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Zsuzsa Bánk
Benjamin Lebert
Roman Ehrlich *
Clemens Meyer
Thomas Brussig
Roger Willemsen
Anne Weber *
Klaus Böldl
Antje Rávic Strubel
Michael Opitz
Gerhard Roth
Ilija Trojanow
Sophia Cronberg
Patricia Koelle
Leonie Lastella
Lo Malinke
Steffi von Wolff
Klaus-Peter Wolf
Jörg Maurer
Pierre Lagrange
Tilman Spreckelsen
Mark Roderick
Claus Probst
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Bernd Perplies
Bernd Frenz
LAUREATE
ALFREDDÖBLINMEDAILLE
2017
OF THE
SHORTLISTED
FOR THE PRIZE OF
THE LEIPZIG
BOOK FAIR
2017
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Remo H. Largo
Götz Aly
Felix Römer
Andre Wilkens
Charlotte Klonk
Harald Welzer
Stephan Rammler
Christine Ott
Ralf Konersmann
Karl-Heinz Göttert
Ralf-Peter Märtin
Frido Mann / Christine Mann
Christiane Rösinger
Hans Rudolf Vaget
Volker Kitz
Andreas Wenderoth
Ronja von Rönne
Jörg Blech
The Whole World in Your Pocket
The World of Colouring
Matthias Kalle
Anja Rützel
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ZSUZSA BÁNK
We’ll Sleep Later
What are we going to do with this life now that we’ve
already gone half the distance?
Zsuzsa Bánk’s new novel is a celebration of a great friendship
between two women: The writer Márta lives with her husband and three young children in a large German city. Even
though she loves her children more than anything else, she
struggles every day to keep from drowning in her daily routine and to continue her work despite the challenges of her
everyday life.
Her friend Johanna on the other hand, to whom she has been
very close since their early childhood, is a teacher in the Black
Forest and has no children. Instead of getting on with her
doctoral dissertation, she battles the ghosts of her past:
the man who deserted her, a serious illness she has only recently overcome, the father who died at an early age.
Johanna and Márta keep in close touch through emails of
great depth and candour. The correspondence comprises
forthright reports on their lives and moving confessions;
it reflects their very long friendship and insatiable zest for
life. Both women know that they want more. But what are
they going to do now with this life, half of which they have
already lived? And what is life going to do with them?
688 pp., Hardcover
February 23, 2017
S. Fischer Verlag
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• The long-awaited new novel by Zsuzsa Bánk
• More than 1.1 million books sold in Germany alone
• Translations into 20 languages
“A book that breaks our hearts.”
Die Zeit on Der Schwimmer
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WINNER
GERMAN
BOOKS PRIZE
FOR » DER
SCHWIMMER«
OF THE
“This life of ours, Márta,
it’s there ahead of us. And what are
the two of us doing with it?
We aren’t really taking hold of it; we’re not grabbing
it and shaking it. We’re not stopping at any particular point to examine it more closely, to understand,
to really see it. We’re not saying, This is it. Look,
this is our life. Our days follow one another without
any effort on our part. Something out there that
we can’t see or comprehend makes them go by.
Strings them together unevenly for us. High. Low.
Bright. Dark. Heedlessly, unmoved by what we’re
doing, our days melt away. They crumble. Perhaps
only once we’re dead will we know whether we’ve
missed living our lives. And ask ourselves, Oh,
so that was it?”
We’ll Sleep Later, 2017
“A book whose only fault is that it stops at some point.”
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on Die hellen Tage
“Thank you for every single sentence.”
Brigitte on Die hellen Tage
ZSUZSA BÁNK was born in 1965. While studying Journalism, Political Science,
and Literature in Mainz and Washington, she also worked as a bookseller. Today
she lives with her husband and two children in Frankfurt am Main. She was
awarded the Aspekte Literaturpreis, the German Book Prize, the Jürgen Ponto
Prize, the Mara Cassens Prize, as well as the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize for
von Arnim Prize for Unter Hunden (Among Dogs) from her volume of short stories, Heißester Sommer (The Hottest Summer). Her last novel to be published was
Die hellen Tage (Bright Days).
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© Thorsten Greve
her first novel, Der Schwimmer (The Swimmer). She was also awarded the Bettina
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BENJAMIN LEBERT
The Dark Between the Stars
Where can home be found between hope and despair?
No one can write about this like Benjamin Lebert.
Kathmandu in April 2015, nine days before the massive earthquake. Shakti, Achanda and Tarun are living in a children’s
home that feels like a home of sorts to them. They dream of
relatives, a foster family, and a motorcycle, and get a glimpse
of happiness. Their parents had sold them into indentured
servitude and prostitution, but one day, they managed to
escape. They’re led to believe that they’ll now be okay, but, of
course, they know better. They’re alive, they don’t trust anyone, they’re searching for a path through the darkness, and
aren’t aware of how little time they still have. With unflinching candour and full of hope, Lebert writes about a world that
is usually inaccessible to us.
• Based on Lebert’s own experiences in one of the poorest countries in the world
• Crazy, Lebert’s first novel, sold 1.1 million copies and was
translated into 33 languages “This mighty young superman can describe the
blackness of a night sky so mind-blowingly beautifully and sadly that it seems that no one has
ever done it before.”
Maxim Biller, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, about Crazy
“It’s a tender, modest, totally astonishing and
fascinating book by a highly talented, very young
author.” Elke Heidenreich, Der Spiegel, about Crazy
“Literature can only ever approximate reality.
But reality and literature have one thing in common: they transform us.” Benjamin Lebert
304 pp., Hardcover
February 23, 2017
S. Fischer Verlag
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Calvaria), USA (Knopf / Vintage)
It was translated into 33 languages and made into a film by Hans-Christian
Schmid. He has written five other novels. He spent some time working for an
aid organisation in a children’s home in Nepal, and his new novel is about
these children and their lives.
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BENJAMIN LEBERT lives in Hamburg. His first novel Crazy appeared in 1999.
FICTION
ROMAN EHRLICH
The Dreadful Days of
the Ghastly Horror
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LAUREATE
ALFREDDÖBLINMEDAILLE
2017
OF THE
A novel about fear as the dominant emotion of our time
Week after week, they meet in a pub to tell each other their
worst fears – an unusual project which Christoph has invited all of them to join. He is a director, and they are actors,
set designers, film editors or just friends. They are afraid of
darkness, of love, loneliness, reptiles, madness or mixed-up
medical files. Their stories will inspire the screenplay for the
horror movie The Ghastly Horror. After months of preparation,
they finally begin to shoot the film – and realize that Christoph’s ideas are much more radical than they thought.
• Roman Ehrlich writes with an urgency unmatched among younger German-language writers.
• This is the major novel that has been anticipated ever since his debut.
“A sophisticated, insightful writer.”
Süddeutsche Zeitung on Urwaldgäste
“Literature of unusual sophistication!”
640 pp., Hardcover
March 16, 2017
S. Fischer Verlag
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WDR3 on Urwaldgäste
“A literary blossom from the nightshade family,
gleaming dark and enigmatic, its author a highly
talented illusionist.”
FAZ on Das kalte Jahr
ROMAN EHRLICH, born in 1983 in Aichach, grew up in Neuburg an der Donau
and studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig and the Free University in Berlin. He has previously published the books Das kalte Jahr (2013),
Urwaldgäste (2014) and Das Theater des Krieges (2016, with Michael Disqué).
© Heike Steinweg
Literary awards include the Robert Walser Prize and the Ernst Toller Prize.
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FICTION
CLEMENS MEYER
Silent Satellites
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THOMAS BRUSSIG
Best Intentions
Short Stories
Tales from the night
A train driver who loves night shifts until a
laughing man stands on the tracks. A night
watchman patroling outside a home for immigrants who falls in love with a woman behind
the fence. A burger-bar owner looking out at
the city’s shining satellites. Masterfully, trancelike and with the confidence of a sleepwalker,
Clemens Meyer’s stories tell of lost battles and
overwhelming wishes. They are stories from
our time, as dark as the world, as beautiful as
the brightest of hopes.
