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Foreign Rights Catalogue
Autumn 2009
Hoffmann und Campe Verlag GmbH
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Fiction :
Contents
Siegfried Lenz, LANDESBÜHNE 4
Wolf Haas, DER BRENNER UND DER LIEBE GOTT 6
Matthias Politycki, JENSEITSNOVELLE 7
Gerhard Henschel, JUGENDROMAN 8
Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker, MAGDALENABERG 9
Asta Scheib, DAS SCHÖNSTE, WAS ICH SAH 10
Doris Gercke, PASEWALK 11
Konrad Hansen, DIE KINDER DER MEERFRAU 12
Heike-Melba Fendel, NUR DIE 13
Silvia Roth, SCHATTENRISS 14
Marcel Reich-Ranicki, MEIN BÜCHNER – MEIN KLEIST 15
Walter Helmut Fritz, GESAMTWERK 16
Non-Fiction :
Perry Kretz, AUGEN AUF UND DURCH! MEIN LEBEN
ALS FOTOREPORTER 18
Stefan Aust, DEUTSCHLAND, DEUTSCHLAND –
EXPEDITION DURCH DIE WENDEZEIT 19
Jürgen Leinemann, DAS LEBEN IST DER ERNSTFALL 20
Bartholomäus Grill, LADUUUUUMA! WIE DER FUSSBALL
AFRIKA VERZAUBERT 21
Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, EIN LEBEN IN BRIEFEN 22
Friedrich Dönhoff, »DIE WELT IST SO, WIE MAN SIE SIEHT«
ERINNERUNGEN AN MARION DÖNHOFF 23
Marion Gaedicke, WUNSCHKIND –
GESCHICHTE EINER ADOPTION 24
Christoph Nagel/Michael Pahl, 100 JAHRE FC ST. PAULI:
DER VEREIN UND SEIN VIERTEL 25
Cadeau (Gift Books):
Iris Luckhaus/Matthias Klesse, DIE WUNDERBARE WELT DER
LILY LUX 27
Iris Luckhaus, KÜHLSCHRANKMAGNETEN 28
Irene Becker, Claas Janssen, AMOROSKOP –
WER WIRKLICH ZU MIR PASST 29
Tania Schlie/Katrin Traoré/Peter Gaymann, DAS FREUNDINNEN
BUCH 30
Helge Jepsen, MÄNNERSPIELZEUG 31
Ingeborg Gleichauf, HEIMATKUNDE SCHWARZWALD 32
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Fiction
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Dispatch: October 2009
224 pages
Siegfried Lenz
Landesbühne
The Regional Theatre
Company
Novel
The Provincial Theatre Company - Siegfried Lenz’s new novel
Perhaps hope is the ultimate wisdom of fools.
He never conceals his fundamentally positive attitude to life; he is never ashamed of his
sincerity and warm-hearted kindliness towards his fellowmen. (Marcel Reich-Ranicki)
After his extremely successful novella A Minute’s Silence and the play The Guinea Pig,
Siegfried Lenz has written a new novel. The story begins in a prison and gathers momentum
as a group of engaging delinquents make off with a visiting theatre company’s bus.
Hannes is a born artist. He attempted to improve his modest income at a motorway exit in
North Germany with the help of a purloined police sign – shortly afterwards he was found
out. Clemens, whom they all just call ‘The Professor’, had passed his prettiest doctorate
candidates summa cum laude – overlooking certain matters on the way. The two now share a
tolerably comfortable cell and the dreariness of a local prison. When a theatrical company
turns up their prospects of freedom suddenly change: the company’s bus leaves the prison
before the end of the play being performed on a set in the dining-hall. And when Hannes,
‘The Professor’ and the others arrive in their stolen bus in a town in summer festival mode, it
looks as though they were expected. The old lags turn into a strangely costumed troop of
actors and relationships in the orderly little town are in disarray...
After A Minute’s Silence Siegfried Lenz has given us a fast-moving picaresque novel.
A hectic adventure!
Open, sesame – I want to get out! With delicate humour Siegfried Lenz turns his
prisoners into actors.
Die Zeit: Which is your best book? Lenz: the one I’m working on at the moment,
because it is the most difficult, because it isn’t yet finished, because I am racking my
brains over it – and because it gives me hope.
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Siegfried Lenz, born in Lyck in East Prussia in 1926, is one of
the most important and widely-read writers in post-war and
present-day literature. His works have been published since 1951
(Es waren Habichte in der Luft - There were Hawks in the Air)
by Hoffmann und Campe and has won numerous prizes,
including the Goethe Prize from the city of Frankfurt-am-
Main, the German Booksellers’ Peace Prize and the Lew-
Kopelew Prize for Peace and Human Rghts 2009. His most
recent novel Schweigeminute (A Minute’s Silence, 2008) is a
longtime bestseller. It has sold 370.000 copies and rights have
been sold to a large number of foreign publishers.
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Dispatch: August 2009
224 pages
Wolf Haas
Der Brenner und der
liebe Gott
Brenner and God
Novel
Believe it or not, Brenner is here again. An unprecedented come-back.
Wolf Haas astounded and delighted the literary world with his novel The Weather 15
years ago (‘A genre invention of genius. A brilliant, wildly funny showpiece,’
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). Now he has produced his next surprise out of a hat.
The private detective Simon Brenner is back. And how!
At last Brenner has found a good job and even a friend for life, because there is nowhere
better for getting to know each other than on the motorway. This is how Brenner and little
Helena become loving friends while he is chauffering her to and fro between her mother in
Vienna and her father in Kitzbühel. But the problems do not begin with the child but with the
parents. Helena’s mother runs a clinic which is being besieged by anti-abortionists and
Helena’s father, a property tycoon, has just secured a massive contract to turn the Vienna
Prater into an amusement park. In this scenario Brenner can hardly be surprised that
something goes wrong again.
‘Wolf Haas writes quite simply the best crime novels in the German language.’
Denis Scheck
Wolf Haas was born in 1960 in Maria Alm in the Steinerne
Meer mountain range in Austria. He became famous for his
crime novels featuring the private detective Brenner. This
successful series was awarded the German Crimewriters’ Prize,
the Literature Prize of the City of Vienna, and the Burgdorf
Crimewriters’ Prize. The novels have been translated into
several languages and filmed for the cinema. In 2006 his novel
Das Wetter vor 15 Jahren (The Weather 15 Years ago) appeared
and was awarded the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize. Wolf
Haas, whose books have reached a total of over a million copies,
lives in Vienna as a freelance author.
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Dispatch: September 2009
128 pages
Matthias Politycki
Jenseitsnovelle
On the Other Side
Novella
A novel about the unplumbed depths of fidelity and deceit
An abysmal day for husband and wife
A compelling story of both love and its worst nightmares
Hinrich Schepp has regained his sight. After decades of severe myopia he at last hopes
to get to the bottom of women and their magnificent incomprehensibility. All the more
when he notices a seductive beauty at the bar in his local being first kissed and then
bitten in the neck by her female companion – something Schepp finds simultaneously
dreadful and auspicious. His life gets really problematic when the very same woman
turns up there again shortly afterwards – as a waitress. But what has all this to do with
his wife Doro’s notes, which he finds one morning on the desk? Or with the cold, dark
lake down into which, according to Doro, all newly dead people must go, to die there for
the second time?
© Mathias
Bothor/photoselection
Matthias Politycki was born in 1955 and lives in Hamburg and
Munich. The ‘Grandseigneur of our literature’ (Tagesspiegel) is
one of the most important representatives of present-day German
literature. He has published novels, short stories, poems and
essays, including Weiberroman (Women’s Novel, 1997) and the
picaresque novel In 180 Tagen um die Welt (Round the World in
180 Days, 2007). His works published to date by Hoffmann und
Campe include the short stories Das Schweigen am anderen Ende
des Rüssels (The Silence at the Other End of the Trunk, 2001), the
volume of poetry Ratschlag zum Verzehr der Seidenraupe (Some
Advice on the Consumption of the Silkworm, 2003), the audio
book Frauen. Naja. Schwierig (Women. Well now. Difficult,
2005), his great novel about Cuba Herr der Hörner (Lord of the
Horns, 2005), the essay Vom Verschwinden der Dinge in der
Zukunft (Of the Disappearance of Things in the Future, 2007) and
most recently Die Sekunden danach (Seconds Later - 88 Poems,
2009).
A full catalogue of his works, reading dates, press reviews, awards
etc can be found at www.matthias-politycki.de..
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Dispatch: September 2009
528 pages
Gerhard Henschel
Jugendroman
Novel of Youth
Novel
About the pains of love, homesickness and binomal formulae: the longawaited
sequel to the ‘terribly beautiful Novel of Childhood.’ Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung.
‘God, if only it would go on like this for ever,’ sighed Dieter Hildebrandt in Die Zeit,
after reading Henschel’s Novel of Childhood. Help is at hand for him and other
readers who are eagerly waiting for a sequel: Martin Schlosser thrillingly recounts the
highs and lows of his adolsescent life.
As a thirteen-year old in the small town of Meppen in North-West Germany in the
radiant summer of 1975 Martin Schlosser, the hero of these novels of childhood and
youth, sets out on new adventures which lead him deep into the terrors of puberty and
the struggle with a world which simply does not want to grasp that he is well disposed
towards it: he would like to score goals for Germany and find a great love to make all
his dreams come true. Is that too much to ask? At the beginning it certainly looks like it
and at the end even more so …
‘ Very moving.’ Süddeutsche Zeitung
© Jochen Quast
Gerhard Henschel, born in 1962, is a freelance writer, and lives
near Hamburg. He has published non-fiction, satires, and novels
including Neidgeschrei. Antisemitismus und Sexualität (Screams of
Envy. Antisemitism and Sexuality, 2008) and Der dreizehnte Beatle
(The Thirteenth Beatle, 2007).
He already portrayed the family Schlosser in his epistolary novel
Die Liebenden (The Lovers, 2002) and Kindheitsroman (A
Childhood Novel, 2004). Both novels were published to critical
acclaim.
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Dispatch: August 2009
224 Pages
Reinhard Kaiser-
Mühlecker
Magdalenaberg
Novel
‘This literary voice is telling me that it can be bliss to read and to be alive.’
Arnold Stadler
In 2008 Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker, winner of the Jürgen Ponto Prize, made a
convincing debut in the eyes of both critics and readers with Der lange Gang über die
Stationen (The long trek through the stations). His second novel Magdalenaberg is the
story of a man who is still looking for his role in life and in the freedom of his youth
lets himself be challenged – for instance by Katharina.
There are unforgettable situations which indicate that childhood is coming to an end
and there are experiences which make one suddenly grow up. Joseph is an adult, but
there are still very many unanswered questions in his life. Something between
friendship and love binds him to Katharina although his friend Thomas silently
worships her. Is that betrayal? And then there is the death of his brother, who was
always inaccessible but beneath the surface is so important. Joseph always stood
between Wilhelm and their parents. Once again one is fascinated by this young writer’s
calm yet dramatic narrative style and complete mastery of precise description.
