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Foreign Rights
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2011 / 2012

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3 million copies sold of
Iny Lorentz triology!
Historical Fiction
Iny Lorentz
The Harlot’s Daughter
3-426-66242-6
700 pages, Oct 2008
1 million copies sold
of the triology!
Tanja Kinkel
Pillars of Eternity
3-426-19816-9
688 pages, Aug 2008
Iny Lorentz
The Harlot’s Daughter
3-426-66242-6
700 pages, Oct 2008
Iny Lorentz’s sales figures speak for themselves: her last novel The Bride of Fire made the
German bestseller list, and The Travelling Harlot, which introduced the character featured
here, has passed the million-copy mark.
The latest dramatic instalment of the million-selling
»Travelling Harlot« series
More than twelve years have passed since the previous adventures of the onetime »travelling
harlot« Marie. She and her husband Michel Adler still live in Kibitzstein Castle, but their patron
has died, and his successor Gottfried holds the two of them in low regard.
Marie and Michel’s oldest daughter Trudi has fallen in love with the young knight Georg
von Gressingen and is expecting that any day now he will come to ask her parents for her
hand.
Meanwhile, several knights attempt to form an alliance against the bishop of Würzburg. In
particular, the Roman prelate Cyprian is working at cross-purposes to Marie, Michel, and
their friends, and Cyprian has managed to get Trudi’s suitor Gressingen on his side.
Sabine Ebert’s first novel featuring Marthe the midwife sold over 300.000 copies. The author
lives in Saxony, where her novels are set.
Third in a series of meticulously researched historical novels
Magdeburg, 1179: The scene is the court of Emperor Frederick I, Barbarossa. At the Emperor’s
request, Dietrich of Landsberg challenges Henry the Lion of Brunswick to a duel. This
sets off a war that threatens to overrun the village of Christiansdorf, where Marthe the midwife
and her husband Christian live.
Christian’s liege, Otto von Meißen, chooses Christian to help lead his troops in the siege of
Haldensleben, which proves to be a fiasco that claims many lives.
Meanwhile, Marthe is faced with a challenge of her own. Otto has given his power-mad
oldest son Albrecht command over Christiansdorf Castle. Albrecht has a grudge against
Marthe, too, but she has decided to stay and protect the villagers rather than go into hiding.
The climax comes at the legendary Diet of Mainz of 1184, a fateful time both for the politics
of the area and for the two lovers.
Tanja Kinkel’s books have been translated into more than a dozen languages to date.
In the mysterious land of Egypt: a woman torn between two men
England, 1805: Sarah’s dream has come true: she is marrying the Italian carnival strongman
Giovanni Battista Belzoni. Belzoni is opening the door to a whole new world … but he keeps
a tight grasp on the key.
The couple journeys to Egypt where they meet the French consul, Bernardino Drovetti. He’s
known for helping foreigners, even though most of them despise this fervent Napoleon supporter.
From the very beginning, there’s a rivalry between Belzoni and Drovetti, not least because
Drovetti makes no bones about the fact that he’s interested in Sarah.
Sarah tries to explore this strange new world, but she runs up against the barriers that are
set for women. She realizes that this is just as confining as England was.
Sarah has to decide what’s more important to her: relying on the security offered by an egomaniac
who keeps changing for the worse, or giving in to the desires of his greatest
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 Traveling Surgeon. Serno’s books have sold over 1 million copies in Germany alone.
Contents
Sequel to the historical novel that sold 80,000 copies
Berlin, 1783: The ventriloquist Julius Klingenthal arrives in the city only to have all of his
money Historial taken fiction from him. . He . takes . his . case . . directly . . to . Frederick . . the . Great, 2 who proves to be
very generous and replaces the money. But as Julius leaves the castle, a stranger runs into
him Detective and dies fiction in his arms . seconds . . . later. . Julius . . notices . . the . stranger’s . . 5 yellow gloves, which
don’t match the rest of his clothing. Julius flees the scene, not wanting to be suspected of the
murder. Thriller / Romance . . . . . . . . . . . 7
But a year later he’s back, all because of Alena, who was a friend and lover to him. Yet he still
left Phantasy her because / Young he thought Adult they . had . no . future. . . They . . reunite . . in . Potsdam 8 near Berlin. She’s
working for a rich widow, the founder of a salon calling itself Collegium Artis. But
True life stories . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Memoirs / Biographies . . . . . . . . . . 11
Society / Investigative Journalism . . . . . . 12
Birgit Jaeckel has written her first novel in the age of 15. She studied ethnology. At the
moment Self help she . works . for . the . Alternative . . . Nobelpreis. . . . . The . Druidess . . is . her 14first
novel.
Mind, Body and Spirit . . . . . . . . . . 15
Southern Germany, 120 B.C.: Young Talia has despised her father ever since she heard that
he Children had ordered Books her to . be . killed . as . soon . . as she . was . . born. . Yet . she . was . 18rescued,
and she comes
of age in a school for druids, where she learns the art of healing. Soon she discovers that
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her skills extend much further: she can see people’s souls and protect them from terrible
things.
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Talia is in danger of becoming the puppet of the power-mad druid Ientus. If he only had a
child with Talia’s skills he’d have those powers at his disposal, so he plans to impregnate
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Talia, by force if need be. She hears of this and flees to Alte-Stadt, home of Caran, head of a
mighty clan. When she’s offered a job in Caran’s household, she agrees. She knows some-
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thing Caran doesn’t: that he is her father!
Ientus arrives in Alte-Stadt, with plans to forcibly bring Talia back to druid school.
Would Talia ever use her powers to help her father, of all people?
Corinna Bomann, previously a romance author, presents her first large-scale historical novel
here. She capitalizes on the strong interest in Elizabeth I and Walsingham created by the
movies starring Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush.
Adventure, Passion and Suspense
London, 1585: Twelve-year-old orphan Alyson supports herself and two siblings with petty
theft. One day, she witnesses a murder and is seized by a stranger. When she regains consciousness,
she finds herself in the Tower of London. Yet Sir Francis Walsingham, Secretary
of State to Elizabeth I., notices that the girl has a talent for remembering faces and details.
He offers to teach her how to be a spy.
Alyson is brought to Walsingham’s estate. Along with Geoffrey, another pupil, she learns all
about courtly behavior, but above all she learns how to pick a lock. Geoffrey, with whom she’s
fallen in love, is killed on his very first mission. The murderer is Esteban, Walsingham’s most
dangerous foe and the man who committed the murder Alyson witnessed.
Later on she is sent on missions undercover. Once she is sent to Cadiz on a mission to get
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Wolf Serno
The Puppet Master’s Game
3-426-19748-6
496 pages, May 2008
Birgit Jaeckel
The Druidess
3-426-19760-8
540 pages, Feb 2008
Corina Bomann
The Spy
3-426-66314-1
688 pages, April 2008
More than 400.000
copies sold in Germany!

2 Historical Fiction fiction Historical Fiction fiction 3
Iny Latest Lorentz’s in a series sales figures that speak has sold for themselves: over half her a million last novel copies The Bride to date of Fire made the
German bestseller list, and The Travelling Harlot, which introduced the character featured
Iny
Lorentz
here, It’s 1887, has and passed the the aging million-copy Kaiser Wilhelm mark. still rules the German Reich and Prussia. For Lore von
Trettin and her husband Fridolin, the last few years have been very happy ones. They have
children and a stately home, and are comfortable financially. But there are dark clouds on the
The latest dramatic instalment of the million-selling
horizon. In faraway East Prussia, the Trettin estate has been mismanaged and fallen upon
»Travelling Harlot« series
hard times. So Ottwald von Trettin heads for Berlin to try to get money from his relative.
More Meanwhile, than twelve the bank years where have Fridolin passed since works the has previous a crisis adventures of its own. A of major the onetime client goes »travelling bank-
harlot« rupt, and Marie. the head She and of the her bank husband wants Michel Fridolin Adler to still take live over in the Kibitzstein client’s Castle, country but estate. their The patron
chance has to died, be lord and of his the successor manor Gottfried is tempting holds indeed, the two but of Fridolin them in can low tell regard. that the offer has
Marie some strings and Michel’s attached oldest … daughter Trudi has fallen in love with the young knight Georg
von Gressingen and is expecting that any day now he will come to ask her parents for her
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The Harlot’s Daughter Meanwhile, several knights attempt to form Lorentz an Der alliance against the bishop of Würzburg. In
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700 pages, 3-426-50415-4
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particular, Lorentz the Roman prelate Cyprian is working at cross-purposes to Marie, Michel, and
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their friends, and Cyprian has managed to get Trudi’s suitor Gressingen on his side.
Knaur.
200.000
copies sold
3 million copies sold of
Iny Lorentz triology!
1 million copies sold
of the triology!
Tanja Iny Lorentz Kinkel
Pillars Daughters of Eternity of Sin
3-426-19816-9
700 pages, 3-426-66245-8
688 October pages, 2011 Aug 2008
Knaur.
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Lorentz
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Iny Lorentz
The Harlot’s Daughter Revenge
3-426-66242-6
480 pages, 3-426-51005-6
700 April pages, 2012 Oct 2008
Knaur.
400.000
copies sold
December Storm
448 pages, 3-426-50405
October 2009
Knaur.
270.000
copies sold
April Rain
544 pages, 3-426-50414
August 2010
Sabine Volume Ebert’s 5 of the first series novel featuring on the Marthe »travelling the midwife harlot« sold Marie over 300.000 copies. The author
lives in Saxony, where her novels are set.
Marie Adler and Prince-Bishop Gottfried Schenk have settled down at Castle Kibitzstein.
Their children are grown, and Trudi and Lisa are already married. And the Prince-Bishop has
Third in a series of meticulously researched historical novels
indicated that he wants to arrange a suitable marriage for Falko Adler. Basically, Marie’s life
Magdeburg, couldn’t be better, 1179: but The new scene developments is the court of will Emperor alter the Frederick fates of everyone I, Barbarossa. in the At castle. the Emperor’s
request, Dietrich of Landsberg challenges Henry the Lion of Brunswick to a duel. This
sets Bruno off von a war Reckendorf that threatens challenges to overrun Falko the to a village duel. of Bruno Christiansdorf, loses and is where severely Marthe injured. the mid- The
wife Prince-Bishop and her husband fears a bloody Christian feud live. between the two and orders Falko to accompany his niece
Christian’s Elisabeth to liege, Rome, Otto where von she Meißen, is to join chooses a convent. Christian Falko to help falls in lead love his with troops Elisabeth in the and siege can of
Haldensleben, barely resist the which temptation proves to be seduce a fiasco her. that Falko claims thinks many he can lives. return home from Rome im-
Meanwhile, mediately but Marthe he’s charged is faced with with trying a challenge to solve the of her murder own. of Otto a Cardinal, has given and his also power-mad with help-
oldest ing to prepare son Albrecht for a command visit to Rome over by Christiansdorf the German King Castle. Frederick Albrecht III, has where a grudge the King against is to
Marthe, marry and too, also but to she be has crowned decided Emperor to stay …and
protect the villagers rather than go into hiding.
The climax comes at the legendary Diet of Mainz of 1184, a fateful time both for the politics
of the area and for the two lovers.
Tanja Iny Lorentz’s Kinkel’s sales books figures have speak been translated for themselves: into more The Traveling than a dozen Harlot, languages which introduced to date. the
character featured here, has passed the million-copy mark. The story was made into a film
seen by 10 million people. This is the novel to accompany the second film, which will be re-
In the mysterious land of Egypt: a woman torn between two men
leased in early 2012.
England, 1805: Sarah’s dream has come true: she is marrying the Italian carnival strongman
Giovanni Battista Belzoni. Belzoni is opening the door to a whole new world … but he keeps
Continuation of the bestselling book and most successful movie of
a tight grasp on the key.
DIE WANDERHURE!
The couple journeys to Egypt where they meet the French consul, Bernardino Drovetti. He’s
known Marie, the for helping onetime foreigners, »traveling even harlot«, though has most been of living them a despise life of contentment this fervent along Napoleon with sup- her
porter. husband Michel Adler. When their daughter Trudi is born, they couldn’t be happier. She has
From no idea the that very her beginning, enemy Ruppertus there’s a Splendidus rivalry between escaped Belzoni being and burned Drovetti, at the not stake least and because was
Drovetti secretly brought makes no to bones Rome about by monks. the fact that he’s interested in Sarah.
Sarah Meanwhile, tries to in explore Bohemia this the strange Hussites new have world, revolted but she and runs oppose up against both the the Pope barriers and the that King. are
set So Ruppertus for women. is She sent realizes to Nuremberg that this to is prompt just as confining King Sigmund as England to take was. stronger action against
Sarah the heretics. has to decide There he what’s encounters more important Michel Adler. to her: Ruppertus relying on is the insane, security and offered thinks by he’s an God’s egomaniac
chosen one, who that keeps Marie changing is as for well, the and worse, that or it’s giving God’s in will to that the desires Ruppertus of his have greatest sons with her
who will be superior to all other men. To accomplish his goal he must first destroy Michel …
Roman
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 Traveling Surgeon. Serno’s books have sold over 1.5 1 million copies in Germany
alone.
