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Dear friends and colleagues, We hope this finds you well, and we are happy to give you a short overview of our latest sales and upcoming publications. We are happy to introduce you to one of the most promising German literary debut novels of this year: Carsten Kluth’s Wenn das Land still ist (When the country is silent), an impressive novel about the rise and fall of a man torn between love and politics. In a contemporary version of Döblins legendary modernist novel Berlin Alexanderplatz, which also evokes The Ides Of March, Kluth explores the fragility of life. Some of you may know the great Turkish writer Nedim Gürsel, one of the three or four most important Turkish writers, alongside Orhan Pamuk, Yasar Kemal and Elif Shafak. As an opponent of the military dictatorship, Gürsel was forced to exile in Paris in the early 80s, where he still lives and publishes at LE SEUIL. Due to controversies concerning his bestselling novel Allah’s Daughters, he was brought to trial. His last novel The Red Angel is a very Ishiguro-like love story about the famous Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet involved in a Stasi-plot set in EastBerlin in the 60s. Titus Müller, one of the most successful authors of his generation with more than 250,000 books sold, has written a kind of John Le Carré-novel on the most important German Spy of the Second World War: Night Eye. Stefan Nink’s novel Donnerstags im fetten Hecht (Thursdays at the Buddy’s Bar) is a crazy journey around the world, full of edgy adventures and unforeseen plot turning points. In a few weeks time, this book has generated a lot of fans. Since its publication, Marc Elsberg’s thriller Blackout (Blanvalet, 2012) has already sold over 130,000 copies in Germany. Rights were sold to more than a dozen countries. We are also pleased to announce that Max Bentow’s crime series featuring homicide detective Nils Trojan has established itself as one of the most acclaimed series in Germany with now more than 100,000 copies sold. It has been translated into several languages. Last but not least, let us draw your attention to a very particular non-fiction book: “HIGH”, a mind-altering book on marihuana by Sebastián Marincolo. This book will change the perception of the most popular drug of the 20th and 21st century. All the best, Michael Gaeb, Eva Semitzidou

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CaRsTeN KlUtH WeNn DaS LaNd sTiLl RoMaNiSt Carsten Kluth Wenn das Land still ist (When the Country is Silent) Novel 382 pages, Piper Verlag 2013 Literary Fiction 24 hours in the life of a politician caught in a series of disastrous events – One of the great German debut novels of 2013 His job, his politics, his family and his affair – everything has its place in the life of 41year-old judge Harald Kronauer. Yet on a hot summer day his world falls apart. Without knowing what is happening to him, Kronauer finds himself risking his marriage and the lives of his sons. He begins to realize that he made a deal with the devil years ago when a group of politicians and businessmen orchestrated his entry and rise in politics – part of a bigger plot revolving around climate manipulation. Caught in the maelstrom of diverging interests, Kronauer gets played between economics and politics. This spellbinding debut novel is a tale of power, money and sex for readers of John Lanchester’s Capital.

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Carsten Kluth, born in 1972, studied Political Science in Berlin and New York.Today he works as a PR-consultant for the European Commission. He lives in Berlin with his family. Wenn das Land still ist is his first novel. Reviews: “The story of a complete overload that causes the hero to lose control of himself. A riveting novel that is written in a particularly beautiful language. This debut novel is one of the best books of this Spring.” Handelsblatt “An impressive debut.” TAZ World Rights available For English and Scandinavian rights please contact Piper Verlag: [email protected] English sample translation available

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Nedim Gürsel L’Ange Rouge (The Red Angel) Novel 384 pages, Le Seuil 2012 Literary Fiction Conspiracy, love, treason and communism A tempting offer by a mysterious man lures Nâzim Hikmet’s biographer and Turkish compatriot to contemporary Berlin. The secret documents the writer is handed, official police reports, concern Hikmet’s private life and his involvement in Communist Circles during the high period of the Communist era. Hikmet is described as a notorious Don Juan as well as a crucial member of the Russian intelligentsia. The delivery man and author of the reports is none other than a former GDR-state police agent who, secretly in love with and highly admiring of Hikmet, in the end commits high treason. Nedim Gürsel, a true Hikmet connoisseur and notable internationally published author, delivers a riveting, dense and ornately interlinked novel that moves elegantly between Berlin, Moscow and Istanbul. It is not only an exploration of the life of one of the most fascinating literary personalities of the 20th century but also an epic tale of the great socio-political questions that arose of the 20th century.

