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Wolfgang Herrndorf’s last novel
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Rowohlt·Berlin | fiction
FICTION
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WOLFGANG HERRNDORF
was born in Hamburg in 1965 and
died in Berlin in 2013. Having studied
to become a painter, his first novel,
In Plüschgewittern, was published in
2002. Other acclaimed novels followed, such as Diesseits des VanAllen-Gürtels (2007), Tschick (2010)
and Sand (2011). A posthumously
published volume of diaries, Work
and Structure, was published in 2013.
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PICTURES OF YOUR TRUE LOVE
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A girl stands in a yard behind a clinic. The gate
opens, and the girl slips out, beginning a journey
through forests, fields, villages and along the motorway. “The stars wander, and so do I.” Her name is
Isa, and Isa is going to meet people – friendly and
mysterious, malevolent and sad. A sailor who might
be a bank robber. An eccentric writer. A dead forestry worker. A lorry driver who has lost his way. On a
rubbish tip she meets two fourteen-year-old boys.
One of them she takes a liking to, the shy blonde
one.
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CHILDREN’S FICTION
"the way that herrndorf tells his stories –
with a language that you get addicted to –
is brilliant." Frankfurter Rundschau
• Herrndorf’s previous novels all became
bestsellers.
• 1.5 million copies of his novel Tschick
(Why We Took the Car) were sold and
rights were sold to 30 countries!
Right up until his death in 2013, Wolfgang Herrndorf
worked on this wonderful novel about the lost, mad
and enchanting Isa, and expressed his wish that it be
published. A romantic journey through days and
nights, unfinished and yet delivering a fully formed
creative vision.
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Why We Took
the Car
Work and
Structure
September 2014
144 pages
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Melle’s forceful, poetic novel about two underdogs.
And about love.
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ANDRÉ KUBICZEK was born in 1969 in Potsdam and lives
JOCHEN DISTELMEYER, musician, composer and poet, was
THOMAS MELLE was born in
as a novelist in Berlin. 2002 saw the publication of his acclaimed
novel Young Talents; The Good and the Bad was published in
2003. His well-received book The Stars Shine Above and a further
novel followed. He was awarded the Candide Prize in 2007.
born in 1967. He is best known as singer of the band Blumfeld,
many of whose albums have been vastly influential on the
German music scene. 2007 saw the beginning of his solo career
as a musician; his last album, Heavy, came out in 2009. He lives
in Berlin. Otis is his first novel.
1975 in Bonn, and is one of the most
important theatre scriptwriters of his
generation. He was nominated for the
translation award at the Leipzig Book
Fair in 2006. His prose debut was
published in 2007, which earned him
the 2008 Bremen Literary Prize. His
award-winning novel Sickster was
published in 2011. Thomas Melle lives
in Berlin.
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THE FABULOUS YEAR OF ANARCHY
OTIS
May 1990: a young couple in their early twenties
move to the East German countryside, to a region
of semi-deserted villages and abandoned farms.
Andreas and Ulrike plan to renovate an old farmhouse in the middle of the Brandenburg plains, to
turn it into a home for their new love, for their lives
together. They are filled with hope, with an optimism bordering on the radical. The future seems as
distant as some bygone age, as do the bourgeois
social structures soon to arrive from the West. The
old GDR is drawing its last; its citizens are friendly,
expectant. March saw the momentous decision to
reunite with West Germany, while the currency
union is to arrive in July. Meanwhile the young couple is building its pastoral Eden. Ulrike’s brother
Arnd – who the two mock for his “apocalyptic”
scowl – stops by now and then with news from the
real world. New businesses are springing up everywhere; the urban wastelands are now home to
used car dealerships. This is the first novel written
about the happiest
period of anarchy in
recent German history. An expertly
told story about the
wonderful, nervous
happiness inherent
in all new beginnings.
What else but lovesickness would drive Tristan
Funke to move to Berlin? While the newspapers are
busy trying to force the president’s resignation, he
is busy writing a book, the personal memoir of an
odyssey. Replete with river nymphs, enchantresses
and messenger gods. People with wings.
The young, elven actress Isa Lamprecht is working
on a film, a glib romance set in Nazi Germany.
Reimar Wellenbrink, an experimental poet, is looking for someone to publish his new volume of poetry. Single parent and bus driver Yilmaz Öczan is
stuck in traffic. While a group of topless feminist
activists is causing a stir in Davos, urban connector
Vicky Krüger is organising a leaving party. And on
her own initiative, fashion photographer Leslie
Ambach decides to set up a meeting with a publisher. Will painter Otto Zaller’s heir decide to publish
Tristan’s book? And what does Otis Weber, drug
addict and programmer with an illegal file-sharing
website have to do with any of this? Maybe the
janitor knows? Otis
signals Distelmeyer’s
switch to a new art
form as the accomplished and selfpossessed author of
a powerful, enthralling novel.
August 2014
256 pages
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January 2015
256 pages
"thomas melle recognises the rifts in our
society, even when they are barely visible."
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
"A juggler of sentences in a laboratory
of words. A virtuoso in every sense of the
word." Die Welt
• Nominated for the German Book
Prize 2014!
• English sample translation available
(also for his debut novel Sickster).
• Recommended by New Books in
German (Goethe Institute).
3,000 EUROS
Denise’s life isn’t exactly going brilliantly. Working at
a discount supermarket, she’s often unable to cope
with her young daughter. Her only consolation is the
utterly unrealistic dream of travelling to New York.
The money she’s promised for her part in a porn film
is, she hopes, going to change everything. Then she
notices Anton, a down and out ex-law student living
in a shelter, heavily in debt and who always seems to
use her checkout. The two slowly, cautiously form a
connection. Denise, angry and indignant, vows to
fight for her rights and for her daughter. Anton is in
dread of his looming personal bankruptcy proceedings, and meets old friends who have had better luck
than he has; he is caught somewhere between hope
and despair, and feels neither. A seemingly impossible, yet endearingly tender love emerges between
these two people. Thomas Melle’s vividly told, artistically captivating story tells of love at society’s margins, of the fragility of human existence in all its tragic beauty. A tender, forceful novel about two people
and what money is really worth.
Sickster
August 2014
208 pages
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MARTIN WALSER was born in 1927 in Wasserburg and now
MAX GOLDT was born in Göttingen in 1958 and currently
LUCY FRICKE, born in Hamburg in 1974, worked for a long
lives in Überlingen by Lake Constance. He has received numerous
awards for his work, among them the Georg Büchner Award and
the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. He has also been decorated with the order “Pour le Mérite” and was appointed
“Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres”.
lives in Berlin. His last books include The Boss Refrains From
Freezing With Ostentation (2012) and A Wife Made From Timber
Offcuts (2010). In 2008 he was awarded both the Hugo Ball Prize
and the famed Kleist Prize.
time in scripts and continuity before studying at the German
Literature Institute in Leipzig. In 2005 she won the Berlin “Open
Mike” Prize, and two years later her first novel Thirst Is Worse
than Homesickness was published. In 2010 she organised the first
Hamburg festival for new literature and music “HAM.LIT”. She
lives in Berlin.
A book about love and its catastrophes, sensuous yet consoling with magical plot twists and
infused with a precise wit. A book to shake the
earth.
WRITING LIFE: THE DIARIES 1979–1981
“Human beings are poets. If they stop being poets,
they stop being human,” notes Martin Walser in his
diary in April 1979. While previous volumes of his
diaries depicted a life in writing, this fourth volume
focuses on the writing part. Walser asserts that life
attains meaning through writing. That writing creates works of beauty that are also truths. And this
volume provides the proof for his daring thesis.
Yet life exists to be lived. And Walser does live, and
experiences life to the full. And only then does he
begin writing. About Woody Allen, Thomas
Bernhard, Heinrich Böll, Hilde Domin, Hans Magnus
Enzensberger, Joachim Fest, Max Frisch, Günter
Grass, Lars Gustafsson, Jürgen Habermas, James
Joyce, Franz Kafka, Gershom Scholem and many
others.
"what martin walser has experienced and
written about here is an adventure that leads
to a great work of literature." Martin Lüdke,
Frankfurter Rundschau
August 2014
672 pages
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MARTIN Z. SCHRÖDER was born in 1967 in Berlin, and is a
trained typesetter who, among other appointments, taught
design in Potsdam. His novel Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen
was published in 2002. He owns a printing business in Berlin.
FEMALE BOSSES IN FLOOR-LENGTH DENIM
SKIRTS
"It’s only a movie," Alfred Hitchcock was fond of
saying when someone, especially himself, had
something bad to say about one of his films. So if a
work of art isn’t completely successful, it isn’t all
that bad. What’s far worse is when you have to
sneeze when you have your mouth full of food, for
example during a state dinner. You hold your hand
in front of your mouth but don’t manage to cover
it completely, resulting in a shower of half-chewed
fish with potatoes flying into the face of the Libyan
ambassador sitting opposite, who already seemed
irritated beforehand. And then to top it all, you
can’t remember on the spur of the moment what
“I’m sorry” is in Arabic.
• An artfully designed book for everyone
who loves funny and outstanding
literary texts.
September 2014
144 pages
THIRST IS WORSE THAN HOMESICKNESS
TAKESHI’S SKIN
"Her youth was now over. And she would have preferred to be alone. Panic gripped her at the mention of the ’group evening.’ Judith hated groups,
group activities, group games; it sounded to her like
a bad diagnosis. I am very sorry, but you have
Group. How did she end up in a home, anyway?
With no drugs, no weapons, just lots of what they
call Help available everywhere you look." Lucy
Fricke’s story tells of the end of youth, an engrossing, dramatic story told with great verve and compassion. Without hope among the hopeless, her
heroine staggers through therapy, casual jobs and
her first true love.
Frida is a sound designer, one of the best there is.
She can invoke pure horror, conjure up a war. She
knows that there are twenty ways to smoke a
cigarette, and that each one sounds different. Yet
someone, she thinks, should cut that annoying
clicking noise out of her hip, the sound of the years
passing by. And if it were up to her, it would all just
carry on, year in year out. Her life with Robert in
their house near the city. But one day Jonas turns
up, a young director. The soundtrack to his apocalyptic new film has inexplicably gone missing. Along
with the sound editor. Frida is to go to Kyoto to
reconstruct the missing soundtrack.
"Lucy Fricke sieves through souls in a way that
is almost uncanny. her language is simple, yet
artistic, and her observations astounding."
Hamburger Abendblatt
Frida accepts, her curiosity awakened, ignorant of
what lies in store. In the land of the talking
machines and Sony recorders. And the challenges
that await aren’t just of the technical, professional
sort. Meeting Takeshi, a young man, threatens to
shake her world to
its
foundations.
And when on 11
March 2011 another, very different
sort of earthquake
strikes, cause and
effect, the internal
and the external,
seem to dissolve
into one another.
November 2014
192 pages
August 2014
208 pages
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HEINZ STRUNK
FRIEDRICH CHRISTIAN DELIUS
DIRK LAUCKE was born in 1982 and grew up in Haale/Saale.
THE STRUNK PRINCIPLE
INVISIBLE LIGHTNING
The multitalented Heinz Strunk has made a name
– of sorts – for himself as an inventor of jokes,
writer of novels, player of music and actor of characters. Now he’s turned to a new career as a professional expert. On everything. Readers of the
satirical magazine Titanic have been delighting
over his column "The Strunk Principle", in which
Heinz Strunk pronounces his
‘expert’ views on literature,
economics, sexuality, pensioners, sport, holidays, illness and much more. A raucous exposition of Strunk’s
dry, deadpan brand of
humour.
Poems
According to the critic Steffen Jacobs, Delius
shows “a sensitivity for the moment that combines an understanding of form and a terseness
of language in a way that is utterly beautiful.”
Friedrich Christian Delius rejects illusion, has cultivated a sharpness of style that is often broken up
by moments of irony. He
often draws on the everyday, the mundane to create poetry. These poems
condense into a bridge
“that leads through the
thicket of the air and onto
a surprising new road.”
He studied psychology in Leipzig and play writing in Berlin.
Laucke received the important Kleist Award for Emerging
Dramatists and was chosen "author of the year" by Theater
Heute in 2007.
HANS RATH Born in 1965, Hans Rath studied philosophy,
German and psychology in Bonn. He lives in Berlin, where he
earns a living among other roles, as a script writer. His trilogy
centring on the fortunes of forty-something Paul – You Do What
You Can, Getting Through It and What More Do You Want? –
was a smash hit. His novel And God Spoke: We need to talk
was also a bestseller.
December 2014
208 pages
February 2015
220 pages
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THOMMIE BAYER
NILS MOHL
THE DEPRIVED AREA CALLED
THE HUMAN HEART
CHECKOUT 53
Three wild young guys, and one beautiful girl: all
in the same lifeboat, paddling away furiously trying to survive the tempestuous white-water ride
called the Swinging Sixties! We follow four people as they swim downstream towards the 1970s
and finally drift into the calmer, placid waters of
the 1980s: a funny, moving story of true love, lasting friendship and the
dreams and complications
of human relationships.
WITH SOCIALIST GREETINGS
SOMETIMES THE DEVIL IS ONLY HUMAN
Hermann F. Odetski has lost touch both with the
world and his son Phillip, about whom he’s constantly worrying. He’ll probably finish school and
then join some government employment scheme,
Hermann frets. Odetski Sr. goes down to his cellar
and gets out the good old Erika, a typewriter, the
cap on whose ‘e’ was broken off years ago. He sits
down to write a letter to someone who will know
what he’s going through: Margot Honecker, wife of
the old East German communist leader, Erich
Honecker. Phillip has never really understood his
father. But he takes on the role of Margot for the
old man’s sake. Through Margot as an intermediary, father and son get closer than they’ve ever
been. Perhaps there will be a happy ending for this
story, after all …
Psychotherapist Jakob Jakobi is visited by a man
named Anton Auerbach one day, who wants to buy
Jakob’s soul. His reasoning is that since Jakob has
met God, his soul is now particularly valuable. But
for who? For the Devil, of course. And that’s exactly who Auerbach purports to be. Jacob is annoyed.
What, he wonders, could be so special about his little practice that it’s the scene for a meeting
between the representatives of the powers of
Heaven and Darkness? Or at least people who think
that’s what they are. Jakob has not the slightest
intention of selling his soul – or of believing
“Tony’s” protestations about his identity. But the
alleged Devil has an ace or two up his sleeve.
Jakob’s life turns slowly into a living hell. Now, more
than ever, he needs God’s support …
• Rath’s previous title sold more than
50,000 copies!
One week in the life of a nameless cashier who
commutes between work at an electronics store
and his flat in a prefab housing block. A novel
about hundreds of possible answers to the question: “Would you like a bag?” About change and
exchanges, about maddening, bizarre and funny
interactions with customers. Nestled in a terse,
compartmentalised narrative style are gems of
observational writing that
reveal a unique view of
the world and its inhabitants.
• More than 150,000
copies sold.
November 2014
320 pages
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January 2015
224 pages
March 2015
192 pages
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256 pages
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The last journey of the legendary Orient Express
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JAN SEGHERS, alias Matthias Altenburg, was born in 1958. A
ANDREAS WINKELMANN was born in 1968; he discov-
BENJAMIN MONFERAT is the
writer, critic and essayist, he lives in Frankfurt. His earlier works
include An All Too Beautiful Girl and The Snow Bride, which have
been made into films with over 20 mio. viewers. He has been
awarded the Offenbach Literature Prize as well as the Burgdorf
Prize for Crime Fiction.
ered his interest in thrilling stories when he was still young.
Blinder Instinkt and Bleicher Tod have become bestsellers. He
lives with his family in a lonely house at the edge of a forest near
Bremen.
pseudonym of a successful German
author. As a writer and historian he
has dedicated himself to working both
with stories and histories. His grandfather’s life was one of the inspirations
for writing A World in Flames: during
the Nazi era he was employed at a
carriage works building luxury train
cars, while secretly and actively
involved in the resistance movement
against Hitler’s regime.
THE STERNTALER CONSPIRACY
THE BREED
In the grey light of dawn in a small rural town,
Süleyman, a young homeless man, sees a motorcycle come off the road and crash. When he goes
through the dead man’s pockets he finds an envelope containing photographs. They are pictures
that shouldn’t even exist. Süleyman believes that he
has stumbled on a way of making some quick
money. He soon realises that his opponents will
stop at nothing to get what they want.
At the same time the body of a woman is found in
a Frankfurt hotel room, killed by a gunshot to the
face. Kommissar Marthaler soon discovers that the
dead woman was a renowned journalist who was
investigating a mysterious conspiracy: the Sterntaler
conspiracy. Marthaler’s fifth case is set in 2008; the
state elections have ended in a hung parliament,
and the planned extension to Frankfurt’s airport –
one of the nation’s biggest building projects since
the end of World War Two – is threatened. With
such huge amounts of money at stake, some interested parties will
stop at nothing …
Five minutes. That was how long Helga let her son
out of her sight. It was a moment of carelessness.
And it was in this instant that her son went missing.
As though chief police inspector Henry Conroy
doesn’t have enough on his plate with this puzzling
case of child abduction on his desk. Now he also
has to deal with a new colleague. Manuela Sperling
is both impertinent and self-assured. But she also
has good instincts. The two officers soon get a new
lead that takes them to an old farm on the border
to the Czech Republic. A farm owned by a breeder
of dogs. Whose dogs need meat, and lots of it.
And their breeder will get it for them, whatever it
takes …
• His first thriller The Water Sprite’s Fury
became a bestseller.
• Rights sold to Italy and Korea.
“Jan seghers
writes the perfect
crime novel.”
Der Tagesspiegel
November 2014
416 pages
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• An opulently told story about the fate
of its protagonists. This is momentous
drama and a great pleasure to read.
• The last Orient Express: a spectacular
setting for a story of electric suspense
and surging emotions.
• 20,000 copies sold within the first week!
• Rights sold to Italy (Newton Compton)
A WORLD IN FLAMES
It is May 1940 and German tanks are pushing inexorably westwards. While the French capital descends
into panic, the last Simplon Orient Express leaves for
Istanbul. Fate has brought these passengers together, each with their own reason that compels them to
get on this last train out of Paris. A Balkan prince is
desperate to regain rule over his country. His Jewish
mistress fears for her love, and for her life. A German
spy wants to protect her at all costs. A Russian prince
is on the run; his Soviet pursuers are hot on his heels.
A famed silent film actress is more afraid of being
forgotten than of the war. The passenger list also
includes agents of all the countries currently
embroiled in this global conflict. And yet no one suspects that the train is carrying something so special
that Hitler has ordered his armies to search Europe
for it.
This journey is ill-starred from its beginning, and
each time the train reaches a border it could mean
the end. Each of its passengers fears the dawning of
the next day. Then a fire breaks out. While Europe
plunges into darkness, this train is racing through
the night like a blazing torch …
January 2015
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FELICITAS MAYALL
SIMON JASPERSEN
BLACK CATS
BEFORE NIGHT COMES
In the middle of a prominent boulevard in the centre of Munich, a large, heavy box is found. Inside
is a corpse, encased in cement. A team of pathologists has to resort to carving out the human
remains for examination. Is this a Mafia killing? Or
is this theatrical spectacle a diversion to throw the
police off the scent? The only thing Laura Gottberg
can do is wait. For the
addressee of this grisly
message to lose their
nerve. A good strategy, as
long as she can manage
to keep hers.
Johann Dalus awakes one night with a jolt; police
officer Mohrfels is demanding that the talented
young psychiatrist come over and examine a suspect in a horrific case that’s been grabbing the
headlines. And time is of the essence: a serial killer has been terrorising Berlin, murdering the
women unlucky enough to cross his path. But
Dalus refuses. Sure, his
ex-patient might have a
bit of a reputation, but
a serial killer? While
Mohrfels’ investigation
falters, Dalus is caught up
in another crisis his sister
Marie suddenly vanishes
without a trace.
STEPHAN M. ROTHER was born in Wittingen in 1968,
studied history and worked for fifteen years as a comedian. For
the last ten years he has been a writer of successful novels, and
also works as a translator. He is married and lives in a house filled
with books and cats near Lüneburg in northern Germany.
KAREN SANDER worked for many years as a translator and
taught at university level before she decided to focus on writing.
She lives with her husband in the Rhineland region of Germany
and is currently working on her doctoral dissertation on the writer
Val McDermid.
A GRAVE WITH YOUR NAME
THEY WHO WON’T LISTEN MUST DIE
At an archaeological site near Hamburg, scientists
make a gruesome discovery: the leader of the excavation team is found dead, her naked body covered
in strange runes. Chief Inspector Jörg Albrecht and
his heavily pregnant colleague Hannah Friedrichs
are assigned to what turns out to be one of their
most difficult cases. The dead woman had evidently
made some powerful enemies, and her team is
riven with conflict. All the clues seem to point to a
mysterious neo-pagan sect. When more corpses are
found on the moors, the pressure to solve the case
mounts quickly. Albrecht realises that the alleged
sect is the perfect scapegoat; meanwhile the real
killer carries on pulling all the strings.
A serial killer is on the loose, brutally torturing
young people to death. His victims are outsiders
with problems at home. Chief Inspector Georg
Stadler asks Liz Montario for assistance; she is a
psychologist and expert on notes sent by serial killers. And this killer seems to want to send messages
of his own, found in the slit throats of his victims,
written on newspaper and then placed in their
gruesome hiding place. Then, Stadler himself
receives a human finger in the post. Before the
investigating team can decipher the messages,
another young girl goes missing …
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384 pages
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ROSE GERDTS
WOLFGANG KAES
CHILDREN OF THORNS
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Elke Sander is the archetypal committed teacher,
and has a special eye on Georgi and his twin sister
Mia, who one day vanishes into thin air. When she
visits the Bulgarian family at their home, she is
horrified at the squalor she finds there, and makes
a shocking discovery. A short time later her husband reports her missing, a few days pass before
she is found: the police
drag her body out of a
local river. The trail leads
investigators
Frank
Steenhoff and Navideh
Petersen into the parallel
world of refugees who
have fled poverty in their
native lands ...
Ellen Rausch hasn’t been back to the countryside of
her childhood for 31 years. A glittering career as a
journalist is cut short when Ellen’s life threatens to
implode. Desperate for a way out, she takes on a
job with the local newspaper. Instead of political
scandals that rock the nation, she’s covering village
fetes and cats caught up trees. Then, an official
announcement is made
that a woman who has
been missing for many
years is to be legally
declared dead. But how
can a person disappear in
a placid little rural backwater like this?
November 2014
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December 2014
384 pages
• The third thriller in the haunting series
with Chief Inspector Albrecht. Already
published: I Am the Lord of Your Fear
and Open Up Your Soul.
April 2015
448 pages
• Rights to the author’s previous
bestseller Come Die with Me were sold
to France (Albin Michel), Italy (Giunti),
the Netherlands (WPG) and Turkey
(Koridor Yayincilik).
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NATASCHA MANSKI
JOHANNA ALBA, JAN CHORIN
HOSANNA!
In a small seaside village, two school students
make a gruesome discovery: a body floating in
the water, almost unrecognisable due to fish
bites. Chief Inspector Tomma Peter is still able to
identify the corpse quickly, however: Nicola
Sencker, marketing manager at the harbour corporation. A hard-nosed careerist, the victim was
adored by men and hated
by women. Everything
seems to point to a crime
passionel. Tomma gets a
new lead in the form of
an anonymous tipoff ...
Christmas has come to Rome, and the smell of
candyfloss and oranges is in the air. Tourists and
locals, for once, are all united in happy expectation of the holiday season. The only person whose
stress levels are sky-rocketing is Pope Peter II; and
it’s not just because of the pontiff’s hectic
December schedule, either. His elder sisters are
more than a little concerned about a Spanish
priest who has unaccountably gone missing. Peter,
of course, can’t resist
investigating the young
man’s puzzling disappearance personally …
HORTENSE ULLRICH worked as a journalist and script writer
before turning her hand to writing novels. Her humorous, quirky
storylines have to date found over three million fans. Her books
have been translated into twenty languages. She is married and
has two adult daughters, lived for eight years with her family in
New York and currently lives in Bremen.
POPPY J. ANDERSON
A BURIAL AT SEA
March 2015
320 pages
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CARSTEN GERMIS
FREDRIKA GERS
SAYONARA, COP!
HIT AND MISS
Bernie’s life as a provincial village policeman isn’t
exactly a whirlwind of excitement. In fact he
spends most of his working days taking it pretty
easy. The highlight of his week is playing cards
with his mates down at his local pub. Until his
boss drops a bombshell: Bernie has been selected
to take part in a year-long training programme –
in Tokyo! The sprawling
Japanese capital instead
of his quiet little backwater: quite a challenge to
the stubborn middle-aged
man who is firmly set in
his ways.
It’s Christmas in the Bavarian Alps: idyllic, romantic… and deadly. The local Christmas tradition in
Berchtesgarten of shooting off old rifles goes
back centuries. But this year, one of the shooters
is himself shot – but how? The ancient muzzleloading guns don’t even fire bullets. The victim,
an orthopaedic surgeon, had so many enemies
that village policeman
Holzhammer
doesn’t
know where to begin his
investigation. And he also
has a guilty conscience, as
the man recently complained to him that someone was after him …
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KEEP BREATHING NORMALLY
Lexi is devastated when instead of settling down
into a peaceful retirement with her, her partner
Karsten leaves her for a younger woman and to
begin a new life in South America. A new life? Two
can play at that game, Lexi thinks. And without
Karsten. As a widow, perhaps? She decides to get
him declared dead and empties his bank accounts.