Sequel The latest to the from historical an author novel who that has sold 80,000 1.5 million copies copies
Berlin, 1785: The 1783: ventriloquist The ventriloquist Julius Klingenthal, Julius Klingenthal who was arrives once expelled in the city from only the to University have all of of Göt- his
money tingen amid taken great from him. scandal, He takes returns his under case directly an assumed to Frederick name. the Though Great, pushing who proves fifty, to he be is
very determined generous to finish and replaces his studies, the the money. adverse But circumstances as Julius leaves notwithstanding. the castle, a stranger Supporting runs into him
him is the and beautiful dies in Alena, his arms who seconds has become later. his Julius wife in notices the meantime. the stranger’s But life yellow in Göttingen gloves, proves which
don’t to be more match difficult the rest than of his the clothing. couple thought. Julius flees And the Julius scene, is still not troubled wanting by to be the suspected fact that he of got the
murder. the blame for crimes he didn’t commit.
But a year later he’s back, all because of Alena, who was a friend and lover to him. Yet he still
left her because he thought they had no future. They reunite in Potsdam near Berlin. She’s
working for a rich widow, the founder of a salon calling itself Collegium Artis. But
Heidi Rehn is a freelance journalist whose previous novel, The Medic, was also published by
Knaur. She lives in Munich with her husband and two children.
Birgit Jaeckel has written her first novel in the age of 15. She studied ethnology. At the
moment she works for the Alternative Nobelpreis. The Druidess is her first novel.
Historical novel is the follow-up to a 100,000-copy seller
Germany, ten years after the end of the Thirty Years’ War: Magdalena, whom readers will
Southern remember Germany, from The Medic, 120 B.C.: comes Young to the Talia bitter has realization despised her that father not everyone ever since is what she heard he seems. that
he This had applies ordered to her to husband be killed Eric as soon above as all. she For was his born. sake Yet she she had was given rescued, up her and career she comes as a
of medic. age in But a the school life they’ve for druids, been where living she as amber learns merchants the art of healing. in Frankfurt Soon is she all based discovers on a that lie.
her Also, skills for years extend Eric much has been further: keeping she can news see from people’s her about souls her and missing protect family them and from the terrible inherit-
things. ance that she’s entitled to in Königsberg. One day Eric vanishes without a trace and creditors
Talia seize is all in of danger Magdalena’s of becoming possessions. the puppet She of decides the power-mad to travel to druid Königsberg Ientus. If to he uncover only had the a
child roots with of her Talia’s family skills and in he’d doing have so those to also powers get to the at his bottom disposal, of Eric’s so he past. plans to impregnate
Talia, by force if need be. She hears of this and flees to Alte-Stadt, home of Caran, head of a
mighty clan. When she’s offered a job in Caran’s household, she agrees. She knows something
Caran doesn’t: that he is her father!
Ientus arrives in Alte-Stadt, with plans to forcibly bring Talia back to druid school.
Heidi Rehn
Would Talia ever use her powers to help her father, of all people?
Knaur.
100.000
copies sold
The Medic
700 pages, 3-426-50537-1
April 2010
Sandra Corinna Lessmann, Bomann, previously born 1969, a romance fell in love author, with England presents after her first living large-scale there for historical five years novel and
went here. on She to capitalizes study English on the history. strong Her interest previous in Elizabeth novels for I Knaur and Walsingham include Palace created Sins by and the A
Daughter movies starring Born of Cate Sin. Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush.
Set Adventure, in London, Passion a story and that Suspense will freeze the blood in your veins!
London, 1667: 1585: Dr. Twelve-year-old Alan Ridgeway orphan gets a Alyson visit from supports the merchant herself Peter and two Standish, siblings who with was petty bitten
theft. by One a dog day, and she contracted witnesses rabies. a murder He and tells is Alan seized and by his a stranger. friend Jeremy, When a she »Jesuit regains father« con-
about sciousness, his dangerous she finds suspicions. herself in the Tower of London. Yet Sir Francis Walsingham, Secretary
of State to Elizabeth I., notices that the girl has a talent for remembering faces and details.
Peter’s He offers estranged to teach her father how has to arranged be a spy. for Peter’s sister Elena to be married to the wealthy
businessman Alyson is brought George to Walsingham’s Holcroft. There’s estate. a rumor Along that with Holcroft Geoffrey, had another murdered pupil, his first she wife learns Mary all
and about their courtly son behavior, and covered but up above the crime all she with learns the how help to of pick some a lock. influential Geoffrey, friends. with whom Fearing she’s for
his fallen sister’s in love, life, is Peter killed investigates, on his very first but mission. he’s tricked The murderer into entering is Esteban, a shed Walsingham’s where a rabid most dog
lurks. dangerous Soon foe rabies and claims the man Peter’s who life, committed and his the father murder blames Alyson Alan witnessed. and Jeremy and begins making
Later life on difficult she is sent for them. on missions undercover. Once she is sent to Cadiz on a mission to get
Wolf Serno
Wolf Serno
The Wailing Woman’s
The Puppet Master’s Game
Song
3-426-19748-6
600 pages, 3-426-19807-X
496 pages, May 2008
December 2011
Heidi Rehn
The Amber Merchants
752 pages, 3-426-50544-4
June Birgit 2011 Jaeckel
The Druidess
3-426-19760-8
540 pages, Feb 2008
More than 400.000
copies sold in Germany!
Sandra Corina Lessmann Bomann
Madness The Spy of the Soul
472 3-426-66314-1 pages, 3-426-63646-8
February 688 pages, 2012 April 2008

4 Historical fiction Detective fiction
Tanja Kinkel
The Nightingale’s Game
928 pages, 3-426-19818-6
November 2011
Knaur.
100.000
copies sold
Jenseits von
Feuerland
Roman
Carla Federico
Beyond Tierra del Fuego
800 pages, 3-426-50440-5
May 2011
Carla Federico
In the Shadow of the
Fire Bush
760 pages, 3-426-50852-7
April 2012
Tanja Kinkel’s books have been translated into more than a dozen languages to date. Her
novels have settings as varied as the founding of Rome and America in the 21 st century.
Historical novel of the Middle Ages about the famous
Walther von der Vogelweide
A great singer, a spy, a rogue with brains, courage, and heart: in the late 12 th century, a boy
from a dirt-poor background begins his unstoppable rise to become a celebrated troubadour
whom the influential rulers fight over, despite the fact (or perhaps because of of the fact) that
his lyrics break with the usual chaste tradition. What none of his patrons suspect: Walther
von der Vogelweide serves only one master, namely himself. He expertly gathers information,
manipulates and schemes. But a secretive adversary has been getting in his way more and
more, a woman who is as beautiful as she is dangerously clever …
Walther von der Vogelweide has been the subject of about 100 biographies and perhaps 400
volumes of verse, but no novel has successfully captured this remarkable character until now.
Carla Federico is a young Austrian author who now lives in Germany and works as a TV reporter.
Her great passion for travel took her to many different countries before she »stuck
around« for a longer stay in Chile, the country where her novel takes place.
A novel with two complex female heroines
Emilia, daughter of German immigrants, was raised in Chile. When she discovers a dark family
secret, her life is turned upside down, and she flees the country. She’s strong-willed and
inventive, and starts a new life in a foreign land. She thinks she’s happiest when she deadens
all emotions. But in stormy Patagonia she meets Arthur, a German and the great love of her
life.
Emilia’s loyal companion is Rita, who is half-white, half-Mapuche. When there’s violence between
that indigenous people and the Chileans, Rita loses her whole family in traumatic circumstances.
From then on Rita denies her heritage, and does everything to be regarded as
Chilean, but she pays dearly for it. Finally she confronts her past and her true identity and
finds her calling by helping to protect the culture of her ancestors.
Love story set in exotic Chile, follow-up to 200,000-copy sellers
Aurelia has grown up in Patagonia and led a sheltered life. While her three younger brothers
are busy working on the family sheep farm, Aurelia’s love is for drawing. She’s accepted at
the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Santiago, but before she can lose herself in her art she finds love
in the form of the banker’s son Tiago, who woos her, marries her, and enables her ascent into
the Chilean upper class. But she’s deeply uneasy about being part Mapuche. She keeps it
secret from her in-laws, not so much because she’s ashamed of it, but because it would keep
her from the life of luxury that she’s been seduced by. Her friend Victoria accompanies her to
Santiago – she’s more of a rebel who has embraced the cause of women’s rights and doesn’t
mind making enemies. She finds love there too, but it lets her down …
Knaur.
200.000
copies sold
Im Land
der Feuerblume
Roman
Carla Federico
In the Land of the Fire Bush
784 pages, 3-426-50439-1
June 2010
Knaur.
100.000
copies sold
Jenseits von
Feuerland
Roman
Carla Federico
Beyond Tierra del Fuego
800 pages, 3-426-50440-5
May 2011
Petra Busch, born 1967, is a copywriter and journalist who works for clients in the scientific,
technological, and cultural fields.
Friedrich-Glauser-Preis 2010 for the best thriller debut!
Japanese rights sold to Tokyo Sogensha
Mystery: Old secrets and superstitions and a village’s collective guilt
A village in the Black Forest in southwestern Germany is a seemingly idyllic setting. Until a
pregnant woman named Elisabeth is found dead in a nearby gorge. Detective Ehrlinspiel
moves into the only guest rooms in the village, and takes the case.
There are plenty of suspects: Elisabeth’s autistic brother Bruno, her older brother Heiner, her
mother, and her father, who seems to have had more than just fatherly feelings toward Elisabeth.
There’s also a jealous pregnant woman named Sina who was Elisabeth’s best friend
and her only heir …
A friend of Elisabeth’s is found murdered, along with the remains of Elisabeth’s baby, which
had been cut out of her belly as she lay dead. And then the detective finds out that all of the
villagers journey to the gorge every year at the first snowfall …
Petra Busch’s debut novel Hush, My Child was the surprise hit of 2010. It was published with
a modest print run of 6,500 copies, but word-of-mouth made it a hit and Knaur has had to
print 20,000 more and counting to meet demand.
Psychological mystery: A follow-up to the surprise hit of 2010
Miriam has given up her life savings, her job as a teacher, and her nice apartment, but she’s
happy: her mother Thea, who was in a coma for years, is not dead, but has returned to live
with her in her tiny new apartment. The mother can’t remember the daughter, but Miriam
firmly believes that she will be fully healthy again and will stay with her forever. That’s what
the voices she hears are telling her, the voices that she trusts unconditionally. And that’s why
she can’t permit her mother to begin making new contacts in the area. She has to repel the
intruders who want to take Thea away from her.
What Miriam’s schizophrenic delusions don’t let her see: her mother is dead, and Thea isn’t
her mother, but a woman who’s fleeing an abusive husband. Her real name is Sonja Paschek,
and she has opportunistically used her putative amnesia to find a secure spot with Miriam.
So both women are victim and perpetrator in one.
Judith Merchant’s short story »Monopoly« was nominated for the Kärnten Mystery Prize in
2008, born 1976, and this same story won the Friedrich Glauser Award in 2009. In 2011 she
was awarded the Glauser Award for another short thriller. This novel is the author’s first.
The suspenseful start to a new series
Jan Seidel’s wedding was called off, and the 30-year-old chief inspector is temporarily rooming
with his grandmother, a sprightly and extremely stubborn old lady. So he immerses himself
in work, namely investigating the case of a woman’s corpse that was found mutilated in
a cave below Dragon’s Rock, near Bonn. His colleague Elena Vogt is not particularly helpful
when it comes to his investigation, and worse still, his grandmother decides to make some
investigations of her own. Meanwhile, we meet two teenagers – the mother of one turns out
to be the murder victim, and the other one’s mother has gone missing. Then there’s more
trouble for Seidel when the teens go missing as well …
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Petra Busch
Kriminalroman
50.000
copies sold
Petra Busch
Hush, my Child
448 pages, 3-426-50557-1
September 2010
Petra Busch
You’ll be Mine Forever
448 pages, 3-426-50792-7
October 2011
50.000
copies sold
Judith Merchant
Murder on Dragon’s Rock
384 pages, 3-426-50863-X
May 2011

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Detective fiction
Friedrich Ani
Süden and the Latchkey Kids
200 pages, 3-426-50936-9
November 2011
Titles of the Süden series:
Süden and the Vow of the Fallen Angel
3-426-61999, November 2001;
Winner of the Deutscher Krimipreis 2002
Spanish rights sold to Plataforma Editorial
Süden and the Streetcar Drinker
3-426-62068, April 2002;
Winner of the Deutscher Krimipreis 2003
Spanish rights sold to Plataforma Editorial
Süden and the Woman with the Stiff Dress
3-426-51032, July 2002;
Winner of the Deutscher Krimipreis 2003
Friedrich Ani’s books have been translated into several foreign languages and won multiple
awards. He is the first author to win the German Mystery Prize for three of his books in the
same year. The newspaper Die Zeit called him, »Literarily the most stubborn of German mystery
writers, and also the best«.