‘The debut of the year.’ Richard Kämmerlings, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
about Der lange Gang über die Stationen.
© Michaela C. Theurl
Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker was born in1982 in Kirchdorf an der
Krems and grew up on his parents’ farm in Eberstalzell, Upper
Austria. He studied agriculture, history and international
development in Vienna. In 2007 he was awarded a literary
residency grant at the Herrenhaus Edenkoben. In 2008 he published
his first novel Der lange Gang über die Stationen (The Long Trek
Through the Stations), for which he was awarded, among other
things, the Jürgen Ponto Literature Prize and the Hermann Lenz
Bursary.
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Dispatch: September 2009
360 pages
Asta Scheib
Das Schönste, was ich
sah
The Loveliest Thing
I Saw
Historical Novel
‘Giovanni Segantini and Luigia Bugatti: He painted her when she was little
more than a child. He loved her passionately all his life.
Giovanni Segantini is put into a reform school as a seven-year old orphan. At the age
of twenty he is accepted by the Accademia Brera in Milan. A few years later the gallery
owners tear his pictures out of his hands. A novel about an artist’s life and an unusual
love.
When Giovanni Segantini enrols at the Accademia Brera, he has passed through a
traumatic childhood and youth. He is down-at-heel, hungry and penniless. Nevertheless
he becomes the closest friend of Carlo Bugatti, a member of a rich middle-class
Milanese family who is also studying at the Brera and has already made a name for
himself as a cabinet-maker. Carlos’s beautiful, spoilt sister Luigia falls in love with the
shy Giovanni who, to the astonishment of everyone at the Brera, wins one prize after the
other. The painter and Luigia live together and have four children. Theirs is a turbulent
life but Luigia’s dedication to Giovanni’s art and his unshakable love for her steel them
against all vicissitudes.
© Thomas Gebauer /
Teutopress GmbH
Asta Scheib, born in 1939 in the Rhineland town of Bergneustadt,
has worked as an editor on a variety of journals. In the 80s she
published her first novels and is now one of the best-known women
writers in Germany. Her biographical novel Eine Zierde in ihrem
Hause. Die Geschichte der Ottilie von Faber-Castell (An Ornament
to their House. The Story of Ottilie von Faber-Castell).became a
bestseller. Hoffmann und Campe have published her biographical
novel In den Gärten des Herzens, Die Leidenschaft der Lena Christ
(In the Gardens of the Heart, The Passion of Lena Christ) in 2002
(also as an audiobook), Der Austernmann (The Oysterman) in 2004
and Frost und Sonne (Frost and Sun) in 2007. She lives with her
family in Munich.
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Dispatch: August 2009
160 pages
Doris Gercke
Pasewalk
A German Story
Novel
A story of crime, atonement and reconciliation. A German story.
The young lawyer Lisa despises her grandmother Dora, who is in prison for murder. To
make her granddaughter understand her action, Dora sends her to Pasewalk, the town
where the family has lived for generations. For Lisa the past suddenly becomes a
terrible present there.
Lisa is fourteen when her grandmother Dora is arrested and sentenced for murder. Since
then Lisa has refused to speak to the old woman. She has a suspicion that her action has
to do with crimes dating from Nazi times and that period is no concern of hers any more.
But then, at Dora’s request, she goes to Pasewalk. The town is strange to her but also
familiar – a place which seems to have died and yet is full of secret life. Here Lisa learns
why Dora committed murder. And she has to decide whether she should continue to
regard her grandmother as a monster or find a way to understand the old woman and
accept her into her home. Is she ready to take on her family history?
© picture-alliance/ dpa
Doris Gercke was born in Greifswald and lives in Hamburg.
She writes crime fiction, radio plays and poetry. Some of her
Bella Block novels have been filmed with Hannelore Hoger in
the title role. In 2000 she was awarded the “Ehrenglauser” for
services to the German crime novel. Her most important
novels: Weinschröter, du musst hängen (Weinschröter, you
must hang), Kinderkorn (The Children’s Bread), Kein fremder
Land (No Stranger Land), Dschingis Khans Tochter (Genghis
Khan’s Daughter), Die Frau vom Meer (The Woman from the
Sea), Bella ciao (Bella ciao), Schlaf, Kindchen, schlaf (Sleep,
Darling, Sleep). Her novels Milenas Verlangen (Milena’s
Craving) and Beringers Auftrag (Beringer’s Task) appeared
under the pseudonym Marie-Jo Morell.
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Dispatch: July 2009
576 pages
Konrad Hansen
Die Kinder der Meerfrau
Children of the Woman
from the Sea
Historical Novel
An eighteenth-century family saga brilliantly told. A great historical novel.
One stormy day in 1725 two brothers run aground in a bay on the Baltic coast and
settle there in the teeth of bitter opposition. When shortly afterwards they rescue a
mysterious woman from the water there begins a family saga about harsh life beside the
sea, witchcraft, love and great adventures on the water…
‘The last date they remembered was 14 July 1725. That was the day when they had been
summoned to appear before the bailiff in Sonderburg to answer to the rumour that they
had looked on unmoved as their father drowned. Since then for Ties und Momme days
became intervals between dawn and dusk, they told the months by the position of the
sun and the years by the recurring sequence of spring, summer, autumn and winter…’
Konrad Hansen’s novel unfolds the fortunes of a family which originates in the brothers’
relationship with Lena, the woman from the sea. Hansen paints life by the sea in strong
colours, carries his readers with him on a whaler to the Greenland Sea and on a slave ship
to the sugar plantations of the Caribbean.
