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FICTION 4 Ingo Schulze * 6 Flake 8 Carmen Stephan 9 Roland Schimmelpfennig 9 Dietmar Dath10 Reinhold Messner 11 Ángel Santiesteban 11 Annette Kolb12 Marlene Streeruwitz12 Gerhard Roth 13 Robert Gernhardt 13 Uwe Kolbe 14 Thomas Glavinic 15 Ina Hartwig 15 Kathrin Werner 16 Judith Pinnow 17 Stephan Ludwig 17 Eva Ehley / Philipp Ehley18 Arno Strobel19 Klaus-Peter Wolf
20 Dennis Ehrhardt
NON-FICTION22 Daniel Schönpflug24 Aeham Ahmad25 Stefan Klein 26 Florian Illies 27 Reiner Stach 28 Karl Heinz Götze 28 Nils Minkmar 29 Kurt Bauer 29 Svenja Goltermann30 Ute Frevert31 Angelika Franz31 Andreas Bernard32 Tilman Allert32 Martin Seel33 Harald Welzer (Forum for Responsibility)34 Philipp Möller35 Andreas Lebert / Stephan Lebert36 Sven Gottschling / Lars Amend36 Saskia Jungnikl37 Bernhard Finkbeiner / Hans-Jörg Brekle / Tabea Mußgnug37 Valentin Wolker38 Jörg Maurer38 Bernd Gieseking39 The World of Colouring
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INGO SCHULZE
Peter HoltzHis Own Account of a Happy Life
576 pp., HardcoverSeptember 7, 2017S. Fischer VerlagSample Translation Link
Orphan to millionaire. How did it go so wrong?
Peter Holtz wants happiness for everyone. As a child, he tried living without money, made punk music based on the spirit of industrial folk songs and converted to Christianity. He fought for Christian-Communist democracy as a CDU member (East). But to his surprise, the way of the world de�es all logic. The market economy rewards his altruism with riches. Had he been �ghting for the wrong cause? Or was he simply �ghting for the right thing on the wrong path? And above all, how can he decently rid himself of the money? Peter Holtz takes the promises of capitalism at their word. Deploying humour and poetic diction, Ingo Schulze creates a character like we have never seen before, but certainly need today, in times when the world has been turned upside down.
• Ingo Schulze’s works have been translated into more than 30 languages • His books have received several literary awards (The Leipzig Book Fair Prize, the Joseph Breitbach Prize, a nomination for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award)
Rights to previous titles sold to (selection): Adam und Evelyn: Abu Dhabi (Kalima Foundation), AL (k&b), BR (Cosacnaivy), Catalan (PPM Grup62), CZ (Vakat), DK (Tiderne Skifter), E (Destino), F (Fayard), FIN (Otava), GR (Kastaniotis), H (Európa), I (Feltrinelli), IS (Forlagid), LT (Gimtasis Zodis), MK (Blesok), NL (Meulenhoff ), ROK (Minumsa), RUS (Text), S (Svante Weyler Bokförlag), SLO (Beletrina, Studentska zalozba), TR (Pupa), UK/USA (Knopf ); Handy: BR (Cosacnaivy), CZ (Vakat), E (Destino), F (Fayard), H (Európa), I (Feltrinelli), Iran (Ofoq), GR (Kastaniotis), MK (Blesok), N (Gyl-dendal Norsk), NL (Meulenhoff ), P (7 Nós Editora), PL (WAB), RO (Minerva), ROK (Moonji), S (Svante Weyler Bokförlag), SLO (Beletrina, Studentska zalozba), SRB (VBZ Beograd), USA (Knopf ); Simple Storys: Arabic (Supreme Council of Culture Egypt), BR (Nova Aguilar), CHN (Shanghai Transla-tion), CZ (Mata), DK (Gyldendal), E (Destino), F (Fayard), FIN (Otava), GR (Kastaniotis), H (Gondolat), HR (Profil), I (Feltrinelli), IS (Mal og menning), LV (Adria Books), N (Gyldendal Norsk), NL (Van Gennep), ROK (Minumsa), RUS (Ad Marginem), S (Norstedt), TR (Dogan), UA (VNTL Klasyka), UK (Picador), USA (Knopf, Vintage)
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INGO SCHULZE is one of the most renowned authors of his generation. His
debut 33 Moments of Happiness (1995) was enthusiastically received; individual
stories were published in the New Yorker. Simple Storys (1998) was a spectacular
success and became curricular reading. He received the Leipzig Book Fair Prize
for Handy (2007) and the Joseph Breitbach Prize for Neue Leben (2005). His works
have been translated into more than 30 languages.
“Ingo Schulze is a ‘great storyteller’.” Günter Grass
“The whole thing is so light and airy that it’s possible to follow this study of worldly creation and change without the slightest effort.” Hubert Winkels, Die Zeit on Adam und Evelyn
“A wonderfully readable and likewise highly complex literary novel about reuni�cation.” Uwe Wittstock, Die Welt on Adam und Evelyn
“This is not reuni�cation; this is world literature.”Elmar Krekeler, Die Welt on Neue Leben
“A literary event: With his thirteen new stories, Ingo Schulze masterfully shows that great literary sophistication can be hidden behind a simple narrative tone.”
Hubert Spiegel, FAZ on Handy
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LITERARY FICTION | MEMOIR 6
FLAKE was born in East Berlin in 1966. Amongst other things, he was keyboard-
ist with the bands Feeling B and Magdalene Keibel Combo. He has been with
Rammstein since 1994. His �rst novel Der Tasten�cker was published in 2015.
Flake lives in Berlin.
368 pp., HardcoverOctober 5, 2017S. Fischer VerlagSample Translation Link
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FLAKE
It’s the World’s Birthday Today
This is not a book about Rammstein
It’s 4 pm. A man is sitting in a windowless room. He is not sure which city he is in right now, in Paris, Rome or Erkner? And he doesn’t know why he is sitting here. He doesn’t have enough muscles to be a sportsman, so he must be a musician waiting to go on stage. The band he plays in might be called Rammstein, but might not, because by tomorrow, there will be different musicians sitting here. The man thinks about his life and is amazed. Certain things have happened that some would describe as strange and beautiful, others as just loud. He has been making music with this band called Rammstein for twenty years. There really is enough to think about.
• 30 000 sold copies of Der Tastenficker• Top ten of the Spiegel bestseller list • Rammstein have sold 16 million CDs worldwide and have more than 8 million fans on Facebook
“Flake is one of the very, very few German global super stars.”
Peter Richter, Süddeutsche Zeitung
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appr. 300 pp. (revised version)March 16, 2015S. Fischer VerlagOriginally published by Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf
Rights sold: FIN (Minerva Kustannus Oy), RUS (Eksmo)
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Key Fucker‘The Bits I Can Remember’
In the former GDR, keyboardists were known as ‘Tasten�cker’, literally translated as ‘key fuckers’. This is the autobiography of Flake Lorenz, keyboardist of Germany’s most well-known band. In the �rst longer tour break that Rammstein took, Flake decided: “I’ll write a book then.”
Alongside the Rammstein anecdotes, the keyboardist philoso-phises about aesthetics in music, about cars and, with a great deal of self-irony, about himself:
‘My whole life is a balancing act between excessive anxiety and overcon�dence. Luckily, in daily life, a step in the wrong direction doesn’t lead to death, like in the Alps. You have a rope to hold on to. This shows you the way, like my family and my friends do in real life.’ Flake
The Key Fucker is not only a funny and disarmingly honest artist’s biography, but also a tangible chronicle of our time.
“Artist’s biographies are always sup-posed to explain the emergence of the genius, and why you yourself didn’t become one. How could this shy, scraggy kid from the Berlin neighbourhood of Prenz lauer Berg, for whom fetching fresh rolls in the mornings was already an ad-venture, end up in a band that is ranked amongst the most famous to have come out of Germany in the last twenty years, and that, together with Kraftwerk and the Autobahn, represents actual German folklore?”
