»If You Knew What I Know«
World literature from the provincial backwaters of Mecklenburg? For the teenager Charly Hübner, that idea was completely new, at once implausible and explosive. Was the region south of the Baltic coast able to provide the backdrop to a truly great story? He decided it was. Because Anniversaries had Hübner rapt from the first second. The exuberance with which Johnson turned his life and those of his friends into a universal, literary life, but with a hand that was at turns calm, tough, tender and wise, produced a massive pull, leading Hübner to place Johnson among those great authors who could make entire epochs out of anecdotes, and who stay contemporary forever.
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Sketches of an Accident/Sketches of an Accident Victim
Sketch of an Accident Victim
Sweden (Faethon)
I Didn’t Want to Leave Any Questions Unasked
In Concomitants, Johnson's account of his experiences as a writer in both East and West, Uwe Johnson describes the failure of a book he had set out to write in 1963 and in which he wanted to document the work of Fluchthelfer (»escape helpers«), who aided people in fleeing the GDR. For that purpose, he conducted interviews about the Why and How of their work with members of...
»for means of brutal communication«
In 1959, just after Uwe Johnson’s relocation to West berlin and the publication of his debut novel Speculations About Jakob, the correspondence and friendship between Johnson and Hans Magnus Enzensberger commences. Over the course of eight years they communicate about the situation of literature and politics and discuss the scopes of political activism. At the same time,...
Anniversaries
English world rights (New York Review of Books Classics), Chinese simplex rights (The Writers‘ Publishing House), France (Gallimard), Italy (L'Orma), Netherlands (Van Oorschot), Denmark (Vandkunsten), Serbia (Laguna)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV)
Berlin Things
Berlin Things, published in 1975, is Uwe Johnson’s first volume of essays for which he compiled texts written between 1961 and 1971 that had largely been published elsewhere previously. Most of the texts were written on issues of day-to-day politics and they show Johnson as an alert intellectual who intervenes in politics with his journalistic research. Johnson...
Two Views
Karsch and Other Prose
The Third Book about Achim
Croatia (Ljevak)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: USA (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), UK (Jonathan Cape), Spanish world rights (Plaza & Janès), Portuguese rights (Arcadia), France (Gallimard), Italy (Feltrinelli), Netherlands (Meulenhoff), Denmark (Gyldendal), Sweden (Bonniers), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Finland (Tammi), Japan (Shuei Sha), Slovenia (Cankarjeva Zalozba), Greece (Indiktos)
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Speculations About Jakob
English world rights (NYRB), France (Gallimard), Chinese simplex rights (The Writers‘ Publishing House), Korea (Golden Bough), Bulgaria (Agata-A), Croatia (Fraktura), Slovenia (Mladinska knjiga)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Iter), Portuguese rights (Arcadia), Italy (Feltrinelli), Netherlands (Meulenhoff), Japan (Hakusuisha), Poland (Czytelnik), Hungary (Horizont)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV)