Welcome to the Tagesschau, welcome to the world of good guys and bad guys! It's the seventies and eighties, the time of the show Zum Blauen Bock: Uncle J. sits in front of the news and understands nothing in the most heavenly way, while his beloved mother grows older and older during the seemingly endless first Gulf War. In the midst of all this, Andreas has his first sex lined with promise of left-wing utopia and...
Welcome to the Tagesschau, welcome to the world of good guys and bad guys! It's the seventies and eighties, the time of the show Zum Blauen Bock: Uncle J. sits in front of the news and understands nothing in the most heavenly way, while his beloved mother grows older and older during the seemingly endless first Gulf War. In the midst of all this, Andreas has his first sex lined with promise of left-wing utopia and accompanied by the smell of incense, and Aunt Lenchen, who unwaveringly believes that the GDR is the better system, comes to visit. And let’s not forget Saddam Hussein: a moment ago an ally in his fight against demonic regimes, now suddenly seemingly the devil himself. How does the construction of good and evil work? And what exactly is Yugoslavian mincemeat made of?
How we drown in the daily onslaught of ideas, how a broader understanding of the world is always dangled just out of view, how we might not understand things anyway – this is what Andreas Maier's new cryptic and maliciously witty novel, The Devil, is about.
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Andreas Maier
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
The Homeland
Germany in the early 1970s: a country full of fear of everything foreign. The only Italian at school seems like an alien being. In the 80s, it’s the Turkish people who are the first to put the tables outside the restaurants. As the people of Wetterau celebrate the first kebabs in the district as »resistance food«, Hitler, who had long since disappeared, begins to conquer the...
The Cities
In the newest instalment of his book series Ortsumgehung, Andreas Maier takes us on a journey. He paints the picture of the past decades by reference to the cities and landscapes that flanked the tourist trails of a society obsessed with mobility.
There is the car trip with his parents to the hated holiday apartment in Brixen when he is seven, or hitchhiking to the south...
The Family
At the end of this novel, narrator Andreas is 28 years old, living in in Frankfurt am Main, studying, among other things, theories of truth. Andreas Maier tells the story of how stumbling blocks...
The University
Goethe University Frankfurt. 1988, 1989. An entirely different degree back then: in short, nothing less than complete freedom. From drinking beer in the pub »Doctor Flotte« to seminars on truth theory (which see the philosophy students rushing to the doctor’s already mid-semester) a complete loss of self is just around the corner for our protagonist, while time too is getting turned on its...
Bullau
A colourful, extremely personal combination of memory, research, and reflection turns into an approach towards the old-fashioned field of natural history. Based on walks in Wetterau and the Wendland, in South Tyrol and the Odenwald, Christiane Büchner and Andreas Maier map out their éducation naturelle. Their »treatise on the blessings of the spirit that the...
The District
Andreas Maier’s The District is the latest volume of his insightful and illuminating book series Ortsumgehung. It deals with the exploration of life itself through the eyes of a prepubescent boy and his developing relationship with books, music and theatre and their interconnection with human existence. In the end he will comprehend the one true myth of art: Do...
The Town
Denmark (Batzer)
The Street
Denmark (Rosenkilde & Bahnhof)
The House
Denmark (Rosenkilde & Bahnhof)
The Room
Denmark (Rosenkilde & Bahnhof), Norway (Hovde & Brekke)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights digital (Frisch & Co.), Spanish world rights (Adriana Hidalgo), Czech Republic (Archa), Macedonia (Goten)
Sanssouci
On a hot summer day, mourners assemble at Frankfurt's main cemetery to attend the funeral of Max Hornung, a director who suffered a fatal accident. After moving away from Frankfurt, he had lived in...
Kirillow
Russia (AST), Poland (ATUT)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Adriana Hidalgo Editora), Netherlands (Ambo/Anthos)
Klausen
English world rights (Open Letter), Russia (AST), France (Actes Sud)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Tusquets), Italy (Aliberti)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Der Hörverlag)
Adomeit’s Will
Russia (AST), France (Métailié)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Adriana Hidalgo), Slovenia (Litera), Domestic Rights Sales: German Book Club (Der Club Bertelsmann)