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Spring 2018

FICTION 4 Felicitas Hoppe 5 Rainer Merkel 5 Thorsten Nagelschmidt 6 Wolfgang Hilbig 8 Thorsten Palzhoff 8 Silvia Bovenschen 9 Monika Maron 9 Olga Martynova10 Wulf Kirsten 11 Heinrich Mann12 Katrin Bauerfeind12 Isabella Rau 13 Sabine Weigand 13 Patricia Koelle 14 Susanne Fröhlich 14 Leonie Lastella15 Klaus-Peter Wolf 16 Pierre Lagrange 16 Mark Roderick 17 Marie Reiners 17 Jörg Maurer18 Bernhard Hennen19 Kai Meyer20 Bernd Perplies20 Cornelius Zimmermann

NON-FICTION22 Rüdiger Barth / Hauke Friederichs24 Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels / Slavoj Žižek25 Ilija Trojanow / Thomas Gebauer 25 Klaus Brinkbäumer 26 Uwe Schneidewind 26 Volker Kitz 27 David Gugerli 27 Dirk van Laak 28 Ethel Matala de Mazza 28 Henk Schulte Nordholt 29 Rainer Erlinger 29 Klaus Zeyringer 30 Leonie Müller 30 Peggy Patzschke 31 Karl-Heinz Zacher 31 Georg Uecker32 Hannah Winkler32 Susanne Kaloff33 Martin Tietjen33 Anja Rützel34 The World of Colouring35 Back List

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S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt am Main / Germany Rights Guide Spring 2018 www.fischerverlage.de/rights/foreign_rights

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FELICITAS HOPPE, born in 1960, lives in Berlin. Her debut novel Picknick der

Friseure appeared in 1996, her second novel Pigafetta was published in 1999 after

a round-the-world trip on a cargo ship, followed in 2003 by Paradiese, Übersee,

2004 by Verbrecher und Versager, 2006 by Johanna, 2008 by Iwein Löwenritter, 2009

by Sieben Schätze and the stories Der beste Platz der Welt, 2010 by Abenteuer –

was ist das?, 2011 by Grünes Ei mit Speck, a translation of texts by the American

children’s book author Dr. Seuss, and 2012 by the novel Hoppe.

Felicitas Hoppe has received numerous awards, including the Aspekte Prize for

Literature, the Bremen Prize for Literature, the Bad Gandersheim Roswitha

Prize, the Rattenfänger Prize for Literature, the Georg Büchner Prize and most

recently the Erich Kästner Prize for Literature. She has also held lecturing posts

in Wiesbaden, Mainz, Augsburg, Göttingen, Dartmouth College in Hannover,

New Hampshire, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., Hamburg, Heidelberg

and Cologne.

FELICITAS HOPPE

PrawdaAn American Journey

320 pp., HardcoverFebruary 22, 2018S. Fischer VerlagSample Translation Link

Rights to previous titles sold: Picknick der Friseure: EST (Loomingu), F (Chambon), HR (Aora), NL (Querido), PL (Czarne), RUS (Text), SL (Hisa Knjig); Pigafetta: F (Chambon), NL (Querido), PL (Czarne), RUS (Amphora), SE (Ramus); Paradiese, Übersee: LU (Capybarabooks), NL (Que-rido), SE (Ramus); Hoppe: ARAB (Atlas), F (Piranha), P (Liberdade), E (Siruela), SE (Rasmus), SERBIA (Geopolitika)

Finally something new in the West: The truth about AmericaA journey too true to be good

Felicitas Hoppe – winner of Germany’s most prestigious liter-ary award, the Büchner Prize – takes us on an expedition to an unknown America, travelling ten thousand amusing and poetic miles from Boston to San Francisco to Los Angeles and back to New York. Wide awake and clear of sight, Hoppe is a literary whirlwind in the footsteps of Ilf and Petrov, two Rus-sian writers who travelled the same route eighty years before her, becoming cult figures. Whether she’s inspecting the Ford factory and the first electric chair along with them, paint-ing Tom Sawyer’s fence by the by, vanishing in a tornado or meeting Quentin Tarantino in the eye of the storm – Pravda (Russian for truth) shows readers things never before been written about the most incredible country on earth: a literary world discovery.

WINNER OF THE

GEORG BÜCHNER PRIZE 2012

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THORSTEN NAGELSCHMIDTRenunciation of the Heart

RAINER MERKELCity Without God

A great, contemporary political novel Love in the shadow of war

Rosie from Berlin travels to Lebanon, full of

hope for a new life. She falls in love with Da-

ouad from Syria, but he’s afraid of love. Rafik,

who wants to become a fashion designer, loves

both of them, and Zahra, the sociologist, has

long given up on love. The four of them meet

in Beirut, the ‘Paris of the East’. It’s a city on

the edge of the wars of this world. The four of

them are searching for a place where they can

fulfil their dreams and yet in actual fact they

are fleeing from the hopelessness of Syria and

from Berlin’s empty promises. None of them

have mastered the necessary coldness. Will

they still survive?

RAINER MERKEL was born in 1964 in Cologne. He

studied psychology and art history and lives in Berlin.

Between 2008 and 2009, he worked for Cap Anamur in

Liberia’s only psychiatric hospital. His novels so far: Das

Jahr der Wunder, for which he was awarded the Jürgen

Ponto Prize, Das Gefühl am Morgen, Lichtjahre entfernt,

which was on the shortlist of the German Book Prize,

and the reports Das Unglück der anderen. Kosovo, Liberia,

Afghanistan and Go Ebola Go. Eine Reise nach Liberia. Rain-

er Merkel was awarded the Erich Fried Prize in 2013.

352 pp., HardcoverFebruary 22, 2018S. Fischer VerlagSample Translation Link

Rights to previous titles sold: Bo: NL (Wereldbibliotheek)

Back when we didn’t need plans

‘When did you stop hating me?’

‘When you wrote me the letter.’

‘What letter?’

He began to ask himself what else he’d forgot-

ten about the summer of 1999. Nagel lived in

his first flat share at the time, survived on part

time jobs, and barely wasted a single thought

on the future. Back then, when the century

was coming to an end, you could still smoke

on the regional express and only posers had

mobile phones. Then everything changed, sud-

denly and unexpectedly his world turned into a

shambles.

Thorsten Nagelschmidt has written a novel

about love, friendship and betrayal. About the

last great summer and the search for clues 16

years later.

• Autobiographical coming-of-age novel with high identification potential• A wonderful book about friendship

THORSTEN NAGELSCHMIDT, born in 1976, is an author,

musician and artist. He was singer, songwriter and gui-

tarist of the band Muff Potter until 2009. The following

books have been published under the name Nagel: Wo

die wilden Maden graben (2007), Was kostet die Welt (2010)

and Drive-By Shots (2015). Thorsten Nagelschmidt lives

in Berlin.

448 pp., HardcoverFebruary 22, 2018S. Fischer Verlag



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496 pp., HardcoverMay 24, 2018S. Fischer VerlagPublished by Jörg Bong and Jürgen Hosemann and Oliver Vogel

Rights to previous titles sold: CZ (Pros-tor), DK (Tiderne Skifter), E (Losada), F (Flammarion; Gallimard; Circe; Métail-ié), J (Japan), NL (Goosens), POL (Atut), ROK (Book World), RUS (Azbooka), SE (Ruin), TR (Can), WEL (Seagull Books; Two Lines Press)

To this day there is an aura of mystery around the poet WOLFGANG HILBIG,

who was born in 1941 and died in 2007. He grew up without a father in the

small town of Meuselwitz near Leipzig, left school at fourteen and worked as an

unskilled labourer in various sectors before ‘rising’ to the rank of stoker at an

industrial plant. During and after work he wrote, but his texts met with official

rejection in East Germany. In 1985 he moved to West Germany. Despite winning

virtually every major literary prize, including the 2002 Georg Büchner Prize, he

remained an outsider and cut a singular figure on the publishing scene.

