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FICTION 2 Mirko Bonné: Nie mehr Nacht 3 Helene Hegemann: Jage zwei Tiger 4 Friedrich Christian Delius: Die linke Hand des Papstes 5 Ralph Dutli: Soutines letzte Fahrt DEBUTS 8 Michael Fehr: Kurz vor der Erlösung 9 Sarah Stricker: Fünf Kopeken 10 Henriette Vásárhelyi: immeer 11 Stefanie de Velasco: Tigermilch 12 Katharina Hartwell: Das Fremde Meer FICTION 14 Matthias Politycki: Samarkand Samarkand 15 Markus Ramseier: Vogelheu 16 Uwe Timm: Vogelweide 17 Anna Weidenholzer: Der Winter tut den Fischen gut SHORT STORIES 22 Christoph W. Bauer: In einer Bar unter dem Meer 23 Ann Cotten: Der schaudernde Fächer CRIME FICTION 24 Andrea Gerster: Ganz oben 25 Judith W. Taschler: Die Deutschlehrerin CHILDREN and YOUNG ADULTS 28 Tamara Bach: Marienbilder 29 Finn-Ole Heinrich: Die erstaunlichen Abenteuer der Maulina Schmitt – Mein kaputtes Königreich 30 Charlotte Inden: Anna und Anna 31 Johanna Rosen: Liberty Bell. Das Mädchen aus den Wäldern NON-FICTION 33 Martin Mittelmeier: Adorno in Neapel 34 Hans-Peter Riegel: Beuys. Die Biographie 35 Jennifer Teege, Nikola Sellmair: Amon. Mein Großvater hätte mich erschossen 36 Peter Bieri: Eine Art zu leben – Über die Vielfalt menschlicher Würde 37 Katharina Diel-Gligor, Wolfgang Gründinger, Ali Aslan Gümüsay: 7 Tugenden Reloaded. Zukunftsmodelle des Think Tank 30. Deutsche Gesellschaft des Club of Rome A FORGOTTEN GEM 38 Alfred Döblin: Die Ermordung einer Butterblume POETRY 39 José F. A. Oliver, translated by Romy Fursland ARTICLES and INTERVIEWS 6 The Rise of Literary Agents in the German Book Market, by Holger Heimann 7 The Amazon’s Writer-in-Residence: Ingo Schulze, by Raphaela Sabel 13 Publisher Focus: Readux Translator Focus: Jamie Bulloch 19 Juli Zeh, by Sally-Ann Spencer 26-27 Writer-in-Residence Programmes in the UK, with an extract from Der nächtliche Lehrer by Klaus Böldl, translated by Jean Darvill 32 Angela Krauß, by Julie Klassen NEWS AND INFORMATION 7 Highlights of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2013 18 New German-Language Literature Prize in America, by Grace Moss 20-21 NBG Choices – New and Forthcoming Publications in English Translation 40 Applying for Translation Grants German Book Prize 2013
Dear Reader, It is a real pleasure and privilege to introduce this bold new issue of New Books in German. So popular were our last three issues themed around the literary scenes of Berlin, Zurich and Vienna that we decided to keep up the momentum by curating this issue with the theme ‘Creative Minds,’ in its many interpretations and guises. From the off we see creative minds at work in the incredible selection of highly original titles chosen by our committees. In Martin Mittelmeier’s acclaimed biography of Theodor Adorno, we see how the theory of the Frankfurt School may have been inspired by the Italian tourist trail; the protagonist of Friedrich Christian Delius’ novella Die Linke Hand des Papstes translates the Pope’s gestures into an entire history of modern civilisation; and Michael Fehr fittingly describes his extraordinary experimental debut Kurz vor der Erlösung as ‘Seventeen Sentences’. Our Writer-in-Residence feature will help you get acquainted with which influential Austrian, German and Swiss writers will soon be gracing our shores, and our profiles of writers Angela Krauß and Juli Zeh should leave you with a sense of their pioneering subject-matter and form respectively. But writers aren’t the only ones with creative prowess, as our feature on The Rise of Literary Agents in the German Book Market proves. The wealth of events happening at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, and highlighted in this issue, will also help stir up exciting new innovative practice, as well as dynamic intercultural dialogue with guest nation Brazil. You may uncover a further theme for this issue in the form of grandparent-grandchild relationships, perhaps a new take on Elternliteratur, in both their nurturing