Foreign Rights Catal 2005

Foreign Rights 

Catalogue 

Autumn 2005

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or contact the agency representing your country 

(see list at the end of the catalogue) 

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80636 München 

Germany 

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Iny Lorentz 

The Travelling Harlot 

600 pages, 3-426-62934-8 

February 2004 

Translation rights sold to Czechia 

A historical novel featuring a strong 

woman, intrigue, a love story, and 

plenty of erotic passion. 

The year is 1410. Matthias Schaerer of 

Konstanz is overjoyed that Ruppertus 

Splendidus, the son of a count, is wooing 

Schaerer’s daughter Marie. Although 

Marie is against the marriage, Matthias 

signs the marriage contract, not suspecting 

that he has just sealed his daughter’s 

fate. Because Ruppert has a fi endish plan. 

On the eve of the wedding, men arrive 

who accuse Marie of prostitution. Ruppert 

has his bride thrown in a dungeon and 

raped. Then she is convicted of prostitution 

and run out of town. 

Marie has no alternative but to take to the 

road. She meets Hiltrud, the “woman of 

pleasure” who nurses her back to health. 

Soon Marie gives up hope that her father 

will come to her rescue. If she does not 

want to kill herself, she only has one alternative: 

she has to become a travelling 

whore just like Hiltrud. But sooner or later, 

she longs to get revenge on her dastardly 

betrothed. 

Iny Lorenz, born in Cologne, had a varied 

career before starting work as a programmer 

at a Munich-based insurance company. 

Her fi rst novel, The Castrata, was 

a great success. 

Iny Lorentz 

The Lady of the Castle 

600 pages, 3-426-66113-6 

May 2005 

Another exciting historical novel by 

Iny Lorentz, the sequel to THE TRA- 

VELLING HARLOT 

The former “travelling harlot” Marie is leading 

a pleasant life in a little city on the 

Rhine, as the wife of Michel, the lord of the 

castle. But in Bohemia a war is raging on, 

and at the urging of the German Kaiser, 

Prince Ludwig sends out 1,425 soldiers 

with Michel as their leader. This stirs the 

jealousy of the knight Falko von Hettenheim. 

After Michel is severely wounded in 

a skirmish, he is left for dead by Falko. 

Marie is now considered a widow, this 

after she fi nally became pregnant in her 

tenth year of marriage. But Kunigunde, the 

wife of the new lord of the castle, isn’t 

going to give her time to grieve, she wants 

her fortune, however Marie doesn’t believe 

Michel is dead. With the help of her 

friend Hiltrud she manages to escape, and 

disguised as a provisioner she joins the 

ranks of the knights who want to join Kaiser 

Sigismund’s army in the east. 

Meanwhile, Michel has lost his memory, 

having taken a blow to the head, he 

doesn’t even know his own name. He is 

taken in by refugees and after he returns 

to health is caught up in the Bohemian 

confl ict once again. 

In the end, Marie and Michel fi nd themselves 

on opposite sides of the confl ict. They 

fi nd a way to communicate and fi nally to 

save themselves. 

HISTORICAL FICTION 1 

Iny Lorentz 

The Tartar Woman 

560 pages, 3-426-62857-0 

July 2005 

Iny Lorentz at her best: the exciting 

story of a brave woman who has to 

pretend to be a man 

Russia, the year 1707: the young Tartar 

woman Zhirin has to see her father 

Mönghir Khan taken hostage by the Russians. 

The victors order the Kahn to give 

them one of his sons as a hostage. But his 

oldest son Bahadur is already dead, and 

his other son is too young. That’s why the 

boyishly slim Zhirin is dressed in men’s 

clothes and, posing as Bahadur, is handed 

over to the Russian offi cer Sergei Tarlov. 

For Zhirin, a diffi cult time full of sacrifi ces 

begins. Not only does she have to hide her 

sex from the conquerors as well as her 

fellow hostages, she soon learns how 

much pressure is being put on the Czar’s 

empire under Peter Romanov. But then 

Zhirin is brought to St. Petersburg with the 

other hostages, where she meets the Czar 

Peter, who doesn’t correspond to how she 

had pictured him. And he’s also impressed 

by this so-called Tartar prince and names 

Zhirin a sergeant in Sergei Tarlov’s regiment. 

But soon Zhirin fi nds herself caught 

in a web of intrigues and planned coups 

and is accused of treason. She’s in mortal 

danger, and only the brave intervention of 

Katharina, Peter’s mistress and later wife, 

can save her. At the end her fate takes a 

turn – and she fi nds love – in the form of 

Sergei Tarlov, of all people.

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HISTORICAL FICTION 

Wolf Serno 

The Travelling Surgeon 

750 pages, 3-426-62164-9 

February 2001 

If you like Noah Gordon, you have to 

read Serno! 

Translation rights sold to France, Russia, 

Korea, Hungary and Czechia 

The year is 1576, the place the Spanish 

Cistercian monastebry Campodios. The 

elderly abott is dying and in his last minutes 

he tells young Vitus the astonishing 

truth: that the abbott found Vitus as a 

baby, abandoned in front of the main gate. 

Vitus leaves the monastery to investigate 

the mystery of his heritage. As a goingaway 

present, the prior gives him a comprehensive 

medical tome in which the 

collected knowledge of the great physicians 

is recorded. 

This knowledge helps Vitus on his many 

adventures as he travels through Europe. 

All the while he continues to investigate 

his mysterious origins. On a dramatic sea 

journey he meets a beautiful, mysterious 

woman, who takes his heart by storm and 

who gives him the critical clue he needs to 

fi nd his family ... 

Wolf Serno was creative director of a 

major Hamburg advertising agency for 20 

years. In 1997 he made the decision to 

write for himself instead of for others. The 

result was the bestseller The Travelling 

Surgeon which was soon followed by The 

Surgeon of Campodios. 

Wolf Serno 

The Surgeon of Campodios 

598 pages, 3-426-62661-6 

February 2003 

Translation rights sold to Czechia, Hungary 

and Russia 

Sequel to the bestselling historical 

novel The Travelling Surgeon 

Having fi nally found his long-sought relatives 

and the secret of his past, Vitus of 

Campodios has every reason to be happy. 

But then his great-uncle Lord Collincourt, 

who is on his deathbed, begs Vitus to 

search for Collincourt’s granddaughter 

Arlette. There’s no need to ask Vitus twice 

– he has loved Arlette since the fi rst time 

he laid eyes on her. But he doesn’t suspect 

how many hurdles await him before 

he can fi nd his true love. 

Other novels published by Wolf Serno 

Death in the Chemist’s House 

400 pages, November 2003 

A breath-taking historical crime thriller by 

the bestselling author set in the 18 th century! 

The Heat Chamber 

350 pages, January 2004 

Translation rights sold to Spain 

A fascinating and thrilling novel about an 

alchemist in the 16th century enriched by 

the author’s in-depth studies of medieval 

medical treatment. 

Wolf Serno 

The Travelling Surgeon’s Promise 

700 Pages, 3-426-19683-2 

November 2004 

Translation rights sold to Russia and 

Hungary 

The long-awaited third instalment of 

the adventure saga 

Vitus made a promise to his beloved 

Arlette before she died: that he would fi nd 

a cure for the Black Plague that killed her. 

He begins his journey to Padua along with 

his two friends, the master and the dwarf. 

After a long and adventurous voyage the 

three friends end up in Padua where Vitus, 

together with a professor, researches at 

the university’s archives. Finally they come 

to the conclusion that they won’t fi nd a 

cure for the Black Plague, but Vitus now 

knows how to protect oneself against it, 

namely using heat. 

Vitus decides to travel back to England, 

but on the way to Venice the three friends 

come up against the plague. Vitus has a 

ring of fi re laid around him and his friends, 

and they plan to remain inside of it until 

the disease has died off. After this period 

of quarantine, Vitus wants to fi nally make it 

back to Collincourt to puzzle out the secret 

of his origins once and for all. And then he 

meets the beautiful Nina...

Marie Cristen 

The Fire of the Beguines 

528 pages, 3-426-66167-5 

August 2005 

A sensuous novel of the Middle Ages 

Flanders, circa 1300: For as long as she 

can remember, the lovely young orphan 

Ysée has lived in Bruges, in the court of 

the semi-monastic association of women 

known as the Beguines. Nobody knows 

that she’s desperately in love with the 

young Cistercian monk Pater Simon, a 

love that must never be found out. 

When Ysée begins visiting the sick outside 

of the monastery walls, the wealthy textile 

merchant Piet Cornelis casts an eye on 

her. Like many of the city’s traders, he 

resents the Beguines because they don’t 

have to adhere to the laws of the merchant’s 

guild. So he plans to set fi re to the 

shed where the pious women store their 

fabric and to kidnap Ysée at the same 

time. Before Piet Cornelis can force her 

into marriage, Ysée manages to escape – 

but where can she go now? She winds up 

falling into the arms of Simon’s brother, 

the knight Mathieu, who has been ordered 

by the King to observe the confl ict between 

the Church and the merchants. 

Mathieu and Simon come to the shocking 

realization that their past and Ysée’s are 

connected. 

Marie Cristen is the author of two wellreceived 

“biographical novels” for Knaur, 

Maria Theresa and Sisi. She lives with 

her family near Munich. 

Eric Maron 

The Princess 

581 pages, 3-426-62647-0 


An opulent historical novel by an 

exciting new talent 

The year is 1722. As Prince Carl Anton 

von Saalstein-Tresskau woos Charlotte, a 

wallfl ower from an impoverished noble 

family, it looks to be a dream come true for 

the girl. But the prince is actually attracted 

to men, and is only accepting marriage to 

prevent his hated cousin Ulrich, reigning 

prince of Saalstein-Mittelstadt, from one 

day ruling his country. 

In Tresskau, Charlotte has to fi ght not only 

against the disinterest of the Prince, but 

also against the intrigues of his lover to 

secure a place in the court hierarchy for 

herself. Also, the cousin does not intend to 

forsake his right of inheritance. Charlotte 

only manages to survive attempts on her 

life by a hair’s breadth, but one of these 

attacks claims the life of her husband, just 

shortly before the birth of her son. 

