Ingeborg Bachmann

Wolfgang Bauer
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Ernst Bloch
Hans Blumenberg
Felix Bohr
Nora Bossong
Paul Celan

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Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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Authors and Estates
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A selection
Theodor W. Adorno Durs Grünbein Ivan Nagel
Robert Alexy Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Angelika Neuwirth
Juri Andruchowytsch Jürgen Habermas Hans Erich Nossack
Friedrich Ani Anna Katharina Hahn Albert Ostermaier
Ingeborg Bachmann Michael Hampe Katja Petrowskaja
Zsófia Bán Peter Handke Andreas Pflüger
Wolfgang Bauer Christoph Hein Marion Poschmann
Ulrich Beck Heinz Helle Doron Rabinovici
Jurek Becker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Andreas Reckwitz
Ulla Berkéwicz Dieter Henrich Bärbel Reetz
Thomas Bernhard Hermann Hesse Hartmut Rosa
Barbara Beuys Wolfgang Hildesheimer Ralf Rothmann
Marcel Beyer Ludwig Hohl Sasha Marianna Salzmann
Ernst Bloch Axel Honneth Judith Schalansky
Hans Blumenberg Eva Illouz Wilhelm Schmid
Karl Heinz Bohrer Rahel Jaeggi Gershom Scholem
Szilárd Borbély Hans Joas Lutz Seiler
Friedrich von Borries Uwe Johnson Clemens J. Setz
Nora Bossong Hans Jonas Peter Sloterdijk
Volker Braun Dževad Karahasan Manfred Sommer
Bertolt Brecht Anna Kim Andrzej Stasiuk
Hermann Broch Esther Kinsky Maria Stepanova
Simone Buchholz Julia Kissina Wolfgang Streeck
Bernd Cailloux Friedrich A. Kittler Peter Szondi
Paul Celan Alexander Kluge Uwe Tellkamp
Ann Cotten Wolfgang Koeppen Philipp Ther
Sigrid Damm Siegfried Kracauer Stephan Thome
Zoltán Danyi Christian Lehnert Hans-Ulrich Treichel
László Darvasi Svenja Leiber Galsan Tschinag
Ljubko Deresch Gertrud Leutenegger Ernst Tugendhat
Ulrike Edschmid Sibylle Lewitscharoff Peter Turrini
Nana Ekvtimishvili Niklas Luhmann Siegfried Unseld
Hans Magnus Enzensberger Thomas Macho Kevin Vennemann
Urs Faes Enis Maci Martin Walser
Erika Fischer-Lichte Nicolas Mahler Robert Walser
Rainer Forst Andreas Maier Peter Weiss
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Manfred Frank Friederike Mayröcker Philipp Weiss

Max Frisch Thomas Meinecke Bruno E. Werner
Valerie Fritsch Robert Menasse Lambert Wiesing
Markus Gabriel Christoph Menke Josef Winkler
Efrat Gal-Ed Winfried Menninghaus Christa Wolf

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Gunther Geltinger Alice Miller Raul Zelik
André Georgi Heiner Müller Serhij Zhadan
Dagmar von Gersdorff Stefan Müller-Doohm Ulf Erdmann Ziegler
Rainald Goetz Melinda Nadj Abonji Slavoj Žižek
 Collected Works / Correspondence
Ingeborg Bachmann
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
»Write down everything that is true«
The correspondence between two major intellectuals
One was a poet and cover girl of Der Spiegel Ingeborg Bachmann
magazine in 1954. The other was an »angry Hans Magnus
young man«, a networker who tore strips Enzensberger
off the literature industry, and whose »Write down everything
that is true«
career as a poet began in 1957. Ingeborg
The Correspondence
Bachmann (born in 1926) and Hans Magnus
Edited by Hubert Lengauer
Enzensberger (born in 1929) met in October
Collected Works and Letters.
of 1955 in Tübingen at the Gruppe 47
Salzburger Bachmann
conference. After a subsequent meeting,
Edition. Volume 13
the letter exchange struck up, initiated
With illustrations
by Enzensberger in November 1957. A (Original title: »Schreib
correspondence was established, of which alles was wahr ist auf«. Der
130 letters have been handed down: 53 Briefwechsel)
from Bachmann, 77 from Enzensberger. The approx. 450 pages
final letters are dated 1972, the year before Clothbound
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The two emblematic figures, icons of German Rights available
post-war literature, converse on literature
Ingeborg Bachmann, born
in general and in detail, and on their own
on June 25th, 1926, died on
intentions; they reflect upon contemporary October 17th, 1973 in Rome.
happenings, polemicize, and are also
unreservedly frank in their opinions of dear Hans Magnus Enzensberger
colleagues. Two different writing-characters
was born in Kaufbeuren in
1929. As a poet, essayist,
bounce off one another: discussions broached writer, publisher and translator,
by one with pragmatic irony and defended he is one of the world’s most
by the other from a position of principle. influential and internationally
renowned German intellectuals.
Suhrkamp represents translation
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(Fondo Cultura), Portuguese rights (Antígona), unknown correspondence
Chinese simplex rights (China Renmin UP), Russia between Ingeborg Bachmann
(Ad marginem), France (Seuil), Italy (Nottetempo), and Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Netherlands (Meulenhoff), Denmark (Vandkunsten), allows one to relive how, after
Sweden (Ellerströms), Japan (Seidosha), Poland (A5), the Second World War, two of
Czech Republic (Pulchra), Romania (Art), Croatia the most prominent writers in
(OceanMore), Turkey (Kirmizi Kedi), Ukraine (Knihy the German language chose to
XXI), Georgia (Ibis), Israel (Hakibbutz Hameuchad) depict and regard the world,
literature and the publishing
industry, but also how they
wished to present and be
regarded themselves.
Literary Fiction / Essay
Ulla Berkéwicz
Beyond Script
»A meditation on the mythical sources of the power of thought
which have been lost in the modern age.« Alexander Cammann, Die Zeit
Based on Vedic, Jewish and mathematic- Ulla Berkéwicz
topological knowledge, Ulla Berkéwicz’ Beyond Script
new work, comprised of two correspond- (Original title: Über die
ing parts which reflect each other, Schrift hinaus)
120 pages
invites us to discern what restricts our
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consciousness.
Release: May 2018
In a stunning poetic fantasy, a poet partisan
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crosses the threshold of narration and a
mathematic rebel transcends the countability
Ulla Berkéwicz lives in Berlin.
of numbers during the thirteenth hour of the Since 1982, Suhrkamp Verlag
night of Shrove Tuesday. That leads a society has published twelve works by
of potentates, artists and bourgeois to break her, which have been translated
the mold in a way that allows them to follow into nine languages. Her plays
premièred at the Burgtheater
the two into their freedom of the imagination.
in Vienna and at the Munich
The fundamental humanistic and scientific Kammerspiele. Ulla Berkéwicz
idea of this anarchic spectacle evolves into has received numerous prizes
a piece of prose that is as provocative as it and accolades for her work,
is uncompromising. It reveals what could among them the Moses-
Mendelssohn-Medal 2016.
be possible if we would stop restricting our
cognitive abilities to our three-dimensional
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sphere and instead let our imagination run
Vielleicht werden wir ja
wild and into areas that aren’t confined by
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Ich weiß, daß du weißt (1999)
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 Poetry Poetry

Nora Bossong Paul Celan

Crusade with a Dog Poems
»At 33 years old, Nora Bossong is a remarkably Celan Year 2020 – 100th birthday and
accomplished poet and novelist.« FR 50th anniversary of his death
In her new volume of poetry, Nora Bossong Nora Bossong Celan’s collected poems – for the first Paul Celan
travels from small-town Germany to the Crusade with a Dog time in their entirety and with new com- Poems
Mediterranean and onwards into the Holy Poems mentary. Close to 60 more poems than New complete and
Land and beyond. Her natural manner of (Original title: Kreuzzug the 2003 edition. annotated edition
mit Hund. Gedichte) Edited by Barbara
movement a shifting back and forth in time. The history of their origins, sources,
approx. 100 pages Wiedemann. With 25
Hungry for experience, she explores poetic cross-references: broken down with sum-
Clothbound etchings by Gisèle Celan-
scenes from a past hundred of years old and maries and individual notes.
Release: November 2018 Lestrange
a distilled present. Almost as if by chance, (Original title: Die
she directs her lens on people, places and International Sales: For Paul Celan reading was always an Gedichte. Neue
traditions, describing them with subtle experience as well: the books, journals, and kommentierte
English world rights
humour and sensitivity while leaving their daily newspapers he read were as much a Gesamtausgabe)
(Seagull)
secrets intact. source of his poems as personal encounters approx. 1.350 pages
Nora Bossong, born in 1982 in and political events. When a complete and Clothbound
Whoever has had the chance to hear Bremen, is a writer of poetry, annotated edition of Celan’s poems first Release: July 2018
Bossong’s poems set to music by the com- novels and essays, and has appeared in 2003, the indexing of such
poser Anno Schreier, will know what an been the recipient of several
sources was still at its beginning. In the Rights available
awards for these, including the
important voice of German-language lit- meantime editions of his most important
Peter Huchel Prize and the Art
erature contemporary writing has been Prize Berlin. epistolary exchanges have been published, Paul Celan was born in 1920
graced with. It is time that other coun- the critical editions have been completed, in Czernowitz and passed
tries got to know it now, too. away in April 1970 in Paris.
and research in Celan’s bequest library with
He is recognized throughout
its literary traces and annotations has forged the world as one of the most
ahead. important authors of the
twentieth century.
On this basis, the 2003 edition could be
expanded by close to 60 poems, some of them Barbara Wiedemann, literary
appearing for the first time, and all of his scholar and a professor at the
University of Tübingen, is the
texts underwent careful examination. The
editor of Paul Celan’s works
»Astonishing powers of commentary has also been reorganized and and letters.
expanded considerably, especially thanks
observation and an immense
to the editor’s intensive research of Celan’s
talent for writing.« FAZ reading of the press. Special attention has