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Nedim Gürsel, born in 1951, is the acclaimed author of over thirty books: novels, short stories, essays and travel reports. He teaches Turkish Literature at the Sorbonne University and is director at the CNRS in Paris where he has lived in exile since the early 80s. His provocative books have been subject to several controversies and have led to defamation and lawsuits against the author. He is one of the most distinguished Turkish authors of the present day. He lives in Paris and Istanbul. His works have been translated into 16 languages.

Sold to: France (Le Seuil), Spain (Allianza), Macedonia (Kultura), Serbia (Geopolitica) Reviews: ”With his extensive œuvre, Gürsel is a prototype of the intellectual cosmopolitan. Alongside Yasar Kemal and Orhan Pamuk, he ranks among Turkey’s most important authors.” Tagesspiegel ”Nedim Gürsel is a main author of Turkish contemporary literature.” Lettres Françaises ”A dynamic, vibrant and tense novel.” Le Courrier

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A D I A K

M O N T O Y A

EL SÓTANO ÁNGEL D E L

José Adiak Montoya El Sótano del Ángel (The angel in the basement) Novel 162 pages, Hotel de la Letras/Mexico 2013 Literary Commercial Fiction A tropical amour fou This wonderful literary debut tells us the story of an insane love and of the love felt by an insane man. Beautifully narrated, it is set in Nicaragua in a small village built next to a now dormant volcano that has turned into a lagoon. Here the mentally unbalanced Leonidas Parajón falls in love with the beautiful Elia Lopez, who collects porcelain angels. Leonidas, who lost his sanity when his little brother drowned in the lagoon years ago, wants to win Elia’s heart by giving her the biggest angel he’s ever seen – the angel placed over the altar in the village’s church… One night, he and Bobo, his only friend, sneak into the church and try to steal the angel. When the pastor surprises them, Leonidas panics and kills him. Leonidas escapes with the angel and hides the statue in his basement, where he discovers his brother’s old toy box and the hidden memories of his family. A new, wild, sensual voice in young fiction in South America, in the tradition of García Márquez and Alejo Carpentier.

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José Adiak Montoya, born in Managua in 1987, has written a wonderful debut novel that has quickly found admirers in Nicaragua and beyond. He lives in Managua where he has worked as a bookseller for a long time. In 2012 he was one of the writers fellows of the FONCA Program in Mexico-City. Actually he is working on his second novel.

Reviews: “It is always great to come across a young author who captivates your imagination from the first moment on. I can’t stop thinking about Leonidas Parajón, this man of immense sadness who can’t forget his guilt. I eagerly await Adiak’s next novel!” Sergio Ramírez “El Sótano del Angel is a profound novel, wonderfully composed— an impeccably written insight into the depths of the human soul. José Adiak Montoya is one of the biggest talents in Latin American literature to appear in recent years. You have to read his book!” Gioconda Belli

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Jörg-Uwe Albig Ueberdog (Uberdog) Novel 240 pages , Klett-Cotta 2013 Literary Fiction A brilliant story about the wild and free and homeless Stella knows the who’s who of high society. As a social event photographer, she attends their parties and takes their pictures. When a group of homeless people arrives out of the blue at an upper class event, Stella thinks she’s found true glamour. Behind her camera lens she follows them deep into their world – and gets lost in it herself.

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Jörg-Uwe Albig has worked as an editor for “stern” magazine and has lived for two years in Paris as a correspondent for a German art magazine. Today he writes for “GEO” and “SZ magazine”. Reviews: “Since Albigs critiques happen with much wit and entertainment, we are taught with pleasure.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

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Torsten Schulz Nilowsky (Nilowsky) Novel 288 pages, Klett-Cotta 2013 Literary Fiction “Nilowsky” takes you deep into an East Berlin working class neighbourhood of the 70’s Nilowsky is a special spirit. He speaks and talks differently. In fact, he lives in his own world. Markus deeply admires him. He is fascinated by his odd views on life as well as on love. Inspite of it all their friendship finally threatens to be Markus’s undoing when a girl named Carola catches his attention – a girl Nilowsky is already deeply in love with. A coming-of-age novel about the ups and downs of life and a peculiar love triangle during the turmoil of puberty, told with great intensity and humour by a witty Berlin voice.