WOLFGANG HILBIG

Complete Work: Final Volume (VII)Essays, Speeches, Interviews

The essays are the indispensible cornerstones of Wolfgang Hilbig’s seven-volume edition. These not only include Hilbig’s poetics lectures and other texts about art, but also the nu-merous acceptance speeches that Hilbig held when he was awarded literary prizes. While his speech in Kamenz in 1997 caused a scandal with its criticism of German unification, his Büchner Prize speech in 2002 became a melancholy ret-rospection on the role of literature. However, Hilbig’s actual talent shines through his fabulously beautiful essays, which combine observation and reflection with the power and tone of his narratives. In addition, this volume contains Hilbig’s most important interviews – they are the voluntary disclosure of an indispensable writer.

• A modern classic to be discovered• The seven-volume edition by a wildly unknown literary genius• Collection of hard-to-find texts: Essays, Speeches and Interviews

“Wolfgang Hilbig is an artist of immense stature” László Krasznahorkai


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“Hilbig’s prose is vivid and poetic, and a Kafkaesque touch gives these stories ample atmosphere”

Publishers Weekly

“As fascinating as unsettling a phenomenon in contemporary German literature”

NZZ

“One of the most important editions of contemporary German literature”

Wiener Zeitung

WOLFGANG HILBIG WORKSVolume I POEMSVolume II STORIES AND SHORT PROSEVolume III STORIESVolume IV EINE ÜBERTRAGUNG (Novel)Volume V »ICH« (Novel)Volume VI DAS PROVISORIUM (Novel)Volume VII ESSAYS, SPEECHES, INTERVIEWS

WINNER OF THE

GEORG BÜCHNER PRIZE 2002


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THORSTEN PALZHOFFSideline Days

SILVIA BOVENSCHENLies and Deception and Advice and Ambition

A sad trio beneath a sun that lies.

A peculiar house. Old Alma writes and clam-

ours, her niece Agnes is exhausted, young Max

is discovering the magical world of the attic,

which great Mr Odino is moving into. Herr von

Bärentrost is running riot in the cellar. Max,

Alma and Mr Odino travel to Mispelheim and

attend an evening gala, a collection of curios, a

masquerade – in the end, everything goes up in

flames. Silvia Bovenschen celebrates Walpurgis

Night. She swirls battered myths, ethnic ghost

stories and fears for the future around in flash-

ing scenes. A witch dance against the backdrop

of time and legends – and in it, we recognise

the ghost of our present time.

• Silvia Bovenschen is one of Germany’s cleverest, most unconventional thinkers and writers

SILVIA BOVENSCHEN, born in 1946, lived as an author,

literary and essayist in Berlin. She died in October 2017.

Her published books include: Schlimmer machen, schlim-

mer lachen (1998), Über-Empfindlichkeit. Spielformen der

Idiosynkrasie (2000), Älter werden (2006), Verschwunden

(2007), Wer Weiß Was (2009), Wie geht es Georg Laub (2011),

Nur Mut (2013) and Sarahs Gesetz (2015).

208 pp., HardcoverJanuary 25, 2018S. Fischer Verlag

Rights to previous titles sold to: Älter werden: CHN (JC Culture), F (Bourgois), NL (Atlas Contact), PL (Rzeczpospolita), ROK (Bookstory)

The tragic-comic story of Felix Fehling who fled from West to East Germany.

Following an accident, Tobias Voss is sitting

in an interrogation room in front of two pass-

ports and two identities. He recounts who Felix

Fehling was, whose name he dropped five and

a half years ago in the turmoil of the post-

reunification period. As a young man from the

West, he ended up in Leipzig when the city was

in a state of emergency: Monday demo, carnival

and gale-force winds all on one day. He falls in

love with Nica, who introduces him to a Leipzig

of revolutionaries and estate agents, of conmen

and idealist. Using opulent images, Thorsten

Palzhoff tells of the turbulent months following

reunification where you could reinvent yourself

and a different future still seemed possible.

• Alberto Manguel named the story collection Tasmon one of the ‘Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year’

“Thank goodness for authors like Thorsten Palzhoff. As long as such authors continue to exist, there’s hope for the future of German literature”

Sigrid Löffler, LITERATUREN

THORSTEN PALZHOFF was born in 1974 in Wickede.

His story collection Tasmon was published in 2006 with

Steidl. Thorsten Palzhoff has lived in Holland since 2013.



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MONIKA MARONMunin or Mind Chaos

OLGA MARTYNOVAThe Stupidity of the HourEssays

We don’t see the present. Not yet.

What is changing in Germany, Europe or the

world right now? Can literature even contrib-

ute anything to the awareness of the present?

Which role does the past play? And should

literature become more political again? Olga

Martynova travels to present day Jerusalem

and back to the Soviet Union of the 1980s. She

meets artists and intellectuals in her home-

town of Saint Petersburg and in Crimea, and

continually raises the question how literature

handles the horrors of time and the tragedies

of life. She travels with authors such as Joseph

Brodsky, Paul Celan, Ossop Mandelstam and

Ovid. Olga Martynova’s essays are focused and

finely developed. They are literary border-cross-

ers between present and past, delicate snap-

shots of a restless world.

OLGA MARTYNOVA was born in 1962 near Krasnojarsk in Siberia. She grew up in Leningrad and moved to Germany in 1991. She writes poems (in Russian) and es-says and prose (in German). Her work has been awarded many prizes, among which the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2012. Her third novel Der Engelherd appeared in 2016. Olga Martynova lives in Frankfurt am Main with her husband, the author Oleg Jurjew.

304 pp., HardcoverMarch 8, 2018S. Fischer Verlag

Turmoil in a small street reveals the madness of the world

Mina Wolf, journalist and occasional songwrit-

er, sacrifices her summer to write an essay for a

small town’s commemorative publication about

the Thirty Years’ War. A crazy neighbour, who

sings loudly from morning till night every day

on her balcony, forces her to work at night. The

small, narrow street is up in arms and Mina’s

mind is overrun with thoughts of the Thirty

Years’ War, daily news of war and terror and

the growing aggression in the neighbourhood.

When a crow, which she names Munin, also

enters her nightly solitude and starts talking to

her about God and the world, Mina’s mind cha-

os is complete. In this turbulent novel, Monika

Maron designs an atmospheric portrait of our

time in a provoking and humorous manner.

MONIKA MARON was born in 1941 in Berlin. She has

published numerous novels, including: Flugasche, Animal

triste, Endmoränen, Ach Glück, Zwischenspiel and Stille Zeile

Sechs, as well as several essay volumes and the report

Bitterfelder Bogen. She was awarded several prizes, such

as the Kleist Prize (1992), the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize

Bad Homburg (2003), the Deutschen Nationalpreis (2009)

and the Lessing Prize Saxony (2011). In September 2017,

she received the Ida-Dehmel Prize for Literature (former

winners: Rose, Ausländer, Hilde Domin and Herta Müller).


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WULF KIRSTEN was born in 1934 in Klipphausen near Meißen. Following his

pedagogy studies, he briefly worked as a teacher. From 1965 to 1987, he worked

as an editor with the Aufbau Verlag. Since then he has worked as a freelance

writer in Weimar. He was a writer in residence in Salzburg, Dresden and Bergen

Enkheim. He was awarded several prizes for his work, including: the Peter

Huchel Prize and the Joseph Breitbach Prize, and most recently the 2015 Thur-

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240 pp., Paperback / April 26, 2018 / Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag

Rights to previous titles sold: Erdlebenbilder: F (Belin); Fliehende Ansicht: F (Dagona)

Die Prinzessinnen im Krautgarten are memories of his child-hood, which Wulf Kirsten spent in Klipphausen near Meißen. He describes this village childhood during the last years of war, which held numerous surprises for him in the valley of the river Wilde Sau, with poetry and humour and delicate melancholia. The artistry of his prose evokes a world and a landscape that can no longer be found.

