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Literature
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Matthias Zschokke The Strict Ladies of the Rosa Salva
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Teresa Präauer Johnny and Jean
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Jörg Albrecht Anarchy in Ruhrtown
Contemporary
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Rosemarie Bovier Home is what Others Talk about
Editions
8
Armin T. Wegner Shout it to the World
History
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Reinhard Rürup The Long Shadow of National Socialism
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Lisa Hauff The Political Role of the Judenrat
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Cultural Sciences
Michael Hagner The Matter of the Book
Uwe Jochum Media Bodies
Christian Kiening The Middle Ages of Modernity
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About Literature
Kai Kauffmann Stefan George
Backlist Highlights
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Lukas Bärfuss Koala
Lukas Bärfuss A Hundred Days
Lukas Bärfuss Alice goes to Switzerland – The Test – Amygdala
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Lukas Bärfuss The Death of Meienberg – The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents –
The Bus
Lukas Bärfuss Malaga – Parcifal – Twenty Thousand Pages
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Ralph Dutli The Song of Honey
Ralph Dutli Soutine’s Last Journey
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Maja Haderlap Angel of Oblivion
Ludwig Laher Bitter
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Dea Loher Bugatti Surfaces
Wolfgang Matz The Art of Adultery
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Joseph Roth and Stefan Zweig »A Friendship with me is a Perishable Thing«
Patrick Roth My Journey to Chaplin
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Gregor Sander What Would Have Been
Gregor Sander Absent
Gregor Sander Winter Fish
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Matthias Zschokke The Man with Two Eyes
Wallstein Verlag
Literature
Venice for six months.
A celebration of the senses.
Matthias Zschokke writes
about it in such an inspiring
way that you feel you must
have been there with him.
Or that you have to set off
and go there at once.
Matthias Zschokke
The Strict Ladies of the
Rosa Salva
ca. 340 pages, hardback,
dust cover
August
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Matthias Zschokke
The Strict Ladies of the
Rosa Salva
There are a considerable number of books about Venice. But no
one has ever written one like this before! It brings the magnetism
of the town to life in such a passionate, observant and laconic
way that it overwhelms you. For example, the moment when
the author steps out of the door onto the sunlit square and notes:
»I am overcome by a sublime feeling, I envy myself.« On one level
the author perceives everything as though he were seeing it for
the first time, but at the same time he is one of the residenti, the
locals who are not expected to pay tourist prices on the vaparetto,
who drink their macchiatone standing up at the bar. From the
early summer of 2012 he lives in Venice for six months; perhaps
it would be more accurate to say he lives in the town and takes
note of everything he sees, smells, tastes, hears and experiences:
not in a silent journal, but in mails to friends, relatives, colleagues.
Zschokke’s infectious curiosity protects him from idealisation – it
is directed towards the whole world, wishing to fully grasp every­
thing it is possible to know. In this way a shimmering kaleidoscope
emerges, a study of the big picture and the smallest of quirks, from
theatrical rumblings and the literary scene to the real things of
everyday existence. A marvellous thing, this book.
Matthias Zschokke, born in Bern in 1954, grew up in Aargau and
the canton of Bern. He has lived in Berlin since 1980, where he
works as an author and filmmaker. He made his debut in 1982 with
the novel »Max«, for which he was awarded the Robert Walser Prize, and has published a large number of novels, plays and feature
films. Matthias Zschokke has been awarded prestigious prizes
including the Gerhart Hauptmann Prize, the Solothurn Literature
Prize, was the first German-speaking author ever to win the Prix
Femina étranger for the novel »Maurice mit Huhn« (Maurice with
Chicken) and the »Eidgenössischer Literaturpreis (Swiss Literature Prize)« for »Der Mann mit den zwei Augen« (The Man with
Two Eyes).
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Teresa Präauer
Johnny and Jean
Novel
Create good art! Johnny and Jean have no less goal in mind when
they meet up again at the art academy after the summer holidays.
The story begins with a jump in at the deep end, and there is still
quite a way to go before embarking on an international career
in New York and Paris. Some things that seem to be of help are
the murmurings of the old masters, well-sharpened pencils and a
bottle of Pastis.
