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Year of Publication: 2021
Philipp SarasinYear of Publication: 2021
1977
A Brief History of the Present
1977 saw the Red Army Faction start its »Offensive 77«, the opening of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the launch of Apple II in California – and the invention of the internet. What do these strange...
Rights sold to:
Turkey (Iletisim)
Year of Publication: 2014
Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2014
30 April 1945
The Day Hitler Shot Himself and Germany’s Integration with the West Began
The thirtieth of April 1945, a Monday, was the last working day observed in the Third Reich. It is followed by a national holiday and the transfer of what remained of the state to powers which had no...
Rights sold to:
English world rights (Seagull), France (P.O.L.)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Poland (W.A.B.)
Year of Publication: 2024
Sybille RugeYear of Publication: 2024
9mm Cut
Novel
When a head turns up in a plastic bag on the front doorstep of the offices of the NGO Interni and the director is murdered, it’s clear that something is amiss with the organisation. And there is nothing worse for a charitable foundation than bad press. A worrying situation for the food and meat tycoon Wellinghofen, the main donor behind Interni, who sends his right-hand woman, under the...
Year of Publication: 2003
Alice MillerYear of Publication: 2003
Breaking Down the Wall of Silence
The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth
Psychohistorical analyses of such brutal tyrants as Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Nicolae Ceausescu show the obvious links between the horrors of their childhoods and the horror they inflicted on...
Rights sold to:
USA (Basic Books), France (Aubier), Poland (Media Rodzina), Romania (Nemira), Turkey (Egitim), Greece (Printa), Ukraine (Rostyslav Burlaka Publishing)
Year of Publication: 2012
Zsófia BánYear of Publication: 2012
Night School
A Reader for Grownups
»We learn so much over the course of our lives, and then, at the decisive moment, at the grand finale, there is so little of it we can actually use.«
Zsófia Bán’s writing is born out...
Zsófia Bán’s writing is born out...
Rights sold to:
English world rights (Open Letter), Spanish world rights (Siruela)
Year of Publication: 2018
Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Najem WaliYear of Publication: 2018
Abraham Meets Ibrahim
Journeys through the Bible and the Quran
A highly dramatic scene: a father leans over the defenceless boy, the knife flashing in his hand – when, at the last moment, an angel orders him to sacrifice a ram instead of his own son. The...
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Russia (Medina)
Year of Publication: 1961
Peter WeissYear of Publication: 1961
Leavetaking
A brilliant, brutally honest autobiographical novel, from one of the great artistic polymaths of the 20th century.
This is a Sebaldian account of the narrator’s...
Rights sold to:
English world rights (Melville House Books), Spanish world rights (Alpha Decay), Sweden (Bonniers), Czech Republic (Opus)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: France (Seuil), Netherlands (Meulenhoff), Denmark (Niels Bings), Finnland (Otava), Japan (Kawade Shobo), Poland (PIW), Slovakia (Slovensky Spisovatel), Serbocroatian world rights (RAD), Israel (Am Oved)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV)
Year of Publication: 1987
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 1987
Europe, Europe
Forays Into a Continent
»In this highly acclaimed and entertaining book, already »among the touchstones of the new travel writing« (Newsweek), one of [...] Germany’s leading...
Rights sold to:
Spanish world rights (Anagrama), France (Gallimard), Denmark (Gyldendal), Sweden (Norstedts), Norway (Universitetsforlaget)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights (Pantheon), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Companhia das Letras), Italy (Garzanti), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Japan (Shobunsha), Hungary (Europa), Turkey (Metis)
Year of Publication: 2008
Jürgen HabermasYear of Publication: 2008
Ach, Europa
Ach, Europa: only the sighing tone remains. Prompted by a discussion with the German Federal Foreign Minister, Jürgen Habermas develops in his address political alternatives for the...
