gabriel Efrat Gal-EdAlisa GanievaGunther GeltingerAndré GeorgiRainald Goetz

Durs Grünbein Hans Ulrich GumbrechtJürgen HabermasAnna Katharina HahnMichael HampePeter HandkeChristoph HeinHeinz HelleDieter HenrichHermann HesseWolfgang HildesheimerLudwig HohlAxel HonnethEva IllouzRahel JaeggiHans JoasUwe JohnsonHans JonasDževad KarahasanAnselm KieferAnna KimJulia KissinaFriedrich A. KittlerAlexander KlugeWolfgang KoeppenSiegfried KracauerAngela KraußSvenja LeiberGertrud LeuteneggerSibylle LewitscharoffNiklas LuhmannNicolas MahlerAndreas MaierFriederike MayröckerThomas MeineckeRobert MenasseChristoph MenkeWinfried MenninghausAlice MillerHeiner MüllerStefan Müller-DoohmIvan NagelAngelika Neuwirth

Albert Ostermaier Katja PetrowskajaAndreas PflügerSebastian PolmansMarion PoschmannDoron RabinoviciAndreas ReckwitzBärbel ReetzBeate RösslerHartmut RosaRalf RothmannSasha Marianna SalzmannJudith SchalanskyAnnika ScheffelRobert SchindelWilhelm SchmidGershom ScholemLutz SeilerClemens J. SetzPeter SloterdijkManfred SommerAndrzej StasiukWolfgang StreeckPeter SzondiUwe Tellkamp Philipp TherStephan ThomeHans-Ulrich TreichelGalsan TschinagErnst TugendhatPeter TurriniSiegfried UnseldKevin VennemannMartin WalserRobert WalserPeter WeissLambert WiesingJosef WinklerChrista Wolf Raul ZelikSerhij ZhadanUlf Erdmann ZieglerSlavoj Žižek

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Ingeborg BachmannThe Book Goldmann(Original title: Das Buch Goldmann)459 pagesClothboundRelease: May 2017

Rights available

Selected Backlist:

Malina (1971) International Sales:

English world rights (Holmes

& Meier), Spanish world rights

(Akal), Catalan rights (Edicions

62 – published, rights reverted),

Brazilian Portuguese rights (Estaçao

Liberdade), Portuguese rights

(Ediçoes 70), France (Seuil), Italy

(Adelphi), Netherlands (Van Gennep),

Denmark (Vandkunsten), Sweden

(Ellerströms), Norway (Bokvennen –

published, rights reverted), Finnland

(Weilin & Göös – published, rights

reverted), Korea (Minumsa), Japan

(Shobunsha), Poland (A5, Polish

audio book: Mala Litera), Czech

Republic (Mlada fronta – published,

rights reverted), Slovakia (Slovensky

Spisovatel – published, rights

reverted), Hungary (Jelenkor),

Bulgaria (Na Otetschestwenia

Front – published, rights reverted),

Romania (Humanitas – published,

rights reverted), Lithuania

(Lithuanian Writers Union –

published – rights reverted), Slovenia

(Pomuska Zalozba – published,

rights reverted), Turkey (Yapi Kredi),

Greece (Agrostis – published, rights

reverted), Macedonia (Tri), Albania

(Saras), Ukraine (Klasyka), Israel

(Hakibutz Hameuchad / Sifriat

Poalim)

The Book Goldmann is the name Ingeborg Bachmann gave to her great narrative project, which she cherished until the end.This edition renders the previously only fragmentarily available work recognizable as a project of redemptive narration. The Book Goldmann deals with the various aspects of indiscretion, including misunderstood indiscretion that leaves the other alone in his distress. Half a century after Hofmannsthal, Bachmann discovers a social medium in the somewhat indiscrete Viennese conversation, which could have prevented the worst: Fanny Goldmann’s death.

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Ingeborg BachmannCollected Works

Collected Works

Ingeborg Bachmann1926-1973

Selected Backlist:

Herzzeit (2008) International Sales:

English world rights (Seagull),

Spanish world rights (Fondo Cultura),

Chinese simplex rights (China

Renmin UP), Russia (Ad marginem),

France (Seuil), Italy (Nottetempo),

Netherlands (Meulenhoff),

Denmark (Vandkunsten), Sweden

(Ellerströms), Japan (Seidosha),

Poland (A5), Czech Republic

(Pulchra), Romania (Art), Croatia

(OceanMore), Turkey (Kirmizi Kedi),

Ukraine (Knihy XXI), Georgia (Ibis),

Israel (Hakibbutz Hameuchad)

Die Radiofamilie (2011)

International Sales: English world

rights (Seagull)

Kriegstagebuch (2010)

International Sales: English world

rights (Seagull), Spanish world rights

(Akal), France (Actes Sud), Italy

(Adelphi), Poland (Czarne), Czech

Republic (Pulchra), Ukraine (Osnovy)

Domestic Rights Sales: Audiobook

rights (Audiobuch)

Ingeborg BachmannCollected Works

In recent years, Suhrkamp Verlag has published major works from Ingeborg Bachmann’s estate, such as Herzzeit, the correspondence with Paul Celan and the Kriegstagebuch (War Diary), both of which have been translated into numerous languages. Now Suhrkamp published Male Oscuro, the first volume of the Collected Works by Ingeborg Bachmann. This will be the first complete edition of prose, poetry and essays, as well as the radio plays, libretti and correspondences. Designed to be released in thirty volumes, it will present already published works in commented editions and will furthermore make available all previously unknown works from Ingeborg Bachmann’s estate. Male Oscuro. From the Time of Illness contains Bachmann’s dream notes, correspondence drafts and records from the time of her illness. Not only are those of great literary interest as the primary elements of the subsequent Todesarten-texts. In addition, these writings are apt to further our knowledge about her illness and the phenomenon of illness itself. They are outrageous, courageous in their analytic approach, defeated by the knowledge of the incurable – and at the same time they are filled with the passionate desire to escape the illness and find a cure.

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Male oscuro. From the Time of Illness: intimate, unpublished, deeply sad

Ingeborg BachmannMale OscuroFrom the Time of Sickness(Original title: Male oscuro. Notizen, Traumnotate und Briefe aus der Zeit der Krankheit)259 pagesClothboundRelease: February 2017

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Marcel BeyerThe Century that Cried itself BlindImage and Sound(Original title: Das blindgeweinte Jahrhundert. Bild und Ton)271 pagesClothbound Release: April 2017

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Marcel Beyer was born and raised

in Cologne. He is the author of

the renowned novels Flughunde/

Karnau Tapes and Kaltenburg, which

have been translated into many

languages, and various collections

of poems. Beyer has received

numerous awards, including the

Georg Büchner Prize, the Kleist

Prize, and the International IMPAC

Dublin Literary Award (Longlist).

Named one of the best novelists in

the world by The New Yorker, he lives

in Dresden.

Selected Backlist:

Kaltenburg (2008) International

Sales: English world rights

(Harcourt), Spanish world rights

(Edhasa), Chinese simplex rights

(People’s Literature Publishing

House), Arabic world rights (Kalima),

France (Métailié), Italy (Einaudi),

Netherlands (Cossée), Sweden

(Bonniers), Norway (Pax), Croatia

(Fraktura), Serbia (Geopoetika),

Turkey (Ayrinti); Domestic Rights

Sales: German Audiobook (Hoffmann

und Campe)

Marcel BeyerThe Century that Cried itself BlindImage and Sound

Considering this current moment of great change as well as the 20th century when death became a master from Germany, is literature still possible? Does it still have a reason for being in a post-Auschwitz world where all cultural production can only be an expression of barbarism? Or is literature necessary, indeed indispensible, precisely because of such atrocities? Which methods must such a literature use? The 2016 Georg Büchner Prize-winning writer examines these questions and has a succinct and far-reaching answer at hand: through the fine-tuning of the material of reality like literature.

Marcel Beyer is a master of prose, poetry, and essay writing. His poetological essays are a necessary addition to his poetry and novels, which have found interest throug-hout the world.

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One always impatiently awaits Marcel Beyer’s next

book to come out.Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung,

Julia Encke, April 2017Adorno, Helmut Kohl,

St. Ignatius: in his collection of essays, The Century that

Cried itself Blind, Marcel Beyer examines the last

few decades of the Federal Republic of Germany as well

as his own work. Süddeutsche Zeitung, Lothar Müller,

April 2017

Essay-like and narrational: Marcel Beyer strikes a poetic balance

Georg Baselitz / Alexander KlugeWorld-changing RageDispatches from the Antipodeans(Original title: Weltverändernder Zorn. Nachrichten von den Gegenfüßlern)237 pagesClothboundRelease: July 2017

International Sales:English world rights (Seagull)

Georg Baselitz, born in 1938. One

of the most important painters,

sculptors, and graphic artists in the

world. The drawings in this collection

are references to his visual creations

as presented by his alter ego:

Hokusai.

Alexander Kluge, born in 1932, he

is an author as well as the director

to date of numerous films and

countless TV broadcasts. In 2003

he was awarded the Georg Büchner

Prize.

Selected Backlist (Alexander Kluge):

30. April 1945 (2014) International

Sales: English world rights (Seagull),

France (P.O.L.), Poland (W.A.B.)