And sometimes, nothing helps at all.
What if the sight of flowers makes you think of genitals? What
if the police try to arrest you when you are out swimming? What
if pin-up girls seem to flee from the pages of magazines? What if
Europe has gone up in flames? The attendant throws you out of
the museum? Your own father is a giant dwarf? You love women
with French names? You would like a gold tooth in your mouth?
Art has too many cats in it? The devil himself is suffering from
burnout? You want to go to Zurich penniless? You want to get
married to Björk?
In a series of adventurous episodes, Teresa Präauer fabricates
the life of two young men who are out to discover everything
about art and life. Sensuous and quick-witted!
Teresa Präauer, born in 1979, lives in Vienna, writes and draws.
Studied German and painting in Berlin, Salzburg and Vienna.
In 2012 she received the aspekte Literature Prize for the best German-language prose debut for her novel »Für den Herrscher aus
Übersee« (For the Ruler from Overseas, Wallstein 2012).
Wallstein Verlag
Literature
The second novel by the
winner of the aspekte Prize.
Highly imaginative, playful
and fast-paced, on art and
life.
Teresa Präauer
Johnny and Jean
Novel
ca. 160 pages, hardback,
dust cover
August
Wallstein Verlag
Literature
A vision of the future of work
and life, in which the Ruhr
area becomes a single city:
Ruhrtown.
Jörg Albrecht
Anarchy in Ruhrtown
ca. 300 pages, hardback,
dust cover
August
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Jörg Albrecht
Anarchy in Ruhrtown
August 2015: the leader of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hannelore
Kraft, announces her resignation. György Albertz, a writer who
has returned from exile, takes over the leadership in collaboration
with a like-minded ally. 53 towns are joined together to become a
single city, resurrected in ruins: Ruhrtown. A centre of attraction
for all outcasts and those who have been systematically deprived
of their rights. Together, they attempt to breathe new life into the
post-industrial spaces. In a place that was once a centre of coalmining and steel production, designers and authors now get down
to some hard work. Their concern is art. Here, they encounter
people for whom art is primarily a business. Together they work
towards generating the first hard currency, with the aim of making
the Ruhrtown dream come true.
In September 2044, two people are searching for each other in
Ruhrtown: Julieta and Rick. They have been separated from one
another, and now stagger through a living freak show: from Camp
Lintfort to Trans Town and through Jungleburg, following the trail
of the golden treasure of Unna! Until the illusion of utopia shatters
before their eyes and the wave throws them back: it’s capitalism,
stupid!
Jörg Albrecht’s text roars through a landscape that we still call
the »Ruhrgebiet« today.
Jörg Albrecht, born in Bonn in 1981, lives in Berlin. Studied comparative literature, history, literary and theatre studies in Vienna
and Bochum. In addition to his novels he has published a number
of radio and theatre plays in the last few years, the most recent of
which is »Die blauen Augen von Terence Hill« (Terence Hill’s Blue
Eyes), first performed at the Steirischer Herbst Festival in Graz in
2011 and then in Berlin and Jena.
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Rosemarie Bovier
Home is, what Others Talk
about
Wallstein Verlag
Contemporary
A story of flight and
displacement – and of the
difficulties of integration.
Memoirs of a Second Generation Refugee Child
In 1949, twenty Danube Swabian families from the village of
Brestowatz in the Batschka, situated in Serbia today, moved to a
refugee camp in Obersuhl, Hessen. Having fled from the approach
of the Soviet army in 1944, the families found a temporary abode
here. Although they thought of themselves as German, they came
to Germany as strangers. Sealed off from the surrounding environ­
ment, they revived their own way of life, spoke their original dia­
lect, and cultivated their old traditions.
Between the ages of 3 and 12, Rosemarie Bovier grew up in
this Brestowatz world in Obersuhl. The stories of the villagers
shaped her ideas of home, but when she started kindergarten and
school she experienced another world: Rosemarie began to feel
that being different was a flaw, and that living in the refugee camp
was degrading.
In the area of conflict between the home of her family (der­ho-m) and her new home (do-haus), the authoress recounts the sto­
ry of her integration. She tells of a past idyll and a displaced version
of reality that begins to emerge, little by little.
