Foreign Rights List

Foreign Rights List
Fall 2013
FICTION
Novels..............................................................1
Crime................................................................7
Women’s Fiction...............................................9
Fantasy...........................................................11
NON-FICTION
Biography.......................................................15
Popular Science...............................................16
Adventure......................................................19
Exclusive Agents..............................................23
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Fiction/Novels
Ferdinand von Schirach
Fiction/Novels
“Ferdinand von Schirach is an exceptional stylist.“
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Taboo
“A miracle of purpose and precision that leaves most bloated thrillers on the
starting blocks.”
FINANCIAL TIMES
An artist and a lawyer try to understand what truth
is… Ferdinand von Schirach’s new book is the portrait of an artist, a legal drama and, ultimately, a depiction of the precipices of the human mind.
“Von Schirach’s characters are livelier, maybe because they are more authentic,
than in the usual noirs. And they are described in a style which is simple, brisk,
with no useless tricks: just touching.”
LA REPUBBLICA
“Everything about The Collini Case is extraordinary.”
SUNDAY TIMES
„Brilliant prose“
LA VANGUARDIA
About the Book
© Michael Mann / Ferdinand von Schirach
Sebastian von Eschburg is thrown off balance as a child
by his father’s suicide. He tries to save himself through
art. His photographs and video installations show that
reality and truth are two different things. What matters are beauty, sex, and the loneliness of man. When
Eschburg is accused of killing a young woman, Konrad
Biegler agrees to represent him. The seasoned lawyer
endeavours to help the artist – and himself in the process.
Schirach’s theme is of contemporary relevance to society; he compels the reader to consider existential
decisions. But Schirach’s book is far more besides: he
presents the novel of a life, laconic, poetic, and genuinely moving.
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„This is a small gem“
THE GUARDIAN about The Collini Case
“Von Schirach decrypts with diabolic precision the mechanisms that
can push a person to commit the irreparable. By the same occasion
he invites the reader, in spite of himself, to reflect on justice. “
LE FIGARO
More than 2 million copies of Ferdinand von Schirach’s
books sold throughout the world
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Piper Verlag Hardcover
256 pages
September 2013
Rigths sold to Norway
(Gyldendal), Poland
(WAB), The Netherlands
(De Arbeiderspers)
Ferdinand von Schirach, born in 1964, has practiced as a lawyer
and defence counsel in Berlin since 1994. His volumes of stories
Crime and Guilt have become international best-sellers as well
as his first novel The Collini Case. Translations were published
in more than thirty countries. Schirach has been awarded several – international – literary prizes. Crime was broadcasted as
a series on TV; more adaptations of von Schirach’s works are
being developed for the big screen and TV.
Foreign Rights Contacts: Ms. Hanna Dürholt: hanna.duerholt@piper.de , Mr. Sven Diedrich: sven.diedrich@piper.de,
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Der Fall Collini (The Collini Case), 2011
rights sold to:
Brazil (Record), Denmark (Gyldendal), Finland (Atena Kustannus), France (Gallimard), Great Britain
(Penguin), Hungary (Melotrade-Partnoval), Israel (Miskal), Italy (Longanesi), Japan (Tokyo Sogensha Co.), Norway (Gyldendal), Poland (WAB), Russia (AST), Spain (Salamandra), Sweden (Albert
Bonniers förlag), Taiwan (Eurasian Press), The Netherlands (De Arbeiderspers), World English
(Viking Penguin)
Schirach’s first novel The Collini Case shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger Award 2013!
Verbrechen (Crime), 2009
rights sold to:
Australia, Basque, Brazil, Bulgaria , Catalonia, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Macedonia, Norway, Poland,
Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, The
Netherlands, Turkey , UK, USA
Schuld (Guilt), 2010
rights sold to:
Australia, Brazil, Catalonia, China, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy,
Japan, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, The Netherlands,
Turkey, UK, USA
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Fiction/Novels
Fiction/Novels
Jochen Rausch
Katharina Hartwell
War
The Strange Sea
A man at war with his own past – Jochen Rausch’s new
novel is a master-class in terse writing and scenes imbued with an under-swell of tension.
