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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. 6
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.. 7
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