Nachricht von ruhigen Momenten

(2013), with Gerhard Richter,

International Sales: English world

rights (Seagull), Chinese simplex rights

(Beijing Imaginist Time Culture)

Dezember (2010, with Gerhard

Richter) International Sales: English

world rights (Seagull), Chinese simplex

rights (Beijing Imaginist Time Culture),

France (Diaphanes), Turkey (Everest)

Georg Baselitz & Alexander KlugeWorld-changing Rage

Rage and obstinacy are closely related. In the work of Georg Baselitz and Alexander Kluge they are fundamental categories. Rage is dynamic: it can grow and suddenly erupt into flaming protests, revolts, revolutions, and war. Within the figure of the hero its energies are concentrated. In this book Georg Baselitz and Alexander Kluge compare the melancholically inclined figure of the occidental hero (and its deconstruction) to the very different ethos of the Japanese hero, the »Antipodean«.

This book is a combination of Georg Baselitz’s graphic art and Alexander Kluge’s texts. Connected to the now daily discussions of “anger” and “hate” in a political context, it is concerned with literary and pictorial depictions of »rage«. From historical derivations and processes this leads to a tableau of rage-types, raging heroes, and varieties of their world-creating and world-destroying heroism in a comparison of East and West (Europe and Japan). Furthermore, important depictions of »rage« are represented by drawings of the Japanese artist Hokusai and Baselitz’s versions thereof, producing, as a result, a cross-cultural triangulation of »rage« in image and text.

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»The history of humanity is also the history of rage.«

Die Massen der Erde

Zahlreiche Gottheiten Japans sind ursprünglich identisch

mit Landmassen. Bei der Abspaltung der japanischen

Inseln

vom Subkontinent,der sich vom Superkontinen

t Pangäa

einem Schiff gleich davonmachte, erhielt die Göttin Amate-

rasu die Sonne und die Planeten zugeteilt. Außerdem die

Sterne, jedoch ohne die Sternennacht.

»Die Gottheit ist ein Fluß /

Verflossen in sich selbst.«

Der Bruder dieser Göttin, Susanoo,

erhielt die Herrschaft

über das Meer und das Erdreich, und zwar dort, wo sie mit-

einander Krieg führen. Er ist ein Saboteur. Die Teilung zwi-

schen Land und Meer hält er fürungerecht, had

ert lebens-

länglich mit der Schwester.

So ist eine Ursache für den Zorn derMeere und die Erdbe-

ben, welche die Inseln heimsuchen, in der antagonistischen

Aufteilung der Erde zu suchen: in der Privilegierungder

Sonne gegenüber derin den Himmeln enthaltenen Nacht-

seite (sie hat überhauptkeinen Gott) und der Erbitterung

,

mit der die Meere und die Felsen einander rammen.Welcher

Gott will nur über Zank herrschen?

»Im Rausch der Dinge«

In dieser Zeichnung sieht Meister Hokusai nackt au

s. Hand

und Fuß sind Nachbarn. Geschwister, die sich fürchten. Das

Gesicht – eine Totenmaske.

Um den Schmerz zu lindern, sind Punkte eingezeichnet,

an denen eine Akupunktur ansetzen könnte, aber die

Punkte

liegen knapp neben den Stellen, an denen die Behandlung

wirksam wäre. Kein guter Tag.

Das europäischeGespenst auf der

Seite gegenüber, auf die

Hokusai hinweist: eine Summierung ebenfalls von Punkten,

zwischen denen es zahllose Beziehungen gibt. Landkarten

des Geistes. Ein Punkt ist zusammengesetzt aus ei

ner unend-

lichen Zahl von einzelnen Punkten. INFINITESIMAL. Bis

hin zum Nichts? Es gibt kein Nichts im Punkt. Unzählbar?

»Unzählig.«

Beide Zeichnungen enthalten eine raffinierte Täuschung.

Nina BußmannEarth’s Mantle is Hot and Partially Molten Novel(Original title: Der Mantel der Erde ist heißund teilweise geschmolzen. Roman)329 pagesClothboundRelease: March 2017

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Nina Bußmann, born in 1980 in

Frankfurt/Main, lives in Berlin.

Selected Backlist:

Große Ferien (2012) International

Sales: Slovenia (Cankarjeva Zalozba)

Nina BußmannEarth’s Mantle is Hot and Partially Molten

On a clear day in the Caribbean a propeller plane with the 32-year-old seismologist Nelly on board suddenly disappears from the radar. After months of searching, pieces of wreckage are found in the jungles of Nicaragua. But of Nelly not a trace remains. At home in Frankfurt, her girlfriend cannot get over her disappearance. She travels to Managua, settles into Nelly’s old room, reads the notes and diaries she left behind and talks with the people who knew her there, driven by a strange obsession that seems to be keeping her from confronting a secret in her own life. And in this way, her search for Nelly steadily takes on the contours of escape.

Earth’s Mantle is Hot and Partially Molten is a novel about otherness and loneliness, a novel about private and political threats, about the desire to disappear and the hope to be sought and held, at least in memory.

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»Whoever disappears wants to be sought.«

»Nina Bußmann is a precise painter of blessings.«

Hubert Winkels, Die Zeit

Ulrike EdschmidA Man Who FallsA different view of the world

Ulrike EdschmidA Man Who FallsNovel(Original title: Ein Mann, der fällt)194 pagesClothbound Release: April 2017

Rights available

Ulrike Edschmid, born in 1940,

pursued literary studies in Berlin

and Frankfurt and, in addition,

studied at the German Film and

Television Academy, Berlin, where

she continues to live. She writes

prose and literary non-fiction and is

also famous for her artwork. 2013:

Grimmelshausen-Prize and SWR-

Best-of-List for her lifework.

2014: Cotta-Prize

Selected Backlist:

The Disappearance of Philip S. (2013) International Rights Sales:

France (Piranha), Italy (e/o),

Denmark (Vandkunsten), Turkey

(Aylak Adam)

Summer 1986. Berlin-Charlottenburg. A man climbs up onto a ladder to paint the ceiling of a flat in a turn-of-the-century building he intends to move into with his partner. He loses his balance and falls.Afterwards, nothing at all is like it was. Little else could have shattered the life of two people at the beginning of their future together in such a brutal way. But what at first seems like an ending slowly turns into the exploration of an unknown continent: one’s own life.The struggle with paraplegia and the forced slowing down of everyday life come together against the backdrop of a city that is changing rapidly after the fall of the Wall. Iranian dissidents, Russian nouveau riche and Roma refugees arriving from the former Yugoslavia are moving in. Decades go by, but the flat in the corner building remains observation point and refuge, exposed and protected. Down on the street below, life not only moves more quickly but is louder, rawer and more violent. And then the building empties again leaving only the old couple behind – together with their lifelong attempt to hold out against all odds.After the great success of her novel The Dis-appearance of Philip S., Ulrike Edschmid once again proves herself a powerful story-teller of the nature of misfortune. And the other view of the world we acquire from just such an experience.

Jury for the SWR-Best-Of-List Prize 2013:

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»Her sense of both the concrete and the atmospheric is truly admirable. There is not a

single false sentence in Ulrike Edschmid’s writing, but not because she is in any way polemic«

Nana EkvtimishviliThe Pear FieldNovel(Original title: მსხლების მინდორი, published in May 2015 by Bakur Sulakauri, Tblisi)(Translated German title: Das Birnenfeld)approx. 220 pagesPaperboundRelease of the German edition by Suhrkamp: Spring 2018

Translation funding available from the Georgian National Book Center

Literary Prizes and Awards:Literary award SABA 2016 in category the best debutIliaUni Literary prize 2016 for The Best NovelLITERA (Prize awarded by the Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia and by the Writer’s House of Georgia) for the best debut 2016

Nana EkvtimishviliThe Pear Field

The Pear Field takes place in the 1990s in Tbilisi, capital of the recently independent country of Georgia. At the heart of the novel is the “School for Idiots”, a boarding school for “mentally deficient children”, actually visitied mostly by children whose parents are either dead or who have emigrated for economic reasons. Even the teachers leave the children and teens to their own devices. The narrative unfolds from the point of view of 16-year-old Lela who has decided that she will murder Wano, the history teacher. Only over the course of the novel do the reasons become clear: sexual assault and even rape. However, Lela, a combative, angry young girl, has taken up the role of protector. She looks after the younger children, comforts them, and even tries to convince them to apply themselves, in other words, to study so that they can leave the School for Idiots behind. As strong as her hatred for the history teacher is, she has developed a tender, sister-like relationship with the boy Irakli. Every week Lela takes him to a nearby high-rise flat so he can talk on the phone with his mother in Greece. Irakli, however, refuses to believe what Lela has long known: his mother is never coming back, not even to pick him up. Lela nonetheless tries to encourage him and even manages to get him to learn English because she wants Irakli to have a better future. And then, one day, a married couple from the southern United States arrives and his dream threatens to become reality in a most bizarre way.

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An intense portrait of young people without future who stand up against the world of adults.

