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Guldenberg / Guldenberg
Novel
16.000 copies sold in its first month of publication! More than 150.000 copies sold of Christoph Hein’s last three novels
Bad Guldenberg is everywhere
»The air is the best thing about Guldenberg, the city could bottle this air and sell it. We owe it to the surrounding forests and especially to the heath. The air tastes like tree resin and fir sprigs and heather. Breathing is easy here. Other than that, there are only those small houses, everything is low and crouched. That’s Guldenberg. If you want to be a highflyer here, you’ll get but a bloody nose.«
Bad Guldenberg is everywhere
»The air is the best thing about Guldenberg, the city could bottle this air and sell it. We owe it to the surrounding forests and especially to the heath. The air tastes like tree resin and fir sprigs and heather. Breathing is easy here. Other than that, there are only those small houses, everything is low and crouched. That’s Guldenberg. If you want to be a highflyer here, you’ll get but a bloody nose.«
In the small town of Bad Guldenberg the world is still alright. At least until a group of underage immigrants is given accommodation in the Old Seglerheim. The people of Guldenberg agree: The strangers simply don’t fit in and are causing nothing but trouble. As tensions rise, there are rude remarks and provocations and when the rumour that a young woman was raped spreads, everyone soon agrees that it must have been one of the young immigrants. And the people of Guldenberg will not stand for...
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In the small town of Bad Guldenberg the world is still alright. At least until a group of underage immigrants is given accommodation in the Old Seglerheim. The people of Guldenberg agree: The strangers simply don’t fit in and are causing nothing but trouble. As tensions rise, there are rude remarks and provocations and when the rumour that a young woman was raped spreads, everyone soon agrees that it must have been one of the young immigrants. And the people of Guldenberg will not stand for that…
Christoph Hein’s new novel paints a moral portrait of a society that is out of joint. Of people who see themselves as victims and become perpetrators as a result. Of the kind of racism we encounter every day.
»One of the sharpest eyes working in contemporary German literature.« Der Tagesspiegel
»The novel is both sorely current and timeless.« Carsten Otte, DIE ZEIT
»In Guldenberg Christoph Hein paints a seismographic picture of the present.« Cornelia Geissler, Berliner Zeitung
»In its almost snide, unwieldy language Guldenberg […] is an all the more potent story about the depravity of man.« Judith von Sternburg, Frankfurter Rundschau
»Christoph Hein undoubtedly belongs among the most creative contemporary German-language authors.« Ulf Heise, Freie Presse
»As a quiet, nonetheless keen observer he has accompanied, commentated and questioned [German history] since his beginnings in 1983 until today, both attentively and critically.« Peter Henning, Deutschlandfunk
»A well thought out, grippingly written and complex portrait of a small city in Germany that might – unfortunately – not be unusual.« Gerhard Klas, WDR
»Detailed storytelling with clear psychological depth and resonance.« Information (Denmark) on Glückskind mit Vater
»The novel is both sorely current and timeless.« Carsten Otte, DIE ZEIT
»In Guldenberg Christoph Hein paints a seismographic picture of the present.« Cornelia Geissler, Berliner Zeitung
»In its almost snide, unwieldy language Guldenberg […] is an all the more potent story about the depravity of man.« Judith von Sternburg, Frankfurter Rundschau
»Christoph Hein undoubtedly belongs among the most creative contemporary German-language authors.« Ulf Heise, Freie Presse
»As a quiet, nonetheless keen observer he has accompanied, commentated and questioned [German history] since his beginnings in 1983 until today, both attentively and critically.« Peter Henning, Deutschlandfunk
»A well thought out, grippingly written and complex portrait of a small city in Germany that might – unfortunately – not be unusual.« Gerhard Klas, WDR
»Detailed storytelling with clear psychological depth and resonance.« Information (Denmark) on Glückskind mit Vater
»One of the sharpest eyes working in contemporary German literature.« Der Tagesspiegel
»The novel is both sorely current and timeless.« Carsten Otte, DIE ZEIT
»In Guldenberg Christoph Hein paints a seismographic picture of the present.« Cornelia Geissler, Berliner Zeitung
»In its almost snide, unwieldy language Guldenberg […] is an all the more potent story about the...
»The novel is both sorely current and timeless.« Carsten Otte, DIE ZEIT
»In Guldenberg Christoph Hein paints a seismographic picture of the present.« Cornelia Geissler, Berliner Zeitung
»In its almost snide, unwieldy language Guldenberg […] is an all the more potent story about the...
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2021, 284 pages
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Christoph Hein
Author
Christoph Hein, born in 1944, lives in Berlin. He is the author of novels, novellas, short stories, plays, essays and children’s books. His most recent novels were on the Spiegel bestseller list for weeks. His most recent awards include the 2019 Prix du Meilleur livre étranger (for Glückskind mit Vater), the 2019 Samuel Bogumił Linde Prize and the 2017 Grimmelshausen Prize.
Christoph Hein
Author
Christoph Hein, born in 1944, lives in Berlin. He is the author of novels, novellas, short stories, plays, essays and children’s books. His...
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Year of Publication: 2023
Christoph HeinYear of Publication: 2023
The Wild Horse Under the Stove
The cast of characters who sleep under the sofa in Jakob Borg’s room sure are a motley crew: there is Snout the donkey, who feels called to be a professor and loves nothing more than a good meal....