• 190 000 books sold in Germany • Movie adaptations: Als wir träumten,
Von Hunden und Pferden, In den
Gängen (production starts spring 2017),
Im Stein (in preparation) “Clemens Meyer writes the most artful,
the hardest and the most heartrending
stories in Germany right now.”
Der Spiegel on Die Nacht, die Lichter
CLEMENS MEYER was born in Halle / Saale in 1977.
It’s 1989, the final months of the GDR, and
people start fleeing via Hungary. The police
have stopped checking anyone properly and
you don’t need a permit to play a gig anymore.
Change is afoot and The Rot is right in the middle of it all. They are the last East German band,
their breakthrough is just a matter of time.
But then the Wall falls and suddenly money is
more important than music. With a light touch
and a lot of humour, Thomas Brussig tells the
story of a band and their dream, and what it’s
like when one thing ends and another begins.
• The sound of East Berlin
• Translated into 30 languages
• More than 1 million copies sold in Germany
“In another life I would translate Thomas
Brussig’s novels into English. Just to
show dubious Americans how incredibly
funny German literature can be.”
Jonathan Franzen
THOMAS BRUSSIG, born in 1964 in Berlin, made his
name in 1995 with the novel Helden wie wir. It was followed by Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee (1999) and
Among his works are Als wir träumten, Die Nacht, die
Wie es leuchtet (2004). His work has been translated into
Lichter. Stories and Im Stein. Clemens Meyer has received
30 languages.
numerous awards, including the Prize of the Leipzig
Book Fair. Im Stein was shortlisted for the German Book
Prize. The feature film Als wir träumten competed in the
Berlinale 2015.
272 pp., Hardcover
March 16, 2017
S. Fischer Verlag
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HRV (Oceanmore), I (Keller), JPN
(Shinchosha), S (Daidalos), SRB
(Samizdat B92), UK/USA (And
other stories); Als wir träumten: DK
(People’s Press), F (Piranha),
I (Keller), TR (Ayrinti)
192 pp., Hardcover
March 16, 2017
S. Fischer Verlag
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& Giroux)
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ROGER WILLEMSEN
Who We Were
“Where do we get all our ignorance?”
Roger Willemsen was working on a new book before he died.
It was to be called “Who We Were” and would examine the
present day from the perspective of the future. Roger Willemsen stopped working on the book when he fell ill in the
summer of 2015, but by then, he had already formulated the
core ideas for “Who We Were” in a stirring “future speech”.
More than simply a melancholic summing-up and a piece of
keen analysis by an extraordinary contemporary of ours,
it is also a passionate plea for a “break with the lightning
speed of time”. It is an appeal to the next generation to
declare its disagreement.
“We were those who knew but did not
understand, who grasped but could not
imagine, filled with information but
devoid of insight, crammed with knowledge but scant of experience. Thus we
went, no longer detained by ourselves.”
Roger Willemsen
64 pp., Hardcover
November 21, 2016
S. Fischer Verlag
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USA (Haus); Gute Tage: FR (Libella)
ROGER WILLEMSEN (1955 – 2016) started out as a university lecturer, translator
and London-based newspaper correspondent, before working as a television
presenter, director and producer from 1991 onwards. He won numerous awards,
among them the Adolf Grimme Gold Prize and the Prix Pantheon. Willemsen was honorary professor of literature at Berlin’s Humboldt University. His
Knacks, Bangkok Noir, Die Enden der Welt, Momentum, and Das Hohe Haus have been
translated into many languages. A book, entitled Der leidenschaftliche Zeitgenosse
(A Passionate Contemporary) and edited by Insa Wilke, discusses his wide-ranging work.
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best-selling books Deutschlandreise, Gute Tage, Afghanische Reise, Kleine Lichter, Der
FICTION
ANNE WEBER
Kirio
SHORTLISTED
PRIZE OF
LEIPZIG
BOOK FAIR
2017
FOR THE
THE
A book that searches in vain for an equal – and
possibly in vain for its narrator …
Who is Kirio: an oddball, a madman, a saint?
His trail first appears in the South of France
and is lost in the German town of Hanau during the time of the Brothers Grimm. Kirio enjoys walking on his hands – and in fact generally turning everything on its head. He talks to
the rocks and the bats as naturally as to other
people, works miracle after miracle and never
notices. So who is Kirio? And who is the voice
telling us about him? Anne Weber’s new novel
reads like a modern legend of a saint, and as a
poetic exploration of the boundaries between
heaven and earth.
“Reality does not get the last word.”
ANNE WEBER , born in Offenbach in 1964, lives in Paris
as an author and translator from German to French and
vice versa. Her work has won numerous prizes, including the Heimito von Doderer Prize, the 3sat Prize, and
the Kranichsteiner Literature Prize. Anne Weber writes
in German and French, and her books are published in
France and Germany.
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KLAUS BÖLDL
Birds Breathing
For two years now, Philipp has been living on
the Faroe Islands north of Scotland. He is a
loner, spending his days on long walks through
the rough countryside. He and his partner
Johanna are growing further and further apart,
though he has found a comfortable silence
with her daughter Rannvá. When Johanna and
Rannvá travel off the islands together, Philipp
embarks on a long walk over the islands, coming ever closer to nature. Will only escape help
him find himself? Is his true home the act of
disappearance?
• Winner of the Hermann Hesse Literature
Award and the Brüder Grimm Prize
“One of Germany’s best story-tellers.”
Heinrich Detering,
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
“With complete mastery, Klaus Böldl
writes about longing, memory, and the
passage of time – full of laconic humour
and the utmost tension.”
Heinrich Vogler, Schweizer Radio
KLAUS BÖLDL , born in Passau in 1964, teaches medieval Scandinavian literature at the University of Kiel. His
works include Studie in Kristallbildung, Südlich von Abisko,
Die fernen Inseln, Drei Flüsse, and Der nächtliche Lehrer. His
244 pp., Hardcover
February 23, 2017
S. Fischer Verlag
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F (Seuil); Luft und Liebe: NL (Wereldbibliotheek)
literary work has won him the Tukan Prize, the Brüder
Grimm Prize, the Hermann Hesse Literature Award, and
the Friedrich Hebbel Prize.
144 pp., Hardcover
March 23, 2017
S. Fischer Verlag
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ANTJE RÁVIC STRUBEL
Wide Aperture
320 pp., Paperback / February 23, 2017 / Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
In 1987, Christiane left her country because she needed more
freedom than she had there. Eight years later, the Berlin Wall
crumbled.
Searching for a true, honest image, West German photographer Leah comes to New York, where she meets Jo, an elegant
American woman. The spark of desire catches immediately,
but Jo is veiled in secrets …
“Simply fascinating!” Cosmopolitan
“No German writer since Uwe Johnson has captured the
rhythm and mysteries of New York on paper as convincingly.” Denis Scheck, Focus
• Invitation to participate at the New Literature Festival in New York in March 2017
Tall, Dark, Stranger
A Night Piece
176 pp., Paperback / February 23, 2017 / Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
A murder and a love story, set against the secretive Berlin
night
In the beginning, there was murder. Scene of the crime: Berlin-Kreuzberg. Late at night, maths student Daniel Stillmann
looks out of the window of his apartment and witnesses a
man behaving very suspiciously. Their eyes meet. Has Daniel
just witnessed a crime being committed?
“A highly dramatic game of fiction and reality.”
Berliner Zeitung
“A book about inventing stories, inventing love, and inventing love stories (…) a mysterious, gripping piece of prose.”
Annabelle
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Among her most recent publications are Fremd Gehen: Ein Nachtstück, Kältere
Schichten der Luft, and her episodic novel In den Wäldern des menschlichen Herzens
(2016). Her work has garnered numerous prizes.
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ANTJE RÁVIC STRUBEL , born in 1974, is a translator from English and Swedish.
FICTION
MICHAEL OPITZ
Wolfgang Hilbig
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GERHARD ROTH
A Commoner Death
A Biography
The first large-scale biography of Wolfgang
Hilbig
Even today, Wolfgang Hilbig is shrouded in an
air of mystery. From his youth in the East German working class he rose to become one of
German literature’s supreme wordsmiths. For
this first large-scale biography, literary scholar
Michael Opitz has consulted never-before-seen
letters and diaries and examined files which
the East German secret police compiled on
the “politically unreliable” author. With compassion and a love for sometimes disturbing
details, Opitz paints a picture of a man whose
real life began in his writing.