“Kristen’s language is a language to steel oneself against velocity, conformity and loss.” Martin Walser


‘The battle of Kesseldorf’ lasted no more than two hours. Two centuries later, locals still speak of the cries of agony coming from the dying men and horses on the 15th December 1745. This is how Wulf Kirsten came across the recollections of the bloody aftermath of the Second Silesian War. He walked the lengths of the battlefields and chronicled the pointless slaughter. ‘Kleewunsch’ half lovingly, half ironically portrays the Saxon country town during the time of restoration and revolution, early to mid 19th century. Kirsten analyses numer-ous historical sources for both texts.

The Battle of Kesselsdorf A Report

Kleewunsch Image of a Small Town

WULF KIRSTEN

Cabbage Patch PrincessesA Village Childhood


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HEINRICH MANN was born in Lübeck in 1871. After dropping out of school, he

trained briefly in the publishing trade, and subsequently wrote novels, short

stories, essays, and plays. In 1933, he emigrated to France and later to the US.

He was appointed head of the newly formed Academy of the Arts in East Berlin

in 1949, but died in Santa Monica, California in 1950 before he could take up the

position.

368 pp., PaperbackSeptember 27, 2018Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag

HEINRICH MANN

Mother Mary

Heinrich Mann’s first novel about the Weimar Republic

A young servant girl finds herself in Berlin, where she aban-dons her child. Many years later, she has since become a wealthy baroness through adventurous means, she believes she recognises young Valentin to be the son she abandoned. ‘Mother Mary’ is Heinrich Mann’s first novel about the Wei-mar Republic. Beginning with the main character’s moral dilemma and crisis, the novel tells of the depression of the 1920s and unfurls the panorama of an entire era.

• An additional volume of the study edition: with an after- word and extensive supplementary material.• Three further volumes of the study edition are planned till 2020: Lidice, Eugénie oder Die Bürgerzeit and Die traurige Geschichte von Friedrich dem Großen.


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ISABELLA RAUMen and Other Burdens

KATRIN BAUERFEINDEverything Can, Love MustStories From the Heart

LOVE.The heart is a minefield. Unknown territory,

dangerous terrain. But it can’t be helped. We

have to risk love. In all forms. In all phases. In

her new book, Kathrin Bauerfeind rummages

through all the facets that go with this feeling.

She selects small emotional treasures from

daily life, questions where love comes from,

where it’s going, when it’s lost, where one can

find it, lose it and find it again, and what it’s

actually all about. It is a plea for more love. An

appeal to oppose the raging hate, Viagra for

the heart, a humorous antidote to the gloomy

situation out there. This book contains stories

for all this, self-experienced and self-made up.

Funny, melancholic, loving. Stories after which

you’ll hopefully close the book and say: Love,

definitely! Hand it over! Let’s go!

• About the unbelievably funny sides of the most exciting feeling since the existence of mankind!

KATRIN BAUERFEIND moderated Germany's first In-

ternet TV Show Ehrensenf, which was awarded several

Grimme Online Awards. Today, she is still a weapon of

mass moderation for anything even remotely con-

nected with culture, from the Berlinale to Kulturzeit. ...

Her novel entitled Mir fehlt ein Tag zwischen Sonntag und

Montag became a bestseller in 2014.


Rights to previous titles sold to: Mir fehlt ein Tag zwischen Sonntag und Montag: CHN (simpl. Chinese: China Pioneer; compl. Chinese: Commonwealth)

Finally something to laugh about again in women’s fiction

Dear Life, I’ve done something stupid. You

remember that smart guy, Lukas, right? The

guy who dumped me so shamefully ages ago?

Turns out he’s written me an email. Asked how

I am. Well, what am I supposed to tell him – the

truth? That my daughter wants to do a runner

to Canada with a YouTuber? That my cereal

business is barely scraping along? That my sec-

ond marriage is also in urgent need of repair?

Not likely! I replied and might have exagger-

ated just a little bit. Suddenly he’s standing on

my doorstep!

ISABELLA RAU lives in Vienna. Following her studies

of German and philosophy, she works as a copywriter,

when she’s not observing her fellow men’s more or less

loveable quirks.

300 pp., PaperbackApril 26, 2018Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag


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The rise of a family. Their tragic secret. A dan-gerous dream …

His father was a simple soap maker, but young

Fritz Ribot had big dreams in 1880. He founds

a company that exports his scented luxury

products all the way to China. Restless and

ambitious, Fritz only rarely allows himself to

think of the secret surrounding Aleksandra, his

former love in Russia. His wife Sophie wonders

whether she will ever be as important to him

as his business. In the glamour of the Gründer-

zeit, no one anticipates that Fritz’s life’s work

is at stake in the looming danger of war – and

with it everything the family had fought so

hard for.

• Moving, authentic family saga from the Gründerzeit in Germany • For fans of Lucinda Riley and Jeffrey Archer, The Clifton Chronicles

SABINE WEIGAND is a historian who has curated exhi-

bitions for museums and taught at Stanford University.

Her nine historical novels are all based on authentic

documents of the period. In Helga. Als es noch keine Worte

dafür gab, she documented the extraordinary fate of

Helga F., a transgender woman born in 1931.

672 pp., Hardcover

March 8, 2018

Krüger Verlag

Second volume of the great North Sea trilogy following Wenn die Wellen leuchten

Jessieanna lives in California. She works in

her grandmother’s company where it’s her big

dream to develop a lotion that not only cares

for the skin, but also for the soul. But she’s

struggling to find the perfect scent. When her

father insists that she recuperates from an ill-

ness in his hometown, she is not very happy.

What is she supposed to do on the blustery

island of Amrum? It would also mean postpon-

ing her wedding to Ryan!

But there is someone on the island who can

help her to find the missing component for her

lotion that unexpectedly throws her emotions

into turmoil. Will she ever return to her former

life? And what about Ryan?

• SPIEGEL bestselling author Patricia Koelle: More than 250.000 books sold• 6 weeks on the SPIEGEL list with volume 1 – Wenn die Wellen leuchten

PATRICIA KOELLE is an author from Berlin with a

passion for the sea and writing, through which she

expresses her never-ending wonder about human

beings and our incredible planet.

480 pp., PaperbackMay 24, 2018Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag

PATRICIA KOELLEWhere the Dunes Shimmer

SABINE WEIGANDThe Scent of Time


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SUSANNE FRÖHLICHUp Sticks

LEONIE LASTELLANorth Star Sparkle

Butterflies, strokes of fate and ultimate happi-ness – an enchanting love story, authentically and captivatingly narrated

When Juna sees Bosse for the first time in eight

years, everything comes back in an instant –

the explosive attraction, the pounding heart,

the feeling of sand and sea on skin. She actu-

ally never wanted to set foot on the island of

Amrum again – the heart wrenching events of

the past had hurt her too much. But now Juna

is forced to return to the island and Bosse is

still there. Not one day went by when he didn’t

think of her. But the old wounds are still there,

forcing them both into a love quandary.

• For readers of Mhairi McFarlane, Catharina Junk and Mona Kasten

LEONIE LASTELLA loves her sons, her horse and her

little house in Northern Germany. When she’s not en-

joying the blustery North Sea air, she writes about great

love. She says of herself that she’s the most impatient

person on the planet. Especially when it comes to love.