Now there’s a wide-open battle for the 

right of inheritance, which Charlotte can 

only secure with the help of King August 

the Strong. Finally Charlotte fi nds happiness: 

she marries the man who saved her 

life and her son ascends to the throne. 

Eric Maron was born in 1952. After working 

on the family farm for some years, he 

changed careers, moving into the IT business. 

Maron has been writing stories since 

he was a boy, but this is his fi rst published 

novel. 


Sandra Lessmann 

The King’s Judge 

560 pages, 3-426-62960-7 


An exciting fi rst novel: a tense pageturner 

with plenty of historical atmosphere 

London, 1665, the period after England’s 

civil war: Jeremy Blackshaw has given up 

his career as a doctor to become a Catholic 

priest. But because of the laws that 

suppress Catholicism in Protestant England, 

Jeremy can only work “underground,” 

using an assumed name. Assisting 

him in his work is Lady Amoret St. 

Clair, mistress of the King and Jeremy’s 

protector. 

When Jeremy treats the ill judge Sir Orlando 

Trelawney, he is unwittingly drawn 

into a series of crimes that are plaguing 

London. Orlando is investigating the death 

of his colleague, who was poisoned. 

Some of Orlando’s other colleagues have 

met with the same fate. Obviously someone 

is targeting the London courts. In the 

notorious Newgate prison Trelawney 

meets Breandan, a young Irishman who 

has been falsely imprisoned. 

But is Breandan the sinister murderer who 

killed judges and other members of the 

court? 

Sandra Lessmann was born in 1969. She 

fell in love with England after living there 

for fi ve years. Back to Germany, she studied 

History, English and Art History, her 

main interest being the history of England.

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HISTORICAL FICTION 

Andrea Olsen 

The Saffron Princess 

608 pages, 3-426-62795-7 

December 2004 

“Spicy” entertainment in the exotic 

setting of Zanzibar 

Orient and Occident, love and madness – 

the spice paradise of Zanzibar is the exotic 

environment that Maria Jacobi, the young 

daughter of a Hamburg merchant, fi nds 

herself in at the close of the 19th century. 

Along with the Arab Hafi s, who’s helping 

expand her father’s business in spices and 

perfumes, Maria travels to the East African 

island to visit the friendly trading outpost of 

a Hamburg fi rm. That outpost has connections 

to the court of the Sultan, and that’s 

where Maria meets a noble English colonial 

offi cer, whom she can’t get out of her 

mind and who arouses Hafi s’ jealousy. 

The sudden death of the Sultan plunges 

the island into a battle for ascension. 

Khalid, a courtier who wants the Sultan’s 

throne for himself, acts on orders from 

Hafi s and has Maria kidnapped so as to 

have collateral against the British and 

German colonial masters, but it seems to 

Maria that Hafi s has lost his mind. He is all 

but obsessed with the thought of making 

her his wife. 

To reveal more here would go against 

Hanseatic etiquette. But one thing is for 

certain: behind the façade of a respectable 

Hamburg merchant, father Jacobi was a 

different person, at least in a weak moment. 

Christian von Ditfurth 

The Luxemburg Conspiracy 

384 pages, 3-426-19616-6 


A Le Carré-like thriller focusing on one 

of the most fascinating women in German 

history 

What would have happened if left-wing 

revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg hadn’t 

been murdered in January 1919? According 

to Christian Ditfurth’s fast and furious 

thriller, she would have led the revolution 

to victory. 

But in this alternate reality, the victory for 

the revolutionaries is just the start of the 

problems for Rosa, because she threatens 

to foil the plans of a series of powerful 

foes: Lenin wants to install a puppet regime 

in Germany; Rosa’s in the way of the 

Communist KPD because they want to 

take extreme measures against the dissenters 

in their own ranks. 

Entering this explosive mixture is Sebastian 

Zacharias. Lenin sent him to watch 

over Rosa and at the same time keep 

Moscow informed about the plans of the 

KPD and the progress of the revolution. 

Zacharias manages to become Rosa Luxemburg’s 

bodyguard, and after she is 

nearly assassinated at the Reichstag, 

Zacharias is put in charge of fi nding the 

would-be assassins. 

Christian von Ditfurth is author of The 

21st of July, The Conspirators and other 

historical fi ction. He lives in Lübeck. 

Wolf Kunik 

The Son of the Desert 

384 pages, 3-426-62917-8 


The sequel of The Catalonian – a 

colourful novel on religious war and 

slavery 

In the beginning of the 16 th century young 

Farid experiences a happy childhood as 

an adopted son of the Catalan Xavier de la 

Valle in Marrakesh. The young man 

seems to be naturally very wise and dignifi 

ed. As he becomes older he marries 

Arub, the woman of his heart. 

At that time Xavier reveals the truth to his 

adopted son – he once met Farid’s real 

father and killed him, because he thought 

to be in a situation where he had to defend 

himself. When Farid comes to know this 

now, the bottom falls out of his world and 

he loses faith in his foster father. Finally, 

he decides to make a journey into the 

desert with his pregnant wife, in order to 

fi nd the place where his father was killed. 

On their way the couple suddenly gets 

attacked by a group of Spanish slave traders 

– Farid gets kidnapped, whereas he 

enables Arub to fl ee with their camel. The 

slave traders take Farid to the coast, 

where he has to go on a ship together with 

other slaves heading for the Caribbean. 

Will Farid ever come back and fi nd his 

beloved Arub? 

Wolf Kunik, born 1966, is an author, 

screenwriter, and fi lmmaker. 

The Catalonian (Knaur paperback) was 

published in June 2004.

Franziska Wulf 

The Florentine Conspiracy 

464 pages, 3-426-62692-6 

February 2005 

Part I of an exciting new time-travel 

trilogy by Germany’s master of the 

genre 

One day, the journalist Anne Niemeyer is 

assigned to travel to Florence to report on 

the annual football-like game known as 

“Calcio in Costume.” At a private costume 

ball in a palazzo, she drinks a secret potion 

that whisks her away into the distant 

past, to the Florence of Lorenzo di 

Medici’s time! She meets Giuliano, 

Lorenzo’s younger brother, and falls in 

love with him. But the lives of the infl uential 

family are in danger, thanks to the 

Pazzi family, which wants to reduce the 

Medicis’ power. And Anne is caught up in 

the intrigues herself. When Giuliano is 

murdered, Anne fears not only for her life, 

but also for that of the son she has just 

given birth to. She even suspects that 

Cosimo, the host of the party, is behind it 

all. But before she can investigate, she 

wakes up in the present. She’s back in the 

palazzo, but her host has disappeared... 

Franziska Wulf, born 1967, practiced 

medicine for three years before deciding to 

make a career of her fi rst love: writing. 

This is her fi fth novel for Knaur. The author 

lives in Hamburg. 

Translation rights of the trilogy on 

“Fatima”(The Stones of Fatima, The 

Riddle of Fatima, The Eye of Fatima) are 

sold to Russia. 

Franziska Wulf 

The Guardians of Jerusalem 

448 pages, 3-426-62693-4 

October 2005 

Part II of the exciting new time-travel 

trilogy by Germany’s master of the 

genre 

When Anne returns from Florence and 

from her trip through time, her suspicions 

are confi rmed: she really did have a child, 

and her experiences in Florence were not 

just hallucinations. She turns to Cosimo 

Mecidea to fi nd out more about the mysterious 

“Elixir of Eternity.” He tells her that 

Giacomo fl ed Italy with her son in the 16 th 

century and headed for the East... but 

Cosimo had followed him. 

Cosimo asks Anne to travel to the past in 

his place and, once in Jerusalem, to research 

an antidote to the elixir. Everything 

goes according to the plan, and after 

drinking the potion Anne fi nds herself in 

Jerusalem of 1530. While searching for 

her son, Anne meets young Rashid. 

Though he’s actually taken a vow of celibacy, 

the two become lovers. Anne fi nds 

out from him that two troublemakers are 

trying to drive the Moslems out of Jerusalem 

with rabble-rousing propaganda and 

intrigues. And the two are none other than 

Giacomo and Anne’s son... 


Micaela Jary 

The Pastel Queen 

480 pages, 3-426-19670-0 

March 2005 

Historical fi ction: an impressive portrait 

of a real-life painter 

Venice, 1720: The painter Rosalba Carriera 

(1675-1757) is famous in her home 

country. By now 45 years old, she’s had 

an impressive career – from a painter of 

miniatures that she sold on the Piazza San 

Marco to an artist whose use of pastels 

infl uenced an entire era. Yet her fame is 

limited to Italy. That changes when the 

famous art collector Pierre Crozat invites 

her to Paris. Rosalba rapidly becomes the 

toast of Paris society. Seemingly everyone 

is lining up to have their portraits painted 

by her. Even the young King sits for a 

portrait. 

In Paris, she runs into the man she had 

fallen hopelessly in love with many years 

earlier. It’s John Law, banker and creative 

fi nancier. In 1720, John (who doesn’t recognize 

Rosalba) is at the height of his 

power. Within a few years, the native of 

Scotland has risen to be the nation’s 

greatest banker. With his Banque Royale, 

one of the very fi rst to issue paper money, 

he procures more and more money for the 

free-spending court of Versailles. The 

married man stirs up passionate feelings 

in Rosalba once again. 

Micaela Jary, born 1956 in Hamburg, has 

had several books published, among them 

two historical novels.

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THRILLER/SCIENCE FICTION 

Wolfgang Jeschke 

The Cusanus Game 

720 pages, 3-426-19700-6 

September 2005 

A mystical novel of time travel, by the 

grand master of German science fi ction 

Europe, 2052: Following the great atomic 

disaster in Germany, it’s all about survival. 

A mysterious institute at the Vatican is 

working feverishly on possible solutions. It 

becomes increasingly apparent that the 

key to salvation could lie in the past. 