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Torsten Schulz is the acclaimed author of award-winning films, a documentary film maker as well as a professor for dramaturgy at the Babelsberg Film School. His debut novel “Boxhagener Platz” was translated into several languages and adapted into film. Torsten Schulz lives in Berlin.

Reviews: “With silent wit Schulz tells of a magic, that overcomes milieus and of the secret of an urban upbringing that influences your life.” DIE ZEIT “Schulz astonishes the reader with a multilayered plot and much understanding of concise Berlin humour.” DER SPIEGEL “A novel to fall in love with.” LesArt

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Stefan Kiesbye Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone Novel 208 pages, Penguin US 2012 Literary Suspense Fiction Shirley Jackson meets The Virgin Suicides – a riveting novel of supernatural horror This supernatural horror novel follows four children who live in a haunted German village and abide by a series of superstitions, pagan rituals, and wartime secrets. Eventually, these games go too far and the children are lured into a darkness that threatens to possess them forever. Set in Hemmersmoor, a small village in Northern Germany, the novel tells the stories of the children Christian, Martin, Linde, and Anke. They grow up in a claustrophobic world of ancient superstitions, pagan rituals, and wartime secrets, many of them revolving around the wealthy von Kamphoff family and their Manor House. (Which comes with a maze at least as scary as that in THE SHINING.) Over the years, these childhood friends and their peers will turn into bitter enemies, and no matter how hard they try to escape the vicious circle of betrayal and envy, they will be unable to leave their village and its past behind.Your house is on fire, your children all gone by Stefan Kiesbye is a journey into the dark night of the soul, beautiful and haunting – a wonderfully dark and compelling fairy-tale. An unforgettable work.

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Stefan Kiesbye, born in northern Germany in 1968, lives in Portales, New Mexico, and teaches Creative Writing at Eastern New Mexico University. His first short novel (Next door lives a girl, Heyne 2010) was one of the great discoveries of German dark-fiction in the last years. It was selected among the ten best crime novels of the year. Sold to: Germany (Klett-Cotta), Japan (East-Press), Mexico/Latinamerica (Almadía)

Reviews: “Maddeningly powerful” Robert Olmstead “There is just one word potent enough to describe Kiesbye’s Your house is on fire...: the novel is sublime” BookPage “A very elegant nightmare, so appalling and so beautiful." Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry

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Titus Müller Nachtauge (Night-Eye) Novel 440 Pages, Blessing Verlag 2013 Literary Commercial Fiction An enthralling espionage thriller It has been three years since the British Secret Service began hunting for a female German spy whose codename is “Night Eye”. After the destruction of infrastructure and cold-blooded killing of her opponents, she is about to strike her biggest coup: the revelation of a pivotal planned war operation by British air forces – the bombardment of Germany’s biggest reservoir facilities. Their first target will be the Möhnetalsperre. In a nearby forced-labor ammunition factory, over one thousand Ukrainian women toil under the command of Georg Hartmann. Under degrading work conditions, rumours spread among the labourers that Hartmann is not one hundred per cent loyal to the party. And indeed he is not as greatly feared as the brutes of the plant security. Does he anticipate that a couple of women, including the friendly Nadjeschka, are planning a spectacular escape?

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Titus Müller, born in 1977 in Leipzig, is one of the most successful authors of his generation. His oeuvre has been awarded the C.S. Lewis award as well as the Walter Scott award. The total number of copies sold has reached 300,000. His works have been translated into several languages.

