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Foreign Rights List

Foreign Rights List
Autumn 2015
Fiction
Novels
Crime
Women’s Fiction
Fantasy/Sci-Fi
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Non-Fiction
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Exclusive Agents
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Foreign Rights Contacts: Ms. Sarah Reinbacher ([email protected]) ▪ Mr. Sven Diedrich ([email protected])
Piper Verlag GmbH ▪ Georgenstr. 4 ▪ 80799 München, Germany ▪ Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-735 ▪ www.piper.de
F i c t i o n ▪ NO v e l
Katharina Hartwell
The Thief in the Night
One afternoon, amidst the shimmering heat, 19-yearold Felix disappears without a trace. Was he abducted?
Or has he turned his back on his family? His mother,
sister and best friend Paul are left behind. Each one
has their own version of the day that tore a gaping hole
in their lives – a hole into which darkness could easily
find its way.
About the Book ▪ Ten years after Felix’s disappearance, Paul suddenly finds himself sitting opposite
his best friend in a basement bar in Prague. Or rather,
one moment Paul is sure it’s really him, and the next
the man no longer bears any resemblance to Felix.
Paul becomes fascinated by him: this man who calls
himself Ira Blixen, moves like Felix, has the same gaze
as Felix and even a birthmark on the same spot on
his wrist. Could it just be a coincidence that Blixen
was pulled out of the river unconscious years ago,
and has no memory of the first twenty years of his
life? Blixen follows Paul to Germany, and a game of
deception unfolds; about loss, identity and longing,
about fear, definitions of reality, and the question of
how to address the empty space left behind after the
disappearance of a loved one.
▪▪ Spiegel Online on The Strange Sea: “A love story
© Tobias Bohm
so grand and beautiful and sad that one really
must try to save it with all means and genres
literature can offer.”
Specifications
▪▪ Berlin Verlag Hardcover
▪▪ August 2015
▪▪ 320 pages
▪▪ World Rights available
▪▪ English Sample Translation available!
Katharina Hartwell, born in Cologne in 1984, read English and American
Studies, graduating with distinction. Her debut novel The Strange Sea was
praised by the public and critics alike. She studied at the Leipzig Institute for
Literature and has been awarded numerous writer’s grants and prizes. The
Thief in the Night is her second novel. She lives in Berlin.
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F i c t i o n ▪ N o v e l
Annette Pehnt
Letters for Charley
Charley has disappeared. But her love for him
hasn’t.
About the Book ▪ Charley is gone, and has been
for a long time. But his life partner hasn’t let him
go. Charley may have left her, but she isn’t even
close to leaving him. He is still her counterpart, her
conversation partner. She thinks for him, collects
things for him, reads out loud to him, writes stories
for him and makes lists. In her letters to him, she
twists and turns the time they spent together,
reevaluating it. She shifts between rage and her sense
of abandonment to nostalgia and longing. And so,
every day, she reinvents Charlie all over again. And
as she writes, her power over her beloved grows: the
narrator alone defines who Charlie was and is. At the
same time, certainties start to slip away for all those
involved: What really happened back then? Annette
Pehnt, the recipient of numerous literary prizes,
presents her new novel which is as emotional as it is
masterful.
▪▪ “Annette Pehnt is a ruthless, yet compassionate
© Peter von Felbert
annalist of intimate feelings.”
from the Jury Statement of the
Solothurn Literature Prize
Specifications
▪▪ Piper Hardcover
▪▪ September 2015
▪▪ 176 pages
Annette Pehnt, born in Cologne in 1967, published her debut novel I Must
Be Off, which received several awards, in 2001. For her novel A Chronicle of
Closeness she won the prestigious Solothurn Literature Prize and the Hermann
Hesse Prize. Annette Pehnt lives in Freiburg with her family.
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Helmut Krausser
Everything is Fine
Is there such a thing as “manipulative music”? Helmut
Krausser picks back up on his recurring theme and
weaves it further to a furious, self-deprecating finale.
About the Book ▪ Marius Brandt is trying to get his
foot in the door in the music industry, but no opera
house director is showing any interest in his neotonal
works, which are intended to give the genre new
societal relevance. Increasingly frustrated and plagued
by murderous fantasies, Brandt stumbles across
some centuries-old, encoded music notes, which he
begins to decipher bit by bit. He builds parts of them
into a performance composition which he names
Everything is Fine. At the debut performance, there
are mysterious fainting fits amongst the audience. One
of the listeners even dies. And before long, he isn’t the
only one. But no one contemplates the possibility that
Brandt’s music could be responsible. And while the
composer himself realises that something peculiar has
made its way into his world that he could use for his
own purposes, he fails to predict the consequences.
He becomes the plaything of dubious characters with
dark intentions.
Specifications
▪▪ August 2015
▪▪ 240 pages
© Susanne Schleyer
Born in Esslingen in 1964, Helmut Krausser writes novels, stories, poetry,
diaries, radio dramas, plays, screenplays and music. He was a night watchman,
newspapers advertiser, singer in a rock’n’roll band and journalist. He studied
Roman Archeology. Several of his novels were adapted into films and translated
into a lot of languages. He lives in Berlin.
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Tilman Spengler
Daredevil Attempt to Stick to the Air
Jörg Immendorff, one of the most important and
talented artists of our time, comes back to life in
this novel. With the precise gaze of the friend and
companion, Tilman Spengler follows the painter,
provocateur, set designer, agitator, art professor and
chancellor portraitist through various stages of his life’s
path.
About the Book ▪ Every juncture, every tableau
in this homage to an artist’s life is also a juncture
in German post-war history. It is about fame, the
new religion of provocation, about attention and
recognition. Is it possible for that to be comedic too?
It certainly is: Mockery, irony and the Great Silent
Laughter in the courtroom are necessary facets of this
enactment. “Because only when one can look at or
listen to or read a work of art without thinking of art,
not even for the fraction of a second, only then can
one truly grasp art”, Tilman Spengler lets his friend
Immendorff claim.
▪▪ “A truly beautiful, tenderly sad, poetical,
inimitable Spengler-text. Congratulations.”
Sten Nadolny
Specifications
▪▪ August 2015
▪▪ 160 pages
Tilman Spengler, born in Oberhausen in 1947, studied Sinology. He is an art connoisseur, documentary
filmmaker and author of numerous books, like Lenin’s Brain and Spinal Discord: One Man’s Wrenching Tale
of Woe in Twenty-Four (Vertebral) Segments. Moreover, he was the editorial director of the cultural journal
Kursbuch for thirty years. He maintained a long friendship with the artist Jörg Immendorff.
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Radek Knapp
The Summit Thief
“Radek Knapp’s heroes could take on the devil
himself.” FAZ
About the Book ▪ Ludwik Wiewurka is the
melancholy one amongst Vienna’s central heating
readers: on his visits to city apartments as an
employee of the company Wasserbrand & Sons, he
doesn’t just take the numerical readings, but also
turns his attention to the moods of the thoroughly
strange inhabitants. Ludwig is Polish by birth, and his
mother’s greatest wish is for him finally to become
an Austrian citizen. A goal which his common sense
strictly warns him against: because when you open a
new door, there’s always another one behind it. But
of course Ludwik is powerless against the will of a
strong woman. Nonetheless, he’s capable of steering
his fate in an auspicious direction. An artful novel
about womanizers and experts in human nature,
about savvy Austrians and Polish wonder boys. Radek
Knapp approaches his astute story with an irresistibly
deft touch.
▪▪ By the author of the highly-praised longseller
© AK/Thomas Lehmann
Herrn Kukas Empfehlungen (Mr. Kuka’s
Recommendations)
Specifications
▪▪ 208 pages
▪▪ World Rights available (except Poland)
Radek Knapp was born in Warsaw in 1964 and lives in Vienna and close to
Warsaw as a writer. In 1994, Franio, a collection of short stories, was awarded
the Aspekte Prize for Literature, a prestigious prize for literary debuts. His
novel Mr. Kuka’s Recommendations has been highly praised by critics and the
public and is one of the most successful longsellers in Piper’s history.
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Michael Bertl
Three for Moscow
Three adventurers with a sack of peanuts on a
journey to a completely unknown country.