Rosemarie Bovier, born in 1947 in Obersuhl, Germany. Studied
literature and geography in Frankfurt/Main to become a teacher
and consultant. She lives in Wolfenbüttel.
Rosemarie Bovier
Home is, what Others
Talk about
Memoirs of a Second
Generation Refugee Child
ca. 160 pages, ca. 25 illustrations, hardback, dust cover
September
Wallstein Verlag
Editions
From the 1918 revolution
to the Palestinian conflict –
the testimonies of a wakeful
spirit.
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Armin T. Wegner
Shout it to the World
Manifestos and Open Letters
Armin T. Wegner was an exemplary 20th century witness. He
literally experienced the atrocities and brutalities of totalitarianism
at first hand, offering resistance for his entire life – the resistance
of the spirit, as he saw it.
The texts in this volume, written between 1918 and 1968,
bear testimony to this resistance. They encompass the 1918 revo­
lution and the struggle against both German militarism and the
authoritarian tendencies of communism, a passionate commitment
to the Armenians, whose suffering in the First World War Armin
T. Wegner experienced as an eye witness, the fight against the per­
secution of the Jews in his famous »Brief an Adolf Hitler« (Letter to
Adolf Hitler), his efforts against the divisions of the Cold War and
the tension between the Israelis and the Arabs, which he shrewdly
described as being a consequence of European colonialism. Armin
T. Wegner took a stance on all aspects of the significant ideological
battles of the 20th century, often by means of the manifesto and
the open letter.
Armin T. Wegner
Shout it to the World
Manifestos and Open Letters
Armin T. Wegner (1886 –1978) was a lawyer, an expressionist poet
and a pacifist.
Edited by Miriam Esau
and Michael Hofmann
With an epilogue by
Michael Hofmann
Selected works in individual
volumes.
Edited by Ulrich Klan on
behalf of the Armin T.
Wegner Society
The Editors
Miriam Esau, born in 1979, studied modern German literature,
German linguistics and media studies at the University of Paderborn.
Michael Hofmann, born in 1957, is a professor of modern German
literature and literary didactics at the Universities of Bonn, Nancy
and Liège.
ca. 288 pages, hardback,
dust cover
October
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Reinhard Rürup
The Long Shadow of
National Socialism
Wallstein Verlag
History
One of the most renowned
German contemporary
historians writes about the
history and post-history of
the Nazi regime.
History, the Politics of History and the
Culture of Remembrance
The author’s many years of experience in dealing with the history
of National Socialism provide the basis of this volume. Reinhard
Rürup describes the historical events and processes that are of
particular significance for a real understanding of the Nazi regi­
me in a precise and vivid way: from the »seizure of power« and
»bookburning« to the persecution and murder of the Jews and the
war of conquest and annihilation against the Soviet Union. Rürup
also turns his attention to the question of how the Germans have
dealt with history after 1945 and up to the present day, a ques­
tion which has been raised more and more frequently in recent
years. He is also concerned with the controversies surrounding
the »Wehrmacht exhibition«, the »Goldhagen debate« or May 8,
1945 as the »day of liberation«.
The view of German history is widened to incorporate an in­
ternational perspective in the introductory essay on the subject of
the European history of dictatorship in the 20th century, and also in
the concluding comparative study on the Second World War and
the murder of the Jews in the politics of history and the culture of
remembrance.
Reinhard Rürup, born in 1934, professor emeritus for modern hi­s­
tory at the TU Berlin; research on political and social history, the
history of economics and culture from the 18th to the 20th centuries; scientific director of the Topography of Terror Foundation in
Berlin for many years. Publications include: Schicksale und Karrieren. Gedenkbuch für die von den Nationalsozialisten aus der
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft vertriebenen Forscherinnen und
Forscher (Fates and Careers. Memorial Book for the Researchers Expelled from the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, 2008); Deutsche –
Juden – Völkermord. Der Holocaust als Geschichte und Gegenwart
(Germans – Jews – Genocide. The Holocaust in History and in the
Present, 2006); Deutsch-jüdische Geschichte in der Neuzeit (German-Jewish History in Modern Times, co-ed., 1996).