Rights sold to:
English world rights (Polity Press), Spanish world rights (Trotta), Russia (Ves Mir), Italy (Laterza), Korea (Nanam), Japan (Iwanami Shoten), Serbia (Belgrade Circle), Greece (Printa), Albania (Asdreni)
Year of Publication: 2018
Mareike NieberdingYear of Publication: 2018
When We Forgot How to Speak
A Daughter-Father Story
Throughout her childhood and teenage years Mareike Nieberding would be picked up by her father no matter where she was, if she was drunk, or who she was with. From a party at one in the morning, at seven after a shift at the bar. Her father was her protector, her comforter, an incurable optimist. When she sits in front of him today she asks herself who this greying man with freckles...
Year of Publication: 2021
Artur KlinauYear of Publication: 2021
Eight Days of Revolution
A Documentary Journal from Minsk
Belarus, August 2020. The presidential election is in full swing. Artur Klinaǔ, author and artist, receives a phone call: his daughter Marta has been arrested. He travels to Minsk and sets out to find her. In the city’s overcrowded prisons, people are being held who have been protesting against massive electoral fraud and are now at the mercy of state violence. Shocking reports of torture...
Year of Publication: 2003
Stefan Müller-DoohmYear of Publication: 2003
Adorno
A Biography
Stefan Müller-Doohm's book is the first comprehensive and detailed biography of Theodor W. Adorno, combining his life and his work.
Rights sold to:
English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Herder), Chinese simplex rights (Beijing Qizhenguan Media), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Manole), Arabic world rights (Tarjuman), France (Gallimard), Italy (Carocci), Korea (Saemulgyul), Japan (Sakhuin Sha)
Year of Publication: 2024
Jörg SpäterYear of Publication: 2024
Adorno's Heirs
A West German History
In October of 1949, Theodor W. Adorno returned from his exile in America to the city of his birth to resume his work teaching at a Germany university. The city of Frankfurt had been reduced to...
Rights sold to:
Chinese simplex rights (Yilin)
Year of Publication: 2012
Julia FischerYear of Publication: 2012
Primate Society
Curious Barbary macaques, belligerent Chacma baboons, shy Guinea baboons: these are just some of the protagonists of this exciting new book.
Primatologist Julia Fischer explores the myriad...
Primatologist Julia Fischer explores the myriad...
Rights sold to:
Spanish world rights (Fondo de Cultura Economica)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights (Chicago UP)
Year of Publication: 2016
Robert StockhammerYear of Publication: 2016
African Philology
Africa is no nonliterate continent, especially so if one includes its northern coastal area: more than two thousand years ago, methods of dealing with scripts - today called philology - were developed in Alexandria. Robert Stockhammer discusses contributions to an African Philology, including works by Herodotus, Augustine, Ken Saro-Wiwa and J.M. Coetzee: epics, novels, travelogues,...
Year of Publication: 2010
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2010
Album
What is this »album« about?
»This is not a diary«, as it states at the very beginning of the book.
So what is it then? A jumble, a jotter, a...
»This is not a diary«, as it states at the very beginning of the book.
So what is it then? A jumble, a jotter, a...
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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights (Seagull), Italy (Einaudi)
Year of Publication: 1925
Gershom ScholemYear of Publication: 1925
Alchemy and Kabbalah
In Alchemy and Kabbalah, a text that also appears in Judaica VI, Gershom Scholem »looks critically at the connections between alchemy, the Jewish Kabbalah; its christianized...
Rights sold to:
Italy (Studio Editoriale)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: USA (Spring Publications), Japan (Sakuhinsha), Czech Republic (Malvern)
Year of Publication: 2009
Ottmar EtteYear of Publication: 2009
Alexander von Humboldt and Globalization
In this intellectual biography, one of the most renowned Humboldt researchers, Ottmar Ette, introduces Alexander von Humboldt, who was not only an author and an intellectual, but also a...
Rights sold to:
Spanish world rights (non-exclusive, El Colegio de México)