About the Book
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Berlin Verlag Hardcover
224 pages
September 2013
World Rights Available
For months Arnold Steins has been leading a reclusive life in the rugged mountain-scape, seldom coming
down into the village. But is life as solitary and isolated
as it seems in that weathered mountain hut with all its
secrets? He returns from a brief absence to find the
last things that meant anything to him destroyed and
his dog brutally injured: a life and death struggle has
begun with an unknown enemy.
Suddenly Arnold understands how connected everything is: his son’s fate, his wife’s destructive grief, and
his own running away from a life in which he defended
himself only the once.
This book is a journey: to the Salpêtrière, the Paris
psychiatric hospital where Sigmund Freud studied
under Jean-Martin Charcot; to the Winter Forest
where a prince will be saved by his bored princess; to
Changing City where entire houses roam the streets
as ‘moving estates’; to the ghost factory where fragments of souls are reworked into spirit-graphics … Ten
chapters, each retelling the story of Marie and Jan.
About the Book
Marie believes that catastrophes only happen to
those who are not expecting them. Which is why she
always expects the worst – and she is right: an outsider, she is timorous and despairing, mostly silent and
full of yearning. What she isn’t prepared for is being
rescued, by Jan, who couldn’t be more different. Marie feels she has been found. And yet she does not entirely trust in her happiness, for she knows “all things
can be separated, divided, split up, even an atom.”
Can Marie and her stories take on fate? Can literature
save her life? Can Marie tell the story for which there
are no words?
“Radical, disturbing, grotesque stories, more shocking than any crime film.”
BILD AM SONNTAG about Trieb
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Berlin Verlag Hardcover
576 pages
July 2013
World Rights Available
© Tobias Bohm
“A wonderful debut. Magical and daring.”
NDR
© Thomas Hendrich
Jochen Rausch is a journalist, writer and musician. He
is programme manager at Radio 1LIVE (WDR) in Cologne since 2000. Restlicht (Vestiges of Light), a novel,
was published in 2008 and was followed by a collection of short stories, Trieb (Drive), in 2011. Rausch
lives in Wuppertal.
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Katharina Hartwell, born in Cologne in 1984, read English and American Studies, graduating with distinction. A
student at the Leipzig Institute for Literature since 2010,
she published a collection of short stories, Im Eisluftballon (In the Frozen-Air Balloon). Katharina Hartwell has
won numerous writer’s grants and prizes.
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· Direct E-mail: sven.diedrich@piper.de · www.piper.de
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Fiction/Stories
Annette Pehnt
François Lelord
Lexicon of Fear
Hector Starts a New Life
About the Book
Fear is an all-rounder, and as such familiar to us all:
it can paralyse, hold up a mirror, consume and drive
us. It is a master of disguise, a stalker par excellence,
but can also strike like a punch to the stomach.
Annette Pehnt has been observing it, eavesdropping, acquainting herself with its palette, the A to Z
of fear: in her lexicon of fear she records with literary zeal everything life can throw at us – from the
fear of existence to the fear of death. These short
stories tell of those insidious, ridiculous, terrifying
moments of fear as experienced by mothers and
children, a fear of tsunamis or the consequences of
the financial crisis as well as those old favourites:
lifts, dogs and loneliness.
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Fiction/Novels
Piper Hardcover
176 pages
October 2013
World Rights Available
“Every turn serves the core story. No
meandering, no introspectives, the
scenes and dialogue are so precise
that they lock into place to create a
sharp image.”
DIE ZEIT about Mobbing
“Doctor, I want to start over, begin a new life.” A
common refrain from his patients. But is that really
the path to happiness?
About the Book
Hector is out-of-sorts. His children have left home,
his wife Clara is absorbed by her flourishing career,
his patients have become a little tedious, and he is
not at the top of his game health-wise. Is this the
infamous midlife crisis? He has just decided to ask
old François for advice when he receives news of his
friend’s demise. What a shock. Shortly afterwards,
however, there is reason to believe that Hector’s
friend and mentor is in fact alive and well, but, mysteriously, appears to be growing younger. Hector begins to comb the whole of Paris looking for François,
knocking at the doors of strangers and old acquaintances alike: the perfect opportunity to observe how
others are coping with reaching that “certain age”.
A good opportunity, too, for well-travelled Hector
to become better acquainted with his own marvellous city. And his guide on this journey of discovery?
François’s enchanting granddaughter. Small wonder
that Clara is developing a midlife crisis of her own.
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Piper Hardcover
ca. 208 pages
October 2013
Rights sold to France
(Odile Jacob )
Hector’s Journey – International movie production, release in 2014
More than 4 Million copies of the
HECTOR-series sold worldwide!
© Thomas Lehmann
Annette Pehnt, born in 1967, published her debut novel I Must Be
Off (Ich muss los), which received several awards, in 2001. For her
most recent novel, A Chronicle of Closeness (Chonik der Nähe), she
won the prestigious Solothurn Literature Prize and the Hermann
Hesse Prize. Annette Pehnt lives in Freiburg with her family.
© Peter Peitsch peitschphoto.com
Previous Titles (selection)
Chronik der Nähe (A Chronicle of Closeness), 2012; rights sold to Italy (L’asino d’oro)
Das Haus der Schildkröten (House of Turtles), 2006; rights sold to Egypt (NCT), Israel (Am Oved),
Lithuania (Musu Knyga), The Netherlands (Contact)
Mobbing, 2008; rights sold to Israel (Am Oved), Italy (Neri Pozza), Lithuania (Musu Knyga), The Netherlands (Contact); broadcasted on TV in 2013
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François Lelord, born in 1953, is a psychiatric doctor who closed his office
a few years ago to find answers to life’s big questions, for himself and his
readers. He lives in Paris and Thailand with his wife.
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Fiction/Crime
Fiction/Crime
Johannes Zacher
Karl Olsberg
The Smile of the Hyenas
Delete
About the Book
Within a brief period, four people are murdered bestially, Japanese wasabi rubbed into their stab wounds: not a pleasant
way to go. Inspector Kleeberg is at his wits’ end. He suspects
the killer is from the Asian milieu and hires Hài, an impossibly
good-looking German-Vietnamese man in his mid-thirties. Hài,
however, uncovers an entirely unforeseen link between the
victims and knows: the hyenas are on the loose in Berlin – always one step ahead of him in the urban desert landscape.
Johannes Zacher, born in 1966, grew up in the Swabian Jura and now lives in Berlin. This is the pseudonym of an award-winning film maker and crime
writer.
About the Book
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Berlin Verlag Paperback
ca. 224 pages
February 2014
World Rights Available
Jenk Saborowski
Four students are missing. All four were playing
the same online computer game – and apparently they considered the real world, the one they
inhabited, as a mere simulation. While Chief Inspector Eisenberg is still puzzling over whether
their disappearance constitutes a crime, another
young woman vanishes without trace. Together
with his Special Investigation Group “Internet”,
Eisenberg gets stuck in. What is going on? A serial
killer with five bodies on his conscience? Or a sick
joke? But soon Eisenberg finds himself part of a
macabre reality game …
Suspicion
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About the Book
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Piper Paperback
ca. 496 pages
February 2014
World Rights Available
Previous titles:
Biest (Beast), 2012
Operation Blackmail, 2011; Rights
sold to Czech Republic (Brana),
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When Chief Inspector Paul Regen of the Isar Valley, Bavaria,
discovers a formalin-soaked leg, he is uneasy: at the recent
criminology conference there had been word of two such
cases, one in Britain, one in Italy. Two could conceivably be
coincidence; three – not on your life. In the course of their
investigation, Agent Solveigh Lang and her team realise they
have a serial killer on their hands and he is playing some kind
of gruesome game. It is up to Solveigh to discover the rules of
the game and put an end to this grisly contest…
The third case for Solveigh Lang
Jenk Saborowski was born in 1977 in the Taunus region near
Frankfurt. He studied Journalism and German and moved to
New York. He organised the world’s first interactive dog show,
wrote billboard-texts, and worked with several media companies before he started writing.
