English World Rights (New York Review of Books), France (Ça et La), Netherlands (Scratch Books), Slovak Republic (Brak)
Kleist Prize 2014 for Marcel Beyer
Since his brilliant and harrowing novel The Karnau Tapes came out in 1995, Marcel Beyer has been considered »one of Europe’s best young novelists« (The New Yorker). The Karnau Tapes, which has so far been translated into fourteen languages, tells the story of the end of the Second World War from the point of view of a fanatical acoustician working for the Nazis and through the eyes of one of Goebbels’s daughters. The novel deals with the instrumentalisation of language through propaganda and experiments with the human voice.
Ulli Lust is one of the most important contemporary German-language comic book artists and was recently awarded the »comics Oscar«, the Prix Révelation.
Persons
Ulli Lust
Ulli Lust, born in Vienna in 1967, studied at the Berlin Weissensee School of Art from 1999 to 2004; she lives and draws in Berlin. Her autobiographical graphic novel Heute ist der letzte Tag vom Rest deines Lebens was published in 2009 and has received numerous prizes and been translated into seven languages.
Ulli Lust, born in Vienna in 1967, studied at the Berlin Weissensee School of Art from 1999 to 2004; she lives and draws in Berlin. Her...
Marcel Beyer
Marcel Beyer was born and raised in Cologne. The author of several novels and collections of poems, he has received numerous awards and was named one of the best young novelists in the world by The New Yorker. He lives in Dresden.
Marcel Beyer was born and raised in Cologne. The author of several novels and collections of poems, he has received numerous awards and was named...
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Demon Removal Service
There is a performance at the trashy theatre. Hildegard Knef gets in a car. Rudolph Moshammer carries his Yorkshire Terrier around Munich. S. T. Coleridge makes a joke about Cologne. Works of art...
Kurdish rights (tîr-verlag)
How I Tried to Be a Good Person
When Ulli Lust’s autobiographical comic Heute ist der letzte Tag vom Rest deines Lebens came out eight years ago, it was celebrated as a masterpiece and awarded numerous...
USA (Fantagraphics), Spanish world rights (La Cúpula), France (Ça et La), Netherlands (Soul Food Comics), Sweden (Lystring)
The Century that Cried itself Blind
Considering this current moment of great change as well as the 20th century when death became a master from Germany, is literature still possible? Does it still have a reason for being in a post-Auschwitz world where all cultural production can only be an expression of barbarism? Or is literature necessary, indeed indispensible, precisely because of such atrocities? Which methods must such a...
Putin’s Postbox
One morning, Marcel Beyer drives out to the...
English world rights (Voland & Quist)
Kaltenburg
English world rights (Harcourt), Spanish world rights (Edhasa), Chinese simplex rights (People’s Literature Publishing House), Arabic world rights (Kalima), France (Métailié), Italy (Einaudi), Netherlands (Cossée), Sweden (Bonniers), Norway (Pax), Czech Republic (Havran), Hungary (Magvetö), Croatia (Fraktura), Serbia (Geopoetika), Turkey (Ayrinti)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Lindhardt & Ringhof / Saga Egmont)
The Karnau Tapes
World War II. The final days of the Third Reich. Hermann Karnau, a sound engineer, is obsessively compiling an archive of every conceivable nuance of human sound. Karnau's work so impresses...
USA (Harcourt), UK (Secker and Warburg), Spanish world rights (Debate), Russia (Amphora), France (Calmann-Lévy), Italy (Einaudi), Netherlands (Meulenhoff), Denmark (Gyldendal), Sweden (Bonniers), Korea (Hyonamsa), Japan (Sanshusha), Poland (Słowo / Obraz Terytoria), Slovakia (Slovensky Spisovatel), Bulgaria (Balkani), Estonia (Tänapäev), Serbia (Geopoetika), Turkey (Ayrinti), Israel (Books in the Attic)