About the Book ▪ Who would be so crazy to drive
the 2000 km from Berlin to Moscow in a clapped out
old heap of junk in the spring of 1990 – with a sack
of peanuts and a boot full of wiper blades? The three
adventurers Tom, Spax and Tina plan to do exactly
that, and set off on their adventurous journey through
a country recently aired by the lifting of the Iron
Curtain. One is looking for quick money, the other
merely for the great unknown, and the third in the
gang wants to put her ex-boyfriend to task for stealing
much more than just her heart. Their only tracks are
postcards from the satellite suburbs of the Russian
capital. Michael Bertl’s road novel, with a perfect
sense for chaos, timing and ludicrous situations, is a
vital story of departure, friendship and love.
▪▪ A road novel with perfect timing and an authentic
view of the immediate post-wall era in the Wild
East
Specifications
▪▪ Berlin Verlag Paperback
▪▪ March 2016
▪▪ ca. 224 pages
© Axel Stock
Michael Bertl is the author of several screenplays of German television films.
He was cameraman in thirty feature films and documentaries. Moreover, he
is teaching Art Work/Camera at the German Film and Television Academy
Berlin.
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Heiko Thieß
The Short Straw
About the Book ▪ Timo’s drawn the short straw.
His ex-girlfriend Lena is spending her nights with
his neighbour, of all people – the thin walls leave
him in no doubt about that. Work’s not much better;
his colleagues at the advertising agency range from
neurotic to insane. One thing’s for sure: he needs a
new woman. Preferably just for the night, for a start.
Sadly, appearing as a hot-blooded lover in an advert
for athlete’s foot cream brings him no closer to his
goal. But just as he’s about to abandon all hope, Timo
suddenly realises who his heart really beats for ...
▪▪ For all readers of Tommy Jaud
Specifications
▪▪ Piper Paperback
▪▪ 304 pages
© by www.guntergluecklich.com
Heiko Thieß, born in 1979, is single and lives in Hamburg as an ad writer.
After countless song lyrics, some short stories and a first novel – which nobody
should read in his opinion – The Short Straw is his first published book.
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Christian Kortmann
My Boss the Dog
About the Book ▪ I’m working at Papenburger
now. A dog recently became the boss there. A lateral
recruit. They were searching for ages, and it seems
his profile was the best fit. He wears a grey suit and
waistcoat, no shoes, but cufflinks. Little brown coils
of fur spiral out from beneath his collar. He knows
how to motivate people; in meetings he usually lies
beneath the table with a stack of files and lets us pet
him. Our team works better without interruptions,
the results prove it. His big dream is to go it alone one
day, with a company making dog lemonade. But after
this bad indiscretion, probably nothing will come of
it… a dog as the boss? Yes, read for yourself: a short,
hilarious yet melancholic story about the dog making
our office life human.
▪▪ With illustrations by Andreas Jeutter
Specifications
▪▪ 80 pages
© Andreas Jeutter
Christian Kortmann has published two novels, The Runner (2009) and
The Human Optimum (2012), as well as several essays and reportages. The
illustrations are drawn by Andreas Jeutter who – just like Kortmann – has
experienced countless yappers and biters in his life as an office veteran. When
he does not make sketches during meetings, he dreams of long strolls through
the forest.
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F i c t i o n ▪ c r i m e
Sabine Kornbichler
The Bad Child
The third case for executor Kristina Mahlo: On the
trail of a perfidious crime.
About the Book ▪ A young woman descends into
panic seemingly out of the blue, runs out in front of
a car and dies – a tragic accident, and yet the case
seems strange to executor Kristina Mahlo. What
could have shocked the freelance editor so much from
one second to the next? In the will of the deceased,
Kristina discovers references to an event which
defined every second of the young woman’s life. And
to a merciless killer who seems to be omnipresent.
▪▪ The Kristina Mahlo Series:
The Silence of the Crow The Voice of Oblivion
Specifications
▪▪ October 2015
▪▪ “Gripping!”