and their destructive forms. Anna und Anna by Charlotte Inden is a witty and touching exchange of letters between a grandmother and her granddaughter; Flo in Markus Ramseier’s Vogelheu will do anything for her grandfather; and young readers will love Paulina’s strange but comforting granddad in Finn-Ole Heinrich’s new book. Then there is Jennifer Teege’s captivating autobiography on how she came to terms with discovering that her grandfather was arch-Nazi Amon Göth. Perhaps the greatest thing about putting together New Books in German is getting to work alongside people with a shared, tireless passion for German-language literature and literary translation. No stranger to our NBG Choices of translated titles is Anthea Bell, who has retired from our Steering Committee after many years of participation. On behalf of everyone involved with the project, I would like to warmly thank Anthea for her insight, expertise and her continuing unsurpassed dedication to translation. For this issue, thanks must go to Grace Moss at the German Book Office in New York and our outstanding editorial assistants Romy Fursland, Kerstin Germer, Andrew Hayden and Jenny Watson. Our editorial consultant Sheridan Marshall has surpassed herself with endless superb advice and her indefatigable talent for writing. We hope you discover something within these pages that intrigues you, and we can’t wait to hear what you think… © James Robjant Information for Editors n The selection process for books that we review in NBG is entirely independent. n For each issue, we start with approximately 150 titles. At our first editorial meeting we select around seventy of these to send to our experienced team of reviewers. n Our reviewers are translators, academics, editors and agents – all extremely well-read and with a good feel for the market. n At our second editorial meeting, our committee discusses the reviews and selects approximately thirty titles for the issue. n Our Editorial Committee comprises some regular members – translator Shaun Whiteside, agent Tanja Howarth, bookseller Jonathan Ruppin of Foyles – as well as representatives from the Austrian, German and Swiss cultural institutes in London. n Different guest members are invited to join the committee each time, and include publishers, literary agents, booksellers and translators. n We have juries in both London and the United States. The American jury consists of literary scouts, critics and editors, as well as members of the German Book Office and Goethe-Institut in New York. n Our only guiding principle when selecting the books is quality: we are looking for outstanding works and voices, works which should have a chance even in the tricky British and American market and internationally. n All fiction books featured in New Books in German and bought by an English-language publisher are guaranteed a grant. Non-fiction books by German and Swiss authors are guaranteed a grant (see page 40). 1
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Page 7 and 8: Ralph Dutli Soutines letzte Fahrt (
Page 9 and 10: The Amazon’s Writer-in-Residence
Page 11 and 12: Sarah Stricker Fünf Kopeken (Five
Page 13 and 14: Stefanie de Velasco Tigermilch (Tig
Page 15 and 16: Amanda DeMarco, publisher of Readux
Page 17 and 18: Markus Ramseier Vogelheu (Birds’
Page 19 and 20: Anna Weidenholzer Der Winter tut de
Page 21 and 22: Juli Zeh - Fighting the Tide Dear G
Page 23 and 24: A selection of books in English tra
Page 25 and 26: Ann Cotten Der schaudernde Fächer
Page 27 and 28: Judith W. Taschler Die Deutschlehre
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Page 31 and 32: Finn-Ole Heinrich / Rán Flygenring
Page 33 and 34: Johanna Rosen Liberty Bell. Das Mä
Page 35 and 36: Martin Mittelmeier Adorno in Neapel
Page 37 and 38: Jennifer Teege, Nikola Sellmair Amo
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Page 41 and 42: José F. A. Oliver has been hailed
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