© Karin Rocholl
Konrad Hansen was born in 1933 in Kiel and has been a radio
producer and theatre director. Through his numerous stage and
radio plays he ranks as one of the most important writers in Low
German literature. In 1992 his first successful historical novel,
Die Männer vom Meer (The Men from the Sea) appeared. It was
followed in1998 by Simons Bericht (Simon’s Report), in 2000
by Die Rückkehr der Wölfe (The Return of the Wolves) and in
2005 by Der wilde Sommer (The Wild Summer). He lives with
his wife on the Kiel Fjord.
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Dispatch: August 2009
180 pages
Tense, cheeky, charming
Heike-Melba Fendel
nur die
Ein Leben in 99 Geschichten
Only Her
A Life in 99 Stories
Nothing is as old as yesterday’s emotions.
‘The leading man drank a considerable number of glasses of kolsch. He was famous and
drunk and he came over to our table. You’re a pretty girl, he said to my daughter, and your
mother is very pretty, too. I looked at him and said: We’ve got all we need.’
Embarrassment doesn’t exist, thought the woman with the false name. She flaunts her body
and bears the men no grudge. ‘Live an adventurous life as long as you can!’ advised her
professor and she followed that advice from Brunswick to Rio and from Manhattan to Cala
Ratjada. She has had too many homes, godchildren and abortions and simply does not like
couples. Her feelings are as passionate as the stories in the book and they rarely last longer
than one or two pages. 99 fast-moving stories unsparingly told.
Heike-Melba Fendel was born in Cologne in 1961. She
owns the events and artists agency Barbarella Entertainment.
She also works as a journalist and presenter, mainly on films
and women.
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Dispatch: October 2009
544 pages
Silvia Roth
Schattenriss
Silhouette
Crime Novel
‘The robber spun round. The bullet hit the bank clerk right between the eyes.’
A bloody bank hold-up, spectacular hostage-taking and clues which lead to a dark
chapter in the history of East Germany. The new case for Inspector Hendrik Verhoeven
and his colleague Winnie Heller produces a masterly blend of action and psychological
suspense.
The criminals strike just before the bank closes. Heavily armed, they storm into the savings
bank branch in downtown Wiesbaden, shoot a cashier dead and take the other members of
staff and the customers hostage. By chance Inspector Winnie Heller is among them. But why
were the men after the branch manager who is just then away on business? And why do they
call him ‘Malina’ instead of by his real name? The gangsters finally barricade themselves and
their hostages into a disused factory. While Inspector Hendrik Verhoeven und the special
commission are feverishly trying to unravel the mystery of Malina’s indentity, the kidnappers
shoot the first hostage in cold blood. A nightmare begins for the captives.
‘Ricochet is a worthy and spectacular sequel to Silvia Roth’s highly-praised debut The
Predator .’ Die Welt about Silvia Roth’s previous books.
© Jürgen Bauer
Silvia Roth studied literature, English and philosophy and worked
for several years in a variety of jobs before starting to write. In 2007
Hoffmann und Campe published Der Beutegänger (The Predator),
the highly praised first book featuring Hendrik Verhoeven and
Winnie Heller, and in 2008 Querschläger (Ricochet), the similarly
acclaimed sequel. The author lives with her family in Germany and
Italy.
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Dispatch: September 2009
208 pages each
Marcel Reich-
Ranicki (Ed.)
Mein Büchner
My Büchner
Marcel Reich-Ranicki’s personal ‘readers’ of works by great authors
Marcel Reich-
Ranicki (Ed.)
Mein Kleist
My Kleist
Marcel Reich-Ranicki has compiled some special readers for us. After My Heine und My
Lessing we now have My Büchner and My Kleist. The volumes comprise works by prose and
verse writers which are important to Reich-Ranicki personally – works which he particularly
loves, which have influenced and left their mark on him. He explains his choice in a foreword
to each volume.
‘Modern German drama is unthinkable without Georg Büchner’s achievements.’
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
‘Heinrich von Kleist was a fighter, a soldier, a man who quite often and in his own way even
rebelled against the Prussian spirit, as any good Prussian should.’
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Marcel Reich-Ranicki, born in 1920, was permanent literature
critic of Die Zeit from 1960 to 1973, and from then until 1988
literary editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, where he
still works as a critic and edits the Frankfurter Anthologie.
From 1971 to 1975 he was guest professor in Stockholm and
Uppsala and since 1974 he has been an honorary professor at
Tübingen University. He has received numerous academic and
literary prizes and honours including honorary doctorates from
the universities of Berlin, Munich, Utrecht and Uppsala, as well
as the Thomas Mann Prize and the Goethe Prize among others.
Among his most important works are his books Die Anwälte der
Literatur (The Lawyers of Literature, 1994), his autobiography
Mein Leben (My Life, 1999) and Vom Tag gefordert. Reden in
deutschen Angelegenheiten (As the Day demands. Talks on
German Affairs, 2000). His five-part literary canon came out
between 2002 and 2006.
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Walter Helmut
Fritz
Gesamtwerk
Collected Works
Poetry
Dispatch: August 2009
2400 pages
In a linen-bound decorative case at a subscription price
One of the most important German poets of today.
