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<strong>Rowohlt</strong> Verlag GmbH Hamburger Straße 17, D-21465 Reinbek Photos: A. Bachinger, Jim Rakete, Andreas Pohlmann, S. Frischling, Frieder Salm, Rol<strong>and</strong> Gockel, Sebastian Hänel, Peter Peitsch, Anatol Kotte<br />
Mark Kuntz Friedrich Christian Delius André<br />
Kubiczek Wolfgang Schuller Maiken Nielsen<br />
Nicolas Remin Christian Feldmann Kathrin<br />
Lange Eckart Kleßman Nadja Klinger Andree<br />
Hesse Jochen Köhler Werner Biermann Leo<br />
Müller Martin Walser Tom Buhrow Sabine<br />
Stamer Jens König Iris Alanyali Dirk Sager Konrad Adam Hilde Kammer Herfried Münkler<br />
Elisabet Bartsch Joachim Fest Erika Mann Klaus Mann Georg Klein Angela Thompson Jan<br />
Weiler Wolfgang Büscher Martin Schacht Stefan Rehberger Dani Levy Peter Spork Sophie<br />
Andresky Susanna Calaverno Kirsten Fuchs Alexa Hennig von Lange Anette Göttlicher<br />
Volkmar Nebe Mark Spörrle Cristina Camera Micaela von Marcard Jan Seghers Roman<br />
Rausch Lothar Frenz Fritz Müller-Scherz Helmut Schmidt Martin Geck Marianne Reißinger<br />
Dietrich Grönemeyer Christian Nürnberger Jan-Uwe Rogge Abt Muho Petra Gerster<br />
Wolfgang Schmidbauer Christian Prior Christoph Thomann Ralph Caspers Peter Zudeick<br />
Mark van Roosmalen Gabriela Z<strong>and</strong>er-Schneider Dietmar Bittrich Theo Herrlein Doris<br />
Burger Hans-Erhard Lessing Gerd Presler Thorsten Krome Wilhelm<br />
Tim Hering Stephen Tree Thorsten Becker Ulli Schubert Gerlis Zillgens<br />
<strong>Foreign</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> | <strong>Autumn</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>06</strong>/<strong>07</strong><br />
<strong>Rowohlt</strong> | <strong>Rowohlt</strong> ·Berlin | Wunderlich | Kindler Verlag | rororo
Table of Contents<br />
Hardcover 1<br />
Paperback<br />
Fiction 1<br />
Non-Fiction 7<br />
Children’s Books 17<br />
Fiction 22<br />
Crime 26<br />
Historical Fiction 27<br />
Non-Fiction 28<br />
Monographs 34<br />
Science + Encyclopaedia 35<br />
Highlights 36<br />
Contact 37<br />
Addresses<br />
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<strong>Autumn</strong> & <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>06</strong>/<strong>07</strong><br />
Taiwan<br />
Bardon-Chinese Media<br />
Agency<br />
Mr. Phillip C. Chen<br />
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Friedrich Christian Delius<br />
Portrait of Mother as a Young Woman<br />
Rome on a radiantly sunny day in January 1943.<br />
A young German woman ventures out on a stroll<br />
through this city she doesn’t know. The birth of<br />
her first child is imminent. Her husb<strong>and</strong> has been<br />
posted to the African front, the date of his return<br />
is uncertain. Despite all the confusingly beautiful<br />
impressions <strong>and</strong> mysteries she encounters en route,<br />
all her thoughts are with him, who had promised<br />
to share the «joys of Rome» with her.Yet she has a<br />
premonition that the war may be lost.<br />
Friedrich Christian Delius draws on his own family<br />
history for this opulently sensual story. The young<br />
woman who walks wide-eyed through the yet<br />
unbombed eternal city with a fearful heart <strong>and</strong> unrelenting<br />
hope is his mother.Whether it is the auto-<br />
<strong>Foreign</strong> <strong>Rights</strong><br />
contemporary fiction<br />
128 pages<br />
556 / u 14.90<br />
fiction<br />
<strong>Autumn</strong> & <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>06</strong>/<strong>07</strong><br />
<strong>Rowohlt</strong>·Berlin<br />
September 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Friedrich Christian Delius<br />
was born in Rome in 1941<br />
<strong>and</strong> today lives there <strong>and</strong> in<br />
Berlin. His short stories <strong>and</strong><br />
novels include Die Birnen<br />
von Ribbeck [Ribbeck’s<br />
Pears] (1991), Der Sonntag,<br />
an dem ich Weltmeister<br />
wurde [The Sunday I became<br />
