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Cease-Fire
Year of Publication: 2025
Serhij ZhadanYear of Publication: 2025
Death brings everyone together: while their deceased mother is lying upstairs in the bedroom, in the kitchen, two brothers see each other for the first time in a long time. Anton, the older of the two, has headed off in search of greener pastures. Tolik, the younger brother, has stayed behind, despite the smouldering war and the increasingly precarious conditions. But now the bridge has been...

Hair
Year of Publication: 2025
Manuela InfanteYear of Publication: 2025
An actor is in her early sixties when she suddenly starts losing her hair in tufts. Without putting up a fight, the hair starts to depart her body, the strands lying limp in her hands like dead snakes. Decay has set in, time is the killer. Or is she sick? In any case, she cannot play her stage roles like this anymore, especially not that of Medusa or the Queen Mother. She is pushed out of the...

Snows of Yesteryear, Snows of Tomorrow
Year of Publication: 2025
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2025
As he walks, he gathers together the things he encounters, day by day, step by step: two crows at his feet, an apple with a bite taken out of it from the side of the trail, a swarm of flies “flying...
Rights sold to:

English world rights (Seagull), Sweden (Faethon), Turkey (Everest), Greece (Vakxikon)


Doctoral Supervisor Faust
Year of Publication: 2024
Fatma AydemirYear of Publication: 2024
Professor Margarete Faust has dedicated her life to university research. Entering the later years of her working life, she has finally been made a full professor and is revered by her students as an icon in the field of gender studies. She has long been a thorn in the side of the right-wing government in Germany, and when word gets out that Faust has helped a student get an abortion abroad, a...

Sick Dogs
Year of Publication: 2024
Ariane KochYear of Publication: 2024
Poch the greyhound is one of the most successful racing dogs in the world, a bona fide star of the track. But then one day, a brain condition causes her to simply keel over. She wakes up in the dog hospital, surrounded by a flurry of vets desperately puzzling over her diagnosis. Then the Hellcat appears, offering the dog’s brain a valuable and supposedly healing trade: pain relief for half a...

Lapidarium
Year of Publication: 2024
Rainald GoetzYear of Publication: 2024
Plays
LAPIDARIUM is a book featuring three plays that address the dark matter of humanity in the early 21st century: torture, terror, suicide.

The comedy of manners REALM OF DEATH portrays the political process that led from the 9/11 terror attacks to the systematic torture of prisoners of war in the American detention facilities in Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. With reference to...

Niederwald
Year of Publication: 2024
Wolfram HöllYear of Publication: 2024
Was it really such a good idea to leave Germany for this Swiss village in the middle of nowhere? After his partner dies in an accident, an overwhelmed father moves with his infant daughter and her plucky great-grandmother to the place where the child’s mother was born. Under the suspicious eyes of the villagers, they piece together their new life. In this place, even the houses have eyes and...

Pain Camp
Year of Publication: 2024
Patty Kim HamiltonYear of Publication: 2024
Seven women in a renowned, surreal pain clinic: in the eternal loop of therapies and conversations with doctors, the patients try out different medications, do pottery classes, exercise programmes – but the pain remains. By all appearances, nothing is happening with the women in the clinic, and yet everything is caught up in a constant, almost imperceptible motion. Times passes differently here....

Glaring Days
Year of Publication: 2023
Kay MatterYear of Publication: 2023

There is melting, there is wobbling, something in our world has been out of balance for a long time. The ice is disappearing, leaving behind mud and craters. Mammoths are uncovered and they soon attract hunters – finally they can sell ivory without killing for it. The events of Glaring Days happen simultaneously and its characters effortlessly transcend time and space. A...


a body without a place
Year of Publication: 2023
Mehdi MoradpourYear of Publication: 2023

Pressured by his partner, Elijah undergoes a sex change operation in his home country of Iran. His powerful cousin Mela, who works in the oil industry, helps him go through this. For Elija, this is a survival strategy, as homosexuality and bisexuality are severely punished while gender reassignment is tolerated – transsexuality is considered a curable disease. But when his partner leaves...