Nana Ekvtimishvili, born in 1978 in Tbilisi, Georgia, is a writer and movie director, and owns Georgia’s first

chain of ice cream parlors. She studied screenwriting and dramaturgy in Potsdam-Babelsberg. She first published

stories in 1999 and in 2011 directed her first short film, Waiting for Mum. In 2013 together with her partner

Simon Groß she released the feature film In Bloom. In Bloom premiered at the 63rd Berlinale where it was hailed

as the birth of the new Georgian wave and won the award the CICAE Award, followed by numerous awards film at

festivals in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris, LA, and Sarajevo, and was Georgia’s entry for the 2014 Academy Award for

Best Foreign Language Film. In 2013 Nana Ekvtimishvili — again with Simon Gross — was chosen as one of the ten

most promising European directors from Varietyʼs Ten Directors to Watch at the 48th Karlovy Vary Film Festival.

In Hong Kong, the film was named as the spring of Georgian cinema. The International Federation of Film Critics

(FIPRESCI) has called the film a sign of the rebirth of Georgian film. Her latest film My Happy Family has first been

released at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017. The Pear Field is her first novel.

Durs GrünbeinSpark PlugsPoems(Original title: Zündkerzen)152 pagesClothboundRelease: September 2017

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Durs Grünbein, born 1962 in

Dresden, lives in Berlin.

Awards (Selection):Tomas-Tränströmer-Prize (2012) Friedrich Nietzsche-Prize (2004) Georg-Büchner-Prize (1995)Peter-Huchel-Prize (1995)

Selections of Durs Grünbein’s

Poems, Essays and Prose have been

published in twenty languages.

Among his Backlist translated in

individual editions are:

Die Jahre im Zoo (2015)

International Sales: Schweden

(Ersatz)

Der cartesische Taucher (2008)

International Sales: English

world rights (Upper West Side

Philosophers), Sweden (Ersatz)

Strophen für übermorgen (2007)

International Sales: Italy (Einaudi)

Vom Schnee oder Descartes in Deutschland (2003) International

Sales: Italy (Einaudi), Sweden

(Ersatz), Greece (Keedros)

Durs GrünbeinSpark Plugs

Spark Plugs is a collection of 83 poems in diverse forms consisting of dream fragments, snippets of speech, prose poems, broken sonnets, and sequences that read like accident reports.

They are all based in Italy, on Italian relations, and on Italian motifs in their historical dimensions but also on decay and destruction. There is a strong emphasis on the now.

These poems are often quick, and work directly on the level of impression. They vary in form from the sonnet to the long poem. Of the two longer poems in the collection one has to do with the quirks of perception and the relationship between reality, sleep, and dream while the other is interfused with the poet’s own colour photographs.

Textually varied, diverse in tone, rapid and at times experimental, this is a solid, well-written collection of poetry.

Durs Grünbein does not belong to any school or popular mo-vement – he is a poet who ob-serves the real, who is curious about worldly things but ever ready for their disappearance.

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Spark Plugs are things, not ideas and, above all, not concepts.

Peter HandkeThe Fruit ThiefOr a simple trip into the interior (Original title: Die Obstdiebin oder Einfache Fahrt ins Landesinnere)560 pagesClothboundRelease: November 2017

International Sales: English world rights (FSG), Spanish world rights (Alianza), Italy (Guanda), Finland (Lurra)

Peter Handke, born in 1942 in

Griffen (Austria), lives near Paris. His

books are translated into more than

35 languages.

Selected Backlist:

Versuch über den Pilznarren

(2013) International Sales: Chinese

simplex rights (Horizon), Brazilian

Portuguese Rights (Estaçao

Liberdade), France (Gallimard),

Italy (Guanda), Denmark (Batzer),

Finland (Lurra), Slovenia (Mohorjeva

založba/Hermagoras)

Der Große Fall (2011) International

Sales: English world rights (Seagull),

Spanish world rights (Alianza),

Catalan world rights (Rayo Verde),

Arabic world rights (Kanaan), France

(Gallimard), Italy (Garzanti), Denmark

(Rod & Co.), Norway (Pelikanen),

Finland (Lurra), Czech Republic

(Rubato), Bulgaria (Paradox), Greece

(Hestia)

Die morawische Nacht (2008)

International Sales: English world

rights (FSG), Spanish world rights

(Alianza), France (Gallimard),

Italy (Garzanti), Netherlands

(Wereldbibliotheek), Finland (Lurra),

Serbia (Clio)

Peter HandkeThe Fruit Thief

The Fruit Thief is nothing less than the book of the world: within it everything is possible, in both a positive as well as a negative sense. And reading it means: to have new experiences beyond everything previously imagined or depicted. In sum: a brand new novel from Peter Handke.

Peter Handke’s latest recounts three days in the life of the fruit thief: on an August day shortly before her departure for Picardy, the wanderer meets her father who wants to give her a few pointers on how she should act. Alexia, as she is known, and her mother, the banker, had made amends after she travelled around the world. Now, during her stay in Ile-de-France, Alexia renounces her favourite (illegal?) pastime in order to prepare for something new. But what? The experience of the landscape? The risk of friendship? Or everything? And, most of all, adventure itself? Alexia’s openness allows her to experience everyday life in an exceptionally intense way and provides her with an experience of the world in images from never-before-known dimensions. »What she experienced in the three days of her trip into the interior: strange. Or not? No, strange indeed. Enduringly strange. Eternally strange.«

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Christoph HeinTrutz Novel(Original title: Trutz. Roman)477 pagesClothboundRelease: March 2017

International Sales: France (Métailié)

Christoph Hein, born in 1944, lives

in Berlin. He has written novels,

novellas, short stories, plays, essays

and librettos and is the recipient

of numerous literary awards for

his work. After the East and West

German chapters of PEN merged,

from 1998 to 2000 Christoph Hein

was the President of the German

PEN Centre.

Awards (selection):2017: Grimmelshausen-

Literaturpreis

2013: Stefan-Heym-Prize

2012: Uwe-Johnson-Prize

2010: Eichendorff-Literaturpreis

2004: Schiller-Gedächtnispreis des

Landes Baden-Württemberg

2002: Österreichischer Staatspreis

für Europäische Literatur

2000: Solothurner Literaturpreis

1998: Peter-Weiss-Preis der Stadt

Bochum

Selected Backlist:

Glückskind mit Vater (2016)

International Sales: Arabic world

rights (Sefsafa), France (Métailié),

Italy (e/o), Denmark (Gyldendal),

Bulgaria (Atlantis), Estonia

(Grenader); Domestic Rights Sales:

German Audiobook (DAV), German

Entire Radio Reading (MDR)

Christoph HeinTrutz

A brilliant chronicle of the lives of two families in 20th century Germany and Rus-sia. The futile hope for an existence beyond misery and slavery. Encompassing an enti-re century, reflecting an entire century.

Trutz is a 20th century novel, the one written by novelist Rainer Trutz and the one written by Waldemar Gejm, a professor for mathematics and linguistics at Moscow’s Lomonosov University who has developed a new field of research: the mnemonic technique, or in other words, the teaching of origins and the function of memory. Official party control of thought in state positions in the coming years, however, will become Trutz’s as well as Gejm’s downfall: having fled the Nazis for Russia, the German will run into trouble with the Party and be interred in a labour camp. The back-and-forth of comrade Stalin’s politics will also lead to Gejm’s deportation and eventual death. Only the two sons, Maykl Trutz and Rem Gejm, close friends from early childhood, survive and meet each other again decades later after the fall of the Wall. And yet, the very century that would not have to rely on state-sanctioned memory works unceasingly to extinguish memory.

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One of the biggest authors of contemporary German literature.

Robert MenasseThe Capital

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Robert MenasseThe CapitalNovel(Original title: Die Hauptstadt. Roman)459 pagesClothbound Release: September 2017

International Sales: UK & Commonwealth (Ma-cLehose Press), Spanish (Seix Barral), Chinese sim-plex rights (People‘s Lite-rature Publishing House), Russia (Text), Portugal (Dom Quixote), France (Verdier), Italy (Sellerio), Netherlands (Arbeiders-pers), Sweden (Weyler), Poland (Oficyna Literacka Noir sur Blanc), Czech Republic (Plus), Hungary (Geopen), Bulgaria (Lege Artis), Lithuania (Tyto Alba), Croatia (Fraktura), Serbia (Arhipelag), Slove-nia (Cankarjeva Zalożba), Turkey (Alfa/Everest), Greece (Patakis), Geor-gia (Intelekti), Armenia (Antares); Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Der Hörverlag), German Bookclub (Büchergilde Gutenberg)

Robert Menasse was born in

1954 in Vienna where he still

lives today. One of the most well

known novelists and essayists in

contemporary Austrian literature,

his novels, stories and essays have

been translated into more than 25

languages.

Brussels. Fenia Xenapoulou is facing a career setback. She has been »promoted« to the Department of Culture by the Directorate General – no budget, no power, no reputation. So the »Big Jubilee Project« comes just at the right time for her: she is to revamp the boring image of the European Commission.Her Austrian assistant Martin Susmann suggests proclaiming Auschwitz as the birthplace of the European Commission. Fenia is thrilled, but she didn’t take the other European nations into account. Austria: a Polish camp could not be misused to question the Austrian nation. Poland: Auschwitz is a German problem. Germany: Islam, by now a part of Germany, had nothing to do with Auschwitz. What’s more, Fenia can’t count on David de Vriend, one of the last living witnesses, any longer: he runs to the metro station Maalbeek at the wrong time.Inspector Brunfaut is in a difficult situation as well. He is supposed to leave a murder case covered up at the highest level at rest. But luckily he is friends with the chief computer scientists of the Brussels Police Department, who can gain access to the secret files of the public prosecutor‘s office. Matek, the Polish hitman, knows nothing of this when he makes his escape. But he does know that he shot the wrong guy. That’s not nothing to Matek. He would rather have become ordained a priest; the fact that he had to follow his father’s and grandfather’s footsteps in becoming a “soldier of Christ”, doesn’t really make him happy. And yes, there are others who are unhappy as well: the pig farmers who take to the streets with pitchforks in protest of the existing trade restrictions blocking the profitable export of pigs’ ears to China.