• Considers early unpublished literary texts and previously unseen letters and diaries • Examines the files which the East German state police compiled on Hilbig “You never write the contents of your
own vita!” Wolfgang Hilbig
Bees hum through Gerhard Roth’s monumental novel of 1984; animals, leaves, and rocks
can talk; rivers flow through the sky. Roth’s
protagonist is the dumb and “crazy” son of a
bee-keeper, able to see the world behind what
is visible. When the book was first published,
the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung called it “a
marvellous monster” and “an adventure”. Now,
33 years later, the book is finally published in
the form in which it was intended. A dream
book and fairy tale for grown-ups; an artistic
triumph of literary magic.
• In time for Gerhard Roth’s 75th birthday “Roth’s imagination starts working where
human insight leaves off.”
Wolfgang Nagel, Der Spiegel
GERHARD ROTH, born in 1942 in Graz, Austria, has
published countless novels, stories, essays, and plays,
including Die Archive des Schweigens and Orkus, as well
as his latest novel Grundriss eines Rätsels. His work has
won him numerous literary awards, including the Hoffmann von Fallersleben Prize and the Großer Österreichischer Staatspreis 2016.
MICHAEL OPITZ , born in 1953 in Berlin, is a literary
scholar and writer.
WOLFGANG HILBIG, born in 1941 near Leipzig, fled East
Germany in 1985 and died in Berlin in 2007. He received
numerous literary awards, including the Georg Büchner
Prize.
576 pp., Hardcover
October 5, 2017
S. Fischer Verlag
976 pp., Hardcover
May 24, 2017
S. Fischer Verlag
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USA (Burning Deck); Der stille Ozean:
RUS (Symposium), USA/Canada
(Ariadne); Am Abgrund: TR (Iletisim),
UK/USA (Atlas Press); Der Untersuchungsrichter: GR (Odysseas); Eine
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ESSAY
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ILIJA TROJANOW
Escape and Thereafter
Is escape inescapable? Or can one leave the identity of
refugee behind?
A billion people all over the world are fleeing war, hunger,
or violence. The media most often show-cases the terrifying, dangerous flight of individuals – but Ilija Trojanow has
spoken to many refugees about what comes after the escape,
and writes movingly of how their flight still shapes them, and
how his own experiences are still part of him. In so doing, he
manages to paint the existential portrait of a human fate that
defines our time like almost no other.
• A personal report from the author of the internationally acclaimed The Collector of Worlds
• Winner of the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair
“Escape justifies itself. But life afterwards
keeps asking new questions.”
Ilija Trojanow
128 pp., Hardcover
May 24, 2017
S. Fischer Verlag
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(English: Yoda); Meine Olympiade: PL (Sonia Draga), TWN (Business Weekly); Macht und Widerstand: BG
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Weekly); EisTau: BG (Ciela), BR (Companhia das Letras), DK (Tiderne Skifter), E (Spanish + Catalan:
Rayo Verde), F (Libella), NL (De Geus), SVN (Studentska Zalozba), UK/USA (Verso); Der Weltensammler:
published in 23 countries
ILIJA TROJANOW, born in Sofia in 1965, has lived in Nairobi, Munich, Mumbai,
and Cape Town. Today he lives in Vienna. His published works include An den
inneren Ufern Indiens, Der Weltensammler, EisTau, Macht und Widerstand and, most
recently, Meine Olympiade. He has received numerous literary awards, including
the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair in 2006 for Der Weltensammler, as well as the
© Thomas Dorn
Preis der Literaturhäuser in 2009.
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FICTION
SOPHIA CRONBERG
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PATRICIA KOELLE
Glowing Light above
the Cliffs
The Soft Light of
Waves
A tragic love story through the ages, set on
a storm-beaten isle off the Irish coast
When Filine’s husband disappears without a
trace just before the birth of their daughter
Rhea, Filine moves on. She and Rhea open a
little bed and breakfast on the North Sea island
of Amrum. Years later, with Rhea grown up,
their little inn is going well, but the rest
of Rhea’s life is falling apart: her fiancé,
with whom she had dreamed of starting a
family, leaves her. When she gets an offer to
redecorate a hotel far away from the island,
she jumps at it. But soon, she starts to miss
her home and the sound of the sea. Then she
meets a young man whose face is startlingly
like her own. Will she finally learn the secret to
her past?
Rebecca, still reeling from the break-up of her
last relationship, escapes to an island off the
Irish coast. Entranced, she wanders over the
isle, discovering the ruin of an ancient abbey.
In the Middle Ages, local legend has it, a young
woman named Aislin fell in love with one of
the monks. No one is quite sure whether she
jumped off the cliffs or was thrown, but her
ghost is said to haunt the abbey still.
With the help of Ian, who knows the island like
the back of his hand, Rebecca wants to find
out what happened all those centuries ago.
But soon she is in danger – will history repeat
itself?
• Over 100 000 books by Sophia Cronberg sold
• For all fans of Kate Morton and Lucinda Riley SOPHIA CRONBERG was born in Linz, Austria, in 1975,
and has been a professional writer for several years.
• Over 250 000 books by Patricia Koelle sold • Each book became an instant bestseller
• The first book in the eagerly anticipated North Sea trilogy
“Captivating, tender, and full of
atmosphere.”
FÜR SIE on Das Meer in deinem Namen
She enjoys playing the piano and travelling. Her previous works published by FISCHER Taschenbuch are Das
PATRICIA KOELLE is a Berlin author with a passion for
Efeuhaus, Die Lilieninsel, and Der Palazzo am See.
the sea – and for writing, which is how she expresses
her constant amazement with life, people, and our
incredible, unlikely planet. Her latest novel after her
best-selling trilogy set at the Baltic Coast is Die eine,
436 pp., Paperback
October 26, 2017
Fischer Taschenbuch
Verlag
große Geschichte.
480 pp., Paperback
June 22, 2017
Fischer Taschenbuch
Verlag
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LEONIE LASTELLA
Fizzing Heart
Well, actually, Jiara lives in Hamburg, but over
the summer, she works at a trattoria on the
Italian Riviera. She has her life planned out and
organized to the last detail – until she meets
Milo. He is infuriatingly laid back, and has
this arrogant, sort of irresistible laugh. And he
drives Jiara crazy. The tension between them is
electric, sometimes fun and exciting, at other
times just painful. And it’s never going to work
out anyway: Jiara has a boyfriend, a life, and a
future in Hamburg, right? Well, actually …
• Germany’s hip new voice in young women’s fiction • For fans of Mhairi McFarlane
LEONIE LASTELLA has many fond memories of vaca-
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LO MALINKE
Four Women,
One Summer
A true feel-good novel!
Almost 40 – but in no mood to celebrate. Saleswoman Melli wants to get married, but catches
her fiancé in the act with her colleague. Yüzil,
a doctor, realizes that she doesn’t know what
being in love really feels like. Jenny, a mother
and housewife, longs for romance, good sex,
and a job that will give her a reason to get up
in the morning. And TV host Britta is having a
baby with a man who is almost half her age.
In clever, touching, and empathetic writing,
Lo Malinke tells the story of four women who
come to understand that it’s never too late to
look for happiness – even if doing so requires a
serious amount of courage.
tions in Italy as a teenager – including meeting the
cutest guy in the world, whom she eventually married.
She loves ice cream, her sons, and her horse. She also
loves to laugh out loud and often, and claims to be the
most impatient person on the planet. Including in love.
• The novel is being adapted for film with an all-star cast • Alle unter einer Tanne: close to 60 000 copies sold in Germany
LO MALINKE wrote chansons and cabaret texts and
toured Germany, Austria, and Switzerland as part of the
496 pp., Paperback
April 27, 2017
Fischer Taschenbuch
Verlag
cabaret trio MALEDIVA. He produces films and writes
screenplays as well as very successful novels. His most
recent novel with FISCHER Krüger was Alle müssen mit,
which was adapted for television by the network ARD.
