foreign rights

foreign rights spring 08
general non fiction
Lysann Heller
The Goulash-Girl
Hungary for Beginners
“I can count from one to ten in Hungarian and say hello, and I know what ‘Cheers’ means. That’s all I need to know.
Or, so I thought.”
The fact that she ends up working as a trainee in the editorial office of a paper in Budapest is something that
25-year-old Lynn accepts quite philosophically. Hungarian can’t be that hard, surely. Big mistake! But she
sticks it out and learns all sorts of fascinating things: that Hungarians really do eat goulash but refer to it as
Pörkölt, and the ingredients include rooster’s testicles. That a shot of Pálinka can be an ideal way to start the
day. That Hungarians are as wilful when it comes to footing the bill as they are concerning their perspective
on historical facts. But also that their charm is simply irresistible.
Lysann Heller, born in 1978 in Dresden, studied in Dresden and Mainz; as a student she contributed to
various dailies and city listings magazines, before she moved to Budapest at the end of 2003, where she has
been working for the Budapester Zeitung ever since.
Ullstein +++ 208 pages +++ € 8 +++ ISBN 978-3-548-26860-8 +++ July 2008
Stefan Ulrich
Quattro Stagioni – A Year in Rome
“Oh, you’re so lucky …” is the general reaction from their friends when they hear that the Ulrich family’s
dream of la dolce vita in bella Italia has finally come true. But life in the Eternal City proves anything
but “dolce”: on their arrival, their flat is in a state of utter chaos and the landlord mistakes their daughter
Franziska’s guinea-pig for a rat. Essential information for these newcomers to Rome: a palazzo is just a very
ordinary house subdivided into flats, children’s birthday parties in Rome are something else entirely, and
Italians complain constantly about the weather, even when the sun is blazing down from a clear blue sky.
Still, the Ulrichs are determined to make the best of it. And finally they discover that life there can indeed
be sweet after all.
Stefan Ulrich, born in 1963, studied law and went on to work as an editor in the news and foreign
affairs office of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. In August 2005 he moved with his family from Munich to Rome,
from where he reports on life in the Eternal City, Italy and the Vatican.
Ullstein +++ 256 pages +++ € 9 +++ ISBN 978-3-548-26854-5 +++ May 2008
contact Susanna Schäfer +++ susanna.schaefer@ullstein-buchverlage.de +++ phone +49 (0)30 23456 450 +++ fax +49 (0)30 23456 515