Reviews: “Titus Müller is an expert for opulent historical novels“ NDR “An astonishing author” Hessischer Rundfunk

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Stefan Nink Donnerstags im fetten Hecht (Thursdays at the buddy’s bar) Novel 412 Pages, Limes Verlag 2012 Commercial Fiction A modern and witty picaresque road-novel On Thursdays Siebeneisen’s colorless weeks take on a pale hue – it’s tipp-kick night with his friends at the local hangout pub “Fetter Hecht”. One night his pal Schatten enters the bar with the news: that he has inherited a lot of cash. Almost. He’ll only be paid his share of the 50 million if he gets a hold of his seven co-heirs. But they are spread out over the entire world. So Siebeneisen embarks on a journey to the Australian outback. And that is just the first stop on an incredible around-the-world-trip.

For all the readers of David Safier and Gary Shteyngart.

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Of all German travel reporters, Stefan Nink is one of those who have travelled the most. His coverages have been awarded multiple prizes and translated into several languages. Donnerstags im fetten Hecht is his first novel. More than 25,000 copies sold Best Travel novel award 2013 Reviews: “We hope and we tremble and we laugh with this Siebeneisen and in the end wish for a second and third novel by Nink and his wonderfully provincial protagonist.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung “With his book Donnerstags im Fetten Hecht, the travel journalist Stefan Nink has proved that a wealth of travel experiences can also be compiled in the form of a fascinating narrative and a subtle, highly enjoyable novel.” The Jury of “Best travel novel award”

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MARC ELSBERG

Morgen ist es zu spät

ROMAN

Marc Elsberg Blackout Thriller 796 pages, Blanvalet 2012 Commercial Fiction A nightmare in Europe – A thriller about the collapse of the energy network On a cold February day the lights go out in Italy. And not only here. In Sweden as well, then in Germany, then France, Austria, Belgium, and Holland. Everywhere in Europe the electrical grid is collapsing, the elevators stop working, the subways are stuck. And when the grid goes down, it stays down… The Italian ex-hacker and programmer Piero Manzano believes he knows who’s responsible, so he tries to get through to the authorities in charge. But they turn him away. Finally the French Europol Commissioner François Bollard is prepared to listen to him. But when the young and attractive journalist Lauren Shannon shows up and starts asking Bollard awkward questions, and when Bollard begins to suspect Manzano because shady e-mails have been sent from his computer, it becomes clear that Manzano is grappling with a sly and invisible opponent. Manzano is now a hunted man. Meanwhile, the situation on the streets is getting increasingly dramatic. Nothing seems to be working in Europe. Several European nuclear power plants are in critical danger, threatening the lives of millions. The race against time begins. A race that can hardly be won…

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Marc Elsberg, born in 1967, lives and works as an advertising agent in Vienna. His gripping and meticulously researched thriller describes a shockingly realistic scenario. Marc Elsberg works on his next novel which will be published in early 2014.

More than 130,000 copies sold Sold to: Italy (Nord), Japan (Kadokawa), Netherlands (Unieboek), Spain (Duomo), China (Hunan Arts&Literature), Taiwan (Commonwealth), Turkey (Inkilap)

English Sample translation available

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Max Bentow Der Federmann (The Feather Man) Crime fiction 384 pages, Page & Turner 2011 Commercial Crime Fiction Jo Nesbø meets Tony Soprano in this riveting and yet moving crime story from the streets of Berlin The life of the Berlin detective Nils Trojan is in a difficult phase. He’s divorced, has one daughter, and is currently seeing his psychologist Jana Michels once a week for his panic attacks – secretly. One morning, a young woman has been brutally executed – her head shaved bald, covered with feathers, a dead bird placed in the gaping wound in her body. Before Trojan has time to properly fathom what he has seen, the ‘feather man’ attacks again – and once again the victim is a young woman with long hair. Lene, the daughter of the victim, suddenly disappears... The riveting debut detective novel The Feather Man of Max Bentow is pure suspense.

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Max Bentow works as a psychiatrist and lives in Berlin. 90,000 copies sold English sample translation available Sold to: Spain (Destino), Catalan Rights (Edicions 62), Netherlands (Uitgiverij Querido), Poland (Dolnoslaskie), Italy (Sperling&Kupfer), Japan (Kadokawa) One of the acclaimed German Crime series of the last years: Max Bentow’s Berlin based series with detective Nils Trojan.

