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Foreign Rights Catalogue
Hoffmann und Campe Foreign Rights Catalogue Autumn 2015 Contact: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag GmbH Harvestehuder Weg 42 | 20149 Hamburg Nadja Kossack | Rights Director Nadja.Kossack@hoca.de phone +49-40-44188-266 fax +49-40-44188-319 www.hoca.de CONTENT FICTION Siegfried Lenz, The Fishing Contest Siegfried Lenz, An Exchange of Gifts. Christmas and Winter Stories Andrea Maria Schenkel, Love Unlasting Kat Kaufmann, Superposition Gerhard Henschel, Novel of an Artist Petra Reski, The Faces of the Dead Stephanie Bart, Goodbye Bismarck Matthias Politycki, The Crazy Glitter in your Eyes Matthias Politycki, Egyptian Plagues. Mountains and Deserts of Sinai. 13 Poems Thomas Askan Vierich, Deadly Delicacies NON-FICTION Theresa Bäuerlein / Shai Tubali, Think like Einstein Hubert Seipel, Putin Kerstin Schweighöfer, Living One Hundred Years Volker Skierka, Armin Mueller-Stahl Helmut Schmidt, Then I Would Have Become Port Director Sabine Brenner-Wilczek (Ed.), Yes, Womenfolk are Dangerous Anna König / Holger Wenzl, Chomp. One year, one couple, one pot ILLUSTRATED FICTION About Atlantik Verlag page 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Katharina Mahrenholtz / Dawn Parisi, Whodunit! Nikolas Heidelbach, Rosel von Melaten 20 21 OUR AGENTS 22 In spring 2014 Hoffmann und Campe has launched the new imprint called Atlantik. Atlantik focuses on well-told novels, popular non-fiction, great anthologies and beautiful gift books. The Atlantik list features such acclaimed authors as Agatha Christie, José Saramago, Paul Theroux, Grégoire Delacourt, Natalio Grueso and Romain Puértolas. About Hoffmann und Campe Verlag Hoffmann und Campe | Atlantik | Autumn 2015 Foreign Rights Catalogue HOFFMANN UND CAMPE, founded in 1781, is a publishing house with a long tradition and today one of Germany’s largest and most successful general publishers with a portfolio that embraces the works of famous authors and young writing talents. Since 1951, all works by the eminent narrative writer Siegfried Lenz have been published by HOFFMANN UND CAMPE. We control translation rights for all the titles listed in this catalogue. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or would like to receive reading copies. I look forward to hearing from you. Best wishes, Nadja Kossack Rights Director Nadja.Kossack@hoca.de Contact: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag GmbH Nadja Kossack | Rights Director Nadja.Kossack@hoca.de phone +49-40-44188-266 fax +49-40-44188-319 www.hoca.de 2 Hoffmann und Campe | Autumn 2015 Homage to nature, life, fish, the sea … and love. ❚ ❚ Initial Print Run 50.000 ›A reoccurring highlight during the Baltic Sea Week was always the fishing contest. Then the small town of Thorshafen made the effort to appear festive; many of the houses were decorated with flags, the two coffee houses moved their counters closer to the lake and some of the small boats boasted a new lick of paint. Fishing contest: For many of us it was an opportunity to test and prove our luck and ability.‹ ❚ Siegfried Lenz’ s last and never before published story It is a very special day in the small town of Thorshafen on the Baltic Sea: The annual fishing contest is taking place at the lake just behind the dike. It is only per chance that the narrator takes part and meets Anja. Fishing together brings one together, but also tires you out. A spot hidden by reeds invites to rest until suddenly the fishing rod tightens. Which fish has taken the bait, maybe a pike or even a catfish, the master of the lake? At the end of the day, all inhabitants of Thorshafen celebrate together: Nature, life, fish, the sea and of course love. Though we shall not disclose how the teacher Mrs Laura managed to get appointed Fish Queen. Short Story Siegfried Lenz The Fishing Contest October 2015 40 pages, Hardback € 18.00 ISBN 978-3-455-40548-4 German title: Das Wettangeln © Ludolf Dahmen With this last story, Siegfried Lenz has made a wonderful gift to his readers from beyond the grave. ILLUSTRATED BY NIKOLAUS HEIDELBACH who was born in 1955 in Lahnstein am Rhein and grew up in Braubach. He studied German and History of Art in Cologne and Berlin. He now lives with his wife and two children in Cologne. He is considered one of the most renowned, as well as unconventional artists and illustrators in Germany. Contact: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag GmbH Nadja Kossack | Rights Director Nadja.Kossack@hoca.de phone +49-40-44188-266 fax +49-40-44188-319 www.hoca.de 3 Hoffmann und Campe | Autumn 2015 Christmas with Siegfried Lenz ❚ For the first time collected in one volume ›A lot has happened at Christmas in Masuria‹, is the beginning of Das Wunder von Striegeldorf, the probably most popular Christmas story by Siegfried Lenz, where two prison inmates decide to break out; after all, who wants to spend Christmas behind bars? Yet, after a not-too-holy night, they try to return to their cell and things turn out to be a little difficult. © Ingrid von Kruse In additional winter stories, Siegfried Lenz tells of the risks of being Father Christmas, of