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The great European novelRobert Menasse’s Testament

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Brussels. A panorama of tragic heroes, manipulative losers, involuntary accomplices. In his new novel, Robert Menasse spans a narrative arc between the times, the nations, the inevitable and the irony of fate, between petty bureaucracy and big emotions.

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»This is an elegantly written, fabulously constructed, very witty and thoughtful novel.« Die Zeit

»More than practically anyone else in German-language literature, Menasse has made the history of Europe his subject.« Paul Jandl, Neue Zürcher Zeitung

»Menasse is a storyteller and polemic, a clear thinker on history, and a visionary who, before giving free rein, checks his facts. And he is seductive, lending conviction through the strength of his language.« Anton Thuswalder, Salzburger Nachrichten

»The committed intellectual reveals himself here to be an uncompromising, even passionate storyteller, […] who handles his material so masterfully (that due to the lightness of touch one actually forgets the complexity of the constellations of characters so that after nearly five hundred pages [the reader] is astonished that the novel is already at an end.) Skilfully and with great wit Menasse shows time and again {…} how swiftly the private can slide into the political, and indeed just how political the private self is.« Tobias Lehmkuhl, Süddeutsche Zeitung

»Depicting the milieu of Brussels bureaucrats poses no difficulties. On the contrary, it is tremendously successful.« Jochen Hieber, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

»Robert Menasse’s great EU novel is a passionate plea…« Harald Jähner, Frankfurter Rundschau

»Writers such as Robert Menasse should be listened to more closely and politicians should at last forge links again with such intellectuals.« Björn Hayer, Spiegel Online

»Menasse’s novel Die Haupstadt (‘The Capital’) is a pleasurable reading experience...« Carsten Otte, SWR2 Zeitgenossen

A Spiegel Bestseller with 150.000 copies sold

Melinda Nadj AbonjiTortoise SoldierNovel(Original title: Schildkrötensoldat. Roman)173 pagesClothbound Release: October 2017

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Melinda Nadj Abonji was born

in 1968 in Becsej, Serbia. At the

beginning of the 1970s she moved

to Switzerland with her family. She

lives as an author and musician in

Zürich. She was awarded both the

German and Swiss Book Prize for

her 2010 novel Tauben fliegen auf

(Fly Away, Pigeon).

Selected Backlist:

Tauben fliegen auf (Jung & Jung,

2010) International Sales: English

world rights (Seagull), Spanish

world rights (El Aleph), Chinese

simplex rights (Shanghai Translation

Publishing House) Russia (Text),

France (Métailié), Italy (Voland),

Netherlands (Van Gennep), Sweden

(Nordstedts), Finland (Lurra), Poland

(Czarne), Czech Republic (Jota),

Hungary (Magvetö), Serbia (Laguna),

Slovenia (Cankarjeva Zalozba),

Bosnia (Connectum), Turkey (Ayrinti

Yayinlari), Macedonia (Goten),

Ukraine (Komora), Armenia (Zangak)

Melinda Nadj AbonjiTortoise Soldier

Zoltan Kertesz, blue-eyed son of a “half gypsy” and a day labourer with constantly changing lovers, is the outsider of his little town in Serbia. When a child, the baker he was working for beat Zoltan bloody, and later he fell off the back of his father’s speeding motorcycle. Ever since he has suffered “a fluttering of the temples”, and is happiest sitting in his barn doing crossword puzzles. When the Yugoslavian civil war breaks out in 1991, his parents see it as his big chance: in the People’s Army the “idiot” will become a man and then a hero. But Zoltan doesn’t fit in, he asks the wrong questions and, on top of it all, stutters when he does. After his only friend’s collapse on a pointless training march turns out to be fatal, Zoltan refuses to play the game anymore with a system that has given all the power to the strongest.

Through pulsating, musical language and vivid images that evoke the power of the wild and winglike nature of thought, in Tortoise Soldier Melinda Nadj Abonji tells the story of the soft resistance imagination establishes against the restrictions of a sys-tem which recognises only commands, obe-dience, and submission.

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The new novel by German Book Prize and Swiss Book Prize Winner 2010 (Fly away, Pigeon, translated into 13 languages)

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»I could have become something in the army, a man or a hero or both, but in the end I didn’t become

either, just a dullard, a lackey, an idiotic boot licker, a THUG a GOOD-FOR-NOTHING.«

»This is not the language of someone who has simply made do. This is the eloquence of someone

taking full possession of language itself.« Verena Mayer, Der Tagesspiegel

Marion PoschmannThe Pine IslandsNovel(Original title: Die Kieferninseln. Roman)168 pagesClothbound Release: September 2017

International Sales: English world rights (Serpent’s Tail), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Estação Liberdade), France (Stock), Italy (Bompiani), Nether-lands (Ambo|Anthos), Sweden (Norstedts), Czech Republic (Paseka); Dome-stic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (steinbach sprechende bücher)

Marion Poschmann, born in 1969

in Essen, studied German Studies,

Philosophy, and Slavic Studies and

currently lives in Berlin. She writes

prose, poetry, and essays.

Recent Prizes and Awards:2017 German Book Prize Longlist

2017 Düsseldorfer Literaturpreis

2017 German Prize for Nature

Writing

2016 Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair

Nominee

2014 Residential Grant of Villa Ka-

mogawa, Japan (Goethe Institute)

2013 German Book Prize Shortlist

2013 Wilhelm-Raabe-Literary Award

2012 New York residential grant by

Deutscher Literaturfonds

2011 Ernst-Meister-Prize for Poetry

2011 Peter-Huchel-Prize

Selected Backlist:

Geliehene Landschaften (2016)

Die Sonnenposition (2013)

Marion PoschmannThe Pine Islands

Gilbert Silvester, a lecturer and researcher on beard fashions in film, is in shock. The previous night he dreamt that his wife was cheating on him. In one sudden, irrational act he leaves her, gets on the first available plane, and flies to Japan in order to get some distance. Once there he comes across the travelogues of the classical poet Bashō. Suddenly Gilbert has a goal: like all wandering monks he too wants to see the moon over the pine islands. On the tradition-steeped pilgrims’ route he’ll be able to lose himself in nature and leave his inner turmoil behind. But before he even begins he meets the student Yosa, himself on the way with a completely different kind of guide: the Complete Manual of Suicide. Will Gilbert be able to talk Yosa out of his plan? And what metamorphoses will Gilbert the coffee drinker go through himself in the Land of Tea…?

The Pine Islands is a novel of masterful lightness: profound, humorous, and exciting, it goes straight to the heart.

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Shortlisted for the German Book Prize 2017A Spiegel Bestseller with 30.000 copies sold

»[A] masterpiece. […] astonishing, how perfectly Poschmann is able to transform her aesthetic credo into art. It is the reason she has become a central figure in German contemporary literature through her poems and novels.« Alexander Cammann, Die Zeit

»[A] finely crafted novel of filigree-like tracery. It is not only clever […], it is also imbued with a jovial serenity.« Tobias Lehmkuhl, SZ

»Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine« Matsuo Bashō

Doron Rabinovici ExtraterrestialsNovel(Original title: Die Außerirdischen. Roman)255 pagesClothboundRelease: August 2017

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Doron Rabinovici, writer, essayist,

historian, born in 1961 in Tel Aviv.

He lives in Vienna since 1964

and has been awarded numerous

literature prizes, most recently the

Clemens-Brentano-Prize and the

Jean-Améry-Prize, both in 2002.

Selected Backlist:

Andernorts (2010), International

Sales: English world rights (Haus

Publishing), Italy (La Giuntina), Czech

Republic (Archa), Bulgaria (Elias

Canetti Society)

Ohnehin (2004) International Sales:

Bulgaria (Maga Welding)

Suche nach M. (1997), International

Sales: English world rights (Ariadne),

France (Denoel), Italy (La Giuntina),

Bulgaria (Elias Canetti Society),

Israel (Zmora Bitan)

Doron RabinoviciExtraterrestials

The news broadcast one morning by all stations is alarming: an extraterrestrial power has conquered the world overnight. Sol, co-founder of an online magazine, is immediately convinced by the validity of the news item, his wife Astrid is skeptical. After the first global panic has subsided, updates transpire: The aliens are docile; shyly, they avoid all contact; they bring prosperity and peace. There’s just one small catch – they are asking for humans volunteering to be sacrifices. Games are hosted all around in order to determine the chosen ones. Participants are promised huge financial advantages.With a quickly established talk show, Sol’s online magazine is up and close to the events. But when Sol’s young neighbor Elliot volunteers for the games, Sol and Astrid are put to the test. And the questions become urgent: Who shares the blame, who profits, who revolts? With his unique verve and irony, Doron Ra-binovici, master of the »finely tuned game of exaggeration« (FAZ), depicts a society that doesn’t need to see aliens to become spooked by itself.