Walter Helmut Fritz’s works in three volumes: the first is a collection of lyric and prose
poetry, the second contains the four novels which appeared in the sixties and seventies and
the third his varied prose works, the only radio play still extant, a stage play and the essays.
All Walter Helmut Fritz’s writings are impelled by his curiosity about life, his regard for other
people and his love of truth and – naturally – of language. Effortlessly and without false
embellishments the texts reflect his deep interest in what actually happens. This imbues his
poetry and also every thought he expresses about a writer friend with the special clarity and
credibility which distinguish his writing.
The collected edition for his 80 th birthday
© Isolde Ohlbaum
Walter Helmut Fritz, born in 1929, ranks among the most
important German-language poets. For his work, which also
comprises novels, prose, essays and translations, he has received
numerous awards, including the Georg Trakl Prize for Poetry and
the Great Literature Prize of the Bavarian Fine Arts Academy.
Hoffmann und Campe have published his books since 1966, the
latest being the volumes of poetry Zugelassen im Leben (Cleared for
Living, 1999), Maskenzug (Procession of Masks, 2003), Offene
Augen (Open Eyes, 2007) und Herzschlag. Die Liebesgedichte.
(Heartbeat. Love Poems, 2008)
The Editor:
Matthias Kußmann was born in 1966, lives in Karlsruhe as a
literary academic and freelance author.
He has made his name with numerous features, portraits and
reviews for a variety of radio stations and contributions to
newspapers and magazines. He ranks as one of the leading experts
on Walter Helmut Fritz’s works and edited his last two volumes of
poetry.
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Non-Fiction
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Dispatch: September 2009
368 pages
Perry Kretz
Augen auf und durch!
Mein Leben als
Fotoreporter
Open Your Eyes and Go
for It!
My Life as a Photo-
Journalist
Non-Fiction
‘You have to be clever and subtle; but above all, your opponents must also have respect
for you.’
Perry Kretz, the well-known reporter for Stern magazine, has looked down into the depths of
countless human souls. ‘A dead journalist is a bad journalist’ is the motto which has kept him
alive for decades through wars, revolutions and gang warfare.
Whether in Vietnam or in the two wars against Saddam Hussein, in the Balkans or
Nicaragua, in Cambodia or Somalia or as the oldest ‘embedded journalist’ in Iraq, Perry Kretz
has an unerring feel for danger. It attracts him, he photographs it – and he knows how to
escape from it. His main theme is people facing death. How do they behave when they are
about to be executed? What do they feel when pointing a gun at a neighbour? Kretz tells
stories full of the strong human emotions – fear and greed, hunger for power and courage.
Half a century of contemporary history is stored in his experience and in his photographic
archives – half a century in which he never lost faith in God, in humankind or in himself.
Perry Kretz was born in Cologne in 1933 and in 1950 went to New
York, where he began his studies in journalism. After taking
American citizenship he started his career as a photographer for the
New York Post, the Keystone picture agency and the New York
Police Department. Since 1969 he has worked as a photo-journalist
for Stern magazine and above all made a name for himself for his
highly-charged documentaries from zones of war and death all over
the world. Among his best reporting, for which he has won many
awards, are Die Hölle von St. Quentin (The Hell of St Quentin), Die
kleinen Banditen von Bogotá (The Little Bandits of Bogotá), New
York Street Gangs and many others. Perry Kretz lives in Hamburg,
working as a freelance photo-journalist.
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Dispatch: October 2009
240 pages
Stefan Aust
Deutschland,
Deutschland
Expedition durch die
Wendezeit
Germany, Germany.
Experiences at the Time
of Reunification
Non-Fiction
An historic event.
Stefan Aust’s new book is a fascinating chronicle of the greatest upheaval in the history
of the Federal Republic.
Aust was right on the spot when the Wall fell and during the confused years after the ‘second
h-hour’. A book in the style of live reportage and a journalistic adventure story which brings
the events of the reunification period immediately before our eyes
‘That was the day when the Second World War came to an end ...’ This was how Stefan Aust,
then chief editor of Spiegel TV, began the commentary he wrote during the night when the
barrier in the Bornholmer Straße went up and people from the East streamed unimpeded into
the West. Two days before he had sent a reporter and a camera team to East Berlin to keep an
eye on the Wall, because he had a suspicion that something was about to happen there. In his
new book he tells how he and his colleagues experienced at close quarters the collapse of the
GDR and the developments leading to reunification. A thrilling, first-hand report of
contemporary history, close to the people and full of colourful episodes and new information.
Stefan Aust, born in 1946, was for many years editor- in-
chief of the news magazine Der Spiegel and founder, now
publisher, of Spiegel TV. From 1966 to 1969 he edited the
magazine Konkret and from 1970 to 1985 worked at the
Norddeutscher Rundfunk, in particular on the magazine
programme Panorama. He has written numerous book titles
and TV documentaries, most recently in collaboration with
Helmar Büchel, Die RAF (The Red Army Faction) on ARD
in 2007, the screenplay for the feature film Stammheim
(1986), which was awarded the Golden Bear, and
collaborated on the screenplay of the cinema film based on
his bestselling book Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (2008).
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Dispatch: September 2009
240 pages
Jürgen Leinemann
Das Leben ist der
Ernstfall
Life Is Itself an
Emergency
Non-Fiction
‘For decades he has been looking into the souls of the mighty – now he is looking into his
own.’ Die Zeit
The verdict is cancer of the root of the tongue. For one of the most prominent political
journalists, a committed listener and questioner, it means the end of his professional life. ‘I
saw myself as one of those people who become what they are through words. Not just writing;
talking was also my profession. And now I have been struck dumb.’