Jochen Schmidt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
“‘Key Fucker’ is the backward, sideward, forward looking view of life of a per-son who happens to be a musician, but above all, a dreamer and unconventional thinker. Funny, poignant and sometimes hilarious, the Berlin institution /original from Prenzlauer Berg talks about his wants, his refusals, his failures and happiness.” Gunnar Leue, TAZ
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CARMEN STEPHAN, born in 1974, lives in Geneva. She spent several years liv-
ing in Rio de Janeiro as an author. Her collection of stories Brasilia Stories was
published in 2005. Her debut novel Mal Aria received the Literature Prize of the
Jürgen Ponto Foundation 2012 and was awarded the Buddenbrookhaus Debut
Prize 2013.
120 pp., HardcoverJuly 27, 2017S. Fischer VerlagSample Translation Link
CARMEN STEPHAN
It’s All True
FICTION 8
The drama set around Orson Welles and a �sherman. A story about a truth that does not tell us what we should see, do or believe.
Brazil, North East, 1941. Four men no longer want to put up with what is wrong. They build a raft and set off to visit the President. They sail two thousand kilometres across the ocean on their jangada. Upright. Barefoot. Without map or compass. They are guided by the stars. They are the �sher-men Jerônimo, Mané Preto, Tatá and their leader, Jacaré. They travel for something as simple as it is great: their right. They reach Rio de Janeiro after sixty-one days and they are heroes. The Hollywood director, Orson Welles, whose �lm Citizen Kane is running in the cinemas, wants to make a movie about their bold odyssey – but during �lming, Jacaré goes overboard and disappears into the ocean.
• Carmen Stephan’s novel is based on a true story that has never been told before in such form.
“Where else in contemporary literature can one �nd debutants who produce images so languidly, beautifully and morbidly deploying linguistic subtlety and profound background knowledge?”
Der Tagesspiegel on Mal Aria
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FICTION | LITERARY SCIENCE FICTION 9
No one can solve the problems caused by life on their own, as these problems concern us all.
Politics is everywhere. Six people are called
together to travel to the Sun: a student, a cook,
a �nancial advisor, a mathematician, a guitarist
and a pianist. They learn that there is a civili-
sation on the Sun that is completely different
to what is known to humans. In new bodies,
they are supposed to tackle three large tasks
and in doing so, they get caught in the cross�re
of a massive con�ict.
Cut Through The Sun stands in the tradition of
H.G. Wells, Stanisław Lem and Arno Schmidt.
An adventurous, philosophical and political
novel that poses the most pressing questions
of our time.
DIETMAR DATH, born in 1970, is a writer, translator,
musician and publisher. His novel The Abolition of the
Species just missed receiving the German Book Prize in
2008 by a whisker, but went on to receive the Kurd Laß-
witz Prize, as did his 2013 novel Pulsar Nights. In 2015,
FISCHER Tor published a new version of his novel Venus
Conquered.
368 pp., HardcoverAugust 24, 2017S. Fischer Verlag
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DIETMAR DATHCut through the Sun
ROLAND SCHIMMELPFENNIGThe Language of the Rain
What will become of our dreams? A novel about love and protest
A city made of iron and steel, of pipes, corri-
dors and stairs, which is drifting out to sea. A
boy who �ghts his way across the wild steppe
for days on end. The heat, the rain. The ghost of
an old man. A woman who is arrested at home
and repeatedly tells the story of a king: how he
roamed through forests and deserts to forget
his love, and how on his travels, he learnt the
language of the stars and the rain.
In his second novel, Roland Schimmelpfennig
takes all the liberties of narration and sweeps
us off to a world of superstition, hope and
impenetrable bureaucracy. As the stones were
once liquid �re, so the people in this novel are
full of longing and anger.
ROLAND SCHIMMELPFENNIG, born in 1967, is one
of the most-performed playwrights in Germany. His
theatre pieces are performed with great success in
more than 40 countries around the world. His �rst novel
An einem klaren, eiskalten Januarmorgen zu Beginn des 21.
Jahrhunderts, published in 2016, was on the shortlist for
the Leipzig Book Fair Prize.
“A 21st-century Döblin who catapults his protagonists into orbit through the cold.” Der Freitag on Januarmorgen
320 pp., HardcoverAugust 24, 2017S. Fischer Verlag
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REINHOLD MESSNER, born in 1944, is the most famous mountaineer and
adventurer of our time. As an extreme mountain climber, pioneer and ‘Philoso-
pher in Action’, he has constantly set new benchmarks. Messner was the �rst
person to scale all fourteen eight-thousanders, including Mount Everest, which
he was the �rst person to climb alone without additional oxygen (Everest Solo).
In 1989/90, he crossed Antarctica together with Arved Fuchs. As an author and
�lmmaker, Messner now �ghts for the sustained ecological treatment of nature,
running mountain farms and develops his mountain museum, the Messner
Mountain Museum with its various locations.
NARRATIVE NON-FICTION / NATURE 10
320 pp., HardcoverSeptember 21, 2017S. Fischer Verlag
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REINHOLD MESSNER
Wild
The famous Shackleton expedition – told as never before.
In 1914, the British adventurer Frank Wild, together with the famous arctic explorer Ernest Shackleton and 26 men, sets off on the “last trip on earth” – they want to cross Antarc-tica. However, their ship is destroyed by pack ice, they drift northwards on an ice �oe and �nally save themselves onto an island where no one is likely to �nd them. While Shackleton sets off to �nd help, 22 men stay behind under Frank Wild’s command, in constant darkness and bitter cold. By his per-sonality alone, Wild manages to keep the men’s faith in an eventual rescue – throughout an entire Antarctic winter, the worst prison in the world.
“What is it that makes us capable of surviving? I still can’t rationally explain Frank Wild’s art, so I’ll tell his life story instead.”
Reinhold Messner
“Reinhold Messner questions […] the myths of this unique mountain and at the same time tells a deeply human story of ambition and summit happiness, fear and responsibility.”
Abendzeitung on Absturz des Himmels
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FICTION 11
Vintage women’s literature and bold portraits of Europe before the First World WarThe highlight of Annette Kolb’s works are her
three novels: The Specimen (1913), Daphne Herbst
(1928) and The Swing (1934).
We follow Mariclée on her discovery tour
around London (The Specimen), witness the
return of the Herbst family to Munich soci-
ety (Daphne Herbst) and discover the author’s
autobiographic childhood memories in Munich
(The Swing). City- and landscapes as well as the
passionate character portrayals are as vibrant
today as they were back then. Annette Kolb
uses highly poetic prose with an extraordinary
sense of the spirit of the time.
“... a modern novel has been created in the German language the likes of which has never been seen before ...”
Hugo von Hofmannsthal on Daphne Herbst
ANNETTE KOLB (1870 – 1967) was born in Munich to a
renowned garden architect father and a French pianist
mother. In 1933, she immigrated to Paris; in 1941, she
�ed to New York. She spent her last years in Munich.
Amongst others, she was awarded the Fontane Prize,
the Gerhart Hauptmann Prize, the Goethe Prize, Legion
of Honour insignia and membership of the Order Pour
le Merité.
448 pp., PaperbackNovember 23, 2017Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
ANNETTE KOLB The Novels: The Specimen | Daphne Herbst | The Swing
ÁNGEL SANTIESTEBANWolves in the Night16 Stories from Cuba
A powerful discovery from Cuba Cuban writer Ángel Santiesteban unwaveringly
speaks up against despotism and repression.
His stories are interwoven by his own experi-
ences, their spectrum ranges from fantastical
to shockingly real: A �gure disappears from
its novel to escape censorship; a hungry mob
of men set out in the dark of night to steal
the meat of dead cows; in the midst of a lively
party, a soldier is haunted by the memories of
the war in Angola. Santiesteban tells of a dif-
ferent Cuba, far from the postcard idyll and the
seemingly light Caribbean lifestyle.
