Hans-Ulrich Treichel

Hans-Ulrich Treichel was born in Versmold, Westphalia, in 1952. He now lives in Berlin and Leipzig and was professor of German Literature at the University of Leipzig. His works have been translated into 28 languages.

Awards (selection)

Preis der Frankfurter Anthologie 2007
Eichendorff-Literaturpreis 2006
Kritikerpreis des Verbands der deutschen Kritiker 2006
Hermann-Hesse-Preis 2005
Margarete-Schrader-Preis für Literatur 2003
Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff-Preis 2003
Fellowship at the Villa Massimo, Rome 1988
Leonce- und Lena-Preis 1985

Praise

»Hans-Ulrich Treichel’s books are a testament that we know nothing, least of all about ourselves.« Neue Zürcher Zeitung

»Treichel is a light-footed narrator who vanquishes the impositions of existence with great humour.« Jörg Magenau, taz. die tageszeitung

PUBLICATIONS

Year of Publication: 2024

Wolfgang KoeppenYear of Publication: 2024

Novel Fragments

Wolfgang Koeppen’s novel fragments were produced over a period of almost sixty years. Though the author enjoyed phases of increased productivity, such as between 1951 and 1954, when his novels Pigeons on the Grass, The Hothouse and Death in Rome were released, he regularly found himself unable to realise his literary plans. Wolfgang Koeppen was without a doubt an author...

Year of Publication: 2021

Hans-Ulrich TreichelYear of Publication: 2021

Better Than Ever

To be like Erik just once! That’s what Andreas has always wanted, and that’s why he has been trying to make friends with Erik – always polite, enviably relaxed, but ultimately unapproachable –...

Rights sold to:

France (Gallimard)

Year of Publication: 2018

Wolfgang KoeppenYear of Publication: 2018

Feuilletons

Wolfgang Koeppen once stated that no bibliography could ever exist that drew up a comprehensive list of all the newspaper contributions issuing from his pen. Jörg Döring has refuted this pessimism with this volume of the Complete Works. The complete overview of the feuilleton pieces is the result of a meticulous autopsy of almost every publication mouthpiece where Koeppen had the opportunity...

Year of Publication: 2016

Wolfgang KoeppenYear of Publication: 2016

Youth

Youth, published in 1976, is the only longer prose work that Wolfgang Koeppen completed after refraining from the genre for almost twenty years. Youth is composed of a...

Rights sold to:

English world rights (Dalkey Archive), France (Hachette)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Russia (Progress), Netherlands (Querido), Japan (Dogakusha), Poland (Czytelnik), Czech Republic (Odeon), Bulgaria (Narodna Kultura)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Der Hörverlag)

Year of Publication: 2016

Hans-Ulrich TreichelYear of Publication: 2016

Daybreak

Daybreak leads into the centre of Hans-Ulrich Treichel’s writings, up and close to the pain points of loss and forlornness. This is the powerful, doleful story of a woman who...

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France (Gallimard)

Year of Publication: 2014

Hans-Ulrich TreichelYear of Publication: 2014

Early Disturbance

Hans-Ulrich Treichel tells the story of Franz, whose life is weighed down by his pathological attachment to his mother. Mother, mother: he simply cannot shake that constant buzzing in his head. Not on his therapist’s couch, not in Berlin, his childhood home, not while travelling, not in his relationship with Andrea.

Early Disturbance is the story of a...

Year of Publication: 2010

Hans-Ulrich TreichelYear of Publication: 2010

Grunewaldsee

On an olive-strewn seaside property in Spain and the dog urine-steeped beaches of the Grunewaldsee, bestselling author Hans-Ulrich Treichel weaves his two characters into a love story. It is...

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France (Gallimard)

Year of Publication: 2008

Hans-Ulrich TreichelYear of Publication: 2008

Anatolin

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: 2007

Hans-Ulrich TreichelYear of Publication: 2007

The Pope I knew

»I could also say that I speak English as well as I play the piano. And I do play the piano very well. Enviably well. English has always been my first foreign language and Italian only my third. So you can figure out how well I play the piano when I tell you that the Italian that I speak better than quite a number of Italians is only my third foreign language.«

Of course he knew Pope John...

Year of Publication: 2005

Hans-Ulrich TreichelYear of Publication: 2005

A Man's Flight

Not every wish has to come true. Even an academic can be happy. For a time, at least. But shortly before his 52th birthday, Stephan begins to be haunted by unusual fears and dreams and besides there...