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been paid – in line with his poetology – to
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the ›inscribed date‹ of every poem. With

this new edition the reader is given a
great wealth of clearly demonstrable
information for understanding Celan’s
poetry.
 Literary Fiction

Zoltán Danyi
The Carcass Remover
»Even more than the story, what fascinated me was the hatred, the anger
and the pain and how that fire can be transformed into sentences.«

They had heard about five dead foxes, Zoltán Danyi

lying in the road by the Hungarian-Serbian The Carcass Remover
border. But when the men from the disposal Novel
(Original title: A
unit arrive, there are dozens of carcasses,
dögeltakarító, published
dogs and cats, too – shot, it seems, by border
in June 2015 by Magvető,
guards to pass the time. The war in the
Budapest)
Balkans is long over, and yet incidents like (Translated German title:
these haul the narrator back into his past. Der Kadaverräumer.
Roman)
Sitting in the garden of a Berlin clinic where 264 pages
he is stuck until his terrible digestion issues Clothbound
are treated, he is overcome by the music of a Release of the German
Kusturica film and he starts to sob: »perhaps edition by Suhrkamp:
because it brought it all back to the surface, September 2018
all he tried to run away from, those desolate
years of hollowing-out, years that seemed Rights available
without end, nor desirous of an end, and on
Zoltán Danyi, born in 1972
they endured.«
in Senta, Yugoslavia, studied
Philosophy and Literature in
Who is this narrator, who stumbles back Novi Sad and Szeged. In 2003,
and forth between the scenes of his life in a he made his debut as a poet,
torrent of speech that threatens to sweep him publishing poems and short
away; part of a carcass-collecting unit that stories. He completed a PhD
had once completed a rather different task? in 2008 on the Hungarian
Is he a victim, a perpetrator? A survivor who
»The great success of writer Béla Hamvas, and went
is seeking a cure through speaking? The Carcass Remover is on to work as an editor and
not entirely down to its schoolteacher. His first novel,
The Carcass Remover, won the
The war in Yugoslavia and its afterlife aesthetic quality, but also Miklós-Mészöly-Prize. Danyi,
have never lessened their hold on Zol-
its shocking timeliness, the a member of the Hungarian
tán Danyi – for almost two decades he
failed in his attempt to comprehend the permanent contemporary minority in Serbia, now lives as
a rose grower in Senta.
monstrous reality that almost entirely nature of history, its
devoured him. One day, the sound was continual return, the death
there – a sound that makes for compel- of culture, of humanity, of
ling reading. The writing shimmers like
the surface of a contaminated body of wa-
the myth of Europe. The
ter. Layer by layer it is laid bare. A book fact that here and now we
constructed like a complex musical com- are also living in wartime.«
position whose beauty contains both dis- Orsolya Bencsik, Müut
tance and an intimate touch.
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 Poetry

A New Divan
A Lyrical Dialogue between
East and West
Prefaces by Daniel Barenboim and Omar al-Qattan
Published to celebrate the 200th anniversary notes where appropriate). Each poem will A New Divan
of Goethe’s West-Eastern Divan (1819), A appear in English poetic translation facing A Lyrical Dialogue
New Divan will bring together twenty-four the original language of composition. The between East and West
leading poets – twelve from the ›East‹ and same modus operandi applies to the German Prefaces by Daniel
Barenboim and
twelve from the ›West‹ – in a poetic dialogue publication and will be required for all
Omar al-Qattan
inspired by the culture of the Other. forthcoming translations.
Edited by Barbara Haus
Schwepcke and
Drawing on themes suggested by the twelve Three pairs of essays will enhance and
Bill Swainson
books of Goethe’s original publication, compliment the poems, just like in Goethe’s
2.400 lines of poetry
including The Poet, The Cup Bearer, The original:
30.000 words of
Tyrant, Love, Anger and Faith, and using the Sibylle Wentker: Bringing Persia to Germany scholarship
distinctive poetic forms of the cultures of the Joseph von Hammer and Hafiz Clothbound
poets taking part, A New Divan will be a life- Rajmohan Gandhi: Goethe and ›the East‹ of Release of the English
enhancing conversation in poetry. Today edition by Gingko Library
and of the German edition
For the English edition, 22 English-language Robyn Creswell: Playing a Part: Imru’ al-
by Suhrkamp: 2019
poets have been commissioned to create Qays in English
English-language versions of the original Narguess Farzad: On the importance of
Rights available
poems, either by direct translation or by translating Persian poetry into European
working with a literal translation (with languages
Stefan Weidner: The New Tasks of the
Translator
Kadhim Jihad Hassan: On the Translation of
European Poetry into Arab Culture
Contributors:
East West
Adonis (Syria) Khaled Mattawa (USA)
Abbas Beydoun (Lebanon) Durs Grünbein (Germany)
Iman Mersal (Egypt) Antonella Anedda (Italy)
Reza Mohammadi (Afghanistan) Homero Aridjis (Mexico)
Amjad Nasser (Jordan) Don Paterson (UK)
Fatemeh Shams (Iran) Gilles Ortlieb (France)
Mourid Barghouti (Palestine) Jaan Kaplinski (Estonia)
Nujoom al-Ghanem (UAE) Raoul Schrott (Austria)
Mohammed Bennis (Morocco) Aleš Šteger (Slovenia)
Gonca Özmen (Turkey) Angélica Freitas (Brazil)
Hafez Moussavi (Iran) Clara Janés (Spain)
Fadhil al-Azzawi (Iraq) Jan Wagner (Germany)
 Literary Fiction Literature

Nana Ekvtimishvili Hans Magnus Enzensberger

The Pear Field Survival Artists
An intense portrait of young people without future »A hymn of praise to literature.
who stand up against the world of adults What an homage, what a book!« Deutschlandfunk Kultur

The Pear Field takes place in the 1990s in Tbilisi, Nana Ekvtimishvili The 20th century was the heyday of writers Hans Magnus
capital of the recently independent country of The Pear Field who had survived state terror and purges Enzensberger
Georgia. At the heart of the novel is the »School Novel with all the ethical and political ambivalences Survival Artists
for Idiots«, a boarding school for »mentally (Original title: მსხლების that this entailed. How did they manage 99 Literary Vignettes from
მინდორი, published the 20th Century
deficient children«, actually visited mostly by to do that? Were they too steadfast to bend
in May 2015 by Bakur With 99 images
children whose parents are either dead or who to the powers that be? Did they owe their
Sulakauri, Tblisi) (Original title:
have emigrated for economic reasons. Even the survival to their foresight, their intelligence
(Translated German title: Überlebenskünstler. 99
teachers leave the children and teens to their Das Birnenfeld. Roman) or sharpness, their belief in themselves, literarische Vignetten aus
own devices. 221 pages their connections or their tactical skill? Was dem 20. Jahrhundert)
The narrative unfolds from the point of view of Paperbound it serendipitous circumstances bordering 366 Seiten
16-year-old Lela who has decided that she will Release of the German on a miracle that helped them escape from Clothbound
murder Wano, the history teacher. Only over edition by Suhrkamp: prison, camps and death, or was it strategies Release: April 2018
the course of the novel do the reasons become August 2018 that spanned from ingratiation to disguise?
clear: sexual assault and even rape. However, If only it was possible to make a clear-cut International Sales:
Lela, a combative, angry young girl, has taken International Sales: distinction! English world rights
up the role of protector. She looks after the English world rights (Seagull), France
younger children, comforts them, and even (Peirene), Azerbaijan In 99 pointed, deliberately subjective
(Alma), Italy (Einaudi);
tries to convince them to apply themselves, (TEAS Press) portraits, Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Domestic Rights Sales:
in other words, to study so that they can leave describes the lives and particular surviv-
German Bookclub
the School for Idiots behind. As strong as al strategies of international writers, but
also the objective reasons for which they (Büchergilde Guten-
her hatred for the history teacher is, she has Translation funding
managed to survive the 20th century, the berg)
developed a tender, sister-like relationship available from the
with the boy Irakli. Every week Lela takes »Age of Violence«. Despite the seemingly
Georgian National Hans Magnus Enzensberger
him to a nearby high-rise flat so he can talk on overwhelmingly powerful opponent of was born in Kaufbeuren in
Book Center
the phone with his mother in Greece. Irakli, thoroughly formed societies and authori- 1929. As a poet, essayist,
however, refuses to believe what Lela has long Literary Prizes and Awards:
tarian, death-or-glory governments. That writer, publisher and translator,

known: his mother is never coming back, not
Literary Award SABA 2016 for
even to pick him up. Lela, nonetheless, tries to
The Best Debut
encourage him and even manages to get him to IliaUni Literary Award 2016 for
learn English because she wants Irakli to have The Best Novel
a better future. And then, one day, a married LITERA (Prize awarded by
the Ministry of Culture and
couple from the southern United States arrives
Monument Protection of
and his dream threatens to become reality in a
Georgia and by the Writer’s
we could learn from this in our present he is one of the world’s most
influential and internationally
situation is not, according to the author,
renowned German intellectuals.
out of the question.
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most bizarre way. House of Georgia) for the Best (Malpaso), Chinese simplex
rights (Beijing Fonghong
Debut 2016
Books), Brazilian Portuguese
Awards (selection): rights (Todavia), France
Frank-Schirrmacher-Preis 2015 (Gallimard), Italy (Einaudi),
Denmark (Gyldendal), Greece
Nana Ekvtimishvili, born in 1978 in Tbilisi, Georgia, is a writer and movie director, and owns Georgia’s first chain Sonningprisen 2010 (Hestia); Domestic Rights
of ice cream parlors. She studied screenwriting and dramaturgy in Potsdam-Babelsberg. She first published stories
Premio d’Annunzio 2006 Sales: German Audiobook
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 Premio Príncipe de Asturias 2002 rights (Der Hörverlag),
German Entire Radio Reading
of the new Georgian wave and won the CICAE Award, followed by numerous awards at film festivals in Hong Kong, Heinrich-Heine-Preis 1998
Tokyo, Paris, LA, and Sarajevo, and was Georgia’s entry for the 2014 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language (HR), German Book Club
Film. In 2013 Nana Ekvtimishvili — again with Simon Gross — was chosen as one of the ten most promising Erich-Maria-Remarque-Friedenspreis 1993 (Büchergilde Gutenberg)
European directors from Varietyʼs 10 Directors to Watch at the 48th Karlovy Vary Film Festival. In Hong Kong, the Heinrich-Böll-Preis 1985
film was named as the spring of Georgian cinema. The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) has
Georg-Büchner-Preis 1963
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. Deutscher Kritikerpreis 1962
 Literary Fiction Literary Fiction