400 pp., PaperbackAugust 28, 2018Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag

Andrea fulfils Paul’s long-standing wish and

moves to the country with him. To the back of

beyond, where the nearest supermarket is 30

minutes drive away and the country lanes on

the edge of the village disappear into infinity.

However – so the agreement – just for a year!

How is that going to turn out? While Paul takes

over the local orthopaedic surgery, Andrea

discovers that country life is not at all as she

imagined. No endless days in complete remote-

ness and tranquillity. As the doctor’s wife, An-

drea soon becomes a well-known figure in the

village and when her ex-father in law moves

in with them, it becomes clear that there is no

such thing as privacy.

• Trend topic: Country living• Susanne Fröhlich has sold more than 3 million books • Each of her novels was on the SPIEGEL bestseller list

SUSANNE FRÖHLICH is a successful presenter, jour-

nalist and author. She lives near Frankfurt am Main.

Both her works of non-fiction and her novels such as

Moppel-Ich, Frischgemacht, Familienpackung, Aufgebügelt,

Wundertüte and most recently Feuerprobe were a huge

success

288 pp., HardcoverMarch 8, 2018Krüger Verlag

Rights to previous titles sold to: Moppel-Ich: CHN (Long-Long), CZ (Vikend), GR (Melani), I (Salani), NL (elmar), RoK (Sodam), RUS (Text)


KLAUS-PETER WOLF is one of the most successful crime authors in Germany.

CRIME FICTION 15

112 pp., Paperback / March 22, 2018 / Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag

When Rupert investigates, Frisia is in a state of emergency! The invitation came by post. His former classmate Nadja had invited Rupert to a loser party. So no bragging about my house, my car and my boat – instead genuine failures. Strange, thought Rupert, Nadja always wanted to be the best and now she was throwing a loser party? Was she trying to make an example of him? With a glass of Scotch in his hand and a long look in the mirror, he asked himself: What would Bruce Willis do? When one of the guests is murdered, Rupert is in the midst of a right mess and deep into an investigation.

• 5 Million copies sold of KP Wolf Frisian crime series!

400 pp., Paperback / June 28, 2018 / Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag

Dr. Bernhard Sommerfeldt: The most dangerous man in the country and the new number 1 on the bestseller list That was close: His unmasking in Frisia, the separation from Beate and his subsequent escape to Gelsenkirchen have left their mark. Left to his own devices, he plots revenge on his family in Bamberg who got him in this situation. But the yearning for Frisia won’t fade. So he returns to the one place that poses the most danger to him.

Dance Macabre on the Beach Sommerfeldt Returns

KLAUS-PETER WOLF

Frisian Bash Rupert and the Loser Party on Langeoog

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Deadly Silence in the Tidelands• 230 000 copies sold• Most-sold book of the summer 2017


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PIERRE LAGRANGEMurderous ProvenceA Case For Albin Leclerc

MARK RODERICKPost Mortem – Trail of Fear

She’s young, she’s petite and she’s the girl

without a past, as she has no memory of it.

Lina Sattler is a debt collector in Hamburg’s

criminal community, a girl who is tough as

boots and knows no emotions. She has been

searching for traces to her background for

years. All she knows is that her parents were

murdered. But why? There is only one per-

son who can shed light on the matter: Avram

Kuyper. He asks Interpol agent Emilia Ness for

help and together they come across a sworn

group of influential politicians and industry

bosses, who will do anything to safeguard their

interests.

• SPIEGEL bestseller series continues: Volume 4: Post Mortem – Spur der Angst• Every volume on the SPIEGEL bestseller list

“Roderick provides what the reader wants: Violence, emotions and scrupulous heroes.” Börsenblatt

MARK RODERICK is a pseudonym. His gripping thrill-

ers originate in the early hours of the morning, when

nothing and no one can disturb his writing. Mark Rod-

erick lives near Stuttgart with his family.


A hot summer in Provence. The countryside shimmers under the relentless midday sun, but coldblooded murders are taking place somewhere in the dark …

Commissaire Albin Leclerc’s latest case makes

your blood run cold! An old friend, whose

daughter Isabelle has disappeared, asks for

help. She was working as a waitress in the café

in Gordes, but one evening she didn’t come

home from work. Albin sets off in search of

clues, together with his pug Tyson. There are

leads to a country house hotel in Provence. Un-

dercover with a famous Michelin-starred cook,

Albin uncovers a nasty conspiracy and makes a

gruesome discovery …

PIERRE LAGRANGE is a journalist and author who has

long had close family ties to Provence. His mother and

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.

448 pp., HardcoverMarch 5, 2018Scherz Verlag


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MARIE REINERSWomen called Bärbel

JÖRG MAURERPlease, After YouAlpine crime novel

Only the alpine winds know the whole truth Inspector Jennerwein’s most adventurous case – bestselling author Jörg Maurer’s tenth alpine crime novel

Ursel Grasegger, retired funeral director in an

idyllically located spa town, is worried: her

husband Ignaz has disappeared without a

trace. Did he fall while out hiking? Or was he

abducted? When a ransom note threatening

his life arrives, Ursel asks for Inspector Jen-

nerwein’s help – unofficially. While Jennerwein

follows a lead deep into the alpine region, his

team examines a suspicious death at a clinic.

A witness claims to have seen Ignaz there.

Jennerwein questions which side of the law he

is on during his investigation …

• No. 1-SPIEGEL-Bestseller• Over 2 million books sold in this series• Original, thrilling, full of ideas and inspiration: Maurer in top form No. 1-bestselling author JÖRG MAURER was born in

Bavaria. He studied German, English, theatre and phi-

losophy and has received numerous awards, both as an

author and musical cabaret performer.

432 pp., Trade PaperbackMarch 22, 2018Scherz Verlag

Bärbel Böttcher / 54 / taxidermist / single/ orphaned / no children / dog owner… wants peace and quiet… but finds herself in trouble ...

As I went for a walk with my dog Frieda, the

perfect stick suddenly lay before us. When

I say lay, that’s actually not quite correct. It

was sticking out. Out of a dead man’s left eye.

My first impulse was to pull the stick out and

throw it. But after giving it a bit of thought, I

realised that others might consider this sort

of behaviour a bit strange. And so despite

Frieda’s enthusiastic tail wagging and my own

reluctance, I picked up the phone instead of

the stick and called the police. After two hours

down the station, I was allowed to leave. On

the way home, all I wanted to do was buy some

beef tartar and settle down in front of the

television with a small meal and a glass of

milk. I had informed the authorities and no-

body would take any further interest in me.

I was mistaken.

• One of the most successful German scriptwriters• Black humour meets crime meets an eccentric heroine MARIE REINERS developed sitcoms and conceived the

crime series Mord mit Aussicht, which received numer-

ous awards and was the

most watched German

television series in 2014.

Frauen, die Bärbel heißen is

her first novel.

368 pp., HardcoverMarch 8, 2018Scherz Verlag


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BERNHARD HENNEN, born in Krefeld in 1966, is a German scholar, archaeolo-

gist and historian. He has worked as a journalist for various newspapers and

radio broadcasters and has traveled in Central America, the Middle East and

Asia. Since publishing The Elven (Die Elfen), his books regularly top both German

and international bestseller lists.

