The camp commander announces the death sentence. At that very moment, the prisoner Mala Zimetbaum cuts her wrists with a razor blade. An SS man grabs her by the arm. Mala tears herself free,...
Netherlands (Standaard)
France (Les Ecales), Hungary (Open Books)
Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (DAV), German radio reading (HR/NDR)
2017: After postings with the UN in New York and Burundi, Mira is working for the United Nations Office at Geneva and mediates talks on the reunification of Cyprus. At a reception at the luxury...
Arabic world rights (Alfouad), Netherlands (Wereldbibliotheek)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV), German Book Club (Büchergilde Gutenberg), German Entire Radio Reading (HR)
»I stood by the window and waited for the sun to set, because that was the rule, and if I didn’t want something bad to happen, I had to wait until it had set.«
With this sentence it begins, the life story of a narrator who, having suffered an existential crisis, has returned to his Serbian hometown – from the Belgian North Sea coast to the Tisza river,...A drowned Irish man is fished out of the Schwabinger Bach – a stream in the English Garden in Munich. There is no evidential material, but motives galore. Not the ideal starting position...
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Audible)
Patsy Logan, 38, German-Irish detective chief inspector with the State Office of Criminal Investigations in Munich, is investigating a renowned online company. The case quickly attracts...
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Audible)
After years abroad a man returns to the forlorn yet familiar valley in the Black Forest. He walks the old paths through the heavy snow, remembers the bitter inheritance dispute surrounding his...
English world rights (Harvill Secker)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Netherlands (De Bezige Bij)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook rights (Der Hörverlag)
Investigations in two murder cases lead the unflappable Munich-based Inspector Reitmeyer into the circles of Russian Monarchists in exile who had settled in the city after the October Revolution. And it is these very circles that his best friend, lawyer Sepp Leitner, has his eye out for the daughter of a distinguished Russian nobleman, to top up his salary. But what does the...
Munich 1920. Inspector Reitmeyer has returned from the war and is trying to hide the traumata incurred there from his surroundings, muffling the panic attacks by playing the violin, despite the fact that the police has their work cut out for them: food shortages and inflation have lead to a wave of thefts sweeping the city and to thriving business for black-marketeers and...
This isn’t the first time Alexander and Vinz have taken a trip together because their relationship has reached a crisis point. The road trip through South Africa is meant to give them clarity, and Vinz, the writer, hopes to get a new idea for a novel. Careening past street markets, Chicken Inns and hitchhikers, the two Germans make their way through a country where wealth and poverty collide,...
Netherlands (Leesmagazijn), Republic of Moldova / Romanian rights (Cartier)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (Fazi)
As an online-editor for a large daily newspaper, Walter Noack is in charge of eliminating rude remarks and hate speech from various comment sections. He is confronted with the most odious insults a thousand times a day. His nerves become even more frayed after he and subsequently a colleague are beaten seemingly at random by strangers, and his private life is shaken by loss.
The police...A novel about moving out for the last time, about silent family bonds, about regret and forgiveness
As Mira gets into the car to drive from the big city to her small...
English world rights (Archipelago), Spanish world rights (Periférica), Netherlands (Cossee), Slovenia (Goga)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audio Book (DAV), German Entire Radio Reading (HR & SWR)
Friedeward loves Wolfgang. And Wolfgang loves Friedeward. They are young, enjoying the summer vacation, cycle the long way to the sea, discuss all the subjects under the sun. They are happy when...
France (Métailié)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV)
France (Métailié)
Film rights (SBS Production)