© Frieder Kornbichler
Bild am Sonntag on The Silence of the Crow
Sabine Kornbichler, born in 1957, grew up by the North Sea and worked in a PR
agency in Frankfurt before devoting herself fully to her writing. Her first novel,
Klara’s House, was a great success. She has been nominated for the Friedrich
Glauser Prize for The Silence of the Crow, her first crime novel featuring
executor Kristina Mahlo. Kornbichler lives and works in Munich.
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f i c t i o n ▪ c r i m e
Connie Roters
The Grave in the Snow
An atmospherically dense city thriller with an
unusual team of investigators.
About the Book ▪ Wintertime in Berlin. A young
woman is found dead in a community garden. She
was the assistant of a well-known TV host, and,
it seems, also the lover of his competitor. Did she
become the victim of the intrigue and vanities of
the TV and film industry? Why was the corpse so
carefully and conspicuously positioned? During
their investigations into the deceased’s social circle,
Inspector Breschnow and his team stumble into a web
of lies and silence. When a second victim is found
dead in the snow with her wrists slashed open, one
thing becomes clear: The case goes deeper than they
originally thought, and eventually leads the team to
an unpunished crime from the past …
▪▪ Curmudgeon, heavy drinker, hobby poet –
Inspector Breschnow investigates
Specifications
▪▪ Berlin Verlag Paperback
▪▪ November 2015
© Andrea Hansen
Connie Roters, born in 1958, worked in PR and theatre and wrote for the
German newspapers taz and Tagesspiegel. She teaches Creative Writing and
initiated various reading events. Her debut novel was published by Emons in
2014. Connie Roters lives in Berlin.
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f i c t i o n ▪ w o m e n ’ s f i c t i o n
Bettina Storks
The Voices over the Sea
“The land at the end of the world” – that’s how the
Bretons refer to their home. It’s not easy for outsiders
here, even if, like Morgane, they have a Breton mother
and have recently inherited a debt-ridden little house
on the coast – including a quirky old co-habitant. But
Morgane feels very intently that, with her half-Breton
heart, she belongs here in Finistère.
© Alexandra Stehle
About the Book ▪ What the half-French translator
Morgane actually intended to do was sell the little
house she’d inherited as quickly as possible and go
back to Germany. But along with the house she has also
inherited debts – and old Paulette, to whom Morgane’s
aunt had allegedly assured lifelong inhabitance. But
Morgane notices on the very first day that this raw,
beautiful landscape has unleashed something within
her, and the Breton world of mythology also seems
to be telling its story. No wonder: Her mother grew
up close by, and this is also where she lost her life in
a mysterious swimming accident. Morgane stays and
decides to fight: for her house, her independence and
to find out the truth about her mother’s death. She
finds friends and loses a love. She find answers and
risks losing her belief in her dream. But Morgane has
inherited the Breton stubbornness too …
Specifications
▪▪ Bloomsbury Berlin Hardcover
▪▪ October 2015
Bettina Storks, born in 1960, lives on the shore of Lake Constance. She studied
German Philology and Cultural Studies and afterwards worked as a journalist
for several years. In 2007, she started writing novels and in 2008, she was
granted a scholarship by the society of German authors Baden-Württemberg.
The House by the Edge of the Sky was her first novel, published by Bloomsbury
Berlin in 2014.
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Gisa Pauly
The Man is the Problem
A woman, a caravan and a sack full of money make
for a turbulent comedy thriller with charm and
heart.
About the Book ▪ Helene has had enough! When
her husband fulfils his own wish on her birthday
by giving her a caravan she never wanted, it’s the
last straw. She gets into the massive vehicle and
speeds off, without a plan, without a goal, without
any money. But the latter changes when she finds a
small fortune in one of the caravan’s built-in cabinets.
How did Siegfried get his hands on so much money?
Having said that, who cares! There could hardly be
any better basis for a new beginning! Helene begins
an exciting new life for herself in a Tuscan village. But
when Siegfried suddenly turns up on her doorstep,
her Dolce Vita is at risk. Does he really want her back,
as he says, or just his money?
▪▪ 700,000 copies of Gisa Pauly’s Cosy Crime Novels
sold!