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Specifications:
Berlin Verlag Paperback
ca. 420 pages
November 2013
World Rights Available
More than 150,000 copies of Olsberg’s thrillers sold
“Olsberg makes the internet come alive.”
NDR about The System
Karl Olsberg (born in 1960) wrote a doctoral thesis on the uses of artificial intelligence,
which won the Wirtschaftswoche eConomy Award. His publications include two thrillers,
The System and The Scent, and a work of non-fiction, Creation Out of Control.
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Fiction/Women’s Fiction
Katrin Tempel
Fiction/Women’s Fiction
Adriana Popescu
Elderberry Love
Golden Moments
About the Book
Lena, a PhD student of history, is conducting research
in the gardens of the Reichenau Convent, by Lake Constance, when she stumbles upon a plant that has gone
unrecorded in the archives. No one, it seems, is willing
to provide further information. Her quest for knowledge
leads Lena back to a time when herbal remedies were
the only medicine available. And to a forgotten herb
brought back once upon a time by a young nobleman
from the House of Cordoba and planted by stealth in
these gardens. The woman he loved owed her life to its
healing powers.
Little by little Lena unravels the convent’s ancient secret
– and discovers the tangled roots of her own family’s
story.
About the Book
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Piper Paperback
400 pages
September 2013
World Rights Available
Layla and Tristan get on famously from the moment
they meet – just as friends. Both of them are in serious relationships after all. Tristan drops food off for
her at work, takes her to Stuttgart’s beauty spots on
the back of his Vespa, and puts on a display of shooting stars using sparklers, because he knows Layla has
never seen one, that this, like too many of her other
dreams, has gone unfulfilled.
When they are together, golden moment follows
golden moment. Are they about to experience that
most golden moment of all, discovering “the One”?
Tanja Kokoska
Almuth Plays Away
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Pendo Hardcover
400 pages
August 2013
World Rights Available
“The money’s got to go – it will go off otherwise,” Paula announces. She has come into an inheritance and invited her
friends Almuth and Lilo to join her for a holiday in Switzerland
– no better place to watch money trickle away. No sooner said
than done. Almuth prepares a week’s worth of meals for her
husband, Günter, packs her walking boots and off they go!
When they reach the hotel, however, the three ladies wait for
the anticipated euphoria in vain: Paula’s holiday fling proves
elusive, Lilo, recently widowed, is pining, and Almuth is missing Günter’s presence. It is on their third evening that Almuth
encounters a lovely man, as passionate about football as she
is, and whose name just happens to be Jens Lehmann. Everything is about to change…
Born in Frankfurt am Main in 1971, Tanja Kokoska, studied German and was
a correspondent for the FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU for many years. Since
2012 she has been working as a freelance journalist and author.
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Piper Paperback
384 pages
September 2013
World Rights Available
“Turns every moment into a golden moment!”
Sami_Samira on lovelybooks.de
about Golden Moments
By the author of the self-published e-book hit Mistakenly in Love
“This story with its two likeable protagonists bursts with
charm, humour, wit and great love.”
Grit Steinweller on amazon.de about Mistakenly in Love
© Notker Mahr
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Adriana Popescu, born in Munich in 1980, was a screenplay writer for
German TV before contributing to a variety of newspapers, magazines
and city-blogs. In 2012, her self-published e-book, Mistakenly in Love,
became a surprise hit.
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Fiction/Fantasy
Fiction/Fantasy
Michael Peinkofer
Tobias Meißner
The Kings – Night of the Orks
Blade Fever
Tobias O. Meißner, Germany's most modern fantasy author, enters the fascinating, cold-blooded
world of the Amazons with Blade Fever.