• Stories from a different Cuba: disturbing, vivid and highly political • Ángel Santiesteban is ‘the’ voice of literary Cuba
“These texts are small rifts in the closed debate. They undermine the Cuban myth.” Carolin Emcke in DIE ZEIT
ÁNGEL SANTIESTEBAN, born in 1966 in Havana, is
Cuba’s literary conscience. For years, he was the most
successful author of his generation and was awarded
all renowned literary accolades. After he began writing
his regime-critical blog, he was repeatedly threatened
and �nally sentenced to imprisonment. Thanks to the
intervention of German Foreign Minister Steinmeier,
he is currently out on probation; however, he is not al-
lowed to publish in Cuba.
272 pp., HardcoverOctober 16, 2017S. Fischer VerlagSample Translation Link
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STORIES | VINTAGE 11
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LITERARY CRITICISM | LITERARY FICTION 12
A philosophical-metaphysical thriller
Michael Aldrian, who worked as a prompter
for the opera for a long time, travels to Venice
in the winter in order to visit his brother who
lives there. He, however, seems to have disap-
peared without a trace, together with his wife.
Aldrian, who was actually planning to write a
travel guide about Venice, begins to search for
them both in the city plagued by �oods. But it
appears that someone wants to stop him. Re-
lentlessly and almost without his involvement,
he is dragged into a scenario in which he is
increasingly no longer spectator but perpetra-
tor. As if in a nightmare, he moves through the
city and dispatches several people who stand
in his way, almost in passing. Has he gone mad
or is it the world?
“Venice has been described as a fairy-tale city often enough. This is only true inso-far as there are not only glorifying fairy tales, but also gruesome ones.”
Gerhard Roth
GERHARD ROTH, born in Graz in 1942, has published
numerous novels, stories, essays and plays, for which
he has received numerous literary prizes.
496 pp., HardcoverSeptember 7, 2017S. Fischer Verlag
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(Ariadne); Das Labyrinth: UK/USA (Ariadne); Die Autobiographie des Albert Einstein: UK/USA (Atlas Press)
GERHARD ROTHThe Odyssey of Michael Aldrian
MARLENE STREERUWITZThe Wondrous in the Inhospitable.
“Time for an outrage!”What has happened since the poetic readings
of the 1990s? The taboos from that era are now
the content of our pleasures. Open and shame-
less action is often taken towards those who do
not demonstrate the required characteristics.
Hospitality is abolished. Nothing is hidden and
yet, lies are often told. Populists and the enter-
tainment industry strive for world domination.
What remains? Art and literature. Marlene
Streeruwitz picks up the trail of the wondrous
that can produce lies but also unmask them.
Amongst other things, she analyses the Walt
Disney �lm Frozen, Ingeborg Bachmann’s novel
Malina, as well as the spectacular performance
art action in the Apple store in Berlin by ‘Hexe
Protektorama’. Central topic is the question of
the role of art in the digital, global and alterna-
tive fact age.
MARLene STReeRuwITz, born in Baden near Vienna,
studied Slavic Languages and art history and began as a
director and author of theatre and radio plays. She has
received numerous awards for her novels, most recently
the Literary Prize of Bremen and the Franz Nabl Prize.
Her novel Die Schmerzmacherin. was on the shortlist for
the German Book Prize in 2011. Recent novels include
Nachkommen. and Yseut., and under the alias Nelia Fehn
Die Reise einer jungen Anarchistin in Griechenland.
128 pp., HardcoverSeptember 21, 2017S. Fischer Verlag
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FICTION | POETRY 13
ROBERT GERNHARDTLittle Gernhardt
Robert Gernhardt himself had the idea for a
book that he wanted to call ‘Little Gernhardt’.
It was meant to be a book like an encyclopedia
– sorted alphabetically according to key words –
where he would recount things about himself
and the world he lived in. Robert Gernhardt
was unable to realise the book himself, but
numerous texts and key words are available,
which show how far he had developed the idea.
Publisher Andrea Stoll has used these materials
and other unpublished texts from the Brunnen-
hefte to realise Gernhardt’s idea. From ‘driving’
to ‘sketching’, it shows us how indispensable
Robert Gernhardt’s humour and self-irony are,
particularly in today’s world. His texts ‘�ight’
and ‘fortress Europe’ demonstrate with incred-
ible topicality how sensitive he was to the time
he lived in and how he perceived changes in
society. A book that is full of surprises. An ideal
introduction into Robert Gernhardt’s world.
• A new Gernhardt book on the anniver- sary of his 80th birthday: composed of previously unpublished texts from the Brunnenhefte
ROBERT GERNHARDT (1937–2006) lived in Frankfurt am
Main and Tuscany as a poet and writer, painter and art-
ist. He received numerous accolades, amongst them the
Heinrich Heine Prize and the Wilhelm Busch Prize. His
extensive work is published by S. Fischer, most recently
Toscana mia (2011) und Hinter der Kurve (2012).
192 pp., HardcoverOctober 26, 2017S. Fischer VerlagEdited by Andrea Stoll
UWE KOLBEPsalms
“Now, the heretic who talks of love”
Psalms are prayers and songs – poetic dia-
logues with God. In his new book, Uwe Kolbe
delves into the grand tradition of biblical
psalms and pulls out all linguistic stops: From
profane to sublime, from lively singing to stut-
tering, from intense gravity to the play with
sounds and forms. It is always about the life in
the here and now in all its wealth: about love
and the beauty of nature, about the magic of
art, but also about emptiness, loneliness and
death. Here, no verse is spoken from the safe
side. This separates Kolbe’s poems from the
old psalmists’ faith in God and makes them so
vivid and close for us today.
UWE KOLBE was born in East Berlin in 1957 and relo-
cated to Hamburg in 1988, where he now lives again
following time in Tübingen and Berlin. He has been
“Poet in Residence” in the US several times since 2007.
S. Fischer Verlag most recently published his book of
poems Lietzenlieder (2012) and Gegenreden (2015), the
novel Die Lüge (2014) as well as the essay Brecht. Rollen-
modell eines Dichters (2016).
80 pp., HardcoverJuly 27, 2017S. Fischer Verlag
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FICTION 14
THOMAS GLAVINIC was born in 1972 in Graz. His �rst novel Carl Haffner’s Love
of the Draw was published in 1998. This was followed by, amongst others, the
novels: The Camera Killer, Pull Yourself Together and Night Work. He most recently
wrote The Great Wonder and The Jonas-Complex. Many of his novels were adapted
for the stage and made into �lms. Thomas Glavinic lives in Vienna and Rome. © G
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160 pp., Paperback / November 23, 2017 / Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
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Together with his girlfriend, the narrator visits friends in the Steiermark region on the Easter weekend. While the media report in minute detail on the double murder of two children that occurred on Good Friday, which the murderer is said to have �lmed with a video camera, the four friends alternate between television and card games, kitchen and discussions. Disgusted and at the same time fascinated by the sensation, they comment on the media’s approach. Meanwhile, outside, in the ‘real’ world, the frantic search for the murderer continues.
“After this book, we know where Glavinic stands: In the �rst row of German-speaking literature.”
Daniel Kehlmann, Literaturen
240 pp., Paperback, November 23, 2017 / Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
Rights sold: ROK (Dulnyouk), SLO (Modrijan)
A man writes a novel. The man is called Thomas Glavinic. The novel is called Night Work and the man wants what everyone wants: Success. He wants a publisher, a prize, and money. What he has is a manuscript, a literary agent, a headache and sadly, mostly unbearable fellow men. And he has a nice friend, who has himself written a novel, whose sales �gures prompt our author’s mother to say: “Why can’t you write something like that?” Using absurd humour, Thomas Glavinic plays a game with reality and its duplication – a rare, unusual reading pleasure.