The latest in an award-winning mystery series
Two days before Christmas, 10-year-old Adrian disappears from the state-run home where he
has lived for a month. The director of the home asks Detective Tabor Süden to help with the
search. Adrian, an introverted boy, has stolen a teacher’s mobile phone and is constantly
sending text messages to Fanny, who also lives in the home.
In wintry Munich Süden’s search for the boy takes him from one end of the city to the other,
sometimes accompanied by 11-year-old Fanny, who drives him half crazy with her nonstop
talking. Finally, on the afternoon of Christmas Eve, Süden finds the key to the boy’s secret.
And the veteran cop, is stunned that he didn’t figure it out much earlier …
Süden and the Secret of the Queen
3-426-62073, November 2002;
Winner of the Deutscher Krimipreis 2003
Süden and the Smile of the Wind
3-426-62074, March 2003
Süden and the Air Guitar Player
3-426-62075, November 2003
Süden and the Happy Corner
3-426-51033, November 2003
Andreas Föhr, born 1958, is a lawyer by training who began writing for television in 1991.
Since then he has written scripts for all of Germany’s best-known detective series. The author
lives near Munich.
A Bavarian mystery: dry humor, stubborn investigators, and a strong plot
A harmless car race between Police Sergeant Kreuthner and his old buddy Raubert ends with
the discovery of a woman’s corpse, lying in a bizarre position in the trunk of Raubert’s car.
The investigation leads back 16 years to the onetime au pair girl Sofia, who obviously plays a
key role in the murder case.
Sofia had lived with the family of the well-known actress Katharina Millruth. Back then the
Millruths’ six-year-old daughter unwittingly caused a car accident that disfigured the face of
a would-be actress named Hanna Lohwerk. And it’s Lohwerk’s corpse that was just found in
Raubert’s trunk.
Friedrich-Glauser
Prize 2010
Schafkopf
Der Kleinkriminelle Stanislaus Kummeder geht an
einem Oktobersonntag frühmorgens mit einem Bierfass
auf den Riederstein. Dort auf dem Gipfel, hoch
über dem Tegernsee, wird ihm aus heiterem Himmel
der Kopf weggeschossen. Was der Mann, der nie auf
Berge ging, auf dem Riederstein zu schaffen hatte,
wozu er ein Bierfass auf den Gipfel schleppte und
weshalb ihn jemand mit einem Präzisionsgewehr
aus 500 Meter Entfernung erschoss – das können
nur zwei Menschen beantworten: der ewig frierende
Kommissar Wallner und sein bayerisch-anarchistischer
Kollege Polizeiobermeister Kreuthner. Bei ihren
Ermittlungen stoßen die beiden auf das geheimnisvolle
Verschwinden einer jungen Frau, auf 200 000
Euro im Kofferraum eines dubiosen Anwalts, einen
prügelnden Wirt mit abnormen Körperkräften und
eine Neumondnacht vor zwei Jahren, in der die
Geschehnisse durch eine Partie Schafkopf ihren
tragischen Anfang nahmen …
Andreas Föhr
ANDREAS
FÖHR
Der Prinzessinnenmörder
An einem eisigen Januarmorgen wird im zugefrorenen
oberbayerischen Spitzingsee die Leiche eines
15-jährigen Mädchens gefunden. Kurioses Detail:
Sie wurde durch einen Stich mitten ins Herz getötet
und trägt ein goldenes Brokatkleid. Als man im Mund
des Opfers eine Plakette mit einer eingravierten Eins
fi ndet, ahnen Kommissar Wallner und sein ewig
grantelnder Kollege, Polizeiobermeister Kreuthner,
dass dies nur der Anfang einer grauenvollen
Mordserie ist …
Der erfolgreiche Drehbuchautor Andreas Föhr blickt
mit seinem außergewöhnlichen Debütroman in
mörderisch kalte Abgründe – mitten im
idyllischen Oberbayern. The Man who Killed
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»Eindringliches Psychopathen-Psychogramm aus
Oberbayern.« Die Welt the Princesses
»Das beschauliche Oberbayern wird zum neuen
Hexenkessel für die Mörderjagd.«
Alex Dengler, denglers-buchkritik.de
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September 2009
ANDREAS
FÖHR Der Prinzessinnenmörder
Andreas Föhr, Jahrgang 1958, gelernter Jurist, arbeitete
einige Jahre bei der Rundfunkaufsicht und als Anwalt.
Seit 1991 verfasst er erfolgreich Drehbücher für das Fernsehen
mit Schwerpunkt im Bereich Krimi. Unter anderem
schrieb er für »SOKO 5113«, »Ein Fall für zwei« und »Der
Bulle von Tölz«. Sein Debütroman »Der Prinzessinnenmörder«
wurde für den Friedrich-Glauser-Preis nominiert.
Andreas Föhr lebt in Haar bei München.
Der
Prinzessinnenmörder
K R I M I N A L R O M A N
K N A U R
© Uta Kellermann
Schafkopf
ANDREAS
FÖHR
KNAUR
A NDR E AS
FÖHR
Schaf kopf
50.000
copies sold
KNAUR
K R IMINALROM A N
Als Kommissar Wallner zum Tatort gerufen wird, bietet
sich ihm ein seltsames Bild: ein Toter in einem knallgelben
Batman-T-Shirt, dem mit einem Präzisionsgewehr aus
über 500 Meter Entfernung der Kopf weggeschossen
wurde, daneben ein Zehn-Liter-Fass Bier. Polizeiobermeister
Kreuthner, der aufgrund einer unseligen Wette
in aller Herrgottsfrüh zur malerisch gelegenen Kapelle,
hoch oben auf dem Riederstein, joggen musste, stand
zufällig direkt neben dem Bergwanderer, als der tödliche
Schuss abgegeben wurde. Er kann den Toten als den
polizeibekannten Kleinkriminellen Stanislaus Kummeder
identifi zieren.
Bei den Ermittlungen fi nden Kommissar Wallner und
sein Team heraus, dass Kummeders Freundin Kathi vor
zwei Jahren auf ungeklärte Weise verschwunden ist. Gibt
es einen Zusammenhang zu dem Mord? Der Anruf des
Rechtsanwalts Jonas Falcking verspricht Licht ins Dunkel
zu bringen, da Falcking behauptet, den Täter gesehen zu
haben. Doch zum vereinbarten Treffen kommt es nicht
mehr, denn der Anwalt wird ebenfalls exekutiert.
Je tiefer Kommissar Wallner und sein Team – mit manch-
mal Andreas etwas eigenwilligen Ermittlungsmethoden – graben, Föhr
desto mehr verfestigt sich der Eindruck, dass jeder, der
mit den zwei Mordopfern zu tun gehabt hat, selbst unschöne
Geheimnisse hütet. Und immer wieder laufen die
Fäden an jenem Juniabend 2007 zusammen, an dem Kathi
zum Shuffled letzten Mal gesehen wurde. An jenem Juniabend, an Cards
dem in einem bayerischen Wirtshaus eine legendäre
Runde Schafkopf gespielt und eine Tasche mit 200 000
Euro gestohlen wurde …
Andreas 448 Föhr schafft es wieder pages, bravourös, einen Mordfall 3-426-66398-8
mit einem mysteriösen Ereignis aus der Vergangenheit zu
verknüpfen. Hochintelligent, hochspannend – der neue
Fall für Kommissar Wallner und sein Team!
September 2010
Süden and the Wrong Child
3-426-51041, July 2004
Süden and the Green Hair of Death
3-426-62386, March 2005
Süden and the Man with the Long, Black
Coat
3-426-62389, June 2005
Andreas Föhr
Holy Week: A Mystery
450 pages, 3-426-65252-7
November 2011
Alex Berg is the pseudonym of a female thriller writer in northern Germany who has begun a
series revolving around the characters Eric Mayer and Valerie Weymann.
Action thriller with the topical theme of traumatized war veterans
A Hamburg-based armaments manufacturer is suspected of illegal weapons trafficking. The
government assigns the investigation to agent Eric Mayer, an Afghanistan specialist. The
company hires Valerie Weymann’s law firm to conduct the internal investigation and also to
keep the press at arm’s length.
Meanwhile, the traumatized soldier Katja Rittmer, one of the first women to see combat
action in Afghanistan, comes back home. Her convoy was attacked and her comrades were
shot … with German ammunition. How could this happen? But back home nobody wants to
answer her explosive question. She soon finds out that the weapons company being investigated
has ties to the Taliban. Eric Mayer heads for Afghanistan but is soon accused of having
his own ties to the weapons firm. Katja knows Eric and believes he’s innocent, but as a soldier
who’s been trained to kill, she’s a ticking time bomb, and her solution is a violent one …
Simone Buchholz’s career in brief: Philosophy major (dropped out), waitress (quit), the prestigious
Henri Nannen journalism school (graduated), reporter for a business magazine (quit),
reporter for a youth magazine (it ceased publication). Now she’s a freelance journalist who
writes for Stern, Max, and other German glossies.
A mystery set in a rough part of Hamburg, with plenty of local color
Hamburg in November: The rain is an icecold, evil drizzle. Chastity Riley has had a cough for
weeks, but she still needs to go to work. The theme of her third case is the unscrupulous
renovation of her beloved city, or to be precise, the Scandinavian real estate tycoons who are
investing in South Hamburg in deadly fashion.
It begins when a couple is found murdered. At first it’s thought to be a hate crime, but then
investigators hear from an investor who wanted to buy the building where the couple lived.
But the city allowed a Danish firm to buy it for a much lower price. And the murdered husband
and wife were the last living tenants.
Chastity’s on the case, but so is Faller, a private eye who’s an ex-cop and is really getting on
her nerves …
Annette Hohberg is a section editor of one of the Condé Nast’s major magazines, based in
Munich. This is her first novel.
A novel for anyone who’s been left by a lover
Annette Hohberg arbeitet seit Jahren als
Journalistin und war unter anderem
Restaurantkritikerin beim Gault Millau und
bei der Welt. Mittlerweile ist sie Ressortleiterin
einer großen Publikumszeitschrift
des Condé Nast Verlags in München.
Annette Hohberg ist verheiratet und lebt
am Starnberger See. Sie liest viel, kocht
gern, liebt französische Filme und Musik
und reist, wann immer ihr Zeit dafür bleibt.
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to arrange to put it on the market. She takes with her a box with 17 photos, one for each year
© Peter Hilbig
Detective fiction / Thriller / Romance 7
Sie hatten sich
so geliebt …
Siebzehn Jahre lang waren Gesine und Leo ein
Paar – doch von einem Tag auf den anderen ist
alles aus, und Gesine steht vor den Scherben
ihrer Ehe. Anhand von siebzehn Fotos aus der
gemeinsamen Zeit zieht sie Bilanz und kommt
dadurch den Brüchen in ihrer Beziehung auf
die Spur, die sie nicht gesehen hat – oder nicht
sehen wollte.
Die Chronologie einer großen Liebe und die
Geschichte eines Neuanfangs.
Leo is a restaurant reviewer, Gesine is a psychologist, and the two were a model couple for
17 years. Until one day Leo says the words that turn their world upside down: »Something has
happened to me«. It’s the old cliché: a fifty-year-old man falls in love with a younger woman.
Gesine didn’t suspect a thing, and these words strike a powerful blow. What follows is the
Once they move out of their apartment, Gesine heads for Normandy to their vacation home
she spent with Leo. Using these pictures, the tale of a great love is told in flashbacks. The day
they met, the day he proposed to her in Paris, their wedding, her miscarriage, the cycling
trips they took … happy and tragic moments, scenes from a perfectly normal marriage that
turned out not to be so normal.
Alles, was bleibt
ANNETTE
HOHBERG
KNAUR
Alex Berg
The Marionette
380 pages, 3-426-50899-0
November 2011
Simone Buchholz
Swedish Bitters:
A Hamburg Mystery
250 pages, 3-426-22605-7
November 2011
ANNETTE
HOHBERG
Alles,
was bleibt
KNAUR
Roman
20.000
copies sold
Es waren siebzehn Fotos, für jedes Leo-J
eins. Wenn sie abends nicht schlafen kon
ließ sie die Bilder ans Licht. Gab ihnen
Ausgang, wie einem unwilligen Hund,
den man Gassi führt. Sie blieb immer an
denselben Orten stehen, manchmal kur
manchmal länger, bevor sie weiterging –
bis zum Ende ihrer Erinnerungsrunde.