About the Book
Michael Peinkofer’s ORKS saga regularly hit the bestseller lists. But the legendary heroic deeds of the
fiends were only the beginning. Now a new era is beginning in earth world – the age of the kings. It announces the fight between orcs and humans against
their most powerful enemies: the dwarves. Each novel
of the series The Kings deals with another reigning dynasty in the land of earth world: In the first volume,
dwarf king Winmar rules. The realms of orcs and humans have been subordinated by Winmar’s cruel and
deathly creatures. The rebellious human heir to the
throne Dag, blinded and separated from his beloved
Aryanwen, hides from Winmar’s pursuers in the vast
woods. But fate holds special tasks in store in the
struggle against the dwarves – for Dag as well as for
the last heroes of the orcs …
More than 500,000 copies of Peinkofer’s books sold
Erenis is an Amazon, a wonderful and powerful
master student of the art of warfare. Driven by a
restless frenzy, she challenges the strongest men
– yet, she doesn’t fight to win, but to kill. Without
mercy. Fanatically. Without a single mistake.
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Piper Hardcover
October 2013
ca. 560 pages
World Rights Available
Michael Peinkofer, born in 1969, read German studies, History and
media studies and worked as an editor for the cinema magazine
Moviestar. His ORKS saga has made him one of Germany’s most popular writers of fantasy literature. With The Kings, Peinkofer leads the
readers into a new era of Earth World.
Read more about the author at www.michael-peinkofer.de.
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The new saga by the author of THE ORKS
About the Book
Pipe Hardcover
ca. 448 pages
November 2013
World Rights Available
Then Erenis learns that the enemies of her childhood are still alive and she sets off to ultimately
defeat them in battle. Yet the Amazon has no idea
of the monstrous adversaries she is challenging to
a duel …
“Needless to say that Tobias O. Meißner’s writing ability is outstanding.”
FAZ about The Demons
The Orks Saga:
Bild am Sonntag
MICHAEL
»Bestsellerautor Michael Peinkofer liefert beste
Fantasy-Unterhaltung.«
PEINKOFER
Sie sind die berüchtigtsten Ungeheuer aller
magischen Welten: die Orks. Doch diese
gefräßigen Ungeheuer sind nicht bloß grausam,
einfältig und hinterlistig. Manche Orks sind
dazu berufen, die Welt zu retten. In geheimer
Mission brechen Balbok und Rammar, zwei
ungleiche Ork-Brüder, zum sagenumwobenen
Eistempel von Shakara auf und setzen Ereignisse
in Gang, die ihre Welt bis in den letzten
Schlupfwinkel erschüttert. Spannung, Wortwitz
und kompromisslose Action sind in diesem
Abenteuer garantiert!
ISBN 978-3-492-26650-5
€ 9,95 [D]
€ 10,30 [A ]
www.piper-fantasy.de
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The Return of the Orks (Die Rückkehr der Orks)
The Oath of the Orks (Der Schwur der Orks)
The Law of the Orks (Das Gesetz der Orks)
The Rule of the Orks (Die Herrschaft der Orks)
Rights sold to
Czech Republic (Fantom Print), Italy (Armenia), Poland (Red Horse),
The Netherlands (Mynx), Russia/Ukraine (Family Leisure Club)
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Tobias O. Meissner, born in 1967, majored in communication and
theatre studies and lives in Berlin as a freelance author. His novels
are highly acclaimed by critics. Meissner has been named amongst
“Tomorrow’s 10 most important authors” by the magazine BÜCHER.
Piper published the praised fantasy cycle Under the Sign of the Mammoth, the apocalyptic epic The Demons and various other novels.
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© Melanie Köcher, Studioline
Rücken 41,0 mm
Unwiderstehlich für
alle Fans der Orks
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Fiction/Fantasy
Ficition/Fantasy
Jan Oldenburg
Richard Schwartz
The Trickster of the Dead
The Seers of Ravanne
Richard Schwartz has been among the great names
of fantastic literature since The Secret of Askir. The
next chapter of this story of success was written
with The Falcon of Aryn – and now Richard Schwartz
leads his readers away from Aryn into the magical
metropolis of Ravanne.
A firework of puns and a solid portion of black humour are the makings of Jan Oldenburg’s The Trickster of the Dead – most likely the most demanding quest any high fantasy hero ever set off to fulfil.
What could be more difficult than getting the crazy
ideas – a danger to public safety – out of a necromancer’s daughter’s mind?