a World Champion] (1994),<br />
Der Spaziergang von Rostock<br />
nach Syrakus [The Stroll<br />
from Rostock to Syracuse]<br />
(1995) <strong>and</strong> Mein Jahr als<br />
Mörder [My Year as a<br />
Murderer]. He is one of the<br />
most important contemporary<br />
German authors. His<br />
recent awards include the<br />
Fontane Award for life time<br />
achievement.<br />
biographical connection, the magic of Rome, the<br />
terrors of war or the tenderly told love story – this<br />
book exerts a grip you can’t shake off.<br />
Friedrich Christian Delius’ works have been sold<br />
to 14 countries.<br />
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Photo: A. Bachinger
Micaela von Marcard<br />
historical fiction<br />
528 pages<br />
40503 / u 19.90<br />
Mark Kuntz<br />
contemporary fiction<br />
160 pages<br />
40502 / u 9.90<br />
2<br />
fiction<br />
The Patriarch<br />
In a German Hanseatic city in the winter<br />
of 1900, a boy is born into a Patrician<br />
household.When the boy’s father ab<strong>and</strong>ons<br />
the family, his Mexican gr<strong>and</strong>mother, with<br />
her long black hair, just laughs.The boy is<br />
raised among women: his mother Mercedes,<br />
his aunt Maria <strong>and</strong> the aforementioned<br />
gr<strong>and</strong>mother with her Latin temperament.<br />
He grows up into a womaniser – wooing<br />
them, loving them, leaving them.<br />
The Patriarch playfully spans an eventful<br />
century from the German Empire to the fall<br />
of the Berlin wall.Whether it is orphan Paul<br />
<strong>and</strong> his mouse theatre, Kratz the make-up<br />
artist <strong>and</strong> fat Mrs. Schulz, the Vegetarian<br />
Mercedes who admires the animal lover in<br />
Hitler, or the massive Christmas ham –<br />
Micaela von Marcard writes about the big<br />
<strong>and</strong> the small, the mundane <strong>and</strong> the extraordinary<br />
with warmth <strong>and</strong> a delicious irony.<br />
An extraordinarily colourful novel from a<br />
rising star in the writing firmament.<br />
fiction<br />
The Last Smoker<br />
What was supposed to be a pleasant dinner<br />
among friends turns into a bit of a nightmare<br />
for our protagonist – a confessed<br />
smoker.The host, an ex-smoker, can’t abide<br />
cigarette smoke in his flat. So the last<br />
smoker escapes to the balcony.This is<br />
exactly where he is when the jolly, tipsy<br />
party spontaneously decides to up sticks<br />
<strong>and</strong> go to the nearest pub. Locked out<br />
in the cold, he smokes <strong>and</strong> contemplates<br />
the meaning of life <strong>and</strong> what it means<br />
to be part of that endangered species,<br />
the smoker.<br />
Mark Kuntz paints a witty <strong>and</strong> humorous<br />
picture of the magic moments in a smoker’s<br />
life: what is it like to smoke your first ever<br />
cigarette, what’s the story with the post sex<br />
puff <strong>and</strong> how <strong>and</strong> where do you find<br />
refuge in a next-to-non smoking society.<br />
Kindler<br />
September 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Micaela von Marcard was<br />
born in Hamburg in 1958. She<br />
worked as a dramaturge at<br />
the Berlin State Opera <strong>and</strong><br />
published essays about the<br />
history of Opera <strong>and</strong> cultural<br />
history. In 2005, her libretto<br />
Die Irre [The Madwoman]<br />
was premiered at the Opera<br />
Bonn. Der Patriarch [The<br />
Patriarch] is her debut novel.<br />
Kindler<br />
September 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Mark Kuntz was born in<br />
Hamburg in 1962 <strong>and</strong><br />
studied psychology <strong>and</strong><br />
journalism. From 1990 to<br />
2002, he wrote for Germany’s<br />
renowned women’s<br />
magazine Brigitte. Today,<br />
he works as a freelance<br />
journalist <strong>and</strong> author. He is<br />
married with two children<br />
<strong>and</strong> lives in Hamburg.<br />
André Kubiczek<br />
contemporary fiction<br />
320 pages<br />
527 / u 19.90<br />
<strong>Foreign</strong> <strong>Rights</strong><br />
fiction<br />
The Stars Shine Above<br />
It’s summer. Rock <strong>and</strong> Bender, both in their<br />
mid-thirties, haven’t managed to settle in<br />
Berlin, neither emotionally nor work-wise.<br />
When Bender’s gr<strong>and</strong>father dies, the two<br />
take the opportunity <strong>and</strong> travel to his funeral<br />
in the East German Harz mountains.<br />
Here they find that gr<strong>and</strong>dad wasn’t just the<br />
simple worker everyone had believed.What<br />
is his mysterious will referring to? Bender<br />
sets off to find out with Rock in tow. However,<br />
they are not the only ones interested<br />
in this mystery.<br />
With masterful language <strong>and</strong> darkly subtle<br />
wit, André Kubiczek describes their journey<br />
from the Harz mountains to the south of<br />
Germany, through dying industrial cities <strong>and</strong><br />
romantic countryside.They encounter<br />
female rock musicians on the run, smart<br />
secret agents <strong>and</strong> manic artists. A modern<br />
adventure novel <strong>and</strong> a trip into the era of<br />
the cold war in one – when Berlin was the<br />
frontline <strong>and</strong> the workers in the east<br />
attempted an uprising …<br />
Oliver Maria Schmitt fiction<br />
contemporary fiction<br />
352 pages<br />
555 / u 19.90<br />
«Anarchyschnitzel» They Shouted –<br />
A Punk Novel for the Better Off<br />
Chaos <strong>and</strong> anarchy, sex <strong>and</strong> rock ’n’ roll?<br />
Not quite! Everyone is frightfully well<br />
behaved here: Peter Julius Hein is afraid of<br />
East Germany, <strong>and</strong> his friend Dr. Hollenbach<br />
isn’t a real doctor but a pill addict. Nevertheless,<br />
these two young veteran-punks tear<br />
up the road to «the other side» to reunite<br />
what’s left of their old b<strong>and</strong> – for an unexpected<br />
comeback is looming.<br />
The reasons for the b<strong>and</strong> members to rejoin<br />
are highly respectable: avarice, boredom,<br />
revenge <strong>and</strong> longing for love.What started<br />
in the FRG under chancellor Helmut Kohl is<br />
now to reach fulfillment: Peter Hein’s personal<br />
reunification with his old flame, the<br />
miraculous singer Itty Lunatic.<br />
This world premiere of a «punk novel for<br />
the better off» is an exuberant road story,<br />
full of wit <strong>and</strong> irony. Schmitt’s politically<br />
incorrect debut speeds through today’s<br />
German reality <strong>and</strong> through the eventful<br />
history of punk then <strong>and</strong> now.<br />
<strong>Autumn</strong> & <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>06</strong>/<strong>07</strong><br />
<strong>Rowohlt</strong>·Berlin<br />
September 20<strong>06</strong><br />
André Kubiczek was born in<br />
Potsdam in 1969, studied<br />
German literature in Leipzig<br />
<strong>and</strong> Bonn <strong>and</strong> has been<br />
writing <strong>and</strong> living in Berlin<br />
since 1994. He made a<br />
highly successful debut<br />
with his 2002 novel Junge<br />
Talente [Young Talents].<br />
The national critics said<br />
about Die Guten und die<br />
Bösen [The Good <strong>and</strong> the<br />
Bad]: «Kubiczek’s second<br />
novel even manages to<br />
top his debut in wit <strong>and</strong><br />
invention: loud, thrilling,<br />
painful <strong>and</strong> hilarious.»<br />
<strong>Rowohlt</strong>· Berlin<br />
September 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Oliver Maria Schmitt, born<br />
in 1966 in Heilbronn,<br />
studied rhetoric <strong>and</strong> art<br />
history in Tübingen <strong>and</strong><br />
Leeds. He was chief editor<br />
of the satirical magazine<br />
Titanic, wrote musicals<br />
about the Bauhaus movement<br />
<strong>and</strong> the German<br />
equivalent of Kentucky<br />
Fried Chicken, wrote books<br />
about Germany, German<br />