500 pp., Paperback December 29, 2017FISCHER TorSample Translation Link

Rights to previous titles sold to: BR (Europa), E (Minotauro), F (Fantom Print), CZ (Fantom Print), I (Armenia), NL (Luitingh-Sijthoff ), PL (Fabryka Slów), TR (Epsilon), UKR (Bookclub “Family Leisure Club”), USA (AmazonCrossing)

BERNHARD HENNEN

The Chronicles of AzuhrThe Damned

The dawn of a new age of magic – The new bestseller series

Young Milan Tormeno has been chosen to succeed his father Nandus in the role of archpriest: He is supposed to be one of the chosen, powerful leaders who will guide the fate of the world of Azuhr.But Milan cannot accept that his destiny is predetermined. He rebels, and finds himself involved with master thief Felicia and mysterious concubine Nok in a dangerous web of intrigue.Together, they fall under the spell of an old prophecy: The arrival of the “black moon” will usher in a new age of magic in Azuhr …

• Germany’s No. 1 fantasy author• More than four million books sold worldwide• The start of a new trilogy

“Bernhard Hennen is currently the most successful fantasy author in the German-speaking world.”

Express

“Bernhard Hennen’s Elven novels are among the best fantasy books ever written.”

Wolfgang Hohlbein



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KAI MEYER, born in 1969, is one of the most important German fantasy authors.

He has published more than sixty novels, which have been translated into thirty

languages. His books were adapted as films, radio drama and graphic novel and

awarded national and international prizes.

KAI MEYER

The Crown of the Stars Witch Power

400 pp., Paperback With IllustrationsFebruary 22, 2018FISCHER Tor

Rights sold to: The Crown of the Stars vol.1: RUS (AST)

The stars shone brighter in those days

At the end of the known universe, on the witch world Em-pedeum, the Order of the God-Empress is seeking a way to access an ancient path to the stars. In their delusion, the witches call upon their idol, Kamastraka, the black hole. They do not foresee what evil they are summoning. Meanwhile Iniza and Glanis have managed to escape from the order and are living under pirates on the planet Noa with their newborn daughter. But life is anything but safe: Ambushes and assassi-nations lead to the trail of a conspiracy, which is set to trigger a galactic war. In order to save the child’s life, Iniza, together with her consorts, leads off the fight – even if this means the demise of entire worlds.

• The second volume with even more action, magic and intrigue • Kai Meyer has sold several million books worldwide


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BERND PERPLIESThe World Seeker – The Second Journey to the Sea of Clouds

CORNELIUS ZIMMERMANNRocking The ForestA Müützelwald Novel

Funny fantasy from Deutschland

There is only one place on earth that is as mu-

sical as the Müützelwald. Squibs lose them-

selves in jazzy jam sessions, gutless twits lapse

into meditative singsong and giant dragonflies

reinvent pop. And Iggy? Yes, Iggy, the wolf

morph is one of the most notorious forest-

doom-musicians in the world. It would be a

joke if he didn’t win the ‘Golden Umbel’ at this

year’s Rocking-the-Forest Festival! If only his

band hadn’t left him in the lurch eleven days

before their big performance … an adventurous

debut novel, which particularly impresses with

its strong world building, absurd humour and

unique characters.

• As colourful as Terry Pratchett, as funny as Walter Moers and still completely unique • Sex, trees and rock ‘n’ roll: unusual characters, its own language and loads of imagination, humour and heart

CORNELIUS ZIMMERMANN, born in 1978 in South Baden, quickly had to learn that the Black Forest is teeming with orcs. He now lives and works in Berlin, where he opposes dark forces with legal and political means. From a literary perspective, he sees himself as a representative of rational realism, but does consider it possible that a colony of microscopically small, highly intelligent hamsters are hiding behind his wallpaper that speak Hebrew with a Brazilian accent and are all called Günther.

360 pp., Paperback With IllustrationsMarch 22, 2018FISCHER Tor

The sea of clouds harbours a lot of secrets...

Long before humans and their airships existed,

ArChaon ruled the world. They founded an un-

imaginably mighty civilisation and unravelled

the secrets of the cosmos with their magic. But

their quest for knowledge was so great that one

day they made a disastrous mistake – and the

sea of clouds engulfed them, at least according

to the legend. When the scholar and adventur-

er Corren von Dask comes across a map show-

ing the mystical city of ThausnasRa, he gathers

the bravest adventurers of the coastal lands

and equips an aircraft expedition. It is going to

be a journey into the dark recesses of the sea

of clouds. But is it really a good idea to disturb

what has been resting for eons?

• Bernd Perplies was awarded the German Speculative Fiction Prize and the RPC Jury Award and was nominated for the Seraph • Airships, bird people and magical arte- facts: Vivid fantasy with wow factor • For readers of Tad Williams and Bernhard Hennen• A novel from the world of Drachenjäger

BERND PERPLIES, born in 1977, studied film science

and German in Mainz. His most well known works

include the Magierdämmerung trilogy and the Tarean

saga. He was awarded the German Speculative Fic-

tion Prize 2015 for Imperium

der Drachen: Das Blut des

Schwarzen Löwen.

400 pp., Paperback March 22, 2018FISCHER Tor

Rights sold to: Drachen-jäger: World English (Tor USA)

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416 pp., HardcoverWith IllustrationsApril 26, 2018S. Fischer VerlagSample Translation Link

Rights sold: World English (Profile)

RÜDIGER BARTH & HAUKE FRIEDERICHS

The GravediggersThe Last Winter of the Weimar Republic

The last ten weeks of the Weimar Republic, told day by day – a history book that reads like a political thriller

The Weimar Republic is teetering. The economy is in ruins. Street battles rage between left- and rightwingers. In the next few weeks, a handful of men will decide Germany’s fate.Hitler is hungry for absolute power, and Goebbels spews fire and brimstone; Chancellor von Papen refuses to resign, while von Schleicher saws away at the branch the chancellor is sitting on. All of them are currying favour with Hindenburg. A dramatic struggle for power ensues, rife with feints, lies, fighting and deception.The historians Rüdiger Barth and Hauke Friederichs have drawn on diaries, letters and files to paint a colourful, multi-layered portrait of a period that seems eerily familiar but was by no means fated to plunge Germany into the abyss.

• Meticulously researched, based on unpublished files and correspondence• Eerily topical

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and General Rhetoric in Tübingen. He lives and works as a freelance author in

Hamburg.

Born in 1980 in Hamburg, HAUKE FRIEDERICHS gained a PhD in Social and Eco-

nomic History from the University of Hamburg. He writes for P.M. History,

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The winter of 1932 / 33 – open season for fixers, adventurers, extremists and demagogues of all stripes, as a ruthless power struggle breaks out.

An unconventional account that reads like a political thriller. We follow the demolition of democracy blow by blow with the protagonists.

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DAS KOMMUNISTISCHE MANIFEST

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SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK was born in 1949 and is a philosopher, psychoanalyst and cul-

tural critic. He teaches Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia

and at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee and is currently International

Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities in London. His many books

have been translated into over 20 languages. His most recent publications for

S. Fischer Verlag include the German translations of Absolute Recoil: Towards a

New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism (2016), Trouble in Paradise: From the End

of History to the End of Capitalism (2015), Event: A Philosophical Journey Through a

Concept (2014) and The Year of Dreaming Dangerously (2013).

192 pp., PaperbackFebruary 22, 2018Fischer Taschenbuch VerlagEnglish Original available

KARL MARX / FRIEDRICH ENGELS / SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK

The Communist ManifestoThe Late Relevance of the Communist Manifesto

The text of the original Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels with a new text by Slavoj Žižek on the ‘late relevance of the Communist Manifesto’.

At the turn of the year 1847/48 the Union of Communists charged Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels with drafting a mani-festo that laid out the essential principles of communism. No other Marxist text has come close to achieving the fame of the Manifesto. It has been translated into over 100 languages, and quotations such as ‘Workers of the world, unite!’ have gained the status of proverbs.This edition of the original text by Marx and Engels comes with an essay by the renowned philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek. He examines the Manifesto’s relevance today, studies the main ideas of Marxism and assesses which of them remain important to this day and which we should dis-card. Marxism may have failed as a solution, but communism lives on as the description of a problem – the problem of the ‘commons’ in every sense of the term.