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Longlisted for the Austrian Book Prize 2017

Ralf RothmannTo Die in SpringNovel(Original German title: Im Frühling sterben)234 pagesClothboundRelease: June 2015

Complete English edition available

International Sales: English world rights (Picador UK; USA/Canada sublicense: FSG), Spanish world rights (Libros del Asteroide), Catalan rights (L’Altra Editorial), Portuguese rights (Sextante Editora), France (Denoël), Italy (Neri Pozza), Netherlands (Arbeiderspers), Denmark (Rosinante), Sweden (Thorén & Lindskog), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Finland (Atena), Poland (W.A.B.), Czech Republic (Argo), Slovak Republic (Premedia), Hungary (Magvetö), Bulgaria (Atlantis), Romania (ART), Estonia (Hea Lugu), Croatia (Fraktura), Serbia (Laguna), Slovenia (Goga), Turkey (Yapi Kredi), Greece (Kastaniotis), Macedonia (ArtConnect), Kosovo / Albanian world rights (Buzuku); Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Hörbuch Hamburg), German Entire Radio Reading (NDR)

Ralf RothmannTo Die in Spring

»The haunting portrayal of conflict and carnage in the final weeks of the second world war makes this German novel a modern classic […]. The boys are plunged from childhood into the abyss and this remarkable work charts a most terrible coming of age […]. The central relationship is tenderly rendered, and what the war does to it is devastating […]. In this, as in so much, the novel holds its own against Grass and Remarque; it is an excellent work, and one deserving of its wide readership.« Rachel Seiffert, Guardian

»A Bosch-like vision of hell […]. The horror of war and the deep damage it does to people […]. is not always handled as well, or as powerfully, as this.« David Mills, The Sunday Times

»Pressed into military service in the final days of WWII, a young German farmhand finds himself in a nightmare world of cruelty and desperation […]. Rothmann’s prose lingers plaintively on images of suffering animals and devastated buildings but avoids sentimentality about all that is damaged […]. The result is a quietly unsettling triumph.« Brendan Driscoll, Booklist

»[A] brilliant novel from German author Rothmann […]. Spare and elegant, [it] paints a quietly harrowing picture of the lasting effects of human violence and offers brief, poignant glimpses into the natural world […]. Directly confronting issues of responsibility, accountability, and legacy, this is an undeniably powerful work.« Publishers Weekly

»Rothmann›s writing is spare and vivid, nearly cinematic. It is also crucial: German accounts of WWII have been relatively rare and slow in coming, especially when it comes to descriptions of their country›s own suffering. Rothmann is unflinching in his accounts of both German atrocities and misery […]. A spectacular novel […]. Searing, haunting, incandescent: Rothmann’s new novel is a vital addition to the trove of wartime fiction.« Kirkus Reviews

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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: Premio San Clemente 2017, Kleist

Preis 2017, Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis 2013,

Hans-Fallada-Preis 2008, Literaturpreis der

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung 2008, Max-Frisch-

Preis 2006, Heinrich-Böll-Preis 2005,

Wilhelm Raabe Literaturpreis 2004

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»The best novel about the end of the Second World War in years, and a beautiful anti-war tale of universal importance.« El País

»With her sensitive look onto a brutal present and

her biographical look backwards, Salzmann is possibly the German

playwright of the times.«Detlev Baur, Die Deutsche Bühne

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Sasha Marianna SalzmannBeside YourselfNovel(Original title: Außer sich. Roman)366 pagesClothboundRelease: September 2017

International Sales: English world rights (Text), Spanish world rights (Seix Barral), Catalan rights (Més Llibres), Portugal (Dom Quixote), France (Grasset), Italy (Marsilio Editore), Netherlands (Atlas/Contact), Denmark (People’s Press), Sweden (Weyler), Poland (Prószyński), Hungary (Fekete Sas), Greece (Patakis), Israel (Matar)

Sasha Marianna Salzmann was

born in Volgograd in 1985 and

grew up in Moscow. In 1995,

she emigrated with her family to

Germany, studied Literature, Theatre

and Media at the University of

Hildesheim, and Creative Writing for

the Stage at the Berlin University

of the Arts. Since 2013, Salzmann

has been an in-house writer for

the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin.

During her stay in Istanbul as fellow

of the Tarabya Cultural Academy

2012/13, Sasha Marianna Salzmann

began writing her debut novel Beside

Yourself, which she completed in

the following years and during her

regular stays in Turkey.

Sasha Marianna SalzmannBeside Yourself

There’s the two of them, since the beginning, twins Alissa and Anton. In the small two-bedroom apartment in Moscow during the post-Soviet years, they dig their fingers into each other’s curls when their parents are fighting. Later, in the Western German countryside, they roam the hallways of the asylum home, steal cigarettes from other families’ rooms and smell their perfume bottles. And later still, when Alissa has already dropped out of her mathematics degree at university because it’s keeping her from her boxing training, Anton disappears without a trace. Eventually, a postcard arrives from Istanbul — no text, no return address. Alissa sets out on a search in the shimmering, torn city by the Bosporus and within her own family history — looking for her missing brother, but most of all, searching for the feeling of belonging that isn’t connected to one’s native country, mother tongue, or gender.The novel tells the story of the past century, along with all its secondary effects palpable in the new millennium. It tells the story of a family across four generations, a story of latent and undisguised antisemitism in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet era; it tells a story of migration and the shattered hopes for a better life, both in the native country and the foreign one. This is a novel about a young generation with a so-called migrant background that doesn’t know what to make of a term like »home country«, but that still deals with the question of belonging somewhere and with a notion of identity that is deemed questionable; it’s a novel about searching — for a missing brother, for fragments of a family history, for support, for an answer to the question: who’s to tell you who you are?The novel sets in at the beginning of the 20th century in Odessa, leads from stops in Chernivtsi, Volgograd, and Moscow to Berlin and ends in Istanbul in July of 2016, in the days of a quickly failing coup d’état attempt.

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Shortlisted for the German Book Prize 2017Literary Prize of the Jürgen Ponto-Stiftung 2017Shortlisted for the ZDF-“aspekte”-Literaturpreis 2017

In her debut novel Beside Yourself, Sasha Marianna Salzmann explores this question and tells of the unquen-chable yearning for life itself and its challenging immensity. Intense, un-compromising, and political in the best sense.

»Beside Yourself is a young book and an incredible mark

of contemporary storytelling.«

Hubert Winkels, Süddeutsche Zeitung

Serhij ZhadanThe OrphanageNovel(Original title: Інтернат, forthcoming in Fall 2017 by Meridian Czernowitz, Chernivtsi)(Translated German title: Internat)approx. 270 pagesClothbound Release of the German edition by Suhrkamp: Spring 2018English sample available

International Sales:France (Noir sur Blanc), Poland (Czarne), Romanian rights (Cartier), Georgia (Intelekti)

Selected Backlist:

Mesopotamia (Klub simejnogo

dozvillja, 2014) (German:

Mesopotamien) International

Sales: English world rights (Yale

UP), France (Noir sur Blanc), Italy

(Voland), Denmark (Jensen &

Dalgaard), Norway (Pax), Poland

(Czarne), Latvia (Janis Roze),

Georgia (Intelekti)

Voroshilovgrad (Folio, 2010)

(German: Die Erfindung des Jazz

im Donbass) International Sales:

English world rights (Deep Vellum),

Russia (Astrel), Arabic world

rights (Here & There), France

(Noir sur Blanc), Italy (Voland),

Netherlands (De Geus), Poland

(Czarne), Hungary (Europa), Bulgaria

(Paradox), Republic of Moldova /

Romanian rights (Cartier), Latvia

(Janis Roze), Slovenia (Beletrina),

Belarus (Logvinau), Georgia

(Intelekti)

Serhij ZhadanThe Orphanage

The novel takes place in an urban environment in the southeast of Ukraine and is concerned with the more than three-year-long fight between the Ukrainian army and voluntary associations on the one side and pro-Russian separatists on the other. However, no underlying ideological accusations of guilt are dealt out. The book has to do with the pointlessness of war in the face of death, the physical and spiritual wounding of soldiers and civilians, and the destruction of both cities and the land itself. Despite all the disorientation this war brings out in those living in the region, in this novel the will to live is paramount.

Pavel, an apolitical conformist and middle-aged Ukrainian teacher, steps over the front line in order to take his difficult nephew Sascha out of a boarding school, and, in so doing, unwittingly steps into the middle of combat. The two must make their way through a devastated land in order to—metaphorically and quite literally—make their way home. The trip turns into a struggle for survival in an apocalyptic landscape and a metaphor for the search for self, or rather, those processes by means of which one finds oneself.