In den Augen ihrer Freunde führen Ges
und Leo eine Ehe wie aus dem Bilderbu
Bis Leo eines Tages den schicksalhaften
sagt, der ihr gemeinsames Leben aus den
Angeln hebt: »Mir ist da was passiert …
Der 50-Jährige hat sich in eine jüngere F
verliebt. Gesine ist am Boden zerstört un
tut das, was sie immer zusammen mit ih
gemacht hat: Sie kocht. Denn Kochen u
gutes Essen waren für die beiden stets ei
wichtiger Teil ihrer Beziehung. Sie reist
das gemeinsame Haus in der Normandi
im Gepäck jene siebzehn Fotos, die die
Geschichte ihrer Liebe erzählen.
In Frankreich fi ndet Gesine zu sich
selbst – und trifft beinahe eine tragische
Entscheidung …
So schmeckt das Glück: Mit Gesines
Rezepten gegen das Traurigsein!
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Annette Hohberg
All that Remains
352 pages, 3-426-65227-7
March 2011

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en
terder
en
r …
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THOMAS
THIEMEYER
DAVID UND JUNA
8 Phantasy / Young Adult
True life stories 9
Sandra Melli
The Goddess’s Star
512 pages, 3-426-50416-2
December 2011
DAVID UND JUNA
Roman
Thomas Thiemeyer
The Forbidden Eden.
David and Juna
464 pages, 3-426-28360-3
August 2011
Lynn Raven
Curse of the Witch
368 pages, 3-426-50560-6
March 2012
Sandra Melli is the pseudonym of a wellknown husband-and-wife author team that has been
writing very successful historical novels for several years. However, the duo got its start writing
short stories for fantasy anthologies for major publishers, and it now returns to that
genre.
Fantasy: A completely new world with its own mythology
More than a millennium ago, a battle raged between the six gods of the world. Before the
battle was ended and the world was cleft into two parts, a powerful artifact called the goddess’s
star was lost. Now, a thousand years later, the agents of the old gods again seek that
powerful item, because owning it can make the difference between victory and defeat.
The young cat girl Laisa is sent by the goddess Irisea to find the artifact and to protect it.
Laisa learns the story of the six gods and the enmity between colors. Also that a certain people
is marked by a certain color (cat people are usually blue, for instance) but there are exceptions
like Laisa, who though a cat girl, is permeated by the color white. But powerful
forces work against Laisa and her friends, and a race against time begins …
Thomas Thiemeyer has earned comparisons to Michael Crichton and the Douglas Preston /
Lincoln Child team. His previous novels include Medusa, Magma, and The Sky Disc of Nebra.
This is his first young adult novel for PAN.
Es gab Warnungen, doch sie wurden
nicht ernst genommen: Vor Generationen
führte ein manipulierter Impfstoff
zu tödlicher Feindschaft zwischen
den Geschlechtern. Nach Jahren der
Vernichtung und Zerstörung hat sich
das Antlitz der Welt verändert: Männer
und Frauen leben streng voneinander
getrennt, Kinder gibt es kaum noch.
Und die gelegentlichen Zusammentreffen
von »Hexen« und »Teufeln«,
wie sie einander nennen, verlaufen
immer gewalttätiger – obwohl sie
einst dem Austausch lebenswichtiger
Güter dienten.
So kommt es, dass die 17-jährige
Kriegerin Juna ausgesandt wird, einen
Gefangenen zu nehmen. Er soll unter
Folter das nächste üble Vorhaben der
Männer verraten. Und sie gerät ausgerechnet
an den jungen Mönch David,
der nichts lieber tut, als sich in verbotene
Bücher der alten Zeit zu fl üchten:
Romeo und Julia von Shakespeare ist
seine Bibel.
Als die beiden sich leibhaftig gegenüberstehen,
erschrecken sie bis ins
Mark. Juna weiß, dass David keine
Chance hat zu überleben – doch im Innersten
erkennt sie zutiefst überrascht,
dass dieser Junge anders ist. In einem
Strudel verbotener Gefühle trifft sie
eine schwerwiegende Entscheidung …
A post-apocalyptic love story, for girls (and boys) 14-and-up
The end is near for mankind. There were warning signs, but no one paid attention: about two
generations ago, a mutated virus led to men and women becoming bitter enemies. While men
dwell in the ruins of the old cities, women have set up a simple life in the country. The ruins
of Cologne, Germany, and its blackened Cathedral are the seat of government, home to a
hateful inquisitor who rules the men and has declared the women to be witches.
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While men control the weapons, vehicles, and fuel depots, they can’t find enough food in the
contaminated cities, so they go get some from time to time in the women’s villages. On these
occasions the nubile women present themselves to the men in what they call a »circle of
shame« and thus ensure that now and then children are born.
On one of these occasions, 17-year-old Juna, daughter of the high priestess, gets a look at the
19-year-old monk David …
Lynn Raven lived in New-England, USA, before she came to Germany for several years. She
writes both urban and high fantasy. The author is well known for her popular all-age-novels
Kiss of the Demon, Heart of the Demon and Blood of the Demon.
High-romantic love story between a young witch and a magician
In the life of the doctor Ella Thorens there is nothing much besides her profession. Since her
mother died, Ella keeps her heart carefully locked up. She does not suspect that her mother
has left her a particular inheritance, until one evening she becomes witness of a terrible
crime: A group of disguised figures beat up a man. When she touches the injured man, she
feels a new power running through her, for Christian Havreux is a magical being and powerful
warlock, who got under the thumb of a demon princess.
Unexpectedly, Ella has got involved in a war between demons from the twilight zone and the
witches and wizards of our world. At the moment when Ella touched Christian after the attack,
he felt the amazing maelstrom of her gift. Together with her he could break the power
of the demon princess.The only problem is that Ella has to help him voluntarily. In order to
achieve this she shall fall in love with him.
Lilly Lindner was born in 1985 in Berlin. She began writing at an early age and previously
wrote a novel, Shattered which was published in 2008.
Dutch rights sold to Meulenhoff Boekerij
A moving, powerful memoir by a child abuse survivor
Lilly Lindner is six years old when a neighbor molests her for the first time
The man ends up moving away, but Lilly’s life has long since been thrown off course. She cuts
herself off from others and behaves differently from other children. She falls victim to eating
disorders. Her parents can’t handle this »difficult« child. At 17 she moves into her own apartment,
but her life is still in shambles. She only weighs 80 pounds and knows she’ll die if she
keeps starving herself.
Finally she begins to work in a high-class brothel in Berlin – since her body is no longer her
own anyway, why not use it to make money? And so the tender young woman, who’s wellspoken,
intelligent and sensitive, becomes a sought-after whore. However, here of all places
is where Lilly slowly finds herself again, and writes an impressive, provocative book with
great narrative power.
Urmila Chaudhary, born 1989, is from the Tharu tribe and thus one of the poorest in Nepal.
She was set free in 2007. In addition to being leader of her anti-slavery movement, she is finally
fulfilling her dream and getting a school education.
Dutch rights sold to Uitgeverij de Boekerij;
Russian rights sold to Family Leisure Club (Bertelsmann, Ukraine)
The moving story of a Nepalese girl
Urmila is six years old when she meets the fate of all girls of the Tharu, a Nepalese tribe: she
is sold as a Kamalari – a slave girl – and has to spend the next 12 years serving well-to-do
families in the capital city Katmandu.
This centuries-old practice continues in the present day, despite the fact that human bondage
is against the law in Nepal. It continues because the parents of the tribe are so poor:
Urmilas parents sold her for just 40 euros per year. She was forced to work 17 hours a day.
She was humiliated, ordered around, got scraps to eat, was never allowed to go to school.
At 18, Urmila regains her freedom and becomes the great hope of all the Kamalari. She resolves
to fight this injustice until the last Kamalari has been freed.
Bettina Landgrafe, born 1976, came to Africa for the first time ten years ago. Originally a
pediatric nurse, she founded the organization »Madamfo Ghana« in 2007. She spends about
six months of every year in Ghana.
Bettina Landgrafe, geboren 1976, kam vor
zehn Jahren zum ersten Mal nach Afrika.
2007 gründete die gelernte und examinierte
Kinderkrankenschwester den Verein
Madamfo Ghana. Zunächst arbeitete sie
die Hälfte des Jahres in Deutschland und
verbrachte die restliche Zeit in Ghana. Seit
2010 widmet sie sich hauptsächlich ihrem
Verein. Nebenher hält sie Vorträge und
hat einen Lehrauftrag an der Technischen
Universität Dortmund. Weitere Infos unter:
www.madamfo-ghana.de
The moving and inspirational story of a modern-day heroine
»Immer wieder werde ich gefragt, warum ich
mein Leben den Menschen in Afrika widme.
Man muss ihnen nur einmal in die Augen
sehen – das ist es, was ich darauf antworte.«
Kinder, die als Sklaven arbeiten müssen, hochschwangere
Frauen, die von medizinischer Versorgung
nur träumen können, und Leprakranke, die von ihren
Familien verstoßen werden. Als die deutsche Kinderkrankenschwester
Bettina Landgrafe zum ersten Mal
nach Ghana kam, ließ sie das Schicksal der Menschen
dort nicht mehr los. Sie beschloss, nach Afrika zurückzukehren
und zu helfen. Und so wurde aus einmal für
immer: Mittlerweile ist Ghana für Bettina Landgrafe zur
zweiten Heimat geworden – und sie selbst zur Weißen
Nana, einer Königin der Ashanti.
It was supposed to be a one-time trip, but when Bettina Landgrafe, a pediatric nurse, traveled
to Ghana ten years ago, she didn’t imagine that this experience would transform her life.
The conditions there were shocking: no pharmaceuticals, no clean drinking water, and hardly
anything to eat. She saw the suffering, the hunger, and the poverty, as well as the fate of
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own painful childhood without parents to take care of her. Her mother was alcoholic and she
never knew her father.
The situation in Ghana was something she couldn’t let go of, and she founded a society that
frees children from slavery, builds schools and hospitals, and gives the poorest of the poor
what they need to survive. It’s the fascinating story of an impressive woman.
© Fernuniversität Hagen
Bettina
Landgrafe
nana
weiße
Knaur
LILLY LINDNER
Splitter
FASer
NACKt
DRoEmER
Lilly Lindner
Stark Naked
400 pages, 3-426-22606-5
September 2011
Urmila Chaudhary and
Nathalie Schwaiger
Slave Girl: Sold and
Forgotten
320 pages, 3-426-65497-0
March 2011
nana
weiße
Bettina
Landgrafe
Mein Leben
für Afrika
Knaur
Bettina Landgrafe bringt Hoff nung nach
Afrika: Die gelernte Kinderkrankenschwes
ter aus Hagen kam vor zehn Jahren zum
ersten Mal nach Ghana, um dort in einer
Buschklinik zu arbeiten. Vom ersten Moment
an fühlte sie sich in dem afrikanische
Land zu Hause, doch sie ahnte nicht, dass
dieser Aufenthalt ihr ganzes Leben verändern
würde. Sie begegnete Kranken, die
keine Aussicht auf medizinische Versorgun
hatten. Kindern, die nicht zur Schule gehe
konnten und nicht genug zu essen hatten.
Und Frauen, die für ihre Familien Wasser
aus dem Fluss holten, das verunreinigt und
voller Krankheitserreger war.
Die Armut und das Leid dieser Menschen
ließen sie nicht mehr los, und so beschloss
sie zu helfen. Zurück in Deutschland,
gründete sie den Verein Madamfo Ghana e. V.
Freunde Ghanas. Mit diesem Verein baut
sie heute Schulen und Brunnen, eröff net
Kindern die Chance auf Bildung und
entwickelt Selbsthilfeprojekte, um den
Ärmsten der Armen ein menschenwürdige
Leben zu ermöglichen.
In diesem Buch erzählt Bettina Landgrafe,
warum ein Blick in die Augen dieser Menschen
für sie wertvoller ist als alles, was sie
in Deutschland je hatte. Und wie es kam,
dass ein Dorf der Ashanti sie zur Weißen
Nana, zu ihrer Königin, machte.
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Bettina Landgrafe and
Beate Rygiert
White Nana: My Life for
Africa
250 pages, 3-426-65509-8
October 2011

lt, als
r Mutter
kt wird.
ld zurück
einer
h dem Fall
ie Suche
– und
Katrin Behr
Peter Hartl
DROEMER
10 True life stories
Memoirs / Biographies 11
Nicole Mtawa
Children of the Sun
272 pages, 3-426-78451-3
December 2011
Gisela Heidenreich
Beloved Nazi
320 pages, 3-426-27432-3
November 2011
Katrin
Behr
Peter Hartl
Der Tag, als die DDR mir
meine Mutter nahm
DROEMER
Der Triumph der Liebe
Mit nichts als der Freiheit im Gepäck erfüllt sich Nicole einen
Lebenstraum: Afrika. Dort erfährt die junge Deutsche wahre
Gastfreundschaft, genießt die Weite des Indischen Ozeans und
begegnet Menschen, deren Schicksale sie zutiefst berühren.
Vor allem Juma, der hinter seinem strahlenden Lächeln eine
verletzte Seele verbirgt, erobert ihr Herz im Sturm. Zwischen
den beiden entwickelt sich eine zarte Liebesgeschichte, doch
Juma fällt es schwer, an sein Glück zu glauben. Denn seit
seinem siebten Lebensjahr lebt er auf der Straße, hat keine
Familie mehr, kein Zuhause. Auch Nicole wehrt sich anfänglich
gegen diese scheinbar unmögliche Liebe und erlebt, wie eng
Hoffnung und Verzweifl ung unter dem Sternenhimmel Afrikas
beieinanderliegen.
ISBN 978-3-426-78300-9
€ 8,95 (D)
€ 9,20 (A)
9 783426 783009
www.knaur.de
Katrin Behr and Peter Hartl
The Day they Took
my Mother Away
280 pages, 3-426-27566-X
August 2011
Knaur.
78300
Knaur.
Sternendiebe
NICOLE MTAWA
German Nicole Mtawa first experienced poverty on a trip to India. She later chose to journey
to Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, in hopes that she could make a difference there. As documented
in her previous book for Knaur, Stealing the Stars: Our Life on the Streets of Africa, she married
the Tanzanian street urchin Juma.
A young woman’s mission to help the poor of India
Nicole Mtawa founds the organization Human Dreams to raise money for her next big project:
a home for gravely ill children in New Delhi. When she traveled to India years ago, she
was shocked to see that children with infirmities or incurable diseases were left to vegetate.
Even though she’s now a married woman who loves her husband more than anything, she
still wants to be there for the poorest of the poor who have nobody else to take care of them.
Knaur.
20.000
copies sold
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Gisela Heidenreich was born in a Lebensbornheim in Norway, an institution set up by Hitler’s
Germany for unmarried women who were pregnant with the children of SS men. Her bestselling
book The Neverending Year was the chronicle of that chapter of her life.
The painful search for the Nazi diplomat whom the author’s mother loved
He was the great love of her mother’s life. He was accused of the murders of 350,000 people.
He was a key cog in the Nazi murder machine. He was a Jew hunter »by profession«. Bestselling
author Gisela Heidenreich goes searching for the career Nazi diplomat Horst Wagner,
who almost became her new father, who fled to South America with her mother’s help, who
was able to escape justice for decades with the help of his old comrades. The life story of a
perfectly normal German man of the 20 th century. Career-minded, a Jew-hater, a coward.
He was a protégé of Von Ribbentrop. Soon Wagner became Heinrich Himmler’s liaison in the
Foreign Office.
Originally slated to be tried at Nuremberg, he ended up only being interrogated as a witness
because there were so many defendants. The Nuremberg prison is where he met and fell in
love with the author’s mother.
Katrin Behr was born in Gera in 1967. She currently lives in Berlin. Author Peter Hartl is also
a screenwriter who for 20 years has worked on the historical documentaries done by ZDF
television.
Es ist ein kalter Morgen, als die Männer
in den langen, dunklen Mänteln kommen
und ihre Mutter abholen. Ihr Bruder
und sie werden in ein Heim gebracht
und bald schon voneinander getrennt:
Katrin wird von einer linientreuen Familie
aufgenommen und schließlich zwangsadoptiert,
während ihre Mutter wegen
nicht regimekonformen Verhaltens in
Haft sitzt. Katrins Welt ist aus dem Lot.
Noch jahrelang wartet sie auf die Rückkehr
ihrer Mama – vergebens.
Erst als Erwachsene, nach dem Zusammenbruch
der DDR, fi ndet sie endlich
eine Spur, die zu ihrer Mutter führt.
Und je mehr Katrin Behr sich mit ihrer
eigenen Geschichte befasst, in Archive
und auf Ämter geht, um Licht in die
Vergangenheit zu bringen, desto mehr
Schicksale begegnen ihr: Tausende von
Kindern wurden in der DDR ihren Eltern
weggenommen, weil diese politisch missliebig
waren oder in den Westen fl iehen
wollten. Manche suchen noch heute nach
ihren wahren Familien.
Und Katrin Behr hilft ihnen dabei:
Denn sie arbeitet heute in einem Verein,
der zu DDR-Zeiten zwangsadoptierte
Kinder wieder mit ihren Angehörigen
zusammenbringt.
Entrissen ist die dramatische Suche einer
Frau nach ihrer gestohlenen Identität.
Nicole Mtawa
Stealing the Stars
320 pages, 3-426-78300-9
December 2009
True story that shows the inhumanity of the East German government
East Germany, 1972: Katrin was four when the secret police (known as the Stasi) came to take
her mother away. The men took the family to the town square and ordered the mother to get
into a car.. Katrin was put into a home. She was placed with one foster family after another but
kept running away. Katrin’s last foster family, loyal party members, ends up adopting her.
Not until Katrin is an adult, after East Germany has collapsed, is she able to track down her
mother, who by this time is a broken woman. The regime had dubbed her »politically unreli-
20.06.2011 11:03:02 Uhr
able« and »antisocial«, and the many years in jail have left a mark. The old closeness between
mother and child is gone forever, and Katrin’s persistent search for her mother has
shaken her relationship with her adoptive family,
Today Katrin is the head of a society that helps others who were forced into adoption to find
their original families.
Alice Herz-Sommer, born in Prague, is a pianist who lives in London. She will turn 108 in
November 2011.
English world rights sold to Macmillan / UK; Dutch rights sold to Uitgeverij Artemis;
Italian rights sold to Excelsior 1881 srl; Czech rights sold to Rybka publishers
The story of surviving a concentration camp
is just one part of this amazing life – revised edition
Fifteen thousand children were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, and only
130 survived. Six-year-old Raphael Sommer was one of them. He survived thanks to his
mother, the pianist Alice Herz-Sommer.
Yet this book is much more than a holocaust story: it’s the wonderful life story of the author,
who was born in Prague in 1903. It was the Prague of Franz Kafka, who was like a brother to
Alice. In 1943, Alice, her husband, and her little son were sent to Theresienstadt. Alice’s husband
was sent on to Dachau and died there, but Alice and Raphael miraculously avoided
transport to Auschwitz. Alice survived thanks to her musical talent: she even played Chopin
for the prisoners.
Giora Feidman, born 1936 in Buenos Aires, is from a family of musicians. He emigrated to
Israel in 1957 and was a member of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for 18 years. In the
early 1970s he began his solo career as a klezmer performer. Feidman has been married to
the composer Ora Bat-Chaim since 1975.
The musician’s long-awaited autobiography
He grew up in Buenos Aires, he lived in Israel for a long time, and for decades he’s been a
citizen of the world: Giora Feidman, the man whose clarinet entrances audiences in all of the
great concert halls of the world and who has played with Daniel Barenboim, Leonard Bernstein
and Astor Piazzolla. The man who became famous for his scores for »Schindler’s List«
and the German film »Jenseits der Stille«. The man who has revitalized klezmer, the traditional
Jewish music. The man who has crossed national, religious and musical borders as if
this were the most natural thing in the world, and who is firmly convinced that music has only
one mission: to be in service of freedom, understanding, and reconciliation. On the occasion
of his 75 th birthday in March 2011, he presents his autobiography – a deeply spiritual account
of his life.
Eckart Lohse and Markus Wehner are both reporters for the Berlin bureau of one of Ger-
© Christian Thiel
© Christian Thiel
GUTTENBERGBIOGRAPHIE
Melissa Müller and
Reinhard Piechocki
Alice Herz-Sommer –
»A Garden of Eden in the
Middle of Hell«
432 pages, 3-426-78515,
October 2011
Giora Feidman
You Walk, You Speak, You
Sing, You Dance: A Memoir
288 pages, 3-629-02284-7
March 2011
GUTTENBERG
BIOGRAPHIE
many’s most respected newspapers, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. FAMILIE. LEBEN. POLITIK.
Karl-Theodor Freiherr von und zu Gutt
berg ist der Star der deutschen Politik
Ihm ist gelungen, was keiner vor ihm g
schafft hat: In nicht einmal zwölf Mona
Er ist der politische Shootingstar. Sein Erfolg ist beispiellos.
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg traut man die Kanzlerschaft zu.
Zwei Drittel aller Deutschen sind begeistert von ihm. Doch
Eckart Lohse Markus Wehner
was weiß man wirklich über den »deutschen Kennedy«?
Eckart Lohse, geboren 1963, ist seit
Eckart Lohse und Markus Wehner erzählen das private
1994 politischer Redakteur der Frankfurter Frankfurter
und politische Leben dieses Instinktpolitikers. Viele bislang
The first biography of the young politician
Allgemeinen Allgemeinen Zeitung Zeitung (FAZ), seit 2003
unbekannte Rechercheergebnisse ermöglichen, ein wesent-
leitet er das Berliner Büro der Frankfurter Frankfurter
lich genaueres Bild von Guttenberg zu zeichnen. Lohse und
Allgemeinen Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung Sonntagszeitung (FAS). Er
Wehner schildern den Werdegang, erklären Stärken und
who has taken Germany by storm
beobachtet und beschreibt vor allem die
Schwächen, das außergewöhnliche doppelte Talent Gutten-
Entwicklungen in CDU und CSU und die
bergs: Denn er ist nicht nur der interessanteste deutsche
Verteidigungspolitik.
Politiker dieser Jahre und vielleicht der Zukunft, er ist der
Markus Wehner, geboren 1963, ist seit
mit Abstand beste Darsteller seiner selbst und ein neuer
1996 Redakteur der FAZ. Er berichtete
Typ von Machtmensch.
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg was Germany’s best-liked politician. fünf Jahre lang als Korrespondent He aus maintained the image of
war er Generalsekretär der CSU, Bund
wirtschaftsminister und Verteidigungsminister,
im selben Zeitraum erkoren i
die Deutschen zum beliebtesten Politik
Wer ist dieser Mann, der die Deutsche
bewegt und die Politik stärker verände
hat als manch ein altgedienter Parteifü
in Jahrzehnten? Woher kommt er? Wo
steht er? Was macht ihn so bezwingen
Und: Was steckt hinter der Maske des
strahlenden Helden?
Eckart Lohse und Markus Wehner,
Redakteure der Frankfurter Allgemeine
Sonntagszeitung, begleiten Guttenberg
seit seinen Anfängen als junger Bunde
tagsabgeordneter, haben mit engen
Familienmitgliedern Guttenbergs, mit
Moskau. Seit 2004 ist er Redakteur im
Hauptstadtbüro der FAS, FAS, sein Augenmerk
»Eine Karriere scheinbar aus dem Nichts. Der erste deutsche
an upstanding type who’s different from the usual slick political liegt auf den Geheimdiensten figure. und auf He Spitzenpolitiker was der Twitter- applauded und Facebook-Generation. Diese for
der politischen Linken.
sehr gut geschriebene, lesenswerte Biographie macht einen
Zusammen haben die beiden Journalisten
klüger, was das Rätsel Guttenberg betrifft.« Joschka Fischer
being the first government minister to call the German army’s bereits die erste Geschichte activities der großen in Afghanistan »war«.
Koalition 2005–2009 geschrieben.
The authors have written the first political biography of the fastest-rising star in German
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politics, and they find reason to doubt Guttenberg’s supposed perfection. They look into the
ISBN 978-3-426-27554-2
Eckart Lohse
Markus Wehner
Gegnern und Parteifreunden gesproch
haben sich in das bestens vernetzte V
wandtschafts- und Beziehungsgefl ech
einer der ältesten und reichsten deutschen
Familien eingearbeitet. Als Erge
nis ihrer Recherchen legen sie die ers
politische Biographie des »deutschen
Kennedy« vor. Die hochinformative un
spannend zu lesende Geschichte des
interessantesten deutschen Politikers
dieser Jahre – und vielleicht der Zuku
www.droemer.de
Kunduz affair and they go looking for Guttenberg’s true political beliefs. What they find is a
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narcissist extraordinaire, inexperienced in politics but a master at making himself look good.
Not necessarily the person you’d want to entrust with the future of the country.
30.000
copies sold
Eckart Lohse and
Markus Wehner
Guttenberg: Rising Star in
German Politics
416 pages, 3-426-27554-6
March 2011

gewandt
rm
Staaten
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und
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issenschaftler
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e scharfe,
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gesellschaftergehen.