About the Book
About the Book
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Piper Hardcover
416 pages
September 2013
World Rights Available
Jan Oldenburg, born in 1979, studied Literature and is as creative
as multi-talented: Writing screen plays, short stories and theatre
plays, at the same time he participated in numerous short film
projects. After his debut Fantasticism, Inc. which was awarded
with the SERAPH 2013, the Trickster of the Dead is his second humoristic-absurd novel from far-away countries.
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Piper Hardcover
ca. 512 pages
November 2013
World Rights Available
More than 250,000 copies of Schwartz’s books sold
Richard Schwartz was born in Frankfurt in 1958. He was trained as an aeromechanic,
studied electrical engeneering and computer science and afterwards worked as filling
station assistant, postman, system programmer, and repaired old cars. But his passion
are fantastical worlds, which he puts down on paper at night – with great success: He has
been nominated several times for the German Phantastik Award.
© private
When one of the main evildoers dies in the beginning of the story, one’s suspicion should be raised.
Alas, the dwarf knight Steelbeard’s gang of warriors
is completely clueless when they defeat a dark necromancer, who with his last breath tricks Steelbeard
into promising to take care of his little daughter Nenia and to take her to her nearest relatives. This
quest proves to be more dangerous than expected
– not only do all potential adoptive parents appear
to be complete maniacs, but – even worse: they all
die as soon as the dwarf warriors are about to hand
over the girl – who, by the way, is anything but a
sweet innocent little ray of sunshine herself …
Young Gelde is sick and tired of her poor life in the
harbour of Ravanne. When she acquires a very rare
dagger, this artefact gives her access to a whole new
life: to the mighty academy of the seers of Ravanne.
There, her magic talent is to be trained. However,
she is not a descendant of one of the hereditary
families which have been educated to be seers for
centuries and she thus makes many enemies. Together with the young noblewoman Arin, Gelde
starts her life-threatening training – in the course
of which she reveals an intrigue that is as big as the
clairvoyance of the mighty seers.
The Askir-Series
Das erste Horn (The First Horn)
Die zweite Legion (The Second Legion)
Das Auge der Wüste (The Desert’s Eye)
Der Herr der Puppen (The Puppet Master)
Die Feuerinseln (The Fiery Islands)
Der Kronrat (The Crown Council)
Rights sold to
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The Netherlands
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Non-Fiction/Biography
Ronen Steinke
Ingeborg Gleichauf
Fritz Bauer or Auschwitz on Trial
A Love between Intimacy and Public
He was probably the most important public prosecutor in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. Fritz Bauer brought Adolf Eichmann down
and fought the case of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials against considerable opposition.
In 1963, the word “Auschwitz” burst into German
living rooms. A charge was brought against 22 former Nazi henchmen and a major court case began
in Frankfurt. It was thanks to one man and one man
alone that the case even saw the light of day: Fritz
Bauer, chief public prosecutor in Hesse.
© Ulrike Steinke
A social democrat with Jewish roots, Bauer just
about managed to flee the country in 1936. He was
the man that made German post-war society talk
and brought Adolf Eichmann to trial in Israel. In the
restorative climate of the Adenauer era, the jurist
Bauer became a controversial figure, an individual
that enraged his guild and made many enemies:
“When I leave my office, I enter enemy country” is
how he described his situation. Ronen Steinke tells
us about the life of a man whose courage saved
Germany’s honour and changed an entire nation.
Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch
For four years, between 1958 and 1962, Ingeborg Bachmann and
Max Frisch were a couple. However, no pictures exist of them and
very little information about the couple ever reached the outside
world. Yet the two of them left traces: in Paris, where their passionate liaison started, in Zurich, where they moved into an apartment
together, and in Rome, the city to which Frisch follows his lover and
is soon haunted by jealousy. Critical of himself, he admits: “We did
not master the end very well. Neither of us.” Even beyond their
painful break-up, they can still relate to each other in their work
and they reveal their innermost feelings and wounds in their writings.
About the Book
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Non-Fiction/Biography/Popular Science
Ingeborg Gleichauf tells the story of a love affair that was as big as
it was impossible.