As a result of a boozy afternoon at a hotel bar she
decides to share her flat – now far too big for her
– with friends. “We’ll start a pensioner’s flatshare!”
she shouts out to anyone who’ll listen, egged on by
the champagne she’s been quaffing. Everyone
agrees enthusiastically, especially the charming
Wolf, a private detective who has a special client
currently residing in South America …
• Entertaining and filled with a
bizarre humor!
TITANS OF LOVE 1: LOVE IN OVERTIME
John is the definition of
the ideal man. So it’s no
surprise when Hanna
falls head over heels in
love with the famous
American football coach.
A media frenzy begins
which looks as though it
will mean the end of the
relationship …
November 2014
352 pages
TITANS OF LOVE 2: TOUCHDOWN
Julian, a wildly talented
and extremely attractive
American football player
one day bumps into his
ex-wife Liv – and the two
instantly feel the fire of
their old connection
burst back into life. If it
wasn’t for a particularly
dark and damaging
secret ...
February 2015
256 pages
TITANS OF LOVE 3: MAKE LOVE AND
PLAY FOOTBALL
Quarterback Brian can’t
believe it when he’s introduced to the new team
boss. No way does this
woman know anything
about American football!
But Teddy isn’t one to let
herself be intimidated.
And soon she and Brian
find themselves flirting …
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rororo | fiction
Polaris | fiction
rororo | fiction
ANNEKE MOHN
ANDREA RUSSO
NONNA LUCIA GOES ON HOLIDAY
When their mutual friend Isa dies, a group of old
friends meet up at Isa’s house to sort through her
possessions. The house with the apple rose hedges they all lived in when they were at university
together. During the day they pack boxes and
clear out old cupboards, in the evening they drink
red wine and chat about life, the universe and
everything. Each of the
women has a secret of
her own which she’d rather not share with the others. On a cold December
day the heating breaks
down and the friends huddle together in front of
the oven in the kitchen …
Julia and Antonio are just about to tie the knot
when Antonio’s grandfather dies. At the funeral,
held near Naples, a black butterfly causes quite a
stir: first it lands on Julia’s shoulder, then on
Marcello, Antonio’s brother. For the widow,
Nonna Lucia, the meaning is obvious: Julia has
chosen the wrong brother! Nonna immediately
decides to accompany the
couple back to Germany.
But the turbulent car journey back is just the start
of Julia’s troubles. Lucia is
determined to force Julia
and Antonio apart, come
what may …
BETTINA WÜNDRICH has had a hugely successful publishing career in a range of roles, including editor-in-chief, writer
and product developer. She has supervised or worked with many
renowned magazine titles and currently advises newspaper and
magazine publishers on the development of new products and
works as a freelance writer. This is her first novel.
CHRISTIAN GASSER, born in 1963, works as a freelance
APPLE ROSE SEASON
HIGH GLOSS
RAKKAUS! (FINNISH FOR LOVE)
Josefine Stern is the editor of a highly successful
fashion mag. Her specialist metier: the latest hairstyles and must-have handbags of the season. Then
tragedy strikes: publisher and mentor Gus passes
away. Suddenly, she and her staff are propelled into
a new era: ‘Digital Transformation’ they’re calling it.
Now it’s all about apps and the internet. Hardheaded Melissa has been installed to manage the
transition, and she’s making sure things are done
by the book. Josefine is finding it difficult to keep
her mind on the job. Her head is full of other things,
like what Martin, a notorious womaniser, is really
after; why her Greek neighbour has started coming
round with pots of soup; how to deal with sagging
skin; not to mention how on earth she’s going to
save her own job … Will she see the catastrophe
that’s looming before it’s too late?
Frank, a Swiss journalist, travels to Finland to discover the secret of the Finnish tango. He meets Kaisa,
and with her discovers a country in which love is
called rakkaus (and feels like it, too) and dancing a
tango expresses a very particular emotion: we’re
happy when we’re sad. Frank visits the Silence
World Cup in Lapland, takes part in the communal
drinking binge called vappu and ruminates on life,
love and the Finns during his many visits to the
sauna. But the harsh Finnish winter is going to put
his new relationship under strain …
March 2015
288 pages
January 2015
352 pages
rororo | fiction
rororo | fiction
FANNY WAGNER, CAROLIN BIRK
SUSANNE FALK
MOSTLY FABULOUS
LOVE IN BLACK AND COLOUR
Success will make you … tired, as it turns out.
Nina thinks she’s finally made it. Her fashion label
is going from strength to strength. It’s not easy to
keep it that way with the local villagers and their,
ahem, idiosyncrasies. To give her more time for
her daughter Marie and her new boyfriend,
Christian, a local carpenter, she hires a young
assistant. He’s quick, reliable – and a real flirt.
Success is sexy! Then
things take a turn for the
worse: Nina’s fashion
emporium gets new competition.
Broke and left in the lurch by her boyfriend, Birgit
decides to move back to the countryside she grew
up in and start afresh. On her first day back she
drives drunk into a fence owned by Sören, her
erstwhile boyfriend as a teenager who has never
stopped hating her for splitting up with him.
When one morning he
finds a zebra standing
between the cows on his
pasture, a corrupt local
official intends to get the
animal destroyed. Birgit
and Sören are suddenly
united ...
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journalist and teaches at a Swiss University. Every summer,
he spends several weeks in the Finnish wilderness. Gasser is
married to a Finn and has two children.
"Rakkaus: this is how Finland and how love
feels – heaven and hell, mostly at the same
time! You do not get the one without the
other; that’s why i love the country and its
people!" Christian Gasser
• The devil wears Prada in Germany too!
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rororo | non-fiction
Kindler | fiction
KERSTIN ENGEL
MIRCO BUCHWITZ, RIKJE STANZE
KATJA DOUBEK, born in 1958, studied literature, history,
ANTS DON’T KISS
PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER, PRINCESS!
Science is Isa’s life. As a biologist (specialised in
ants), she has a deep distrust of emotions. The
primate scientist Dr Ben Breitenbach, on the other
hand, cultivates his image as an adventurer and is
widely known for the effect he has on women.
Fierce competition breaks out between the two
when both are nominated for the same prestigious science prize. The
two meet on a ship on
their way to the awards
ceremony in Norway. Ben
comes up with a cunning
plan: crack Isa’s hard professorial shell to gain a
crucial advantage ...
When she wakes up next to some bloke in a bed
with sheets bearing the logo of a football club, it
dawns on Ina that she’s not going to pull her ideal
man drunk at some bar. And she’s fed up with
daydreaming her way through dull days working
at a call centre, and she’s had enough of talking
to her pillow with a picture of Johnny Depp on it.
Ina decides that she has
to get that big mouth of
hers under control. If not
for the sake of getting Mr
Right, then at least to
snare Mr Not-CompletelyFucking-Wrong …
philosophy and psychology. She has worked as a psychotherapist
and a freelance journalist for German broadcasting, TV and daily
newspapers. She then wrote several non-fiction books, amongst
them biographies on Levi Strauss, Katharina Kepler and August
the Strong.
RICARDA JORDAN was born in Bochum in 1958 and lives
as a freelance author in Spain. Using the pen name Sarah Lark
she writes compelling novels centred on New Zealand and the
Caribbean. When writing under the name Ricarda Jordan, she
immerses her many readers in the colourful world of the Middle
Ages.
DOGGED BY LOVE
THE VIZIER’S GIFT
Bonny and Baldo, two terrier/beagle mongrels are
abandoned somewhere in Southern Italy. Bonny is
found weeks later by Mia, dying of thirst; the halfdead Baldo winds up with Giuseppe, a bar owner.
When later the two dogs happen to meet they are
overjoyed and are soon inseparable. A happy coincidence, too, for Mia and Giuseppe! But Mia has to
return to her native Germany. One day she opens
her door to find Giuseppe standing there with
Baldo; it is the beginning of a wonderful love
story.
The year is 1229, and the Spanish army is laying
siege to the capital of Mallorca, previously conquered by the Moors. The Christians have ignored
the offers of surrender by the Vizier, and the city’s
inhabitants are facing enslavement and death. In
desperation the Moorish ruler sends King Jaume a
special gift, a girl versed in all the arts of love.
Samira, a harem slave, is ostensibly to attempt to
move the king to leniency. But her real mission is to
kill him. Samira believes that she can save her lover
– as it turns out, a bitter fallacy …
• The true story of a heartbreaking love:
tragic, charming and simply wonderful!
• A wonderful Christmas tale from old
Mallorca by the bestselling author!
October 2014
288 pages
rororo | fiction
rororo | fiction
ANDREAS ALTENBURG, HARALD WEHMEIER
DIETMAR BITTRICH (ED.)
BREAKFAST AT STEFANIE’S: LET’S GET OUT
OF HERE!
NO MORE DRINK FOR GRANDDAD!
Steffi, Udo, Herr Ahlers and Grandpa Gehrke win
a holiday at the hotel run by the famous easy listening singer Andrea Berg. They take off in their
VW not suspecting the disaster that awaits. When
old Granddad Gehrke almost starts a fight with a
rocker gang, the four manage to escape – in their
underwear – before finding refuge on a bus of senior citizens on an outing.
But they soon realise that
things aren’t getting any
better ...
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Every year the same old story: wouldn’t Christmas
be idyllic if it wasn’t for the family? Arrogant
uncles, obnoxious aunts, nasty nieces, bevved-up
brothers-in-law… Not to mention those cousins
from some part of your patchwork family you
never even knew you had! Meanwhile, your gran
wants to hear Christmas carols, your parents are
fighting (again!), your sister is off in a huff while
your brother is just about
to throw in the towel and
leave them all to it. The
only consolation is that
things aren’t any better
across the road at your
neighbours’ house.
November 2014
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March 2015
192 pages / illustrated
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Words make people. And shape our world.
rotfuchs | fiction
NILS MOHL was born in 1971, and lives and works in
KATJA REIDER
STEFANIE SCHRAMM, is a
Hamburg. He was awarded the Oldenburger Children’s and
Youth Literature Prize and the German Youth Literature Prize –
among others – for This was Once Native American Territory
in 2012.
AWKWARD ME
freelance science writer and works
for publications including DIE ZEIT,
mare, FAS, NZZ am Sonntag and the
Deutschlandfunk radio station. She
attended the Cologne School of
Journalism and studied economics
and politics.
CLAUDIA WÜSTENHAGEN is
a staff writer with ZEIT Wissen. She
attended the Cologne School of
Journalism, studied economics and
politics at the University of Cologne
and public health at the University
of Auckland.
SHAM
Somewhere in suburbia, four boys have a crazy
idea. One of them is going to dress up as a girl for
the night. They head off to a disco on the edge of
town. Miguel, who is no longer Miguel, starts to
feel comfortable in his new role, especially when he
makes friends with Cindy from the other class in his
year. The amazing Cindy, who most of the boys in
Miguel’s year have a crush on. And thanks to her
ex, what started out as a big joke gets completely
out of control. It’s a long, wild night, a trip across
the suburbs and to the edge of town, full of funny
and bizarre situations that Miguel and his friends
have to deal with, somehow. And in which Miguel
has to ‘man up’ – as a girl. And with each situation,
Miguel finds out a little more about himself …
• An intense coming-of-age novel about
the quest for oneself.
Jule gets embarrassed about pretty much everything. Why can’t she be as self-confident as her
friend Mali? Then Jule gets a present, a little doll
all the way from India: a khushi, a talisman with
supposedly magical powers. All of a sudden,
strange things start happening. Without wanting
to, Jule gets herself elected class representative
and even puts her name
down to perform a solo
routine in the school dance
performance! Things that
Jule would have avoided
like the plague. Does any
of this have anything to
do with the khushi?
February 2015
128 pages / illustrated
rotfuchs | fiction
MARKUS OSTERWALDER
THE NEW ADVENTURES OF BOBO
SIEBENSCHLÄFER
The adorable little Bobo gets up to all sorts of
new adventures: he gets a birthday party, builds a
hideout, helps make breakfast, goes on holiday,
gets a visitor … And at the end of each story he
falls asleep, tired and content.
• Finally: new stories
of bestselling Bobo
in a fresh design!
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Rowohlt | non-fiction
© Baris Guerkan
rotfuchs | fiction
"A powerful agent is the right word.
whenever we come upon one of those
intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as
well as spiritual, and electrically prompt."
Mark Twain
• A captivating, unusual yet highly
accessible book about the power
of language.
THE ALPHABET OF THOUGHT
HOW LANGUAGE FORMS OUR THOUGHTS
AND FEELINGS
Words can console or hurt us, can haunt us for days
or even years. When we read a love letter or are
involved in an argument, we are reminded of the
power of language. Often we aren’t even aware of
its influence. Which is why we are so easily manipulated, for example by advertising. In this revealing,
insightful book, Stefanie Schramm and Claudia
Wüstenhagen show us that language affects our
lives and thoughts in more far-reaching ways than
we realise. It even influences our perceptions and
consciousness, as revealed by the language of an
Aboriginal tribe that has no spatial labels such as “in
front,” “behind,” “right” or “left,” but only directions in the sense of the points of the compass. This
has structured the tribe’s sense of orientation so
that they can always and with complete precision
describe the position of certain places, even at night.
The authors have collected startling results of
research in a diverse spectrum of fields, including
psycholinguistics, psychology, neuroscience and even
economics. They conclude by describing how we can
use the power of words to our own end. It has been
proven, for example, that talking about fear weakens its impact. And it turns out that learning foreign
languages is not only good exercise for the brain but
also reveals new facets of one’s personality.
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Childhood East – Childhood West
Rowohlt·Berlin | non-fiction
WILLI WINKLER was born in 1957. He studied in Munich and
MELVIN LASKY was born in 1920 as the son of Polish Jews
St. Louis and has translated books by John Updike, Anthony
Burgess and Saul Bellow. He worked at Die Zeit and Der Spiegel.
Today, he writes for the Süddeutsche Zeitung. In 2001, he published a book on Bob Dylan, in 2002 another title on Mick Jagger
and the Rolling Stones. He has written numerous articles and
essays on the Red Army Faction and on terrorism.
and was living in New York when he was called up as a combat
historian in 1943. A year later he journeyed through a destroyed
Germany. After the German surrender he was appointed cultural
advisor to the American occupying forces, through which he influenced the development of intellectual life in Berlin. He founded
the magazine Der Monat and became one of the most important
journalists and publishers of the post war era. He died in 2004 in
Berlin. His diaries are edited by Wolfgang Schuller, who was a
friend of the Lasky family for many years.
GERMANY: A WINTER’S JOURNEY
AND EVERYTHING WAS QUIET
It is a remarkable journey of discovery: 800 km on
foot from the rampant atheism of Hamburg in the
north to the entrenched Catholicism of Altötting in
the south. In the winter of 2013/2014, the author
embarked on a pilgrimage which revealed a country, he was astounded to find, that he hardly knew.
He retreated from the world and its goings on for
many weeks, cutting himself off from news about
the global financial crisis, the latest government
announcement, the football results, from everything. Winkler discovered that Germany is still
deeply divided: the Black Madonna of Altötting is
completely unknown in the North; seen from
Valhalla on the Danube in the South, Hamburg
might as well be somewhere beyond the Seven
Mountains of Norway. The author strides through
the Lüneburg Heath and across the erstwhile border to the GDR; visits the cathedral in Halberstadt
and the house in Eisleben in which Martin Luther
died; and trudges through deep snow amidst the
Fichtel mountains.
He meets Lower
Saxons, real Saxons,
Thuringians and
Bavarians, gravediggers, hunters, football fans, forestry
workers and pub
regulars. Most of
them tell him he’s
mad.
“Even as an unbeliever, I felt humble and ashamed
among the ruins of this foreign country,” Melvin
Lasky notes in his diary. He arrives in Germany as a
first lieutenant with the U.S. Army in the last year of
the war, charged with gathering material for a history of the invasion. But what he finds there can’t
be organised into some sanitised, comfortable
account: chaos, rubble, inhumanity. Dumbstruck he
travels through vast stretches of bombed out ruins,
from Alsace to Bavaria, from Kassel to Braunschweig,
until finally reaching the devastated capital. While
sketching out the early stages of the occupation, he
– crucially – listens closely to the people he meets.
It is these voices – the voices of concentration camp
survivors, resistance fighters, Allied soldiers, POWs,
Nazis, people who sheepishly went along with
Hitler’s regime, and those who lost their homes to
Allied bombing – who make up an enthralling, horrific and momentous mosaic of the year 1945.They
make this previously unpublished diary a unique historical account.
Lasky – at once
foreigner, enemy
and friend – is not
only a brilliant
observer and a
meticulous chronicler. He is also a
great storyteller.
This is in many
ways an exceptional journal.