336 pp., Paperback
April 27, 2017
Krüger Verlag
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STEFFI VON WOLFF
Later Has Only Just Begun
400 pp., Paperback / February 23, 2017 / Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
Life is short, so take in as much of it as you can get!
“And then the funeral director tells me, ‘This is the kind of
tombstone your family will really enjoy looking at.’ I mean,
excuse me?!”
Leonor has lived a full life, and is now trying to come to terms
with the inevitable: there’s not a lot of time left on her clock.
Hedy on the other hand is widowed, has never left Hamburg,
and feels like there must be something more. When the two
meet at the cemetery, they make a plan: Leonor will show
Hedy how to really let loose, while Hedy will make sure that
Leonor can enjoy the time she has left. And so the two embark on a road trip that will take them from Hamburg’s redlight district all the way to the Indian Ocean.
• Over 1 million books sold!
Rust-Free
384 pp., Paperback / February 23, 2017 / Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
Life starts at 97!
Juliane Knop, aged 97, is fed up. Her husband has been calling her the same irritating pet name for 80 years; her son,
now 67, still wants her to do his laundry, and her grandchildren are only after her collection of novelty mugs. So Juliane
makes a break for it. In the middle of the night, she leaves her
farmhouse for the big city, where she makes surprising connections – not least to the internet …
• Steffi von Wolff’s delightfully bizarre granny bestseller
• Over 100 000 copies sold in Germany
Rights to previous titles sold to: Die Knebel von Mavelon: ROK (Hans Media); Glitzerbarbie: RUS (Azbooka)
tor, and translator. She grew up in the state of Hesse and now works in Hamburg, where she and her husband also live. Her best-selling books are frank,
fearless, and forthright – and very, very funny.
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CRIME FICTION
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KLAUS-PETER WOLF
Deadly Silence in the
Tidelands
He is the doctor the people of North Dyke trust with their
lives. Highly cultured. Charming. A doctor devoted beyond
the call of duty. Dr Sommerfeldt treats his patients more
comprehensively than anyone, caring not only for their ailments but finding solutions to their everyday problems.
He listens to them. Occasionally, he disposes of an abusing
husband. Or a blackmailing ex-boyfriend. He lends money he
doesn’t have. No one knows that he is a man with a past.
A very different past from what many may imagine. A man
with a new identity and a new life. Who is Dr Sommerfeldt?
At once gripping and highly entertaining, this new crime
series will be every bit as addictive for readers as Wolf’s East
Frisian series.
• The new series from one of Germany’s most popular crime writers
• East Frisian crime series: over 5 million copies sold • Now a major TV series in Germany with Emmy-Award winner Christiane Paul
“Great characters, Wolf tells profound stories!”
Lars Schafft, krimi-couch.de
“He is ever so close to his characters, looking at
precisely those spots that really hurt.”
Hamburger Abendblatt
East Frisian Death
560 pp., Paperback / February 16, 2017
Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
352 pp., Paperback
June 22, 2017
Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
Rights sold: NL (Stortebeeker)
Rights to previous titles sold:
Ostfriesenwut: RUS (AST); Ostfriesenfeuer:
F (Piranha); Ostfriesengrab: PL (Media
Rodzina); Ostfriesenblut: EE (Atlex),
PL (Media Rodzina); Ostfriesenkiller:
PL (Media Rodzina); Mord am Leuchtturm:
NL (Sybesma); Karma-Attacke: TR (Yurt
Kitap)
The latest instalment of the hightly popular
East Frisian series: an alarming look into the
abyss of the human soul.
KLAUS-PETER WOLF lives as a free-lance writer in the East Frisian city of Norden. He moved to the coast after many years in the Ruhr area, the Westerwald,
Frisian series has sold over 5 million copies and is regularly among the top ten
of the Der Spiegel bestseller list. It is now being filmed as a prime time TV series
in Germany.
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and Cologne, and is, so to speak, a naturalized Frisian. His highly popular East
FICTION
JÖRG MAURER
Pushing Up the
Daisies
When you’re six feet under, you’re always
looking up – Inspector Jennerwein’s most
ground-breaking case yet
Honour guard and brass band at the idyllic
cemetery in a little Bavarian town: everyone
agrees that it was a beautiful funeral. While
the mourners gather to drink to the departed,
Inspector Jennerwein is busy with the upcoming summit: top security for A-list politicians.
Meanwhile, a murderer is looking for a corpse,
a fatal shot is fired, and the retired undertaker
couple Grasegger feels their professional honour is at stake. Jennerwein must investigate a
mystery that a killer wanted to take to their
grave – or to someone’s grave, at any rate …
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PIERRE LAGRANGE
Blood-red Provence
A Case for Commissaire Leclerc
A triple murder under the summer sun of
Provence: Commissaire Albin Leclerc investigates in this thrilling new installment.
The corpses of three holiday-makers, executed
with a rare weapon, are discovered by a forest lake in Caromb. The police are faced with
a puzzling case – made no easier when former
Commissaire Albin Leclerc decides to interfere.
Is it the work of a hired assassin? Or is a serial
killer targeting tourists in the Provence? Leclerc
sees parallels with an earlier case, and together
with his pug Tyson uncovers a veritable wasps’
nest …
• For fans of Sophie Bonnet and Jean-Luc Bannalec
• Previous Jennerwein mystery Schwindelfrei ist nur der Tod was Number 2 Spiegel
bestseller and Number 1 Focus bestseller! “Electrifying suspense set against an
idyllic backdrop!” Bella
• Top-20 bestseller for 18 weeks and counting
PIERRE LAGRANGE is a journalist and author who has
• Over 2 million books by Jörg Maurer sold! long had close family ties to Provence. His mother and
“Cunning, clever, and suspenseful –
unrivaled narrative prose.” Culturmag
her husband ran a small hotel on an old farm estate
near Avignon. Pierre Lagrange is the pseudonym of
a well-known German author who has already published a number of thrillers and crime novels. Tod in der
JÖRG MAURER, born in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, stud-
Provence was his first novel with Commissaire Leclerc.
ied German, English, Theatre, and Philosophy. Among
his numerous awards for his work as author and cabaret performer are the Agatha-Christie-Prize for Crime
Fiction and the Crime Novel Award.
416 pp., Trade Paperback
April 27, 2017
Scherz Verlag
432 pp., Trade Paperback
March 23, 2017
Scherz Verlag
Rights to previous titles sold: Föhnlage: CZ (Dobrovsky), RUS (AST);
Hochsaison: RUS (AST)
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TILMAN SPRECKELSEN
North Sea Vow
A Theodor Storm Crime Novel
Will the winds of change unleash a political storm?
Theodor Storm’s most dangerous case yet!
It is the year 1844, and thousands are travelling to the little
seaside town of Bredstedt for its famous singing competition.
But attorney Theodor Storm and his secretary Peter Söt know
that under cover of the festival, dangerous political speeches
are to be held, and spies from Copenhagen, Vienna, and Berlin
will be reporting back to their superiors on the disputes between Danes, Frisians, and Germans. Then, a murder, right in
the midst of a crowd. Is Storm himself involved?
• Literary crime novel with thoroughly researched historic details
• Over 80 000 copies of Der Nordseespuk and Das Nordseegrab
sold
• The third case featuring the attorney and poet Theodor Storm
256 pp., Paperback
July 27, 2017
Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
“A historical crime novel against a picturesque
backdrop: Theodor Storm investigates!”
Journal Frankfurt
BACK LIST
Das Nordseegrab
272 pp., Paperback / April 23, 2015
Der Nordseespuk
256 pp., Paperback / May 25, 2016
Both by Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
and is a journalist for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. His first crime
novel, Das Nordseegrab was awarded the 2014 Theodor Storm Prize of the City
of Husum.
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TILMAN SPRECKELSEN, born in 1967, studied German and History in Freiburg
THRILLER | FICTION
MARK RODERICK
CLAUS PROBST
Post Mortem –
Days of Wrath
The Hunt – Wrong
Place, Wrong Time
Look into the abyss and beg for your death
As morally interesting as Breaking Bad; as
fast-paced as The Bourne Identity: Top-notch
suspense from Germany!