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Ingeborg Gleichauf, born in 1953 in Freiburg, studied Philosophy and German Studies, and did her doctorate on Ingeborg Bachmann. She is a successful author, amongst others of biographies of Max Frisch, Hannah Arendt and Simone de Brauvoir. Ingeborg Gleichauf lives in Freiburg.
Claus Peter Simon
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Ronen Steinke, Dr. jur., born in 1983 in Erlangen, works as a journalist
for the daily newspaper SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG. He studied law and
criminology and worked for law offices as well as a juvenile prison, before going on to work with the Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. His doctoral thesis about the development of war
crime tribunals from Nuremberg to The Hague was hailed as a „masterpiece” by the renowned daily FAZ.
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Where Does Love Come From?
All our Clever Emotions –
from Anger to Yearning
About the Book
We are often assailed by them when we need them the least: stage
fright before a performance, envy that gnaws away at us, shame after we have put our foot in it, or anger that can barely be controlled.
When in love, we are often absent-minded and an unfulfilled longing overshadows our days. Are we able to control our emotions or
do they govern us? Claus Peter Simon traces these fascinating questions and shows us why our actions are almost always based on
emotional decisions.
Only when we understand how emotions come about and how they
work can we competently deal with them, use them as signposts
and make wiser decisions.
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Non-Fiction/Popular Science
Non-Fiction/Popular Science
Thomas de Padova
Leibniz, Newton and the Invention of Time
Konrad Stöckel
How to Turn off the Light with AC/DC
and Other Wonders of the World of Knowledge
At the beginning of the 18th century, Isaac Newton
and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz unleash a heated debate, which has continued to be a topic of discussion
for mathematicians and philosophers up to the present day: What is this phenomenon we call “time”?
Thomas de Padova draws a vivid picture of an epoch
in which time became a fiercely discussed topic in the
field of sciences and in which clocks began to rule our
daily life.
About the Book
If you have always wanted to know how far
a coke rocket flies, how washing-to-go works
and how the light can be turned off with
hardrock, then Konrad Stöckel and his crazy
adventures between science and madness are
perfect for you. Fearless and with full physical
play, he shows us everything there is to know
about his fantastical experiments and incredible test arrangements, scientifically profound
tricks and his numerous mad inventions – entertaining and full of surprising conclusions.
About the Book
On the basis of the lives of Leibniz and Newton,
Thomas de Padova unfurls the history of our concept
of time. He shows why time became omnipresent at
the turn of the 18th century and thereby a central
topic of the sciences. A captivating expedition to the
accelerated world of modern history.
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September 2013
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Thomas de Padova was born in 1965. He studied Physics and Astronomy in Bonn and Bologna.
He lives in Berlin as a freelance journalist. With Piper Verlag he has published The Nursery Academy (Die Kinderzimmerakademie), Science for the Beach (Wissenschaft im Strandkorb), Smart
After Eight (Schlau nach acht) and Reaching for the Stars (Das Weltgeheimnis), the well-received
work about Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei.
More about the author: thomasdepadova.com
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Crass experiments – don’t try this at home!
Scientific expert and TV comedian, Konrad Stöckel is an enthusiastic collector of curiosities, a genuine magician and tester of crazy
things. For many years he has performed mad and dangerous yet
entertaining (self-)experiments on his live performances and TV
shows, where he explains scientific concepts in a humorous and
catchy way.
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© Julia Zenk
The dispute between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz developed into an affair of state. Their
decisive discussion about the nature of time marked
the cataclysmic transformation of the concept of time
in an age in which the precision of mechanical clocks
increased fundamentally: clock faces were suddenly
able to differentiate minutes and seconds and owning a clock became something that was very much
taken for granted by the middle classes in cities.