Reinhard Rürup
The Long Shadow
of National Socialism
History, the Politics of History
and the Culture of Remembrance
With a preface by Stefanie
Schüler-Springorum
ca. 256 pages, hardback,
dust cover
June
Wallstein Verlag
History
An important document on
the role of Jewish functionaries in the Nazi era.
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Lisa Hauff
The Political Role of the
Judenrat
Benjamin Murmelstein in Vienna, 1938 –1942
Lisa Hauff
The Political Role of the
Judenrat
Benjamin Murmelstein in
Vienna, 1938 –1942
ca. 352 pages, ca. 46 illustrations, hardback, dust cover
July
In the mid-1970s, the French documentary filmmaker Claude
Lanzmann interviewed the former Jewish functionary Benjamin
Murmelstein. During significant phases of the Nazi persecution of
the Jews, Murmelstein had been an active member of key sections
of the Jewish administration, and thus directly confronted with
the reality of the persecution. The sharp criticism of his role »be­
tween the hammer and the anvil« – between the perpetrator and
the victim, even though he was himself a victim – did not become
any less severe after the war.
On the basis of Lanzmann’s extensive interview material, Lisa
Hauff investigates how Benjamin Murmelstein carried out his func­
tion, focusing on the strategies he developed in face of Nazi pres­
sure and the constantly changing situation. The interview becomes
a unique empirical finding, throwing new light on the role of a
controversial Judenrat elder throughout the history of National
Socialism. It also makes an important contribution to the »activity
trap« into which Jewish functionaries were driven.
Up to the time of his deportation in early 1943, Benjamin Mur­
melstein (1905 –1989) was the leader of the emigration depart­
ment of the Jewish community of Vienna. In 1944, after his depor­
tation, he became the last Jewish elder in Theresienstadt Ghetto.
Lisa Hauff, born in 1969, is a member of the editorial team for
»Judenverfolgung 1933 –1945« (The Persecution of the Jews
1933 –1945), published by the Topography of Terror Foundation.
She was a co-curator of the exhibition »Der Prozess – Adolf Eichmann vor Gericht« (The Trial – Adolf Eichmann before Court, 2011).
Publications include: Mahnort Kurfürstenstraße 115/116. Vom
Brüdervereinshaus zum Dienstort Adolf Eichmanns (Kurfür­
stenstraße 115/116, a Memorial Place. From Brethren Clubhouse
to Adolf Eichmann’s Workplace, 2012).
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Michael Hagner
The Matter of the Book
For a long period of time, the printed book was undisputedly seen
as the most important organ of research in the humanities. How­
ever, in recent years a whole range of media, values and practices
has been set into motion. Meanwhile, with the possibilities offered
by digital research and communication and the demands for the
standardisation of publications, the writing and printing of books
almost seems like an anachronism with a limited lifespan.
The criticism of the printed book reveals an element of cul­
tural critique that associates its unease related to the present with
an exaggerated expectation of the technical possibilities available
via digitalisation. Instead of focusing on the various paper thick­
nesses and strengths of digital representation available, and asking
where possible synergies might lie, a competitive contrast is drawn
between the two, demanding an immediate decision.
In his new book, Michael Hagner combines his analysis of the
digital cultural critique of the printed book with a thorough exami­
nation of Open Access. In this way, he investigates the very pheno­
menon that bears some of the responsibility for the contemporary
crisis of the book: the excessive supply of scientific literature.
Michael Hagner, born in 1960, is a professor of science studies
at the ETH Zurich. Publications include: Der Geist bei der Arbeit.
Historische Untersuchungen zur Hirnforschung (The Mind at Work.
Historical Studies on Brain Research, 2006); Geniale Gehirne. Zur
Geschichte der Elitegehirnforschung (Brilliant Brains. The History
of Elite Brain Research, 2004).
Wallstein Verlag
Cultural Sciences
An intelligent analysis of
contemporary forms of
book publication.