stolen warmth and a miraculous exchange of gifts in the bitter cold and poverty after the war. But Lenz also tells of pleasures and dangers of frozen Masurian lakes, of sleigh rides, of ice yachting and ice fishing. And the reader finds out what to do in Bollerup, when you notice that the wood supplies have disappeared, not because the stove has been heated too much, but because a wood thief is wrecking havoc. SIEGFRIED LENZ was born in 1926 in the East Prussian town of Lyck and died in 2014 in Hamburg. He is considered one of the most important and most read writers of post-war literature. He has published all his novels, stories, essays and plays with Hoffmann und Campe since 1951. He had his first big success with his Masurian stories So zärtlich war Suleyken, which turned to world success in 1968 with the novel Deutschstunde. His novella Schweigeminute, published in 2008, brought him fulminant press and public success in old age. He was awarded numerous important prizes for his books, amongst others, the Goethe Prize of Frankfurt am Main, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and the Lew-Kopelew-Prize for Peace and Human Rights in 2009. A complete edition of his works is currently being prepared by Hoffmann und Campe. Stories Siegfried Lenz An Exchange of Gifts. Christmas and Winter Stories October 2015 120 pages, Hardback € 15.00 ISBN 978-3-455-40539-2 German title: Eine Art Bescherung. Weihnachts- und Wintergeschichten Contact: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag GmbH Nadja Kossack | Rights Director Nadja.Kossack@hoca.de phone +49-40-44188-266 fax +49-40-44188-319 www.hoca.de 4 Hoffmann und Campe | Autumn 2015 This is Andrea Maria Schenkel’s first novel that is not a crime novel, but it’s just as thrilling. ❚ With this great work of fiction about a marriage whose foundation has proven to be a deception, Andrea Maria Schenkel takes the reader on a journey through time, from Munich in the 1930s via Shanghai during the Second World War, right up to Brooklyn in the second half of the 20th Century. Literary Fiction Andrea Maria Schenkel Love Unlasting Novel March 2016 256 pages, Hardback Persecution, existential fear and new beginnings in foreign countries – these are the experiences that the young Jew Carl Schwarz makes in 1950 in Brooklyn when he meets the German girl Emmi, who like him comes from Bavaria. Emmi left Germany after the war – and like him, she wants to start a new life. For both of them, the past is a foreign country that they don’t wish to revisit. € 20.00 ISBN 978-3-455-40382-4 German title: Als die Liebe endlich war But then Carl discovers a truth that puts their love to the test … © Tanja Kernweiss With Emmi, Carl finds the homeland that he left behind aged eleven, as well as life-long love and security. They both don’t talk about the past; the memories of that which was are just too painful. But decades later a friend asks Carl to go through the letters and documents of her late husband, a holocaust survivor. Carl reluctantly begins the task – and in documents from the concentration camp in Dachau finds references to Emmi’s past. The foundation of concealment and half-truths on which their lives are built crumbles… ANDREA MARIA SCHENKEL , born in 1962, lives in Regensburg. In 2006, her debut novel Tannöd was published and made a strong impact. The novel was awarded The German Crime Prize, the Friedrich-Glauser Prize and the Corinne in 2007, and with the Martin Beck Award for the best international crime novel in 2008. The book has sold over 1 million copies, was translated into twenty languages and made into a film. Her second book Kalteis (2007) also received the German Crime Prize. More recently she published Finsterau (2012) and Täuscher (2013). ❚ Selected Backlist: Finsterau (2012) Sold to: UK (Quercus Books), France (Actes Sud) and Hungary (Tarandus) Bunker (2009) Sold to: UK (Quercus Books), Finland (Gummerus), France (Actes-Sud), the Netherlands (Uitgeverij Signature) and Sweden (Ersatz Förlag) Contact: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag GmbH Nadja Kossack | Rights Director Nadja.Kossack@hoca.de phone +49-40-44188-266 fax +49-40-44188-319 www.hoca.de 5 Hoffmann und Campe | Autumn 2015 ›We are the extra in this country. We are the ones that other people talk about. We will never fit in here. And where we come from, we no longer fit in.‹ ❚ Kat Kaufmann’s fresh, yet hard and poetic language stirs you up. She dissects the foundations of society in a world in which the ownerless dog becomes an aggressive wolf, searching for its pack. The novel of an entire generation. The generation of the supposedly arrived. A restless and helpless generation, which gives each other support in being different. Support, which in fact isn’t there. © Alexey Kiselev Superposition is the story of the 26-year-old pianist, Izy Lewin. She lurches through Berlin, copes with the director Marc, humiliating hotel gigs and other crappy things. The great dying will begin with babushka Ella and then Izy will be all alone in the world. Homeless. Her best friend Timur could be home. Like a dog and a wolf howling at the moon, with a bottle of Nastoy, listening to old jazz records, arm in arm under the table or at dawn in the park: Wherever Timur is, there is tundra and steppe, it tastes and smells of home. A home that does not belong to her, one that she is only allowed to borrow. Literary Fiction Kat Kaufmann Superposition Novel August 2015 224 pages, Hardback € 20.00 ISBN 978-3-455-40337-4 German title: Superposition KAT KAUFMANN , born 1981 in Leningrad, works as a freelance artist, composer, writer and photographer in Berlin. Contact: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag GmbH Nadja Kossack | Rights Director Nadja.Kossack@hoca.de phone +49-40-44188-266 fax +49-40-44188-319 www.hoca.de 6 Hoffmann und Campe | Autumn 2015 ›A journey through time of Proustian dimensions [...] simply brilliant.