‘The only way to remain true to Marx today is not to be a “Marxist” but to recreate Marx’s founding gesture in a new way.’ Slavoj Žižek


KLAUS BRINKBÄUMERFarewell to AmericaThe End of a Friendship and the Future of the West

ILIJA TROJANOW / THOMAS GEBAUERDrip Fed HelpOpposing Profit and Hypocrisy – For a World Without Charity

The USA has become a stranger to us. Although

it has always been a country of contradictions,

Donald Trump’s presidency has made clear:

fundamentals are shifting, things that until

recently appeared to be reliable, are breaking in

two. Post Donald Trump, things will not go back

to the way they were. In his major book about

America, Klaus Brinkbäumer shows us why

that is. As editor in chief and long-term USA

correspondent of the news magazine SPIEGEL,

he knows the country better than most. Over

the years, he has spoken to Barack Obama, Dick

Cheney or Hillary Clinton, with George Clooney

or Bruce Springsteen, with numerous person-

alities from politics, culture and industry, and

held a somewhat taxing telephone conversa-

tion with Donald Trump. In his passionate and

analytical portrayal of people, places, senti-

ments, history and stories, he gives a fasci-

nating portrait of a nation that for decades

inspired us and which is now in the process of

losing its way. The end of this once so reliable

relationship will significantly define our future.

KLAUS BRINKBÄUMER, born in 1967 is the editor in

chief of SPIEGEL. He is one of the few German reporters

to be in action in crisis areas around the world. Klaus

Brinkbäumer is co-author of the bestseller 11. September

– Geschichte eines Terrorangriffs and The Last Voyage of the

Vizcaina: The Mystery of Christopher Columbus’s Last Ship.

His most recent work was: Der Traum vom Leben. Eine

afrikanische Odyssee.

512 pp., HardcoverMay 8, 2018S. Fischer Verlag

Which help helps?A beggar in the pedestrian area: to give or not?

Helping in this way is always double-edged:

You help in the short term and feel good about

it. In the long term, you change nothing. In

their book, Thomas Gebauer and Ilija Trojanow

question the many facets of charity, from the

activities of the super rich to state help to local

initiatives. Beginning with specific examples

from around the world, which are described in

original reports from countries such as Sierra

Leone, Pakistan or Guatemala, they review the

entire system of assistance and show what

works and what doesn’t. What is required is a

concept of critical assistance that encourages

self-help and yet allows fundamental change.

• Critical inventory of all forms of help: from state help to NGOs to private billionaire initiatives and local actions

ILIJA TROJANOW, born in 1965 in Sofia, fled to Germany

with his family in 1971 via Yugoslavia and Italy where

they were granted political asylum. His novels Der

Weltensammler and Macht und Widerstand are celebrated

bestsellers and have received numerous awards. THOMAS GEBAUER, born 1955, has been Managing Di-

rector for the aid agency medico international since 1996.


Rights to previous titles by Ilija Tro-janow sold to (selection): Kampfab-sage: BG (Ciela), Arabic (Mahrousa/Egypt), IND (English: Yoda); Meine Olympiade: PL (Sonia Draga), TWN (Business Weekly); Macht und Wid-erstand: BG (Ciela), CZ (Akropolis), DK (Tiderne Skifter), E (Acantilado), NL (De Geus), TR (CAN), TWN

(Business 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

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UWE SCHNEIDEWINDThe Great Trans-formationOn the Path to New Future Policies

VOLKER KITZFreedom of Expres-sion!Democracy For The Advanced

Contradicting a different opinion and still letting it count – that is the great skill.

A plea for true democracy.

‘Do-gooders’, ‘vermin’, ‘populists’ and ‘traitor’:

Within modern society, individuals and opin-

ions are clashing ever more vehemently, the

fronts becoming increasingly irreconcilable. We

are convinced of the need to win others over

with our view of life. But genuine democracy

does not work that way: Contradicting a differ-

ent opinion and still letting it count – that is

the great skill. ‘Freedom of Expression!’ makes

a plea to (re) introduce this skill, addressing a

society in which there are higher values than

petty dogmatism: True freedom and true toler-

ance. This is the only way we can secure our

democracy, which is currently under threat.

VOLKER KITZ holds a PhD in law, is a bestselling author

(Das Frustjobkillerbuch) and international lecturer. He

transmits useful knowledge about psychology, law and

the world of employment in a fascinating and enter-

taining manner. He writes for various newspapers

and magazines, including SPIEGEL online, Frankfurter

Allgemeine Zeitung, Manager Magazin and Die Welt. His

theories on new employment pragmatism made quite a

splash on the Internet and his books have been trans-

lated into more than ten languages. Volker Kitz lives in

Berlin.

128 pp. PaperbackMarch 8, 2018Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag

How we can change the world for its own good

The so-called great transformation is omni-

present. This refers to the extensive transfor-

mation of technology, economy and society to

meet the social and ecological challenges of

the 21st century. The blueprints for the ‘great

transformation’ have been drawn up, but not

much is happening. What is lacking is a com-

prehensive understanding of their execution

– a transformative literacy. Founded on the

Wuppertal Institute’s vast social- and techno-

logical-scientific pool, economist Uwe Schnei-

dewind introduces the architecture of the great

transformation and demonstrates perspectives

that build on this for all those involved in civil

society, politics, business and science, as well

as for individuals.

UWE SCHNEIDEWIND, born in 1966, is a Professor for

Innovation Management and Sustainability at the

Bergische Universität Wuppertal. He has been Chairman

of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment

and Energy since 2010. He is also Vice Chairman of the

Association for Ecological Economic Research and a

member of the board of the Federal Government Global

Environmental Change as well as the Club of Rome.



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DIRK VAN LAAKConstant FluxThe Lifeline of Our Society – His-tory and Future of Infrastructure

From bridges and streets to data networks: Why everything has to flow in the modern age They are the lifelines of our civilisation: Data

highways, power supply, canals and satellites.

Elegantly and full of anecdotes, historian Dirk

van Laak gives an extensive overview of how

these networks, known as infrastructure, have

changed the world and our daily lives over

the last 200 years. Without them neither mod-

ern households, television nor the Internet,

colonisation or globalisation would have been

possible. Water, cargo or traffic – everything

must flow, otherwise it all grinds to a halt. Dirk

van Laak not only shows how central these

structures that often lie below our perception

threshold are, but also how important it is for

the future to develop concepts that keep them

in flux.

• A great historical panorama, which recounts the emergence, present day and future of everything that holds our world together: Infrastructure• Everything about the lifelines of our civilisation: Data highways, power supply, water and traffic.

DIRK VAN LAAK, born in 1961, is a Professor for 19th

and 20th century German and European History at

Leipzig University. Other publications include Über

alles in der Welt. Deutscher

Imperialismus im 19. und 20.

Jahrhundert (2005) as well as

Literatur und Geschichte. Eine

Beziehungsanalyse (2012).

352 pp., HardcoverWith IllustrationsMay 24, 2018S. Fischer Verlag

Why the world was reformatted – and still is Digitalisation has changed our lives as funda-

mentally as the use of fire and the invention

of the wheel. Step by step the world has been

transferred into the digital space of machines.

Historian David Gugerli shows how this oc-

curred. Meanwhile the world is digital, tradi-

tional activities and cultural techniques such

as archiving or calculating have gained new

significance, society is planned and developed

by computers. Their systems have become so

complex that the computers have to service

themselves. In addition, digitalisation is a per-

manent, irreversible process – and we have to

keep reformatting the world and ourselves.

• The history of digitalisation as a double evolution – computers and their programs were designed to accommo- date the requirements of humans, but above all it’s humans who adapt themselves to the world of computers.