• Isn’t That Me was on the Shortlist of the German Book Prize 2007 • Glavinic’s works have been translated into more than 20 languages
Isn’t That Me
THOMAS GLAVINIC
The Camera Killer
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Ingeborg Bachmann is a myth, her diva-like stagings, even her death were legendary. But who was Ingeborg Bachmann?
Instead of an overall picture of her life, Ina
Hartwig presents biographical fragments,
which take shape through conversations with
contemporaries – Enzenberger, Walser, Mari-
anne Frisch amongst others – but also through
archive discoveries and site visits. Ina Harwig
discovers Ingeborg Bachmann as a contempo-
rary historical �gure of the post-war order, as a
pro�teer of the transatlantic cultural policy of
the Cold War, which also included a personal
friendship with Henry Kissinger – Ina Hartwig’s
conversation with Kissinger is one of the high-
lights of the book. Ingeborg Bachmann reveals
herself to be a politically thinking intellectual
and media professional; as a personality, who,
despite all her risks, surprises with her wit and
practical worldly cleverness.
INA HARTWIG studied Romance Languages and Ger-
man in Avignon and Berlin. Alongside teaching posts
at the FU Berlin, in St. Louis and Göttingen, she worked
as literary editor for the Frankfurter Rundschau for many
years and has been working as critic, author and juror
since 2010. In 2011, she received the Alfred Kerr Prize
for Literary Critic and the Caroline Schlegel Prize from
the City of Jena. In 2015/16, she was a fellow at the Wis-
senschaftskolleg in Berlin. In 2016, Ina Hartwig became
Head of Frankfurt am Main’s Department of Culture.
336 pp., HardcoverSeptember 21, 2017S. Fischer Verlag
The joy of great love – true stories
Great love. The one, true love that you live for
and would die for, which signi�es and gives
meaning to everything. Love – the greatest
power in the universe, if necessary against the
most adverse conditions. The love that every-
one dreams of, as retold in the greatest and
most wonderful �lms and books. They do exist.
They really do exist, the great and true love
stories of this world. Kathrin Werner travelled
many countries and wrote down the twenty
most beautiful love stories that she came
across. She recounts them in a moving, magical
way.
• Modern, direct, touching: An unusual, young voice that goes straight to the heart• A wonderful and thought-provoking book that gives hope
KATHRIn weRneR, born in 1983, is a correspondent for
the Süddeutsche Zeitung in New York. She writes about
business matters for the paper, in particular about the
people behind the numbers. With her sense for unusual
stories and her narrative talent, she gets to the bottom
of the most wonderful feeling in the world: Love.
288 pp., HardcoverSeptember 21, 2017Krüger Verlag
KATHRIN WERNERLove’s Bliss
INA HARTWIGWho was Ingeborg Bachmann?
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JuDITH PInnow
The Imagination of the Tortoise
JuDITH PInnow, born in Tübingen in 1973, works as an actress and television
presenter. Her novels Läuft da was? and Versprich mir, dass es großartig wird were
published by Krüger Verlag. She writes in a construction trailer in her garden
and is working on her fourth novel, another adult fairy tale.
368 pp., HardcoverAugust 24, 2017Krüger Verlag
What happens when a child takes the life of an adult in hand? A wonderfully poetic story about the power of wishes
Edith is in her mid-forties, works for an insurance company and lives alone. Her life is extremely structured by her work and television. Edith cannot stand other people. Until she meets a child called Snow White in her building, who be-gins to play a game with her, setting her tasks. She has to do strange things, but above all, she has to interact with people. Edith and Snow White become a team. Slowly, Edith turns into a woman who likes herself, is proud of her freckles and is able to fall in love and allow someone into her life who she cannot turn down or turn off.
• Following the trend of the modern adult fairy tale • For those who don’t want to forget what wishes can do• For readers of Fredrik Backman and Muriel Barbery
„Sometimes your own life is quite different from what you think when seen from the outside. A tender and clever book that helps to change things.”
Dora Heldt
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CRIME FICTION 17
STEPHAN LUDWIGZorn 7 – Fierce HateThriller
EVA EHLEY / PHILIPP EHLEYSuspicion
Following her much-loved Sylt crime novels, Eva Ehley has now turned to her favourite sub-ject: the precise observation of psychologically unreliable and highly unstable characters.
A night of non-stop dancing in a famous club
in Berlin. A young woman. Jerking lights, ham-
mering rhythm. Total blackout. The next morn-
ing: A murdered taxi driver. On his mobile
phone: numerous pictures of naked breasts.
She still has no recollection of what happened,
but one of the photos shows her breasts. In
fact, she knew the victim much better than
anyone could have anticipated. But when the
crime squad �nd her �ngerprints at the scene
of the crime, she realizes that she only has one
chance: She has to delve into her own dark-
ness …
• eva ehley is well known for her regional crime novels: more than 100 000 sold copies• Psychological thriller for Charlotte Link fans
Following her highly successful Sylt crime series, EVA EHLEY has now brought her son into the team. From
London and Berlin, the two of them have written a nov-
el that will delight not only fans of the Sylt series. When
Eva Ehley is not writing, she likes to spend time in her
garden or travelling. Her son, PHILIPP EHLEY, studied
politics in London and is currently living in Paris.
368 pp., PaperbackSeptember 21, 2017Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
Following his severe injuries received in the
line of duty, Detective Chief Inspector Claudius
Zorn is temporarily on desk duty. But not much
has changed – his colleague and boss, Schroed-
er, is doing the work, while Zorn smokes.
One evening, Zorn catches a young arsonist
red-handed. Crown Prosecutor Frieda Borck
sends the young man to a psychiatrist, who
suggests he join an open therapy group. When
one of the members of the group dies and
other participants are threatened, Schroeder
joins the sessions undercover, in order to �nd
out what’s going on. But soon Schroeder is also
in danger and Zorn has to take immediate ac-
tion …
• Rank #11 on the Spiegel bestseller list for “zorn 6 – Do unto others”• The cult series continues – more than 300 000 books sold in the zorn-series• Prime time television series of zorn’s cases
STEPHAN LUDWIG has worked as a theatre technician,
musician and radio producer. He has three daughters,
a son and no cats. He got into writing through an
unexpected chain of coincidental events. He lives and
smokes in Halle.
448 pp., PaperbackOctober 26, 2017Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
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ARNO STROBEL, born in 1962 in Saarlouis, is one of the most successful Ger-
man thriller authors. All his novels are bestsellers. Before concentrating com-
pletely on writing, he spent many years working for a large German bank in
Luxembourg. Arno Stobel lives near Trier with his family.
384 pp., PaperbackJanuary 11, 2018Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
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ARNO STROBEL
In the Mind of the Murderer – Cold Fear
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An unknown person is breaking into apartments and houses randomly, attacking the residents. When he disappears, he leaves behind a dead body. No one sees him arrive or leave. Above all, nobody knows whether he choses his victims ac-cording to a pattern or by chance. Max Bischoff, the youngest detective of the homicide divi-sion in Düsseldorf, pro�ling expert and passionate runner, starts to investigate and comes across a highly intelligent and particularly dangerous opponent, who appears to be follow-ing a set target. And if he wants to prevent further murders, Max Bischoff has no choice but to play the game – even if he is pushed to the limit of his own mental health.
• over 800 000 Arno Strobel books sold by Fischer, one of the most successful German thriller writers • Rank #3 on the Spiegel bestseller list for volume 1 with Max Bischoff – In the Mind of the Murderer – Scar Tissue
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KLAUS-PETER WOLF is one of the most successful crime writers in Germany.