‹ NDR ❚ Between bioenergetics, Tantra and Tetra Pak – the sixth volume in the Martin Schlosser chronicles. It’s the mid-eighties and the German Studies student Martin Schlosser does not really have an aim in life. When he is not pondering about Chernobyl, the historian discussion or the Barschel affair, he participates in spiritual sessions and practices the art of life. © Jochen Quast Because his new girlfriend Andrea is studying in Aachen, Martin Schlosser decides to shift his studies from Berlin to Cologne. He moves into a chaotic flat share and is presented with constant new challenges by Andrea: She drags him to bioenergetics seminars and Tantra courses and makes him realise that a classical relationship with her is impossible. In the following years he travels to Madrid, Paris and Nartum, has to move several times and is the cause of irritation in his hometown of Meppen. In between odd jobs for Tetra Pak, Uniroyal and Edeka and philosophising about houseflies, Turkish folklore and monogamy, he one day suddenly realises what he wants to be: a writer. Literary Fiction Gerhard Henschel Novel of an Artist Novel August 2015 576 pages, Hardback € 25.00 ISBN 978-3-455-40498-2 German title: Künstlerroman GERHARD HENSCHEL , born in 1962, is a freelance author in Berlin. His epistolary novel Die Liebenden (2002, now newly available with Atlantik) delighted the critics, as did the adventures of its narrator Martin Schlosser: Kindheitsroman (2004), Jugendroman (2009), Liebesroman (2010), Abenteuerroman (2012) und Bildungsroman (2014). Künstlerroman is the sixth part of his chronicles, which are based upon the life of Martin Schlosser. Henschel is also the author of numerous works of non-fiction. In 2012, he was awarded the Hannelore-Greve-Literature Prize and in 2013, the Nicolas-Born-Prize. Contact: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag GmbH Nadja Kossack | Rights Director Nadja.Kossack@hoca.de phone +49-40-44188-266 fax +49-40-44188-319 www.hoca.de 7 Hoffmann und Campe | Autumn 2015 Serena Vitale continues to fight against the Mafia ❚ A deadly trace… from Palermo to Germany ❚ ›For each scene in her novel, Petra Reski can provide you with three instances from reality that are even more hair-raising.‹ Die Zeit The Mafia boss Alessio Lombardo has been on the run for decades. When Serena Vitale is entrusted with the case, the enquiries start to get moving. In a gripping and shockingly realistic manner, Petra Reski narrates of the Mafia and the corrupt politicians who have infiltrated pan-European politics and secret services. © Paul Schirnhofer While Serena Vitale chases the phantom of the fugitive Mafia boss, one of the leads to Germany becomes ever hotter: Not only does she come across Lombardo’s accomplices and a glamorous mistress, but also upon the story of her own father, who came to Dortmund as a migrant worker – and of whom she suddenly does not know whether he was really on the right side. And when a detained Mafioso hangs himself in his cell, Serena Vitale tries to solve the circumstances pertaining to his suicide and comes into mortal danger … PETRA RESKI was born in the Ruhr area and lives in Venice. She has been writing about Italy since 1989 – for Die Zeit, Geo, Merian, Focus and Brigitte – and time and again about the phenomenon of the Mafia. She made a film about Mafia women and has received numerous awards for her reports and books. Most recently as ‘Reporter of the Year’ in Germany. In Italy she was awarded the ‘Premio Civitas’ and the Amalfi Coast Media Award for her anti-Mafia commitment. Petra Reski has published several novels and works of non-fiction, most recently with Hoffmann und Campe: Von Kamen nach Corleone. Die Mafia in Deutschland (2010) and Palermo Connection (2014). Crime Fiction Petra Reski The Faces of the Dead Novel September 2015 256 pages, Hardback € 20.00 ISBN 978-3-455-40472-2 German title: Die Gesichter der Toten ❚ Selected Backlist: Palermo Connection (2014) Sold to: Poland (Olimp) Von Kamen nach Corleone (2010) Sold to: Italy (Edizioni Ambiente Srl.), the Netherlands (Dutch Media Uitgevers) Contact: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag GmbH Nadja Kossack | Rights Director Nadja.Kossack@hoca.de phone +49-40-44188-266 fax +49-40-44188-319 www.hoca.de 8 Atlantik | Autumn 2015 Stephanie Bart’s debut – a picaresque novel about the transience of art. ❚ Prize winner of the RheingauLiteraturpreis 2014! ❚ ›A language that is unprecedented in its clearness and intensity.‹ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 3. October 1990. Germany is celebrating reunification. In Hamburg, the mask of the chancellor of the hour, Helmut Kohl, is put over the gigantic Bismarck monument that towers over the Landungsbrücken. Helmut Kohl’s pate looms above the trees. ›Bismarck Kohlised‹, the Morgenpost headline says. And for days, the authorities, firemen and specialists fruitlessly attempt to pull Kohl from his pedestal. Using this true story as a base, Stephanie Bart spins a clever comedy around the friends Jens Dikupp and Ulrich Held, who are planning this unique art campaign. ❚ Press reviews to Deutscher Meister: ›A superb novel.‹ Literary Fiction Stephanie Bart Goodbye Bismarck Novel October 2015 224 pages, Paperback € 12.99 ISBN 978-3-455-65059-4 German title: Goodbye Bismarck Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ›A fast-paced, deeply tragic and at the same time wonderfully funny book.‹ Die Welt ›A noticeable talent.‹ © DEFF Westermann Süddeutsche Zeitung STEPHANIE BART , born in 1965 in Esslingen am Neckar, studied ethnology and political sciences at the University of Hamburg. She has been living in Berlin since 2001. In 2011 & 2012 she received a grant from the German Literary Fund. Contact: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag GmbH Nadja Kossack | Rights Director Nadja.Kossack@hoca.de phone +49-40-44188-266 fax +49-40-44188-319 www.hoca.de 9 Hoffmann und Campe | Autumn 2015 ›Stay seated and watch. You will miss most of it anyway.‹ Mathias Politycki’s poems tell of ›Bohemian winds‹, of the ›consolation of things‹ and of the ›soundtrack of spring‹. The author has called together the permanent bar stool fixtures and the constant grouches for his new volume of poems; those who oppose melancholia with silence are featured with love declarations of various kinds; but also the ›Grim Reaper and other cohorts‹ with their dark verses: A whole collection of curios from the lyrical staff celebrates its last judgement in free verses, in ballades, sonnets, songs or haikus. © Mathias Bothor / photoselection MATTHIAS POLITYCKI , who has successfully been publishing books for more than thirty years, is a poet by nature and has never made a secret of it. Apart from various special and private editions, he is now publishing his sixth and so far most extensive poetry collection. Hoffmann und Campe have, amongst others, brought out his poetry collections Ratschlag zum Verzehr der Seidenraupe, Die Sekunden danach, London für Helden and Jenseits von Wurst und Käse. Poetry Matthias Politycki The Crazy Glitter in your Eyes 111 Poems October 2015 140 pages, Paperback ❚ World rights in the languages of the European Union (not including English), as well as Turkish, are held by Hoffmann und Campe. € 18.00 ISBN 978-3-455-40506-4 German title: Dies irre Geglitzer in deinem Blick. 111 Gedichte ❚ Selected Backlist: Samarkand Samarkand (2013) Sold to: France (Actes Sud) Jenseits von Wurst und Käse (2013) Sold to: Ireland (Coiscéim) and Italy (Estrofes & Versos) Jenseitsnovelle (2009) Sold to: France (Actes Sud), Italy (CartaCanta), Portugal (Estrofes & Versos), UK (Peirene Press) Contact: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag GmbH Nadja Kossack | Rights Director Nadja.Kossack@hoca.de phone +49-40-44188-266 fax +49-40-44188-319 www.hoca.de 10 Hoffmann und Campe | Autumn 2015 ›Matthias Politycki writes simply beautiful poems.‹ Radio Bremen A hopeless lover, weighed down by at least seven plagues of melancholia. All is nothing and nothing is all to him in those days of burning sun and merciless Old Testament nights. The cycle of poems, Ägyptische Plagen, resulted from Matthias Politycki’s wanderings on the Sinai Peninsula. Congenially illustrated by Carl-Walter Kottnik, the cycle of 13 poems now appears in a particularly beautiful edition. © Mathias Bothor / photoselection MATTHIAS POLITYCKI , who has successfully been publishing books for more than thirty years, is a poet by nature and has never made a secret of it. Apart from various special and private editions, he is now publishing his sixth and so far most extensive poetry collection. Hoffmann und Campe have, amongst others, brought out his poetry collections Ratschlag zum Verzehr der Seidenraupe, Die Sekunden danach, London für Helden and Jenseits von Wurst und Käse. Poetry Matthias Politycki Egyptian Plagues. Mountains and Deserts of Sinai. 13 Poems 48 pages, Paperback THE ILLUSTRATOR CARL-WALTER KOTTNIK , born in 1947, lives in Hamburg. The illustrations were created in April/ Mai 2013. € 15.00 ISBN 978-3-455-40510-1 German title: Ägyptische Plagen. Gebirg und Wüste Sinai. 13 Gedichte ❚ World rights in the languages of the European Union (not including English), as well as Turkish, are held by Hoffmann und Campe. Illustrations by Carl-Walter Kottnik ❚ Selected Backlist: Samarkand Samarkand (2013) Sold to: France (Actes Sud) Jenseits von Wurst und Käse (2013) Sold to: Ireland (Coiscéim) and Italy (Estrofes & Versos) Jenseitsnovelle (2009) Sold to: France (Actes Sud), Italy (CartaCanta), Portugal (Estrofes & Versos), UK (Peirene Press) Contact: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag GmbH Nadja Kossack | Rights Director Nadja.Kossack@hoca.de phone +49-40-44188-266 fax +49-40-44188-319 www.hoca.de 11 Atlantik | Autumn 2015 ›An expert of language, and artist when it comes to plot and characters.