Michael Hagner
The Matter of the Book
ca. 160 pages, hardback,
dust cover
October
Wallstein Verlag
Cultural Sciences
A critical appraisal of
e-readers and e-books in
the context of the history
of our media.
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Uwe Jochum
Media Bodies
Wall Media, Hand Media, Digitalia
Uwe Jochum
Media Bodies
Wall Media, Hand Media,
Digitalia
The Aesthetics of the Book,
Vol. 5.
Edited by Klaus Detjen
ca. 72 pages, engl. soft-cover.
September
At first glance, digital publications appear to have huge advantages
over printed texts. We are used to seeing new developments as the
promise of a better future, and tend to equate technical innova­
tions with progress. In addition, e-readers are impressive because
of their enormous storage capacity and access speed, and we hope
that, with their help, we will succeed in gaining control over the
vast amounts of information available in our civilisation.
However, the literary specialist Uwe Jochum shows that a fun­
damental aspect is lacking in all forms of digital media: in contrast
to the printed book, they are decontextualised media that do not
require individual authors to be made responsible for the text or
mentioned by name.
In tracing the history of media, Uwe Jochum points out the
importance of context in the cave drawings of Stone Age man
(wall media), the papyrus scrolls of the ancient world (hand me­
dia), and up to the present day. In his plea for the printed book, he
defends two cornerstones of our civilisation: the efforts involved in
studying and the authority of the author.
Uwe Jochum, born in 1959, studied German and political science
in Heidelberg and did a PhD at the University of Düsseldorf. Since
1988 he has worked as a scientific librarian. He has published numerous works on the subject of library and media history, the most
recent of which is »Geschichte der abendländischen Bibliotheken«
(The History of Western Libraries, 2nd edition, 2012)
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Christian Kiening
The Middle Ages of
Modernity
Wallstein Verlag
Cultural Sciences
A look at the way literature
deals with the past in the
aesthetics of the modern
age, on the example of three
authors.
Rilke – Pound – Borchardt
The aesthetic modern age of the early 20th century does not sim­
ply break with the past; it experiments with models of complex
temporality. This includes making reference to the Middle Ages
in a way that is neither purely selective in character nor instru­
mentalises the past. Here, interest is directed at a specific mix of
the contemporary and the antiquated, differing from that which
directly concerns us in an aesthetic sense (Renaissance) and that
which belongs to the general reservoir of educational history (An­
tiquity). Kiening shows us what the works of Rilke, Pound and
Borchart, all written at around the same time, have in common:
they attempt to transform modernity in itself, enriching it through
references to the past.
The Series
The manner in which the past is dealt with gives rise to fundamental questions: is there a basic principle of meaning that prevails
throughout history? Is it conceivable that a fullness and unity of
time exists? Do literature and art have the possibility of allowing
such a fullness to emerge? The series »Figura« provides answers
using new approaches.
The author and editor of the series
Christian Kiening, born in 1962, is a professor of older German
literature at the University of Zurich. He is the director of the National Centre of Competence in Research »Mediality. Historical Perspectives«. Publications include: Der absolute Film (The Absolute
Film, ed., 2012); Mystische Bücher (Mystical Books, 2011); Urszenen des Medialen (Primal Scenes in Media, with Ulrich Johannes
Beil, 2012).
Further editors of the series
Bernhard Jussen, born in 1959, is a professor of medieval history
at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main.
Klaus Krüger, born in 1957, is a professor of art history at the Free
University of Berlin.
Christian Kiening
The Middle Ages of
Modernity
Rilke – Pound – Borchardt
Figura. Aesthetics, History,
Literature
Edited by Bernhard Jussen,
Christian Kiening and Klaus
Krüger
ca. 195 pages, ca. 10 illustrations, soft-cover with flaps
September
Wallstein Verlag
About Literature
A biography on Stefan
George and his ambivalent
image, both as a poet and as
a human being.
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Kai Kauffmann
Stefan George
A Biography
Kai Kauffmann
Stefan George
A Biography
Castrum Peregrini.
New series, vol. 8.