Yannic Han Biao Federer Christoph Hein

And Everything is like Paper Mâché Befuddlement
»The knowing looks, the innocuous fuss. A gay love in the GDR
And then the clamour.«

It is the late summer of 2001 in the backwoods Yannic Han Biao Federer
of Baden. On the television, there are images And Everything is like
Paper Mâché
of the World Trade Centre collapsing. Jian is
Novel
sixteen and in love with Sarah, but sleeps with
(Original title: Und alles
Anna who has just broken up with Frank. After
wie aus Pappmaché.
that, Sarah doesn’t want to have anything to Roman)
do with Jian anymore, nor Jian with Anna, and approx. 200 pages
Paperback
Frank is caught up in his own self. Fifteen
Release: February 2019
years later Anna is in a love-triangle, Frank
is hidden away in the forest, and Jian comes
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across Sarah again in paparazzi photos. They
have long since lost track of one another and Yannic Han Biao Federer,
yet Jian continues to narrate how their shared born in Breisach in 1986,
story might run. studied German in Bonn,
Florence and Oxford. Since
2014, he has been researching
Yannic Han Biao Federer’s first novel
for his doctorate and working
follows four young people as they try to find
at the Rheinische Friedrich-
their place and direction in an ever more
Wilhelm University of Bonn. He
disparate and fragile world. He reveals
took part in the Atelier NRW
how close history and experience are inter- 2016 as well as the writing
twined and explores the time we are living workshop of the Jürgen Ponto
Foundation in 2017.
in with great alertness and intelligence.
Friedeward loves Wolfgang. And Wolfgang Christoph Hein
loves Friedeward. They are young, enjoying Befuddlement
the summer vacation, cycle the long way to Novel
the sea, discuss all the subjects under the (Original title: Verwirrnis.
Roman)
sun. They are happy when they are together,
approx. 220 pages
and this seems to be all that they need. But
Clothbound
no one must know that they are more than
Release: August 2018
best friends. It is the 1950s, they live in
Catholic Heiligenstadt, and for those people
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around him, particularly for Friedeward’s
German Audiobook
ardently believing father, their love is a sin.
(DAV)
If their relationship were to be discovered,
they could lose everything. When they move
Born in 1944, Christoph Hein
to Leipzig to study – Friedeward German lives in Berlin. He has written
literature, Wolfgang music – they discover novels, novellas, short stories,
a world of renowned intellectuals, it all plays, essays and children’s
glimmers with vivid thinking. And they get
books. As of 2002, Suhrkamp
to know Jennifer who confides in them that Verlag has acquired the world
she is conducting a secret love with one of rights to the works of Christoph
the female teaching fellows. The four of them Hein. He has garnered
attend the legendary lectures in auditorium numerous literary awards for
forty, go to the theatre and throw themselves his work. When the Pen centres
in East and West merged,
into the intellectual life of the city. And
Christoph Hein was President
gradually the three friends form a plan:
of the German Pen Centre from
Would it not be the perfect ›disguise‹ if one
1998 to 2000.
of them would marry Jennifer in a fictitious
marriage? Awards (selection):

2013: Stefan-Heym-Preis
In his new novel, the great German chron-
2012: Uwe-Johnson-Preis
icler Christoph Hein movingly explores 2010: Eichendorff-Literaturpreis
a love that for years defies all barriers – 2008: Walter-Hasenclever-
and at the same time depicts a vivid pan- Literaturpreis

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orama of German intellectual life. 2004: Schiller-Gedächtnispreis
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des Landes Baden-Württemberg

2002: Österreichischer
Staatspreis für Europäische
Literatur
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1998: Peter-Weiss-Preis der
Glückskind mit Vater (2016) International Sales: Arabic world rights (Sefsafa), France (Métailié), Italy (e/o),
»An exciting kaleidoscope of memory.« Denmark (Gyldendal), Bulgaria (Atlantis); Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV), German Entire Radio
Stadt Bochum
1994: Bundesverdienstkreuz
Westdeutsche Zeitung Reading (MDR)
1990: Erich-Fried-Preis (Wien)
In seiner frühen Kindheit ein Garten (2005) International Sales: English world rights (Metropolitan), France
1983: Deutscher Kritikerpreis
(Métailié), Italy (e/o), Denmark (Gyldendal)
Landnahme (2004) International Sales: English world rights (Metropolitan), Arabic world rights (Kanaan), France
(Métailié), Italy (e/o), Denmark (Gyldendal), Slovakia (Kalligram), Hungary (Europa), Bulgaria (Emas), Georgia (Ibis),
Israel (Hakkibutz Hamecheud); Domestic Rights Sales: German Book Club (Bertelsmann), German Book Club
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 Literary Fiction

Heinz Helle
Overcoming Gravity
»Profound and extremely unsettling with a powerful message
for our increasingly hate-filled times.«
John Harding, Daily Mail about Euphoria (Eigentlich müssten wir tanzen)

A couple of beers, and then a couple more – Heinz Helle

that’s all it takes for a sense of closeness. Yet Overcoming Gravity
the two brothers know that the warmth of Novel
the alcohol is not really a match for the cold (Original title: Die
Überwindung der
outside as they go from pub to pub. The older
Schwerkraft. Roman)
brother has long been one to cradle a drink
approx. 208 pages
with no special occasion required, simply
Clothbound
saddened or furious at a world governed by Release: September 2018
pain and suffering, wars and violence. That
evening however, he talks to his younger Rights available
brother not only about Stalingrad and Marc

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Dutroux, he also tells him that he is soon to
become a father. What neither of them know
is that this is the last time they will see each
other. They talk on the phone once. The next
call, nine months later, brings the news of
the older brother’s death. What he leaves
behind are memories and questions: What is
it all about? What is it we are looking for in
the world? What is the meaning of it all, this
Heinz Helle was born in 1978.
He studied philosophy in Munich
and New York. He has worked
as copywriter for advertising
agencies, and is a graduate of the
»Makes The Road seem like Swiss Literature Institute in Biel.
He lives in Zürich.
a Disney cartoon by
comparison. Helle is an astute Selected Backlist:

living and dying? predictor of human nature, Eigentlich müssten wir tanzen

and part of the reason this (2015) International Sales:

English world rights (Serpent’s
With virtuosic skill, Heinz Helle inter-
book is so haunting is because Tail), Chinese simplex rights
weaves the quest for traces of the dead
brother with the quest for answers to his characters all react to (People’s Literature Publishing
House), Arabic world rights (Al
the major questions of life. The precision their constantly-deteriorating Kotob Khan), France (Piranha)
with which he dissects the brothers’ per- circumstances in entirely
sonalities is painfully beautiful: a care- Der beruhigende Klang von
believable though by no means explodierendem Kerosin (2014)
fully aimed punch in the stomach, shot
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may not take long to read, but

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(Hörbuch Hamburg)
Roger Cox, Scotsman about Euphoria
(Eigentlich müssten wir tanzen)

»[A] philosophical tour de force which aptly

showcases Helle's deadpan humour. This is a linguistically
daring portrait of an overwhelmed mind.«
Financial Times about Superabundance
(Der beruhigende Klang von explodierendem Kerosin)
Shortlisted for the Swiss Book Prize 2018 »Beckettian, excellent, funny.«
Independent about Superabundance
(Der beruhigende Klang von explodierendem Kerosin)
 Literary Fiction Poetry

Dževad Karahasan Christian Lehnert

The House of the Wearied Cherubic Dust
Masterful short stories by one of the great European writers