‹ Stefan Slupetzky ❚ ›As former restaurant critic of the Berlin lifestyle magazine Zitty, Thomas Askan Vierich knows all about the connection between greed, food envy, cooking vanity and other consuming passions. His debut is a ‘culinary novel’ which cunningly and confidently plays with the all too human excesses of an often-inhospitable gastronomy.‹ Die Welt © Sven Gilmore Photography The opening of a gourmet temple in Berlin: The much feared gastro pope Heinrich Pompl falls face forward into his dessert – fatally poisoned. A catastrophe for the restaurant. Commissioner Stubenrauch, stylish bon vivant by trade, takes on the case. He is aided by Pompl’s successor, the journalist Alfred Brinkmann, who during the course of the investigations learns a great deal about love, food and true friendship … Fiction Thomas Askan Vierich Deadly Delicacies Novel February 2016 256 pages, Paperback € 12.99 ISBN 978-3-455-65069-3 German title: Tödliche Delikatessen THOMAS ASKAN VIERICH lived in Berlin for a long time and now resides in Vienna since 2002. His publications include the crime-grotesque Praterglück (with Berndt Anwander), the crime novels Blutgasse and Donaublues, as well as Aroma. Die Kunst des Würzens (with Th. A. Vilgis). Contact: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag GmbH Nadja Kossack | Rights Director Nadja.Kossack@hoca.de phone +49-40-44188-266 fax +49-40-44188-319 www.hoca.de 12 Hoffmann und Campe | Autumn 2015 ›Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world.‹ Albert Einstein ❚ What happens if we take a helicopterview of things, or if we stop thinking in terms of ›either/or‹? In this popular science non-fiction book, the authors present the strategies which have enabled great philosophers, scientists and thinkers to put forward theories, gain insight and find legitimacy, and so decisively influence and change our world. Non-Fiction Theresa Bäuerlein / Shai Tubali Think like Einstein Crossing Germany Without Any Money September 2015 224 pages, Hardback © Regina Tokarczyk It’s about what the reader can learn and apply in everyday life. It’s about how we can acquire specific mental capabilities, strategies and techniques which can fundamentally change how we see the world and ourselves. The list of ›geniuses‹ includes Albert Einstein, Socrates, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hannah Arendt, Sigmund Freud, Buddha, Leonardo da Vinci, and Charles Darwin. THERESA BÄUERLEIN was born in 1980 and has worked for the last ten years as journalist and author for various media, including Neon, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Nido, fluter, Zeit Online and Brigitte. She has published two novels (with Fischer) and two non-fiction works (with Heyne). Her first novel was Das war der gute Teil des Tages (That Was the Good Bit of the Day) and this was brought to the big screen in January 2014 as Hannas Reise (Hannah’s Journey). € 20.00 ISBN 978-3-455-50366-1 German title: Denken wie Einstein ❚ Sold to: Korea (Megabooks) and Turkey (Büyükada Yayinlari) SHAI TUBALI was born in 1976, and is author and philosopher, as well as lecturer in Philosophy, Psychology and Spirituality. He has written fourteen books in Hebrew, including bestsellers in Israel, and his first book, The Body Language (Keter, 1996) has received an award from the Israeli Ministry of Education. Three of his books have been published in Germany: Chakren (Neue Erde Verlag, 2013), Die spirituelle Revolution (AMRA Verlag, 2015) and White Light (Kamphausen, 2013). In the USA he has already had published The Seven Wisdoms of Life (Msi Press, 2013), A Guide to Bliss (Msi Press, 2015), Indestructible You (John Hunt, 2015) and The Journey to Inner Power (John Hunt, 2015). Contact: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag GmbH Nadja Kossack | Rights Director Nadja.Kossack@hoca.de phone +49-40-44188-266 fax +49-40-44188-319 www.hoca.de 13 Hoffmann und Campe | Autumn 2015 ›Hubert Seipel has access to Putin like no other Western journalist.‹ Der Spiegel ❚ ❚ Initial Print Run 50.000 ›My book is an attempt to approach Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin’s world. No more, no less. I first met the Russian president in January 2010. At the time, he was absolving an intermediate stop as Prime Minister. It was the start of a row of long interviews and regular meetings with Vladimir Putin, which we carried out in Moscow, Sochi, St. Petersburg, and Vladivostok or on foreign travels.