DIE

TOTEN

TÄ N Z E R IN

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Felix Baumgartner Himmelsstürmer. Mein Leben im freien Fall (Sky Racer. My Life in Free Fall) Memoir 272 pages, Piper Verlag 2013 Commercial Non-fiction Nosediving through the sound barrier He was the first human to break the sound barrier by undertaking the highest free fall ever. On October 14, 2012, B.A.S.E.-jumper Felix Baumgartner crowned his career by executing a spectacular jump from 39,000 meters. In doing so he made adventure as well as scientific history. Now the man who fell from the sky narrates to us the captivating story of his life and the story behind the images that went viral. What pushes Felix Baumgartner forward? What does a person go through while racing head first at 1342 kmph towards Earth? And how does one prepare for something never done before? One of the greatest personal feats of the 21st century and a glimpse into the legendary “Project Stratos”.

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Felix Baumgartner was born in 1969 in Salzburg. In 1999 he jumped off the Statue of Christ in Rio de Janeiro. In 2003 he flew across the English Channel. In 2007 he threw himself off the tallest office building in the world. With these and many other pioneering feats – pulled off under incredible, sometimes illegal circumstances – Felix Baumgartner has created unforgettable images. Yet, these adventures were just the prelude to an operation of incredible dimension: his jump to Earth from the stratosphere. Over 70 million live viewers of the jump from the stratosphere

“Felix Baumgartner’s supersonic jump: From start to finish, a nerve-racking, exciting feat to behold” The Washington Post “Fearless Felix Baumgartner jumps into history with 24,000 mile plunge.” Boston Herald “Felix Baumgartner, a man of records” Latin American Herald Tribune English World Rights available For all other rights please contact Piper Verlag: [email protected] Sold to: France (Flammarion), Italy (Sperling & Kupfer), Poland (WSQN)

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MIT EINEM BEIN IM KNAST §

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Mein Versuch, ein Jahr lang gesetzestreu zu leben

Jürgen Schmieder Mit einem Bein im Knast. Mein Versuch, ein Jahr lang gesetzestreu zu leben (One Foot in Jail. My Attempt to Live in Compliance with the Law for One Year) 368 pages, Verlag C. Bertelsmann 2013 Comercial Non-fiction Just woken up – already a criminal: our daily law infringements and infractions We are all criminals. We speed, we steal towels out of our hotel rooms, we cheat on our tax returns and pirate movies from the internet. Yet we would never admit it. In the process, the economic damage caused by these malpractices adds up to one trillion Euros per year. But what if we actually observed the letter of every law? Jürgen Schmieder dares to do just that. He tries to live for a whole year in impeccable compliance with our more than 100,000 laws and statutes. This turns out to be a daunting challenge. Merely reading the law nearly drives him to insanity. He finds himself forced to turn in his wife and implicate a Russian billionaire and he even receives a death threat… In the final analysis, Schmieder concludes that there are too many laws, but no one makes sure the truly important ones are obeyed.

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Jürgen Schmieder, was born in 1979. He currently works as an editorial journalist for the Süddeutsche Zeitung. He is the author of the bestselling book Thou Shalt not Lie which has been published in several languages.

World rights available

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Sebastián Marincolo Das positive Potential von Marihuana (The High Potential of Marihuana) Tropen Verlag 2013, 139 Pages Foreword by Lester Grinspoon Illustrated book A spectacular new perspective on the most popular drug of the 21st century Every age has its peculiar folly, and if Charles Mackay, the author of the mid-19th century classic Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds were alive today he would surely see “cannabinophobia” as a popular delusion along with “tulipmania” and “witch hunts” of earlier ages. Future historians will most likely look at this epoch and recognize it as another instance of the “madness of crowds.” For a short period of time in the 1970s it was possible to believe that this popular delusion was beginning to lose its deeply embedded grip. Whatever were the cultural conditions that made it possible, there was no doubt that the discussion about marijuana was becoming more sensible as we became conscious of the irrationality of classifying this drug as one with a high abuse potential with no medical or other value. If the trend had continued, it seems likely that within another decade, marijuana would be sold and regulated in the United States in much the same way as alcohol. The use of cannabis as a recreational drug is well known. Recognition of its usefulness as a medicine has been growing rapidly over the last two decades, to the extend that pharmaceutical companies are now investing large sums of money in their attempt to develop patentable cannabinoids-analogs.