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Non-Fiction/Adventure
Non-Fiction/Adventure
Andreas Kieling
Kerstin Plehwe
The Wisdom of the Elephants
Mating Season
Tracking Animal Love Life
Documentary filmmaker Andreas Kieling
spends months with animals and watches the
circle of life up close. He watches the rut in the
Eifel region; in the Congo he witnesses how
dedicatedly stately silverbacks care about their
offspring. He recounts his most exciting trips,
which lead him to love-crazed lions, to river
dolphins and rare desert elephants, but also
encounters with native animals: the love life of
frogs and hares, the mating habits of mountain
cocks, Alpine newts or hedgehogs. He tells us
about which animals form monogamous relationships and which prefer to surround themselves with a harem. He answers the question
of whether concepts like family planning or
jealousy exist in the animal kingdom. He also
reveals the species that resemble the human
one the most when it comes to their sexual behaviour.
What My Job as a Ranger in
Kruger National Park Taught me for Life
When watching from the outside, everything seems to
go according to plan in Kerstin Plehwe's life. A successful enterprise, sports car, happiness in her personal
life. Until the manager is suddenly confronted one day
with a question about her biggest childhood dream
– and she remembers: South Africa, where she lived
when she was a little girl, and her dream to work as a
ranger in Kruger National Park.
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© Thore Kieling
More than 250.000 copies of Andreas Kieling’s books sold
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Andreas Kieling, born in 1959 in Gotha, escaped
from the GDR in 1976. He has travelled the world
filming animals; for more than ten years he lived in
Alaska with wild grizzlies. The prize-winning documentary filmmaker is also known through his TV
shows. His publications include the best-seller Ein
deutscher Wandersommer. Andreas Kieling lives in
the Eifel mountains with his family.
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And because dreams don’t have an expiry date, she
returns to the country of her childhood: As the only
woman in a group of rangers in the African wilderness,
she learns to track leopards, to understand elephant
herds and to surmount many obstacles. By the end,
she has become a fully trained ranger, and someone
who has got to know herself and her life in a better and
more intense way. A gripping tale full of wisdom, humour and inspiration, which encourages every reader
to follow their dreams.
An Unforgettable Adventure!
Kerstin Plehwe is a passionate manager and a convinced thrill-seeker who walks
the line between politics, economy and society. The communications expert and
publicist is the author of Female Leadership – The Power of Women and has founded a trust, which supports girls and women worldwide. Having previously lived in
South Africa, the US and Japan, she currently works in Berlin and Hamburg.
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Non-Fiction/Adventure
Felix Baumgartner
• Extensive media coverage!
With Thomas Becker
I’m going home now
My Life in Free Fall
SUPERSONIC.
Breaking the sonic barrier in free fall: On October 14th, 2012, BASE jumper Felix Baumgartner
topped his career and went down in the history
of adventure and research with a spectacular
jump from a height of 39 000 meters (128,000
feet). Now he tells the story behind the breathtaking pictures that go around the world –
spellbinding and exclusive.
About the Book
In 1999, he jumps from the hand of the Christ
the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, in 2003
he skydives across the English Channel, in 2007
he throws himself off the world’s highest office building in Taiwan. With these and many
other pioneering feats – accomplished under
adverse and sometimes illegal conditions – he
created unforgettable images. And yet, these
adventures were little more than a prelude to
an enterprise of ungraspable dimensions: His
jump from the edge of space which made him
the first man to break the sonic barrier during
this highest and longest free fall.
What motivates Baumgartner? What is it like to
rush towards earth head first, for several minutes, at a speed of 1342 km/h (834 mph)? How
do you prepare for the unprecedented? One of
the biggest adventures of the 21st century and
an inside perspective of Mission Stratos.
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Non-Fiction/Adventure
Himmels
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sturmer
Felix Baumgartner
Mein Leben
iM freien
faLL
• 8 million people watched the
LIVEstream on Youtube (world record)
» Congratulations to Felix Baumgartner for an
outstanding, inspiring display of courage.«
Arnold Schwarzenegger
» A Modern Superman.«
Süddeutsche Zeitung
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Felix Baumgartner, born in Salzburg in 1969, was the first man to cross
the English Channel in flight without motorized help. He completed
the probably most difficult BASE jump of all times – into a 190 m deep,
bottle-shaped cave shaft in the Croatian Velebit mountains. After completing Mission Stratos, he wants to retire: As a helicopter pilot.
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