‹ How did Vladimir Putin go from being a KGB officer in the GDR to becoming the most powerful figure of the new Russia, which constantly moves further away from Western concepts? Hubert Seipel was the only Western journalist who managed to accompany Putin during the last five years. Without demonising, but with a critical distance, he paints the most differentiated portrait of the power seeker Putin, that exists today. Non-Fiction Hubert Seipel Putin October 2015 368 pages, Hardback € 22.00 ISBN 978-3-455-50303-6 German title: Putin © Ulla Brauer Putin, son of a factory worker, lawyer and former KGB officer, borrowing from Russian history, has formed his new Russia, which shows itself unimpressed by Western sanctions. For the West, he is the embodiment of the bad; in Russia, he is more popular than ever. Hubert Seipel’s book is the story of a mutual alienation and disappointment. It allows deep insights into the motives and ideas of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. HUBERT SEIPEL was born in 1950 in Alzenau-Wasserlos. He initially worked as an editor and foreign correspondent for Stern and Spiegel, before he moved to television at the beginning of the 1990s, specialising in complex economic and political matters. In 2012, the ARD broadcast Seipel’s documentary Ich, Putin – ein Portrait. At the beginning of 2014, he held the first worldwide television interview with Edward Snowden. In November 2014, he interviewed Putin on his position in the Ukraine conflict for the ARD. Twice his films received the German Television Prize, the Helmut-Schmidt Journalist Prize and the Adolf-Grimme-Prize. Contact: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag GmbH Nadja Kossack | Rights Director Nadja.Kossack@hoca.de phone +49-40-44188-266 fax +49-40-44188-319 www.hoca.de 14 Hoffmann und Campe | Autumn 2015 What the wisdom of hundred-year-olds teaches us about life, luck and love. ❚ This book is about hundred-year-olds who don’t climb out of windows and disappear, but instead allow us to participate from their hundred-year-old wisdom. When we think of hundred-year-olds, then the usually so feared age becomes mystical. They captivate us. For when, if not then, does a person know what life is all about? © Peter de Krom Those who are a hundred years old today have experienced the First World War as children and were already grown up when the Reichstag burnt down. They know what everyday life looked like before the invention of television, antibiotics or ballpoint pens. They were already pensioners when computers became known everywhere and Germany celebrated reunification. Whoever has lived through such an immense change in values, has an incredible treasure of experiences and can calmly pass on his insights. In wonderful encounters and touching interviews with 12 hundred-year-olds – from farmer to artist, from priest to politician – Kerstin Schweighöfer discovers quite a few secrets and often surprising answers to the big questions in life: What makes for a good friendship, relationship or marriage? How can deep love become the love of your life? How to deal with pain or loss? Which values count over time? Non-Fiction Kerstin Schweighöfer Living One Hundred Years November 2015 320 pages, Hardback € 20.00 ISBN 978-3-455-50375-3 German title: 100 Jahre leben KERSTIN SCHWEIGHÖFER , born in 1960, studied Romance Studies, Politics and Art History in Munich and Lyon and then attended the Henri-Nannen School of Journalism in Hamburg. Since 1990 she has been living as a freelance author and foreign correspondent in Holland, and primarily works for ARDHörfunkanstalten, the Deutschlandfunk, the news magazine Focus and the art magazine Art. Contact: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag GmbH Nadja Kossack | Rights Director Nadja.Kossack@hoca.de phone +49-40-44188-266 fax +49-40-44188-319 www.hoca.de 15 Hoffmann und Campe | Autumn 2015 Biography of an exceptional Artist ❚ ›The winner of the GDR State Prize for his film work, Mueller-Stahl became persona non grata with the communist regime in 1977, due to his activism in protesting government suppression of performing artists.‹ The New York Times ❚ ›German actor Armin Mueller-Stahl has had careers – and success – in three different countries under three very different systems.‹ The Hollywood Reporter With his numerous awards and Oscar nomination, Armin Müller-Stahl is considered one of the most popular actors in Germany with high international standing. Yet his talents go much further: As a trained concert violinist, he is a profound music connoisseur, and as a painter and writer both critics and readers revere him. Volker Skiera paints an attentive portrait of the exceptional artist, with whom he holds a long-standing friendship. © Bernd Ebsen Born in 1930 in the former East Prussian town of Tilsit, Armin Mueller-Stahl grew up in the GDR and built up a career as a theatre and film actor. Due to the absence of job offers because of his political stance, he was able to repeat his career ascent as an actor in the Federal Republic in 1980. By reading in his Stasi file after reunification, he discovered that his best friend has betrayed him. He then started a new life in Hollywood and became internationally known through films such as Night on Earth. VOLKER SKIERKA , born in 1952, is a journalist and publisher. He initially worked as a correspondent for the news agency Reuters in Munich, Bonn and Berlin; from 1979, he worked as a correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Berlin, Northern Germany, Northern Europe and Latin America. Up until 1997, he was chief editor of the culture and travel magazine Merian. In 1981, he was awarded the Egon-Erwin-Kisch Journalist Prize. Armin Mueller-Stahl and Volker Skierka have known each other since 1978. Non-Fiction Volker Skierka Armin Mueller-Stahl Biography October 2015 256 pages, Hardback € 20.00 ISBN 978-3-455-50389-0 German title: Armin Mueller-Stahl Contact: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag GmbH Nadja Kossack | Rights Director Nadja.Kossack@hoca.de phone +49-40-44188-266 fax +49-40-44188-319 www.hoca.de 16 Hoffmann und Campe | Autumn 2015 ›Helmut Schmidt has his eye on the world, but Hamburg in his heart.