Rights sold to:

France (Gallimard)

Year of Publication: 2002

Hans-Ulrich TreichelYear of Publication: 2002

Earthly Amor

When Albert meets the beautiful Elena he falls head over heels in love. Is she the woman he wishes to share his life with, the woman he has always sought, and will she, after he has hesitated...

Rights sold to:

English world rights (Pantheon), Chinese simplex rights (People’s Literature Publishing House), Russia (AST), France (Hachette), Italy (Neri Pozza), Netherlands (Ambo|Anthos), Denmark (Lindhardt & Ringhof), Norway (Pax), Bulgaria (Atlantis), Turkey (Iletisim)

Year of Publication: 2000

Hans-Ulrich TreichelYear of Publication: 2000

Tristanakkord

Rights sold to:

Denmark (Lindhardt & Ringhof)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Galaxia Gutenberg), Russia (Limbus), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Companhia das Letras), Italy (Einaudi), Netherlands (Ambo|Anthos), Sweden (Wahlström & Widstrand), Norway (Pax), Poland (Czytelnik), Lithuania (Alma Littera)

Year of Publication: 1998

Hans-Ulrich TreichelYear of Publication: 1998

Lost

»Not since The Reader has a work of fiction so stunningly evoked the guilt and shame that resounds in postwar Germany. In this debut novel of astonishing originality, we bear witness to a...

Rights sold to:

USA (Pantheon), Denmark (Lindhardt & Ringhof), Lithuania (Sofoklis), Slovenia (Družina)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: UK (Picador), Spanish world rights (Galaxia Gutenberg), Catalan rights (Enciclopedia Catalana), Chinese complex rights (Eurasian Publ. Group), Russia (AST), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Companhia das Letras), France (Hachette), Italy (Einaudi), Netherlands (Ambo|Anthos), Sweden (Wahlström & Widstrand), Norway (Pax), Finland (Söderström), Iceland (Mal og menning), Korea (Chaeksesang), Thailand (schau-Thai), Poland (Czytelnik), Slovakia (Slovart), Hungary (Europa), Bulgaria (Atlantis), Croatia (Croatian Philological Ass.), Turkey (Ayrinti), Greece (Periplous), Albania (K&B), Ukraine (Tandem), Israel (Achuzat Bayit)

Year of Publication: 1994

Hans-Ulrich TreichelYear of Publication: 1994

Der einzige Gast

Year of Publication: 1954

Wolfgang KoeppenYear of Publication: 1954

Death In Rome

In 1954, Wolfgang Koeppen published Death In Rome, the conclusion of a series of novels that are regarded today as the critical inventory of the early years of the German Federal...

Rights sold to:

English world rights (Granta / Penguin), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai Lucidabooks), France (Typhon), Netherlands (Cossee), Turkey (Kültür Yayinlari Iş), Greece (Kritiki), Macedonia (Ad Verbum)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (RBA), Catalan rights (La Magrana), Russia (Progress), Italy (Zandonai), Norway (Bokvennen), Poland (PIW), Czech Republic (Academia), Slovakia (Slovensky Spisovatel), Hungary (Europa), Bulgaria (Narodna Kultura), Latvia (Liesma), Slovenia (Mladinska Knijga)

Year of Publication: 1953

Wolfgang KoeppenYear of Publication: 1953

The Hothouse

Bonn, March 1953: the days of the debates on re-militarization and Germany's accession to the European Defense Community become a fiasco for Keetenheuve, a member of parliament for the Social...

Rights sold to:

Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai Lucidabooks)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights (W.W.Norton; UK sublicense: Granta), Spanish world rights (RBA), Russia (Progress), Netherlands (Thoth), Finland (Kirjaythymä), Poland (PIW), Czech Republic (Academia), Slovakia (Slovensky Spisovatel), Hungary (Europa), Latvia (Liesma)

Year of Publication: 1951

Wolfgang KoeppenYear of Publication: 1951

Pigeons on the Grass

»Koeppen's work consists, as does that of all writers, of books of varied degrees of importance. I myself appreciate the early novel A Sad Affair, Death In Rome and the fragment...

Rights sold to:

USA (New Directions), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai Lucidabooks), Serbia (Fabrika), Greece (Kritiki)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (RBA), Russia (Progress), France (Laffont), Netherlands (Thoth), Norway (Bokvennen), Finland (Kirjayhtymä Oy), Czech Republic (Academia), Slovenia (PAN), Israel (Carmel)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV)