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<strong>foreign</strong> <strong>rights</strong> spring 08<br />
fiction/historical<br />
Oliver Pötzsch<br />
The Executioner’s Daughter<br />
Tereza Vanek<br />
Libussa’s Dream<br />
On the trail of a child killer – the executioner investigates<br />
Soon after the 30-years-war ended in 1648, a drowning boy is rescued from the river in the idyllic Upper<br />
Bavarian town of Schongau. A tattoo suggests he has been a victim of witchcraft and the inhabitants of<br />
Schongau immediately suspect the local midwife. The executioner Jakob Kuisl is expected to extract a confession<br />
from her under torture, but he is convinced of the old woman’s innocence. Assisted by his daughter<br />
Magdalena and the town’s young physician he starts looking for the culprit.<br />
Oliver Pötzsch, born in 1970, has for many years been a scriptwriter for Bavarian television, working<br />
primarily for the satirical culture programme “quer”. He is himself a descendant of the Kuisl-family, Bavaria’s<br />
leading dynasty of executioners, who plied their grisly trade from the 16th to the 19th century.<br />
Ullstein +++ historical crime thriller +++ 350 pages +++ € 7,95 +++ ISBN 978-3-548-26852-1<br />
April 2008<br />
The founding of the city of Prague in a spectacular historical novel<br />
It is the middle of the 8 th century in central Bohemia, on the banks of the river Vltava. When Libussa is<br />
unexpectedly chosen to be the ruler of her people, she refuses to forgo her lover, Premysl, a farmer’s son.<br />
By using a clever ruse she contrives to make the Goddess pronounce that Premysl is her preordained husband.<br />
Together the couple founds a new town on the banks of the Vltava, which will bring prosperity and<br />
splendour to their people. But the Franconian warriors of Christendom are determined to expel Libussa and<br />
eradicate her old religion by force.<br />
Tereza Vanek, born in 1966 in Prague, moved to Germany with her parents as a child. After studies<br />
in philology, she worked in London. On her return to Prague she was a lecturer in <strong>foreign</strong> languages. Tereza<br />
Vanek now lives and works in Munich. She is currently working on a sequel covering the descendants of<br />
Libussa.<br />
Ullstein +++ historical novel +++ 400 pages +++ € 8,95 +++ ISBN 978-3-548-26777-7 +++ June 2008<br />
contact Susanna Schäfer +++ susanna.schaefer@ullstein-buchverlage.de +++ phone +49 (0)30 23456 450 +++ fax +49 (0)30 23456 515
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