poets (Gute Güte, Göthe!<br />
[Good God, Goethe!]) <strong>and</strong><br />
German philosophers (Die<br />
schärfsten Kritiker der Elche<br />
[The Harshest Elk Critics]).<br />
Then he’d had enough. He<br />
had a go at his first novel.<br />
3
Maiken Nielsen<br />
historical fiction<br />
448 pages<br />
0815 / u 16.90<br />
Nicolas Remin<br />
historical fiction / crime<br />
352 pages<br />
40494 / u 19.90<br />
4<br />
fiction<br />
The Freemasonette<br />
The year is 1783. Celeste, the daughter of<br />
Hamburg masterbuilder Freyhagen, travels<br />
to the new world.There, she falls head over<br />
heels in love with Vincent, a budding writer<br />
<strong>and</strong> young son of a ship owner.When her<br />
father dies unexpectedly, Celeste has to<br />
return home, her life in tatters.To survive,<br />
she has no choice but to take on her<br />
father’s business <strong>and</strong> – to st<strong>and</strong> a chance in<br />
the male dominated Hamburg bourgeoisie –<br />
disguise herself as a man. She even<br />
manages to gain membership of her father’s<br />
mysterious lodge. But will she ever see<br />
Vincent, the love of her life, again?<br />
Hamburg in the 21 st century.Two young<br />
people stumble upon traces of a mysterious<br />
lodge, an extraordinary woman <strong>and</strong> a love<br />
that will never die …<br />
fiction<br />
The Glass Gondolas – Commissario<br />
Tron’s Third Case<br />
Venice, June 1864: Commissario Tron is<br />
called to the Palazzo Moro in the middle of<br />
the night.The art dealer Kostolany has been<br />
murdered <strong>and</strong> a precious Titian painting<br />
has disappeared.Tron soon finds the young<br />
woman who recently sold the painting to<br />
Kostolany – Marie Sophie, Queen of Naples<br />
<strong>and</strong> sister of Empress Elisabeth. Unfortunately,<br />
her husb<strong>and</strong> knew nothing about this<br />
sale; the whole affair seems terribly delicate<br />
<strong>and</strong> causes Tron a few sleepless nights.<br />
His private life isn’t exactly calm either. He<br />
has to deal with the whims of a capricious<br />
Polish pianist who is playing at the ball<br />
launching «Tron-Glass». His wife, the Principessa,<br />
has no patience with her <strong>and</strong> can’t<br />
abide the pretty girl.When the pianist<br />
is found murdered,Tron himself is under<br />
suspicion …<br />
Wunderlich<br />
January 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Maiken Nielsen was born in<br />
Hamburg in 1965. For centuries,<br />
her ancestors lived<br />
as ship captains in the small<br />
river town of Övelgönne.<br />
She spent part of her<br />
childhood on freight ships.<br />
Maiken Nielsen studied<br />
in Aix-en-Provence in France<br />
<strong>and</strong> has been working as<br />
a journalist <strong>and</strong> author for<br />
NDR (North German Radio)<br />
since 1996. Die Freimaurerin<br />
[The Freemasonette] is her<br />
third novel.<br />
Kindler<br />
January 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Nicolas Remin, born in 1948<br />
in Berlin, studied comparative<br />
literature, philosophy<br />
<strong>and</strong> art history in Berlin <strong>and</strong><br />
Santa Barbara, California.<br />
Today, he lives near Hamburg.<br />
Following his success with<br />
Schnee in Venedig [Snow in<br />
Venice] <strong>and</strong> Venezianische<br />
Verlobung [Venetian Engagement],<br />
this is Commissario<br />
Tron’s third case.<br />
<strong>Rights</strong> to Snow in Venice<br />
have been sold to Croatia<br />
(Fraktura), France (Alvik),<br />
Greece (Kedros) <strong>and</strong><br />
Russia (Book Club 36.6).<br />
Kathrin Lange<br />
historical fiction / crime<br />
512 pages<br />
40496 / u 19.90<br />
<strong>Foreign</strong> <strong>Rights</strong><br />
fiction<br />
The Eighth Astrolabe<br />
France in 1209: Pope Innocent III gathers an<br />
army to eliminate the Cathars.<br />
At the same time, Anna, a young brass smith<br />
who lives in the Southern town of Beziers,<br />