Specifications
▪▪ Pendo Paperback
▪▪ 336 pages
© Katharina Petzholdt
Gisa Pauly worked as a teacher for a long time. Today, she lives in Münster and
on the isle of Sylt as a freelance author, journalist and scriptwriter. Her Cosy
Crime novels, set on the isle Sylt, regularly conquer the German bestseller list.
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Janne Schmidt
The Leo Plan
She wants to make her ex-boyfriend jealous with a
self-obsessed macho. The perfect plan, or so she
thinks.
About the Book ▪ Anne has been suffering from
acute heartbreak ever since her boyfriend Leo broke
up with her. Without any reason and completely out
of the blue. But instead of continuing to wallow in her
tears, Anne decides to win him back: by making him
jealous.
Mark is an arrogant, self-obsessed, impolite yet
very attractive guy who has made a bet with his
friends that he can make Anne one of his conquests.
He’s the ideal victim for her plan, because he’s just
playing with her feelings and she with his. So nothing
can go wrong. Or can it?
▪▪ Sugar-sweet and heartwarmingly funny
Specifications
▪▪ January 2016
© Privat
Janne Schmidt, born in 1997, lives with her family close to Bremerhaven and
will graduate from high school in 2016. She loves ice hockey and baking for her
family. Besides, she writes wonderful books on Wattpad. Her debut novel The
Leo Plan was on the shortlist of the first Piper Award “erzaehlesuns”, a writing
contest on Wattpad.
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f i c t i o n ▪ fa n tas y / S c i - F i
Andreas Brandhorst
The Ship
About the Book ▪ For thousands of years, the
earth’s intelligent machines have been sending superfast probes to the stars. They are searching for traces
of the Muriah, the only known advanced civilisation
in the Milky Way, who died out long ago. Aiding
in the search are the Mindtalkers, the last mortal
race on earth – only they can project their thoughts
across distances of many light-years and guide the
probes. What they discover, however, is not only the
technological legacy of the Muriah, but an ancient
enemy that has been asleep for a million years, and is
now awake once more.
▪▪ “Andreas Brandhorst is a master when it comes to
creating a whole new universe and filling it with
life.”
Buchwurm
▪▪ “First-class science fiction.”
Phantastik News
Specifications
▪▪ October 2015
▪▪ 544 pages
© Lutz Weil
Andreas Brandhorst, born in northern Germany in 1956, is one of the most
successful science fiction authors of our time. He made his breakthrough with
the Kantaki-series. Since then, spectacular visions of the future combined with a
breathtaking thriller plot became his personal trademark. Andreas Brandhorst
lived in Italy for many years, but has now returned to northern Germany.
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f i c t i o n ▪ fa n tas y / S c i - F i
Tobias O. Meißner
Seven Armies
The final battle of all has begun ...
About the Book ▪ With his bestselling series The
Demons, Tobias O. Meißner wrote his way into the
hearts of fantasy readers. Now his new epic, about a
world shaped by war and dark magic, has begun. After
an overwhelming invasion, a powerful army occupies
the land. Seven armies, formed of the most ruthless,
cold-blooded warriors, are laying waste to towns
and villages. The people buckle beneath the crushing
power of their conquerors – but then, astonishingly,
a group of rebels manages to deliver a serious blow to
one of the armies. It is the beginning of a revolution
– and a titanic war that will plunge everything into
ruin ...
▪▪ Start of a new high fantasy epic
▪▪ Also available: The Demon-Series:
Die Dämonen (The Demons)
Die Dämonen: Freiheit oder Finsternis
(Freedom or Darkness)
Die Dämonen: Am Ende der Zeiten (At the End
of Time)
Specifications
▪▪ 416 pages
Tobias O. Meißner, born in 1967, read Communication and Theatre Studies and lives in Berlin as a freelance
author. He has been named amongst Tomorrow’s 10 Most Important Authors by the German magazine BÜCHER.
Piper published the praised fantasy cycle Under the Sign of the Mammoth, the apocalyptic epic The Demons
and various other novels.
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Non-fiction
Christian Buckard
Moshé Feldenkrais
The Man Behind the Method
The first biography worldwide, including parts of
Feldenkrais’s unpublished autobiography.