Sarajevo, September 1914. In a newspaper Dževad Karahasan
editorial office, at the national bank and in The House of the Wearied
other official locations, letters arrive with Five Stories
considerable delay, often years later. Yet it (Original Bosnian title:
Kuća za umorne. Pjesme o
is not the war that has thrown the imperial
ljubavi u smrti)
and royal mail into confusion, but rather
(Translated German title:
a postman in love who has fallen on the
Das Haus für die Müden.
battlefield of the world war just unfolding. Fünf Geschichten)
approx. 250 pages
Love and loss, progress and memory are the Clothbound
themes of these five long short stories with Release of the German
which Dževad Karashan leaves the far-distant edition by Suhrkamp:
epoch of the setting of his opus magnum, January 2019
The Solace of the Night Sky and returns to the
Dževad Karashan, born in
twentieth century. Communism arrives in
Duvno, Yugoslavia, in 1953,
the backwoods of Bosnia. In the small towns, lives in Graz and Sarajevo. He
surrounded by lonely, majestic landscapes, is a great romancer, short story
Karahasan’s protagonists sense that a time writer, a dramatist, essayist
is beginning in which there will not be a and academic. His works have
place for them any more. They are in denial been translated into more than
ten languages. In 2004, he was
– radical old men, stubbornly facing the
awarded the Leipzig Book Prize
world, insisting on their right to dream, to for European Understanding.
grieve, and to be tired, quite simply.
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Letters that do not reach their destina- Što pepeo priča (Simurg Media,
tion because death and world history 2015) (German: Der Trost des
get in the way of love, are a leitmotif in Nachthimmels, Suhrkamp 2016)
The House of the Wearied. Karahasan de- International Sales: Chinese
scribes growing older – a looking back at simplex rights (Shanghai
a world changing more quickly than the
Translation Publishing House),
Bulgaria (Paradox), Slovenia
individuals in it can keep up with. (Beletrina), Turkey (Iletisim),
Greece (Hestia), Iran (Donya-
e-Eqtesad), Part 1: Macedonia
Christian Lehnert’s seventh volume of poetry Christian Lehnert
again goes all out: from two-line moments, Cherubic Dust
to sonnets, odes and tersest and onwards to Poems
extensive, multi-facetted poems, this poetry (Original title:
Cherubinischer Staub.
works with a tremendous diversity of form.
Gedichte)
approx. 100 pages
The poet makes multiple excursions into a
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him. Plume moths, stag beetles, flies and
falcons are shaped in words. Just as later Christian Lehnert, born in
he communes with the speech of firs and 1969 in Dresden, is a poet and
beeches. Ultimately these are poems about theologian. He is director of the
Institute of Liturgical Studies in
human fate, about mythical material and
Leipzig. His poetry has garnered
that based on historical reality. many prominent prizes.
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Lehnert’s poetry dips into German mys-
Windzüge. Gedichte (2015)
ticism. From Jacob Böhme and Angelus
Silesius he adopts the ambiguous, pene-
trating language that connects spiritual-
ity and physics. In his poems, a resurrec-
tion of analogue thinking takes places in
the much vaunted digital age.
»He is quite simply
a major poet with a rare
sensitivity to beauty.«
Hans Werner Henze

»A brilliant storyteller.«
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(Templum)
Sara i Serafina (Durieux, 1999)
Der Standard (German: Sara und Serafina,
Suhrkamp 2014) International

»An event of the decade.«

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 Essay
Enis Maci
Ice Cream Parlour Europe
What might resistance look like nowadays? Enis Maci
Seeking an answer, Enis Maci draws a direct Ice Cream Parlour
line from Joan of Arc to Sophie Scholl to Europe
the sworn virgins of Albania. She exposes Essays
(Original title: Eiscafé
the media strategies of the identitarian
Europa. Essays)
movement as a farce, she questions mother
approx. 250 pages
tongue and origin, travels to the Walhalla
Paperback
memorial where she looks at Edith Stein’s Release: October 2018
bust, the nun murdered in Auschwitz.
She dwells on social fringes and weaves
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seemingly unrelated topics into the dense
panorama of the European present-day. In Enis Maci, born in 1993,
her essays, the remarkable rubs shoulders
studied Creative Writing
in her essays with the everyday, the private at the German Literature
with the political. Institute in Leipzig and Cultural
Sociology at the London
School of Economics. Her
plays have been performed,
among other venues, at
Schauspielhaus Theatre in
Vienna and at Schauspiel
Theatre in Leipzig and greeted
enthusiastically. For the theatre
season 2018/19, Enis Maci
will be writer-in-residence at
Mannheim’s National Theatre.
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»Your pride is your misfortune,
Medea is obviously the greatest lie of all.«
Literary Fiction
Ralf Rothmann
The God of That Summer
»The haunting portrayal of conflict and carnage in the final weeks
of the second world war makes this German novel a modern classic.«
The Guardian about To Die in Spring
A child in the war: at the start of 1945, Ralf Rothmann
twelve-year-old Luisa Norff has to flee to the The God of That Summer
countryside with her mother and her older Novel
sister as the bombardment of Kiel has begun. (Original title: Der Gott
jenes Sommers. Roman)
The estate owned by her brother-in-law
254 pages
Vinzent, a SS-officer, becomes an unexpected
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site of freedom: no more school, and as the
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Allied bombers are flying eastwards and
more and more refugees are arriving, the
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young dreamer Luisa is roaming through
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the woods and tries to understand life from
(Picador), Italy (Neri
this side of the fires: What is this agitation
she feels when she sees the young milker Pozza), Denmark
Walter, who are the prisoners at Klostersee, (Rosinante), Czech
where did her sister Billie disappear to all Republic (Argo);
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actually get hair from? And as she herself Sales: German
experiences what all women are afraid Audiobook (Hörbuch
of these days during Vinzent’s birthday Hamburg), German
celebrations, Luisa breaks down under the Bookclub (Büchergilde
burden of the inexplicable. Gutenberg)
Ralf Rothmann’s great novel To Die
in Spring, translated into twenty-five Selected Backlist:
languages, was a moving drama at the Im Frühling sterben (2015)
edge of the battlefields. The God of That International Sales: English
Summer is an equally touching story about world rights (Picador UK; USA/
the climate of delusion and denunciation Canada sublicense: FSG;
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during the last months of a war that
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has a twelve-year-old say, and rightfully rights (L’Altra Editorial),
so: »I’ve experienced everything.« Portuguese rights (Sextante
Editora), France (Denoël),
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grew up in the Ruhr. He lives in Berlin. He is the (Arbeiderspers), Denmark
recipient of numerous awards, including: (Rosinante), Sweden (Thorén &
Lindskog), Norway (Gyldendal
Uwe Johnson Preis 2018 Norsk), Finland (Atena), Poland
Premio San Clemente 2017 (W.A.B.), Czech Republic (Argo),
Slovak Republic (Premedia),
Kleist-Preis 2017 Hungary (Magvetö), Bulgaria
Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis 2013 »A Bosch-like vision of hell. (Atlantis), Romania (ART),
Hans-Fallada-Preis 2008 The horror of war and the Estonia (Hea Lugu), Croatia
(Fraktura), Serbia (Laguna),
Literaturpreis der Konrad-
deep damage it does to people Slovenia (Goga), Turkey (Yapi
Adenauer-Stiftung 2008
Max-Frisch-Preis 2006
is not always handled as well, Kredi), Greece (Kastaniotis),
Macedonia (ArtConnect),
Heinrich-Böll-Preis 2005 or as powerfully, as this.« Kosovo/Albanian world rights
(Buzuku); Domestic Rights
Wilhelm Raabe Literaturpreis 2004 The Sunday Times about To Die in Spring
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Entire Radio Reading (NDR)

Judith Schalansky
An Inventory of Certain Losses
Wilhelm-Raabe-Priize 2018
World history is full of things that have
gone astray – willfully destroyed or mislaid
over the course of time. In her new book,
Judith Schalansky dedicates herself to that
which the lost leaves behind: dying echoes
and disappearing steps, whispers and
legends, apostrophes and phantom pains.
Beginning with objects from nature and
art like an incinerated painting of Caspar
David Friedrich, an extinct species of tiger,
a Roman baroque villa, the holy writings of
a vanished religion or a sunken island in the
Pacific, she presents a panorama of the long
lost and disappeared, a panorama which
traces the world’s blank spaces together with
those within natural and cultural history
while opening up areas of knowledge where
delivery has failed. The protagonists of these
short stories are outsiders: a bizarre old man
hoarding the knowledge of humankind in
his garden in Tessin, a lunar researcher from
Bohemia who gives up all earthly curiosity
for a position in the Archive of the Moon, an
aged Greta Garbo who dreams of appearing
on the silver screen as Dorian Gray, Judith
Schalansky’s own father who left the family
before she could even form a memory of
him. These texts speak about beginnings
and endings – and at the same time are an
autobiographical trip into a country that
no longer exists: childhood, the GDR of the
1980s.
Each of the twelve stories in this collection
sketches its own world through a subject-
specific language, a world in which the
boundaries between presence and absence
»Western man’s inclination to value what is extinct more have disappeared as much as have those
than what still exists seems to be one of its more rationally between fiction, memoir and essay, while
almost incomprehensible qualities, for there could be simultaneously questioning the reliability
of our individual and collective memories as
no other way to explain the strange fascination with the
well as future instruments of transmission.
Tasmanian wolf.« Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei natural history series Moreover, every one of the 16-page stories
begins and ends with a black page, which,
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Literary Fiction
Judith Schalansky
An Inventory of Certain
Losses. With 12 illustrations
(Original title: Verzeichnis
einiger Verluste)
252 pages
Clothbound
Release: October 2018
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& Commonwealth (Mac-
Lehose Press), Chinese
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complex rights (Locus),
Italy (nottetempo), Neth-
erlands (Atlas/Contact),
Denmark (Vandkunsten),
Sweden (Pequod), Nor-
way (Press); Domestic
as in a photofit picture, suggests more than
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depicts the lost. As such, the collection
Audiobook (DAV)
proves itself to be a document of the power
of print, the book a more efficacious and Judith Schalansky, born in
long-lasting medium of transmission than Greifswald in 1980, lives in Berlin
any other. as a writer, editor and book
designer. Her work, which includes
the internationally successful
After her Atlas of Remote Islands, in this,
bestseller Atlas of Remote Islands
her Inventory of Certain Losses, Judith and the novel The Giraffe’s Neck,
Schalansky once again sounds the spaces has been translated into more than
between reality and imagination, truth twenty languages and has won
and myth, fact and fiction. The result is a several prizes.
lively evocation of the lost and the remote,
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which suggests that perhaps the difference
between presence and absence is only Der Hals der Giraffe (2011)
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close preservation and destruction, loss and Chinese simplex rights (People’s
creation, really are. Literature Publishing House),
Chinese complex rights (Locus),
Russia (Text), Brazilian Portuguese
»There are no gains without
corresponding losses, no losses
Rights (Objetiva), France
(Actes Sud), Italy (nottetempo),
without corresponding gains.« Netherlands (Signatuur), Denmark
(Vandkunsten), Sweden (Pequod),
Agnes Heller Norway (Press), Finland (Tammi),
Korea (Galmuri), Czech Republic
(Paseka), Hungary (Typotex),
Bulgaria (Geia-Libris), Romania
(Allfa), Estonia (Tänapäev), Turkey
(Ayrinti), Israel (Keter Books);
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 Literary Fiction Literary Fiction