hears about a valuable astronomical manuscript:<br />
it was stolen from her father over<br />
thirty years before – by the woman who<br />
also stole his heart.<br />
In the north, near the town of Montfort,<br />
Galien de Montgris finds a mysterious book<br />
on his mother’s bookshelf. Before he can<br />
find out any more about it, war <strong>and</strong> death<br />
strike his hometown. His mother is murdered<br />
<strong>and</strong> Galien embarks on a quest to<br />
find out why – <strong>and</strong> to find the owner<br />
of the book.<br />
Galien <strong>and</strong> Anne meet in Beziers.Together,<br />
they are drawn into a whirlwind of betrayal<br />
<strong>and</strong> danger: the church is also after the<br />
book … In the meantime, the Pope’s army is<br />
heading straight for the gates of Beziers.<br />
Andree Hesse fiction<br />
crime<br />
416 pages<br />
0827 / u 19.90<br />
Different Blood<br />
After a calm summer, a «Horse-Ripper»<br />
haunts a stud farm in Celle just as it is starting<br />
its annual stud parades. A case for<br />
Inspector Arno Hennings. He is called to a<br />
meadow where farm h<strong>and</strong>s have found a<br />
strange sacrificial altar. Is there some kind<br />
of cult behind the mutilations? Then, when<br />
Arno’s dog Basta discovers the body of a<br />
girl in a field, Hennings is suddenly dealing<br />
with murder: Kira, the only daughter of a<br />
farm manager, had held a night vigil with<br />
the horses. Had she surprised the «ripper»?<br />
Henning learns that Kira had been pregnant<br />
<strong>and</strong> starts investigating Kira’s friends. It<br />
doesn’t take long for him to find suspects …<br />
<strong>Autumn</strong> & <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>06</strong>/<strong>07</strong><br />
Kindler<br />
September 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Kathrin Lange was born in<br />
Goslar in 1969. She lives<br />
near Hildesheim with her<br />
husb<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> two children<br />
<strong>and</strong> works as a media<br />
designer. Following her<br />
successful debut with<br />
Jägerin der Zeit [Time<br />
Hunter], The Eighth<br />
Astrolabe is her second<br />
historical novel.<br />
Wunderlich<br />
September 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Andree Hesse was born in<br />
Braunschweig in 1966 <strong>and</strong><br />
grew up near Celle. Before<br />
going to film school in<br />
Munich, he trained as a<br />
saddler. Andree Hesse has<br />
been working as an author<br />
<strong>and</strong> translator since 1998<br />
<strong>and</strong> lives in Berlin. His first<br />
novel Thirty Pieces of Silver<br />
[Der Judaslohn], about<br />
Inspector Arno Hennings,<br />
was published in 2005.<br />
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Martin Walser fiction<br />
diaries<br />
672 pages<br />
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Thorsten Becker<br />
historical fiction<br />
288 pages<br />
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Living <strong>and</strong> Writing –<br />
Diaries 1963–1972<br />
«Martin Walser’s diaries are a treasure trove<br />
for brilliant etudes, miniatures, aphorisms<br />
<strong>and</strong> insinuations», said the Frankfurter<br />
Allgemeine Zeitung about volume 1 of his<br />
diaries. «For him, life merges with writing:<br />
what doesn’t inspire him to write doesn’t<br />
exist, but everything that does, he feels compelled<br />
to describe or at least document: a<br />
rucked up skirt, a glance from a stranger on<br />
a train, restaurant menus, song lyrics … or a<br />
New Year’s Eve party in Berlin.»<br />
Walser’s second volume picks up in 1963,<br />
not long before the beginning of the<br />
Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt. Martin Walser<br />
sits in on the hearings, jots down impressions,<br />
documents the horrors: the basis for<br />
his essay «Our Auschwitz». His travels to<br />
Trinidad, Moscow, Erevan,Tiblisi <strong>and</strong> the rest<br />