The Feldenkrais Method is world famous, but the man
after whom it is named is virtually unknown. Among
his pupils were David Ben-Gurion, Moshé Dayan,
Margaret Mead and Yehudi Menuhin.
© Susanne Schleyer
About the Book ▪ On a cold winter’s night in 1918
the fourteen-year-old Moshé Feldenkrais clambered
up onto a cart in his war-torn Ukrainian hometown
and was taken to Poland by a smuggler. His odyssey
led him to the building sites of Tel Aviv and into
the midst of street fighting with hostile Arabs, to
the Radium Institute of the Joliot-Curies in Paris,
to Blitz-era London and to Churchill’s secret antisubmarine research station in Scotland. Thanks to his
friendship with Jigoro Kano, the inventor of judo, and
an apparently irreparable knee injury, Feldenkrais, a
qualified engineer, discovered what brain researchers
have only recently been able to prove: that the mind
and body are one, that there is a ‘musculature of the
soul’, and that the brain can be influenced through
particular patterns of physical movement. Buckard
tells the fascinating story of the man who discovered
the power of gentle movement to increase awareness.
Today his method helps people – both healthy and ill
– across the world to explore their potential.
Specifications
▪▪ 368 pages
Christian Buckard, a freelance author born in 1962, studied Jewish Studies and
Dutch Philology in Jerusalem, Amsterdam and Berlin. In 2004, he published
the biography of Arthur Koestler; in 2012, he received the German-French
Journalist Award. Christian Buckard lives in Berlin.
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Non-fiction
Ronald Reng
Mrosko’s Talents
The Legendary Life of a Bundesliga Scout
The talent hunter, always on the lookout for the
perfect football player.
About the Book ▪ Lars Mrosko is a footballer
through and through. When an ankle injury forces
him to hang up his boots for good, he refuses to
give up his passion at any price. He becomes a youth
trainer at TeBe Berlin, then a talent scout for St.
Pauli, Wolfsburg and finally for Bayern Munich. He
knows there’s a lot of money at stake when it comes
to finding talent. But it makes no difference to him;
he’s satisfied with a tracksuit in the club’s colours and
recognition from his superiors. Lars Mrosko came
from humble beginnings – growing up in Neukölln,
Berlin, he got by shoplifting until his knowledge of
football catapulted him into the right job at the office
of Felix Magath, who recognised Mrosko’s passion
and believed him when he said that Edin Dzeko
would be the right striker for Wolfsburg …
▪▪ Author of the best-seller A Life Too Short: The
Tragedy of Robert Enke, Winner of the William
Hill Sports Book of the Year
▪▪ Praise for A Life Too Short:
“An intensely moving book that transcends football.” Guardian
Specifications
▪▪ August 2015
▪▪ 416 pages
© Gunnar Knechtel
“Deeply affecting.” Sunday Times
Ronald Reng, born in Frankfurt in 1970, lives in Munich as a sport reporter
and author. He wrote the bestseller The Keeper of Dreams which won the
British Sports Book of the Year Award. His biography of the late goalkeeper
Robert Enke, A Life too short, was on the Spiegel beststeller list for ten weeks
and was highly acclaimed by critics. His last book Matchdays was a Spiegel
bestseller as well, it has been awarded the Football Book of the Year Award.
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Non-fiction
Katja Gloger
Putin’s World
The New Russia, the Ukraine and the West
A new, powerful Russia – a country we understand
less and less – is on the rise. Putin’s empire seems
aggressive and unpredictable. Katja Gloger, a Moscow
correspondent for many years, explores the real causes
of the dangerous confrontation between East and
West.
© Hans-Jürgen Burkard
About the Book ▪ War has returned to Europe.
With the crisis in the Ukraine, twenty-five years after
the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new East–West conflict
has begun, maybe even a new Cold War. Katja Gloger
embarks on an expedition into the new Russia, a
proud, aggrieved and angry nation. She witnessed
first-hand the rise of Vladimir Putin, being the first
Western journalist to accompany him around for
several months. She describes the “Putin System”, the
complicated nexus of power in the Kremlin, and the
interests of the oligarchs. She analyses the imperial
ideology of the “Russian way”, and the strategic
mistakes of the West. She describes the seductive
power of propaganda, the dangerous world of the
Kremlin’s critics and the difficult everyday lives of
the Russian people. Economically weak, the world’s
largest country appears ever more like a colossus with
feet of clay. Is there still a chance to rebuild trust, even
to find common ground?