His Ann Kathrin Klaasen novels are mega bestsellers and regularly appear at the
top of the Spiegel bestseller list. The author lives and works in the East Frisian
town of Norden, in the same neighbourhood as Inspector Ann Kathrin Klaasen.
500 pp., PaperbackFebruary 8, 2018Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
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KLAUS-PETER WOLF
East Frisian Curse The 12th case for Ann Kathrin Klaasen
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A psychopathic perpetrator who wants to destroy the hap-piness of others: Klaus-Peter Wolf depicts the pro�le of a damaged soul in a per�dious and sophisticated manner.
He abducts women, but does not kill them. He doesn’t even demand a ransom. He just sends a package with the victim’s clothes. This causes panic. What does he want? The investiga-tors are clueless. Were the women actually abducted? Or did they run away because they wanted to �ee from their lives? Someone is systematically trying to destroy relationships, and Ann Kathrin Klaasen seems to anticipate what the ab-ductor is up to.
• More than 5 million east Frisian crime novels sold • Series was on the bestseller list for 170 weeks • Renowned television film adaptation with emmy Award winner Christiane Paul in the role of Ann Kathrin Klaasen shown at prime time
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DENNIS EHRHARDT is publisher, radio play creator and author. He wrote the
crime series Sonderberg & Co. and produced the radio drama series Dorian Hunter
and The Elves for Universal Music.
DENNIS EHRHARDT
Sinclair – Dead Zone
460 pp., Trade PaperbackJanuary 25, 2018FISCHER Tor
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The rebirth of a cult �gure
London, December 2017: The Baltimore explodes on a remote dock. One victim on board: Detective Inspector John Sinclair, who at the time of the accident is investigating a serial killer case. Sinclair’s death throws up questions: Was the killer also on board? What did Sinclair discover on The Baltimore? Sinclair’s partner Detective Sergeant Gan Zuko takes up the investigation, together with Sinclair’s replacement Shao Sadako. Inconsistencies mount up, and the boundaries to reality become blurred. All the more so when the two of them realise that John Sinclair is still alive …Sinclair – Dead Zone tells the development history of the ghost hunter – completely new and right from the beginning. Sinclair was never more contemporary, scarier or darker.
• The Ghost Hunter John Sinclair is alongside Perry Rhodan the most successful German dime novel series• For newcomers and all those who want to rediscover John Sinclair • The beginning of a series with several volumes
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DANIEL SCHÖNPFLUG
Comet Years1918: A World on the Cusp
“Daniel Schönp�ug writes in a way that entices the reader to follow him into the incredible year of 1918. He reopens this era with great delicacy, a wonderful eye for detail and huge stylistic ability and allows his readers to rediscover the 20th century on these pages, and also themselves.”
Philipp Blom, Historian and author of the bestseller The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900 – 1914
304 pp., HardcoverSeptember 21, 2017S. Fischer VerlagSample Translation Link
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A marvellously told story of this particular moment, when after the horrors of war, everything seemed possible.
November 1918. The Great War has reduced the old world to rubble; rarely was the fate of humans so open. New possibili-ties and dreams shine brightly, the struggle for the future begins. Cossack Marina Yurlova opposes the revolution in Siberia, Käthe Kollwitz turns her pain into art, Rudolf Höß marches with the Freikorps, Virginia Woolf revolutionises the novel, Walter Gropius wants to change society through architecture and in Paris, the publisher Louise Weiss passionately pro-motes a united Europe.
Daniel Schönp�ug virtuously portrays this unique moment and the years that followed from the perspective of those people who discovered, shaped and experienced them. A brilliantly written landscape covering a very special era that shifts between enthusiasm and disappointment, between euphoria and destruction.
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DANIEL SCHÖNPFLUG, born in 1969, is Professor of History at the Free Univer-
sity in Berlin and Academic Coordinator at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
His specialism is 18th to 20th-century European History. Alongside his work
as an academic, Daniel Schönp�ug has successfully established himself as a
facilitator of historical knowledge to the public. His highly praised biography
Luise von Preußen – Königin der Herzen was on the bestseller list for several weeks.
He is involved with several international television co-productions as author
and co-author and in this way has advanced the genre documentary drama for
historical conveyance.
“The Harlem Hellfighters experienced November 11, 1918 in a camp in the Vosges, where they were enjoying leave after 191 straight days of combat. … As Arthur Little described it in his memoirs, there was no comparison with the lunacy that erupted that day in New York, London or Paris. For Little, peace came as a moment of calm and brightness in which the burden of responsibility he had felt for weeks dropped from his shoulders. The men from Harlem were amused to see how the people of Alsace took to the streets in their traditional rural garb and celebrated liberation from German occupa-tion by drinking great quantities of Riesling. A lieu-tenant colonel named Hayward summed it up best, saying that, after the day Jesus was born, this was the second best day in all of history.”Comet Years, 2017
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AEHAM AHMAD, born in 1988 in Damascus, is part of the Palestinian minority
in Syria and lived in the refugee camp Yarmouk with his family. His musical
talent was fostered from an early age, he learned to play the piano from the age
of 5, and later studied music in Damascus and Homs. Ahmad had to �ee the
country in 2015 and made it to Germany. Meanwhile he lives with his family
in Wiesbaden and gives numerous concerts. He was awarded the �rst Interna-
tional Beethoven Prize for Human Rights in December 2015.
SANDRA HETZL, born in 1980 in Munich, commutes between Beirut and Berlin.
She translates the work of numerous Arabic authors into German. She is also
the brain behind the 10/11-Collective, a lab and mouthpiece for contemporary
Arabic literature.
ARIEL HAUPTMEIER, born in 1969 in Bad Oeynhausen, traveled the world as
a reporter for many years. He worked as an editor for the magazine GEO and
is among the founders of the journalist think tank Reporter-Forum. Today, he is
the editor in chief of Correctiv, a Berlin-based non-pro�t center for independent
journalistic research.
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AEHAM AHMAD
And the Birds Will SingThe Pianist from Yarmouk
“When I started to play, the birds in Syria started singing again.”
A young man is playing the piano in the middle of a bomb-site. He is playing for his neighbours, and above all, for the children to distract them from the atrocities of war. An image iconic for the catastrophe in Syria – but also for the inextrica-ble will of the people to somehow oppose the destruction. His playing reached and touched millions of people around the world via YouTube. Now Aeham Ahmad tells his own story. His sheltered up-bringing in a still peaceful Syria, the beginnings of the rebel-lion and the terrible war, and the life threatening �ight across the Mediterranean to Germany. Time and again, it is his music that has comforted, given courage and literally saved lives.
• Deeply moving testimonial of resistance and faith • Ahmad touches millions of people around the world via YouTube • Insight into Syria’s history
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STeFAn KLeIn, born in 1965 in Munich, is Germany’s most successful science
author. His book The Science of Happiness (2002) was at the top of all German
bestseller lists for more than a year and also made the author known interna-
tionally. This was followed by the much praised All by Chance, The Secret Pulse
of Time, Leonardo’s Legacy: How Da Vinci Reimagined the World and Survival of the
Nicest, Science Book of the Year 2011. His most recent bestseller Träume: Eine
Reise in unsere innere Wirklichkeit, received the Deutsche Lesepreis 2016.
STEFAN KLEIN
Space and the VoidOn the Beauty of the Universe
Why the world is not as it appears – amazing stories about space and time from best-selling author Stefan Klein
Does the void exist? Are space and time just an illusion? Are our minds capable of conceiving space at all? And why are we even on earth? 21st-century physics changes our perspec-tive of the world and ourselves. Stefan Klein relates this in his gripping and at the same time poetic book. Beginning with the blossom of a rose, he traces the beauty of the unknown, when examining the weather; he explains the unpredictabil-ity of the world, and by using a crime story, he helps us visu-alise the true form of space. With great literary feeling, Stefan Klein makes us marvel and takes us on a journey to our real-ity that is quite different from the way we perceive it.