of Europe inspire him to write – <strong>and</strong> time<br />
<strong>and</strong> again, he contemplates the art of<br />
writing itself: «The attempt to sing with your<br />
mouth closed.»<br />
fiction<br />
Fritz<br />
Thorsten Becker enriches the genre of<br />
historical fiction with an extraordinarily<br />
witty epic about «Old Fritz», Frederick (II)<br />
the Great, King of Prussia.<br />
It all starts off with a political refugee from<br />
Saxony called Gottlust Hamann asking the<br />
aged «roi charmant» for shelter. He carries<br />
a subversive drama in his pocket, referring<br />
to Fritz’ childhood friend, who was executed<br />
for insubordination <strong>and</strong> desertion by Fritz’<br />
father in front of his son’s eyes.<br />
Frederick himself is brilliantly profiled: his<br />
«enlightened despotism», his interest in the<br />
arts, his hidden homosexuality, his love for<br />
all things French <strong>and</strong> his literary esprit.<br />
This cleverly thought out work creates a surprisingly<br />
fresh portrayal of Frederick <strong>and</strong><br />
allows the reader a delightful proximity to<br />
this larger than life figure.With his bold setup<br />
<strong>and</strong> his detailed <strong>and</strong> refined mixture of<br />
fact <strong>and</strong> fiction, Becker also manages to surreptitiously<br />
create a new perspective on the<br />
present.<br />
<strong>Rowohlt</strong><br />
January 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Martin Walser, born in 1927<br />
in Wasserburg, lives in Überlingen<br />
by Lake Constance.<br />
He has received numerous<br />
awards for his work, among<br />
them the Georg Büchner<br />
Award in 1981 <strong>and</strong> the Peace<br />
Prize of the German Book<br />
Trade in 1998. He has also<br />
been decorated with the<br />
Pour le Mérite medal <strong>and</strong><br />
appointed Officier de l’Ordre<br />
des Arts et des Lettres. His<br />
most recent publication was<br />
Leben und Schreiben – Tagebücher<br />
1951–1962 [Living<br />
<strong>and</strong> Writing – Diaries<br />
1951–1962]. In July, his<br />
novel Angstblüte [Blossoms<br />
of Fear] went on sale.<br />
Martin Walser’s works<br />
have been translated into<br />
30 languages.<br />
<strong>Rowohlt</strong><br />
September 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Thorsten Becker, born in<br />
1958, grew up in Cologne<br />
<strong>and</strong> studied philosophy,<br />
history, sociology <strong>and</strong><br />
drama. Occasionally living<br />
in Berlin, he is a polyglot<br />
<strong>and</strong> world traveller. His<br />
multi award winning body<br />
of work includes Die Bürgschaft<br />
[The Guarantee], Die<br />
Nase [The Nose], Schönes<br />
Deutschl<strong>and</strong> [Beautiful<br />
Germany], Der Untertan<br />
steigt auf den Zauberberg<br />
[The Man of Straw Ascends<br />
the Magic Mountain] <strong>and</strong><br />
Sieger nach Punkten [Winner<br />
on Points].<br />
Joachim Fest<br />
Not I – Early Memories<br />
Joachim Fest has shaped our contemporary underst<strong>and</strong>ing<br />
of the Third Reich like few others. His<br />
biographies on Adolf Hitler <strong>and</strong> Albert Speer or his<br />
contemplations on the last days in the Führer’s<br />
bunker have reached an audience of millions worldwide<br />
– but how did Fest himself, born in 1926, experience<br />
the Nazi Regime, the war <strong>and</strong> a defeated<br />
Germany?<br />
With this autobiography of his childhood <strong>and</strong> youth,<br />
Joachim Fest gives an intimate account of his personal<br />
experiences during those dark years.Whether he<br />
describes his Catholic home in a Berlin suburb, early<br />
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autobiography<br />
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<strong>Rowohlt</strong><br />
September 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Joachim Fest, born in 1926<br />
in Berlin, is a publicist <strong>and</strong><br />