Specifications
▪▪ October 2015
Katja Gloger, born in 1960, studied Russian History, Politics and Slavic Studies.
In the early 1990s, she experienced the collapse of the Soviet Union in Moscow.
She interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev as well as Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir
Putin. Today she works as a writer for the news magazine Stern, focusing on
Russia, International Politics and Safety Policy. In 2010, she has been awarded
the Henri Nannen Prize; in 2014, she was named Political Journalist of the Year.
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Non-fiction
Hermann Schäfer
German History in 100 Objects
From the Roman mask to Merkel’s mobile: 2,000
years of German history.
About the Book ▪ What do a suit of armour,
Frederick the Great’s tobacco box and the 1954 World
Cup football have in common? They are five out of a
hundred pieces in a mosaic of German history, silent
witnesses of the past. Hermann Schäfer, one of the
leading lights of the German museum scene, draws
them together in this lavishly presented volume.
Vividly and clearly, he makes the objects speak,
while revealing their astonishing appropriation in
the service of political interests and social upheavals.
Easily accessible for the interested layman, this is a
treasure trove of new discoveries: from a hundred
gripping stories is woven an enormous historical
narrative, a colourful panorama that looks back
across more than two millennia, from prehistoric
times to the very recent past.
Specifications
© Anja Schlamann
Prof. Hermann Schäfer, born in 1942, is a historian and internationally
renowned museum expert as well as founding president of the Foundation
House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany. This museum of
contemporary history which he built up and managed for twenty years has
won numerous awards and prizes. It set new standards in terms of subjects and
exhibition design.
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Non-fiction
Friederike Wißmann
German Music
The definitive work on German music – the reality
and the myths.
© Die Hoffotografen
About the Book ▪ Friederike Wißmann brings
the great tradition alive, from Bach to Stockhausen,
exploring folk songs, hits and dance music as well
as national anthems, football chants, German film
music in Hollywood, and punk, rock and techno.
The renowned musicologist presents a history of
the German mentality when it comes to music, not
only focusing on the lives and works of German
composers and musicians, but also telling the story
of the bourgeois concert, development of musical
forms and significance of German music societies,
of the invention of the orchestra, construction of
instruments and history of music theatre, and of
the world’s biggest heavy metal festival in Wacken,
TV casting shows and the peculiarities of German
sentimental pop songs.
From the divine to the commercial, the defiant to
the controlled, whether social, anthemic or comic –
Friederike Wißmann sketches a unique, multifaceted
and knowledgeable panorama of the German
soundscape.
Specifications
▪▪ 512 pages
Friederike Wissmann, born in Münster in 1973, was Professor for Musicology
at the Conservatory of Vienna from 2013 to 2015. In 2009, she habilitated on the
subject of Handel’s operas. She researches in the field of Music and Literature,
Music in the 20th and 21st Century, Music Theatre and Comparative Arts. She
wrote a highly praised standard work on Hanns Eisler which received a broad
response.
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Non-fiction
Jana Seelig
Minus Feelings
My Life Between Light and Dark
“Just because I have everything I need, it doesn’t
mean I’m fine.”
Jana Seelig writes under #NotJustSad about her
depression, and unleashes a wave of digital emotion.
About the Book ▪ Jana Seelig poured her heart out
online about what it means to be depressed, and in
the process became a strong voice for many sufferers.
In Minus Feelings, she depicts her defeats, her
opportunities, her sadness and her constant battle
against the illness. She writes about what you feel
when you don’t feel anything. And about what it’s like
when you do everything possible to feel absolutely
anything: alcohol, sex, drugs – the attempt to live
as much as possible costs her just as much energy
as explaining the whole thing for non-sufferers. She
writes uncompromisingly and powerfully about
depression, which is a part of her life, but no longer
defines it.
Specifications
▪▪ “Her tweets have become a story about the ill-
ness.”