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Rowohlt | non-fiction
JOCHEN SCHMIDT, was born in
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East Berlin in 1970, and has written
novels such as Müller haut uns raus
and Schneckenmühle, as well as volumes of stories in the form of
Triumphgemüse and Meine wichtigsten Körperfunktionen. His other
books include Schmidt liest Proust,
Dudenbrooks and Schmythologie. He
lives in Berlin.
DAVID WAGNER was born in
1971 in Andernach, Germany. His
debut My Evening-Blue Trousers
attracted significant critical attention.
His most recent previous work was
the novel Life. He is a recipient of the
Walter Serner Prize, the Dedalus Prize for Contemporary Literature,
the Georg K. Glaser and other awards. He lives in Berlin.
In this startling, evocative book, two of the best
writers of their generation tell of their own childhood, each telling the other their own story with
great precision and literary flair.
"Jochen schmidt is a gentle, calm magician."
Stern
"David wagner wonderfully balances
melancholy and concision."
Der Tagesspiegel
THE OTHER SIDE
Two Germanys. Two boys, born almost at the same
time. But not in the same country. One grows up in
the West, not far from the West German capital of
Bonn; the other grows up in the East, in Berlin, capital of the GDR. They both play at home, in the garden, between the high-rises or on building sites and
wait for the evening’s TV schedule to begin. They
drive around on bikes with their friends, steal
sweets from their siblings and argue on the back
seat of the family car. They dream of playing in the
national football team, ‘forget’ to do their piano
practice, and are told in school that the world on
the other side is worse.
Life
Four Apples
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Long-awaited: the new Büscher!
Rowohlt·Berlin | non-fiction
Rowohlt | non-fiction
WOLFGANG SANDNER was born in 1942 and was a record
SERGEJ LOCHTHOFEN is a journalist, and was born in 1953
WOLFGANG BÜSCHER. Born in
producer with the renowned Wergo label before moving to the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 1982. He worked there for
almost three decades as a music journalist. He is a professor at
the institute of musical study at the University of Marburg and
has written and edited works on a range of diverse topics including Carl Maria von Weber, Tom Waits and Gidon Kremer. His
acclaimed biography of Miles Davis was published in 2010.
in the Russian town of Vortuka. His parents moved to the GDR
when he was five years old. He attended a Russian school and
later studied journalism in Leipzig. He was editor-in-chief at the
Thüringer Zeitung from 1990 to 2009. He was awarded the accolade ‘Editor-In-Chief of the Year’ by Medium-Magazin, and is a
regular guest on television current affairs panel shows.
1951, Wolfgang Büscher is a writer for
the DIE ZEIT newspaper. He has written numerous award-winning travel
books, including Hartland, Asian
Absences, Germany, A Journey and
Berlin – Moscow: A Journey on Foot.
GREY IN GREY: LIFE IN A DOOMED COUNTRY
Keith Jarrett is one of the most influential musicians
of the 20th century, a jazz visionary and outstanding interpreter of the classical canon, and a master
of improvisation. His legendary Köln Concert from
1975 is still the biggest selling solo jazz album of all
times. Wolfgang Sandner has known Jarrett for
many years; having been a guest at his house, he
had the rare opportunity to get to know the man
behind the music through many long conversations. Little has been known about Jarrett’s biography until now. In this remarkably well researched,
astute yet sensitive book, Sandner picks up the
threads from Jarrett’s childhood when he was
hailed as a wunderkind; relates how he found himself musically while playing with greats like Chet
Baker, Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis; and how he
developed his outstanding talent. Sandner reveals
what formed and inspired Jarrett’s life and musical
works – and which demons Jarrett has had to battle during his long and glittering career.
In the north of Russia, three young lads are fighting
for their lives, caught in a damaged boat on an icy
river. It is the Vorkuta, namesake of a region that is
synonymous with oppression and death. Decades
later, one of the boys stands on the steps of the
cathedral in Erfurt and announces to the assembled
crowd of tens of thousands that his newspaper has
declared itself independent of the seemingly omnipotent party machinery. It is the birth of the first
reform newspaper in the GDR. The author looks
back on his experiences as a German among
Russians, and as a Russian among Germans, his personality shaped by growing up without a sense of
home or belonging. In his inimitably nuanced, erudite style, Lochthofen describes how he came to
East Germany and learnt the language on the
streets; he tells of his life as the only pupil at his
school whose parents were civilians. Running away
from home, he travels to the Crimea to study art,
fleeing back to East Germany to escape being drafted, before being
immersed in the
grim absurdities of
life as a journalist in
the GDR on the staff
of a Communist
Party newspaper.
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"his travel memoirs are among the best
books to have been published in german in
the last few years." Der Spiegel
"there’s a good chance that Büscher will
one day be considered classic travel literature, before even Bruce Chatwin."
Süddeutsche Zeitung
• Büscher’s previous titles were bestsellers
and have been sold to 10 countries.
© Frank Zauritz
KEITH JARRETT
Rowohlt·Berlin | non-fiction
SPRING IN JERUSALEM
Wolfgang Büscher lived for two months in Jerusalem’s
Old City, first in an Arab hostel near the Jaffa Gate,
then in a Greek convent built during the Crusades.
His was only a passing visit, yet he trod paths
steeped in the history of the past two millennia.
Büscher immerses himself in the culture and history
of this unique city. He listens to Jerusalem, records
its scenes and sounds and delves deeper into its
secrets. He spends days in the Arab, the Christian
and the Jewish quarters, imbibing the half-light of
the narrow alleys, the souqs, the Via Dolorosa, the
Wailing Wall and the rooms where the Arab men
drink cardamom-flavoured coffee and smoke shishas. He walks through the Kidron Valley, the
Garden of Gethsemane, wanders over the roofs
above Jerusalem and lets himself be locked in for
one night in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. This
is the unique travel memoir of one spring spent
exploring a city with a profound history and a fascinating present.
Berlin – Moscow:
A Journey on Foot
Germany,
A Journey
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"Say the right thing in the right situation."
rororo | non-fiction
MISHA ANOUK was born in Gibraltar in 1981. He grew up in
JOEY KELLY was born in Spain in 1972 and became famous
the German town of Bielefeld and now lives in Vienna. He is
renowned as someone who has talked publicly of his experiences
with the Jehovah’s Witnesses. His parents were missionaries of
the Watchtower Society, and his father is today still an elder in
the church. His uncle lives and works in the group’s German head
office. Misha Anouk is a respected expert on this subject, and his
blog is read every day by thousands.
as part of the Kelly Family pop band. Beginning their rise to international fame as street musicians, this Irish-American family produced a string of instantly recognisable hit singles. Since then,
Joey Kelly has developed his passion for sport and exploration,
and travels to some of the most secluded places on the globe and
takes part in the world’s most gruelling endurance sports events.
GOODBYE JEHOVAH!
AMERICA FOR SALE
From LA to new York with no money in less
than three weeks, right across the usA
Knocking on strangers’ doors, wearing a suit from
C&A and a clip-on tie and carrying a satchel containing a bible. Saving the souls of unbelievers. And
always terrified that one of the kids from school
might open the door. That was Misha Anouk’s
childhood, growing up in a family of Jehovah’s
Witnesses. By turns wittily acerbic and harrowingly
honest, Misha Anouk’s book shows us what life is
like growing up with ghosts but without Christmas.
It relates his first religious doubts and how, because
of a sin, he finally found the courage to leave the
church.
A rare look into the workings of a group that has
closed itself off to outside influence, and that
reminds us how little we know about the world’s
most famous religious sect.
• The author’s previous title was sold to
Hungary (Animus Kiado).
November 2014
256 pages
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From LA to NY. On foot. Alone. Embarking on this
epic journey with no money or food, Joey Kelly
treks through 15 states from one side of the USA to
the other, and along the way tries to rediscover his
American roots. Sleeping outdoors throughout his
gruelling three-week odyssey, Kelly relies on the
charity of others to pay for his food and travel.
Along the way he tries his hand at hitchhiking, uses
railways and busses, and finds work to pay for a
bicycle and a car. In this highly evocative travel
memoir, Kelly shows us a different side to America.
He meets German tourists, pot-smoking hitchhikers, anti-war patriots and hard-headed truck drivers;
he sees the desperate plight of the homeless and
experiences the proud traditions of Native
Americans. Exceedingly well pitched and infused
with a powerful clarity throughout, this book is a
unique piece of modern travel writing.
October 2014
320 pages / illustrated
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ALEXANDER VON
SCHÖNBURG was born in 1969
and has written for Die Zeit, Vanity
Fair and Vogue, among many others.