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»My books are apolitical, but somehow they’re always unlucky enough to have politics catch up with them.« Serhij Zhadan

»More, perhaps, than any other writer from the post-Soviet era, Serhij Zhadan speaks to this experience of national and personal upheaval […] Zhadan gives us a flâneur’s perspective on post-Soviet urban life, with its ruined socialist architecture, industrial wastelands, petty crime and violence. The absurdity of the clash of socialist and Western culture is also sharply observed.« The Times Literary Supplement

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Serhij Zhadan was born in 1974 near Luhansk in Eastern Ukraine, and studied German Studies at Kharkiv University. Since 1991 he has been one of the leading writers of Kharkiv’s literary scene and has developed into one of the most important and renowned contemporary Ukrainian intellectuals. Zhadan’s works achieve their cult status by portraying the daily struggles of a generation in the throes of political and social change, and by bearing witness to revolutionary times through the eyes of Ukraine’s dispossessed and disenfranchised youth. His strong and unique style – dubbed »verbal jazz« by critics – and his ability to »transfer global culture to the Ukrainian context not only by picking elements of popular culture but by remixing and reconfiguring them« make him »the leading poet of the post-independence generation.« (World Literature Today)In addition to being a brilliant poet and political and social activist, Zhadan is also a musician who tours Europe with his band ›Dogs in Space‹ (Sobaky v Kosmose), a colourful and energetic group playing »political punk with a Ska influence«.

Prizes and Awards (selection)

For Mesopotamia:ANGELUS Literary Award 2015 (Poland)

For Voroshilovgrad:BBC Ukraine Book Of The Year 2010BBC Ukraine Book Of The Decade 2014Brücke Berlin Prize for Literature and Translations 2014

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»Zhadan places his words – tender, painfully sweet, brash – with a delicate sense for melody and association.« Die Zeit

Academic Non-Fiction

Literary Theory

Hans BlumenbergWritings on Literature 1945-1958

Hans BlumenbergWritings on Literature 1945-1958 Edited by Alexander Schmitz and Bernd Stiegler (Original title: Schriften zur Literatur 1945-1958)370 pages ClothboundRelease: April 2017

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Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996)

was professor for Philosophy at the

University of Münster. His works

have been translated into over

thirty languages. His influence on

contemporary philosophy is growing.

Blumenberg’s works are translated

into 25 languages.

Selected Backlist:

Präfiguration (2014) International

Sales: Italy (Morcelliana), France

(Seuil)

Quellen, Ströme, Eisberge (2012)

International Sales: Spanish world

rights (Fondo de Cultura Economica)

Löwen (2010) International Sales:

English world rights (Seagull), France

(Klincksieck)

Schiffbruch mit Zuschauer (1993)

International Sales: English world

rights (MIT Press), Spanish world

rights (A. Machado Libros - published,

rights reverted), France (L’Arche), Italy

(Il Mulino - published, rights reverted),

Netherlands (Historische Uitgeverij

- published, rights reverted), Korea

(Saemulgyul), Japan (Tetsugako

Shobo - published, rights reverted),

Hungary (Atlantisz), Turkey (Dost -

published, rights reverted), Greece

(Antipodes), Israel (Shalem Press)

Long awaited and now available from the es-tate: Hans Blumenberg’s reviews, talks and lectures on international literature: Dostoy-evsky, Sartre, Greene, Kafka, Jünger, Faulk-ner, Robbe-Grillet and many others. »Although the laws of the last twelve years have made impossible any journalistic expression whatsoever in the same way as they have made impossible the finishing of his philosophical studies at university, the undersigned does not possess the ambition to see himself published no matter what the cost.«So wrote 25-year-old Hans Blumenberg to the Insel Verlag in November 1945 while enclosing an essay on Dostoyevsky’s novel »A Gentle Creature«, the publication of which excited him greatly. Though his essay was not to be published in his lifetime, it now opens a collection of Blumenberg’s texts on literature. In reviews, talks and lectures the author examines German-language and international literature while also writing about the, at that time, new fashions of paperbacks, guidebooks and comics. Moving between literature and philosophy, his subtle texts also consider existential questions. These are texts of timeless splendour, which, at the same time, allow the immediate post-war period to be seen as if through a magnifying glass.

Didier FassinLife

Didier FassinLifeA Critical User’s ManualFrankfurt Adorno Lectures 2016(German translated title: Das Leben. Eine kritische Gebrauchsanweisung)191 pagesClothbound Release of the German edition by Suhrkamp: Release: October 2017Release of the French edition under the title La Vie. Mode d’emploi critique by Le Seuil: 2018

International Rights Sales: English world rights (Poli-ty), Italy (Feltrinelli)

Didier Fassin, born in 1955, is

James D. Wolfensohn Professor of

Social Science at the Institute for

Advanced Study in Princeton and

Director of Studies at the École

des Hautes Études en Sciences

Sociales in Paris. He was previously

vice president of Doctors Without

Borders and is presently president

of Comité Médical pour les Exilés

(COMEDE). He has received

numerous prizes and awards for

his work, and in 2016 the gold

medal of the Swedish Society for

Anthropology and Geography.

Since antiquity, life, in Adorno’s words, has been the true field of philosophy asking about what the right and good life was. For a little more than a century, however, life has also become a subject of the social sciences. The renowned French physician, anthropo-logist, and sociologist Didier Fassin propo-ses a critical dialogue between philosophy and social research.

The debate has to do with three concepts: in »Forms of Life« Fassin examines the contradictory interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s same phrase. In »Ethics of Life« he is concerned with Walter Benjamin’s idea of the sanctity of life as the highest good. And in »Politics of Life« Didier Fassin follows up on Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics. Based on numerous ethnographic case studies showing how life is viewed and experienced in various cultural and historical contexts, Fassin develops a critical ethnology of contemporary societies.

A philosophical ethnography of life

Philosophy / Social Sciences

Daniel Martin FeigeDesign

Philosophy

A philosophical analysis

Daniel Martin FeigeDesignA philosophical analysis(Original title: Design. Eine philosophische Analyse)approx. 250 pagesPaperback Release: February 2018

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Daniel Martin Feige is junior

Professor of Philosophy and

Aesthetics with particular focus on

design at Staatliche Akademie der

Bildenden Künste Stuttgart.

Selected Backlist:

Computerspiele (2015)

Philosophie des Jazz (2014)

International Sales: Turkey (Dost)

Daniel Martin FeigeDesign

Eine philosophische

Analysesuhrkamp taschenbuch

wissenschaft

Whether furniture, hoardings, websites, clothing, pictograms, cars, or urban spaces: design is omnipresent. Only in philosophy has it up until now not received (almost) any consideration. Daniel Martin Feige closes this gap by presenting a series of basic concepts that have to do with design, and presents design as an aesthetic praxis with its own rules. According to his thesis, in the praxis of design, function also becomes aesthetic. This book is a contribution to a philosophy of design as much as it is an introduction to philosophical thought for designers and those interested in design in general.

»A terrific book […] a pleasant tour d‘horizon […]

beautifully light-footed« Tilman Allert, Die literarische Welt

Hans JoasThe Power of the Sacred

Hans JoasThe Power of the SaintAn Alternative History of Disenchantment(Original German title: Die Macht des Heiligen. Eine Alternative Geschichte der Entzauberung)527 pagesClothbound Release: October 2017

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by the author)

Hans Joas is a sociologist and social

philosopher. He is an associative

member of the Max Weber Kolleg,

a Permanent Fellow of the Freiburg

Institute for Advanced Studies

(FRIAS), School of History, and

Professor for Sociology and member

of the Committee on Social Thought

at the University of Chicago.

Selected Backlist:

Die Sakralität der Person (2001)

International Sales: Spanish rights

Latin America (UNSAM Edita),

Chinese simplex rights (SPPH),

Brazilian Portuguese rights (UNESP),

France (Labor et Fides), Italy (Franco

Angeli), Croatia (Breza)

Die Entstehung der Werte (1999)

The Power of the Saint is the attempt to demystify »disenchantment«. In order to do so, Hans Joas has dedicated himself to exemplary cases of scientific engagement with religion since the 18th century. In a direct confrontation with Weber, he develops the outline of a theory that can satisfy religion’s potential to support existing power structures as well as critique them.

In place of a view of history as an inexorab-le, progressive process of disenchantment, Joas posits the idea of a field of tension bet-ween dynamics of sacralisation, its refle-xive breaking apart, and the dangers of its assimilation into processes of the building up of power structures. This includes chal-lenges – for believers as well as for secular spirits.

»Disenchantment« is a key concept in the self-image of the modern. But what is it

really about? What did Max Weber specifically mean?

And are his canonical ideas tenable at all, or rather: are

there no alternatives?

An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment

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Sociology

Niklas LuhmannA Systems Theory of SocietyEdited by Johannes Schmidt and André Kieserling in collaboration with Christoph Gesigora(Original German title: Systemtheorie der Gesellschaft)approx. 1.115 pagesClothbound Release: December 2017

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Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998)

was Professor for Sociology at the

University of Bielefeld.

Niklas Luhmann’s 90th birthday: 8 December 2017

Selected Backlist:

Liebe (2008) International Sales:

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rights Latin America (Prometeo),

Chinese complex rights (Wu-Nan

Books), France (Diaphanes), Italy

(Einaudi), Korea (Theorie Publishing),

Serbia (Karpos), Turkey (Edebi)

Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft (1998) International Sales: English

world rights (Stanford UP), Spanish

world rights (Herder), Chinese

Simplex rights (China Legal), Russia

(Logos - published, rights reverted),

Italy (Giuffre), Denmark (Reitzels),

Korea (Saemulgyul), Japan (Hosei

UP), Croatia (Naklada Breza -

published, rights reverted)

Niklas LuhmannA Systems Theory of Society

»Theme: theory of society; duration: 30 years; costs: none« – so ran Niklas Luhman’s infamous answer at the end of the 1960s in regard to his research project. The schedule was kept: in 1997 The Society of Society, Luhmann’s magnum opus and the key element of the project, was published.