Zeit online
▪▪ October 2015
© privat
Jana Seelig, born in Gelnhausen in 1988, lives in Berlin as a blogger and
freelance author. In November 2014, she stood in the public’s spotlight when
she talked freely about her depression on Twitter. Since then, she is a regular
guest in radio and TV shows.
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Non-fiction
Rebecca Niazi-Shahabi
To Hell with the Others
Stand Firm and Get More out of Life
Just do what you want! Forget about searching for
the perfect life!
About the Book ▪ Have you ever felt like life is
more exciting and attractive wherever you’re not?
That other people are experiencing more adventures,
happiness and romance? Does your ordinary life
often look rather miserable on Facebook? Well
relax, because from now on you’re finished with that
unpleasant sensation of always wanting the wrong
things. Stop caring about advice that’s difficult to
reconcile with reality, or trying to live up to silly ideals
that are actually completely unattainable. Nobody is
happier, more popular or more spiritual than you are
– and certainly not those who are constantly telling
you what you’re supposed to want.
▪▪ More than 250,000 copies of Rebecca Niazi-
Shahabi’s previous books sold!
Specifications
▪▪ October 2015
© Maiwolf
Rebecca Niazi-Shahabi comes from a German-Israeli-Iranian family and
lives in Berlin. She works as a journalist and ad writer.
23
Non-fiction
Fredy Gareis
100 Grams of Vodka
Searching for Roots in Russia
Three months. Clear across Russia.
Fredy Gareis sets out to track down his family’s roots,
discovering on his road trip from St Petersburg to the
Pacific Coast a land of longing, hope and strange
contrasts.
About the Book ▪ What exactly is the mysterious
Raspberry Lake, where his grandmother spent ten
years in a prison camp under Stalin? Why does his
mother have ‘soda combine’ listed as her place of
birth in her passport? The child of ethnic Germans
from Russia, Fredy Gareis grew up with many
unanswered questions. So at the age of thirty-nine,
he decided to strike out on a journey of discovery
through the enormous eastern land. For three
months, he travelled clear across Russia – in an old
military jeep, by train and by hitchhiking – following
in the footsteps of his family and piecing together the
puzzle of his childhood. He survives vodka binges,
makes wonderful chance acquaintances and tries to
fathom how people in the land of Putin really think
and feel.
Specifications
▪▪ Malik Paperback
▪▪ 256 pages
© Svenja Kleinschmidt
Fredy Gareis, born in Kazakhstan in 1975, came to Germany with his family in 1977. He works as a freelance journalist for Die Zeit, Tagesspiegel and
Deutschlandradio. From 2010 to 2012, he reported from Israel. He has been
awarded the Prize for Journalists of the German Culture Council for his
reportage A Picasso in Palestine. Malik has also published his last book Tel
Aviv – Berlin.
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Non-fiction
Jochen Schmidt
East Germany
Everything you want to know about
In the land that was once the GDR.
For many people the GDR is history, but it lives on in
people and everyday objects. Jochen Schmidt roams
through modern East Germany, explaining the often
surprising remnants of that era with affection and
humour.
About the Book ▪ Do you know what the Burj
Khalifa in Dubai has in common with the Palace
of the Republic in Berlin? Where the Eierschecke
Equator lies? And what landmark the ‘Fit’ bottle is
copying? Jochen Schmidt, raised in the GDR, travels
through the federal states in the East, which are still
new territory for many Germans. Hoping to change
this, he goes to visit an astronautics exhibition in the
home town of the first German in space. He explores
national construction projects like the Rostock
seaport, and searches for the head of a buried statue
of Lenin in Köpenick Forest. He puzzles over the
relics of ‘east-modernism’, appreciates people’s talent
for improvisation and listens to their stories. A wise
and witty guide for all those who want to discover the
East or revel in nostalgia.
Specifications
▪▪ 240 pages
© Tim Jockel
Jochen Schmidt, born in East Berlin in 1970, was co-founder of the weekly
stage readings Chaussee der Enthusiasten in Berlin. For years, the author and
translator has photographically documented the curiosities of the GDR in
everyday life. To commemorate the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall,
he published Over there and over there (with David Wagner). His last book
published by Piper is Everything you want to know about Romania.
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