He was a journalist with FAZ and
editor-in-chief of Park Avenue. He has
written numerous bestsellers including
In Best Company (2008). He lives with
his family in Berlin.
© Benno Kraehahn
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topics in current affairs and contemporary culture. A
sharp, revealing and elegantly humorous book for
anyone who wants to emerge as a winner from even
the most dire conversational and social situations.
"schönburg’s humour, the seductive
charm of his ideas and his wily cunning all
work towards making us agree with him."
Nürnberger Nachrichten
"this book has changed my life."
Christian Kracht on «Die Kunst des
stilvollen Verarmens»
THE ART OF SMALL TALK
Socrates’ proclamation, “I know that I know nothing” is the single most important philosophical idea
in human history. How right he was! But we can still
come out on top in life, even if we’re not in line for
a Nobel Prize or have an IQ of over 200, as long as
we remember to do one simple yet difficult thing:
say the right thing in the right situation.
• The author’s previous works were
bestsellers.
• Rights for his previous titles were sold
to 12 countries!
With his brilliant wit and rhetorical mastery, socialite
Alexander von Schönburg reveals how to master the
ultimate conversational challenge: small talk. An
expert in all questions of taste and social etiquette,
he implores us to – if we don’t manage anything else
– stick to conversational topics that are appropriate.
After you’ve finished this book you’ll be chatting
nonchalantly about the God particle, throwing about
a couple of witty bon mots about the new Tarantino
film before ruminating with aplomb on the tenets of
Buddhism. This is a charming, witty self help guide in
the art of good conversation, yet also a glossary of
The Art of
Stylish Poverty
Everything You
Ever Wanted to Know
About Royals
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PAUL BRANDENBURG
HANS-DIETER KEMPF
WILLI GERMUND
UWE-CHRISTIAN ARNOLD was born in Berlin in 1944.
THE GERMAN PATIENT
CARING FOR YOUR BACK
KIDNEY FOR SALE?
Phrases like “check it out” or “investigate” are the
sort of thing no patient should say. Ever. Both
phrases reveal their users to be victims of a central
problem of Germany’s communally funded healthcare system: an almost neurotic compulsion to
“be on the safe side.” Doctors, nurses and clinical
personnel have all fallen under its spell, too. It’s
the reason that billions
are spent each year on
superfluous operations,
expensive investigative
procedures, ambulance
transfers and useless medication.
Lower back pain is an ailment that everyone
knows and dreads; when pain strikes, we need
effective help. Written by one of the leading
experts in back problems, this concise reader
shows you what to do to fight pain in your back
or spine. It also contains invaluable advice for little things sufferers can do every day to help prevent acute discomfort
from returning. The comprehensive care concept
is rounded off by a set of
exercises and a functional
workout and relaxation
programme. Just a few
minutes a day are all
that’s required.
The failure of both his kidneys is a massive shock
for Willi Germund, as the waiting lists for a transplant are worryingly long. In desperation he goes
onto the international organ market, looking for a
donor who will sell him what he needs to survive.
But is this drastic step morally justifiable? This
book details his worldwide search, describes his
despair, tells of difficult
negotiations with ‘contacts’ and of Germund’s
worsening physical condition. Until a young African
donor saves his life. A disturbing, moving book that
takes us inside the dark
world of the trade in
human organs.
Having studied medicine he became a specialist in urology, and
ran his own medical practice from 1980 to 2000. He began thinking seriously about euthanasia in the mid-1990s. In 2012 he won
a long and prestigious court case against the supervisory medical
body in Berlin that had tried to ban him from giving a deadly
drug to a female patient who he knew was intending to commit
suicide.
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256 pages
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OTMAR JENNER
CORNELIA KASPAR
JESSICA WAGENER
STOP SMOKING NOW!
THE SIMONTON METHOD
SCARS OF THE HEART
Otmar Jenner was a smoker for many years, but
managed to kick the habit. And if there’s one
thing his experience has taught him, it’s that the
traditional method – of creating fear of illness and
death – doesn’t work in the long term. This book
sets out his spiritually inspired method for permanently breaking out of the spiral of addiction – to
nicotine or anything else,
for that matter. It’s a new
and refreshingly different
approach to combating
one of the most serious
health problems around
today.
Stunned by their distressing diagnosis, many cancer patients fall into a dangerous passivity. But
combating cancer requires a more active outlook.
Easy to learn, the Simonton Method is an excellent way of mobilising the body’s capacity for selfhealing, in turn helping to fight the disease. This
book contains not only a detailed, supportive
two-year health plan that
encourages people with a
serious illness not to give
up hope, but also relates
some very moving and
surprising stories. The
author is the director of
the Simonton Cancer
Center.
Jessica is 31 when cancer begins destroying her
life as well as parts of her body. During her ongoing chemotherapy, she makes a momentous decision: if I survive this, I will stop wasting valuable
time. Jessica embarks on the journey of her life,
experiences New York, parties the night away at
the carnival in Rio, and learns how to surf in South
Africa. At the end of her
journey she finds she has
not only overcome her
fear but also found to herself, and realises she has a
backpack full of memories
that no tumour can ever
take away.
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February 2015
96 pages / illustrated
March 2015
224 pages
December 2014
256 pages
LAST AID: OUR RIGHT TO DIE
Uwe-Christian Arnold is honest about his work.
Especially about the part where he supports people
who end their own lives. In the last 20 years he has
helped hundreds of people who have decided on
voluntary euthanasia. His vocal advocacy of doctors
being allowed to accompany patients through this
process has made him well known in Germany and
beyond. Until now, he has not been prosecuted for
his actions. Under German law, “supporting a suicide” is not a crime in the case of adult patients
who are mentally capable and take the deadly dose
of poison themselves. “Actively assisting a suicide,”
however, is a criminal act. Some conservative politicians want to introduce legislation that would end
this distinction and criminalise both forms. A nationwide debate on the subject seems imminent. UweChristian Arnold sets out his personal standpoint,
using real life cases to illustrate his arguments. The
“right to life” he insists, does not contain an inherent “compulsion to remain alive.”
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JOHANNES HAYERS, FELIX ACHTERWINTER
THOMAS RAAB (ED.)
JUST KIDDING!
I DID SOMETHING AMAZING AND NO ONE
WAS THERE TO SEE IT!
FLORIAN SCHROEDER, born in 1979, studied philosophy
and German in Freiburg. For years, he has been a well-known
cabaret artist in Germany. In his first book Open for Anything –
and Nothing (2011), he gave his generation, one with myriad
possibilities but powerless to make choices, an incisive new voice.
CHRISTIAN ANKOWITSCH was born near Vienna in 1959
and was a staff writer with DIE ZEIT from 1993 to 2001. Today he
lives in Berlin with his family, working as a freelance journalist and
author. He has published many books. Since 2011 he has hosted
the literature programme les.art on Austria’s ORF public broadcaster.
IF ONLY …
WHY EINSTEIN NEVER WORE SOCKS
If you’re hungry, you think more creatively. If you
put on a lab coat, you do things with more care.
And if you put schoolchildren in the front row, you
make them smarter. How we think depends on any
number of details. Here’s Christian Ankowitsch’s
intriguing thesis in a nutshell: we don’t only think
with our heads, but with our whole bodies.
Sometimes, when the little darlings refuse to do
what they’re told and you’ve exhausted all the
‘recommended’ ways of getting your way, it’s
time to get crafty. This book collects some of the
best parenting ideas ever. Take Maria’s daughter,
for example: after replying the tenth time with
"Why?” to a friendly request to please fasten her
seatbelt, Maria resorted
to: “Put your seatbelt on,
or somewhere a unicorn
will die!"
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The world is a pretty confusing place. If there are
26 types of jam to choose from, we’ll buy honey. If
we look for reasons for our decision, we’re suddenly dissatisfied with it. But life is about making choices. In each and every moment. Florian Schroeder is
trying to find out how to be decisive, and on the
way there confronts some of the biggest questions
about our existence, such as: Do we even make
decisions at all? Or is it just instinct taking over? Or
do we make decisions in our heads? Or with our
brains? And what do people do who may have a
head on their shoulders but are less than gifted in
the brain department?
BASTIAN OBERMAYER
JAN-UWE ROGGE, ANGELIKA BARTRAM
• 30,000 copies sold of his previous title
Open for Anything – and Nothing.