Biologist Domenica Ligrina and other scientists 

are recruited in Rome for a secret 

time travel project: to journey to 15th century 

Germany and collect plants and seeds 

which will be needed to restore nature to 

the irradiated areas. 

The trip through time proves to be a path 

into a maze, and historical reality proves to 

be a kaleidoscope that can be changed 

radically with unpredictable consequences. 

In Cologne, Domenica is accused of 

witchcraft. Her hopes ride on Cardinal 

Nicolaus Cusanus. Only he, the infl uential 

church reformer and natural scientist, can 

save her from certain death. Will 

Domenica be able to contact him? 

Wolfgang Jeschke born 1936, is Germany’s 

grand master of science fi ction, 

author of novels, non-fi ction books, and 

radio plays, and the longtime editor of 

Heyne Verlag’s science fi ction list. 

Andreas Gößling / H. R. Giger 

Dea Mortis: The Temple of the Dark 

Goddess 

304 pages, 3-426-66200-0 


H. R. Giger’s best-known paintings plus 

previously unpublished work are integrated 

into an exciting, profound storyline 

Get some sleep – that’s all Rick wants to 

do when he fi nally gets home after working 

a long night shift, but Rachel his girlfriend 

is uneasy. She HAS to leave town. Immediately. 

And thus Rick embarks on a journey and 

while driving to nowhere via endless highways, 

his sense of urgency grows ever 

stronger: there’s something out there, 

waiting for him, something he can’t resist. 

After another nearly sleepless night, Rachel 

has disappeared – and Rick fi nds 

himself in a dark, gloomy town where 

seem to be only men, fi ghting in a bitter 

battle. Because deep under the asphalt 

there’s a temple, formed of steel and fl esh, 

and in it a dark goddess hungrily awaits 

her victims... 

Swiss artist H.R. Giger became famous 

for his designs for Ridley Scott’s movie 

“Alien.” The painter’s unmistakable dark 

and dreamlike style has also been seen in 

movies like “Poltergeist II” and “Species.” 

Andreas Gößling has been successful 

both as a novelist (“The Maya Priestess”) 

and a nonfi ction author (“The Return of the 

Angels”). He’s an expert on the realms of 

fantasy and mythology. 

Wolfgang Hohlbein 

Fire 

512 pages, 3-426-66182-9 

November 2004 

Translation rights sold to Hungary 

“Hohlbein combines complex fantasy 

worlds with everyday human problems, 

and avoids saccharine-sweet happy 

endings. That’s what his fans have come 

to expect from Germany’s Stephen 

King.” – Hörzu 

According to an ancient legend, at the 

dawn of existence the cold, uninhabited 

Earth was shaken by a massive explosion 

and spat a piece of earth into the heavens. 

That set a miracle in motion: life came 

into existence, everything started to grow 

and to bloom. 

Millions of years have passed since then 

and no one remembers the legend – except 

for a dangerous sect that wants to 

use its knowledge of the power of the 

moon to meet its own sinister ends. Moonstones 

which have been brought back to 

Earth for research purposes could cause 

the Earth’s „immune system“ to fl are up – 

and the Earth would make use of ancient 

vents: dormant volcanoes in the Eifel region 

which are mistakenly considered 

harmless ... 

Wolfgang Hohlbein, born 1953, is one of 

the most successful of all Germanlanguage 

authors. The bestseller Flood, 

published by Droemer in February 2002 

was his most successful hardcover in 

years.

Thomas Thiemeyer 

Medusa 

400 pages, 3-426-66152-7 

August 2004 

Translation rights sold to the Netherlands, 

Russia and Czechia 

A paranormal thriller set in the middle 

of the Sahara 

Deep in the heart of the Sahara, lies the 

sandstone plateau Tassili’m-Ajjer. Hidden 

there, according to legend, are thousandyear-old 

rock paintings. Hannah Peters, an 

experienced archeologist makes a strange 

discovery: a Medusa sculpture, with 

snakelike extremities and a cyclops eye, 

indicates that there is a cave deep in the 

mountains, where a fantastically beautiful 

and incredibly dangerous object is located. 

A team from the National Geographic Society 

is assigned to search for this treasure. 

Along with Chris, the climatologist of 

the group, Hannah fi nds the long-sought 

temple of Medusa 800 meters below 

ground level. The temple contains a very 

peculiar stone: it can turn air to water, and 

when touched, intoxicating images and 

feelings fl ow from it. Shortly after the 

team’s arrival, disturbances of consciousness 

manifest themselves among some 

members. 

To fl ee the cave quickly would seem to be 

the only hope, but then Touareg rebels 

invade the subterranean passages. Hannah 

and Chris are trapped. They have the 

option to either collapse emotionally, surrender 

to the rebels, or to follow the message 

of Medusa’s eye... 

Thomas Thiemeyer 

Reptilia 

400 pages, 3-426-66153-5 


A gripping science thriller based on an 

authentic Central African legend of the 

Congo – the monster Mokélé M‘Bembé. 

One day David Astbury, a young London 

biologist, receives a call from America that 

changes his life forever: the wife of a famous, 

recently deceased geneticist asks 

for his help – her daughter Emily has disappeared 

while on an expedition in the 

Congo. She was there to hunt the legendary 

monster Mokélé M’Bembé, the sole 

survivor of the age of dinosaurs, which is 

said to live there at the bottom of the lake, 

and whose genetic makeup could reveal 

completely new information. 

The job strikes David as odd, but he can’t 

turn it down, because Emily was his fi rst 

love. He soon meets the other members of 

the search party. Once at their destination, 

they encounter the pygmy Egomo, who 

tries to warn them about the uncanny 

omens that he’s noticed near the jungle 

lake. But it’s in vain: the team foolishly 

heads out onto the water, and soon their 

fi rst meeting with the monstrous being, 

which is beyond anything they had imagined, 

claims a victim ... 

Thomas Thiemeyer’s fi rst novel, 

Medusa, earned him comparisons to Michael 

Crichton, Douglas Preston, Lincoln 

Child and Dan Brown. Thiemeyer lives in 

Stuttgart with his wife and two sons. 

THRILLER/SCIENCE FICTION 7 

U. A. O. Heinlein 

The Infection 

400 pages, 3-426-62954-2 


An exciting, plot-driven spy thriller, 

with dangerous situations in international 

locales 

“If there is a gene for suspense, 

Heinlein has it!” Frank Schätzing 

In New Haven, Connecticut, the scientist 

Dr. Kossoff gets run over. His sister does 

not believe in an accident and asks Idwood 

Green, an agent of the British Secret 

Service for help. Her suspicion is confi 

rmed: Kossoff was murdered and apparently, 

it has something to do with his research 

project on genetically engineered 

viruses. Gradually, Green and his Australian 

colleague uncover a worldwide 

deathly network, which reaches even into 

the highest circles of government... 

U. A.O. Heinlein, born 1955, is a longtime 

Professor of Genetics who now works for 

an international biotechnology fi rm. This is 

his second novel for Knaur.

8 

DETECTIVE FICTION 

Andreas Franz 

The Dungeon 

500 pages, 3-426-62445-1 

August 2004 

A nerve-wracking psychological thriller 

by one of Germany’s masters of the 

genre 

Well-respected car dealer Rolf Lura has 

disappeared, suddenly and without a trace. 

Detective Julia Durant takes on the 

case, and her team soon fi nds clues that 

point to foul play. The evidence looks bad 

for Gabriele Lura, especially when it is 

discovered that she had obviously been 

having an affair for some time with Rolf’s 

best friend Werner Becker. 

The investigation is speeding along, and 

then suddenly Werner Becker disappears 

too. He is being held prisoner in a secret 

hideaway by Rolf Lura, who had faked his 

own disappearance. Lura, who had found 

out about his wife’s infi delity some time 

ago, has become a complete psychopath 

who has only one goal: revenge. But an 

unsuspecting Julia Durant is still looking 

for two dead bodies. Meanwhile Lura 

forces his former friend to accept a diabolical 

deal: Werner will only be set free if he 

agrees to kill Gabriele. 

Andreas Franz’s motto is “keep the 

reader in suspense, and yet give him food 

for thought (but never lecture to him!).” His 

previous novels for Knaur include Young – 

Blonde – Dead, The Eighth Victim, Lethal 

Dose, The Spider Syndicate, and 

Cold Blood. 

Andreas Franz 

Murder in Instalments 

416 pages, 3-426-62600-4 


Translation rights sold to Lithuania 

Sparks fl y between a detective and a 

DA as they try to solve two murders 

Dr. Jürgen Kaufung is found stabbed at his 

offi ce. He leaves behind a number of 

grieving, beautiful women whom the successful 

doctor did more for than just provide 

medical care. All of them are shaken 

by the death of Jürgen Kaufung, and none 

of them seems capable of murder. But 

then Detective Peter Brandt thinks he has 

a clue that points to gallery owner Klaus 

Wedel, Kaufung’s best friend. For district 

attorney Elvira Klein, it quickly becomes 

clear that the crime must have been committed 

by a junkie who needed money to 

support his habit. But then Klaus Wedel is 

killed as well. Is there a connection between 

the two murders? 

The autopsy report reveals a startling bit 

of information: Klaus Wedel was HIVpositive, 

and now Brandt sees the case 

differently. But Wedel’s widow Katharina, 

whom Brandt suspects at fi rst, simply explains 

that she had an open marriage and 

that her husband naturally had a lot of 

affairs. 

Andreas Franz 

Diabolical Promises 

576 pages, 3-426-62831-7 


Julia Durant’s latest case, with a subject 

straight out of today’s headlines 

December, 2001: Two Serbian bus drivers 

who were involved in a white slavery ring 

are found dead in their apartment, killed 

because one of them wanted out. Two 

years later, Maria Volescu, a young Molavian 

who is kept as a sex slave in a 

Frankfurt mansion along with 15 other 

Eastern European women, is able to escape. 

She manages to contact the psychologist 

Verena Michel, who contacts her 

best friend a lawyer named Rita. 

A journalist friend tells Rita his fi ndings 

about white slavery and also about the 

double murder of the two Serbians. Rita 

confi des the fl ight of Maria to her colleague 

Michael Knoblauch and asks him 

for an advice. But what Rita doesn’t know: 

Knoblauch is a customer of the prostitution 

ring and suspects that the woman Rita is 

protecting is his favorite prostitute. Shortly 

thereafter Rita is strangled. A case for 

Julia Durant!

Alexandra von Grote 

Death at Place de la Bastille 

400 pages, 3-426-62700-0 


Maurice LaBréa’s second case – even 

more mysterious than before and again 

set in the atmospheric city of Paris! 

In the vicinity of Place de la Bastille four 

young women get raped and then 

stabbed. Apparently, the murderer is always 

the same person, for next to each 

victim the police fi nd the reproduction of a 

male footprint. 

Superintendent Maurice LaBréa takes 

over the direction of the special commission, 

which has to investigate these cases. 

Then suddenly the culprit strikes again. 

This time the victim manages to escape 

and is able to give the police a rough description 

of the culprit Soon LaBréa fi nds 

out a possible pattern of the murders ... 

Alexandra von Grote’s previous mysteries, 

published by Fischer Verlag, have 

been adapted for television. The author, 

screenwriter and director lives in Berlin. 

Alexandra von Grote 

Murder in Rue St. Lazare 

320 pages, 3-426-62699-3 


Maurice LaBréa, has been a policeman for 

14 years. Following the murder of his wife 

he returns to his hometown of Paris and 

lives peacefully with his daughter Jenny. 

Then one day a fi lm producer is found 

dead in his offi ce and detective LaBréa is 

assigned the case... 

Alex Winter 

A Sense of Murder 

283 pages, 3-426-62781-7 

April 2005 

An Australian detective story with a 

certain ethnic touch and an unusual 

detective because of his aborigines 

background 

On a remote farm in Western Australia a 

pilot vanishes without a trace. His clothes 

found at the shore of a gloomy pond are 

the only clue. Is he drowned? Or was it 

even murder? Detective Daryl Simmons is 

completely mystifi ed. Only by means of his 

special knowledge gained by the aborigines, 

he is able to shed some light on the 

darkness of this case... 

The debut of a detective story series by a 

promising Swiss author, who spends several 

months in Australia every year and 

therefore he knows the country perfectly. 

That is what makes the Australian fl air of 

his book so authentic! 

“Logical plot, cowboy romance, action, 

an unusual atmosphere, thrilling facts 

on the aborigines and their tradition, as 

well as a tender love-story form a felicitous 

debut!” Krimi Couch 

Alex Winter was born in Switzerland. He 

attended a school for applied arts in Zurich 

and then worked as decoration designer. 

The author has been travelling in Australia, 

New Zealand and the South Seas for 

many years. Today he lives together with 

his wife in Uster, Switzerland. 

DETECTIVE FICTION 9 

Alex Winter 

The Dead of Moonlight Bay 

300 pages, 3-426-62849-X 

December 2005 

Daryl Simmon’s second case – full of 

suspense, action and aborigines’ mysticism 

Detective Daryl Simmon has to investigate 

incognito in a small village at the Australian 

coast Moonlight Bay. A young man, 

Tom Grammar fell from a lighthouse to his 

death – the same fate that caught up with 

his father, John Grammar, fi ve years ago. 

Daryl takes a room at the pension of Mrs 

Grammar pretending to be just a holidaymaker. 

Very soon he is told about a series 

of weird incidents in Moonlight Bay. Two 

girls disappeared fi ve years ago – Grace 

and Mary the daughters of George Markham, 

the strange sort of the village, and 

reverend Reed, the only clergyman in the 

region. Several inhabitants of the village 

confi rm that the cliffs near the lighthouse 

are haunted by Marie’s ghost. Even Daryl 

gets to know this “ghost” during his investigations. 

However, he cannot follow this 

apparition and in spite of being really good 

at interpreting tracks, he is not able to fi nd 

a trace of her...

10 

DETECTIVE AND GENERAL FICTION 

Günter Ohnemus 

When the Right Time Had Passed 

320 pages, 3-426-19608-5 


The story of a melancholy ex-Casanova 

– a book like a Truffaut movie 

Robert Schirmer, gets invited to his hometown 

of Munich by his old friend Susannah 

Timmermann. Robert is an author who has 

lived in America for many years. His return 

to Munich stirs memories of his childhood, 

his youth, but above all of the two great 

loves of his life. When his adolescent love 

Una left him, Robert thought he was going 

to die. His marriage to the American Carol 

failed as well, though she gave him the 

greatest thing in his life, their daughter 

Allie. In addition to the affairs that Robert 

had on a regular basis, it was mostly his 

lack of success as a writer that undermined 

his relationship with Carol. 

Susannah is looking for her former love, 

Harry Willemer, who disappeared some 

time ago. She thought she found something 

in Robert’s last book that could lead 

her to Harry, and that’s why she’s asking 

her old friend to help her fi nd him. Robert 

agrees to do so, and in doing so irritates 

not only people who could pose a danger 

to him, but also the most important person 

in his life: his daughter Allie ... 

Günter Ohnemus is a prizewinning author 

(f. ex. Alfred Kerr Preis), a literary critic, 

and a translator. He lives in Munich. 

Previously published by Knaur Reise in 

die Angst. 

Kari Köster-Lösche 

The Flood Brings Death 

350 pages, 3-426-19704-9 


Historical detective story featuring a 

likeable investigator and a windswept 

coastal setting 

Germany’s North Sea Coast, 1894: City 

planner Sönke Hansen knows that the 

only way to save the population of the 

small islands just off the coast is to construct 

a dike. Powerful political interests 

representing the Prussian authorities are 

against such a construction, but Hansen 

knows that the endangered people – 

mostly part of the Danish minority – need 

someone to stick up for them. 

Hansen has a personal stake in the matter 

as well. His own fi ancée, who engaged in 

the outlawed activity of teaching Danish to 

children, was deported and has disappeared 

without a trace. His other problem 

is that he can’t convince the residents of 

the narrow peninsula of Langeneß to give 

up the land necessary to have the dike 

built. 

Suddenly, there’s news of a corpse that 

has been found on the very piece of land 

that’s being contested. Soon the mayor 

arrives and asks Hansen to help him solve 

the murder. 

Kari Köster-Lösche, born 1946, grew up 

in Sweden in a coastal area. Since age 10 

she has lived on Langeneß. She has 

made a name for herself with several historical 

novels. 

Michael Böckler 

Vino Criminale – A Culinary Case for 

Hippolyt Hermanus 

400 pages, 3-426-19694-8 


The wine-loving detective is back for a 

taste of murder in northern Italy 

Hippolyt Hermanus, wine connoisseur and 

former police psychologist, was looking 

forward to dolce vita as he began his vacation 

in Tuscany. But then he gets a call 

from his old friend Roberto, and that puts 

an end to la dolce vita, because Roberto’s 

charming daughter Sabrina has had an 

accident, and she’s in a coma in a Turin 

hospital. So our hero Hippolyt, known as 

“Hipp,” heads for the beautiful city of Turin. 

Hipp soon discovers that there’s something 

fi shy about the accident; Hippolyt 

also fi nds out that the winegrower Gianfranco, 

the father of Sabrina’s friend Eva- 

Maria’s, has disappeared without a trace. 

In the course of his investigations, Hipp is 

accompanied by gourmet and wine lover 

Sergente Viberti. Hipp’s detective work 

leads him to some sumptuous meals, 

many local points of interest throughout 

northern Italy, and of course into dangerous 

situations... 

Michael Böckler’s unique concept of 

travel-oriented suspense novels has 

earned him a faithful following. His previous 

novels include Vintage Murder and 

Died Listening to Verdi.

Sabine Kuegler 

Child of the Jungle 

350 pages, 3-426-27361-6 


• Over 180.000 copies sold in Germany! 

• The story of an exotic, touching, and 

unique childhood leads into the drama 

of a woman who longs to revisit her 

homeland. 

• Highly emotional, exciting, full of 

humor, in parts even poetic (and written 

without a ghostwriter!) 

• Translation rights sold to UK/ USA, 

the Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, 

Czechia, Korea, Italy, France, Japan, 

Sweden, China, Taiwan, Slovenia 

Sabine Kuegler’s story begins as she arrives 

in West Papua (Indonesia) at age 

fi ve, daughter of German linguists who are 

missionaries. She arrives to fi nd a tribe 

which even today lives as if it were the 

Stone Age. She had already spent her 

earliest years far from civilization, but now 

her parents build a house for themselves 

and their three children in the middle of the 

jungle, only reachable by air or by sea. 

The little blonde girl falls in love with the 

jungle at fi rst sight – it’s a fantasy world, a 

playground. She learns to hunt, to climb, 

to swim in the raging river which is teeming 

with crocodiles. She knows how to 

shoot arrows at poisonous spiders and 

how to start a fi re without matches. In- 

Child of the Jungle: 

Sold into 14 countries! 

stead of french fries she eats roasted insects, 

instead of gum she chews bat 

wings. She learns how brutal nature can 

be – but also what war and hatred among 

people can mean. The once-cannibal Fayu 

people penalize every infraction with 

death. And yet the children of this tribe are 

like brothers and sisters to Sabine. 

At age 17 Sabine is sent to a Swiss boarding 

school to get her diploma – a disastrous 

turn of events for her, since she feels 

and acts like a Fayu. “Fear is something I 

didn’t learn until I got here,” she says, but 

also, “Deep inside me is a fi ghter. I survived 

in the jungle, why not here?” And so 

Sabine learns everything for the fi rst time 

– how to shop, how to greet people, how 

to cross the street. Today, after 14 years 

in civilization, she blends in with everyone 

else, and she has a family and a job. But 

homesickness and longing constantly burn 

inside her. She is going to return to the 

jungle to fi nd out for herself: where do I 

belong? Who am I really, a Fayu or a 

European? 