• A new worldview that supersedes the imaginative powers we had to date and invites us to marvel • Best-selling science author Stefan Klein on 21st-century physics
“Stefan Klein has the wonderful gift of swanning between science and poetry across entire books without betraying either of them.”
Deutschlandradio Kultur
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FLORIAN ILLIES, born in 1971, studied art history in Bonn and Oxford and be-
came feature writer of the Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung in 1997; he is also co-
founder and publisher of the art magazine Monopol. Florian Illies is the author
of numerous bestsellers, amongst them Generation Golf (2000) and 1913. The Year
Before The Storm (2012).
208 pp., HardcoverOctober 26, 2017S. Fischer Verlag
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FLORIAN ILLIES
Just a Moment Ago, the Sky Was BlueA Unique Loveletter to Art
Enthusiastic and inspiring like nobody else, the art historian and multiple best-selling author Florian Illies writes about art. Above all, he is fascinated by the painters and the pic-tures themselves. The past can actually be experienced as the present in his texts, under his gaze vivid images in colour emerge, historical �gures become passionately loving and liv-ing people. In his new book that assembles key texts on art and literature from 25 years, Florian Illies portrays his personal heroes from Max Friedlaender to Gottfried Benn and Harry Graf Kessler through to Andy Warhol.
• Best-selling author (1913 is a world bestseller: 650 000 copies sold in Germany; Foreign rights sold to 24 countries)• Manager of “Villa Grisebach” since 2017
“He looks at contemporary art through the screen of his rocket with which he �ies through the art universe, in his gaze, the planets constantly rearrange themselves into new formations, he is brave enough to �y curves and loopings. (…) And something else – and I think that is the most important: He sees everything that we don’t.”
Florian Illies on Julius Meier-Graefe
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REINER STACH (1951) studied philosophy, literature and mathematics. His
monograph Kafka’s Erotic Myth appeared in 1987. In 1999, Stach designed the
exhibition ‘Kafka’s Bride’ where he presented the estate of Felice Bauer, which
he had discovered in the US. Between 2002 and 2014, the individual volumes of
the highly praised three-part Kafka biography were published. Reiner Stach was
awarded the special award of the Heimito von Doderer Literature Prize in 2008.
In 2016, he received the Joseph Breitbach Prize for his outstanding oeuvre in
the �eld of literary biographic.
2500 pp., HardcoverOctober 5, 2017S. Fischer Verlag
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REINER STACH
The Kafka Biography in three volumes + Additional documentary volume
The highly praised three-volume Kafka biography by Reiner Stach is now �nally available in its entirety in a decorative slipcase. With his opus magnum, Reiner Stach is setting new standards in the biographic genre and complementing the work with an additional volume: ‘Kafka from Day to Day’. Here he presents events that took place on each day of Kaf-ka’s life, and shows what happened in his direct surroundings and also on a world political level. The result of decades of work and analysis of an almost in�nite wealth of material – a real treasure. The biography also made a big impression abroad: It was on the bestseller list in Spain, it got fantastic reviews in the US and is nominated for the Plutarch Award.
“Stach’s Kafka biography is the masterpiece of an authori-tative source, who narrates without allures in minute observations in a light and vibrant tone.” Manfred Schneider, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
“A genuine pleasure … an epos, based tightly on facts and research.” Volker Hage, Der Spiegel
“A milestone in German literary history” Andreas Platthaus, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
SLIPCASE CONTENTKafka. The early Years 1883 – 1911Kafka. The Decisive Years 1910 – 1915Kafka. The Years of Discovery 1916 – 1924Kafka from Day to Day. Documentation of all letters, diaries and eventsHistoric city plan of Prague (foldable)
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A journey to hidden France, a glance into the chambre separée of Germany’s closest ally
Those wanting to get a comprehensive impres-
sion of the state and possibilities of French
society will need to stray from the straight and
narrow. Nils Minkmar, one of the most well
informed experts on the country, takes us on
a journey to the hidden France. With the gaze
and tools of an anthropologist, he explores
the private, often anarchistic lifestyle of the
French, their sceptical gaze upon the world –
both almost incalculable sources of creativity,
from which other countries could learn a fair
amount. He encounters central cultural and
political �gures such as Bernard-Henry Lévy,
Michel Houellebecq and Patrick Modiano, the
philosopher Cynthia Fleury and the Mayor of
Paris Anne Hidalgo. And he completes the list
with gastronomic insider tips, using them to
�nd his way to the hopes and also the prob-
lems of modern-day France.
NILS MINKMAR, born in 1966 in Saarbrücken, holds a
German and a French passport. While studying at the
Universität des Saarlandes, he acted as Head of the Stu-
dent Union for two semesters. He has been a features
editor with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
since 2001, and Head Features Editor of the Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung since 2012. In 2012, Nils Minkmar be-
came Culture Journalist of the Year. He has been writing
for the Spiegel since 2015.
208 pp., HardcoverOctober 5, 2017S. Fischer Verlag
NILS MINKMARHidden FranceStories From a Free Country
KARL HEINZ GÖTZEWhat Happened to My Heimat When I Was Away for a Long Time
Precise and unsentimental, with extremely clever observations of how Germany has changed over the last 40 years
As a young man, Karl Heinz Götze left the prov-
inces of Hesse to go and study in France, for him
a land of promises. He returns after 37 years,
meanwhile a retired professor, back to the
memories of his childhood and youth, in order
to confront the rediscovered with what is now.
How have the lives of the formerly poor fami-
lies changed? How has the relationship to chil-
dren, how have childhoods changed? What was
the situation with religion and what is it now?
Has the landscape changed?
Karl Heinz Götze looks unsentimentally at the
place we call Heimat; somewhere that cannot
be swapped or replaced, which is necessary but
which we must not necessarily go back to for
there to be occasional happiness.
KARL HEINZ GÖTZE, born in 1947 in Hofgeismar, was
Professor for German Literature and Civilisation at the
University of Aix-en-Provence. He published books on
German Philology, on Böll, Koeppen and Weiss, about
modern day France and French cuisine. S. Fischer most
recently published French Affairs and Les Chefs.
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Who is when and why considered a victim – and what are the effects of these attributions?Victims of war and violence are omnipresent in
the media, whether as images of mutilated sol-
diers, of terri�ed children or suffering civilians.
But the image of the victim as seen in present
days is new. Historian Svenja Goltermann de-
scribes what has evolved since the 18th cen-
tury: Losses were counted, the dead identi�ed,
the war supposed to be humanised, war-dis-
abled provided for, survivors and dependents
compensated. And so over time it was de�ned,
who was considered a victim, right up to the
discovery of the trauma as an emotional scar.
However, victim recognition remains a ques-
tion of hierarchy and power – and therefore an
eminent political problem.
• An important contribution to the current debate on the victim within the context of terror and war
SVenJA GoLTeRMAnn, born in 1965, is Professor of
Modern History at the University of Zurich and Director
of the ‘Centre for History of Knowledge’ there. Her book
Society of Survivors. German Soldiers and their Experience of
Violence in the Second World War was published in 2009
and received many accolades, amongst others, the re-
nowned Historian Prize (2008) and Historical Book 2010
from the magazine Damals.
224 pp., HardcoverNovember 23, 2017S. Fischer Verlag
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SVenJA GoLTeRMAnnVictimsThe Perception of War and Violence in Modern Times
KURT BAUERThe Dark Years: Politics and Daily Life in National- Socialist Austria 1938 to 1945
Austria, 1938: Jubilant citizens welcome Hit-
ler. Well known images – but who were these
people, what did they really think and what
came next for them? The Viennese historian
Kurt Bauer has bundled together innumer-
able diaries, autobiographies and letters to a
breathtakingly real story. He relates why social
democrats became Nazis, portrays the moving
fates of people who had to �ee persecution,
and allows farmers to speak who had their
own thoughts on the matter. A unique story
about the entire Austrian population during
the National Socialist era – taking into account
forms of resistance but also the participation in
violence and murder.
