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Kirillow / Kirillow
Novel
Studying together at Frankfurt University, Frank Kober and Julian Nagel are more than mere friends, and in fact something like kindred spirits. They do not appear bound by any particular faculty but to be concerned with the very fundamental question of how to distinguish between living wrongly and for the truth.
What can be done to counter the wrongness of the prevalent grown-up world and bring truth to the fore? Whereas Kober has recently become quiet, worrying taciturn, in fact, Julian...
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Studying together at Frankfurt University, Frank Kober and Julian Nagel are more than mere friends, and in fact something like kindred spirits. They do not appear bound by any particular faculty but to be concerned with the very fundamental question of how to distinguish between living wrongly and for the truth.
What can be done to counter the wrongness of the prevalent grown-up world and bring truth to the fore? Whereas Kober has recently become quiet, worrying taciturn, in fact, Julian and his circle of friends, which latterly includes a number of Russians of both sexes, follow with bated breath his own agitation and the surprises and provocations it engenders. There is a manifesto circulating about the state of society, penned by one Andrej Kirillow in distant Khabarovsk, who is reputed to be similar to Julian, and even more like Kober. This manifesto is being distributed widely and discussed heatedly. »Humanity behaves like a cancerous tumor and what triggers its growth is the striving for happiness and well-being.« During an excursion, Julian brings up suicide as a way out. Soon afterwards the group sets out for Wendland on its annual demonstration against the transport of nuclear waste. A daring nighttime one-man protest by Julian misfires but in the aftermath it is Kober who dies.
In next to no time – more effortlessly than in his first two novels – in Kirillow Andreas Maier entangles us in the convoluted relationships and discussions of a group of young people constantly on the move, in search of enlightenment, a goal in life, a partner, recognition, more alcohol, more action and somewhere to sleep for the rest of the night. And we are both entertained and fascinated by Maier’s sense of comedy in focusing his narrative on the seriousness of the sickness that is youth without making any concessions to prankishness.
2005, 348 pages
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Andreas Maier
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Andreas Maier, born in Bad Nauheim, Hesse, in 1967, studied philosophy and German philology, and subsequently classical philology. He lives near Frankfurt am Main. Among numerous other honours, he was awarded the ZDF-»aspekte«-Literaturpreis, the Robert-Gernhardt-Preis, the Wilhelm-Raabe-Literaturpreis and the Franz-Hessel-Preis.
Andreas Maier
Author
Andreas Maier, born in Bad Nauheim, Hesse, in 1967, studied philosophy and German philology, and subsequently classical philology. He lives near...
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Year of Publication: 2023
Andreas MaierYear of Publication: 2023
The Homeland
Germany in the early 1970s: a country full of fear of everything foreign. The only Italian at school seems like an alien being. In the 80s, it’s the Turkish people who are the first to put the tables outside the restaurants. As the people of Wetterau celebrate the first kebabs in the district as »resistance food«, Hitler, who had long since disappeared, begins to conquer the...
Year of Publication: 2021
Andreas MaierYear of Publication: 2021
The Cities
In the newest instalment of his book series Ortsumgehung, Andreas Maier takes us on a journey. He paints the picture of the past decades by reference to the cities and landscapes that flanked the tourist trails of a society obsessed with mobility.
There is the car trip with his parents to the hated holiday apartment in Brixen when he is seven, or hitchhiking to the south...
Year of Publication: 2019
Andreas MaierYear of Publication: 2019
The Family
At the end of this novel, narrator Andreas is 28 years old, living in in Frankfurt am Main, studying, among other things, theories of truth. Andreas Maier tells the story of how stumbling blocks...
Rights sold to:
Greece (World Books)
Year of Publication: 2018
Andreas MaierYear of Publication: 2018
The University
Goethe University Frankfurt. 1988, 1989. An entirely different degree back then: in short, nothing less than complete freedom. From drinking beer in the pub »Doctor Flotte« to seminars on truth theory (which see the philosophy students rushing to the doctor’s already mid-semester) a complete loss of self is just around the corner for our protagonist, while time too is getting turned on its...
Year of Publication: 2017
Andreas Maier, Christine BüchnerYear of Publication: 2017
Bullau
A colourful, extremely personal combination of memory, research, and reflection turns into an approach towards the old-fashioned field of natural history. Based on walks in Wetterau and the Wendland, in South Tyrol and the Odenwald, Christiane Büchner and Andreas Maier map out their éducation naturelle. Their »treatise on the blessings of the spirit that the...
Year of Publication: 2016
Andreas MaierYear of Publication: 2016
The District
Andreas Maier’s The District is the latest volume of his insightful and illuminating book series Ortsumgehung. It deals with the exploration of life itself through the eyes of a prepubescent boy and his developing relationship with books, music and theatre and their interconnection with human existence. In the end he will comprehend the one true myth of art: Do...
Year of Publication: 2015
Andreas MaierYear of Publication: 2015
The Town
A dense, atmospheric novel about a boy’s first love, his first consciousness, his first attempt to define himself as a person. A moving memoir of the age between childhood and...
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Denmark (Batzer)
Year of Publication: 2013
Andreas MaierYear of Publication: 2013
The Street
In the beginning it was nothing more than doctor games, but now there’s an adult-like urgency to them. Later, the teen magazine Bravo comes out and there is, for the first time, a language...
Rights sold to:
Denmark (Rosenkilde & Bahnhof)
Year of Publication: 2011
Andreas MaierYear of Publication: 2011
The House
With The House Andreas Maier continues what he started with his hit novel Das Zimmer (The Room). One book, one house, one life, close up and then seen at an almost...
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Denmark (Rosenkilde & Bahnhof)
Year of Publication: 2010
Andreas MaierYear of Publication: 2010
The Room
Uncle J, the novel’s anti-hero, is not a character you readily identify with. Uncle J was a forceps delivery, which explains why he is not really all there. Still a child in many ways, he has...
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Denmark (Rosenkilde & Bahnhof), Norway (Hovde & Brekke)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights digital (Frisch & Co.), Spanish world rights (Adriana Hidalgo), Czech Republic (Archa), Macedonia (Goten)
Year of Publication: 2009
Andreas MaierYear of Publication: 2009
Sanssouci
Like a folk festival, Andreas Maier paints a droll and bold, ironically affectionate picture of contemporary German society, this time in the center of provincial East Germany.
On a hot summer day, mourners assemble at Frankfurt's main cemetery to attend the funeral of Max Hornung, a director who suffered a fatal accident. After moving away from Frankfurt, he had lived in...
On a hot summer day, mourners assemble at Frankfurt's main cemetery to attend the funeral of Max Hornung, a director who suffered a fatal accident. After moving away from Frankfurt, he had lived in...
Year of Publication: 2002
Andreas MaierYear of Publication: 2002
Klausen
One thing is clear: »Klausen is the scene of the crime.« But what really happens in this dream holiday village in South Tyrol is the subject of heated controversy. There is talk of an...
Rights sold to:
English world rights (Open Letter), Russia (AST), France (Actes Sud)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Tusquets), Italy (Aliberti)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Der Hörverlag)
Year of Publication: 2000
Andreas MaierYear of Publication: 2000
Adomeit’s Will
What is reality? This question is explored in fascinating style in this inventive, finely-drawn novel, which touches on language, the social construction of meaning, the relationship between...
Rights sold to:
Russia (AST), France (Métailié)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Adriana Hidalgo), Slovenia (Litera), Domestic Rights Sales: German Book Club (Der Club Bertelsmann)