Quote from the author: 

“And here, in the only recently discovered 

Fayu tribe, which stood for cannibalism 

and unimaginable brutality, a tribe that still 

lived in the Stone Age that was just learning 

to love instead of hate, to forgive instead 

of kill, a tribe that became a part of 

me as I became a part of it, this is where 

my life changed. I wasn’t a German girl 

anymore, not a white girl from Europe 

anymore – I became a native, a Fayu girl 

from the Iyareke tribe.” 

TRUE LIFE STORIES 11 

Maria Moreno, as told to Steffen Bayer 

They Took Away My Freedom – Confessions 

of an Illegal Alien 

352 pages, 3-426-27351-9 


The tragic story of an illegal immigrant 

who doesn’t dare be noticed 

Very few people know her true story: 

Maria Moreno, around 50 today, was able 

to fl ee her South American homeland at 

the last minute, eight years ago. Because 

she once dared to tell off a pushy police 

chief, the respectable businesswoman and 

mother was followed and jailed again and 

again. When corrupt offi cials threatened to 

charge her with drug possession, she 

made her escape in the nick of time. With 

a heavy heart, she had to leave her children 

behind. 

Maria hopes to fi nd work in Germany and 

be able to support her family from afar. 

She has to do odd household jobs for 

starvation wages. 

Then the greatest challenge: her children 

aren’t doing well with their father, and 

Maria wants to bring them to Germany. 

Her fi rst attempt fails and almost breaks 

her heart. And when Pablo and Isabel 

fi nally arrive, the problems continue... 

TV journalist Steffen Bayer met Maria 

while researching the problem of illegal 

aliens in Germany, and helps her tell her 

story here.

12 

TRUE LIFE STORIES/HISTORY 

Gabriella Baumann-von Arx 

“Lotti, La Blanche”- In the Slums of 

Africa 

320 pages, 3-426-77790-8 


Translation rights sold to France 

Number One on the Swiss hardcover 

bestseller list: The moving story of a 

woman who gave up her carefree life in 

the West to help people in the Third 

World 

“Lotti, La Blanche,” or “Lotti, the White 

Woman” is the name that the Africans in 

the slums of the Ivory Coast in West Africa 

have given the Swiss woman Lotti Latrous, 

who has devoted her life to fi ghting for the 

poorest of the poor. She’s a woman who 

couldn’t stand to watch the misery in 

AIDS-ridden Africa any longer and, angry 

at the injustice in the world, began to take 

action. The journalist Gabriella Baumann- 

von Arx gives us a portrait of a courageous 

woman with a fascinating personality, 

but also of the people whom Lotti helps 

and comforts. For instance, the young 

mother Noelle, who had to give birth to 

her son in prison, or Aicha, who became 

a prostitute at 13 just to survive. She also 

tells of the orphan Mohamed, who still has 

hope of becoming healthy again. And of 

Monsieur Konaté, who looks after forty 

deathly ill AIDS patients night after night. 

Gabriella Baumann- von Arx is a Swiss 

author and journalist who visited Lotti 

Latrous in Abidjan, accompanied her, and 

documented her amazing life story. 

Renate Menze / Rita Peter 

The Girl Who Went Missing 

224 pages, 3-629-02113-1 


A child refugee tells a story that represents 

an entire generation 

Summer 1946: In a patch of forest in 

northern Germany, a forester discovers 

three abandoned children: twelve-year-old 

Renate and her younger siblings Hildegard 

and Klaus. They’re refugees from Pomerania, 

abandoned by their own mother. 

From a child’s point of view, Renate 

Menze describes how she made her way 

to the forest, and how being driven from 

home and fl eeing made her world collapse. 

But she also tells how a child found 

its way out, how despite being robbed of a 

mother’s love and a roof over her head, a 

child still found its “inner home” and grew 

into a trusting person. 

The story of Renate Menze is not only the 

shattering story of a child refugee, but at 

the same time that of an entire postwar 

generation whose lives began on the run. 

Renate Menze, born 1934 in Greifenberg, 

Poland, revisited the traumatic places of 

her childhood for this book, a trip that was 

to help her come to grips with her fate. 

Rita Peter’s previous book for Pattloch 

Verlag, Great Women of History, was a 

runaway success. The author and journalist 

lives in Berlin. 

Elke Fröhlich 

Scorched Earth 

Germans in the Last Days of the War 

200 pages, 3-426-77825-4 


A riveting panorama of the fi nal days of 

World War II, to be published on the 

60th anniversary of the end of the war 

in Europe 

Scorched Earth presents twelve fascinating 

true stories of Germans in the last 

days of the Second World War. Among the 

stories are the tale of a simple blue-collar 

family in Dresden during the large-scale 

bombing by the Americans, a radar operator’s 

experiences as a prisoner-of-war in 

Russia, and the story of a young Jewish 

woman who avoided the gas chambers of 

Auschwitz because of her skill playing the 

accordion and the recorder. Those are 

only a few of the stories told here. 

Lively and riveting, these true accounts 

show what the end of the war meant to 

Germans. They bring the reader much 

closer to what happened than the history 

books ever could, and they let today’s 

generations get an idea of the horrors of 

the past. 

Historian and political scientist Dr. Elke 

Fröhlich works for the Munich Historical 

Institute. Her point of emphasis has 

been the project The Diaries of Joseph 

Goebbels.

Jürgen Thorwald 

The Flight Westward 

600 pages, 3-426-77806-8 


On the 60th anniversary of the end of 

World War II, an exciting and important 

story 

In January 1945, the Soviet armies broke 

through to the Weichsel. It was the beginning 

of the military collapse of Germany’s 

Eastern front. The attempt to erect new 

defensive positions ended in chaos. Millions 

of people began to fl ee to the West. 

Basing his research on more than 2,000 

documents and countless interviews with 

eyewitnesses, Jürgen Thorwald’s gripping 

portrayal shows us the last months of the 

war, a decisive chapter in German history. 

Jürgen Thorwald, born 1915, is the author 

of two of the most important works 

about the end of the second World War. 

Those books, It Began at the Weichsel 

and The End at the Elbe, have been 

combined to form this comprehensive 

volume. 

Ulrich Völklein 

“Nobody Took Pity on Us” 

The Fate of German Exiles 

352 pages, 3-426-27340-3 


A look at a taboo subject in German 

history, based on interviews and newly 

discovered documents 

The twelve million exiles and refugees in 

the fi nal phase of World War II were Hitler’s 

last victims. His insane fantasy of a 

German Reich cost them their homes and 

in hundreds of thousands of cases their 

lives as well. 

The new fellow citizens were seen as 

dangerous competition in the fi ght to stay 

alive. Ulrich Völklein tells the story of these 

exiles, based on his interviews with those 

who experienced them. He shows that the 

supposed integration of the exiles is a 

myth. Many of those affected have remained 

silent about their experiences, 

even when among family, to avoid endangering 

the longed-for integration. 

The successful integration of the exiles 

was part of the “success story” of the 

founding of West Germany’s Federal Republic, 

and questioning this was not encouraged.Yet 

the focus of this book is not 

politics, but rather the fates of individuals 

as examples of what millions went 

through. 

Ulrich Völklein, born 1949, was an editor 

for the newspaper Die Zeit and later the 

magazine Stern for many years. His last 

book for Droemer was a history of Germany’s 

infl uential Weizsäcker family. 

HISTORY 13 

Kurt Kuch and Anna Plaim 

At the Hitler Residence: Anna the 

Chambermaid Remembers 

160 pages, 3-426-77758-4 


Translation rights sold to Russia and 

Czechia. 

“I have been silent for 60 years. Now 

I’ve told Mr. Kuch my story, so that 

people can learn how it really was.” 

The only living person who made Adolf 

Hitler’s bed and set out Eva Braun’s nightgown 

describes her experiences in this 

book. Anna Plaim was a chambermaid at 

Hitler’s house in Obersalzberg. She saw 

the private lives of the Führer and his wife, 

became a confi dante of Eva Braun in her 

“golden cage,” and gained direct insight 

into Hitler’s immediate circle, which ranged 

from Martin Bormann’s escapades to Rudolf 

Hess’ fl ight to Scotland. 

Today, at age 84, Anna Plaim shares her 

memories. She reads to journalist Kurt 

Kuch from her complete set of letters (written 

in diary form) and documents, providing 

a unique picture of that time. 

Anna Plaim (née Mittlstrasser) was the 

daughter of a businessman in the Austrian 

town of Loosdorf. In May of 1941, her 

cousin from Munich arranged for Anna to 

become a chambermaid at Hitler’s 

Berchtesgaden residence. Three years 

after the war ended, Anna married schoolteacher 

Karl Plaim. Anna is now 84 years 

old. 

Kurt Kuch is a journalist for the Austrian 

newsmagazine News. He lives and works 

in Vienna.

14 

ARISTOCRATIC BIOGRAPHIES 

Norbert Loh 

Silvia of Sweden – A German Queen 

256 pages, 3-426-27333-0 

October 2003 

A comprehensive, richly illustrated 

biography on Queen Silvia for all her 

admirers. 

Silvia of Sweden delights people of the 

whole world with her responsive manner. 

The magazines are full with reports and 

photos of her and her family every week. 

The reporter from court Norbert Loh has 

written a very personal biography. He got 

to know the Queen of Sweden, when she 

was still called Silvia Sommerlath and 

experienced her fabulous ascent from 

Olympia-hostess to the wife of King Carl 

Gustav. 

Norbert Loh has reported on European 

royalty for 30 years for the magazine Die 

Aktuelle. In a fi eld full of scandalmongers, 

Loh is proud of his reputation as a reputable, 

reliable correspondent. 

Norbert Loh 

Felipe and Letizia – The Crowning Moment 

of a Love 

240 pages, 3-426-27342-X 

May 2004 

The second aristocratic biography by 

the well know reporter from court 

– on a topical occasion 

The early summer of 2004 was marked by 

a very special event for the fans of the 

European royal dynasties: On the 22 nd of 

May crown prince Felipe of Spain married 

his bourgeois bride Letizia Ortiz. What 

might have turned out scandalously, 

aroused very much happiness – even by 

the puritanical Spaniards. Letizia, a modern 

young Spaniard, TV-reporter and 

daughter of a normal family is considered 

to be the ideal choice of Felipe. 