historian. From 1963 he was<br />
editor in chief at the prestigious<br />
regional radio NDR<br />
<strong>and</strong> from 1973 to 1993 editor<br />
of the Frankfurter Allgemeine<br />
Zeitung. His most recent<br />
publications include Der<br />
Untergang. Hitler und das<br />
Ende des Dritten Reiches<br />
[Inside Hitler’s Bunker.<br />
Hitler <strong>and</strong> the End of the<br />
Third Reich] (2002) <strong>and</strong><br />
Begegnungen. Über nahe und<br />
ferne Freunde. [Encounters.<br />
Close <strong>and</strong> Distant Friends]<br />
(2004). He lives in<br />
Kronberg/Taunus.<br />
professional sanctions against his father, his own expulsion<br />
from school, his introduction to the Berlin opera<br />
through Aunt Dolly, his elder brother’s wisdoms, his<br />
reading matter during his military service or his sevenday<br />
attempt to escape US-captivity in a wooden<br />
box: all these are long overdue observations from<br />
a sharp-eyed witness of recent history.<br />
<strong>Rights</strong> to Joachim Fest’s Inside Hitler’s Bunker have<br />
been sold to 19 countries.<br />
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Wolfgang Schuller non-fiction<br />
biography<br />
224 pages<br />
<strong>06</strong>364 / u 19.90<br />
Eckart Kleßmann<br />
history / politics<br />
288 pages<br />
561 / u 19.90<br />
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Cleopatra –<br />
Queen of Three Cultures<br />
3000 years ago, Cleopatra ruled over ancient<br />
Egypt. Her own cultural background was<br />
Greek <strong>and</strong> her relations with Rome <strong>and</strong> the<br />
great Romans, Caesar <strong>and</strong> Mark Antony,<br />
crucially affected her – politically <strong>and</strong><br />
personally.Wolfgang Schuller’s insightful<br />
new biography explores how Egyptian,<br />
Roman <strong>and</strong> Greek influences combined<br />
in Cleopatra’s extraordinary life.<br />
Schuller’s intellectually stimulating <strong>and</strong><br />
entertaining book is based on the latest<br />
historical research. It offers access<br />
to ancient sources – from Egyptian<br />
inscriptions to the writings of the great<br />
Roman poets – <strong>and</strong> brings a whole<br />
era vividly to life.<br />
non-fiction<br />
Napoleon <strong>and</strong> the Germans<br />
Exactly 200 years ago, in October 18<strong>06</strong>,<br />
Napoleon beat the Prussians at Jena <strong>and</strong><br />
Auerstedt – the Holy Roman Empire of<br />
the German Nation had once <strong>and</strong> for all<br />
ceased to exist. Napoleon gave himself<br />
the title of «Imperator» <strong>and</strong> started turning<br />
the wheel of history in a different direction.<br />
Eckart Kleßmann follows the rise <strong>and</strong> fall of<br />
this self-appointed Emperor – with a special<br />
focus on the historical love-hate relationship<br />
between Napoleon <strong>and</strong> the German<br />
people: they felt oppressed by his dictatorship<br />
<strong>and</strong> the wars of liberation united them<br />
in newfound national pride.Yet his campaigns<br />
brought the values of the French<br />
Revolution to Germany.<br />
Numerous pictures, personal witness material<br />
<strong>and</strong> hitherto unpublished historical<br />
sources make for a multi-faceted portrait of<br />
this flamboyant, mythic leader <strong>and</strong> create<br />
a colourful panorama of an epoch that<br />
changed the world.<br />
<strong>Rowohlt</strong><br />
September 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Wolfgang Schuller, born in<br />
1935, first trained as a<br />
lawyer. He then studied<br />
ancient history <strong>and</strong> taught<br />
it at Konstanz University<br />
from 1972 until reaching<br />
Emeritus status in 2004. His<br />
area of research is ancient<br />
Greece, women in antiquity<br />
<strong>and</strong> the history of the<br />
GDR. His last publication<br />
was for DIE ZEIT Geschichte<br />
(a history special in the<br />