Edited by Wolfgang Braungart, Ute Oelmann and Ernst
Osterkamp
ca. 240 pages, ca. 35 illustrations, hardback, dust cover
September
Stefan George was the most important lyricist of the German Sym­
bolist movement. After the turn of the century, he was at the in­
tellectual centre of a circle of friends and disciples who saw them­
selves as »geheimes Deutschland« (secret Germany). Kauffmann
describes George’s life and work and strives to make a just assess­
ment of his multifaceted personality. George himself had a stylised
image of his own life, seeing it as dominated by a poetic mission.
This is qualified by examining several different kinds of human
relationships in detail: his deep-rooted ties with his Bingen family,
close friendships, for example with Albert Verwey and Friedrich
Gundolf, or the remarkably relaxed flat-share with Clotilde Schlay­
er in Minusio, the place where he died at the age of 65.
The biographical narrative is interspersed with passages out­
lining George’s poetry volumes as stations in a historical œuvre be­
ginning with »L’art pour l’art« and leading on to ideological poetry.
The book contains a large number of photographs, most of them
previously unpublished, which also add several new aspects to the
narrow picture of Stefan George.
Stefan George (1868 –1933) is one of the most important and influential German-language lyricists. He translated all the great European authors and opened up German lyric poetry to the European
modern age. With his will to establish the philosophy of »Art for
art’s sake«, a creed he followed in his work and his life, he soon
became the centre of a »circle« of friends who wished to join him
in the renewal of German lyric poetry.
Kai Kauffmann, born in 1961, professor of modern German literature at the University of Bielefeld since 2005. Vice chairman of
the Rudolf Borchardt Society. Main areas of research: literary and
cultural history, literature of the 18th century, around 1900 and after
1945.
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Wallstein Verlag
Backlist Highlights
Backlist Highlights
Lukas Bärfuss
Koala
Rights available
Novel | 184 pages
Nothing about the story told in Lukas Bärfuss’s new novel seems
normal. For the story culminates in an act of suicide, committed
by the author’s brother.
Bärfuss tries to track down his brother’s fate, of which he
knows very little. He encounters silence. Somehow the theme ap­
pears to be hidden behind a high wall; there is a huge taboo. And
a secret. Why did his friends call him Koala? How did he get the
name? And did it perhaps somehow influence his brother’s fate,
does a person start behaving as his name suggests he ought?
A Hundred Days
Rights sold:
Novel | 196 pages
·· Arabic world: Kalima
·· Argentina: Adriana Hidalgo
Editora S.A.
·· Bulgaria: RIVA
·· China: Shanghai Publishing
·· English world: Granta
·· France: L’Arche Editeur
·· Israel: Babel
·· Italy: Einaudi
·· Kroatia: Edicije Bozicevic
·· Mazedonia: ILI-ILI
·· Poland: Ha!art
·· Russia: Text Publishers
·· Sweden: Norstedts Förlag
·· Turkey: Metis Yayınları
Lukas Bärfuss’ meticulously researched novel tells the story of peo­
ple who set out to do good and finally caused nothing but evil. ›A
Hundred Days‹relays the darkest chapter of Africa’s history, the
Rwanda genozide, a story which concerns us more than we wish
to believe. Not least, it is the moving story of love in times of war
and the devastation caused by hate.
Wallstein Verlag
Backlist Highlights
Rights sold:
·· Bulgaria: Pygmalion Press
·· France: L� Arche (Alice goes to
Switzerland. The Test)
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Alice goes to Switzerland – The Test –
Amygdala
Plays | 168 pages
Euthanasia, paternity test, brain research, these are all only secondary matters – Lukas Bärfuss’s plays in this selestion address all
the big moral questions of the present day in a way which is both
auspicious and playful.
Rights sold:
·· Bulgaria: Pygmalion Press
(The Sexual Neuroses of Our
Parents. The Bus. The Death of
Meienberg)
·· France: L� Arche Editeur (The
Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents.
The Bus. Four pictures of Love)
·· Poland: Ksiergarnia Akademicka
(The Sexual Neuroses of Our
Parents. The Bus)
·· Romanian: Europress Group
(The Sexual Neuroses of Our
Parents. The Bus)
·· UK: Nick Hern Books Limited
(The Sexual Neuroses of Our
Parents)
The Death of Meienberg –
The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents –
The Bus
Pieces for Theater | 220 pages
In The Sexual Neuroses, the mentally handicapped Dora is in a
certain sense such a grain of sand in the works of the good, liberal
society – not when she fulfils the role of the merely pitiable, but
with immediate effect when she makes her own demands and no
longer serves as the projection screen for all the nonsense about
tolerance.