Such a magical love story simply has to be 

retold in a book. The biography by the well 

known reporter from court traces the very 

different lifes of Letizia and Felipe up to 

now. It reports on their unromantic fi rst 

meeting on the occasion of the Spanish oil 

tanker disaster and most of all on the very 

romantic secret love story, which culminated 

in a fairytale wedding. 

Norbert Loh 

Rainier of Monaco – A Prince and his 

Family 

300 pages, 3-426-66173-X 

November 2005 

No royal family has as much to tell 

about as the Grimaldis of Monaco 

September 1982: Prince Rainier of 

Monaco and Princess Grace Patricia take 

a stroll in the garden of the Grimaldi Palace 

to talk about the just-completed Red 

Cross Ball and about the future of Princess 

Stephanie. Princess Grace wants to 

travel to the country with her daughter for 

a few days to speak to her in confi dence. 

Prince and Princess say goodbye – and 

will never see each other again... 

Grace’s tragic car accident left an indelible 

mark on the court of Monaco. Norbert Loh 

begins his book with this event, and proceeds 

to tell the exciting story of the Grimaldis 

in the chapters of this fully illustrated 

book. The reader can relive the 

sensational romance between prince and 

movie star, but there’s also much about 

the up-and-down life of the three children 

Albert, Caroline, and Stephanie: why 

Stephanie relishes the role of the “bad 

girl,” why Albert doesn’t want to talk about 

marriage, and why Princess Grace favored 

Prince Ernst August as a potential husband 

for Caroline. 

An extremely popular Prince and his small 

country full of glamour and scandal, love 

and sorrow are brought to life in these 

pages.

Michael Hesemann/Yuliya Tkachova 

Benedetto! – Benedikt XVI. The Church 

is young 

240 pages, 3-629-02104-2 


An ideal gift for the adolescents 

intending to work on Christian belief 

anew 

When Pope John Paul II. died, the young 

people in the world mourned for him most. 

Thousands of adolescents waited for the 

new pope. Benedikt XVI. a close friend of 

John Paul II. took by storm the hearts of 

the young people with his modest and nice 

manner – “Benedetto, Benedetto!” they 

shouted on the Petersplatz. One million 

young people are expected for the “Weltjugendtag” 

(World Youth Day) in Cologne 

this year. The new pope has already explained 

that he places all his hopes in this 

new generation of Christians. The author 

takes up this point in his book introducing 

the adolescents to the person and the 

message of the pope in a gripping way. 

The path through life of the man of Marktl 

upon Inn is told in a suitable style for 

young readers and they even have their 

say with both their enthusiasm for 

Benedetto and their critical inquiries of the 

pope. 

Bestselling author Michael Hesemann 

gained an international reputation from his 

research into Christian relics. He has lectured 

at the Pontifi cal Lateran University 

on his studies and has had several personal 

audiences with the pope. 

Yuliya Tkachova studies history and political 

science in Germany. 

Bernhard Meuser 

Benedict XVI – Our Pope 

A Portrait 

64 pages, 3-629-02133-6 


Translation rights sold to Poland 

An early look at the new pope 

On April 19, 2005, the world received 

news of a true sensation: after almost 500 

years, a German was once again seated 

on the Cathedra Petri. 

Cardinal Josef Ratzinger, the closest confi 

dant of the great Pope John Paul II, was 

chosen by the cardinals from all around 

the world to ascend to the papacy. Who is 

this man, who as Pope Benedict XVI has 

won over the hearts of the people with his 

modest manner? 

This book offers an exciting portrait of an 

unusual man, a great theologian, and a 

close friend of John Paul II. It examines 

early indications of what might happen 

during his papacy, taking a look at his 

previous writings and his position on issues 

such as the battle over the Church’s 

future direction, the dialogue with other 

Christian denominations and other world 

religions. 

A memento of the papal election and a 

philosophic and theological appreciation of 

the leader of the Catholic Church. 

Bernhard Meuser is publishing director of 

Pattloch and the author of many books on 

religious topics. He was awarded the 

Catholic Journalism Prize in 1989. 

RELIGIOUS ISSUES 15 

Johannes Paul II/Bernhard Meuser 

I Am Happy – You Should Be Too! 

The Testament of John Paul II 

64 pages, 3-629-02131-X 


Unforgettable photos and words from 

John Paul II 

“Pope of the Century,” “God’s Marathon 

Man,” and “Master of the Art of Diplomacy” 

are just a few of the titles that the media 

have given the great man of the Church, 

and which we will remember just as we 

recall the legacy he has left behind. With 

his words to the world, Pope John Paul II 

gave us profound insight into his soul and 

into his great trust in God’s leadership. In 

the same hopeful and determined way as 

the newly elected pope Karol Wojtyla once 

called to his people “Non abbiate paura” – 

“Do not be afraid!” even his fi nal words 

and his testament called for courage and 

faith in one’s beliefs: “I am happy. You 

should be too!” 

“My name is Karol!” he had shouted to 

Filipino teenagers in 1995 on his visit to 

Manila, and in doing so captured the 

hearts of more than just those youths. He 

will also be remembered for his fervent 

attempt to speak to the waiting crowds 

despite his serious illness, if not with 

words, then with gestures of God’s blessing.

16 

RELIGIOUS ISSUES 

Crista Kramer von Reisswitz 

The Popemakers: Inside the Papal 

Conclave 

302 pages, 3-629- 01626-X 

December 2003 

Translation rights sold to the Netherlands, 

France, Poland, Hungary and 

Lithuania 

When a pope dies, Rome and the Vatican 

spring into action. The Cardinals who form 

the Papal Conclave elect one of their 

number to be pope, all under the strictest 

secrecy. This book presents a fascinating 

account of the rituals involved in electing 

the next pope: 

- Takes a hard look at the mysteries and 

rumoured conspiracies surrounding past 

papal elections 

- How political infl uences have shaped the 

election over the years. How much infl uence 

do modern-day pressure groups 

wield? 

- Written and unwritten rules and regulations 

regarding the papacy: Could a pope 

resign? 

- Looks into the new mix of nationalities: 

how will the many cardinals from Latin 

America, Africa and Asia infl uence the 

choice of the next pope? 

Longtime Rome correspondent Crista 

Kramer von Reisswitz is the Vatican 

correspondent for the American magazine 

Inside the Vatican as well as other magazines 

and television stations around the 

world. She has an extensive network of 

contacts in and around the Vatican. 

Michael Langer 

The Great Thinkers of Christianity 

240 pages, 3-629-01670-7 


The 16 most important theologians and 

their teachings, presented in an easyto-understand 

manner as never before 

by one of the leading theologians of 

our time 

Die philosophische Hintertreppe (now in 

its 24th printing) is an incomparable bestseller. 

The author’s method of teaching the 

ideas of the great philosophers didn’t involve 

abstract theory, but rather people, 

anecdotes, private lives and personalities. 

Here, Michael Langer employs that same 

method for theologians, becoming the fi rst 

to present enjoyable and “easily digestible” 

access to the most important thinkers of 

Christianity (the Apostle Paul; Origen; St. 

Augustine; Benedict; St. Catherine of 

Siena; Thomas Aquinas; Martin Luther; St. 

John of the Cross; John Henry Newman; 

Ignaz von Döllinger; Dietrich Bonhoeffer; 

Edith Stein; Henri de Lubac; Karl Rahner; 

Hans Urs von Balthasar; Karl Barth). 

Dr. Michael Langer (born 1960) teaches 

Religious Education at the universities of 

Regensburg and Dortmund. A specialist in 

Judeo-Christian relations and interdenominational 

learning, Langer was coeditor 

of The Faith of the Christians, 

published by Pattloch. 

Dr. Jozef Niewiadomski (born 1951) has 

been a professor on the theological faculty 

of the University of Innsbruck since 1996 

and Dean since 2003. 

Freddy Derwahl 

The Wisdom of the Desert Fathers 

176 pages, 3-629-02111-5 


The wisdom of monks who didn’t speak 

to God, but rather experienced Him 

The series “The Wisdom of the Monks” 

presents the wisdom, spirituality, and rules 

of life as penned by the founders of famed 

orders. The oldest texts in this series are 

the maxims of the people known as the 

Desert Fathers. In the desert, monks and 

hermits of the third to fi fth centuries surrendered 

themselves to God’s silence. 

This collection is the result of the profound 

experience of being close to God in the 

limitless sadness of the hot desert sand. 

The Desert Fathers don’t talk about God, 

they experience him! 

In the tradition of Biblical fi gures such as 

Moses, Elijah, and Jesus, a curious phenomenon 

began in the third century: a 

spiritual migration to hermit colonies in the 

desert by those who sought meaning. 

Freddy Derwahl, journalist and theologian, 

is “Belgium’s best-known Germanlanguage 

writer” according to the Frankfurter 

Allgemeine Zeitung. He has written 

several books about religious hermits. 

Also published in this series: 

Anselm Grün 

The Benedictine Monks’ Art of Living 

176 pages 

September 2005

Ole Nydahl 

Buddha and Love 

224 pages, 3-426-66692-8 


An internationally known Buddhist author 

For many years, one of the most important 

and most popular topics in Lama Ole Nydahl’s 

speeches has been: how can love 

and relationships succeed? Buddhism has 

the answer. Even though Buddhist philosophy 

is very old – or perhaps because 

it’s very old – we can discover universal 

wisdom in it that is of great importance 

today even for people of the West. 

All of the subjects that Ole Nydahl is most 

frequently asked about, and many more 

besides, are discussed in this book in the 

Lama’s characteristic refreshing and 

straightforward manner. Urgent questions 

are answered, bringing clarity and orientation. 

Lama Ole Nydahl is probably the bestknown 

Western teacher of Buddhism. 