Emilia Ness is investigating a new Interpol
case when she receives a gruesome package –
containing a human ear. A short while later, a
video message reaches her: her daughter Becky
has been abducted. And the ear appears to be
Becky’s. There’s just one person who can help
Emilia now: the hitman Avram Kuyper. But he
is following the trail of an old rival. When he
finally realizes they have both been led into
a trap, it’s much too late.
• Over 100 000 copies sold of his first two thrillers
• Both books have been on the Der Spiegel
bestseller list for weeks
• For fans of Sebastian Fitzek and Stieg Larssen
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When an ordinary man witnesses a heinous
crime, he dares to do the right thing: he goes to
the police. His testimony jails a powerful Mafia
boss – but ends his life as he knew it. He becomes a hunted man, a good man fleeing from
the vengeance of the Mafia. But anyone who
values their life had better hope they never
meet him …
A breathtaking thriller and an action-driven
chase leading into the depths of hell. Fastpaced, dark, funny, and intense.
• Winner of the Agatha-Christie-Prize for Crime Writing
CLAUS PROBST has his own practice as a psychotherapist working with children and adolescents, and lives in
“Chock-full of suspense, narrated almost
cinematically!”
Oliver Steuck, WDR2 Crime Tip
MARK RODERICK studied business before working as
a project manager and HR coordinator in the financial
sector. In 2008, he became an accountant for a publishing house specializing in legal texts.
Mannheim with his family. Die Jagd is his third thriller
after Nummer Zwei and Spiegelmord. He won the AgathaChristie-Prize for Crime Writing in 2012.
352 pp., Paperback
April 27, 2017
Fischer Taschenbuch
Verlag
512 pp., Paperback
March 16, 2017
Fischer Taschenbuch
Verlag
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NON-FICTION
REMO H. LARGO
Living the Right Life
Why Our Individuality Makes a Difference,
and How to Do it Justice
The magnum opus of renowned child development expert
and author (“Babyjahre”) Remo H. Largo
A book that will liberate you from the pressure to achieve and
the obsession with development and self-optimisation.
Everyone wants to live a fulfilled life that suits them down
to the ground. But as simple as it sounds, living in harmony
with yourself and others is a difficult business. Most people
find themselves fulfilling other people’s expectations. All the
same, it is possible: we can live a life that does justice to our
strengths and abilities.
The special role our individuality plays in this, what makes it
up and what basic needs shape us, have been the subject of
Remo H. Largo’s research for many decades. His unique longitudinal studies have followed generations of children and
adults. Making a life that „fits“ into a reality is our greatest
challenge, but also our greatest opportunity. An optimistic,
practical book that will give every single one of us new perspectives on our individual competencies, and make a positive change to the way we live together.
Remo H. Largo
DAS
PA S S EN DE
LEB EN
Was unsere
IND IVID U A L ITÄ T
ausmacht und
wie wir sie leben können
S.FISCHER
464 pp., Hardcover
With b/w illustrations
May 24, 2017
S. Fischer Verlag
Sample Translation Link
• Based on a unique study spanning three generations Rights sold: E (Debate),
over 30 years
NL (De Bezige Bij), UK
(Penguin Random House)
• From the author of THE classic in German child-rearing literature
• Babyjahre (Baby Years) has sold 1 million copies in Germany alone and has been translated into many languages
“Remo H. Largo’s educational classic is
absolutely essential for any family.”
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Babyjahre
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“The diversity among living things,
the unique nature of every living thing and its
constant struggle with its environment, are some
of the basic principles of evolution, and thus also of
humanity and human nature. They are part of the
conditio humana, which has found expression in
religion, philosophy and art for millennia.
In my clinical and scientific work, and of course in
my own life, I have always been very moved by the
efforts of individuals to bring their individuality
into accord with their environment. These experiences are at the root of this book.” Remo H. Largo
“Every human, with his individual needs and abilities, strives
to fit into his environment. [… I see] the unique nature of each
person and the combination of individual and environment
as the basis of human existence.” Remo H. Largo
REMO H. LARGO, born in Winterthur in 1943, studied medicine at Zurich University and developmental paediatrics at the University of California, LA. From
1978, he headed the Department of Growth and Development at the University
Children’s Hospital in Zurich, where he lead the Zurich longitudinal studies.
He has been awarded a number of prizes for his work, including the Prix Mondial
sional Association of Applied Psychology. Remo H. Largo is the author of numerous bestsellers focusing on human development. His books include Babyjahre,
Schülerjahre, Jugendjahre and are considered classics of child-rearing literature.
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Nessim Habif de l’Université de Genève, and the SBAP Prize of the Swiss Profes-
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GÖTZ ALY
Europe Against the Jews
1880 – 1945
This is the first investigation of anti-Semitism and the prehistory of the Holocaust from a comprehensive European
perspective.
The Holocaust cannot be explained only by examining German history. Starting in 1880, driven by nationalism and social crises, hostility toward Jews took a dramatic rise in both
western and eastern Europe. Without in any way downplaying
the culpability of German actors, historian Götz Aly shows
how rivalries, envy, discrimination and pogroms throughout
Europe paved the way for mass deportations and murder. For
the first time, modern anti-Semitism is presented as a crossborder phenomenon. Aly opens up a new perspective on the
European, and not just German, prehistory of the Holocaust.
• A major new work by one of the most prominent historians of National Socialism • An extension of his last widely read book Why the Germans?
Why the Jews? to the European level
“Götz Aly is one of the most innovative and resourceful scholars working in the field of Holocaust studies.” Christopher Browning, NYT Book Review
“Götz Aly has made it his mission to understand
the massive crimes of National Socialism as a
phenomenon of its century, which makes it part
of our world.” Gustav Seibt, Süddeutsche Zeitung
432 pp., Hardcover
February 23, 2017
S. Fischer Verlag
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Rights sold: UK/USA (Holt),
H (L'Harmattan)
Rights to previous titles sold to (selection):
Die Belasteten: CHN (Guangming),
E (Critica), F (Flammarion), I (Einaudi),
PL (Czarne); Warum die Deutschen? Warum
die Juden?: E (Critica), I (Einaudi), UK/
USA (Holt); Unser Kampf: PL (Fronda);
Hitlers Volksstaat: CHN (Yilin), CZ (Argo),
DK (Gyldendal), E (Planeta), F (Flammarion), GR (Kedros), HR (Fraktura),
I (Einaudi), JP (Iwanami), P (Asa Leya
Texto), PL (Finna), S (Daidalos), UK / USA
(Holt); Endlösung: CZ (Argo), JP (Hosei),
RO (Hasefer), UK/USA (Hodder &
Stoughton)
GÖTZ ALY is a historian and journalist who has worked for the taz and Berliner
Zeitung newspapers and as a visiting university professor. His books have been
translated into numerous languages. He is the recipient of the Heinrich Mann
His most recent works are Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Envy, Race Hatred, and
the Prehistory of the Holocaust 1830 – 1933 and The Burdened Ones: A Social History of
Euthanasia 1939 – 1945.
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Prize (2002), the Marion Samuel Prize (2003) and the Ludwig Börne Prize (2012).
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FELIX RÖMER
The Narcissistic Volksgemeinschaft
Theodor Habicht’s Struggle, 1914 – 1944.
A disturbing study of the inner life of a leading Nazi official
and ‘hero’ of the Eastern Front.
Wiesbaden, March 6, 1927. A truck careens through the city
streets. On board are twenty-one young Nazis on their way
to a street battle. Among them is district leader Theodor
Habicht.
Habicht rose quickly through the ranks, becoming NSDAP
leader in Austria and then a diplomat. In 1939, he became
an officer in the Wehrmacht, and died a ‘hero’s death’ on
the Eastern Front in 1944, leaving behind a unique war diary,
which the historian Felix Römer has used as source material
for his book. Römer plunges us into the intellectual world of
a staunch National Socialist, uncovering his immense egocentricity and exposing a fundamental contradiction in Nazi
ideology. For although the individual was supposed to melt
into the Volksgemeinschaft – the national ethnic community –
the Nazis simultaneously promoted a cult of ‘personalities’.
