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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...
Rights sold to:
Serbia (Heliks)
Year of Publication: 2019
Johannes GroschupfYear of Publication: 2019
Berlin Preppers
Thriller
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...
Year of Publication: 2005
Bernd CaillouxYear of Publication: 2005
The Business Year of 1968/69
Novel
West Germany, 1965. Two young men meet at a training course for journalists, and right away they sense that there are big things in store for them. But for now, the dreariness of the times is still holding them back: first, they must crawl through the sludge of compulsory military service and then through the quagmire of bourgeois romantic relationships and the life of backwood reporters after...
Year of Publication: 2018
Ralf RothmannYear of Publication: 2018
The God of that Summer
Novel
A child in the war: at the start of 1945, twelve-year-old Luisa Norff has to flee to the countryside with her mother and her older sister as the bombardment of Kiel has begun. The estate owned by...
Rights sold to:
English world rights (Picador), Italy (Neri Pozza), Czech Republic (Argo), Croatia (Fraktura), Turkey (Yapi Kredi), Greece (Kastaniotis)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Hörbuch Hamburg), German Book Club rights (Büchergilde Gutenberg)
Year of Publication: 2020
Matthias WeicheltYear of Publication: 2020
The Missing Witness
The Short Life of Felix Hartlaub
When Felix Hartlaub disappeared without a trace from embattled Berlin during the last days of the war in 1945, the historian, author and illustrator is only 32 years of age.
After visiting the Odenwald School, he went to university in Berlin. That’s where he became friends with Klaus Gysi, who would later become the Minister of Culture in the GDR and the head of Aufbau-Verlag, and...
Year of Publication: 2022
Ralf RothmannYear of Publication: 2022
The Night under the Snow
Novel
Luisa is studying to become a librarian at university, which is housed in a former arms factory in Kiel. Elisabeth is working at the officers’ mess in the port and all she strives for is a...
Rights sold to:
Italy (Neri Pozza), Turkey (Yapi Kredi)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Hörbuch Hamburg)
Year of Publication: 2018
Stephan ThomeYear of Publication: 2018
God of the Barbarians
Novel
China, mid-nineteenth-century. A Christian revolutionary movement swamps the Empire with terror and destruction. A young German missionary, who wants to help with the modernising...
Rights sold to:
Chinese simplex rights (Social Sciences Academic Press), Chinese complex rights (Linking)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Griot)
Year of Publication: 2012
Clemens J. SetzYear of Publication: 2012
Indigo
Novel
In the northern part of Styria, Austria, lies Helianau, a boarding school for children suffering from a mysterious condition known as indigo syndrome. Everyone who comes to close to them is struck...
Rights sold to:
USA (W. W. Norton / Liveright), UK (Serpent's Tail), Chinese simplex rights (CITIC Press / Sight), France (Jacqueline Chambon), Italy (La Nave di Teseo), Netherlands (Leesmagazijn), Denmark (Vandkunsten), Korea (Eulyoo), Japan (Kokusho Kankokai), Croatia (Hena Com), Greece (Gutenberg)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Chinese complex rights (China Times), Czech Republic (Fra), Hungary (Europa), Bulgaria (Funtasy)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Roof Music)
Year of Publication: 2017
Serhij ZhadanYear of Publication: 2017
The Orphanage
Novel
A young teacher plans on bringing his 13-year-old nephew home from the boarding school at the other end of town. The school, in which his working sister has »parked« her son, has come...
Rights sold to:
English world rights (Yale UP), English Audiobook (Blackstone), Spanish world rights (Galaxia Gutenberg), Catalan rights (Quaderns Crema), Portuguese rights (Elsinore), France (Noir sur Blanc), Italy (Voland), Netherlands (de Geus), Denmark (Jensen & Dalgaard), Sweden (Ersatz), Norway (Pax), Finland (Sammakko), Japan (Bulrush), Poland (Czarne), Czech Republic (Argo), Czech Audiobook (OneHotBook), Slovak Republic (Absynt), Hungary (Magvetö), Republic of Moldova / Romanian rights (Cartier), Estonia (Hea Lugu), Latvia (Janis Roze), Lithuania (Kitos Knygos), Croatia (Edicije Božičević), Slovenia (Beletrina), Greece (Dioptra), North Macedonia (Matica), Belarus (Januškevič), Georgia (Intelekti), Israel (Hakkibutz Hameuchad)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Lindhardt & Ringhof / Saga Egmont)
Year of Publication: 2012
Rainald GoetzYear of Publication: 2012
Johann Holtrop
Novel
The fall of a CEO. Johann Holtrop tells the story of a German CEO in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
For the charismatic, clever, successful chief executive Dr. Johann Holtrop,...
For the charismatic, clever, successful chief executive Dr. Johann Holtrop,...
Rights sold to:
Netherlands (Leesmagazijn), Republic of Moldova / Romanian rights (Cartier)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (Fazi)
Year of Publication: 2018
Urs FaesYear of Publication: 2018
Twelve Nights
With illustrations by Nanne Meyer
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...
Rights sold to:
English world rights (Harvill Secker)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Netherlands (De Bezige Bij)
Year of Publication: 2019
Nora BossongYear of Publication: 2019
Rules of Engagement
Novel
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...
Rights sold to:
Arabic world rights (Alfouad), Netherlands (Wereldbibliotheek)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV), German Book Club (Büchergilde Gutenberg), German Entire Radio Reading (HR)
Year of Publication: 2014
Katja PetrowskajaYear of Publication: 2014
Maybe Esther
Was her name really Esther, her great-grandmother on her father’s side, who stayed behind in the empty apartment in Kiev in 1941, after her family had fled? And the Yiddish words with which she...
Rights sold to:
USA & Canada (Harper Collins US), UK & Commonwealth (Fourth Estate), Spanish world rights (Adriana Hidalgo), Chinese simplex rights (The Writers‘ Publishing House), Russia (Ivan Limbakh), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Companhia das Letras), Portuguese rights (Quetzal), France (Seuil), Italy (Adelphi), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Denmark (Tiderne Skifter), Sweden (Norstedts), Finland (Tammi), Poland (Jagiellonian University Press), Slovakia (Premedia), Bulgaria (Paradox), Estonia (Hea Lugu), Slovenia (Ebesede), Greece (Kapon), Ukraine (Knihy XXI), Georgia (Sulakauri), Israel (Carmel)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Hungary (Magvetö), Romania (Humanitas)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV), German Entire Radio Reading (SWR), German Book Club rights (Büchergilde Gutenberg)
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