Maria Stepanova Uwe Tellkamp

Post-Memory The Carus Affairs
»Post-Memory is the most important Russian novel of 2017.« GQ A return to the world of The Tower, an international bestseller

Montpellier, 1908: the photograph of a Maria Stepanova »Going to Carus«: that is how the Uwe Tellkamp
young woman by an easel or »Grandma Post-Memory gynaecologist said goodbye to his two The Carus Affairs
on the barricades«, as the family calls it. (Original Russian title: children when he set off for the Carl Gustav Illustrated and designed by
Pre-Revolution portraits, postcards from Памяти памяти, published Carus Medical Academy each day. The man Andreas Töpfer
by Novoe in November (Original title: Die Carus-
Venice, Montpellier, or Nizhny Novgorod, who gave his name to the institution died in
2017) Sachen. Originally published
pieces from the »library of a very different 1869, he can be regarded as the prototype
(Translated German title: in 2017 by Edition Eichthal,
and lost visual culture«, letters, childhood of the then self-evident multi-talented man:
Nach dem Gedächtnis. Eckernförde)
souvenirs – these are the things that the Roman) natural scientist, doctor and painter, author approx. 96 pages
author examines in astonishment. Who were 408 pages of humanities studies (including one on Clothbound
these people who travelled all throughout Clothbound Goethe). It is therefore not surprising, when Release of the new edition by
Europe yet lived in Russia? Who did their Release of the German the father lures his two children into the Insel: September 2018
best to remain anonymous and who made edition by Suhrkamp: independent art scene of Dresden and its
little effort to make history seem interesting? October 2018 hinterland – it’s the Carus Affairs that are Rights available
on their minds and that instigate attempts to
But it is precisely the unspectacular nature International Sales: approach the undivided humanity. Uwe Tellkamp was born in
of the find which turns the author’s research Dresden in 1968. He studied
USA/Canada (New
in the Russian context into something new: The use of the illustrations is not a condition Medicine in Leipzig, New York
Directions), UK/ and Dresden. He then worked as
»Everyone else had a family made up of people for translations.
Commonwealth a doctor. Now living as a writer
participating in history; mine was made up
only of their tenants.« Destined to become (Fitzcarraldo), in Dresden, his novel The Tower,
published in 2008, won that
victims of persecution and repression, they Spanish world rights
year’s German Book Prize. The
all still managed to survive the 20th century. (El Acantilado), Tower has been translated into
How was that possible? This is the question France (Stock), twenty languages.
and point of departure for Maria Stepanova’s Italy (Bompiani),
Selected Backlist:
first great work of prose. Netherlands (De Bezige
Der Turm (2008) International
Bij), Sweden (Nirstedt/
In dialogue with, among others, writers Sales: English world rights print
litteratur), Finland (Penguin Press), English world
like Roland Barthes, W.G. Sebald, Jacques
(Siltala), Poland rights digital (Frisch & Co.),
Rancière, and Susan Sontag, imbued with
(Prószyński), Bulgaria Spanish world rights (Anagrama),
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a passion for thought and a wonderfully Catalan rights (Anagrama-

soft, poetic voice derived from sensual as (Janet 45)
Empuries), France (Grasset;
well as intellectual observations, Stepanova Maria Stepanova, born in
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assembles her found pieces into a panorama Moscow in 1972, is a poet,
Grand Livre du Mois; French

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paperback sublicense: J’ai lu),
of an entire age. At its heart lives a large essayist, and journalist and
Italy (Bompiani), Netherlands
family of doctors, architects, librarians, one of the most visible figures
(Arbeiderspers), Denmark
accountants, and engineers, unheroic indi- of contemporary literary life in
(Gyldendal), Sweden (Bonniers),
Russia. Editor-in-chief of the
viduals who did not attach themselves to any Norway (Press), Hungary
online newspaper colta.ru, in
great project but who in uncivilized, violent 2018/2019 Maria Stepanova
(Magvetö), Bulgaria (Atlantis),
times attempted to live quiet, civilized lives. Romania (Curtea Veche), Serbia
will take up the Siegfried-
(Zlatni Zmaj), Turkey (Ithaki),
Unseld guest professorship in
Greece (Kastaniotis); Domestic
Berlin.
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Club (Der Club Bertelsmann),
literary reconstruction, which has created a whole new genre and German Book Club Paperback
sounds the relation between memory, time, and history.« Literratura (Weltbild), German Book Club
Special Edition (Büchergilde
Gutenberg)
 Literary Fiction

Stephan Thome
God of the Barbarians
A master of thorough portraits delivers his first historical novel:
the story of one of the bloodiest wars in human history
China, mid-nineteenth-century. A Christian Stephan Thome
revolutionary movement swamps the Empire God of the Barbarians
with terror and destruction. A young Novel
German missionary, who wants to help with (Original title: Gott der
Barbaren. Roman)
the modernising of the enormous Empire,
719 pages
travels full of idealism to Nanjing, in order
Clothbound
to gain an impression of the rebellion. There
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he finds himself caught between the fronts
where, ultimately, he loses everything that International Sales:
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in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing – we (Linking); Domestic
encounter a cast of characters as tattered as Rights Sales: German
they are fascinating: among them Lord Elgin,
Audiobook (Griot),
the British High Commissioner in China;
German Entire Radio
and a Chinese scholar, appointed warlord,
Reading (NDR)
who has grown so powerful that even the
Emperor has reasons to fear him. Stephan Thome, born in
1972 in Biedenkopf, studied
In his enthralling new book, Stephan Philosophy and Sinology at the
Thome tells a story that precedes our cri- Freie Universität in Berlin and
at various universities in China,
sis-ravaged present day. Under the com-
Taiwan and Japan. He worked in
mand of a Christian convert who believes East Asia for ten years and has
to be God’s second son, rebels in China also lived in Lisbon. His novels
create a religious state that, in a devastat- Shortlisted for the Border Crossing (original title:
ing way, pre-empts the terror movements
German Book Prize 2018
Grenzgang, 2009) and Centrifugal
of our days. A major novel with a far- Forces (original title: Fliehkräfte,
2012) were both shortlisted for
reaching gaze on religious fanaticism, on
the German Book Prize. His work
how easily we can be seduced, and on the has won several prizes. Stephan
loss of orientation in a radically chang- Thome lives in Taipei.
ing world. Selected Backlist:
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characters and the portrait of the times merge seamlessly.« SZ (Büchergilde Gutenberg)
Grenzgang (2009) International
»Imagination distilled into words.« rbb kulturradio Sales: Chinese simplex rights
(Jiangsu People’s Publishing
House), Chinese complex rights
»A great master of emotional nuance.« Die Welt (Linking), Netherlands (Cossée);
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(Griot), German Book Club

(Büchergilde Gutenberg)
 Literary Fiction

On the discovery and transformation of the world Philipp Weiss

On the edge of the world man
sits and laughs
1000 pages, five volumes – one novel
In On the edge of the world man sits and Philipp Weiss
laughs, Philipp Weiss recounts the world’s On the edge of the world
transformation during the Anthropocene – man sits and laughs
that epoch of earth’s history in which the Novel
(Original title: Am
human being became the central constitutive
Weltenrand sitzen die
power. Between France and Japan, from the
Menschen und lachen.
19th to the 21st century, this bold novel
Roman)
depicts a Panopticon of our fleeting reality. With many colour and black
Each one of the five volumes has its own and white images
form: encyclopaedia, manga, novella, audio- approx. 1000 pages
transcription and notebook. Five volumes with cover

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flaps in a box
One novel, five books – as Release: September 2018
independent from one another
as they are closely interwoven International Sales:
France (Seuil)
How do we come to terms with
the unpredictable? And what does Philipp Weiss was born in 1982
in Vienna, where he currently
the future hold for mankind?
lives and works. He studied
German studies and Philosophy
The complexity of existence in and has published theatre plays
the modern world translated into and short stories. On the edge of
a gripping story and captured in the world man sits and laughs is
a single novel his first novel. In 2018, he has
been awarded the Literary Prize
of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation.