Der Untergang der
islamischen Welt
Hamed
Abdel-Samad
Droemer
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Society / Investigative Journalism 13
Hamed Abdel-Samad
War or Peace: The Arab
Revolution and the Future
of the West
240 pages, 3-426-27558-9
September 2011
Hamed
Abdel-Samad
Der
Untergang
der
islamischen
Welt
60.000 copies
sold in Germany!
Eine Prognose
Droemer
Hamed Abdel-Samad
The Decline of the Islamic
World: A Prognosis
224 pages, 3-426-27544-9
September 2010
Felix Löwenstein
Food Crash
256 pages, 3-629-02300-2
September 2011
Hamed Abdel-Samad, born 1972 in Cairo, is one of the most accomplished Islamic intellectuals
of the younger generation. His autobiography My Goodbye to Heaven caused an international
sensation. The author lives in Munich.
As Arab dictatorships fall, Europe must not bury its head in the sand!
Hamed Abdel-Samad was in Cairo during the uprising. Now he provides firsthand information
on the causes of the Arab revolution – which is being carried out by the Facebook generation
– and where it might go from here.
His prognosis is alarming, yet it also gives us hope, because the West can help decide whether
a chance at a flourishing cooperation of East and West will grow out of the fall of Arab
dictatorships, or whether civil war and a collapsing economy will force millions of young
people northward, where they would threaten to overrun the aging societies of Europe. Abdel-Samad’s
message is clear: the West has to become involved in both an economical and a
political sense to give these people in their homelands hope for the future. Then everyone will
benefit from the largest political shake-up the world has seen since the fall of the Iron Curtain.
Dutch rights sold to Uitgeverij Contact
Die islamischen Länder eint ein Glaube, aus dem
sie ein seit Jahrhunderten überholtes Menschenund
Gesellschaftsbild ableiten. Ungeheure
kreative und geistige Ressourcen können deshalb
nicht genutzt werden.
Die politische, wirtschaftliche und soziale Misere
der Staaten wird konsequent als Ergebnis
»der feindlichen Politik des Westens« gedeutet.
Jeder Versuch der Veränderung wird von der
islamischen Orthodoxie und der Machtbesessenheit
der Herrschenden erstickt. Bildungssystem
und Religion beschränken sich darauf, zu Gehorsam
gegenüber den Regimes zu erziehen.
A provocative book by an astute Islamic intellectual
The Islamic countries are unified by a religion from which they derive a problematic picture
of people and society: women are absolutely excluded, as are all men who don’t come from
the ruling class of society. Incredible intellectual resources can’t be taken advantage of. The
prosperity of these countries is deteriorating. This misery is interpreted as the result of the
»hostile« politics of »the West«.
Die Perspektiven für die Länder von
Marokko bis Indonesien sind bedrohlich,
da eine innovationsfeindliche Kultur, eine rapide
wachsende, arme Bevölkerung, zur Neige
gehende Erdölvorkommen und dramatische
klimatische Veränderungen ein hochexplosives
Gemisch ergeben.
Der deutsch-ägyptische Politikwissenschaftler
Hamed Abdel-Samad wagt eine scharfe, zwingende
Prognose für die Zukunft der Welt, der er
selbst entstammt: Der Islam wird als politische
und gesellschaftliche Idee, er wird als Kultur
untergehen; die größte Völkerwanderung der
Geschichte wird Europa bedrängen.
The combination of an anti-innovation culture, a fast-growing yet poor and oppressed population,
oil deposits that are drying up and climatic problems results in an explosive mixture.
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Hamed Abdel-Samad dares to offer a tough, compelling prognosis for the future of the culture
he himself comes from: the Islamic nations will collapse, and Islam will decline, both as
a political and social idea and as a culture.
Dr. Felix Prinz zu Löwenstein received his doctorate in 1982 and then spent three years doing
volunteer work in Haiti. When he returned home he took over the property that his family
has owned for 500 years and converted the farm to organic principles. He is the head of
several organizations that promote organic farming.
»We’ll feed ourselves organically or not at all«, the author says
Powerful international agricultural and chemical firms are changing food production worldwide.
Everywhere, genetic manipulation of seeds is being pushed, as is industrial farming
using pesticides and chemical fertilizers. This is accompanied by a media campaign that uses
what appears to be a winning argument: »Organic food is a luxury for the rich! But to feed 9
billion people we need massive production increases using industrial farming«.
Löwenstein, the feisty leader of Germany’s organic farmers, exposes this argument. »This
argument is false. We’ll either feed ourselves organically or not at all. Industrial agriculture
doesn’t fight hunger, it causes it. Corporations bear much of the responsibility for the destruction
of nature and the livelihoods of millions of farmers worldwide. And they make sure
that what’s being put on our plates keeps getting worse!«
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Nina Puri ist freie Texterin und
Kreativ-Direktorin und fest angestellte
Mutter eines 10-jährigen Regisseurs
und eines 5-jährigen U-Bahn-Fahrers.
Ihre Themenschwerpunkte sind
»Hier sieht’s ja aus wie im Saustall«,
»Können wir das ohne Jammerton
haben?« und »Erst das Brot, dann der Nachtisch!«.
Nina Puri lebt in einem meist fröhlichen Patchworkgefüge
und mit einer alternden Vespa PK 50 XL in Hamburg.
Susanne Kaloff ist freie Autorin und
Mutter eines hoch begabten
10-jährigen. Für ihren mehrteiligen
Roman »Carl, zieh sofort Deine
Hausschuhe an!« wurde sie mit dem
hoch dotierten »metallicgrünen
Riesenbleistift« vom Hamburger
Winterdom 2005 ausgezeichnet.
Susanne Kaloff lebt die meiste Zeit glücklich verheiratet in
Berlin und beobachtet Wildschweine vorm Fenster.
Das große Buch der
Elternkrankheiten
Geschickt vorbeugen ● Messerscharf erkennen
Erfolglos behandeln
Was tun, wenn Eltern physisch oder psychisch
auffällig werden? Als Betroffene,Angehörige, Freunde
oder Bekannte sollten Sie wissen:
● welche Symptome was bedeuten
● wann Sie den Arzt anrufen, und was er hoffentlich
● bitte tun wird
● wie Sie, rein theoretisch, vorbeugen können
● ob es gefährlich ist oder einfach nur anstrengend
Das ABC der Elternkrankheiten
● informiert über 150 Krankheiten von Augenringe bis
● Zurschaustillen
● klärt auf über die seelische und körperliche
● Entwicklung von werdenden Eltern, jungen Eltern
● und völlig runtergerockten Eltern
● zeigt lustige Notfälle ohne nennenswert weiterzuhelfen
ISBN 978-3-426-78033-6
€ 12,95 (D)
€ 13,40 (A)
9 783426 780336
www.knaur.de
Knaur.
Justyna Polanska is 31 years old and comes from Poland. She went to Germany to earn
money for the apprenticeship to become make-up artist and has been working as a cleaning
lady since. She knows the dirty secrets of the Germans and has written this book in order to
make crumble the clean front.
Polish rights sold to Swiat Ksiazki (Weltbild Polska)
Best positioning on Spiegel-bestseller list – #3!
Funny, apt and merciless authentic – The Polish charlady Justyna sweeps
away hypocrisy and prejudices
She knows what it looks like under carpets, in the cupboards and under the beds of the Germans:
Justyna is a charlady and she is from Poland. Day after day she meets German thoroughness,
double standards and prejudices. In this book she relates what she experiences in
her everyday life as charlady.
Unsparingly honest and with heart and humour she holds a mirror up to us. Justyna is 31
years old and she left her home country several years ago. »All are slobs there. Young people
do not have a future«. she describes her country. That is why the intelligent and singleminded
woman came to Germany. She loves her job and she loves her new home-country. In
Poland she had never thought of what she would have to experience in German households.
Justyna has kept silent for a long time, but now she speaks her mind.
Justyna Polanska
Unter
deutschen
Betten
Eine polnische
Putzfrau
packt aus
Justyna Polanska
Under German Beds –
A Polish Charlady Dishes
the Dirt
224 pages, 3-426-78397-5
January 2011
Press coverage:
»A Polish woman who worked for twelve years as a cleaner in Germany has shot into the bestseller lists with a scurrilous
exposé of hypocritical German house-holds. The 31 year old woman, who writes under the ghost name of Justyna Polanska,
has a hit on her hands with UNTER DEUTSCHEN BETTEN (Under German Beds), which is flying off the shelves of Berlin bookstores.«
thenews.pl
78033
Knaur.
Nina Puri
Der große
Susanne Kaloff Elternkrankheiten Ratgeber
»[…] revealing and definitely humorous report on the German ›culture of impurity‹.« Süddeutsche Zeitung
»Polanska is revealing German society, appearance and reality, shows loss of decency and disrespect, describes misers who
demand her work and do not pay her. Just the usual madness.« Die Rheinpfalz am Sonntag
Nina Puri is a freelance copywriter and creative director who has won many awards for her
writing, and a member of the Art Directors’ Club.
A handbook on how to be a jerk – everyone’s doing it!
People with manners go to Heaven, but boors go wherever they feel like! With this in mind,
Nina Puri has come up with the antidote to Emily Post, and it shows you how to misbehave
elegantly and with a friendly smile on your face.
Good behavior is out of fashion, and boors are all the rage. It seems that the worse you behave
the further you get in life. But how can you keep pace with all those offensive people?
That’s what this book teaches you: how to greet someone properly (properly rudely that is),
how to dress, table manners or the lack thereof, and what to do in traffic, on the Internet, in
your family, with that special someone, or at work (Suggested comment to try: »Hey, what
does the boss actually do all day? I never see the dude working.«) To sum up: you can act up,
but do it with a smile.
Knaur.
80.000
copies sold
Nina Puri - Susanne Kaloff
Elternkrankheiten
Der große Ratgeber
Von führenden
Müttern und
Vätern empfohlen!
- Alltagsgetestet
- LEID-geprüft
- Glutenfrei
Geschickt vorbeugen • Messerscharf erkennen
Erfolglos behandeln
Jeder, der monatelang allein zuhause saß und versuchte,
einem nicht kooperierenden Kleinkind löffelchenweise
Möhrenbrei einzuflößen, jeder, der aus bilateralen
Verhandlungen mit einem Kindergartenkind als Verlierer
hervorging, jeder, der ratlos vor dem Schulaufgabenheft
eines Grundschulkinds saß, weiß: Isolation, Selbstzweifel
und Erfolglosigkeit gehen Hand in Hand mit dem
Elterndasein.
Nie wieder verändern sich Menschen so rasant wie in der
Elternschaft.Auch Schlafentzug, Freiheitsmangel und das
Fehlen wichtiger Erlebnisse wie tanzen gehen, sich betrinken
und laute Popmusik hören, führen zu elterlicher
Vereinsamung, rapider Alterung und Hauspuschen in
Hasenform.
»Endlich sagt mal einer, wie’s ist!«
Deutscher Elternschutzbund
»Dieses Buch wird Milliarden deutscher Eltern das
Leben retten!«
Prof. Dr. med. dr. h. c. phil. paed. soz. phys. Lalelu
»Fesselnd vom ersten bis zum letzten Virus!«
Susanne Kaloff / Nina Puri
Medizin-Kurier
»Fein gemacht – aber jetzt husch ins Bett!«
Bund der deutschen Eltern Side Effects of Parenthood
256 pages, 3-426-78033-6
November 2007
Knaur.
Nina Puri
Tischlein
leck mich
Droemer
100.000 copies
sold in Germany!
Wie
man sich
anständig
danebenbenimmt
Nina Puri
How to Misbehave
Properly
224 pages, 3-426-27557-3
December 2010

14 Self Help
Mind, Body and Spirit 15
Werner Bartens
Prescription for Happiness:
What Really Works
320 pages, 3-426-27517-1
September 2011
Petra Bock
Mindfuck
272 pages, 3-426-65507-1
October 2011
Bernhard Moestl
The thirteen Seals of Power
The Art of Good Leadership
272 pages, 978-426-65498-9
March 2011
Werner Bartens’ best-known books are The Encyclopedia of Medical Errors and How Doctors
and Patients Keep Inventing New Illnesses, as well as The I-Hate-Doctors Book and The Happy
Body, which were also published by Droemer Knaur. Bartens is the medical editor of the newspaper
Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Many diets, therapies, and drugs don’t work: here’s what does
»You’ve got to change your life!« scream several hundred books each year. A gigantic industry
is based on making us feel bad, and it often succeeds in doing so. We try to change, but a
period of big plans is usually followed by a phase of big disappointments. After all, who really
manages to change his or her life? Bestselling author, doctor, and medical journalist
Werner Bartens knows how hard it is to flip that switch. And more importantly, he knows that
it usually isn’t necessary. Often very small changes in one’s behavior or even in the way you
look at yourself are enough to bring you happiness, satisfaction, and health. Bartens, using
100 wellresearched, everyday examples, shows what really works.