After he and his wife Hannah met the 16th 

Gyalwa Karmapa while honeymooning in 

Nepal in 1968, they dedicated their lives to 

Buddhism. They spent three years in the 

Himalayas as Karmapa’s personal students, 

receiving Buddhist teachings and 

developing the needed experience in 

meditation. Lama Ole Nydahl founded the 

fi rst European Karma Kagyu center in his 

hometown of Copenhagen, Denmark. 

There are now over 220 centers worldwide. 

Volker Christmann 

Ayurvedic Yoga 

288 pages, 3-426-66558-1 


21 steps to happiness – a practical 

exercise book with an introduction 

into yoga and ayurveda, including 

illustrations from Nepal 

The author introduces into the basics of 

ayurvedic doctrine and shows the different 

lines of yoga. The ayurvedic yoga described 

here is easy to learn and contributes 

to a healthy, balanced and joyful life. 

In the appendix of the book there is a list 

of the symptoms with the corresponding 

therapies by means of certain exercises. 

Volker Christmann has been dealing with 

yoga and similar teachings for many 

years. He is yoga-teacher and book author. 

Doris Iding/Katja Kaiser 

Business Yoga 

176 pages, 3-426-87263-3 


Business yoga is the perfect method to 

meet the daily requirements at work confi - 

dently and relaxed. The author mediates a 

deeper understanding of the holistic yoga 

philosophy and shows simple exercises, 

which can be practised at the workplace. 

Doris Iding is yoga-teacher and offers 

Business Yoga courses in companies. 

MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT 17 

Birgitta Meinhardt 

Jin Shin Jyutsu ® for the Soul 

240 pages, 3-426-66697-9 


Find Your Inner Balance through the 

Healing Power of Your Hands 

Jin Shin Jyutsu is a very old method of 

treatment, which many people practise 

involuntarily to harmonize body, mind and 

soul. It supports us in drawing new energy 

for life, to prevent diseases and to strenghten 

our health. However, Jin Shin 

Jyutsu is more than an alternative method 

of treatment; it is an “art of living”. 

This book introduces the reader into the 

basics of this method and shows how one 

can apply Jin Shin Jyutsu especially 

whenever force and support are needed 

and one is looking for a way to fi nd the 

inner self in order to soothe feelings. Thus 

it is the fi rst practical guide aiming at the 

effects of this method on the psychological 

well-being. 

Birgitta Meinhardt, born 1948, has been 

treating with Jin Shin Jyutsu successfully 

in her own surgery for many years. Since 

1997 she is authorised to teach three-daycourses 

and from the year 2000 on she 

also teaches fi ve-day-courses worldwide. 

She has been on educational tours to 

South-Africa, USA, Australia, New- 

Zealand and Canada.

18 

MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT 

Christiane Seifert 

The Cuisine of the 5 Elements 

240 pages, 3-426-66571-9 


Eating healthy in accordance with the 

Chinese dietetics 

In this book Christiane Seifert introduces 

into her ten years experience in cookery 

courses using the 5 elements. She explains 

the background of this diet and establishs 

a connection between it and the 

traditional Chinese medicine. She illustrates 

how one can build up the inner middle 

by means of the 5 elements nutrition, 

the concept of ying and yang, and the 

effect of the fi ve tastes. 

Christiane Seifert holds a degree in biology 

and chemistry and works as a nonmedical 

practitioner and a nutrition consultant. 

Martina Kaiser 

Rituals – a Source of Power 

256 pages, 3-426-87230-7 


The object of the book is to obtain a new 

creative and pleasurable approach to 

one’s life and vitality. Therefore it is very 

important to get conscious again about the 

changes in life and the cycles of nature, 

which are refl ected in every moment of our 

lives. The book lets the reader experience 

the value of rituals anew. 

Martina Kaiser has been dealing with 

spiritual issues since 15 years. 

Ingrid Kraaz von Rohr 

When the Environment Causes 

Diseases 

256 pages, 3-426-87253-6 


Prevention and self-help with naturopathy 

Ingrid Kraaz von Rohr describes the most 

important problems with the environment 

(electric smog, pollution of air and drinking 

water) and the health problems they can 

cause. The author shows how one can 

protect oneself against these bad infl uences 

and how symptoms can be healed. 

Ingrid Kraaz von Rohr is a non-medical 

practitioner with the main focus on homoeopathy, 

colour acupuncture, women 

and children’s medicine. She works in her 

own surgery in Grünwald near Munich. 

Helga Mohrmann / Ilona Steinert 

We Live Love in Growing Circles 

320 pages, 3-426-66693-6 


The authors show how one can fulfi l the 

basic need for a satisfying relationship by 

means of the systemic couple therapy and 

sex therapy. The book is easy to comprehend 

even for those readers who do not 

have background knowledge on systemic 

issues. 

Ilona Steinert teaches in the institute for 

Systemic Training founded by Helga 

Mohrmann, an alternative practitioner. 

Eckhard W. Kuhn 

The Healing Power of the Mind 

304 pages, 3-426-66979-X 


Healing with spiritual treatment – the 

medicine of the future 

From decades of practical experience as 

a doctor the author knows that healing is 

not always based on physical processes. 

Moreover, psychological powers can be 

used to regain health and stay healthy. In 

a very understandable way the author 

illustrates the different forms of mental 

healing (f. ex. in dreams or by means of 

trance). 

Eckhard W. Kuhn is a doctor and psychologist 

and had been chief of a psychosomatic 

hospital for many years. Nowadays 

he consults hospitals, doctors and 

therapists.

Ursula Summ 

Eat.Yourself.Thin 

160 pages, 3-426-64155-0 



The newest diet principle by the #1 

“food combining” guru 

If you choose the right ingredients when 

you eat, you can eat as much as you want 

to. This principle was already used for 

Food Combining, but was criticized by 

some nutritionists. With her new “EYT” 

principle, Ursula Summ has revolutionized 

food combining, made it simpler, and also 

integrated the latest discoveries such as 

the glycaemic index and protein fasting. In 

her very personal style, Summ introduces 

her fans to her new weight-loss concept 

and takes them away from the “Battle of 

the Bulge.” The diet is rounded out 

through simple fi tness suggestions for 

those who are reluctant to exercise. 

Ursula Summ, born 1948, had problems 

with her weight as a young woman. In 

1987 she discovered the Hay food combining 

principles. For the fi rst time she 

found something that really helped, and 

she began to develop this nutritional principle 

further and to share her experiences 

with others. Her own food combining diet 

has been a success for over 25 years. She 

teaches weight-loss courses and seminars, 

and she has sold over four million 

books to date. Ursula Summ lives with her 

family in Spain, where she works to develop 

new concepts. 

Ursula Summ 

Eat. Yourself. Thin. Cookery Book 

144 pages, 3-426-64222-0 



Ursula Summ’s 200 best recipes for 

pleasurable losing weight with the ideal 

Food Combining 

Ursula Summ revolutionized Food Combining 

with her new Eat.Yourself.Thin – 

principle while making it easier and working 

in latest fi ndings like GLYX or Low 

Carb in her Food Combining conception. 

After introducing theoretically into her new 

three-stage plan, the authoress gives the 

reader over 200 new recipes suitable for 

all three stages: The starting week, the 

gourmandizing week and the endless programme. 

Again the reader will fi nd a 

weekly timetable and a food table. 

Ursula Summ’s motto: Everybody can lose 

weight successfully with the right food 

combination without starving! 

HEALTHY NUTRITION 19 

Dr. Elisabeth Veit 

Healing and Cooking with Ayurveda 

160 pages, 3-426-64226-3 


A beautifully designed Ayurveda book, 

an ideal gift 

Ayurveda is a holistic method of preventing 

and treating illness that was developed 

in India some 4,000 years ago. It states 

that one’s entire health depends on the 

balance of all bodily and spiritual functions. 

In this beautifully designed book, the 

spotlight is on the tradition of ayurvedic 

nutrition and healing. 

Elisabeth Veit introduces the reader to the 

basics of ayurveda and shows how traditional 

Indian knowledge can help us in our 

everyday lives here in the West. The book 

includes over 40 recipes. 

Dr. Elisabeth Veit is a student of the Indian 

Ayurveda doctor Prof. S. N. Gupta 

from Gujarat. She is an author specializing 

in medicinal topics.

20 

HEALTHY NUTRITION 

Rose Marie Donhauser/Prof. Dr. Michael Hamm 

Slow Carb Diet 

144 pages, 3-426-64180-1 


Sven David Müller-Nothmann 

The Red Light / Green Light Glyx Guide 

112 pages, 3-426-64179-8 


Sven-David Müller 

The Red Light/Green Light Cholestorol Guide 

112 pages, 3-426-66913-7 

February 2004 

Gabi Schierz / Gabi Vallenthin 

Low Fat 30 for Thrifty Shoppers 

96 pages, 3-426-64177-1 


Gabie Schierz / Gabi Vallenthin 

Low Fatt 30 – Good Plain Cooking 

96 pages, 3-426-64131-3 

July 2004 

Gabie Schierz / Gabi Vallenthin 

Low Fat 30 for Candy-Eaters 

112 pages, 3-426-66767-3 

June 2003 

Dr. Stephanie Grabhorn / Corinna Matz / Dr. Uwe Tippmar 

Overweighted Without a Reason 

128 pages, 3-426-64197-6 


Karin Iden 

Losing Weight with Wok 

128 pages, 3-426-64176-3 


Karin Iden 

Losing Weight with Noodles 

128 pages, 3-426-66740-1 

September 2003

Birgit Frohn and Dr. Hans-Jürgen Dibbert 

The Big Book of Self-Medication 

352 pages, 3-426-64198-4 


A comprehensive handbook, recommended 

by the Association of German 

Physicians 

More and more people are taking control 

of their own health, and the sale of nonprescription 

drugs has boomed. But you 

have to know how to help heal yourself. 

Using convenient charts, the authors let 

you examine the alternatives – the medical-school 

approach, homeopathic alternatives 

or grandma’s home remedies. Using 

drugs in the usual medical-school approach 

is usually the best quick fi x, but not 

always free of undesired side effects. 