Year of Publication: 2022
Thomas KöckYear of Publication: 2022
a missa in cantu

The statues have been toppled, the colonies dissolved, the servants have fled, there are stoats in the ballroom, roots have gripped the stairway, the palaces are in ruins, capitalism smokes one last cigarette, bloodless, the Anthropocene coughs in consternation and amidst all of this someone whispers: but I loved you.
Thomas Köck moves through different scenarios and times that are...


Year of Publication: 2022
Clemens J. SetzYear of Publication: 2022

Life plans are worrisome worlds apart, transitions and nuances threaten to disappear in the public debate. David is dead, as published by the influencer Tim and some journalists, but from the...

Rights sold to:

Chinese simplex rights (One-Way Street Journal)


Year of Publication: 2021
Enis MaciYear of Publication: 2021
»Let’s enter the former living room of a female dervish. There they stand, the pilgrims, with their bodies. And plead. And hope.
The body is a thread – and who turns the...
Rights sold to:

Catalan (Galés), Portuguese rights (Artistas Unidos)


Year of Publication: 2021
Akın Emanuel ŞipalYear of Publication: 2021
One hundred years of family history between Germany and Turkey. The author lets four generations and their anecdotes, rants, dreams, visions of revenge collide, entangled within it all the narrator...
Rights sold to:

France (Presses universitaires du Midi)


Year of Publication: 2020
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2020
A Scene

»An extensive scene«, a public place, »definitely not a free space«; possibly in the Spanish province of Avila or in Humpolec in Bohemia, now or at another time. A narrator who is one of...

Rights sold to:
France (Gallimard), Poland (Adit), Czech Republic (Větrné mlýny), Serbia (Laguna)

Year of Publication: 2016
Wolfram HöllYear of Publication: 2016

»The child speaks, it narrates and counts the apartment blocks, the big stones on the playground, the floors and doorbells, and before you know it, you are caught in an arithmetic of loss, are...

Rights sold to:

Russia (Of the Disappearance of the Father; Libra), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Besouros Abstêmios), France (L’Arche)


Year of Publication: 2015
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2015
A Play in Four Seasons
The time frame, in which the new play by Peter Handke is set, is clearly denoted: it spans over »four seasons«. The place: a country road, a »common country road«? The protagonists: »I«, who is seated by the side of this country road. And who can transform from a dramatic player into an epic narrator.


»I« regards this road as »the last free road in this world, the last...

Year of Publication: 2012
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2012
A Summer Dialogue
Characters: a nameless woman, a nameless man: a simple couple. They meet in order to talk about love, first loves, and what a man and a woman feel when they are with each other. They talk about how...
Rights sold to:

Spanish world rights (Casus Belli), France (Bruit du Temps), Italy (Quodlibet), Norway (Samlaget), Japan (Ronsosha), Serbia (Laguna), Slovenia (Hermagoras/Mohorjeva založba), 


Year of Publication: 2010
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2010
A panorama that reaches beyond all literary genres while simultaneously transforming them, here prose and drama, the theatrical and the poetical, the historical and the personal are...
Rights sold to:

English world rights (Seagull), Spanish world rights (Casus Belli), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Arabic world rights (Kalima), France (Bruit du Temps), Italy (Quodlibet), Netherlands (Van Oorschot), Slovenia (Wieser), Serbia (Laguna)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Norway (Samlaget)


Year of Publication: 2009
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2009
A Monologue

»Described as an answer to or at least an echo of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape?, Till Day You Do Part Or A Question of Light is a monologue delivered by the ›she‹ in...

Rights sold to:

English world rights (Seagull), Spanish world rights (Casus Belli), Italy (Quodlibet), Bengali rights (Parampara)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Bulgaria (Black Flamingo)

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