This is a sometimes startling examination of the narcissism
of Nazi society and its leaders.
384 pp., Hardcover
May 24, 2017
S. Fischer Verlag
Sample Translation Link
• A new and unusual perspective that reveals the pronounced narcissism of many Nazi officials
• Contains vast extracts from Habicht’s original war diary
“A very important and cogently argued book.”
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Comrades
“Römer’s study can already be considered a landmark work.” Die Zeit on Comrades
FELIX RÖMER (born in 1978) is a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in London. He studied in Kiel, Lyon and Freiburg, gaining his PhD in 2007.
From 2008 to 2012, he was a project associate at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. His two previous books, The Commissar Order: The Wehrmacht and
Nazi Crimes on the Eastern Front (2008) and Comrades: Inside the Wehrmacht (2012),
© private
received a considerable amount of media coverage.
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ANDRE WILKENS
The Discrete Charm
of Bureaucracy
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CHARLOTTE KLONK
Terror
When Images Become Weapons
Good News from Europe
Learn to love Europe again – Confessions of a
passionate European.
We have a lot to thank Europe for: liberty, positive visions of utopia, border-free travel. Andre
Wilkens tells its stories: stories about Europe,
about people in Europe and about himself. Not
abstract ideas, but personal experiences. About
football, music, architecture and much more –
even Habermas and Angelina Jolie manage to
get a word in. Because Europe needs a new narrative, one which is better, more exciting, more
modern, more personal. With all the ingredients that make a good story.
• A clever, humorous and optimistic book about Europe
• An important contribution to the debate about Europe: informative and entertaining
“Right now we need to understand what
a miracle we have achieved with Europe.
Only those who know its history can
shape the future with confidence.”
Andre Wilkens
ANDRE WILKENS graduated in Political Sciences and
spent many years living in Brussels, London, Turin and
Geneva, working for the EU, the United Nations and
various foundations. He initiated and is a founding
member of the European
Council for Foreign Relations. He lives with his
German-English family in
Berlin.
320 pp., Hardcover
March 23, 2017
S. Fischer Verlag
Sample Translation Link
Fighting with images is a kind of psychological fighting. Unintended consequences are the
rule, not the exception.
The propaganda videos from the IS fighters are
nothing new. On the contrary, terrorists have
always made use of images to spread their
cause through the media – as did their enemy,
the state. In her study, Charlotte Klonk shows
which role the images of terror have played
since the 19th century up through to our immediate present. Examining the concrete
case studies with the expert insights of an art
historian, she outlines the strategies of the
images orders them in their historical developments, and at the end of the book answers the
pressing question of the ethical treatment of
terrorist images. This is a vital book for understanding the background of the terrorism
omnipresent today.
• Absolutely current topic: the function of images in terrorist warfare
• How should one act in light of the power of images? Charlotte Klonk provides answers
CHARLOTTE KLONK , born in 1965, studied art history
at the universities of Hamburg and Cambridge. After
receiving her PhD, she was Junior Research Fellow at
Christ Church, Oxford University, and Lecturer at the
University of Warwick. She has been Professor for Art
History at the Humboldt
University of Berlin since
2011.
320 pp., ca. 80 illustrations, Hardcover
May 24, 2017
S. Fischer Verlag
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HARALD WELZER
We Are the Majority
For an Open Society
Welcome to the majority!
Democracy and freedom can only prevail if enough people
stand up for them. It’s time to speak up!
Populists are increasingly dominant in public discourse, while
politicians and the media react with alarm. Yet there is still a
majority, although it almost seems forgotten, for democracy
and freedom. This book supplies the arguments to effectively
counter all the stupidity of right-wing populism.
• Compelling arguments against right-wing populists and other misanthropists
• The book for an open society and democratic values
• Translations in 20 languages
“Welzer is motivating where others
are depressing.”
Politische Studien
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March 16, 2017
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PL (Dobra Literatura / Krytyka / Naukowe
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HARALD WELZER, born in 1958, is director of the Futurzwei Foundation for Sustainability and Professor of Transformation Design at the University of Flensburg. He also teaches at the University of St. Gallen. His recent books published
by Fischer include: Selbst denken, 2013 (‘Think for Yourself’); Autonomie: Eine
Verteidigung (‘Autonomy: A Defence’), 2015, with Michael Pauen; and Die smarte
Our Freedom’), 2016. His books have been published in 21 countries. Harald
Welzer is a co-founder of the German ‘Open Society’ initiative, which has been
generating nationwide excitement with numerous public events, concerts and
performances.
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STEPHAN RAMMLER
CHRISTINE OTT
Driving Innovation
Gut Feelings
A Manifesto for a New Mobility
Myths in Food Culture
The future of truly intelligent mobility has only
just begun
Are we what we eat?
Germany invented and perfected the car. On
the one hand, it thus created one of the most
technologically advanced and intelligent
products of modern mass production. On the
other hand, it also paved the road for a societally and environmentally unsustainable
product – one need only think of the scarcity
of resources, space, and clean air evident even
today. Stephan Rammler argues for an intellectual and emotional change of perspective: we
need to say goodbye to mobility as we know it.
Rammler’s vision does not simply mean giving up the automobile, but enriching the future
with advances towards an even more successful mobility.
• Winner of the ZEIT WISSEN Award “Mut zur Nachhaltigkeit” 2016 Our global society offers us an apparently
infinite variety of food options, so that our
meals become an individual expression of
our lifestyle. In this book, Christine Ott shows
that each of our dietary decisions contains the
legacy of powerful myths, propagating ideas of
male and female, culture and nature, society
and the individual. Using political statements,
eating ideologies, literary texts, and film, she
critically illuminates gastro-myths such as the
totem function of French cheese or the supposed purity of breast feeding. Ott uncovers the
truth behind our shifting prandial identities.
CHRISTINE OTT studied German and Romance Languages in Eichstätt and Saint-Étienne and later worked
at the universities of Heidelberg and Marburg as well
as Harvard University. Since 2010, she is a professor
of Italian and French Literature at Frankfurt’s Goethe
University.
STEPHAN RAMMLER , born in 1968, is professor of
transportation design and social sciences at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig as well as
the founder of the Institute of Transportation Design.
In 2016, he was awarded the “Mut zur Nachhaltigkeit”
Award by the magazine ZEIT WISSEN.
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352 pp., Hardcover
April 27, 2017
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144 pp., Paperback
July 27, 2017
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Verlag
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RALF KONERSMANN
A Dictionary of
Disquiet
In his highly successful work Die Unruhe der
Welt, Ralf Konersmann examined the ways
in which Western culture has learned to love
disquiet. Now, he uses new sources and previously undiscussed materials to develop an
encyclopedia to complement his previous book.
He travels to the places where disquiet takes
shape and presents itself as the most natural
thing in the world: from “absent-mindedness”
via “coolness” and “discomfort” all the way
to “work”, sparkling and brilliantly worded
entries uncover the lines of argument and
discursive strategies which disquiet uses to
take hold of us.
RALF KONERSMANN, born in 1955, is a philosophy
professor at the University of Kiel, where he chairs
the philosophy department. In addition to his other
work, he is co-editor of the cultural historical magazine Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie and the reference
standard Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie. His most
recent publications with S. Fischer include Die Unruhe
der Welt (2015).
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KARL-HEINZ GÖTTERT
Luther’s Bible
The History of a Hostile
Take-Over
Translation is interpretation – but what kind of
interpretation?
No book has been translated more often than
the Bible, which exists in 2.817 languages – and
counting. In this gripping book, Karl-Heinz
Göttert tells the history of these translations.
From questions about the Greek and Hebrew
“originals”, he shows how Bible translations
shaped languages, influenced cultures, and
how translators used a variety of strategies to
impose their theologies – up to and including
Luther’s historic translation. In so doing, he illuminates how the Bible fundamentally shaped
our ideas of criticism and enlightenment,
fidelity and forgery, and what language can
do in the mind.