As important as this work is, its background is also remarkable. For, as the sociologist’s unpublished writings show, over the course of decades he had written many polished and stand-alone versions of his theory of society that were ready for publication. In 1975 he brought to a close the first of these on almost one thousand typescript pages.

It is without a doubt the most sociologically comprehensive version of a global theory of society that emerged from Luhmann’s unique research project, and now it is being published for the very first time under the title A Systems Theory of Society.

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»If our society had to agree upon a symbol, it would most likely not be

a sphere, a cross, or a line, but the dizzying exponential curve.«

The making of … Systems theory

Sociology

Cultural Theory

To whom does my life belong?

Thomas MachoTo Take One’s Own LifeSuicide in Modernity(Original title: Das Leben nehmen. Suizid in der Moderne)532 pagesClothbound Release: September 2017

International Sales: Brazilian Portuguese Rights (WMF Martins Fontes)

Thomas Macho, born in 1952, was

Professor for Cultural History at

the Humboldt University of Berlin

from 1993 to 2016. At present he

is the director of the International

Research Center for Cultural Studies

(IFK) in Vienna.

»Suicide«, Walter Benjamin wrote in his Ar-cades Project, appears »as the quintessence of modernity«. And, indeed, after having been seen for centuries as a sin or the ex-pression of psychic disturbance, in some countries even criminally sanctioned, since the 20th century there has been a profound change in how suicide is viewed and this in turn has led to the emergence of a new culture of death. More and more often one’s own death is regarded as a “project” for which he or she is responsible. Those who take their own lives no longer simply desire to do away with them, but to take hold of them and give them new meaning.

Thomas Macho tells the multifaceted history of suicide in modernity and sketches its revaluation across various cultural fields: in politics (suicide as protest and assassination), in law (the decriminalization of suicide), in medicine (euthanasia) as well as in philosophy, art, and media. He goes back to the cultural roots of suicide, reads diaries, watches films, looks at works of art, studies actual case histories, and in particular shows which resonance effects are produced among suicide’s various motifs. His diagnosis: We live in times that are increasingly interested in suicide.

Thomas MachoTo Take One’s Own Life

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Steffen MauThe Metric WeOn the Quantification of the Social

Steffen MauThe Metric We. On the Quantification of the Social(Original title: Das metrische Wir. Über die Quantifizierung des Sozialen)308 pagesSoftcoverRelease: June 2017

International Sales: English world rights (Polity)

Steffen Mau, born in 1968, is

Professor for Macrosociology at the

Humboldt University of Berlin.

Selected Backlist:

Lebenschancen. Wohin driftet die Mittelschicht? (2012)

(Un-)Gerechte (Un-)Gleichheiten (2015, edited together with Nadine

M. Schöneck)

Whether education, health or consumption: by now, data is gathered on almost every aspect of our personalities and behaviour. Step by step we are becoming a society of stars, scores, likes and lists in which everything and everyone is constantly measured and rated.This begins with the yearly ranking of secondary schools, spans across the quantified-self movements of fitness-obsessed urbanites who compare their best times with one another over the Internet and extends to the rating of the efficiency of political measures. Steffen Mau examines the techniques of this new sociometry and highlights its consequences. The rating systems of the qualified society, so his central idea, not only illustrate the world’s inequalities, but are also crucial factors in the allocation of people’s life chances.

»Quantification is a megatrend, which is restructuring the social down to the smallest branches.«

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Modern History

From Juvenile Delinquency to Pop Culture: A Transnational History

Bodo MrozekYouth, Rock, and RiotsFrom Juvenile Delinquency to Pop Culture: A Transnational History (Original title: Jugend. Pop. Kultur. Eine transnationale Geschichte)approx. 700 pagesPaperbackRelease: December 2017

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Bodo Mrozek is a Historian at

the Center for Contemporary

History in Potsdam (Zentrum für

Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam

– ZZF) and teaches history and

popular music studies at various

universities in Berlin. He was a

visiting scholar Columbia University

in New York, Lindsay Boynton

Fellow at the University of London

(Queen Mary), chercheur invitée

at the Université de Versailles

Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines as well

as scholar at the German Historical

Institutes in Washington, D.C.,

London and Paris. He regularly

writes for national newspapers

(Die Zeit, FAZ) and frequently gave

interviews for English and French-

language media like Arte, BBC, NPR

and CNN.

Bodo MrozekJugend

PopKulturEine transnationale

Geschichtesuhrkamp taschenbuch

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Clamorous sounds, unruly behavior, and colorful fashions: the sonic vocabulary used by contemporaries to describe the new youth scene in the mid-20th century mark a cultural dividing point. Aesthetic conflicts culminated in street riots and produced police measures, censorship, and laws. Spectacular court cases against youths led to negative social clichés of male urban youth: the American juvenile delinquent, the British teddy boy, the French blouson noir and the German halbstarke.Under the pressure of new formats like DJ radio, European radio broadcasters, first and foremost the BBC, hesitantly opened up to new content. New kinds of youth and music magazines influenced pop-specific semantics. Like cinema, these media played an important role in the international expansion of new youth styles: hipsters, existentialists and beatnik, mods, and hippies presented alternatives to national youth ideals. However, images of race, class, and gender were also negotiated controversially in their body images, fashions, hairstyles and language codes.In his comprehensive pop cultural history, Bodo Mrozek describes a profound transformation that took place in the fifties and sixties, and also influenced adult society: what was still combated as delinquent youth in 1956, was already considered the epitome of urban culture under the seal of pop. This uneven decade could be considered a »saddle period« of pop history.Containing numerous illustrations, this book is systematically conceived in a transnational way: its material comes from more than five countries including audiovisual media, but most of all, archive sources. The study encompasses Great Britain, France, the US as well as both East and West Germany. In particular, the drastic criminalization of pop culture in Socialist states is reconstructed using the example of the GDR.In addition, nations from the Southern Hemisphere are tied in through digressions.

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Deeply informed by theory, the gripping book by the historian and bestselling author could become a standard reference: it offers the first decisive transnational history of pop culture and simultaneously impressively depicts the beginnings of globalized cultural industry, as we know it today.

Angelika NeuwirthThe Quran

The QuranVolume 2/1: Early Middle Meccan Suras. The new People of God: >Biblisation< of the old Arabian worldviewAnnotated with translation by Angelika Neuwirth(Original title: Frühmittelmekkanische Suren. Das neue Gottesvolk: >Biblisierung< des altarabischen Weltbildes) 708 pagesClothboundPublished by Verlag der WeltreligionenRelease: May 2017

International Sales: English world rights (Yale University Press)

Is the Quran a purely Islamic text and therefore foreign to us? Or is it not rather a new and unconventional voice in the concert of late antiquity debates in which the theological foundations of the Jewish and Christian religion were also laid down? It is not the Quran that must be reshaped as a result of new ma-nuscript findings or with the help of lin-guistic experiments – it is our perspec-tive of the Quran that needs to undergo a decisive change, if we wish to seek out its revolutionary originality. Internationally renowned Arabist Angelika Neuwirth has created her Quran translation in five volumes. The volume in question focuses on the Suras of the Middle Meccan era. Angelika Neuwirth’s approaches the text of the Quran with the historic-critical methodology. Her strategy therefore corresponds to the scientific handling of the bible, as established since The Enlightenment. Specifically, this means that the editor deals with the Suras in the chronological order of their propagation, as widely assumed since the 19th century. This approach makes it possible to trace the development of the topics of propagation, the establishment of a community, the organisation of a Muslim practice of piety etc. The historical-critical methodology instruments used by western philologists on the Quran specifically consists of: text criticism (the issue of the oldest text), literary criticism (identification of later additions to the oldest Suras) and history of tradition (in particular the question of ‘Inter texts’, which allow the collective knowledge background from annunciator and his first audience to be reconstructed and therefore

enables a historic understanding of the original message). Angelika Neuwirth’s approach is a research-historical milestone: The consequential historical-critical interpretation of the Quran ranks it together with the tradition that began in The Enlightenment of critical text analysis, as applied initially to Biblical Sciences and later to Judaic Studies and also to the ‘Holy Books’ of Christianity and Judaism. In a comparable manner, Quran Sciences are now becoming dialogue-worthy within the framework of academic studies of canonical books in Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

Annotated by Angelika Neuwirth

Religious Studies

»The Arabist Angelika Neuwirth continues with her great Quran commentary and carries out the urgently required fundamental research.« Dirk Pilz, Frankfurter Rundschau

»As far as richness of material and the range of the philological insights that have been brought together are concerned, this annotation surpasses all comparable works in a European language.« Tilman Nagel, Neue Zürcher Zeitung

»With Angelika Neuwirth, the Koran has been freed of its late Islamic tradition and the process of its development has become visible […] The achievement of this approach consists of […] re-organizing all the myths and misunderstandings that have crept into interpretations of the Koran over the course of the centuries on the part of Muslims as much as scholars of Islamic studies […] this book will certainly define ongoing Islamic studies and the discussion on the right interpretation of the Koran in the coming years and decades, not only in the Westbut also in the Islamic world.« Deutschlandradio Kultur about Der Koran als Text der Spätantike

»This book is an invitation to all Occidentals and Orientals who consider Islam as much a European heritage as Christianity and Judaism.« Berliner Zeitung about Der Koran als Text der Spätantike

»This book […] serves to whet our appetite for what will follow, but, as a scholarly tome on its own, it is a major enunciation of a scholarly approach to the Qur’an, unrivalled by any other work that has appeared for probably the past 100 years [...]« Religion, Andrew Rippin, University of Victoria, Canada about Der Koran als Text der Spätantike

Angelika Neuwirth, born in 1943,

has been a Professor of Arabic

Studies at the Freie Universität

Berlin since 1991, in addition to

leading the research project Corpus

Coranicum – text documentation

and historical-critical commentary

on the Koran – at the Berlin-

Brandenburg Academy of Sciences

and Humanities. Angelika Neuwirth

studied Arabic studies, Semitic

studies, and classical philology at

the Freie Universität Berlin as well

as in Tehran, Göttingen, Jerusalem

and Munich. After her postdoctoral

qualification as a university lecturer,

she worked as a guest professor at

the University of Jordan in Amman

from 1977 to 1983. From 1994 to

1999, she was the director of the

German Oriental Society’s Orient

Institute Beirut and Istanbul.