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Sebastián Marincolo, Ph.D studied philosophy at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Marincolo has received various research fellowships and grants including a Fulbright grant. He is also one of the editors of “bewusstseinserweiterungen” (“mind expansions”), an issue of the renowned German cultural internetzine parapluie.de. Currently, he lives in Stuttgart, Germany, and is working as a freelance researcher & writer, creative consultant, and art photographer.

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Marina Weisband Wir nennen es Politik. (We Call it Politics) 174 pages, Tropen Verlag, 2013 Political memoir A pamphlet about the future of democracy – bestseller Old men in grey suits sit in back rooms and talk about things that are too big of a challenge for them. They make decisions that benefit those who have the most power and influence. That’s Germany’s democracy in 2012. Marina Weisband shows us a new approach: intelligible, honest, human and direct. “Wir nennen es Politik” emphasizes that democracy requires more participation. Of Jewish heritage, Weisband grew up in the perishing Soviet Union and called the Internet her home. There she developed a voice to freely express her views and realized the potential for actually changing the course of events. In her book, she advances ideas for a political operating system that calls for responsible politicians who do not crave power, and for the participation of brave citizens. In her view, this is the only way to overcome the challenges of democracy. It is a design for politics and a call for participation. More than 40,000 copies sold.

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Marina Weisband was born in Kiev in 1987. She currently studies Psychology in Münster, Germany. In 2009, she joined the Pirate Party in Germany holding a leading office until 2012. Wir nennen es Politik is her first book.

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Ulrich Gutmair Die ersten Tage von Berlin. Der Sound der Wende (The first days of Berlin. The sound of the Wende) 240 pages, Tropen Verlag, 2013 Memoir Like phoenix rising out of the ashes- Berlin's miraculous regenesis How did it happen that of all cities, the one most tormented by war and dictatorship has now risen to become a thriving metropolis? In Ulrich Gutmair’s investigation, we get to know how the Wende, the period immediately following the fall of the Berlin Wall, has continued to influence the city as well as the whole country, and how it has defined what Berlin stands for today. Right after the fall of the Wall, artists, squatters, club and gallery owners, DJs and ravers conquered and transformed the decayed city center and a new movement rose out of the ruins giving the city an entirely new spirit. This period, which only lasted a couple of years, set an enduring course for Berlin. Most of the clubs, galleries and bars from this brief period don’t exist anymore but the legends and stories remain. Ulrich Gutmair witnessed these times. In his book he gives the protagonists of the Wende a voice and artfully interweaves personal memories with historic material to chronicle the epic rebirth of the city from its darkest days to its brightest.

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Ulrich Gutmair was born in 1968 and has been writing about pop culture and history for several journals and magazines for over 20 years now. He has been working as a features editor for taz since 2007. Foreign Rights on behalf of Klett-Cotta

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Jörg Magenau Brüder unterm Sternenzelt Friedrich Georg und Ernst Jünger: Eine Biographie (Brothers under the Stellar Tent: Friedrich Georg and Ernst Jünger) Biography 320 pages, Klett-Cotta 2012 The most fascinating sibling duo of the twentieth century The life of two brothers: as children they used to hunt down butterflies in the wild; in the First World War one of them saved the other’s life; together - in the Twenties and Thirties – they were a thorn in the flesh of the Establishment; in the Hitler years they experienced Germany’s blackest hour. In the years of the Bundesrepublik, the western half of their now divided homeland, they numbered among the founding figures of ecological conservatism. Ernst and Friedrich Georg Jünger were like-minded thinkers as well as political allies who collaborated on a magnum opus. The narrative woven together here of an extraordinary relationship between two brothers, who were also writers, is as multifaceted as the times themselves were in which they lived. This account falls somewhere between family history and philosophical disputation.

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Born in Ludwigsburg in 1961, Jörg Magenau studied at the Free University of Berlin, majoring in philosophy and German language and literature. Between 1990 and 1999 he worked for Wochenpost, Freitag, and taz. In 1995 he was the recipient of the Alfred Kerr prize. Foreign Rights on behalf of Klett-Cotta

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