»Love is the transition into chaos.«

»As if I was at home nowhere. As if I perpetually stood on the

threshold, between things, spaces, people. Blessed are those who have
never tumbled over an edge of the world.«

Bruno E. Werner
The Slave Ship
Rediscovery of a post-war bestseller: on the German
intelligentsia during the Second World War
Dispassionate and, for that very reason,
moving: a newspaper editor documents how
the German intelligentsia – academics and
artists, novelists and editor-in-chiefs – cringe
and writhe following the Nazi’s seizure of
power, but also how they create space to
continue their pursuit of a good life and a
moral good. In the end, however, they too are
helpless in the face of the dictatorship. The
narrative arc spans from the day of the Nazi’s
seizure of power through the bombings of
Berlin and Dresden and up to capitulation.
The novel first appeared shortly after the
end of World War Two in 1949 and was
translated into many languages. 70 years
after its publication, it is time to redis-
cover this post-war bestseller.
Literary Fiction
Bruno E. Werner
The Slave Ship
Novel (Original title: Die
Galeere. Roman)
approx. 420 pages
Paperback
Originally published in 1949,
release of the new edition
with Suhrkamp: December
2018
Translations have been published,
among others, in the following
territories: USA (Pantheon
Books), UK (Heinemann), France
(Gallimard), Netherlands (Stok),
Sweden (Bonniers), Finland
(Gummerus)
Bruno E. Werner (1896–1964)
was in 1925 the art editor of the
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung,
Berlin. In 1929 he was involved
in the founding of the Bauhaus-
influenced journal Die neue Linie.
His book Vom bleibenden Geist der
deutschen Kunst was published in
1934. From 1942 to 1947 Werner
worked on the manuscript of Die
Galeere. After the war, he became
art editor of the Neue Zeitung
and president of the German PEN
Centre.
Literary Fiction
Ulf Erdmann Ziegler
Scotland and Other Stories
»Ziegler is a razor-sharp provocateur.« FAZ
For every story that ends, another begins. In Ulf Erdmann Ziegler
Scotland’s Dundee, a female dancer watches Scotland and Other Stories
the dividing of a nation. In Hamburg, a (Original title: Schottland
radicalised animal rights activist goes und andere Erzählungen)
190 pages
missing. A Berlin punk finds serenity in
Clothbound
music after being wounded, and a young
Release: August 2018
cameraman, tired of his job, becomes an
adventurer. At the root of it is a desire for
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recognition, but recognition wakens other
desires. Ulf Erdmann Ziegler was
born in 1959 in Neumünster /
Here you find everything you look for in Holstein. His novel Hamburger
Hochbahn earned him # 1 on the
Ulf Erdmann Ziegler’s novels: the photo-
SWR-Bestseller List. Ziegler was
graphic gaze, the quick rhythm, the in- awarded the Friedrich-Hebbel-
terest in the abyss, the empathy for his Prize in 2008. In 2012, his novel
characters. These short stories are what Nichts Weißes, »a new style of
the sketchbook would be to a painter. The realistic narrative« (German
Book Prize Jury), was published
unlikely finds its place there, exaggera-
and was later nominated for
tion and wit and sensibility. They sketch the German Book Prize and
an image of a restless world and fit to- the Wilhelm Raabe Prize for
gether like puzzle pieces in a jigsaw of Literature. Ulf Erdmann Ziegler
today’s society. lives in Frankfurt am Main.
Selected Backlist:
Und jetzt du, Orlando! (2014)
Nichts Weißes (2012)
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 Literary Fiction

Serhij Zhadan
The Orphanage
»If you want to understand what happened in Eastern Ukraine,
you have to read Serhij Zhadan’s books.« FAZ
A young teacher plans on bringing his Serhij Zhadan
13-year-old nephew home from the boarding The Orphanage
school at the other end of town. The school, Novel
in which his working sister has »parked« (Original title: Інтернат,
published in Fall 2017
her son, has come under fire and no longer
by Meridian Czernowitz,
offers security. Crossing the town, in which
Chernivtsi)
civil life has broken down, takes a whole day.
(Translated German title:
Internat. Roman)
The return trip becomes a test. The two of
300 pages
them find themselves in the immediate
Clothbound
vicinity of the fighting without being able Release of the German edition
to see further than the milky fog ablaze by Suhrkamp: March 2018
with yellow fires. There’s the rat-a-tat of
machine guns, exploding mines, more English sample available
frequently than the day before. Paramilitary
troops, ownerless dogs appear in the ruins, International Sales:
apathetic people are stumbling through an Leipzig English world rights
apocalyptic urban landscape confused and Book Fair (Yale UP), France (Noir
disoriented. Prize 2018 sur Blanc), Italy (Voland),
Poland (Czarne),
With incredibly powerful images, Serhij
Romanian rights
Zhadan describes how a once familiar
(Cartier), Belorussia
environment turns into an eerie setting.
His art of telling the stories of defiant peo- (Januškevič Publishing
ple who counter fear and destruction with House), Georgia
their assertiveness and their sense of re- (Intelekti)
sponsibility is at least equally as striking.
Serhij Zhadan was born in 1974
His examination of the war in the Donbass
near Luhansk in Eastern Ukraine,
finds its preliminary culmination in his and studied German Studies at
novel The Orphanage. Kharkiv University. Since 1991
he has been one of the leading
writers of Kharkiv’s literary
scene and has developed into
Photo: Isolde Ohlbaum

one of the most important and

renowned contemporary Ukrainian
intellectuals.

Prizes and Awards (selection):

For Mesopotamia:
Selected Backlist:
ANGELUS Literary
Mesopotamia (Klub simejnogo dozvillja, 2014) (German: Mesopotamien) International Sales: English world Award 2015 (Poland)
rights (Yale UP), France (Noir sur Blanc), Italy (Voland), Denmark (Jensen & Dalgaard), Norway (Pax), Poland For Voroshilovgrad:
(Czarne), Georgia (Intelekti) Voroshilovgrad (Folio, 2010) (German: Die Erfindung des Jazz im Donbass) Brücke Berlin Prize for
International Sales: English world rights (Deep Vellum), Russia (Astrel), Arabic world rights (Here&There), France Literature and Translations 2014
(Noir sur Blanc), Italy (Voland), Netherlands (De Geus), Poland (Czarne), Hungary (Europa), Bulgaria (Paradox), BBC Ukraine Book of the

Academic Non-Fiction
Republic of Moldova/Romanian rights (Cartier), Latvia (Janis Roze), Slovenia (Beletrina), Belarus (Logvinau), Decade 2014
Georgia (Intelekti) Anarchy in the UKR (Folio, 2005) (German: Anarchy in the UKR) International Sales: Russia BBC Ukraine Book of the
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(Amphora), France (Noir sur Blanc), Sweden (2244/Bonniers), Norway (Pax), Lithuania (Kitos Knygos), Poland Year 2010
(Czarne)
 Current Affairs / Reportage

Wolfgang Bauer
Fracture Zones
»Bauer pinpoints what is left out by the media and
politicians…« ORF on Über das Meer
It is the year 2018. While in Europe people Wolfgang Bauer
are still living in a comfort zone, war rages in Fracture Zones
other regions of the world, state institutions Reportages
crumble, millions of people are suffering (Original title: Bruchzone.
Krisenreportagen)
from hunger. The Zeit newspaper journalist,
349 pages
Wolfgang Bauer has been exploring these
Paperback
fracture zones for years. In his new book,
Release: September 2018
he arranges his most penetrating reportage
pieces: the North Korean ghost-ships that Rights available
wash up on the west coast of Japan; the
»Maniac«, a serial killer in Russia’s Volga Wolfgang Bauer, born in 1970,
region; or the odyssey of Pakistani sailors works for the weekly German

Photo: Die Zeit

fallen into the hands of pirates at the Horn of newspaper Die Zeit. He has
been awarded the Katholischer
Africa. However, this book does also contain
Medienpreis (the Catholic Media
stories of hope, such as the IT consultant Prize) for his reportage writing,
from Minnesota who returns to his Somali as well as the Reemtsma Liberty
homeland to found a state. Award and the Prix Bayeux-
Calvados des Correspondants de
Guerre. Stolen Girls was awarded
Bauer’s reports reveal political and so-
the Nannen Prize 2016 for Best
cial reality up-close in all its complexity. Documentary.
His manner of telling individual stories,
unpicking them to illustrate the social Selected Backlist:
and historic backgrounds of regional Über das Meer (2014)
conflicts, is expertly. He consistently International Sales: English
achieves that delicate balance: hope free world rights (And Other Stories),
of naivety, empathy free of kitsch. Spanish world rights (Capitán
Swing), Chinese complex rights
(Ye-ren), Arabic world rights
(Al-Arabi), French world rights
(Lux Éditeur), Italy (La Nuova
Frontiera), Poland (Czarne),
With reportage from: Syria, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Czech Republic (Grada), Croatia
(Sandorf), Turkey (Ayrinti)
Pakistan, Russia and the Ukraine, South Sudan,
Die geraubten Mädchen (2016)
»An absolute expert, Bauer draws us into a world he can explain Somalia, North Korea and Japan, and Sierra Leone. International Sales: English world

with all its horrors. In that regard, in explaining, describing and rights (The New Press; English
audiobook sublicense: Recorded
analysing, alert, with a clear mind and elegant style, he goes way Books), Arabic world rights (Al-

beyond television’s blurry images of war and catastrophe.«

Arabi), Italy (La Nuova Frontiera),
Netherlands (Walburg Pers),
Roland Müller, Stuttgarter Zeitung on Geraubte Mädchen Poland (Czarne), Czech Republic
(Grada), Turkey (Ginko)

»I strongly recommend this book that tells tragic, heartbreaking,

unbelievable stories of stolen girls in Nigeria.«
Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize winner on Geraubte Mädchen
 Philosophy
Ernst Bloch
The Spirit of Utopia
A German Classic celebrates its 100th anniversary
In the summer of 1918 the world is Ernst Bloch
knee-deep in blood: the war has already The Spirit of Utopia
claimed millions of victims, the Spanish (Original title: Geist der
flu is spreading, in Russia the revolution Utopie)
437 pages
is turning into a civil war. The old order
Clothbound
of Europe is teetering and about to fall. A
Release of the original
whole generation – the Generation Y of the
edition: July 1918
last century – is standing on its shattered
remains and gazing into an uncertain future.
International Sales:
In the summer of 1918 the publishing house
Duncker & Humblot releases a young man’s English world rights
book that causes a sensation: Ernst Bloch’s (Stanford Univer-
The Spirit of Utopia. In the face of the horror, sity Press), Brazilian
inspired by the philosophical currents of Portuguese rights
(Editora 34), France
the turn of the century and animated by the
alternative life visions of the reformers and (Gallimard), Italy (RCS
anarchists of Monte Verità, Bloch describes Libri), Macedonia (Ars
the human being as possessing a radical Studio)
talent capable of Utopia.
Ernst Bloch (1885-1977),
It is a work that captures his time in- one of the most scintillating
intellectuals of the twentieth
comparably in thought and words, unre-
century and one of the most
strained and rigorous, socialist and mes- influential thinkers for the
sianic, dark and full of hope. The time is »1968« movement, ended his
ripe for its rediscovery. academic career as Professor
of Philosophy at the University
of Tübingen. His work is
published by Suhrkamp Verlag.
Selected Backlist:
Das Prinzip Hoffnung (1985)
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Press), UK (Blackwell), Spanish
world rights (Trotta), Chinese
simplex rights (Shanghai
Translation), Arabic world rights
(Sotoor), France (Gallimard),
Korea (Open Books), Japan
(Hakusuisha), Turkey (Iletisim)
»In German intellectual history, there are not
many first books that caused such a great stir as
The Spirit of Utopia.« Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Philosophy / Phenomenology
Hans Blumenberg
Phenomenological Writings 1981-1988
Hans Blumenberg: 100th Birthday on 13.07.2020
On the 27th of April 1988, the 50th Hans Blumenberg
anniversary of the death of Edmund Husserl, Phenomenological
Hans Blumenberg noted: »The century now Writings 1981-1988
rushing towards its end will be regarded Edited by Nicola Zambon
(Original title:
with hindsight by philosophy-historians
Phänomenologische
as the ›century‹ of Phenomenology.« This
Schriften 1981-1988)
prognosis is also an indicator of his own
approx. 519 pages
philosophical legacy: a phenomenological Release: October 2018
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throughout his lifelong debate with the Rights available
philosophy of Husserl. A highly productive
phase of this debate dates back to the Hans Blumenberg (1920-
beginning of the 1980s after Blumenberg 1996) was Professor of
had completed his major studies of metaphor Philosophy at the University of
Münster.
and myth and had began to devote himself
intensely to anthropological questions.
Selected Backlist:
The writings in this volume, all of them Schriften zur Literatur 1945-
1958 (2017)
published for the first time, document
Die Legitimität der Neuzeit
this phase in a comprehensive manner.
(1996) International Sales:
Two major themes become apparent: English world rights (MIT),
Blumenberg’s continuous fine-tuning of Spanish world rights (Pre-
Husserl’s method being one, the other Textos), Chinese simplex rights
being the development of a description of (SPPH), Brazilian Portuguese
rights (Via Veritas), Arabic
man rooted in phenomenology, one that,
world rights (Arab Network
as is apparent today, still awaits its match for Research and Publishing),
in the 20th century. France (Gallimard), Italy
(Marietti), Korea (Saemulgyul),
Japan (Hosei UP), Serbia (Zoran
Stojanovic)
Arbeit am Mythos (1979)
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world rights (MIT), Spanish
world rights (Paidos), Chinese
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simplex rights (Horizon), Italy
(Il Mulino – published, rights
reverted), Japan (Hosei UP),
Poland (Oficyna Naukowa),
Croatia (Sandorf)
»Phenomenology is not anthropological in the sense of
what it can achieve and what it consists of, but rather from
the respect of what it does not contain.«
 Contemporary History Philosophy

Felix Bohr Axel Honneth

The War Criminals’ Lobby Recognition
The eternal desire to draw a line under it The history of one of the central European ideas

Immediately after the Second World War, Felix Bohr In his new book, Axel Honneth traces the Axel Honneth
National Socialist war criminals were taken The War Criminals’ idea of recognition and the diversity of Recognition
into custody by many Western European Lobby meanings it has taken on since the begin- A European History
countries. Given the Federal Republic of West German aid for Nazi- ning of modernity in Europe. Referencing of Ideas
perpetrators taken into (Original title: Anerken-
Germany’s links to the West, the majority three powerful schools of thought – the
custody abroad nung. Eine europäische
were released. In Italy and the Netherlands French, the British and the German – he
(Original title: Die Ideen-geschichte)
alone, five Germans remained in police traces the way it has in each case expe-
Kriegsverbrecherlobby. 238 pages
custody: SS man Herbert Kappler as the Bundesdeutsche Hilfe für rienced entirely different philosophical Clothbound
Gestapo commander responsible for the im Ausland inhaftierte interpretations and sociopolitical expres- Release: June 2018
Ardeatine massacre, and the »Breda Four« NS-Täter) sions due to various sociopolitical chal-
who had played a significant role in the approx. 600 pages lenges. International Sales:
murder of Dutch Jews. High-ranking German Clothbound English world rights
politicians, among them the social democrat Release: October 2018 While in France the term reconnaissance
(Cambridge UP),
German Chancellors Brandt and Schmidt, is associated with the danger of the
Spanish world rights
aided in securing their release. Rights available individual’s loss of self, in Britain the
process of recognition is considered to be (Akal), Chinese simplex
Felix Bohr, born in 1982, is an the condition for normative self-control; in rights (Shanghai
Felix Bohr outlines the Federal Republic’s
historian and journalist. The
Germany Anerkennung denotes the total People's Publishing
activity on behalf of the Nazi perpetrators War Criminals’ Lobby is his first
arrested abroad. He reveals how church implementation of genuine respect among House), France
book.
groups, veterans associations and diplomats people as well. It is astonishing that none (Gallimard), Italy
formed an influential network of interests of these three meanings, whose roots can (Feltrinelli), Korea
that offered legal and financial help. While be traced back to the 17th century, has (Nanam), Japan (Hosei
victims of the Nazi regime struggled for re- lost any of its impact in the present. This UP)
entry into society and restitution, the lobby study explores whether they are currently
organized support for the war criminals at complementing one another or rather Axel Honneth, born 1949, is Jack
C. Weinstein Professor of the Hu-
the highest political level. Based on sources hindering each other, at the same time as it
manities at Columbia University
hitherto inaccessible, Bohr directs an all- contributes to the clarification of our current New York, Managing Director of
encompassing gaze toward a chapter of West political and cultural self-understanding. Frankfurt’s renowned Institute of
Germany’s history that has been narrowly Social Research and Professor
Emeritus of Philosophy at the
explored until now.
Goethe University in Frankfurt/
Prizes and Awards (selection): Main.
Bruno-Kreisky-Preis 2015 Selected Backlist:
Ernst-Bloch-Preis 2015
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Photo: Jürgen Bauer

Kampf um Anerkennung (1992)
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Publishing House), Brazil (Editora
34), Arabic world rights (Librairie
Orientale), France (du Cerf), Italy
(Il Saggiatore), Denmark (Reitzels),
Norway (Pax), Korea (April Books),
Japan (Hosei UP), Poland (Nomos),
Serbia (Albatros), Turkey (Ithaki),
Iran (Nashr e Now)

Eva Illouz
Unloving
»To see what is in front of one’s nose needs
a constant struggle.« George Orwell
Western culture has endlessly represented
the ways in which love miraculously erupts
in people’s lives – the mythical moment in
which one knows someone is destined to us,
the feverish waiting for a phone call or an
email, the thrill that runs our spine at the
mere thought of him or her. To be in love is
to become an adept of Plato, to see through
a person an idea, perfect and complete.
Endless novels, poems, or movies teach us
the art of becoming Plato’s disciples, loving
the perfection manifested by the beloved.
Yet, a culture that has so much to say
about love is far more silent on the no less
mysterious moment when we avoid falling in
love, where we fall out of love, when the one
who kept us awake at night now leaves us
indifferent, when we hurry away from those
who excited us a few months or a few hours
ago.
Unloving is Eva Illouz’ last instalment in a
two-decades-long study on the ways in which
capitalism and the culture of modernity have
transformed our emotional and romantic
life. It inquires into the cultural and social
conditions which explain what has become
an ordinary feature of sexual and romantic
relations: leaving them. What are the cultural
and emotional mechanisms that make people
revise, undo, reject, and avoid relationships?
What is the emotional dynamic by which a
romantic preference changes? By drawing
on a wide range of sources – from Émile
Durkheim to Jane Austen, from Karl Marx
to Lena Dunham – and forcefully engaging
with the question of emotional and sexual
freedom, she reveals the choice to unchoose
as a crucial modality of subjectivity – and
unloving as one of the pivotal conditions of
relationships in the era of radical personal
freedom.
Sociology
Eva Illouz
Unloving
A Sociology of Negative
Relations
(Translated German title:
Warum Liebe endet. Eine
Soziologie negativer
Beziehungen)
approx. 400 pages
Clothbound
Release of the German
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October 2018
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English world rights
(Oxford UP),
»I don’t ask people about Spanish world (Katz
Editores), France (Seuil)
socialism, I ask about love,
jealousy, childhood, old age. Eva Illouz, born in 1961 in
[…] This is the only way Morocco, is Professor at the
Department of Sociology and
to chase the catastrophe Anthropology at the Hebrew
into the framework of the University of Jerusalem.
mundane and attempt to Selected Backlist:
tell a story.« Svetlana Alexievich, Why Love Hurts (2011)
International Sales: Spanish
Secondhand Time
world rights (Katz), Chinese
simplex rights (East China
»Why Love Hurts has all Normal UP), Chinese complex
the thrills of a murder rights (Linking), Brazilian
Portuguese rights (Zahar),
mystery, with the difference France (Seuil), Italy (Il Mulino),
that page after page the Netherlands (De Bezige Bij),
Sweden (Daidalos), Korea
reader is made aware of (Dolbegae), Poland (Krytyka
why she herself is a real life Polityczna), Romania (Art),
Croatia (Planetopija), Serbia
perpetrator or victim or both (Psihopolis Institut), Turkey (Zen
at once.« SZ on Why Love Hurts Kitabevi), Greece (Ekdoseis tou
Eikostou Protou), Israel (Keter)
Cold Intimacies (2006)
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(Oficyna Naukowa), Slovenia
(Krtina), Turkey (Iletisim), Greece
(Oposito), Israel (Hakkibutz
Hamecheud)
 Philosophy Political Science

Rahel Jaeggi Philip Manow

Progress and Regression The Political Economy of Populism
»Whoever utters populism, should also utter capitalism.«

Progress denotes social change towards a Rahel Jaeggi Populism is a multifarious phenomenon. Philip Manow
situation in which conditions are becoming Progress and Regression Sometimes from the right, sometimes from The Political Economy of
not only different, but better – by abolishing (Original title: Fortschritt the left; sometimes it articulates a protest Populism
slavery, for example, or declaring rape und Regression) against open markets, sometimes it turns (Original title: Die
approx. 200 pages politische Ökonomie des
within a marriage a crime. Many would against migration. Also in its geographic
Clothbound Populismus)
agree to that, and yet, the notion of a general distribution it is rich in variance: in
Release: March 2019 approx. 160 pages
social progress has lost its appeal. It even southern Europe leftist populism holds
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inclination to evaluate the increase of Philip Manow develops a comparative
authoritarian resentments and right-wing Rahel Jaeggi is Professor of explanation for this initially contradictory- Rights available
populist movements as a kind of regression Practical Philosophy at the seeming picture. The trigger is created by
grows. Humboldt University, Berlin. the respective economic models of growth, Philip Manow, born in 1963,
the composition of the labour market and is Professor of Politics at the
In her book, Rahel Jaeggi defends the Selected Backlist: the social state, and, in short, the respective University of Bremen.
conceptual pair of progress and regres- Entfremdung. Zur Aktualität political economy. It becomes clear: Whoever
Selected Backlist:
sion as a vital socio-philosophical tool eines sozialphilosophischen wants to talk about populism but leaves out
for the diagnosis and the criticism of our Problems (2016) capitalism, will always end up with identity Im Schatten des Königs
(2008) International Sales:
times. It is not the final result that she Kritik von Lebensformen politics – and will inevitably themselves
English world rights (Polity),
considers progressive or regressive, but (2013) International Sales: become party to the conflict. Russia (Gaidar Institute for
first and foremost the shape of the social English world rights (Harvard UP)
Economic Policy)
transformation processes themselves.
By asking about the dynamics of social
change as well as blocked experiences
that promote regressive tendencies, she
develops a concept of progress that is ma-
terialistic and pluralistic, i.e. thoroughly
emancipatory and contemporary.
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 Literary Theory
Gershom Scholem
Poetica
Writings on Literature, Translations and Poetry
Gershom Scholem’s name goes beyond the Gershom Scholem
frontiers of Jewish Studies into the history Poetica
of Jewish mysticism and Messianic Judaism. Writings on Literature,
It is less well known that during his lifetime Translations and Poetry
Edited and with notes
Scholem was intensely involved with poetry
by Herbert Kopp-
and translation as well as with philological
Oberstebrink, Hannah
questions on the theory of language. This
Markus, Martin Treml and
edition shows the literary side of the famous Sigrid Weigel
academic. It provides a comprehensive and (Original title: Poetica.
systematic insight for the first time into the Schriften zur Literatur,
work of the literary man and the translator, Übersetzungen und
the intellectual and critic, by collecting Gedichte)
together Scholem’s Poetica in six sections approx. 600 pages
and providing detailed commentary on the Clothbound
individual texts. Release: November 2018
Gershom Scholem appears here as a vi- Rights available
brant intellectual of Israel, who gets in-
volved and intervenes in contemporary Gershom Scholem, 1897-
1982, established a new strand
debates about authors in the country and
of research through his work:
those in the diaspora, as analytical as he
the academic exploration of
is enthusiastic. Jewish mysticism, that opened
up a new understanding
of Jewish history. His work
has been translated into 40
languages. His exchange of
letters with Walter Benjamin
and Hannah Arendt are
legendary.
Selected Backlist:
Hannah Arendt/Gershom
Scholem: Correspondence
(2010) International Sales:
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English world rights (Chicago
UP), Spanish world rights
(Trotta), France (Seuil), Japan
(Iwanami Shoten), Israel (Babel)
Theodor W. Adorno/
Gershom Scholem: »Der
liebe Gott wohnt im Detail«.
Correspondence (2015)
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world rights (Eterna Cadencia)
Notebooks
Peter Sloterdijk
New Lines and Days
More than 30.000 copies of the first volume Lines and Days.
Notes 2008-2011 sold
After a longer time (of reflection), Peter Peter Sloterdijk
Sloterdijk has succumbed to the inevitable. New Lines and Days
No one who has read Lines and Days, the Notes 2011-2013
previous book that was hyped by readers (Original title: Neue Zeilen
und Tage. Notizen 2011-
and reviewers, could resist demanding a
2013)
sequel. Nor the temptation to make the
approx. 540 pages
private public, and vice versa.
Clothbound
Release: November 2018
His notes stand out from those of the
blogger and internet-diary writers through
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their analytical precision, the power of
his words, the awareness of language, the Peter Sloterdijk was born
erudition, aphorisms, humour, the lyrical in 1947 and is Professor of
tone … Each day Peter Sloterdijk observes Aesthetics and Philosophy
the sense and purpose of daily note-taking at the Institute of Design in
Karlsruhe. The unmistakable
on time and people and explains himself in
characteristic of Peter
a characteristically ironic fashion: »Why? Sloterdijk’s thought and
I am probably living beneath the gaze of a writings is the way he embeds
transcendental observer, who doesn’t have current issues in a long
a particularly high opinion of me. My inner history. This way, he succeeds
observer is no journalist.« in redefining the current
human condition, visualizes
it from a hitherto unknown
If Goethe can publish New Songs and perspective, and finds evidence
Heine and Rilke New Poems, then Peter for unexpected or unsought
Sloterdijk can definitely publish New connections.
Lines and Days. They establish, away
Selected Backlist:
from rough jotters, sketchbooks, or col-
lections of ideas, a genre of their own Nach Gott (2017) International
with a name: the archiving of the lived Sales: English world rights
(Polity), Spanish world rights
and reflected-upon day.
(Siruela), Brazilian Portuguese
rights (Vozes), Italy (Cortina);
Domestic Rights Sales: German
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Book Club (WBG)
Zeilen und Tage (2012)
»What book shall one International Sales: English
day follow on from the world rights (Semiotexte),
France (Libella/Maren Sell)
Notes from 2008 to Zorn und Zeit (2006)
2011, such incredibly International Sales: English
world rights (Polity), Spanish
worthwhile reading?« world rights (Siruela), Brazilian
Julia Encke, Frankfurter Portuguese rights (Vozes), Italy
(Cortina); Domestic Rights
Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
Sales: German Book Club
(WBG)
 Sociology

Nominated
for the Leipzig
Book Fair Prize
Andreas Reckwitz
2018
The Society of Singularities
The Explosion of the Particular
25.000 copies sold
The particular is the clincher and the Andreas Reckwitz
unique is prized while the general and The Society of
the standardized remain, on the contra- Singularities
ry, rather unattractive. The average per- On the Structural
Transformation of the
son with his or her average life is suspi-
Modern
cious. The new measure of all things is
(Original title: Die
the authentic subject with original inter-
Gesellschaft der
ests and a carefully crafted biography, as Singularitäten. Zum
well as unmistakable goods and events, Strukturwandel der
communities and cities. Late modernity Moderne)
celebrates the singular. 480 pages

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Reckwitz examines the process of
singularization and how it is playing out International Sales:
at the beginning of the 21st century in English world rights
economics, the world of work, network (Polity), Chinese
culture, lifestyles, and politics. Through »Late modern society simplex rights (Social
a theory of modernity he shows how has become the Sciences Academic
closely this process is intertwined with place of the culturally singular Press), Denmark
the culturalization of the social sphere, the
contradictory dynamics it exhibits, and
and infrastructure (Reitzels), Korea

what constitutes its flip side. The society
of the singular does not simply recognize
glowing victors. It produces its very
own injustices, paradoxes, and losers. A
groundbreaking book.
of the particular.« (Saemulgyul),
Andreas Reckwitz, born in
Bayerischer Buchpreis 2017 1970, is Professor of Cultural
Sociology at Europa-Universität
Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder.

Selected Backlist:

»The Society of Singularities is the first to show Die Erfindung der

Kreativität. Zum Prozess
a recognizable and convincing image of what gesellschaftlicher

underlies our coexistence.« Süddeutsche Zeitung Ästhetisierung (2012)

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world rights (Polity), Denmark
»Reckwitz’s theory is impressive. A discussion in (Reitzels), Korea (Saemulgyul),
Poland (National Centre for
society as a whole is almost unavoidable.« Culture)
Der Tagesspiegel

»Those wanting to understand our time should

definitely read Andreas Reckwitz.«
Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Photo: Susanne Schleyer
 Contacts

Nora Mercurio
Rights Director
English World, Spanish World,
Portugal, Israel, India
Phone +49 30 740744 231
mercurio@suhrkamp.de

Edith Baller
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
Phone +49 30 740744 354
baller@suhrkamp.de

Felix Dahm
Arabic countries, Hungary, Bulgaria,
Slovak Republic, Czech Republic,
Romania, Moldova, Turkey, Africa
Phone +49 30 740744 233
dahm@suhrkamp.de

Petra Hardt
Russia, Brazil, France &
Francophonia, Italy,
Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia,
Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro,
Belorussia
Phone +49 30 740744 230
hardt@suhrkamp.de

Christoph Hassenzahl
Scandinavia, Netherlands,
France & Francophonia,
Poland, Greece, Ukraine, Georgia,
Armenia, Azerbaidzhan,
Asia (Central, East, Southeast,
South, excluding India), Iran
Phone +49 30 740744 232
hassenzahl@suhrkamp.de

Editorial deadline for sales figures and rights deals: August 17th, 2018