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Serbia (Čigoja štampa), Iran (Rahsaa Publications)
Year of Publication: 2023
Christoph HeinYear of Publication: 2023
Underneath the Dust of Time
The late 1950s in the divided Germany: as the son of a pastor, 14-year-old Daniel is barred from taking the Abitur, the secondary school leaving examination, in his East German hometown and so he...
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Year of Publication: 2019
Christoph HeinYear of Publication: 2019
Counter Eavesdropping
He is considered the chronicler of German-German relationships, the precise dissector of a formerly divided nation which still hasn’t found its way back together completely, and as...
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Year of Publication: 2018
Christoph HeinYear of Publication: 2018
Befuddlement
Friedeward loves Wolfgang. And Wolfgang loves Friedeward. They are young, enjoying the summer vacation, cycle the long way to the sea, discuss all the subjects under the sun. They are happy when...
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France (Métailié)
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Year of Publication: 2017
Christoph HeinYear of Publication: 2017
Trutz
A brilliant chronicle of the lives of two families in 20th century Germany and Russia. The futile hope for an existence beyond misery and slavery. Encompassing an entire century, reflecting an entire century.
Trutz is a 20th century novel, the one written by novelist Rainer Trutz and the one written by Waldemar Gejm, a professor for mathematics and...
Year of Publication: 2016
Christoph HeinYear of Publication: 2016
Portrait of a Son With Father
What does Konstantin Boggosch, whom his mother described as »child of fortune«, owe to his father? In Christoph Hein’s new novel, which mobilises all the registers of his storytelling prowess and...
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Year of Publication: 2013
Christoph HeinYear of Publication: 2013
Ahead of Time
A new take on antiquity
In his latest work, Christoph Hein, the great chronicler of the present, fastidious recorder of the internal contradictions of the GDR and diagnostician of the flaws in the development of the unified Germany, turns his attention to the myths, gods, and tales of the deeds and misdeeds of antiquity. In his investigations he makes an exciting...
In his latest work, Christoph Hein, the great chronicler of the present, fastidious recorder of the internal contradictions of the GDR and diagnostician of the flaws in the development of the unified Germany, turns his attention to the myths, gods, and tales of the deeds and misdeeds of antiquity. In his investigations he makes an exciting...
Year of Publication: 2011
Christoph HeinYear of Publication: 2011
Weiskern's Legacy
Has life become a forgery?
Rüdiger Stolzenburg, 59 years old, has been working as a part-time adjunct at a cultural studies institute for the past fifteen years. His career...
Rüdiger Stolzenburg, 59 years old, has been working as a part-time adjunct at a cultural studies institute for the past fifteen years. His career...
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Year of Publication: 2007
Christoph HeinYear of Publication: 2007
Ms. Paula Trousseau
How do we become – or not become – the people that we have become? This is the fundamental question addressed in Christoph Hein’s novel, a novel that consistently views things...
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English world rights (Metropolitan), French world rights (Métailié), Italy (e/o), Hungary (Europa)
Year of Publication: 2005
Christoph HeinYear of Publication: 2005
In his early childhood, a garden
A political scandal erupts when a terrorist wanted throughout, Oliver Zureck, is fatally wounded in an exchange with border guards and the official report of suicide does not correspond to the...
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English world rights (Metropolitan), France (Métailié), Italy (e/o), Denmark (Gyldendal)
Year of Publication: 2005
Christoph HeinYear of Publication: 2005
Mama Has Gone
Ten-year-old Ulla lives with her brothers Karel and Paul, the dog Strolch and her parents. The father is a sculptor, the mother a director and Ulla’s best friend, beautiful and always laughing....
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Year of Publication: 2004
Christoph HeinYear of Publication: 2004
Settlement
Bernhard Haber is only ten years old when, in 1950, he moves with his parents from Wroclaw in Poland to a small town in Saxony – where the local inhabitants would prefer to see refugees and...
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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (e/o)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Book Club (Bertelsmann), German Book Club Special Edition (Büchergilde Gutenberg)
Year of Publication: 2000
Christoph HeinYear of Publication: 2000
Willenbrock
With utmost precision and apparent effortlessness, Christoph Hein paints a picture of our society as one in which, behind the facades, lurking catastrophes are only thinly concealed....
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English world rights (Metropolitan), Spanish world rights (Anagrama), France (Métailié), Italy (e/o), Denmark (Gyldendal), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Czech Republic (Volvox Globator), Bulgaria (Emas), Greece (Kastaniotis), Ukraine (Junivers)
Year of Publication: 1997
Christoph HeinYear of Publication: 1997
Von allem Anfang an
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French world rights (Métailié), Italy (e/o), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Korea (Thinking Tree)
Year of Publication: 1989
Christoph HeinYear of Publication: 1989
The Tango Player
Leipzig 1968: Historian Dallow is released from prison after twenty-one months. His crime: He filled in as a piano player at a student cabaret and the text that he was asked to accompany with a...
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Serbia (Radni Sto)
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Year of Publication: 1985
Christoph HeinYear of Publication: 1985
Horn's End
Thomas was almost a child still at the time, but he remembers the events in sleepy bad Guldenberg in the summer of 1957 very well: how he started working for the gypsies and was punished for it by...
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France (Métailié), Korea (CommunicationBooks), Japan (Dogakusha)
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Year of Publication: 1982
Christoph HeinYear of Publication: 1982
The Distant Lover. Dragon's Blood
»I have become invulnerable. I have bathed in dragon’s blood, and no linden leaf anywhere left me unprotected. I can never get out of this skin.« This is the conclusion of the...
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