‘The unchanging sensation of being threatened with death from cancer, my physical weakness
and my mental depression are the reality through which I have to fight my way. I must not try
to evade the truth of my illness but neither must I let it get me down. Two phrases have
become crucial guidelines for me. The first is: reality is everything one has to get through.
The second is a line from a poem by Peter Rühmkorf: ‘Remain shockable and resist’. Both are
of vital importance for me, now that my illness has removed journalism as my school in life. I
have to live with the broad grey zone of unpredictability if I want to stay alive. And I do want
just that; I am now clear about it.’
© Jörg Klaus
Jürgen Leinemann, born in Celle (Niedersachsen) in 1937,
studied German, history and philosophy. He began his
journalistic career with the German Press Agency in Berlin,
Hamburg und Washington. Since 1970 he worked for Der
Spiegel; he was a reporter und head of bureau in Washington und
Bonn. In 1990, after the Wall came down, he went to Berlin,
where from 1999 to 2001 he was head of the Department of
German Political Affairs; from 2002 he was writing for Spiegel
in their Berlin office. In 2004 his bestseller Höhenrausch. Die
wirklichkeitsleere Welt der Politiker (High-altitude euphoria.
Absence of reality in the world of politicians) appeared. He has
won the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize, the Siebenpfeiffer Prize and
the Henri Nannen Prize for lifelong achievement.
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Dispatch: November 2009
260 pages
Bartholomäus Grill
Laduuuuuma!
Wie der Fußball Afrika
verzaubert
How Football Casts its
Spell over Africa
Non-Fiction
Laduuuuuma means Goooooal!
There is more to South Africa than diamonds, lions, Table Mountain and Nelson Mandela.
No-one should know that better than the Africa expert Bartholomäus Grill, who has trained a
youth eleven in Johannesburg. Wittily and entertainingly he takes us through the Republic of
South Africa and the African continent, where in 2010 the Football World Cup will be held
for the first time.
Africa has waited a long time for the World Cup and in 2010 it will take place on this
football-mad continent – in South Africa, the country which overcame the racial lunacy of
apartheid by peaceful means and stands as a shining example of reconciliation. Bartholomäus
Grill describes the significance of the World Cup for the self-confidence of Africans and leads
us through the past and present history of African football. He reports graphically on the
problems, hopes and dreams of this part of the world. All the stories and fortunes which the
author encountered between Cairo und Cape Town over the years amount to the same thing:
they tell how football casts a spell over Africa.
The Africa expert reports on the 2010 football World Cup.
Bartholomäus Grill has been reporting from Africa for Die
Zeit for 18 years and is a member of Federal President Horst
Köhler’s team of advisors on African politics. He has received
countless awards, including the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize. His
bestseller Ach, Afrika (Oh, Africa) was acclaimed by Der
Spiegel as the best book about that continent in the German
language.
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Dispatch: October 2009
384 pages
Marion Gräfin Dönhoff
Ein Leben in Briefen
A Life in Letters
Edited by Irene Brauer
and Friedrich Dönhoff
Non-Fiction
Previously unpublished documents from eight decades – the event of the Dönhoff year!
Marion Dönhoff never wrote her autobiography but did write an enormous number of letters,
some very personal, which shed light on her life-story. Sensitively edited by two of the people
closest to her, they are now published for the first time and illustrated with a quantity of
photographs.
Marion Dönhoff was not only a great journalist and author, she was also a highly gifted
correspondent. The early letters concern life in East Prussia and her ancestral stately home
while later ones deal with the war and her impending departure from her homeland. In her
‘second life’ in the West the Countess helped to build up Die Zeit and became a moral
authority while always remaining frank and lively. As evidence of this, she wrote friends and
family a wide variety of anecdotal descriptions of her everyday life and her travels, she
penned encouraging letters to fans great and small and weighty, sometimes furious,
expressions of her views to leading figures in politics and society. A compelling journey
through a long life.
For her centenary on 2 December 2009
Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, born in Friedrichstein, East Prussia in 1909,
studied economics in Frankfurt und Basle and managed her family
property in East Prussia until 1945. After her now famous ‘ride to the
West’ she made her mark on the weekly magazine Die Zeit as writer,
editor-in- chief and publisher until her death in 2002. She published 25
books.
The Editors:
Irene Brauer, born in Salzwedel in 1944, was a close colleague of
Marion Dönhoff at Die Zeit.
Friedrich Dönhoff, born in 1967, lives and works as a writer in
Hamburg. Hoffmann und Campe published his bestseller Die Welt ist so,
wie man sie sieht. Erinnerungen an Marion Dönhoff (The world is how
you look at it. Memories of Marion Dönhoff, 2002) and Marion Gräfin
Dönhoff, Reisebilder, Fotografien und Texte aus vier Jahrzehnten
(Marion Countess Dönhoff: Travel Pictures, Photographs and Writings
from four Decades, 2004), edited by Friedrich Dönhoff
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Dispatch: October 2009
256 pages
Friedrich Dönhoff
»Die Welt ist so, wie man
sie sieht« Erinnerungen
an Marion Dönhoff.
‘The World Is How You
Look at It.’ Memories
of Marion Dönhoff.