‹ Olaf Scholz, Mayor of Hamburg ❚ ›Us folks from Hamburg like to show off the fact that we are from Hamburg. I also like doing it. At any rate, I don’t mind it when other people call me a Prussian citizen of Hamburg.‹ Helmut Schmidt ❚ With a current interview with Hamburg’s Mayor Olaf Scholz Non-Fiction There is a special bond between the Hanseatic city and its probably most famous honorary citizen, which this volume illustrates in all its facets with a retrospect in text and photography, spanning the last six decades. At the same time, Helmut Schmidt looks to the future in an extensive interview with the Mayor Olaf Scholz. Helmut Schmidt began his political career in Hamburg. As a senator, he proved himself in crisis management during the flood disaster in 1962 and recommended himself for higher duties. In his time as chancellor, he brought world politics to Hamburg and always followed the fortunes of his city with passionate commitment and well-meaning criticism. ›But I love her wistfully, for she sleeps, my beauty‹, Helmut Schmidt wrote in 1962 about his hometown in an anonymously published letter to friends in Hamburg. ›She is vain with her virtues, without really applying them; She savours the moment and seems to consider tomorrow to be self-evident – she suns herself somewhat too smugly and lets things slide.‹ Helmut Schmidt Then I Would Have Become Port Director September 2015 224 pages, Hardback € 20.00 ISBN 978-3-455-50351-7 German title: Dann wäre ich Hafendirektor geworden HELMUT SCHMIDT was born in 1918 in Hamburg and was Chancellor between 1974 and 1982. Following his departure from active politics, in 1983 he joined the ZEIT, whose associate editor he remains to this day. Alongside his articles for the ZEIT, he also published numerous books. Hoffmann und Campe most recently published: Einmischungen. Ausgewählte Zeitartikel von 1983 bis heute (2010), Zug um Zug (with Peer Steinbrück, 2011) and Mein Europa (2013). Contact: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag GmbH Nadja Kossack | Rights Director Nadja.Kossack@hoca.de phone +49-40-44188-266 fax +49-40-44188-319 www.hoca.de 17 Hoffmann und Campe | Autumn 2015 Patronesses, enviers, beloved creatures. ❚ Heinrich Heine and the women ›Yes, womenfolk are dangerous! But I must add the remark that the beautiful ones are not as dangerous as those who possess more mental than physical charms.‹ Throughout his life, Heinrich Heine had a complex and glamorous relationship to the women who surrounded him. Yet how did they influence his work? Sabine Brenner-Wilczek highlights the impulse-givers in the life of this author – among whom are his mother, Betty, to whom he dedicated his famous Nachtgedanken, his cousin Amalie, in whom he was unhappily in love and whose rejection gave him ›tooth ache of the heart‹, as well as his future wife Augustine Crescence Mirat, from humble origins, who he renames Mathilde before their marriage. A biographical portrait that places the private man Heine into the spotlight. Non-Fiction SABINE BRENNER-WILCZEK Sabine Brenner-Wilczek (Ed.) Yes, Womenfolk are Dangerous October 2015 128 pages, Hardback was born in 1976, and completed her doctorate at the Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, following her studies of German and Media Sciences. She has been director of the Heinrich-Heine-Institute in Düsseldorf since 2009. € 16.00 ISBN 978-3-455-40553-8 German title: Ja, die Weiber sind gefährlich! Contact: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag GmbH Nadja Kossack | Rights Director Nadja.Kossack@hoca.de phone +49-40-44188-266 fax +49-40-44188-319 www.hoca.de 18 Atlantik | Autumn 2015 Let’s talk about pressure cookers! ❚ ❚ A year in 100 recipes From the authors of the food blog: derultimativekochblog.com © Anna König © Markus Gaertner Moving in together as a couple for the first time is hard enough. Then add cooking together! For if things start to go wrong in the relationship, what’s going to happen in the kitchen? Anna König and Holger Wenzl recount on living and cooking together, on relationship crises and kitchen chaos. Hangover breakfast on New Year, birthday cakes and reconciliation dinners, right up to the Christmas menu – one year in 100 recipes, served with many amusing anecdotes about all the things that can happen when she cooks and he clears up after her. ANNA KÖNIG , born in 1980, is a freelance actress. She studied at the Zurich College of Arts and then had numerous engagements in theatre, roles in film and television and