Selected Backlist:

The Quran. Volume 1: Early Meccan Suras. Poetic Prophecy. Annotated with translation by

Angelika Neuwirth (2011)

Der Koran als Text der Spätantike. Ein europäischer Zugang (2010)

International Sales: English world

rights (Oxford UP US), Arabic world

rights (Al-Kamel)

Angelika NeuwirthThe QuranAnnotated by Angelika Neuwirth

Religious Studies

Andreas ReckwitzThe society of singularities. On the transformation of modernity

Andreas ReckwitzThe Society of the SingularOn the Structural Transformation of the Modern (Original title: Die Gesellschaft der Singularitäten. Zum Strukturwandel der Moderne)488 pagesClothbound Release: October 2017

International Sales: English world rights (Polity)

Andreas Reckwitz, born in 1970,

is Professor of Cultural Sociology

at Europa-Universität Viadrina in

Frankfurt/Oder.

Selected Backlist:

Die Erfindung der Kreativität. Zum Prozess gesellschaftlicher Ästhetisierung (2012) International

Sales: English world rights (Polity),

Poland (National Centre for Culture)

The particular is the clincher and the unique is prized while the general and the standar-dised remain, on the contrary, rather unat-tractive. The average person with his or her average life is suspicious. The new measure of all things is the authentic subject with original interests and a carefully crafted biography, as well as unmistakable goods and events, communities and cities. Late modernity celebrates the singular.

Beginning with this diagnosis, Andreas Reckwitz examines the process of singularization and how it is playing out at the beginning of the 21st century in economics, the world of work, network culture, lifestyles, and politics. Through a theory of modernity he shows how closely this process is intertwined with the culturalization of the social sphere, the contradictory dynamics it exhibits, and what constitutes its flip side. The society of the singular does not simply recognise glowing victors. It produces its very own injustices, paradoxes, and losers. A groundbreaking book.

The Explosion of the Particular

»Late modern society has become the

place of the culturally singular and infrastructure of the particular.«

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Beate RösslerAutonomy

Beate RösslerAutonomy An Essay on a Successful Life (Original title: Autonomie. Ein Versuch über das gelungene Leben)443 pagesClothboundRelease: May 2017

International Sales: Netherlands (Boom) Beate Rössler, born in 1958, is

Professor for Philosophy at the

University of Amsterdam and leads

the capacity group »Philosophy and

Public Affairs«.

Selected Backlist:

Der Wert des Privaten (2001)

International Sales: English world

rights (Polity), Italy (Feltrinelli)

Von Person zu Person. Zur Moralität persönlicher Beziehungen (with Axel Honneth,

2008)

Naturally, we assume that we are all auto-nomous. And we think that a life in which we must do essential things against our will cannot be a successful one. But it is also true that numerous aspects of our lives are not chosen so freely. That is true for a number of our social relations as well as for all those situations we simply seem to stumble into. Everyday experience teaches us that we can by all means succeed at self-determination, but that we oftentimes also fail.

Beate Rössler investigates the tension between our normative understanding of self and the experiences we have when we try to lead an autonomous life. Considering various perspectives and literary texts, for example, those of Siri Hustvedt and Jane Austen, as well as diaries, including those of Franz Kafka and Max Frisch, she highlights the obstacles and ambiguities we encounter, examines the roles of self-awareness and self-deception and maps out the social and political conditions necessary for autonomy. Its connection to a successful life is the original point of departure of this formidable defence of autonomy against excessive expectations, but, above all, against overpowering scepticism.

»You can live a meaningful life without being happy but not without being autonomous.«

How to live autonomously?

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»Autonomy motives you to keep asking yourself how you want to live your life, and whether there are good reasons behind one option or another..« Manuela Lenzen, Neue Zürcher Zeitung

» ... a convincing theory. […] The many cleverly interwoven literary examples break up the reading in a pleasant way.« Eva Weber-Guskar, DIE ZEIT

Peter SloterdijkAfter GodExperiments in Faith and Disbelief(Original title: Nach Gott. Glaubens- und Unglaubensversuche)364 pagesClothboundRelease: June 2016

International Rights Sales: English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Siruela), Brazil (Vozes), Italy (Cortina); Domestic rights sales: German Book Club (WBG)

Peter Sloterdijk was born in 1947

and is 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.

Selected Backlist

Was geschah im 20 Jahrhundert?

(2016) International Sales: English

world rights (Polity), Italy (Bollati

Boringhieri), Netherlands (Boom)

Die schrecklichen Kinder der Neuzeit (2014) International Sales:

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UP), Spanish world rights (Siruela),

Brazilian Portuguese Rights

(Estaçao Liberdade), France (Payot),

Italy (Mimesis), Netherlands

(Boom), Turkey (Edebi Seyler);

Domestic Rights Sales: German

Book Club (WBG)

Peter SloterdijkAfter God

In his epoch-making book Spheres, which describes globalization from its beginnings to its state at the end of the 20th century, Peter Sloterdijk characterizes God as the »ultimate source of insurance coverage«. This assumption common to all (monotheistic, at least) religions unleashes paradoxes that had devastating consequences from the Middle Ages to modernity: the fundamentalism that has been triumphing since the turn of the century is the worst repercussion.But which of these developments are linked to the sentence »God is dead,« which went viral by the end of the 19th century? Is it a philosophem without real effects? Is it the description of a shift in mentality? Is it a diagnosis of what is taking place? Is it to be understood as a prognosis that brings all interreligiously justified conflicts to an end?

In his new book, Peter Sloterdijk draws all the conclusions from the sentence »God is dead« for the first time. This brings into play both the fields of contemporary theology and philosophy and the present’s murderous politics, as well as the impact of cultural developments and scientific and technical advances.

A Spiegel Bestseller

»[A] powerhouse. Nothing about him seems

old [...]. Bravo.« Ulf Poschardt, Die literarische Welt

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»An exciting hike through 2,500 years of cultural and intellectual history [...].« Hans-Jürgen Jakobs, Handelsblatt

Philosophy

Philipp TherThe OutsiderFlight, refugees, and integration in modern Europe(Original title: Die Außenseiter. Flucht, Flüchtlinge und Integration im modernen Europa)440 pagesClothboundRelease: October 2017

International Sales: Eng-lish world rights (Prince-ton UP)

Professor Philipp Ther (born

1967) lectures Modern European

and East European History at

the University of Vienna. He has

already published five books in

English, and his publications have

been translated into various other

languages. He has received several

prizes and awards, including the

John-F-Kennedy Fellowship at

the Center for European Studies,

Harvard University (in 1997/98)

and the 2012 Translation Award of

the German Book Trade Association

(Börsenverein des deutschen

Buchhandels) for The Dark Side of

Nation-States: Ethnic Cleansing in

Modern Europe.

Selected Backlist:

Die neue Ordnung auf dem alten Kontinent (2014) International

Sales: English world rights (Princeton

University Press), Czech Republic

(Libri), Bulgaria (KX Critique &

Humanism), Ukraine (Laurus Press)

Philipp TherThe Outsider

Flight and integration are extremely impor-tant themes at present. They are a major reason for the rise of right-wing populist parties and are threatening to divide the EU. However, a glimpse into the depths of history puts 2015’s »refugee crisis« into perspective. Since the expulsion of Jews from the Iberian Peninsula in 1492, Europe has constantly been a continent of refugees.

Philipp Ther delves into the reasons for flight: religious intolerance, radical nationalism, and political persecution. Beginning with life stories he illustrates its hardships, identifies factors for successful integration, and discusses the repeated failure of international politics and the lessons that have come out of situations like the 1951 Refugee Convention of Geneva. As Ther shows, humanitarianism in refugee policy has always been fragile. But when today the fear of a failure of integration once again dominates the headlines, it is important to remember that destination countries have almost always profited from refugees. This is proven in particular by the history of post-war Germany when the young Federal Republic became a country of refugees.

Die neue Ordnung auf dem alten Kontinent (Europe After 1989): Shortlisted for the Prix Du Livre Européen 2017

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»Seen historically, refugees have almost always been an enrichment.«

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