Revised and Enlarged
Jubilee Edition for her
Centenary
Non-Fiction
‘The long-serving editor of Die Zeit was rarely so personally accessible.’ Die Zeit
For Marion Gräfin Dönhoff’s centenary on 2 December 2009: the great bestseller in a new
edition, completely revised and expanded with additional text and photographs
For many years Marion Dönhoff’s greatnephew Friedrich was one of the people closest to
her. He was her companion at home and on her travels. When he writes about this their deep
friendship can be sensed in every line. Humour and controversy, frankness and curiosity mark
this unusual friendship between two people sixty years apart in age. The world is how you
look at it – an aphorism of which the Countess was particularly fond – also contains the last
conversations between the author and Marion Dönhoff by the fireside in her house a few
weeks before her death. With unaccustomed frankness she talks about her approaching death
and sums up her life.
Jubilee edition completely revised with new text and photographs
Friedrich Dönhoff was born in Hamburg in 1967, grew up in
Kenya and lives and works as a writer in his native town. Hoffmann
und Campe published Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, Reisebilder.
Fotografien und Texte aus vier Jahrzehnten (Marion Countess
Dönhoff: Travel Pictures, Photographs and Writings from four
Decades, 2004), edited by Friedrich Dönhoff.
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Dispatch: August 2009
416 pages
Marion Gaedicke
Wunschkind
Geschichte einer
Adoption
The longed-for Child
Story of an Adoption
Non-Fiction
Adoption – The story of an odyssee. The longing for a child and the fight for
happiness.
They want to be a family and face the greatest challenge of their lives: the longing for a
child is the incentive for a couple to decide to adopt from Russia. Neither of them
suspects what a strange odyssee they are embarking on. But in the end they do find
happiness in their lives.
Marie and Peter are a successful professional couple, accustomed to controlling their own
lives. As, against their will, they are still childless, they apply to adopt from abroad. After
many months of preparation and waiting they go to Russia, where they meet their future
daughter in a children’s home. This first meeting touches them both deeply. But unexpected
difficulties demand more of them than they could ever have imagined. In the end Nina’s
adoption is rejected by the court. Marie and Peter resolve to fight to make their dream come
true.
Marion Gaedicke, born in East Germany in 1964, worked for a
many years for the syndicate of public German TV companies.
Today she works as a freelance writer for television and as a
producer for the German Film Prize and has co-authored a
filmscript. She lives in Munich with her husband and two children
adopted from Russia.
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Dispatch: October 2009
416 pages
Christoph Nagel /
Michael Pahl
100 Jahre FC St. Pauli
Der Verein und sein
Viertel
100 Years of St Pauli
FC.
The Club and its
Locality
Non-Fiction
100 Years of St Pauli FC. The inner-city club celebrates; non-established since 1910!
One of the most popular football clubs in Germany takes stock at its centenary. A lavish
jubilee volume presents the history of St Pauli FC for the first time, together with that of its
locality: from the ‘miracle eleven’, which played in the German National Championships to
the ‘victors of the world champions’ and from the no-man’s-land between Hamburg and
Altona to a vibrant leisure district.
The Millerntor stadium is always insanely crowded, the number of season ticketholders
exceeds that of most first division teams and St Paul’s records outstrip those of the
second national division. For many people it is not just a club but an experience of life.
It stands for tolerance, frankness and stubbornness, also because of its proximity to the
most famous red-light district in Germany. The rebellious attitude of the fans with the
legendary pirate flag has since the 80s become a highly criticised myth which could not
have come into being anywhere else in the world. The Millerntor homeground has seen
memorable battles against apparently superior opponents and exciting dramas as the
club’s fortunes fluctuated. This book goes behind the scenes: it is the history of a club
which reflects its times.
Lavish: the pages of artwork
Informative: with chronology and many pictures
The official jubilee book of club, football and locality with many new facts
and pictures. High quality printing in large format
The historians Christoph Nagel and Michael Pahl
edit the stadium’s official publication. They both
studied history and journalism in Hamburg and
have been fans and members of St Pauli FC for
many years.
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September 2009
64 pages
Iris Luckhaus /
Matthias Klesse
Die wunderbare Welt der
Lily Lux
The Wonderful World of
Lily Lux
Illustrated Gift Book
Welcome to the world of Lily Lux. There are a thousand things to discover there.
Lily Lux smiles back
A playful look at the essentials in today’s world. A special book, chock-full with minute
details which tell big stories.
Lily Lux loves life! She can even find little things amazing and turns everything into
something special. Her inventiveness is simply infectious. Not knowing how to do
something is no reason whatever for Lily not doing it just the same. This book opens up a
wonderful world full of spellbinding details. A book like a smile – a book which opens
one’s eyes and just makes the day lovelier. Just seeing the world from another angle!
Let’s have more of it! www.lily-lux.de
Iris Luckhaus is a qualified designer whose studies included Vivienne
Westwood’s fashion class at the Berlin College of Art. Today she
works as a freelance illustrator, stylist and designer for clients from all
over the world. She usually smiles while she is drawing. She has a
passion for secretly slipping in tiny details which can tell whole stories.
Iris Luckhaus lives in Wuppertal and Berlin.
Matthias Klesse is not only a writer, but also an actor, musician and
teacher and is studying for his doctorate. In his dissertation he is
addressing the question of how comedy is created. Together with Iris
Luckhaus he invented Lily Lux and gave her her voice. Matthias
Klesse lives in Berlin and Wuppertal.