·· Adapted to a movie by Stina
Werenfels
Rights sold:
·· Bulgaria: Black Flamingo
·· Spanish world: Qatenus / Eduvim
Malaga – Parcifal –
Twenty Thousand Pages
Plays | 208 pages
Bärfuss lets things start off like a piece of conversation and swell
to a tragedy of Greek proportions. This plays tell stories that are
related to our everyday lives and yet discuss wide-ranging themes
such as guilt, responsibility, individual fulfillment – funny, tragic,
grotesque. Full of unexpected turns. Exciting.
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Wallstein Verlag
Backlist Highlights
Ralph Dutli
The Song of Honey
Rights sold:
A cultural history of the bee | 208 pages
·· Arabic world: Kana’an
·· Netherlands: Cossee
The bee has provided inspiration for religious rituals, superstitions
and miracle stories. It has stood for community spirit, self-sacri­
fice, provision for the future, well thought-out organization, puri­
ty, industriousness and abundance. But also for magic and prophecy, soul and inspiration. Ralph Dutli tells us all these things in a
knowledgeable, witty and poetical way. A pleasurable invitation to
reflect on the important role of the honey-making hymenoptera in
world culture.
Soutine’s Last Journey
Rights sold:
Novel | 272 pages
·· Arabic world: Kana’an
·· France: Le Bruit du temps
August 6, 1943. Chaime Soutine, a Belarussian/Jewish painter
and a contemporary of Chagall, Modigliani and Picasso, is driven
from the town of Chinon on the Loire to occupied Paris, hidden
in a hearse. Suffering from a gastric ulcer, he is in need of an ur­
gent operation which can no longer be put off. Being forced to lie
quietly in the car fort he whole trip, his mind starts wandering
back in time.
A novel about childhood, infirmity and art. About the wounds
of exile in Paris, the powerlessness of the letter and the over­
whelming power of pictures.
Wallstein Verlag
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Maja Haderlap
Rights sold:
Angel of Oblivion
·· Arabic World: Dar Al-Muna
·· France: Editions Métailié
·· Italy: Keller Editore
·· Slovenia: Litera
Novel | 288 pages
The story of a young girl and a family, and at the same time relates
the story of a nation. This story goes back to the memories of a
childhood in the mountains at Kärnten. In a highly sensuous way,
the author recalls the scents of summer, her grandmother’s cook­
ing, her parents’ fights and the idiosyncrasies of the neighbours. It
tells of a girl growing up and her attempts to understand her family
and the people around her.
Although the war is over, it is still omnipresent in the minds of
the Slovenian minority to which the family belongs and has more
influence on people’s bahavior than she would have ever guessed.
Ludwig Laher
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Bitter
Novel | 237 pages
Up until his death at the end of the nineteen-fifties, Bitter had al­
ways managed to get away with his crimes, remaining complete­ly
unscathed. Now, he is finally brought to trial through this act of
narration.
A highly political novel about the eventful life of a war cri­
minal, his atrocious deeds and successful attempts to evade all
responsibility after 1945.
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Dea Loher
Bugatti Surfaces
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Novel | 208 pages
·· Netherlands: Cossee
·· Macedonia: ILI-ILI
No other German-speaking dramatist is so widely read, in her
own country and all over the world, and more successfully staged
(more than 300 productions, translations in 31 countries) than
Dea Loher. This narrative focuses on existential matters: The death
of a young man and the desparat efforts to deal with it. It investi­
gates the meaning of life in the face of this completely meaningless
death, finding images of great intensity.
Wolfgang Matz
The Art of Adultery
Emma, Anna, Effi and the Men in their Lives
304 pages
In his temperamental book, Wolfgang Matz traces the stories
of three completely different women, their husbands and their
lovers, to ascertain why their private failure – between the desire
for personal freedom and the constraints of social order – held
such a fascination for their creators Gustave Flaubert, Leo Tolstoi
and Theodor Fontane, and what effect this had on their writing.
