Foreign Rights Catalogue - Verlag Friedrich Oetinger

Young Adults Age 14 + Young Adults Age 16 +
Eye Witness
The Story of an Escape
The author was awarded the
2010 Gustav Heinemann Peace
Prize for the first in the series,
“Shut Away”.
“This is a story that gets under
your skin and should be read by
young people and adults alike.”
DIE ZEIT on “Shut Away”
Grit Poppe
Runaway
320 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7915-1633-2
The Torgau juvenile detention centre,
GDR, 1989: Rebellious Gonzo, like her
friend Anja, the heroine of “Shut Away”, has been sent to the jail-like detention
centre in Torgau, where she is to be forced to become a “socialist personality”.
There, she finds herself at the mercy of harsh educators and is driven almost to
breaking point by the experience. On the transport back to her old juvenile workhouse,
she sees her chance, makes a break for it and gets away. All she wants
is to be free at last! Hiding out in some allotments, she meets René, who is also
planning to escape to the West.
Together they make it across the Green
Border to Prague and the West German
Embassy there. The story is based on
interviews with contemporary witnesses
and historical facts.
Shut Away
978-3-7915-1632-5
More than 90,000
copies sold!
Translation rights
sold to Egypt
A Wood and a Mystery
A wanderer, who loses his way. A story that will take the reader’s
breath away.
As dark as “The Storyteller”, as
poetic as The Words of the White
Queen – the new novel by popular
author Antonia Michaelis
Caught between fairy-tale beauty
and the darkest depths of the human
soul: the gripping story of an
innocent who turns to murder
Antonia Michaelis
As Long as the Nightingale Sings
448 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-4293-2
On completing his carpenter’s
apprenticeship, Yari sets out as a journeyman
to enjoy his new-found freedom and the countryside. Along the way, he
meets Yasha, the most enchanting girl he has ever encountered, and follows her
to her enclave in the middle of the wood. Caught between fairy-tale beauty and
the darkest depths of the human soul, the harmless carpenter becomes a ruthless
hunter. Popular author Antonia Michaelis is poetic in her telling of this captivating
story of a love for which no secret is too dark and no sacrifice too great. A true
storyteller’s masterpiece.
The Storyteller
978-3-7891-4289-5
Translation rights sold to Sweden,
Poland, U.S.A., Belgium and the
Netherlands.
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