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What is Sexual Capital?

Dana Kaplan, Eva Illouz
What is Sexual Capital?

Aesthetics of Installation Art

Juliane Rebentisch
Aesthetics of Installation Art

Woodcutters

Thomas Bernhard
Woodcutters

Leavetaking

Peter Weiss
Leavetaking

The Barb of the Digital

Sybille Krämer
The Barb of the Digital

My Father’s Sea

Deniz Utlu
My Father’s Sea

Slates

Esther Kinsky
Slates

The Third Reich of Dreams

Charlotte Beradt
The Third Reich of Dreams

And I Shook Myself a Beloved

Friederike Mayröcker
And I Shook Myself a Beloved

The Poverty of Our Freedom

Axel Honneth
The Poverty of Our Freedom

The Continent without Qualities

Peter Sloterdijk
The Continent without Qualities

The Emotional Life of Populism

Eva Illouz
The Emotional Life of Populism

Theory of Non-Conceptuality

Hans Blumenberg
Theory of Non-Conceptuality

Critique of Cynical Reason

Peter Sloterdijk
Critique of Cynical Reason

Mahler

Theodor W. Adorno
Mahler

A Space Bounded by Shadows

Emine Sevgi Özdamar
A Space Bounded by Shadows

Malina

Ingeborg Bachmann
Malina

The Walk

Robert Walser
The Walk

Old Masters

Thomas Bernhard
Old Masters

Correction

Thomas Bernhard
Correction
Dana Kaplan, Eva Illouz
What is Sexual Capital?
Juliane Rebentisch
Aesthetics of Installation Art
Thomas Bernhard
Woodcutters
Peter Weiss
Leavetaking

Autumn 2025 Fiction & Creative Non-Fiction

In the Heart of the Cat

Jina Khayyer
In the Heart of the Cat

Son of a Dog

Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç
Son of a Dog

Asa

Zoran Drvenkar
Asa

Into the Dark

Angela Steidele
Into the Dark

Colder

Andreas Pflüger
Colder

Half Serving

Elisabeth Pape
Half Serving

»What Are We Going to Do With Our Lives?«

Ingeborg Bachmann, Heinrich Böll
»What Are We Going to Do With Our Lives?«

Cease-Fire

Serhij Zhadan
Cease-Fire

Sand and Time

Alexander Kluge
Sand and Time

starve pray sob swim

Sirka Elspaß
starve pray sob swim

murder ballads

Juliane Liebert
murder ballads

Oskar Fiala and the Principle of the Smallest Effect

Oswald Egger
Oskar Fiala and the Principle of the Smallest...

A Hiding Place

Friedrich Ani
A Hiding Place

Among Poets

Michael Krüger
Among Poets

The White Umbrella

Brian Sewell
The White Umbrella
Jina Khayyer
In the Heart of the Cat
Angela Steidele
Into the Dark

Autumn 2025 Non-Fiction & Academic

The Sound of Habsburg

Philipp Ther
The Sound of Habsburg

Three Hundred Men

Konstantin Richter
Three Hundred Men

Destructive Desires

Carolin Amlinger, Oliver Nachtwey
Destructive Desires

Situation and Constellation

Hartmut Rosa
Situation and Constellation

Democracy and the Division of Powers

Christoph Möllers
Democracy and the Division of Powers

Agents of Possibility

Sally Haslanger
Agents of Possibility

The Alarmists

Michael Butter
The Alarmists

Mattering to Others

Michael Zichy
Mattering to Others

Six Million, Do I Hear More?

Ben Salomo, Christoph Lemmer
Six Million, Do I Hear More?

Good and Evil

Sebastian Rödl
Good and Evil

Polarisation

Nils C. Kumkar
Polarisation

Systemic Crisis

Philipp Staab
Systemic Crisis

»Disability« and Society

Regina Schidel
»Disability« and Society

Laypeople

Fran Osrečki
Laypeople
Philipp Ther
The Sound of Habsburg
Konstantin Richter
Three Hundred Men
Hartmut Rosa
Situation and Constellation

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Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç Shortlisted for the ZDF-»aspekte« Literary Prize 2025

Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç has been nominated for his debut novel, Son of a Dog.
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Heike Geißler Nominated for the Bavarian Book Prize 2025

Heike Geißler made this year's shortlist for her book Despairs.
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Trailer for the Film Adaptation of Max Frisch's Novel I'm Not Stiller

On 30 October, director Stefan Haupt's adapation of Max Frisch's classic novel will hit cinemas in Germany.
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Jina Khayyer's In the Heart of the Cat Longlisted for the German Book Prize

Khayyer's debut novel has been longlisted for the country's most prestigious literary award. 
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Elisabeth Pape Shortlisted for the NEXT.GEN: new voices Debut Prize

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Heike Geißler Receives the Klopstock Prize for 2025

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Serhij Zhadan Awarded the 2025 Austrian State Prize for European Literature

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Emma Braslavsky Receives the Thuringia Literary Prize 2025

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