Petra Bock is one of the most important life-coaches in Germany. She has already written
several successful books. The last one was published by Knaur: 100 Questions Concerning
your Life. She captivates a huge audience as coach in TV and radio.
The first book dealing with self-sabotage, its causes,
backgrounds and effects
The successful coach Petra Bock deals with the phenomenon of intellectual self-sabotage.
The discovery of the existence and meaning of »mindfuck« follows directly from the long lasting
work of the author with persons searching for more success, meaning and fulfillment in
their lives. Petra Bock gives examples from real life, activates the self-awareness of the reader
and shows how one can deal with one’s mental activity efficiently.
With »mindfuck« we cause ourselves a lot of trouble. Moreover, we also bother others, because
we become passive, when we should be active, because we shut ourselves off, when we
should open up to a new situation.
In this unique book the reader learns how to break his own »mindfuck« and to replace it with
efficient thinking patterns.
Bernhard Moestl lives in Vienna and works as a guide for tours in Asia. He has got to know
the Shaolin monastery, where he spent many months studying the life of the monks. This
experience determined his life and led him to write his bestselling work: Shaolin – How to Win
without a Fight.
Bulgarian rights sold to Ciela Norma AD
Power and responsibility – 13 strategies for a responsible
consciousness of power
Lack of responsibility, gross negligence, disloyalty and narcissism are the outstanding characteristics
that usually come to mind when people think of executives. This leads to an increasingly
negative image of the so-called »powerful«. In order to rise to the top and to remain
there, those who want to be leaders or to take on responsibility, are obliged to abandon
the usual strategies of power and be prepared to follow new paths.
The reader will learn to understand how this new consciousness of power can function when
he decodes the 13 Seals of Power. Understanding them is rooted in the ancient Asiatic thought
pattern according to the motto: »Those who conquer others have power; those who overcome
themselves are strong.«
Hartwig Hausdorf is among the most well-known authors in the field of mysterious facts and
phenomena. So far his books have been translated into English, Japanese, Italian and Chinese.
His work, The Chinese Roswell made him a household name in the USA, where he is
listed in the reference book Who’s who in the World?
A gripping read for all those who are fascinated by the inexplicable.
Mysterious voices from the hereafter, ghost ships, weird prophecies: throughout history enigmatic
discoveries, unaccountable phenomema and numerous events and puzzles still remain
to be explained – the story of the man who rose from his grave, of a sea battle with a
monster octopus and of a werewolf wreaking havoc in a village.
One of the most well-known researchers into the unknown, the bestselling author Hartwig
Hausdorf, has searched out and compiled the most amazing stories, amog them »Lost in the
Bermuda Triangle«, »A Child sees its Grave« and »A 60-million-year-old Nail«.
Hartwig Hausdorf relates the stories of more than 111 spectacular
happenings and cases that boggle our powers of imagination
What happened to flight 19? What do the voices from the realm of the dead report? And what
about the prehistoric spark plug? Most people simply believe what they see – but what if the
things we see cannot be explained by our knowledge of the world?
Throughout history, mysterious discoveries und inexplicable occurrences have taken place,
and even in the enlightened twentieth century an abundance of riddles and phenomena still
remain to be solved. Hartwig Hausdorf, one of the best-known researchers into the unknown,
produces convincing evidence and casts light on the details of the 111 most spectacular
cases and secrets in the years between 1900 and 2010.
Ulli Olvedi is a graduated Qi-Gong teacher. She is also trained in breathing techniques, buddhistic
psychology and buddhistictantric energy work. She developed the »integral energy
work«, which she teaches in courses and workshops.
Buddhism wrapped up in a fascinating novel
Young Maili lives in a village close to the border between Nepal and Tibet. After her parents
had been murdered by robbers, she decided to become a nun. The family sends her to a convent
for exiled Tibetans on a mountain near Kathmandu.
In the beginning Maili is unhappy and frustrated, as she has to share a room with a nun that
is not popular in the nunnery. She begins to think more and more often about Sönam, a
young monk and is strongly tempted to indulge in daydreams.
A turning point in Maili’s life comes about when she is put into the care of Ani Nyima, a hermit
living in a cave on the mountain top. Ani leads her talented pupil to the Buddhist Tantra Path.
This training makes it possible for Maili to transform her feelings for Sönam into a spiritual
experience. She understands what her teacher tried to explain to her: that life is like a dream
from which the spirit can wake up. That is the »release«, the »enlightenment«, leading to the
Path of Buddha.
Hartwig Hausdorf
The Century of Mysteries
and Wonders
304 pages, 3-426-78470-X
November 2011
Hartwig Hausdorf
The Century of Riddles
and Phenomena
304 pages, 3-426-78505-6
November 2011
Ulli Olvedi
Like a Dream
320 pages, 3-426-50902-9
August 2011

16 Mind, Body and Spirit
Mind, Body and Spirit 17
Luisa Xiaoyan Zhang
Acupuncture –
Fundamentals and Modes
of Operation
256 pages, 3-426-29197-5
November 2011
Lisa Freund
Das
Unverwundbare
Wege der Heilung in Lebenskrisen
CD
inkl.
mit geführten
Meditationen
O. W. BarTH
Lisa Freund
The Invulnerable Paths to
Healing in Life’s Crises
320 pages, 3-426-29191-7
March 2011
SYLVESTER
WALCH
VOM
EGO
ZUM
SELBST
Grundlinien eines spirituellen
Menschenbildes
O.W. BARTH
Sylvester Walch
From the Ego to the Self
Guidelines for a Spiritual
Conception of Mankind
336 pages, 3-426-29192-4
March 2011
Luisa Xiaoyan Zhang, born in China in 1962, comes from a family that has for generations
been practising Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Following on her own TCM-studies she
came to Munich, where she opened up her own practice in the year 2000. She sees it as an
important task to create a link between Eastern tradition and Western research.
An introduction to acupuncture:
clear, well-founded and easily understood.
Acupuncture is a traditional Chinese method in which needles are inserted into specific
points of a patient’s body in order to activate the body’s healing powers and stimulate the
organism to restore the body’s equilibrium.
The past years have shown that acupuncture has been more and more frequently accepted by
medical doctors; in many cases the costs are paid by the health insurance. Many kinds of
health problems and illnesses can be successfully treated by this ancient Chinese healing
method. Luisa Zhang, a Chinese nonmedical practitioner, describes with the aid of illustrations
and case histories the benefits and effects of acupuncture and how it achieves its results.
Lisa Freund is a socially engaged Buddhist who, as a voluntary worker, has been active in the
hospice movement for more than twenty years, accompanying many sick people on their last
journey. A student of Sogyal Rinpoche, she has developed her own seminar programme, according
to which she teaches in the whole of Germany.
Hidden forces: Achieving inner harmony in critical situations
We all of us suffer many little deaths in our lifetimes, are confronted with transience, separations
and changes. In order to achieve inner harmony in critical situations, we have to find
our way into our own sources of inner strength and discover what is invulnerable within us.
After many years of experience counselling people in borderline situations, Lisa Freund is
aware that each of us possesses an invulnerable core capable of opening up a source of
strength and showing us a bond that does not need to be created by our own efforts but has
always been present. This bonding must be allowed to take effect and become integrated
into our daily life.
The author combines scientific knowledge and practical support aided by inspiring exercises
from the Buddhistic tradition.
Sylvester Walch, PhD lives in Southern Bavaria, works in his own psychotherapy practice
and is a guest lecturer at various universities. He is in charge of training and further education
courses in psychotherapy, transpersonal psychology and holotropic breathing.
Plea for a new conception of mankind
This book describes every aspect of an interdenominational path to spiritual fulfilment. By
incorporating the findings of modern psychology and numerous practical meditation exercises
Sylvester Walch outlines the basics of a modern spiritual conception of mankind.
In his new book, the psychotherapist Sylvester Walch investigates which deeper layers are
to be found in human consciousness and why they are unjustly ignored by the general scientific
view. The author explores the sensitive levels of the human spirit and their inner wisdom.
He develops the full potential of spiritual transformation, pointing out what hinders its development
and makes use of many ordinary everyday reflections and brief meditations in order
to explain the whole spectrum of man’s inner being.
The author is active in South Germany and Austria, where he promotes his books in seminars
and lectures.
Stefan Limmer and Angela Dietrich are shamans and non-medical practitioners working
together in their joint practice in Hagelstadt . They pass on their knowledge of shaman healing
in workshops and training courses. The main area of their work is shaman healing
methods.
The curative approach described here will lead us
onto the shaman path to self-healing.
Shamanism takes it for granted that illness is a sign of disharmony between the individual
human being, nature and the cosmos. Shaman healing methods aim at rebuilding the equilibrium.
The authors offer encouragement, exercises and practical advice on what can be
done in the case of specific illnesses. An easily-learned shaman trance technique is fundamental
to this, as are grounding exercises and the appropriate use during rituals of certain
herbs, teas and healing stones.
The success of these healing methods has aroused ever more interest in shamanism among
people in the healing professions, who integrate their personal experiences in their work.
Dr. Anne Katharina Zschocke studied medicine and naturopathy in Freiburg and London.
She later took up ecology and horticulture. Since 2001 she has been teaching the practical
use of effective microorganisms and as a leading capacity in this field is internationally in
great demand as a speaker. www.dr.zschocke.de.
Why bacteria are useful, where and how they
can be applied in many areas of life.
This book, based on many years of study, presents all one needs to know about the latest
developments in the field of EM research.
Effective microorganisms are a special mixed culture of bacteria, based on the work of a
Japanese agronomist, who in the 1980s was the first to succeed in mixing together entirely
dissimilar strains of bacteria. From this mixture a great variety of bacteria has developed,
suitable for application in innumerable areas of everyday life.
Since this time they have been internationally put into successful use as a kind of »wonder
cure«. The practical application of EM is possible in almost every area of life, for example
household cleaning, removing mildew from walls, getting rid of smells of nicotine, dustbins
and the toilet.
Wighard Strehlow himself an alternative healer, is the leading authority in Germany on
Hildegard of Bingen. He lives in Allensbach at the Bodensee. Besides working in his surgery
he leads seminars and lectures. He has already written several books on Hildegard von Bingen’s
medicine.
Blood-letting – a serious therapy even today with many applicabilities
and therapeutic effects – rediscovered by the authority on Hildegard v.
Bingen medicine
Blood-letting had been a universal remedy and is one of the main therapeutic elements in the
medicine of Hildegard von Bingen. Scientific surveys worldwide show that blood-letting in
fact has a positive effect on health: both as prophylactic measure and as acute remedy for
already existing syndromes.
It deacidifies and detoxifies the body, it adjusts the hormone balance, strengthens the immune
system and the circulation. Moreover it stimulates the growing of all somatic cells. It is
a plea for rediscovering this ancient practice.
Stefan Limmer,
Angela Dietrich
Serpent Power and
Jaguar Medicine
Shaman Paths to Healing
256 pages, 3-426-65685-X
September 2011
Dr. Anne Katharina
Zschocke
The Amazing Powers of
Effective Microorganisms
288 pages, 3-426-65689-2
October 2011
Wighard Strehlow
Blood Letting according
to Hildegard von Bingen
208 pages, 3-426-87545
February 2012

ibel, lebte vor langer
ie war eine große
e und hilfsbereite Frau,
te. Ein spannendes und
es Buch – nicht nur für
l Prinzessin zu sein.
Die mutige Königin
Jutta Koslowski
18 Children Books
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Jutta Koslowski
Die mutige Königin
Ester Koslowski
Ester – The Brave Queen
32 pages, 3-629-01474-0
February 2011
Luise Holthausen
Miri, Leon and their Plan
for Christmas
96 pages, 3-629-01499-3
September 2012
Gerald Drews,
Petra Hirscher
The Book for Boys
256 pages, 3-629-14101-9
October 2011
Marcus Leitschuh
Bible-Quiz
120 pages, 3-629-01464-1
January 2011
Bernhard Langenstein
Jesus’ Little Friends
128 pages, 3-629-01495-5
January 2012
Petra Hirscher
The Book for Girls
256 pages, 3-629-14102-6
October 2011
Kain hasst seinen Bruder Abel. Erschreckendes passiert
beim Turmbau zu Babel und als Jesus in Betlehem
geboren wird, schwebt er in großer Gefahr:
Luise Holthausen erzählt 15 spannende Geschichten
aus dem Alten und Neuen Testament und versetzt
sich dabei in die Beobachterrolle eines jungen
Augenzeugen. Verständnisfragen und leicht
lösbare Rätsel fordern zum Nachdenken und
Nachlesen in der Bibel auf.