That’s one reason why natural methods 

are popular. But that kind of medicine 

takes longer. The book also has tips on 

fi rst aid, what to have in your medicine kit 

when traveling, and what to consider when 

ordering drugs over the Internet. 

Brigit Frohn is a journalist specializing in 

medical topics. She’s the author of many 

successful guides on health and alternative 

healing. She lives in Hamburg. 

Dr. Hans-Jürgen Dibbert is a general 

practitioner who’s a familiar media presence, 

answering readers’ health questions 

for magazines and often being interviewed 

on health matters on television. 

Dr. Karola Scheffer 

Treat Yourself with Homeopathy 

304 pages, 3-426-64216-6 


The fi rst book on complex homeopathy 

for the layman 

Many people would prefer to try gentle, 

side effect-free homeopathy for minor 

everyday symptoms before resorting to the 

“heavy weaponry” of traditional medicine. 

But true homeopathy isn’t totally suited for 

the layman, as choosing the proper substances 

requires education as well as 

years of experience. This guide offers an 

alternative: it gives the layman a method 

of treatment that guarantees success, 

because it’s mostly based on preparations 

that are a mixture of several remedies. 

These have a broad range of uses and 

don’t require special knowledge. 

This book covers the proper therapy using 

the appropriate complex remedies for over 

100 symptoms and illnesses. Also included 

are notes on limits of the treatment, 

potential risks, and tips on treating children 

and seniors. 

Dr. Karola Scheffer is a general practitioner 

with offi ces in Munich. She is also a 

journalist writing on medicinal topics. 

HEALTH 21 

Rosi Mittermaier / Prof. Dr. Reiner Bartl 

Solid Bones - Vivid Life 

144 pages, 3-42664277-8 


Osteoporosis – preventing, healing, 

staying mobile – the most effective 

medication and therapies 

Everybody is responsible for his bones – 

thinks Prof. Bartl. Ten to twenty years 

ago osteoporosis was considered to be 

a disease of the elderly, nowadays it has 

almost become an endemic disease. However, 

it does not need to be – if the doctor 

and the patient work together well, it can 

be avoided and an existing osteoporosis 

can even be treated successfully. 

Rosi Mittermaier shows exercises in a 

simple training programme, which everybody 

can do on his own at home. The 

book also explains the disease in detail 

and shows how a healthy nutrition can 

prevent it, moreover it shows and compares 

the different treatments. 

The osteologist Prof. Dr. Reiner Bartl is 

an expert on osteoporosis in Germany and 

has written many specialist books. He is 

head of the outpatients’ department of 

University hospital Großhardern in Munich. 

Downhill skier Rosi Mittermaier won multiple 

world championships and sixteen 

German championships, and crowned her 

career at the 1976 Winter Olympics in 

Innsbruck by winning two gold medals and 

one silver medal. Today she acts as a 

honorary for the osteoporosis benefi cence 

and as patron of the children’s rheumatism 

benefi cence.

22 

HEALTH 

Sigmund Feuerabendt 

Healing with Yoga 

192 pages, 3-426-64174-7 


Maria Lohmann 

Natural Medicine for Women 

144 pages, 3-426-64214-X 


Uschi Ostermeier-Sitkowski 

Training for the Eyes 

128 pages, 3-426-64173-9 


Maria Lohmann / Hans-Peter Hirt 

Schüssler Salts in Every Case 

96 pages, 3-426-64245-X 


Bernd Neumann / Dr. Detlef Dietrich 

Depression is no Fate 

144 pages, 3-426-64219-0 


Sven-David Müller-Nothmann / Claudia Reimers 

Cinnamon against Sugar 

80 pages, 3-426-64264-6 


Dr. Claudia-Viktoria Schwörer 

I Treat Myself - Hypertension 

144 pages, 3-426-64206-9 


Claudia Praxmayer / Dr. Josef Öller 

I Treat Myself –Diabetis Typ 2 

144 pages, 3-426-64205-0 


Birgit Frohn 

I Treat Myself – Effective Remedy for Skin Infections 

128 pages, 3-426-64268-9 

October 2005

Dieter Grabbe 

Pilates for Beginners 

144 pages, 3-426-64218-2 


Dieter Grabbe 

Ballooning 

96 pages, 3-426-64186-0 


Dieter Grabbe 

Bodyforming 

96 pages, 3-426-64187-9 


Michaela Merten 

Staying 40 for 20 Years 

144 pages, 3-426-64136-4 


Siegmund Feuerabendt 

Natural Relaxing with SAT 

112 pages, 3-426-64184-4 


Dr. Achim Schmidt 

Fatburning with Heart Rate Monitor 

3-426-64203-4 


HEALTH / FITNESS 23 

Margot Hellmiß 

Healthy and Beautiful with Olive Oil 

128 pages, 3-426-64175-5 


Prof. Hademar Bankhofer / Dr. Wolfgang Grebe 

Red Ginseng 

128 pages, 3-426-64274-3 

July 2005

24 

FAMILY CARE 

Zimmermann / Lütje / Osang / Struthmann 

Knaurs Baby Book 

416 pages, 3-426-64166-6 


Dr. Andreas Wiefel 

Crying Babies 

112 pages, 3-426-66941-2 


Cornelia Nitsch 

Strong Children Say No 

128 pages, 3-426-64238-7 


Dr. Gunhild Kilian-Kornell / Jeanette Stark-Städele 

Knaur’s Book of Children’s diseases 

320 pages, 3-426-64199-2 


Marianne Loibl 

Breastfeeding 

128 pages, 3-426-64230-1 


Vera F. Birkenbihl 

Boys and Girls – How they Learn 

144 pages, 3-426-64235-2 


Prof. Dr. Klaus Diedrich / Simone Kunz 

Finally a Baby 

160 pages, 3-426-64167-4 


Marita Hennig 

Relaxing for my Child 

96 pages, 3-426-66939-0 


Kristiane Müller-Urban 

It Is So Delicious! 

144 pages, 3-426-64251-4 


Jörg Lohmann 

Graffi ti as Art and Decoration 

64 pages, 3-426-64135-6 


Walter Halbinger 

Drawing Caricatures 

112 pages, 3-426-66777-0 

November 2002 

Amelie Reichberg 

My First Pottery Book 

64 pages, 3-426-64158-5 


Bernd Natke 

Drawing Comics for Beginners 

80 pages, 3-426-66759-2 

November 2002 

Nga Bui / Hung Bui 

Multicoloured Origami of the Animals 

64 pages, 3-426-66803-3 


Emi Akamatsu 

Japanese Flower Painting 

64 pages, 3-426-64191-7 


ARTS AND CRAFTS 25 

Mathias Faber 

Airbrush for Beginners 

80 pages, 3-426-66830-0 

February 2003 

Karsten Habighorst 

Drawing School for Children 

64 pages, 3-426-64163-1 


Hans G. Scheib 

Tiffany Workshop 

120 pages, 3-426-64211-5 

July 2005

26 

CRAFTS, PHOTOGRAPHY AND GARDENING 

Maria Landes / Barbara Haschner 

Decorative Wood Figures for the Garden 

56 pages, 3-426-64240-9 


Julia Niepmann 

Working with the Fretsaw – a Nice Idea 

72 pages, 3-426-66968-4 


Ute Hammond 

My First Sewing Book 

64 pages, 3-426-64213-1 


Christian Haasz 

Digicam Practice 

120 pages, 3-426-64159-3 


Christian Schnalzger 

Digital Mirror Refl ex-Photography 

96 pages, 3-426-66967-6 

August 2004 

Thomas Maschke 

The Fascination of Black-and-White Photography 

160 pages, 3-426-64101-1 

August 2004 

Robert Sulzberger 

Balcony- and Tub Flowers 

96 pages, 3-426-64122-4 

January 2005 

Frank von Berger 

House Entrances and Front Gardens 

80 pages, 3-426-64172-0 


Ingrid Pfendtner 

Knaurs Garden Doctor 

160 pages, 3-426-66884-X 

August 2004

Judith Steinbacher / Antonia Nork 

The Green Caterpillar Who Wanted to Be Coloured 

32 pages, 3-629-01297-3 


Marilies Kurz-Lunkenbein / Maren Briswalter 

Heroes and Saints 

240 pages, 3-629-01333-3 


Vera Simon / Michael Fedorov 

The Little Book of Guardian Angels 

48 pages, 3-629-02051-8 


Judith Steinbacher 

Who steals Oskar’s Easter Eggs? 

32 pages, 3-629-01345-7 


Julia and Pierre Franckh 

Tell me About the World – I Will Tell You about Mine 

144 pages, 3-629-01359-7 


Luc Serafi n / Eugen Stross 

The Fairy Tale of the Birthday Child, 

which Wished to Hide 

48 pages, 3-629-10073-2, July 2005 

CHILDREN‘S AND GIFT BOOKS 27 

Judith Steinbacher 

Who Helps Oskar Easter Bunny? 

32 pages, 3-629-01346-5 


Mark Kuntz 

The Last Smoker 

208 pages, 3-426-27369-1 


Norbert Pautner 

Instead of Cigarettes 

40 cards, 3-629-02087-9 


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SEOUL 121-210 

SOUTH KOREA 

E-Mail: noirnoir049@hanmail.net 

MOMO Agency 

Mrs Geenie Han 

#102 395-97 Seokyo-dong 

Mapo-ku 

SEOUL 121-840 

SOUTH KOREA 

E-Mail: geeniehan@mmagency.co.kr 

Access Korea 

Mrs Kyungsoo Cho 

#342-11 Seogyo-dong 

Mapo-gu 

SEOUL 121-837 

SOUTH KOREA 

E-Mail: access82@chollian.net 

Bestun Korea Literary Agency 

Mrs Hyeyoung Lee 

502 June Ville 

355-5 Seokyo-dong, Mapo-gu 

SEOUL 121-838 

SOUTH KOREA 

E-Mail: ylee@unitel.co.kr

Foreign Rights Catal 2005

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