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Die Nibelungen

The Nibelungs

The Nibelungs, written around 1200, is the most famous and most influential German heroic epic. It is part of the canon of the great works of world literature alongside Homer’s Iliad or Vergil’s Aeneid and was the basis for countless literary, musical, artistic and cinematic adaptations. Ever since the global success of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, it has also found its way into modern popular culture.

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Reineke Fuchs

Reineke Fox

Like every year, King Nobel is calling all animals to the great court council right in time for Pentecost. Only one is missing: Reineke Fox. Because he is accused of countless crimes: »If Reineke were dead, we could all live in peace.« He finally faces his trial, but in the end it’s not justice that is victorious but the most cunning and ruthless protagonist, the most talented liar …

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Briefwechsel 1930–1940

Gretel Adorno, Walter Benjamin

Gretel Adorno / Walter Benjamin: Correspondence 1930 - 1940

The correspondence between Gretel Adorno and Walter Benjamin began in 1930, but only after Benjamin’s emigration to France did it reach its full intensity, standing not only as a testament to the intellectual Berlin of the twenties, but also as a document of a great friendship that existed independently of the relationship between Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno.

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Die schönsten Märchen

Hans Christian Andersen

The Greatest Fairy Tales

H. C. Andersen’s Fairy Tales Told for Children have been translated into more than 80 languages to date and belong among the finest and most popular collections of fairy tales world literature has to offer. This edition published in the Insel-Bücherei presents his best and most famous stories – including classics like »The Emperor’s New Clothes«, »The Princess and the Pea«, »The Steadfast Tin Soldier« and »The Little Match Girl« – alongside wonderous and imaginative illustrations by renowned illustrator Henriette Sauvant – enchanting for children and adults alike.

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Text by Hans Christian Andersen in the public domain, illustration rights available

Geheimnis

Juri Andruchowytsch

Secret

Rarely do the private and the political intertwine so closely as in this ironic portrait of an author who doesn't trust himself an inch.

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Das letzte Territorium

Juri Andruchowytsch

The Last Territory

On our literary map that is hardly even an outline of the Ukraine, the second largest country in Europe. Andruchowytsch, the internationally best known Ukraine author takes the limited knowledge of his audience in West Europe and the United States seriously and in a series of brilliant essays familiarizes them more closely with a forgotten region in Central Europe.

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Die Lieblinge der Justiz

Juri Andruchowytsch

Justice’s Darlings

Justice’s Darlings, these are crimes and criminals, real and alleged: Bohdan Stashynsky, for example, a KGB officer and assassin who kills the Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera in his exile in Munich, but then flees to the West with an East-German hairdresser he is in love with and turns himself in to the authorities.

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Moscoviada

Juri Andruchowytsch

Moscoviada

Moscoviada, Andruchowytsch’s most successful book, translated into many languages, was written in Spring 1992 on the banks of Lake Starnberg outside Munich – and is surprisingly topical today.

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Perversion

Juri Andruchowytsch

Perversion

The godchild of Rabelais and Bakhtin, Bulgakov and Esterházy, it is a whirligig of forms, styles, and apocryphal traditions – an adventure for readers who view life not as something to lament and despair over, but as something worth celebrating joyfully with a good book.

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Zwölf Ringe

Juri Andruchowytsch

Twelve Rings

In the 1990s, Karl-Joseph Zumbrunnen, an Austrian photographer with Galician roots, travels repeatedly through the Ukraine. The birth pangs of this new state, the incongruous mixture of brutally tasteless commercialization, backward Hutsul folklore, re-Sovietization and Habsburg nostalgia fascinates him.

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Mein Europa

Juri Andruchowytsch, Andrzej Stasiuk

My Europe

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All die unbewohnten Zimmer

Friedrich Ani

All The Empty Rooms

In Friedrich Ani’s new novel, »the four« must spring into action: Polonius Fischer (the former monk), Tabor Süden (the returned missing person’s investigator), Jakob Franck (the former inspector, now retired, but still the deliverer of the worst news) and Fariza Nasri (the civil servant with Syrian roots, saved from her banishment to the provinces). All of them must employ their unique methods to solve the murder of a woman and the beating death of a police officer, incidents which receive great attention after igniting social and political debates (coming from the right) about the incompetence of the police, migrant children, east and west Germany, and »the system«.

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Ermordung des Glücks

Friedrich Ani

Killing Happiness - Novel

Happiness is extinguished completely when 11-year-old Lennard Grabbe doesn’t come home one night during the cold November days in Munich. 34 days later, he is found the victim of a murderer. Former Detective Chief Superintendent Jakob Franck, protagonist of Ani’s previous novel Day Without a Name, delivers the most horrible news of all to the parents – and so, happiness disappears from their house. And so does the happiness of other people connected to Lennard.

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Nackter Mann, der brennt

Friedrich Ani

Naked Man Burning

At the age of fourteen, a boy flees from the southern German village of Heiligsheim. Forty years later, he returns under the name of Ludwig »Luggi« Dragomir. The tough times he has had to live through since leaving his native village are not enough to prevent the constant reliving of something even more sinister: the abuse perpetrated on him and his childhood friends by some of the most influential people of Heiligsheim.

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Der namenlose Tag

Friedrich Ani

Day Without a Name

Detective Chief Superintendent Jakob Franck has been retired for two months and feels that he can now start to lead a life in which he leaves behind the dead - until a case from his past catches up with him.

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Der Narr und seine Maschine

Friedrich Ani

The Fool and His Machine

Tabor Süden started out as a policeman before moving into private detective work, becoming an experienced specialist in missing persons cases. What he really wanted was to walk away forever from investigative work after the last case in which one of his colleagues lost his life.

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Nanettes Gedächtnis

Friedmar Apel

Nanette's Memory

The bookseller Nanette is a memory artist, who has lost her synesthetic abilities following a mysterious incident. Consequently she is of more interest to a well-known Russian brain researcher, who asks her to write down her story.

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Salzburger Bachmann Edition

Ingeborg Bachmann

The Book Goldmann

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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Kriegstagebuch

Ingeborg Bachmann

War Diary

The present volume for the first time compiles the war diary Ingeborg Bachmann kept from late summer 1944 to June 1945, as well as the surviving letters from Jack Hamesh – a unique document of dialogue between the children of the victims and the perpetrators.

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Malina

Ingeborg Bachmann

Malina

»In Malina, originally published in German in 1971, Ingeborg Bachmann invites the reader into a world stretched to the very limits of language. An unnamed narrator, a writer in Vienna, is torn between two men: viewed through the tilting prism of obsession, she travels further into her own madness, anxiety, and genius. Malina explores love, ›deathstyles,‹ the roots of fascism, and passion.« (book description from the new U.S. edition by New Directions)

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