ISBN 978-3-629-01484-9
€ 9,99 (D)
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Dieses Jahr möchte Eddy seinen Eltern etwas
zu Weihnachten schenken, das sie so richtig,
richtig glücklich macht. So alberne Wünsche
wie »einen dicken Kuss« oder »dass ich mal
beim Mensch ärgere Dich nicht gewinne« lässt
er da nicht gelten! Doch sein Papa träumt von
einem roten Ferrari und seine Mutter wünscht
sich eine Küchenfee. Eine, die kocht und hinterher
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großer Tüftler und er er� ndet und konstruiert
die SUPERWÜ – eine Maschine, die Wünsche
erfüllen kann …
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Spürnasen
Luise Holthausen
Bible Puzzle
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February 2011
Sylvia Heinlein
Eddy und die
Weihnachtswunschmaschine
Eine Geschichte in 24 Kapiteln
Sylvia Heinlein
Eddy and the Christmas
Wishing Machine
112 pages, 3-629-01482-5
August 2010
Josefine Berger
Good-Mood-Lotion
40 cards, 3-629-10619-3
May 2011
Georg Lehmacher
Savings Book for
Happiness
48 pages, 3-629-10600-1
February 2011
Birgit Hesse
Car-Biographie
48 pages, 3-629-10723-7
July 2011
20.000
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Georg Lehmacher
Chewing Gum Oracle
60 cards, 3-629-10657-5
February 2011
Georg Lehmacher
Sheep, Sleep well
32 pages, 3-629-10658-2
September 2011
50.000
copies sold
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24 Dear Chistmas Wishes
50 cards, 3-629-10673-5
September 2011
Georg Lehmacher
Little Book of Real Wealth
48 pages, 3-629-10513-4
February 2010
Josefine Berger
Sun in the Heart
40 cards, 3-629-10668-1
August 2011
Renate Lehmacher,
Georg Lehmacher
The Very Personal
Good-Mood-Oracle
99 cards, 3-629-10725-1
September 2011

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SÜDEN
Friedrich
Ani
Droemer
Knaur.
20 Backlist
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Die
Medica
von
Bologna
Roman
Droemer
Wolf Serno
The Medic of Bologna
512pages, 3-426-19805-3
December 2010
Rights sold to Poland and Czechia
Wenn die Sonne explodiert –
der neue Thriller vom deutschen
Meister der Mystery
Thomas Thiemeyer, geboren 1963,
studierte Geografi e und Geologie in Köln Teufelsleib
und arbeitete zunächst als Illustrator. Seine
Gorillaforscherin Amy Walker hat Alpträume, seit ein
mystischen Wissenschaftsthriller Medusa,
Mitglied ihres Teams auf mysteriöse Weise verschwand.
Ein Reptilia, neuer Magma und Fall Nebra begeisterten für Peter Brandt
die Leser auf Anhieb und wurden zu Bestsellern.
Für seinen Kriminalroman
neuen Afrika-Thriller
Korona recherchierte Thomas Thiemeyer
längere Zeit vor Ort in Uganda. Der Autor
lebt und arbeitet in Stuttgart.
Die Presse zu Nebra:
»So viel geballte und intelligente Unterhaltung
scheint nur Thiemeyer produzieren
zu können, und wieder einmal übertrifft er
sich selbst.« Buchwurm.info
»Thomas Thiemeyer bringt mit Nebra das
Hollywoodabenteuerkino zum Lesen nach
Deutschland.«
Alex Dengler, denglers-buchkritik.de
»Nebra ist – zum Teufel noch mal! –
ein feurig-heißer Thriller.« MDR
ISBN 978-3-426-66291-5
© Klaus Schäfer
Ausgerechnet ein Ex-Sträfling soll die Gruppe nun
verstärken, zu dem – außer den Gorillas – niemand so
recht Vertrauen fassen will. Als sich das Forscherteam
trotz bedrohlicher Sonnenaktivität und seltsamer
Wetterphänomene ins ostafrikanische Ruwenzori-
Gebirge aufmacht, um den Vermissten zu suchen,
beginnt ein Abenteuer, das Amy an die Grenzen ihres
Verstandes bringt …
»Roland Emmerich sollte die Rechte an allen
Thiemeyer-Romanen erwerben und sofort mit der
Verfi lmung beginnen!«
Alex Dengler, denglers-buchkritik.de
www.knaur.de
Gletscher unter der Äquatorsonne,
Kaskaden von Rauhreif, Wälder in
ewigem Nebel und turmhohe Blumen –
das Ruwenzori-Gebirge in Ostafrika ist seit
jeher ein besonderer Ort. Hier, so sagt man,
liegen die Quellen des Nils und das versunkene
Reich Kitara. Und hier leben Gorillaherden
in einzigartiger Ursprünglichkeit.
Ihr Dasein möglichst naturnah zu erforschen,
hat sich die Biologin Amy Walker
vorgenommen – doch bald machen dramatische
Ereignisse das Idyll zunichte: Amys
Kollege Dr. William Burke verschwindet
spurlos während einer Expedition ins
Gebirge. Und ausgerechnet der Ex-Sträfling
Ray Cox soll Amy nun im Team zur
Seite stehen. Amy ist mehr als skeptisch,
wenngleich Rays Intelligenz und sein
kompetenter Umgang mit den Gorillas
bald unstrittig sind. Was sie nicht weiß:
Seine Haft verbüßte Ray als Unschuldiger.
Und dem wahren Schuldigen ist er – hier
und jetzt – dicht auf den Fersen …
Mittlerweile kann das Team die Suche nach
William Burke nicht länger aufschieben,
obwohl eine extrem hohe Sonnenaktivität
nie gekannte Wetterkatastrophen
befürchten lässt. Der ganze Urwald
scheint erwartungsvoll zu beben, als Amy
das Signal zum Aufbruch gibt – und als
zwischen den Felsen des Ruwenzori das
erste Schneegewitter über den Suchtrupp
hereinbricht, beginnt ein Horrortrip mitten
ins letzte Geheimnis Afrikas …
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The Devil’s Body
500 pages, 3-426-63943-2
December 2010
Friedrich
Ani
© FinePic ® , München / H. Henkensiefken
300.000
copies sold
Tabor Süden wollte eigentlich niemanden
mehr suchen. Vor Jahren hatte er München
mit der Absicht verlassen, die Stadt nie
Jung, mehr zu betreten. glücklich,
Vollkommen unerwartet erhält er einen
schön Anruf von seinem – Vater, und der seit fünfundKrebs
dreißig Jahren verschwunden ist. Er sei
in München, lässt er Süden wissen. Doch
»Als ich bevor nach dieser weitere Hause Fragen komme, stellen kann, sehe ich als Erstes
dich,
wird das
kleine
Gespräch
Paula.
unterbrochen.
Du kommst
Süden
an Doros
kehrt zurück, in »die verhunzte Stadt«,
Hand gerade aus dem Kindergarten. Stehst
und läuft tagelang durch die Straßen auf
vor dem Haus und wartest auf mich. Du bist
der Suche nach einem hinkenden Mann
Judith End, geboren 1981, studierte
wie immer in alter Kleidung. ein kleiner Erneut bleibt Fels der in Vater der Brandung,
Medienkultur, Literatur und Soziol ogie in
und es unauffi ist ndbar. so seltsam, Süden heuert dich als Detektiv aus der Ferne zu
Hamburg und brachte 2002 ihre Tochter
sehen. an und Für wird dich sofort geht mit dem alles schwierigsten weiter. Mit deiner
Paula zur Welt, die sie allein erzieht. In
gestreiften Fall der erfolgreichen Mütze Detektei und deiner beauftragt: festen Stimme.
ihrer Magisterarbeit beschäftigt sie sich
Und du Raimund freust »Mundl« dich Zacherl, über ein mich. Wirt aus Für dich muss
mit der »Vorstellung vom irdischen Para-
Sendling, ist vor zwei Jahren spurlos
ich leben. Ich muss, ich muss, ich muss!«
dies«, als sie im Herbst 2006 die Diagnose
verschwunden. Seine Ehefrau will endlich
Brustkrebs erhält. Was dann geschieht,
Klarheit darüber, warum er von heute auf
Der Schicksalsbericht morgen sein bisheriges Leben einer aufgab taffen jungen
ist die Geschichte dieses Buches.
Frau und sich ihrer zuvor, Tochter, scheinbar ohne die Grund, gemeinsam der
Krankheit vollkommen trotzen. verändert hatte. Aus dem
Heute arbeitet Judith End als Lektorin
leutseligen Wirt war ein verschlossener
in einem Hamburger Hörbuchverlag.
Roman||Droemer
Grübler geworden.
Die Detektei hält den erneuten Auftrag der
Ehefrau für eine aussichtslose Sache. Für
Süden jedoch ist der Fall Zacherl genau
das Richtige: Dank seiner eigenwilligen
Umschlaggestaltung: ZERO Werbeagentur, München
Methoden entdeckt er Hinweise, die andere
Umschlagabbildung: Andreas Weiss Fotografie
nicht wahrnehmen würden. Und so führt
ihn die Spur schließlich an die Nordsee,
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Süden
350 pages, 3-426-19907-7
March 2011
Polish rights sold
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»Sterben kommt
nicht in Frage, Mama!«
Judith End
Droemer
Tanja Kinkel
In the Queen’s Shadow
400 pages, 3-426-19817-7
February 2010
Thomas Thiemeyer
Korona
500 pages, 3-426-66291-4
September 2010
Dutch rights sold
Judith End
Droemer
»Sterben kommt
nicht in Frage, Mama!«
50.000
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Judith End
»Dying is out of the
Question, Mama!«
304 pages, 3-426-27539-9
October 2010
Polish rights sold
Judith End ist 25 Jahre alt, alleiner ziehende
Mutter und mitten im Studium, als sie in
ihrer Brust einen Knoten ertastet und
ihre Welt aus den Fugen gerät. Eben noch
war sie dabei, sich frisch zu verlieben, jetzt
quält sie sich mit der Frage, bei wem ihre
Tochter Paula aufwachsen wird, falls sie
sterben sollte. Operation folgt auf Operation,
Chemo- und Strahlentherapie schließen
sich an. An den guten Tagen vor dem
nächsten Infusions termin versucht Judith
mit Paula in den alten, unbeschwerten
Alltag zurückzukehren. Sie lernt trotzig auf
ihr Examen und legt die Prüfungen ab.
Am Schluss der Prozedur hat sie beides:
Hoffnung, den Krebs überwunden zu haben,
und ein Einserexamen.
Judith End ist eine Autorin, deren Erzähltalent,
deren Sinn für Dramatik, deren
offene Nüchternheit und deren großes
Maß an Selbstironie Leserinnen und Leser
von der ersten Seite an in ihren Bann
schlagen.
Ursula Niehaus
The Silkwoman’s Daughter
560 pages, 3-426-66359-2
March 2011
Knaur.
Sven Koch
Purple Dragon
350 pages, 3-426-50662-9
January 2011
Die Autorin
Janika Nowak lebt in Hamburg und
arbeitet dort als freie Texterin.
Sie interessierte sich schon als Kind für
Mythologie und hat sich seitdem ein
umfangreiches Wissen über die europäische
und asiatische Sagenwelt angeeignet.
Diese Kenntnisse ließ sie in ihren
ersten phantastischen Roman »Das Lied
der Banshee« einfl ießen. Die Autorin
arbeitet bereits an einer Fortsetzung,
in der sie Aileens, vor allem aber Aikos
Geschichte weitererzählen wird.
Die Illustratorin
Nina Nowacki, geboren 1987, lebt in
Köln. Nach ihrem Studium an der
Kölner Design Akademie ist sie dort
als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
tätig. Außerdem arbeitet sie als freie
Comiczeichnerin, Illustratorin und
Designerin. Ihr erster Comic ist gerade
unter dem Titel »Guns and Swords«
im Knaur Taschenbuch (Comicstars bei
Knaur) erschienen.
Mehr Informationen über ihre Arbeit
erhalten Sie unter: www.dustrealms.net
SUSANNE
Schmidt
mARKt
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»Weißt du, was eine Banshee ist?«
»Warum sollte ich das wissen?«,
fragte ich zurück.
»Weil du eine bist.«
Aileen ist siebzehn Jahre alt und führt ein ganz
normales Leben. Das ändert sich schlagartig, als
sie eines Abends von vier bulligen Kerlen überfallen
wird. Irgendwie übersteht sie die Situation unbeschadet
– nur wie? Hat es etwas mit diesem merkwürdigen
Schrei zu tun, den sie instinktiv ausgestoßen
hat? Am liebsten würde Aileen die ganze Sache
vergessen, doch weder ihre unverwüstliche Sturheit
noch ihre frechen Sprüche können verhindern, dass
sie sich plötzlich in einer Welt voller Magie und
Gefahr wiederfi ndet …
Alte Legenden erwachen in diesem aufwendig
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Im ersten Moment war ich einfach nur
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