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Year of Publication: 2026

Maria StepanovaYear of Publication: 2026

Anne in a Box

A Novel

Anne Lister was born in Yorkshire in 1791 and died in the Caucasus in 1840. A landowner, traveller, and diarist, she is sometimes referred to as the first modern lesbian. She documented her life in...

Rights sold to:

UK & Commonwealth (Fitzcarraldo), USA & Canada (New Directions), Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Editora WMF Martins Fontes), France (Stock), Italy (Adelphi), Netherlands (Bezige Bij), Denmark (Palomar), Sweden (Nirstedt/litteratur), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Finland (Siltala), Bulgaria (Janet45), Greece (Gutenberg)

Year of Publication: 2026

Lutz SeilerYear of Publication: 2026

The Ticking Heart

A Novel

In the early days of the new millennium, Carl Bischoff returns to Berlin from the surrounding countryside, only to quickly head off again. His pilgrimage follows the path of a woman who seems to have...

Rights sold to:

Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (DAV), German radio reading (rbb)

Year of Publication: 2026

Constantin LiebYear of Publication: 2026

Wildboden

A Novel

1936, Frauenkirch, in the middle of the Swiss Alps, not far from Davos: surrounded by majestic mountains and laconic countryfolk, Erna Schilling and the painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner live in the...

Rights sold to:

Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (DAV)

Film rights sold

Year of Publication: 2026

Dana VowinckelYear of Publication: 2026

Anton and Alma

A Novel

Anton is Jewish, Alma isn’t. Both were raised in Berlin under very different circumstances and fall in love in their early twenties, in 2018. They move in together, get through the pandemic, and...

Rights sold to:

USA (Summit US), UK (Tinder), Norway (Pax)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV)

Year of Publication: 2026

Clemens J. SetzYear of Publication: 2026

My Life as a Noise Band

Stories

Paul’s language is noise: monstrously blaring tracks in which he screams out his despair in a distorted voice. Away from the stage though, everything seems empty, nobody understands him or his...

Rights sold to:

Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (Roof Music)

Year of Publication: 2026

Stephan ThomeYear of Publication: 2026

Better than Never

A Novel

After being postponed twice due to the pandemic, the »Grenzgang« festival is finally going to take place once more in the small town of Bergenstadt – but suddenly, the much-loved tradition becomes a...

Rights sold to:

Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (DAV)

Year of Publication: 2026

Hans-Ulrich TreichelYear of Publication: 2026

The Carousel

A Novel

Bernhard is 70, divorced, childless, and ever since he retired, he’s felt like there is something missing from his life. A new relationship? A hobby? Maybe volunteering? Nothing seems to fit together. But then he receives an invitation to Salerno – that place on the Italian coast where he’d spend a few months all those decades ago, and which at the time had seemed to promise a different life....

Year of Publication: 2026

Heike GeißlerYear of Publication: 2026

Michaela Kohlhaas

A Novel

»His sense of justice made him into a robber and a murderer.« That’s how Heinrich von Kleist describes the horse dealer Michael Kohlhaas in his eponymous novella, a man who goes on a bloody rampage...

Rights sold to:

Netherlands (Het Balanseer)

Year of Publication: 2026

Josef WinklerYear of Publication: 2026

Fortune Is a Stern-Faced Angel

A Novel

»I write you – / into the world, until you’ve returned / by the spectral force of the word« writes Nelly Sachs in one of the poems that Josef Winkler quotes in his new novel, in which he writes his...

Rights sold to:

France (Verdier)

Year of Publication: 2026

Thomas KunstYear of Publication: 2026

Masleboi

A Novel

»Otchanganarriva, late August

My dear Masahlena, I’m not allowed to use the word Otchanganarriva so much anymore. Otchanganarriva. Otchanganarriva. Otchanganarriva. Otchanganarriva. Now I feel better. We have to act as if we are very close to one another within a family, Masahlena. Are you on something. Your pupils are as big as oversized pupils. You’re freezing. Or is that me. I can’t...