• Mythos Redemacht was shortlisted for the 2015 Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair
• This quintessential book explains how the
Bible was translated all over the world KARL-HEINZ GÖTTERT, born in 1943, is emeritus pro-
352 pp., Hardcover
April 27, 2017
S. Fischer Verlag
fessor of Ancient German Literature at the University
of Cologne. Other works published by Fischer include
Mythos Redemacht and Martin Luther: Das große Lesebuch
(editor) as well as Martin Luther: Die 95 Thesen.
Rights to previous titles sold to:
Komödien des Geistes: HU (Kijarat);
René Magritte: E (Siglo Veintiuno)
512 pp., Hardcover
February 23, 2017
S. Fischer Verlag
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RALF-PETER MÄRTIN
The Alps in Ancient
Times
From Ötzi to the Great Migration
From Ötzi via Hannibal to Christianization –
the history of the Alps in ancient times
Hannibal is the name most often mentioned in
histories of the Alps before the Middle Ages. In
this evocative book, well-known historian RalfPeter Märtin shows us just how much richer in
people and cultures this period truly was. He
reports how and why Ötzi had to die, recounts
the beginnings of trade in copper, salt, and iron,
tells of the battles between the Cimbri and the
Teutons, and explores the monasteries and
trade routes that a burgeoning Christianity
created. The result is a vivid picture of a unique
cultural space the legacy of which can be felt
even today.
• From the best-selling author of Die
Varusschlacht: almost 50 000 copies sold in Germany
• Includes an afterword by Christoph Ransmayr
“Ralf-Peter Märtin resolved histories into
stories, into tales of human life and
death, of the lust for power, of rule and
futility.” Christoph Ransmayr
RALF-PETER MÄRTIN (1951 – 2016) studied Ancient History and German before becoming an author of historical features for GEO, ZEIT, and National Geographic. His
FRIDO MANN /
CHRISTINE MANN
Let There Be Light!
The Unity of Mind and Matter
in Quantum Physics
All religion, art, and science are branches of
the same tree.
In this revelatory book, Christine Mann, daughter of Werner Heisenberg, and Frido Mann,
grandson of Thomas Mann, show how quantum theory’s arrival on the scene of natural science can have a deep – and beneficial! – impact
on our thoughts and actions: idealism and
materialism are no longer irreconcilable, a unified view of the world and humanity becomes
possible.
• An extraordinary pair of authors: Thomas Mann’s grandson and Werner Heisenberg’s daughter
• A holistic view of the phenomenon of mind and matter
FRIDO MANN, born in 1940 in Monterey, California,
studied Music, Catholic Theology, and Psychology before
working as a clinical psychologist. He now lives and
writes in Munich.
As the second-youngest daughter of physicist Werner
Heisenberg, CHRISTINE MANN was interested in the
relationship between theology and physics from an
early age. After studying Pedagogy and Psychology,
she was a practising school psychologist.
books on the Romanian nobleman Vlad Tepes – the historical count Dracula – and
on the history of mountaineering in the Himalayas are
considered standard works.
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February 23, 2017
S. Fischer Verlag
208 pp., Hardcover
March 23, 2017
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CHRISTIANE RÖSINGER
Let’s Do the Future
Tomorrow
Teaching Refugees German
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HANS RUDOLF VAGET
“Woeful Inheritance”
Richard Wagner in
Germany
Hitler, Knappertsbusch, Mann
Since September 2015, Berlin-based musician
and author Christiane Rösinger has been teaching refugees German. Her course for beginners
is free of charge, part of an offer for people who
cannot find classes otherwise and, as bureaucratic jargon has it, have “little to no good
perspective for remaining.” But her students
are not the only ones battling separable verbs
and German’s thorny prepositional landscape.
Christiane Rösinger herself is hard-pressed
to achieve educational goals and to integrate
herself. To succeed, she has to confront the
two biggest barriers to effective integration:
German society and German grammar.
No other representative of German cultural history has been as lastingly tainted by National
Socialism as Richard Wagner. So why is Hitler’s
favourite composer so popular the world over?
In his new book, Wagner expert Hans Vaget
traces the path of Wagner’s music as a triptych:
from Hitler’s intoxicated, nationalist German
interpretation of Wagner via the re-founding
of the Bayreuth Festival under the aegis of
conductor Hans Knappertsbusch to the enlightened cosmopolitan approach of Thomas Mann,
which can be considered the foundation of the
composer’s lasting popularity.
• An honest, funny, and personal account • From Berlin’s cultural icon Christiane Rösinger • From the recipient of the Thomas Mann Medal
CHRISTIANE RÖSINGER co-founded the bands “Lassie
HANS RUDOLF VAGET is professor emeritus of German
Singers” and “Britta” in Berlin. In addition to her work
Studies and Comparative Literature at Smith College in
as a musician, she writes for several newspapers and
Northampton, Massachusetts. His research has focused
magazines. After her first book, Das schöne Leben in 2008,
on Goethe, Wagner, and Thomas Mann. He was awarded
she published the singledom manifesto Liebe wird oft
the Thomas Mann Medal for his edition of the letters
überbewertet and Berlin – Baku.
between Thomas Mann and Agnes E. Meyer.
224 pp., Paperback
March 16, 2017
Fischer Taschenbuch
Verlag
352 pp., Hardcover
May 24, 2017
S. Fischer Verlag
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Liebe wird oft überbewertet: ROK (The
Wing of Thinking)
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VOLKER KITZ
Have a Break!
Why We Are Better Workers
When not “Burning” For Our Jobs
A manifesto for more honesty in the workplace
Only those who are passionate about their
work achieve good results and are happy – that
is what society generally agrees on. But millions of people working in offices, on assembly
lines, and behind store counters are asking
themselves: What am I doing wrong if I’m not
feeling passionate? And where are the “exciting
challenges” everybody is talking about?
Best-selling author Volker Kitz describes in a
very smart way why we do our work with more
satisfaction and better results when it’s not the
centre of our lives.
• Kitz’ writing on work has become an online sensation and has been shared thousands of times via social media
• Over 500 000 copies of Kitz’ books sold • Rights sold to over 30 countries VOLKER KITZ holds a doctorate in law, is a best-selling
author, and delivers internationally acclaimed lectures.
His writing has appeared in Spiegel Online, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Die Welt.
ANDREAS WENDEROTH
Just Because I’m a
Hypochondriac That
Doesn’t Mean I’m
Not Ill
A Medical Hystory
The suffering man – confessions of a hypochondriac
I’m sick with everything. My worries about my
health keep me on edge constantly. I know,
I’m a hypochondriac in the worst way. But I’m
not alone: Frederic the Great, Charlie Chaplin,
Woody Allen, Harald Schmidt – particularly the
male of the species seems affected. This book
addresses the wide-spread fear of illness and
explores a phenomenon which has long been
underestimated in its effects on relationships
– especially its ability to navigate them to the
brink with pinpoint accuracy.
“More subtle and poetic and in many
places also funnier than much of what
has so far been written about this
disease.” Deutschlandfunk on Ein halber Held
ANDREAS WENDEROTH, born in 1965, is a journalist
and confessed hypochondriac. He writes features and
portraits for GEO, the Süddeutsche Zeitung magazine,
mare and DIE ZEIT. In the spring of 2016, he published
his acclaimed book Ein halber Held.
96 pp., Paperback
February 23, 2017
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Verlag
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wie ich bin: CZ (Grada Publ.), ROK
(Munhakdongne), RUS (Feniks)
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April 27, 2017
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RONJA VON RÖNNE
Today Isn’t Going
to Work For Me
Notes to Life’s Complaints
Department
Positive thinking is very in at the moment. But
it’s utter nonsense. If you’re very lonely, say, it
doesn’t help to tell yourself that you’re really
only the world’s smallest party. Because the
truth is, if you just keep telling yourself you’re
a “highly exclusive club”, you’ll stay one.
Ronja von Rönne writes about all the little
things that make life intolerable. Today isn’t going to work for me is a selection of her best writing from Welt am Sonntag and her blog Sudelheft,
as well as brand-new texts. Fresh, funny, and
irreverent, provocative and pointed, Ronja von
Rönne tackles the way we live our lives with
intellectual and verbal acuity.