DREAMING OF HAPPINESS
DREAM WORLDS: THE POWER OF YOUR
CHILD’S IMAGINATION
January 2015
224 pages / illustrated
Bastian Obermayer is responsible for some of the
most original, insightful reportage of the past
decade. This volume showcases his immense talent, and includes the story of an experienced
manager who has been living on benefits for the
last five years, unable to fund a job; his meeting
with football legend Lothar Matthäus, who puts
the yoghurt pots in his
fridge into a footballing
formation in an attempt
to give his life some structure. A moving and inspiring series of stylistically
accomplished portraits.
April 2015
256 pages
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Your empty yogurt pot can’t hold the weight of
the spoon and falls over; you’re at a restaurant
and someone else gets his food before you even
though you ordered first; you can hear a mosquito but can’t see it anywhere… We’re all too well
acquainted with those minor things that can
cause major irritation.
Thomas Raab collects
these curious little bugbears, the much-vaunted
‘first-world problems’ into
one witty, thoughtful
book.
December 2014
192 pages
illustrated
Children don’t need to have knowledge forced
into their brains at the earliest opportunity; they
think visually, in pictures and images. Their fertile
and creative imagination is a language that parents have often forgotten. But if they can relate in
the right way to these magical powers of fancy
and fantasy – and aren’t
obsessed with intellectual
learning – they can unlock
vast potential for their little ones’ personal growth.
This book shows parents
how to make the most of
the opportunities the
dream world of children
presents.
January 2014
256 pages
November 2014
224 pages / illustrated
Ankowitsch is a successful author and an authority
on how to master the everyday, mundane business
of living. In this fascinating, entertaining and insightful new book, he explains the interdependence of
the body and the mind, which we either don’t
notice at all or if we do, we often underestimate in
its importance. Or did you know that you remember something better when you make an appropriate body movement? Or that we think better of the
people around us if we’re holding a warm cup of
liquid in our hands? Some problems are best
approached by changing the small things: lying on
the floor, putting
different shoes
on, clenching your
fists. Ankowitsch
explores how our
environment and
our sense of our
own bodies influence our thinking
– and shares some
astounding little
tricks.
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JUDITH LUIG
MAX MOOR
MARC BAUMANN
MAREK FIS
ARE WE NEARLY THERE YET?
WHEN MAX’S NAME WAS DIETR
POLISH AND LEGAL
When your best female friend becomes a mother,
things are going to change. For good, probably.
Meeting up is suddenly only possible at ridiculous
times, and at silly places like playgrounds and in
clothes shops. With five nieces and nephews and
six godchildren, Judith Luig is an expert in what
happens to your friendships when your friends
have kids. This warm,
funny book for parents
and non-parents alike tells
the story of Judith’s best
friend and how the two
managed to make their
friendship work, despite
motherhood.
May 1, 1958, little Dietr is born in a Zürich hospital. Popular Swiss maxims will define his notion of
Switzerland: punctuality is the politeness of kings
or the best of the best will become civil servants.
He believes it, too, until a teacher sees elves, two
barefooted brothers try to win the hand of a wellto-do aunt and a local official starts prescribing a
Swiss version of Vaseline
for cows’ udders. What
once seemed a vast country somehow shrinks to a
provincial little pimple on
grandfather’s
globe.
Enjoyable and moving stories by the bestselling
author about his home
country.
A SHADOW OF JUSTICE:
INSIDE THE COURT SYSTEM
December 2014
256 pages
March 2015
256 pages
April 2015
256 pages
When Marek Fis was a boy his father said to him,
“You’re not really Polish.” His parents sent him to
Bavaria. But he didn’t really fit in there; he spoke
better German, for one thing. In this excruciatingly funny, tongue-in-cheek look at national and
ethnic stereotypes, Fis talks about his life as a Pole
among Germans and pokes fun at both sides. His
stories satirize everyday
life in Germany’s more
ethnically mixed regions,
including the supposedly
precarious situation of
the natives, promiscuous
Africans, Turkish street
criminals and Polish drunkards.
March 2015
224 pages / illustrated
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GERHARD HAASE-HINDENBERG
TILLMANN PRÜFER
FIL
ACHIM HAGEMANN
THINKING ABOUT SEX
BRUNO THE HOLY:
MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER AND HIS
UNBELIEVABLY JOURNEY
PEEING STANDING UP
AT THE URINAL
THE POPOLSKIS
What do our sexual phantasies say about the society we live in? Research on this fascinating topic
was pioneered by Nancy Friday in the 1970s, but
what are the erotic dreams of people today? The
author developed a questionnaire and ran ads to
get people to respond – and was inundated with
replies. People from every class and corner of
Germany told him about
their
most
intimate
desires. Assisted by the
sexual behaviour researcher Christoph J. Ahlers, he
assembled the responses
into this startling, fascinating book.
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Marc Baumann was selected in 2008 to become a
lay judge. His task in the five years he spent in the
role was to represent the voice of the people at
trial. As a lay judge he confirmed verdicts in court
that he thought were reasonable at the time, but
that, when talking about his experiences later to
his partner, he found he
was hardly able to justify.
His views on what is just
were often far removed
from those of the presiding judge.
“Once missionary Bruno Gutmann had baptised
him, the tribe’s chief went to nine of his ten wives
and took his leave from them, saying that this was
what God wanted. Bruno rode back to his wooden hut on his donkey and thanked God that he
had found his true home
in Africa.” Tilmann Prüfer
traces the amazing story
of his great-grandfather –
only discovering at the
foot of Mount Kilimanjaro
how exciting his ancestor’s life really was …
March 2015
256 pages / illustrated
Fil, an ex-punk, is a real Berlin original, growing up
on a north Berlin housing estate. In this book, Fil
tackles the subjects of his childhood in a high-rise
housing block; his experiences in the 70s at his
spaceship-like high school; what it was like being
a punk on enemy territory and a wage slave at
McDonald’s; and the
growing pains of a young
lad who isn’t sure which
causes him more headaches: his parents, his
teachers, girls or Fil himself.
January 2015
256 pages
Having drunk 22 glasses of vodka at the church
fete in Pyskowice over 100 years ago, Pjotrek
Popolski composed a little melody. As amazed
musicologists were to discover years later, the
four chords of his song were also incorporated in
90% of all international chart hits. It marked the
beginning of the fantastic – and highly fictional –
story of the Popolski family. Wonderfully whimsical
with a unique, anarchic
brand of humour, Achim
Hagemann’s story writes
the fictional Popolski family into the annals of history.
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WOLFGANG BELTRACCHI, born in Höxter in 1951, is a
painter and counts among the world’s most versatile forgers in the
history of art. He was sentenced to six years in prison following a
spectacular lawsuit against him.
HELENE BELTRACCHI, born near Cologne in 1958, is of
German-Belgian origin. Because of her involvement in her husband’s sale of counterfeit paintings, she was imprisoned for
four years.
DAVID SAFIER, born in 1966, is one of the most successful
authors currently writing in German. The novels Lousy Karma,
Jesus Loves Me, Suddenly Shakespeare, Happy Family and Moo!
have enjoyed combined print runs in the millions in Germany and
abroad. He was awarded the Grimme Prize and an Emmy for his
screenplay for the TV series Berlin, Berlin. His new book shows a
new side to his writing.
SELF PORTRAIT
FOR 28 DAYS
Wolfgang Beltracchi’s story is one of personal
development: born and raised near the Dutch border, he embarked on a trek along the hippy trail
through Paris, Brussels, Spain and Morocco.
Meeting his future wife Helene caused him to
redefine his attitude towards life, his goals and his
opinions.
He had been a painter before meeting Helene and
carried on painting, his “works” showing the influence of a huge range of artists. Unlike other forgers, he could imitate not just three or four painters, but a vast number. His paintings still hang in
museums today and are referenced in catalogues
and art books, and are viewable in collections.
This fact reinvigorates debate about what is “original” and “fake”, a question now imbued with a
fresh sense of urgency. Together they have written
this startling book.
Warsaw, 1942. The 16-year old Mira smuggles
food in order to survive in the Warsaw Ghetto.
When she discovers that the entire Ghetto population is to be deported to concentration camps and
murdered there, she desperately tries to find a
way to save her family. She comes into contact
with a group of young people who are planning
the unthinkable: an uprising against the occupying
forces. Mira joins the resistance fighters who, as it
turns out, can hold out longer against the SS than
anyone had thought. Much longer. For 28 days.
• The thrilling
authobiography
by the forger of
the century.
• 80,000 copies
sold.
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illustrations
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During these 28 days, Mira has to decide where
her heart belongs. To Amos, who wants to take as
many Nazis into the grave with him as he can? Or
to Daniel, who wants to help the orphans in the
bunkers? 28 days in which Mira experiences
moments of great humanity, betrayal, suffering
and happiness.
• Translated into
10 languages!
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