Year of Publication: 2026

Clara LeinemannYear of Publication: 2026

Yellow Monsters

A Novel

»All she'd done was fall in love. Is that supposed to be a crime or something?«

Charlie, a PhD candidate in mathematics, is sitting on the U-Bahn with a black eye googling »bad...

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Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (DAV)

Year of Publication: 2026

Dita ZipfelYear of Publication: 2026

It's Light and Outside the World Is Turning

A Novel

After this holiday, the plan is that a perfectly matured embryo will be implanted in Linn’s uterus, and she will finally realise her dream of being pregnant. She and her partner Matze have been...

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Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (DAV)

Year of Publication: 2026

Robert MenasseYear of Publication: 2026

The Life Decision

A Novella

Frustrated at being a small cog in a big wheel, Franz Fiala makes a »life decision« and quits his job at the European Commission. When he visits his mother in Vienna for her 89th birthday, however,...

Rights sold to:

France (Verdier), Italy (Sellerio), Netherlands (Arbeiderspers), Hungary (Geopen), Turkey (Dergah)

Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (Hörverlag), German Book Club (Büchergilde Gutenberg)

Year of Publication: 2026

Svenja LeiberYear of Publication: 2026

Nelka

A Novel

Lviv, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Nelka is picked up by soldiers and taken west with a large number of other women and girls. They end up on an estate in northern Germany, where they are forced to carry...

Rights sold to:

English world rights (Seagull), Netherlands (Meridiaan)

Domestic rights sales: German Book Club (Büchergilde Gutenberg)

Year of Publication: 2026

Magdalena SchrefelYear of Publication: 2026

Sky Blue

A Novel

What if it were possible to cool the Earth, but the sky would forever lose its blue? Hannah is working for an exhibition that is supposed to collect memories of this blue shortly before a global geo-engineering process will take place. Sulphur particles will be launched into the stratosphere, changing the way that sunlight is refracted. Seas and rivers will fade, and the Blue Planet will be...

Year of Publication: 2025

Oswald EggerYear of Publication: 2025

Oskar Fiala and the Principle of the Smallest Effect

When Oskar Fiala, a forgotten, unknown left-wing social-democrat author, died penniless and nameless on the outskirts of Leipzig in 1948, his death certificate listed his occupation as »worker, mining«. The young journalist and writer led a restless and aimless life, wandering peripatetically across Europe, until the Second World War put an end to his movement. Time and again, he suffered...

Year of Publication: 2025

Elisabeth PapeYear of Publication: 2025

Half Serving

A Novel

Born in Germany to a Ukrainian single mother and raised in a household where money was scarce and love was measured in calories, grades, and the numbers on a scale, the protagonist carries these...

Rights sold to:

Serbia (Laguna)

Year of Publication: 2025

Ozan Zakariya KeskinkılıçYear of Publication: 2025

Son of a Dog

A Novel

ZDF »aspekte« Literary Prize 2025

»This novel will break your heart – and yet, it makes you want to love like Zeko does, just once in your life.« Mithu Sanyal

This...

Rights sold to:

UK & ANZ (arboretum books), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Ercolano), France (Le Nouvel Attila)

Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (Audiolino)

Year of Publication: 2025

Angela SteideleYear of Publication: 2025

Into the Dark

A Novel

We’re sitting in the dark. On the screen, Great Garbo and Erika Mann meet up in 1969 in the Swiss alps and reminisce. What was the deal with Marlene Dietrich and the woman they both had a thing with? When film captured the zeitgeist of a whole era and the Germans had Hollywood and all of America eating out of their hands. And what about Erika Mann’s antifascist cabaret Die Pfeffermühle, which had...

Year of Publication: 2025

Jina KhayyerYear of Publication: 2025

In the Heart of the Cat

A Novel

When Jina Mahsa Amini is murdered by the morality police in Tehran in 2022 and the world’s first ever women-led revolution breaks out in Iran, the narrator, also called Jina, is confronted by...

Rights sold to:

France (Christian Bourgois), Italy (Iperborea), Netherlands (De Geus), Denmark (Batzer), Finland (Huippu), Romania (Editura Trei), Slovenia (Učila International), Azerbaijan (Alatoran)
Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (DAV), German radio reading (HR/NDR)

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