“ Clever, unsavoury, and strong in its
values. The typical Rönne-sound.”
ZDF Aspekte
“A portrait of [Rönne’s] millennial generation that is as sharply observant as it is
funny.” Elle
RONJA VON RÖNNE , born 1992 in Berlin, writes for Welt
am Sonntag. Her first novel, Wir kommen, was published
in 2016. She lives in Berlin and Grassau and does not
own a snow plow. More from the author can be found at
www.sudelheft.de
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JÖRG BLECH
In Bad Taste
The False Promises of the Food
Industry and How We Can Simply
Eat Healthily
Away from industrial products and back to
real food!
Close to three quarters of our food is industrially produced: multi-national corporations control the global food market. Supermarkets stock
thousands of different products, many of which
have little to nothing in common with real
food. Their components are ultra-processed,
concocted from hydrated fats and modified
sugars. This type of food comprises 60 % of our
nutritional intake – and leaves us fat rather
than filled. Biochemist and science journalist
Jörg Blech has written this book to uncover the
tricks of the trade.
• From the best-selling author of Die
Krankheitserfinder: almost 230 000 copies sold in Germany alone
• Translated into over 12 languages
• Well-researched appraisal of the food industry today
JÖRG BLECH, born in 1966, studied Biology and Biochemistry and has worked as a journalist for the magazines Stern and ZEIT. Since 1999 he has been working for
Der Spiegel and has published several cover stories.
208 pp., Trade Paperback
February 23, 2017
Fischer Taschenbuch
Verlag
256 pp., Hardcover
March 23, 2017
S. Fischer Verlag
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Publishing), TWN (Rive Gauche),
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The Whole World in Your Pocket
What No Travel Book Will Tell You
BERND INGMAR GUTBERLET
The Pocket Guide to Berlin
The smallest book about Germany’s biggest city
Who was and who wasn’t a Berliner? What oases and idyllic
retreats are hidden away in the bustling metropolis?
This book serves up the historical, the forgotten, and the
hilarious – for tourists, locals, and those who just want to
be in the know.
BERND INGMAR GUTBERLET, born in 1966 in Fulda, Germany, has published
numerous historical and cultural non-fiction titles, as well as travel guides
to Berlin.
JÖRG ZIPPRICK
The Pocket Guide to France
256 pp., Softcover / July 27, 2017
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416 pp., Softcover
April 27, 2017
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Livre la France!
JÖRG ZIPPRICK has been working as a freelance
journalist and author covering France and gourmet
food since 1991. His writing has been published in
Stern and Feinschmecker magazines, among others.
FRANÇOISE HAUSER
The Pocket Guide to China
272 pp., Softcover / May 24, 2017
Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
The smallest book about the world’s most
populous country
FRANÇOISE HAUSER studied Geography and East Asian
Studies. As a freelance journalist, she has written regularly for various magazines and newspapers, including
Die Welt and Spiegel Online.
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The World of Colouring –
Taking Time For Yourself
MAREN KRUTH
Wedding Magic
Colour In and Say Yes to
Relaxation
96 pp., Paperback / April 27, 2017
Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
The first wedding colouring book
Young writer and illustrator MAREN KRUTH started
out in the fashion industry and today works as a freelance designer. Her first colouring book, Spring Magic
has already secured her a large community of fans.
KATHARINA SCHMIDT
Berlin
Your On-the-Go Colouring Book
80 pp., Hardcover / April 27, 2017
Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
Enjoy the world’s most exciting city –
in full colour
KATHARINA SCHMIDT lives as freelance illustrator
in Frankfurt and loves to draw on the train.
PETRA ZIPFEL
The wonderful
World of Yoga
Colour In and Breathe Out
KATHARINA SCHMIDT
Serene Travels
My Vacation Colouring Book
96 pp., Paperback
May 24, 2017
Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
Complete relaxation
with the first yogathemed colouring book
96 pp., Paperback
May 24, 2017
Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
PETRA ZIPFEL lives in
Schwerin, Germany as a
designer and yoga instructor
Colouring against Wanderlust
after seven years spent on
the Canary Islands.
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MATTHIAS KALLE
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ANJA RÜTZEL
Back When We Were Saturday Night
Forever Young
Beaver
Formative Memories of Our Youth
Fair and fowl – strange animals of all stripes
Memories of an analogue future
What did your first tape recorder look like?
With whom did you go see Dirty Dancing when
it came out? A few words, and immediately
the memories flood back: the first cigarette,
“November Rain” by Guns N’ Roses, Chernobyl.
Matthias Kalle wants to capture these images
that we never forget, the moments we share
and that shape our autobiographies. Memories
remind us what we were – and in so doing,
remind us also what we are.
• The collective memory of the last “real” years between 1985 and 1995 • Winner of the Axel Springer Prize
MATTHIAS KALLE , born in 1975, is assistant editor-in-
Did you know that there are inveterate admirers of the Madagascar hissing cockroach?
Have you ever considered training to become
a beaver counsellor? Or being led around on a
halter to better understand the psyche of an
alpaca? Anja Rützel has tried all this and more.
With an unquenchable thirst for adventure and
her unique eye for the bizarre, the journalist
takes us on a journey into the depths of the
unknown. The resulting stories are so unusual,
entertaining and hilarious that you will not be
able to get enough of them.
• From one of Germany’s hippest journalists ANJA RÜTZEL , born in 1973, is a journalist, animal lover,
chief of ZEIT magazine. He has been nominated for
and football fan. She co-founded Business Punk and now
the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize and is a winner of the Axel
works as a free-lance writer for the Süddeutsche Zeitung
Springer Prize.
magazine, SPON, SPEX, and others.
288 pp., Trade Paperback
March 23, 2017
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BERND PERPLIES
Dragon Hunter
The First Journey into the Cloud Sea
In the city of Skargakar, on the shores of the mysterious
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Science Fiction. Bei Tor Books erscheinen u. a.
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“Moby Dick with Dragons!”
BERND PERPLIES, born in 1977, studied film and German studies. Today he
works as an author and translator for movie magazines and Sci-Fi and Fantasy
publishers. His most well-known works include the Dawn of Magicians trilogy
and the Tarean saga. In 2015, he was awarded the German Fantasy Fiction Prize
© Jörg Steinmetz
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BERND FRENZ
The Elves’ Power
Blood Wars 2
Garon is in uproar. When an armada of exiled orcs lands on
the coast, the time of the Great War seems to have come.
Under the ruthless leadership of their general, Grimm, the
orcs are using a forbidden magic which shakes the very foundations of the land. Garon’s only hope is for all beings to
unite – but the discord between the races may be too great.
Even many of the elves have doubts about the wisdom of an
alliance with men …
In this second instalment of the Blood Wars trilogy, Bernd
Frenz has outdone himself: elves, dwarves, trolls, and orcs
fight for their home and for their very existence.
• At last: the second volume of the monumental Blood Wars trilogy • For all fans of Warcraft and The Witcher
• Over 25 000 copies of The Blood Orcs sold in Germany alone!
“A bang!” Bernhard Hennen
bernd frenz
Hamdi Tanpinar ist zweifellos
merkenswerteste Autor der
nen türkischen Literatur.«
Orhan Pamuk
porträt eines türkischen Mannes ohne
ten: Hayri Irdal ist bereits als Kind von
iniert. Durch die Begegnung mit dem
tler Halit wird er plötzlich zu einem
chen
Gemeinsam gründen sie das Uhrenstellinstigigantischen und doch ganz überflüssigen
gsapparat, der für die korrekte Einstellung
Uhren im Land zu sorgen hat.
€ (A) 10,30
bernd
frenz
die völkerkriege 1
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June 22, 2017
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The Dwarves’ Grudge
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Fun and fast-paced: Volume 1 of the Blood
Wars trilogy leads into an epic Fantasy world
in the tradition of Tolkien.
BERND FRENZ , born in 1964, has been writing Sci-Fi and Fantasy novels for
many years. He was one of the main authors of the end-time series Maddrax,
has contributed to the Perry Rhodan universe, and written three S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
novels. His Blood Orcs trilogy established him firmly in the realm of Germanlanguage Fantasy.
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