A surprisingly new look at three masterpieces of the modern age.
Rights available
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Joseph Roth and Stefan Zweig
Rights sold:
·· France: Payot & Rivages
·· Italy: Adelphi
·· Spanish world: Quaderns
Crema
»A Friendship with me is a
Perishable Thing«
Correspondence 1927 – 1938 | 624 pages
Edited by Madeleine Rietra and Rainer Joachim Siegel. With an
epilogue by Heinz Lunzer
Joseph Roth (1894 –1939) and Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) are
still two of the most widely read narrators in German literature.
The correspondence tells the story of a friendship that is broken
apart by the political circumstances – and the story of two lives
des­troyed by exile. »We exiles don’t live long« Zweig comments
when Roth dies in Paris in 1939. In 1942, Zweig commits suicide
in Petropolis, Brazil.
Patrick Roth
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My Journey to Chaplin
·· Arabic world: Kana’an
·· France: Le Bruit du temps
An Encore | 88 pages
»My Journey to Chaplin« is the story of a passion. It tells us of
Roth’s life-long love and veneration for the maker of »City Lights«
(1931), whom he follows from the screen of a run-down L. A.
cinema all the way to the door of his house in Vevey, Switzerland,
just to hand over a letter to him in person.
In its own way, the »Journey to Chaplin« becomes a film à la
Chaplin, with the young man in the role of the tramp and the
narrator as the director of the story of a memory.
On April 16th 2014 will be Chaplin’s 125th birthday, which will
be widely celebrated throughout the world.
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Gregor Sander
What Would Have Been
Novel | 236 pages
Gregor Sander interweaves past and present, telling tales of Ger­
man life histories that almost make your head spin. He succeeds in
creating delicate images that are full of surprises: Love, friendship,
escape, betrayal. Nothing is how it seems at first glance. Or at
second, or even third.
Absent
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Novel | 156 pages
·· Arabic world: Kana’an
·· Spanish world: El tercer
nombre
Christoph Radtke, in his early 30s, has to go back to his home
town of Schwerin to watch over his father, who has been in a
coma for years. Being pulled out of his everyday life he starts to
wonder about his past and future. Who was his father and what
did he want out of life? The silence of his father in life, as if in
death, is interrupted by a peculiar letter from Switzerland. The son
is suddenly far more active than he would like to be.
Winter Fish
Rights sold:
Short Stories | 192 pages
·· Czech Rep.: Vetrne mlyny
These stories are set in Rerik, at the Kiel Canal, in Gotland, Helsin­
ki, Klaipeda. They are about people who are on the move and yet
bound by their fates: Taciturn seadogs, disillusioned artists, female
idols. Although the stories are all different, they do have one thing
in common. They are about longing – longing to be with loved
ones, to lead a free life or simply to feel understood.
Sander’s writing appears sparse, almost restrained; like the char­acters, like the northern landscape. In just a few strokes, discreet
but precise, the author draws fates that never fail to fascinate the
reader.
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Matthias Zschokke
Rights sold:
The Man with Two Eyes
·· English world: Thames River
Press
·· France: Editions Zoé
Novel | 244 pages
The man with two eyes has a real aversion to anything out of the
ordinary, even though, as a legal correspondent, you would expect
him to be continually in search of the sensational. But for him
normality is far more interesting, not boring at all: on the contrary,
he finds it complicated, surprising and fascinating.
Matthias Zschokke writes of seemingly everyday things, discov­
ering their uniqueness, beauty, sadness and humour, and tells a
discrete love story along the way.
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Wallstein Publishing was founded in 1986. A major event in the
development of the publishing house was the huge success of
Ruth Klüger’s biography »weiter leben – Eine Jugend« (Still alive)
in 1992. Partly due to its high literary quality, this book is one of
the most-read literary works written in German on the subject of
the holocaust, and has become a »classic of holocaust literature«.
Wallstein continues to add approx. 150 books per year to its list,
with an annual turnover of approx. two million euros.
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