• A major story about Austria’s ‘brown’ years• Based on numerous contemporary witness reports such as diaries, auto - biographies and letters
KURT BAUER, born in 1961, is a historian and has a PhD
from the University of Vienna. In 2003, he received the
Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book. In 2014, his
much acclaimed book Hitler’s Second Putsch. Dollfuss, the
Nazis and the 25th July 1934 was published.
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Humiliation PoliticsScenes of Power and Impotence
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UTE FREVERT, born in 1954, is considered one of Germany’s most important
historians. She teaches Modern History in Berlin, Konstanz and Bielefeld. She
was a Professor at Yale University from 2003 to 2007, since 2008 she is heading
up the research department ‘History of Emotions’ at the Max-Planck Institut für
Bildungsforschung in Berlin. She was awarded the renowned Leibniz Prize in
1998 by the DFG and in 2016 received The Order of Merit First Class.
The dark side of modernity – humiliation as an instrument of power
There is probably no society that abstains from humiliating people – whether in the raising of children, in criminal law or in diplomatic relations. For example, France 1944, women who had relations with German occupying forces had their hair shaven off. Recently, judges in the US punished citizens, forcing them to proclaim their offence by holding a sign on a busy road. Not least thanks to being pilloried by the media and the Internet, public shaming has become omnipresent. In a brilliant walk through 250 years of history, the well-known historian Ute Frevert demonstrates how humiliations were staged and still are today, and shows: Modernity has not got rid of the pillory, but simply reinvented it. It is not the state doing the humiliating, but society.
• ute Frevert is one of the most renowned German historians • In 2016 she received The order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for going beyond her academic activities in an exceptional manner both in europe and internationally
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ANDREAS BERNARDAccomplices to Police Monitoring Self In The Digital Culture
A noticeable number of practices of self-pres-
entation and self-awareness in the digital age
trace back to methods used in criminology,
psychology or psychiatry. The ‘pro�le’ format
in social networks arose from the ‘psychiatric
pro�le’ of detainees or as ‘suspect pro�les’ of
serial murderers. Self-tracking via smartphone
uses a technology that until ten years ago was
used for electronic tags. And the measuring of
the ‘Quanti�ed Self’ movement records body
currents that once advanced the development
of lie detectors. Andreas Bernard’s book inves-
tigates the irritating question why appliances
and proceedings that until a short while ago
were meant to help catch crooks and lunatics
are now considered vehicles of self-empower-
ment.
• Current topic: Profiles in social networks • All techniques stem from crime prevention
“Bernard ‘writes brilliantly.’ ” Deutschlandfunk
ANDREAS BERNARD, born in 1969 in Munich, writes for
the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and is a Pro-
fessor at the “Center for Digital Cultures” of the Leupha-
na University in Lüneburg. Fischer Verlag most recently
published Kinder machen. Neue Reproduktionstechnologien
und die Ordnung der Familie. Samenspender, Leihmütter,
Künstliche Befruchtung (2014)
as well as Lifted: A Cultural
History of the Elevator (2006).
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The great secrets around the legendary boy king Tutankhamen and the mystery of the burial chamber
Commotion in the Valley of the Kings: In 2015,
the renowned British Egyptologist Nicholas
Reeves made the suggestion that the world
famous and legendary Pharaoh Tutankhamen
is not buried alone in his chamber. There might
possibly be another chamber behind a wall,
which contains his stepmother, the legend-
ary Queen Nefertiti, whose grave has so far
remained undiscovered. The manic search for
evidence begins and leads us back to Tutankha-
men’s short life, which is enshrouded by so
many secrets.
The archaeologist Angelika Franz tells the story
of the mysterious death of Tutankhamen and
his era in a fascinating manner with a lot of
expertise. A gripping trail through the Valley of
the Kings.
• Adventure and science for National Geographic readers
ANGELIKA FRANZ is an archaeologist and passionate
scienti�c journalist. She writes for Spiegel Online, Die Zeit
and Geo. Her most recent publication was the highly
praised book Geköpft und gepfählt. Archäologen auf den
Spuren von Untoten.
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ANGELIKA FRANZTutankhamen Life, Death and Secrets
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MARTIN SEELIgnoring “Hollywood” Film Aesthetics Beyond the Mainstream
Is it possible to ignore Hollywood as a �lm-
maker? And what would that mean aestheti-
cally? In a series of examinations of individual
�lms, Martin Seel investigates philosophical
questions: Is it possible to make a fair war
�lm about how the second Iraq war, the value
system or the grey area between law and
violence as portrayed in �lm, or what a cin-
ema anthology might look like. In powerful
and brilliant analyses of the �lms by Coppola,
Godard, Haneke, Clint Eastwood and Michael
Mann, Seel develops a cinema philosophy in an
aesthetic-ethical manner.
• unusual and philosophical examination of films • Seel is considered the great stylist amongst German philosophers
MARTIN SEEL, born in 1954 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein,
is Professor for Philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. So far, S. Fischer
has published Paradoxien der Erfüllung (2006), Theori-
en (2009), 111 Tugenden, 111 Laster. Eine philosophische
Revue (2011), Die Künste des Kinos (2013) as well as Aktive
Passivität. Über den Spielraum des Denkens, Handelns und
anderer Künste (2014).
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After the huge success of Latte Macchiato – Soci-
ology of Little Things, now comes the follow up:
Light essays about men wearing buns, dark
glasses, lip-gloss or ripped jeans, about com-
ments such as “quite”, “I’m with you on that”
or “yummy”, about directors, the farewell of the
farewell or Jewish humour – effortlessly and
with a delicate touch, Tilman Allert manages to
succinctly distil the societal signi�cance of the
little things in everyday life. This is what sociol-
ogy should be.
“Clever analyses of our modern west European world.”
Ina Boesch, NZZ am Sonntag
TILMAN ALLERT, born in 1947, studied sociology in
Frankfurt, Freiburg and Tübingen. He has been professor
for Sociology and Social Psychology at the Goethe Uni-
versity in Frankfurt since 2000, and lectures as a visiting
professor at the Universities in Ti�is and Eriwan as well
as at the International Psychoanalytical University in
Berlin. He regularly writes for the Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung, Brand Eins or Neue Zürcher Zeitung amongst
others.
288 pp., HardcoverAugust 24, 2017S. Fischer Verlag
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TILMAN ALLERTGreetings From the KitchenSociology of the Little Things
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The current task is: to preserve the achievements of the mod-ern age and at the same time consume a lot less of every-thing. Prominent researchers design speci�c utopias for cities, mobility, economies and the governments of the future. With contributions by Friedrich von Borries, Julia Lohmann, Stephan Rammler, Harald Welzer, Charlotte Hoffmann, Maxim Keller and Frank Graef.
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HARALD weLzeR, born in 1958, is the Director of Futurzwei – Stiftung Zukunfts-
fähigkeit, Professor for Transformation Design at the University of Flensburg.
He also lectures at the University of St Gallen. Fischer Verlag has so far pub-
lished: ›Opa war kein Nazi‹. Nationalsozialismus und Holocaust im Familiengedächtnis
(together with S. Moller und K. Tschuggnall, 2002), Täter. Wie aus ganz normalen
Menschen Massenmörder werden (2005), Soldaten. Protokolle vom Kämpfen, Töten und
Sterben (together with Sönke Neitzel, 2011), Der FUTURZWEI-Zukunftsalmanach
2015/16 (2014), Selbst denken (2013), Autonomie. Eine Verteidigung (together with
Michael Pauen, 2015) and �nally Die smarte Diktatur. Ein Angriff auf unsere Freiheit.
His books have been published in 21 countries.