as narrator of various audio books. After living in Zurich, Hamburg and Berlin, she now lives in London. HOLGER WENZL , born in 1977, is a digital artist. He studied Media Technology and Animation, and worked for Framestore in London. Amongst others, he was a co-winner of an Oscar in 2014 for the visual effects in Gravity. Following Stuttgart, Sydney and Copenhagen, he now lives in London. Non-Fiction Anna König / Holger Wenzl Chomp. One year, one couple, one pot January 2016 224 pages, Paperback € 14.99 ISBN 978-3-455-37820-7 German title: Mampf. Ein Jahr, ein Paar, ein Topf Contact: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag GmbH Nadja Kossack | Rights Director Nadja.Kossack@hoca.de phone +49-40-44188-266 fax +49-40-44188-319 www.hoca.de 19 Hoffmann und Campe | Autumn 2015 Sherlock Holmes, Commissario Montalbano and JeanBaptiste Adamsberg in pursuit ❚ Following the success of Literature!, Shakespeare! and Theatre! In Katharina Mahrenholtz’s and Dawn Parisi’s new book, suspense is guaranteed! Within the successful Literature!- series, this time it is all about crime, thriller and spy novels – and from Edgar Allan Poe to Sebastian Fitzek – they are all there. Which crime fan doesn’t want to know what the murder in the yellow room is all about, which authors contributed to the Swedish crime novel boom and why Miss Marple only has one helper on television? There is a lot more to be discovered in the world of Holmes and Wallander. In an original, ironic and inventive way, Mahrenholtz/Parisi present numerous facets of the most popular genre of literature. © Katja Nitsche KATHARINA MAHRENHOLTZ (Right) studied Applied Cultural Studies in Lüneburg. She has been working as an editor at NDR Info since 1997. Her main focus is culture, in particular literature. As a radio journalist is used to narrating things in concise form, while still transmitting exciting concepts. She lives in Hamburg with her family. DAWN PARISI (Left) grew up in England and Italy and studied at the College for Applied Arts in Hamburg, the city where she was born. Following a three-year sojourn in Paris, she moved back near the river Elbe, where she works as a designer in her studio Freudenhammer. She enjoys combining humour with knowledge in her books. Illustrated Fiction Katharina Mahrenholtz / Dawn Parisi Whodunit! October 2015 80 pages, Hardback € 15.00 ISBN 978-3-455-40550-7 German title: Krimi! ❚ Selected Backlist: Literature! (2012) Sold to: Korea (Totobook), Russia (Azbooka-Atticus), Turkey (Final Publishing), Taiwan (Yuan-Liou Publishing) and Spain (Editora EDAF) Contact: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag GmbH Nadja Kossack | Rights Director Nadja.Kossack@hoca.de phone +49-40-44188-266 fax +49-40-44188-319 www.hoca.de 20 Atlantik | Autumn 2015 A ghostly love story ❚ ›[…] the most splendid picture book is only as good as its story. But if a story is told with such calm and scarcity, as Heidelbach’s stories are, a huge imagination room remains – not only for the artist, which is identical in this case with the author, but also for the reader.‹ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Terrible things happen in the big city. Three children are killed and each time somebody claims to have seen a girl in a white dress and a red tie floating above the site of the tragedy. For a while people continue to puzzle over the girl, but then it gets forgotten. Only Georg continues to think of the small white figure and searches for her – in the graveyard of Melaten. © Ludolf Dahmen An unfathomable, touching fairy tale – narrated and illustrated by the unique Nikolaus Heidelbach. NIKOLAUS HEIDELBACH , born in 1955 in Lahnstein am Rhein, grew up in Braubach. He studied German and History of Art in Cologne and Berlin. Today he lives in Cologne with his wife and two children. He is considered one of the most renowned, but also most unconventional illustrators in Germany. Illustrated Fiction Nikolaus Heidelbach Rosel von Melaten Illustrated novel September 2015 60 pages, Hardback € 17.00 ISBN 978-3-455-37024-9 German title: Rosel von Melaten Contact: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag GmbH Nadja Kossack | Rights Director Nadja.Kossack@hoca.de phone +49-40-44188-266 fax +49-40-44188-319 www.hoca.de 21 Hoffmann und Campe | Atlantik | Autumn 2015 Our Agents China Hercules Business & Culture Hongjun Cai | cai@hercules-book.de Croatia, Hungary Andrew Nurnberg Associates Budapest Judit Hermann | j.hermann@nurnberg.hu France Kerstin Behre | litagkb@gmail.com Greece Iris Literary Agency Catherine Fragou | irislit@otenet.gr Italy Daniela Micura Literary Services Daniela Micura | d.micura@mclink.it Japan Meike Marx Literary Agency Meike Marx | meike.marx@gol.com The Netherlands Internationaal Literatuur Bureau Linda Kohn | lkohn@planet.nl Poland Graal Literary Agency Joanna Maciuk | joanna@graal.com.pl Romania Simona Kessler International Copyright Agency Simona Kessler | simona@kessler-agency.ro Scandinavia agentur literatur hebel & bindermann Günther Frauenlob | guenther.frauenlob@agentur-literatur.de Spain, Portugal, Latin America A.C.E.R. 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