DAVID GUGERLI, born in 1961, studied history and

literature and has been a Professor for History of Tech-

nology at the ETH in Zurich since 2001. He was guest

lecturer and fellow at: Maison des Sciences de l’Homme

in Paris, Stanford University in California and the Insti-

tute for Advanced Study in Berlin. In 2009, he published

Suchmaschinen. Die Welt als Datenbank.

256 pp., HardcoverApril 26, 2018S. Fischer Verlag

DAVID GUGERLIHow The World Got Into The ComputerThe Emergence of Digital Truth


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ETHEL MATALA DE MAZZAThe Popular PactNegotiations of the Modern Age Between Operetta and Feuilleton

HENK SCHULTE NORDHOLTNew Fischer World History. Volume 12South East Asia

From Bali to Singapore, from Myanmar to Vietnam – the fascinating history of the sea-encircled world between Australia and China

From legendary realms such as Siam or Khmer

to the colonial era with the bloody war in Viet-

nam to the rise of modern mega cities such as

Singapore: Dutch historian Henk Schulte Nor-

dholt tells the manifold history of South East

Asia, a fascinating world with countless islands,

characterised by seafaring and trade, threat-

ened by volcanoes and tsunamis. The retrospec-

tion explains why the King of Thailand is re-

vered like a saint, why the women in the region

have always been quite autonomous and why a

moderate form of Islam is practiced in parts of

Indonesia. Today religious conflicts are increas-

ing, the contrast between rich and poor is more

extreme than ever, and the rising sea level is be-

coming life threatening. Schulte Nordholt shows

that collaboration – in the region and worldwide

– is the region’s chance for the future.

HENK SCHULTE NORDHOLT, born in 1953, is a historian

and anthropologist and one of the most knowledgeable

experts on South East Asia in Europe. He taught Asian

history at the University of Rotterdam as well as South

East Asian studies at the University of Amsterdam. He

has been Research Director at the Royal Netherlands

Institute for South East Asian and Caribbean Studies at

the University of Leiden since 2014.

Translated from Dutch by Bärbel Jänicke512 pp., HardcoverWith Illustrations and MapsMay 24, 2018S. Fischer Verlag

Rights sold: NL (Amster-dam University Press)

A new perspective of public transformation (and, secretly, a counter statement to Haber-mas’ standard reference)

The history of the modern age is often de-

scribed as a movement that began with the so-

called ‘advanced civilisation’, with philosophy

or poetry, with tractates and novels. Instead,

Ethel Matala de Mazza shows that popular

genres like operetta and feuilleton played an

equally large role in the breakthrough of the

modern age. By dedicating herself to the social

application and aesthetic proceedings of such

‘lesser genres’, she manages to find the politi-

cal in the popular and to analyse how these

forms respond. The result is a new history of

the transformation of the public through popu-

lar forms in which social poetics and aesthetic

sociology were interlaced – and directly linked

to the fate of what we now call ‘society’.

ETHEL MATALA DE MAZZA studied new German lit-

erature, philosophy, linguistics and art history at the

universities of Bochum, Paris (Panthéon-Sorbonne)

and Munich. She worked for the Institute for German

Philology at the University of Munich, took on visiting

professorships in Chicago and Harvard and has been a

professor at the Institute for German Literature at the

Humboldt University in Berlin since 2010.

384 pp., HardcoverWith illustrationsMay 24, 2018S. Fischer Verlag


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KLAUS ZEYRINGEROlympic Games. A Cultural History From 1896 to DateWinter

Winter Olympics 2018 in Pyeongchang – the great cultural history of the winter Olympics.A fascinating portrait of the winter games, full of funny episodes, interesting details, sporting successes and political background

It took almost a quarter of a century for the

winter games to be established alongside the

summer games. In an entertaining manner and

full of anecdotes, Klaus Zeyringer recounts of

the initial Scandinavian resistance, new sports

that ‘painted figures’ on the ice, political power

games during the Cold War and the increas-

ing role of the media. He places heroes such as

Toni Sailer or Rosi Mittermaier and tragic fig-

ures such as ‘Eddy the Eagle’ into their cultural,

social or political context. Whether sportsmen

were disqualified because they wore advertis-

ing on their person, or whether new technol-

ogy revolutionised a sport, one thing remained

constant: the problematic weather.

KLAUS ZEYRINGER, born in 1953 in Graz, was a Profes-

sor of German at a French university. He now works as a

literary critic for the Standard, as well as a jury member

for the ORF Best List. He is a television presenter in

Austria, Germany and Switzerland. S. Fischer Verlag has

published: Fußball. Eine Kulturgeschichte (2014) and Olym-

pische Spiele. Eine Kulturgeschichte. Sommer (2016).

448 pp., HardcoverJanuary 25, 2018S. Fischer Verlag

Rights sold to previous titles: Football. A cultural history: ARAB (Al-Turjman)

The moral compass for daily life

Not only life, but also love often confronts

us with moral questions: Who do love letters

belong to – the sender or the receiver? Is it

alright to fake an orgasm? Can you celebrate

a divorce? Can an emancipated woman fancy

a ‘real man’? Is it alright to ask for an ‘I love

you’? No one knows their way around everyday

moral issues better than Rainer Erlinger. He has

been answering moral dilemmas in his weekly

column ‘A Question of Conscience’ in the Süd-

deutsche Zeitung magazine for many years,

posed by readers who ask his advice. Collected

here is a selection of the best questions and

answers to do with love and life.

RAINER ERLINGER, born in 1965, is a doctor and a

lawyer. Following his work as a research fellow, he now

works as a publisher, particularly in the field of ethics.

S. Fischer Verlag most recently published: Höflichkeit.

Vom Wert einer wertlosen Tugend (2016), Moral. Wie man

richtig gut lebt (2012), as well as with Fischer Taschen-

buch: Gewissensbisse. Antworten auf moralische Fragen des

Alltags (2011) and Nachdenken über Moral. Gewissensfragen

auf den Grund gegangen (2012) and Darf man Eltern sagen,

dass ihre Kinder nerven? Und andere Gewissensfragen aus

dem Alltag (2016).

256 pp., PaperbackJuly 26, 2018Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag

RAINER ERLINGERHow Dazzling Can a Smile Be?111 Moral Dilemmas of Love and Life


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LEONIE MÜLLERSwap Flat for Railcard The Attempt To Reside Nowhere And Live Everywhere

PEGGY PATZSCHKEThe Mussel PrincipleAn Extraordinary Journey to Your Hidden Treasures

Off you go – a book for the second half of life and the solution to (almost) all problems

Pearl oysters develop a new treasure from in-

jury, pain and difficult circumstances – a pearl.

Peggy Patzschke is convinced: We too can make

good use of this skill. Especially women in their

middle years know the feeling: Achieved a lot,

committed to a lot, established in life – but

daily life somehow feels flat. We are fixed in

our ways and obligations and dread coming

out of our comfort zone. Peggy Patzschke has

been brave enough to make a start and has

found answers to the really important ques-

tions along the way: How to handle my longing

for change? How do I activate the forces within

me? How can I gather new strength after a set-

back? How can I reinvent myself? Which pearls

are (still) hidden within us? On her journey, she

meets doers from politics, media and music

and recounts what she learned from these en-

counters. An inspirational book for those who

still want more.

PEGGY PATZSCHKE, born in 1970 in Leipzig, is a

trained journalist and screenwriter who successfully

worked as a television and radio presenter for 25 years.

For more than a decade, she was the most well known

radio voice in central Germany. She also works as a

coach, event organiser and trainer.