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Der Magnet-Ankleidebogen im A4-Format
Kühlschrankmagneten
The A4 magnetic sheet of clothes
Fridge magnets
Illustrated and Produced by
Iris Luckhaus
Dispatch: September 2009
Most appealing: the magnetic Lily Lux
The thousand faces of Lily Lux: Unique dresses and accessories to beautify any fridge
Whether she’s going out for a picnic or an excursion, a walk or a voyage of discovery
around town, Lily always likes having her favourite things with her. Because you never
know when you might need them. Her very favourite things are collected on this magnetic
sheet of clothes: mixing and matching and lovingly designed, they bring fun into the daily
round. For anyone who wants to rediscover Lily Lux and her wonderful world over and
over again!
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Dispatch: September 2009
128 pages
Love’s Wheel of Fortune
Irene Becker (Author)
Claas Janssen (Illustrator)
Amoroskop
Wer wirklich zu mir passt
Amoroscope
Someone Who Really Suits
Me
Illustrated Gift Book
Practical orientation through the jungle of love. Does like go with like? Do opposites attract
each other? This is a conundrum one can solve!
Who suits me? People have always used typecasting to find their way around human
relationships and mixups: am I prince or vamp? Dominatrix or realist? Professor or gigolo?
This book about love types navigates securely through the jungle of relationships. There
are tests for discovering one’s own preferences when with a partner – and to put him or her
under the microscope. The Amoroscope shows us what characteristics we can reckon to
find in ourselves and in our dream partner, what appeals and what repulses – and all with a
big grin.
Irene Becker comes from Westphalia but has finished up in Munich. She
has already published many very successful self-help books. Her latest
one for women is Kein Angsthasenbuch (Not a Book for the
Fainthearted). As she has always believed in the power of humour, she
couldn’t resist a sly wink when examining the subject of relationships
more closely under the magnifying glass.
Claas Janssen illustrates books, which does not stop him from
moonlighting in advertising, fashion design and photography, giving rise
to his technical and artistic versatility. He has already illustrated Das
Glücksfisch-Orakel (The Oracle Fish) for Cadeau.
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Dispatch: September 2009
64 pages
Tania Schlie / Katrin
Traoré (Authors), Peter
Gaymann (Illustrator)
Das Freundinnenbuch
A Book for Girlfriends
Illustrated Gift Book
What would life be like without her? The nicest present for your girlfriend
It’s wonderful to sit together on the sofa with this book. It effortlessly brings out your
thoughts: Do you remember…?
‘She thinks and feels like I do… it doesn’t bother her if we drive round the block three
times, looking for a suitable parking place … I can chat with her about last night’s most
mindless sitcom and she has shared my recent romantic troubles…’ This book reads like an
autograph book full of declarations of love for a girlfriend.
Peter Gaymann, a cartoonist on Brigitte magazine, has contributed a refreshing pinch of
humour; who can have a better laugh together than girlfriends?
Tania Schlie lives in Glückstadt and works as a journalist und
writer. ‘I value Katrin’s singlemindedness and the way she has
taught me occasionally to forget my duties.’
Katrin Traoré is a journalist and lives with her family in
Hamburg. ‘As students we went around Paris together. As the
years pass something deeper has materialised: confidence,
appreciation and collaboration.’
Peter Gaymann has published more than fifty books, which
makes him one of the best-known German cartoonists. Since
Huhnstagen (Chicken Days) in 1984 chickens have been
among his trademarks. His understanding of women is
demonstrated by the success of his ‘Partner Problems’ in
Brigitte. The artist lives with his family in Cologne.
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Dispatch: September 2009
128 pages
At last a gift book for a man!
Helge Jepsen
Männerspielzeug – Eine
beinahe vollständige
Sammlung lebensnotwendiger
Dinge
Men’s Toys. A More or
Less Complete Collection
of the Vital Things in Life
Illustrated Gift Book
Men like their toys. Where does this passion spring from? The secret is finally out. Stage
by stage. In detail.
Everyone talks about how women like shopping and men don’t. A man goes hunting. For
example, when he needs just that one watch with the special features or, of course, that
particular car – not just for driving along the road but for steering superbly when cutting
corners. Men prefer seizing on toys which are technically perfect and perfectly designed –
and have that special something. This book is the first genuine compendium of all the
important objects which men dream about. It reveals secrets known only to a few and will
amaze you with exciting details.
Helge Jepsen began his drawing career at the tender age
of eight – from 1974 to 1979, winning prizes in drawing
competitions held by the Volks und Raiffeisenbank in
Bredstedt, North Friesland. Later he was discovered by
magazines such as Stern, Playboy and Wirtschaftswoche
and has come to be very familiar with the door handles
of most leading advertising agencies. For Cadeau he has
provided two books of cartoons: Be happy and Don’t
worry
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Dispatch: August 2009
160 pages
Ingeborg Gleichauf
(Author)
Heimatkunde
Schwarzwald
Local History
The Black Forest
Gift Book
Wild woods and the wide world
Whether it’s ‘Bollenhut’ (traditional Black Forest hat) or cuckoo clock, this area has
exported worldwide a romantic concept of itself.
Her hiking-boots are never far away when Ingeborg Gleichauf writes about local history.
She leads her readers along secret trails to fabulous views, chooses Heidegger or Hannah
Arendt as her companions, explores a mine and visits a clockmaker. She tells us about the
nymphs in the Schluchsee and the Black Forest maiden, recalls offal soup and seeks out the
best Black Forest torte. This book shows us how outward-lookimg this region and its people
always were and still are.
Ingeborg Gleichauf grew up in Neustadt and studied in Freiburg.
She has written about Hannah Arendt and her book on Simone de
Beauvoir won the Vienna Young Critics Prize. But the Black
Forest keeps luring back this academic with a love of travel, whose
husband and three grown-up children now accompany her on her
trips.
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