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30 April 1945
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.)

Night School
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...
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English world rights (Open Letter), Spanish world rights (Siruela)

Leavetaking
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 attempt...

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English world rights (Melville House Books), Spanish world rights (Alpha Decay), Sweden (Bonniers), Czech Republic (Opus), Greece (Kritiki), Ukraine (Krapky)

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)

 

Album
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...
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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights (Seagull), Italy (Einaudi)

All the Empty Rooms
Year of Publication: 2019
Friedrich AniYear of Publication: 2019

All the Empty Rooms

Novel

In Friedrich Ani’s new novel, »the four« must spring into action: Polonius Fischer (the former monk), Tabor Süden (the returned missing person’s investigator), Jakob Franck (the former inspector, now retired, but still the deliverer of the worst news) and Fariza Nasri (the detective with Syrian roots, saved from her banishment to the provinces). All of them must...

Als hätte die Stille­ Türen
Year of Publication: 2005
Urs FaesYear of Publication: 2005

Als hätte die Stille­ Türen


When There Were Only Animals
Year of Publication: 2014
Zsófia BánYear of Publication: 2014

When There Were Only Animals

Emigration, displacement, the brutal rupture that separates a life into a before and an after – these experiences form the centre of gravity around which the fifteen stories that make up this volume revolve.


On a busy beach in Rio de Janeiro, young Anna is separated from her mother. After a brief nightmarish moment’s confusion, she catches sight of her mother standing at...
When We Believed in Miracles
Year of Publication: 2023
Helga BürsterYear of Publication: 2023

When We Believed in Miracles

Novel
The late 1940s in Germany: the war is finally over – but just like in the rest of the country, the people in the small village of Unnenmoor have hardly found their way back into their lives....
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Domestic Rights Sales: German Audio Book (Jumbo / GoyaLit), German radio reading (NDR)

Amanda Heartless
Year of Publication: 1994
Jurek BeckerYear of Publication: 1994

Amanda Heartless

»Amanda Heartless is simultaneously a love-story, a portrait of the age, a coming of age novel, and a satire of literature in which the decline of a much maligned state is mirrored in the...

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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Tusquets), Russia (Azbooka), France (Grasset), Italy (Feltrinelli), Sweden (Norstedts), Denmark (Gyldendal), Poland (Polnord Wydawnictwo), Slovenia (Hermagoras), Turkey (Ayrinti)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV)

Amras
Year of Publication: 1965
Thomas BernhardYear of Publication: 1965

Amras

»The essence of illness is as dark as the essence of life.« This quote from Novalis serves as a kind of epitaph for this story, written by Thomas Bernhard in 1964. It describes the final phase in the...
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English world rights (Chicago UP), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), France (Gallimard), Japan (Kawade Shobo), Slovenia (Lud), Turkey (Yapi Kredi Yayincilik)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Alianza), Italy (Einaudi), Sweden (Tranan), Norway (Bokvennen), Poland (Od Do), Czech Republic (Prostor Nakladatelstvi),  Hungary (Kalligram), Serbia (Lom Doo)

 

Year of Publication: 2012
Anna Katharina HahnYear of Publication: 2012

Black Mountain Side

Novel
Emil Bub, a schoolteacher, and his wife Veronika, a librarian, have lived in the residential area ‘Am Schwarzen Berg’ of the south-west German city of Stuttgart since the 70’s. When Hajo and Carla...
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Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Griot)

Year of Publication: 2018
Philipp WeissYear of Publication: 2018

On the edge of the world man sits and laughs

Novel

In On the edge of the world man sits and laughs, Philipp Weiss recounts the world’s transformation during the Anthropocene – that epoch of earth’s history in...

Rights sold to:

Chinese simplex rights (East China Normal University Press / Vi Horae), France (Seuil), Japan (Kyowakoku / editorial republica)

Year of Publication: 2005
Serhij ZhadanYear of Publication: 2005

Anarchy in the UKR

»Forget politics, don't read the papers, don't go online, deny them your voice« – thus begins the »Leftist March«, a chapter of Serhiy Zhadan's...
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France (Noir sur Blanc), Italy (Voland), Sweden (Bonniers), Norway (Pax), Republic of Moldova/Romanian rights (Cartier), Serbia (Akademska Knjiga), Belarus (Skaryna Press)

Year of Publication: 2008
Hans-Ulrich TreichelYear of Publication: 2008

Anatolin

Novel
In search of his own memories, the hero of this cheerful-melancholy novel realizes that an »autobiographical evacuation« has taken place. His lost brother dominates his childhood,...
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France (Gallimard), Poland (Czytelnik)

Year of Publication: 2012
Anna KimYear of Publication: 2012

Anatomy of a Night

Novel
»Prologue: the epidemic reached its apex in the late summer, on the cusp of autumn. The eleven suicides happened in the space of five hours, on Friday night and in the early hours of Saturday,...
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English world rights digital (Frisch & Co.), France (Jacqueline Chambon), Denmark (Tiderne Skifter), Korea (Eulyoo), Poland (Jagiellonian UP), Bulgaria (Paradox), Turkey (Alti Kirk Bes), Ukraine (Stiletto & Stylus)

Year of Publication: 2022
Mirjam WittigYear of Publication: 2022

By the Sward

Novel

So now Noa herds sheep. To escape her anxiety attacks in the big city and out of a longing for the simple life, she has come to the south of France to volunteer on a farm. Here, Ella, Gregor and...

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Serbia (Heliks)

Year of Publication: 2010
Doron RabinoviciYear of Publication: 2010

Elsewhere

Novel
In his fast-paced and moving new novel, Doron Rabinovici stirs up concepts of origin, identity and belonging as he describes the shifting, twisting relationships in a Jewish family. Old...
Rights sold to:

English world rights (Haus Publishing), Italy (La Giuntina), Czech Republic (Archa), Bulgaria (Elias Canetti Society)

Year of Publication: 2005
Durs GrünbeinYear of Publication: 2005

Antique Dispositions

Essays
Haunting portraits recorded from intriguing perspectives comprise the heart of these essays: not only Heiner Müller, Nietzsche, Goethe, Shakespeare, but also the bust of an unknown Roman. The author follows this physiognomical line to traverse the ages, through reportage, essays, stories, and character sketches.


Year of Publication: 2009
Max FrischYear of Publication: 2009

An Answer from the Silence

A Story from the Mountains

Max Frisch’s literary career began in 1934 with the novel Jürg Reinhart, a summery tale of the road to destiny. Three years later in the German publishing establishment he...

Rights sold to:

English world rights (Seagull), France (Gallimard), Italy (Del Vecchio), Czech Republic (Archa), Turkey (Kolektif)

Year of Publication: 2009
Sibylle LewitscharoffYear of Publication: 2009

Apostoloff

Novel
Two sisters, one driver: Their journey through Bulgaria becomes a black-humored pay-off with their father and his country.


Two sisters are travelling through present-day...
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English world rights (Seagull), Spanish world rights (Hidalgo), Chinese simplex rights (Beijing Qingyan), Chinese complex rights (China Times Publishing), France (Piranha), Italy (Del Vecchio Editore), Hungary (Bookart), Bulgaria (Atlantis), Republic of Moldova / Romanian Rights (Cartier), Estonia (Atlex), Serbia (Presing Izdavastvo), Macedonia (Ars Lamina)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Book Club (Bertelsmann), German Audiobook (Der Hörverlag)

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