400 pp., PaperbackMarch 8, 2018Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag

The world’s most well known rail rider writes a book

Ever since Leonie Müller gave up her flat, she’s

been commuting throughout Germany. Instead

of experiencing exciting travel adventures on

her few days off a year, the student manages

to make waiting for delayed trains feel like a

break from daily routine. In this book she de-

scribes how it is when everything you need fits

into a 40-litre backpack. She asks what Heimat

even means in our multi-local living society.

How does it feel to be on the move all the

time? Where is home? And why does the word

‘Heimat’ still not have a plural? Clever, fresh,

easy-going and very special – Leonie Müller is

the voice of generation mobile.

• From BILD to the Washington Post: Leonie Müller’s train experiment went through national and internationals press

LEONIE MÜLLER, born in 1992, is a student and a travel-

ler. She swapped her flat for a Railcard 100. This sparked

a huge flurry of interest with the press, as well as with

countless people who felt inspired by the notion. It was

written about from Argentina to Australia, from the

USA to Hungary. Today Leonie Müller mainly feels at

home in Cologne, Bielefeld, Berlin and on the train.



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GEORG UECKERI’ ll Carry On Then!

The first kiss between two men on German

television catapulted Georg Uecker, alias Dr

Carsten Flöter, to instant fame. The long-

standing cast member of ‘Lindenstraße’ had

to accept serious private strokes of fate: His

boyfriend died of AIDS, and he himself was di-

agnosed with HIV during his cancer treatment.

He loses everything that he has, but fights his

way back. As an ‘entertainment craftsman’ he

delights ‘Lindenstraße’ television audiences,

as well in his role as game master in ‘Schil-

lerstraße’ and producer of the late night show

‘Blond am Freitag’. He tours Germany with

his own stage show and has become a record

phone-a-friend lifeline in ‘Who Wants to Be a

Millionaire’. He is also a Bambi award and

Goldene Kamera winner.

• Uecker talks openly and honestly about his illness, whose ramifications were followed by millions of television viewers • The role model of a large gay community

GEORG UECKER, born 1962, is one of the most loved

German television series stars and an advocate of the

gay movement. Uecker grew up in a German/Norwegian

family in Bonn am Rhein. He received the ReD award for

his fight against HIV and AIDS.

256 pp., PaperbackFebruary 22, 2018Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag

Fate hit Nina Zacher out of nowhere. The

mother of vour fell sick with ALS (Amyotrophic

lateral sclerosis) in her early forties. But instead

of hiding away Nina Zacher goes public. Tens of

thousands follow her on Facebook. She writes

about her life in an honest and direct manner,

her suffering and her death, and shows in-

credible strength and optimism. She is unable

to realise her big dream to write a book. Her

husband fulfils her dying wish and honours

his promise of love to continue his wife’s fight

against this perfidious disease.

“After my death, please continue to be my voice in the fight against this terrible illness.” Nina Zacher

KARL-HEINZ ZACHER was born in 1969. While his wife

was still alive, the studied physicist founded the initia-

tive faceALS. Together with renowned scientists, he

wants to advance the medical research into this illness

– an unequalled private German initiative, which is set

to bring ‘promising findings’ (SZ) within ALS research.

DOROTHEA SEITZ initially wrote the book together

with Nina Zacher. Now the successful ghostwriter

(Nanna, der Tod trägt Pink) is finishing the book with

Karl-Heinz Zacher.


KARL-HEINZ ZACHERFind Yourself a Lovely Star in the SkyALS – Chronicle of a Farewell


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HANNAH WINKLERWedding Dress For Sale, Unworn True Stories

SUSANNE KALOFFViewed Soberly, Being Drunk Was Not Very IntoxicatingA Trip to Freedom

Even shit days are better sober!

Susanne Kaloff no longer drinks alcohol. Why?

Not because her doctor recommended it, but

rather because she wanted to find out how this

capricious life tastes sober, what moods with-

out numbness and situations without intensi-

fiers feel like. Above all, she urgently wanted to

know: Who am I without a drink by my side?

How does one survive boredom, uncertainty,

stress, grief, parties and Paris without wine,

beer, Gin Tonic or Champagne? What does it

feel like to experience emotional pitfalls with a

clear head? She used the sobriety to reveal past

washouts, embarrassing capers and broken

heels and to reflect upon the role of alcohol in

our society. Why do we all drink? After seven

months of self-experimentation, numerous

crises and dizzying ecstasies, she found a lot of

answers – and herself.

• Just in time for the fasting period – trend topic: Detox and alcohol abstinence

SUSANNE KALOFF writes for several editorial offices

as a lifestyle and style author. She has been writing

weekly columns in Grazia for the last six years and is

an expert for the sensual things in life: eating, drinking,

love, fashion and beauty.

256 pp., PaperbackFebruary 8, 2018Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag

No vision in white

Most people wear their wedding dress just once

in their lifetime. But there are women who sell

their vision in white before they have even

worn it. Hannah Winkler researched and wrote

about the stories behind the ad ‘Wedding Dress

For Sale, Unworn’: heart-breaking disappoint-

ments and wonderful surprises. Moving. Hon-

est. Encouraging.

HANNAH WINKLER, born in 1986, studied journalism

and television journalism in Bremen and Hannover. She

works as a freelance filmmaker, journalist and author

for various editorial offices. Her speciality: Personal,

true and unaltered stories that touch and move.



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ANJA RÜTZELSuper LonelyWhy I Like Being Alone

A plea for a new, positive feeling of loneliness

Anja Rützel always thought it was the others

who were lonely: She, at worst, was alone – and

that because she chose to. But when her belov-

ed dog Figo dies, she suddenly realises: In the

age of Facebook & Co, who lead one to believe

in solidarity where it does not exist, the bound-

ary between cosy being-alone and loneliness

is narrow. In her very own Rützel manner, she

sets off on a journey into the world of loneli-

ness, the lonely, into the world of supposed

social networks, analogue networks, shared

unhappiness and lots more.

ANJA RÜTZEL, born in 1973, is a journalist, confessing

trash TV fan and a great animal lover. She works as a

freelance author for various publications including

SPIEGEL online, SPEX and the SZ Magazin. She loves to go

out into the world and look at strange creatures. She

lives in Berlin with her new dog Juri.

240 pp., PaperbackSeptember 27, 2018Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag

I really wanted to behave, but there were so many other options

‘In the early morning, we set off home. I was

on the night bus and suddenly paralysed with

fear. Oh shit! I’d left my scarf in the prosti-

tute’s room, and I remembered that my mother

always sewed our full name into our clothes so

that we would not get them mixed up on class

trips. And so the elated feeling of no longer be-

ing a virgin blended with the fear that someone

from the Paradise Point of Sex would call my

mother at home because they had found my

scarf. But – and that was even more important

– also with the realisation that I would finally

have to acknowledge who I really was.’

MARTIN TIETJEN, born 1985, is half German, half Swed-

ish, a presenter with RTL as well as radio presenter. He

was a member of the presenting team of Joiz Germany.


MARTIN TIETJENSelf-DefamationStories That Should Not Really Be Told


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The World of Colouring – Taking Time For Yourself

MAREN KRUTH Magic LettersHandwritten Letters: For Writing And Drawing96 pp., Paperback / April 26, 2018 / Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag

• Letters and scripts for colouring • Perfect gift for the creative phase in spring • For readers of Flow and Happinez

CLAUDIA KATHARINA SCHÄFER

MAN-dalaThe Colouring Book For Men

96 pp., Paperback / February 22, 2018Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag

• The perfect gift for creative men • For clumsy refined minds and technologically minded relaxation seekers

Step by step to beautiful writing

Get Your Creative Juices Flowing And Make a Start!

The first colouring book for men!

MAREN KRUTH

Nuptial MagicPostcard Book


• 10 000 Postcard books sold from Kruth/Spring Magic• To relax and send to friends


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