160 Pp., PaperbackAugust 24, 2017Fischer Taschenbuch VerlagEdited by Harald Welzer
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The Sustainable Republic Outlines of another Modern Age
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we Are the MajorityFor an Open Society128 pp., PaperbackMarch 16, 2017 / Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
Smart DictatorsAttacks on our Liberty320 pp., HardcoverApril 27, 2016 / S. Fischer Verlag Climate warsWhat People Will Be Killed for in the 21st Century336 pp., HardcoverApril 8, 2008 / S. Fischer Verlag
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PHILIPP MÖLLER, born in 1980, is a teacher, best-selling author and devout
atheist. He stands up for a secularised view of life, for humanistic and enlight-
ened values. He was press of�cer of the ‘Godless’ bus campaign and now works
for the Giordano Bruno Foundation. He lives in Berlin with his family.
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Godlessly HappyWhy We Would Be Better Off Without Religion
“The world would be a better place without religion” – says best-selling author Philipp Möller and touches a raw nerve. Five million people have viewed his provocative online de-bate. In Godlessly Happy he explains why religion is far less personal that we always think and why, in actual fact, it should be.
Disrespectful, entertaining and unconventional he makes himself the spokesperson of the atheists – THE debate book for a secularised, humanistic view of life.
• An established Spiegel best-selling author on subjects such as school and education • 500 000 total copies published• Just under 40% of all Germans do not feel affiliated to any religion
“With Philipp Möller, even Jesus would have become an atheist.”
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ANDREAS LEBERT is editor-in-chief of the women’s magazine Brigitte. Both of
his parents were renowned journalists. Best-selling author Benjamin Lebert
(Crazy) is his son.
STEPHAN LEBERT attended the Deutsche Journalistenschule in Munich. He
worked for several renowned newspapers and magazines like the Süddeutsche
Zeitung and Der Spiegel and is now an editor with Die Zeit. He has been awarded
the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize. His best-selling book My Father’s Keeper – Children of
Nazi Leaders has been translated into twelve languages. Andreas and Stephan
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A Heart For Our MotherBruno Reichart, Our Mother and a History of Heart Transplantations
History of medicine – told as thrillingly as a crime novel!
On May 16, 1997, Ursula Lebert’s heart was removed and replaced with a donor heart. The transplant granted the re-nowned journalist a second lease of life.Bruno Reichart carried out the operation. As successor to Christiaan Barnard, he became the ‘Superstar of Transplant Medicine’ and made breath-taking advances during the dif-�cult times of the Apartheid regime. To this day, the heart surgeon �ghts passionately for new groundbreaking methods – and for every single life. In a very unique way, the history of heart transplants is a global history of hope. But it is also a history of fear and dis-appointment, of scoundrels and black sheep, but above all, of heroes. The authors recount of godlike doctors who often achieve superhuman feats. Every second of their work is about life and death, about humanity and the very purpose of our being.
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SASKIA JunGnIKLMy Journey to Life or How I Learnt to Overcome My Fear of Death
A book against the fear that prevents us from living
How many of us, like Saskia Jungnikl, are afraid
of death. Especially since her father died. But
instead of continuing to fear it, she seeks death
out: in morgues, at undertakers, in a hospice.
She searches for traces, learns how religions
deal with death and the question of what
comes after it, she �nds out what philosophers
thought about death and on her journey talks
to a lot of different people – from coroners
to Catholic bishops – to discover more about
death – and yet learns even more about life.
The Austrian author and journalist SASKIA JunGnIKL
(1981) lives and works in Hamburg, Vienna and the
southern Burgenland. She has received numerous
journalist prizes. Her much-noticed book Daddy Shot
Himself was published in 2014. She is a columnist for
the monthly magazine Datum, and her articles regularly
appear in the Austrian pages of the Zeit.
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SVEN GOTTSCHLING / LARS AMENDGetting Rid of PainWhy So Many People Suffer Unne-cessarily And What Really Helps
In our so civilised and high-tech country, a
great many people suffer unimaginable pain
completely unnecessarily. This has to stop!
Says the well-known pain therapist and pal-
liative doctor Sven Gottschling. In coherent lan-
guage, he shows how pain after an operation is
not necessary, how pain sensitivity particularly
in new-borns and the elderly can be taken into
consideration, what one can do against head,
stomach and back ache and how people suf-
fering chronic pain can �nd quick access to an
effective pain therapy.
“We could spare endless people very distressing pain. I am �ghting for it – even against windmills if necessary”
Sven Gottschling, Die Welt
SVEN GOTTSCHLING made it his mission in life to take
sick people’s pain away and give them a better quality
of life. His book Living Right To The End – What Can We
Do For A Good Death from 2016 was a Spiegel bestseller
right from the start. The 45-year old is Head Physician
at the Centre for Palliative Medicine and Children’s Pain
Therapy at the University Clinic Saarland.
LARS AMEND met Sven Gottschling during a television
show covering his Spiegel bestseller This Crazy Heart –
The Courage To Dream und was immediately impressed
by the young doctor. The author lives in Berlin.
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How far would you go to make your parents happy?One evening, Valentin sees a notice in a bar.
Meilin, a Chinese girl wrote it, as she has a
problem: She is an embarrassment to her par-
ents, their only child, in her mid-thirties and
not yet married. Although Valentin actually
lives with Tom, he takes up contact to Meilin.
And the three of them come up with a risky
plan …
As thrilling as a crime novel, their story touch-
es a subject we all now: The certainty of never
being able to really please our parents. A story
of disappointments, expectations, loyalty to
oneself which follows the question how far
can children go in order to make their parents
happy.
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VALENTIN WOLKER is a successful book author, his
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30 countries. When he is not writing, he likes to do
crazy things. He wrote this book under a pseudonym in
order to protect his Chinese in-laws and himself.
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VALENTIN WOLKER“Seeking a Man for My Parents”A Notive In a Bar, a Journey To Chi-na and the Big Questions In Life
BERNHARD FINKBEINER / HAnS-JöRG BReKLe / TABEA MUßGNUGAsk Mum – The Flat Share Book Who Ate My Yoghurt?
Every year, large numbers of new students be-
gin their university studies – most of them also
face another big adventure: Life in a �at share.
And there is no service centre you can call to
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With stories from life in a turbulent �at share,
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BERNHARD FINKBEINER, born in 1983, manages the
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tion issues in Ludwigsburg.
TABEA MUßGnuG, born in 1987, studied art history,
religion and Byzantine archaeology in Heidelberg. She
works on her doctorate in art history.
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From one who moved out to help his frail parents
A call came one day: father has taken a fall –
several broken ribs. Gieseking realises: He has
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in their garden so he can help in the house and
on the farm, but soon realises: The parents are
�tter than expected and he is slower than he
thought. He �nds out: To really help, he has to
get up early!
A very moving and humorous book about
growing up as a grown-up, about one’s parents
growing and being old, about friendship, love
and caring.
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BeRnD GIeSeKInG, born 1958 in Minden/Kutenhausen,
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for the WDR, as well as books. Fischer Taschenbuch has
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BERND GIESEKINGI Used To Only Care For My Motorbike How A Son Bravely Tries To Take Care Of His Elderly Parents
JöRG MAuReRSilent Night, EveryoneThings You Never Would Have Thought About Christmas
Things you most de�nitely didn’t know about Christmas – the unique gift for earthlings and beings from another world
Best-selling author Jörg Maurer goes on the
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Alpine and global things, quaint customs and
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The World of Colouring – Taking Time For Yourself
KATHARINA SCHMIDT
The ‘F’ In Monday Stands For Happiness The Colouring Book With New Sayings Against Frustration In The Of�ce 80 pp., PaperbackOctober 26, 2017Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
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The Big Star Sign Colouring Book In Harmony With The Universe
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Happiness Post 20 Cards To Be Coloured and Given Away
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