national weekly DIE ZEIT).<br />
<strong>Rowohlt</strong>·Berlin<br />
November 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Eckart Kleßmann was born<br />
in 1933. He was an editor<br />
for, among others, the<br />
papers DIE ZEIT <strong>and</strong> Die Welt<br />
before he started working as<br />
a freelance author in 1977.<br />
He has published numerous<br />
books, most of them biographies,<br />
for example about<br />
Goethe’s wife Christiane <strong>and</strong><br />
the romantic writer E.T.A.<br />
Hoffmann. In 1998, Eckart<br />
Kleßmann was awarded the<br />
prestigious Lion Feuchtwanger<br />
Award by the Arts<br />
Academy Berlin.<br />
Christian Feldmann<br />
religion / biography<br />
256 pages<br />
02115 / u 19.90<br />
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Pope Benedict XVI. –<br />
A Critical Biography<br />
As a young professor of theology, Joseph<br />
Ratzinger was considered a liberal pioneer.<br />
When he was made prefect of the congregation<br />
for the doctrine of the faith <strong>and</strong> in<br />
effect became the successor to the Roman<br />
Gr<strong>and</strong> Inquisitors, he put his critical former<br />
colleagues on a leash.<br />
When he was elected Pope in 2005, Ratzinger<br />
went through yet another transformation:<br />
«Papa Benedetto» invited his old rival Hans<br />
Küng for a chat <strong>and</strong> dedicated his first<br />
encyclical not to the damnation of modern<br />
ideas, but to love (including erotic love).<br />
In this critical biography, Christian Feldmann<br />
describes the rifts <strong>and</strong> obstacles in the life<br />
of this German Pope, his fears <strong>and</strong> his visions<br />
– as well as his biggest worry: that out<br />
of fear of being considered intolerant, the<br />
Christian community will lose its passion<br />
for the truth: according to Pope Benedict, a<br />
society choosing its values by majority vote<br />
puts the foundations of humanity at risk.<br />
Jochen Köhler non-fiction<br />
biography<br />
400 pages<br />
<strong>06</strong>388 / u 22.90<br />
Helmuth James von Moltke –<br />
A Biography<br />
Helmuth James von Moltke was the founder<br />
<strong>and</strong> leader of the «Kreisauer Circle», the<br />
most important German resistance group<br />
against the Nazi regime – <strong>and</strong> this book<br />
recounts his moving life story. Moltke was<br />
born in 19<strong>07</strong> in Kreisau, Silesia, <strong>and</strong> studied<br />
law. He had a charismatic personality <strong>and</strong><br />
stood out early on with his committed social<br />
<strong>and</strong> political engagement.<br />
He rejected an appointment as judge to<br />
avoid having to join the NSDAP. He was<br />
arrested by the Gestapo a year before the<br />
end of the war, eventually sentenced to<br />
death <strong>and</strong> executed on January 23, 1945.<br />
Jochen Köhler writes the first comprehensive<br />
Moltke-biography, based on as yet<br />
unpublished material. Stylistically brilliant<br />
<strong>and</strong> with great sensitivity, the author<br />
describes an extraordinary personality<br />
<strong>and</strong> thinker <strong>and</strong> at the same time allows<br />
us to see a panorama of the whole era.<br />
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August 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Christian Feldmann, born in<br />
1950, studied sociology <strong>and</strong><br />
theology – among others<br />
with Joseph Ratzinger. He<br />
works as a journalist for the<br />
publications Süddeutsche<br />
Zeitung <strong>and</strong> Die Zeit as well<br />
as for radio <strong>and</strong> television.<br />
He has written numerous<br />
biographies that have been<br />
translated into 13 languages.<br />
<strong>Rowohlt</strong><br />
January 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Jochen Köhler, born in 1944<br />
in Thüringen, was strongly<br />
influenced by the politics of<br />
1968. He spent several years<br />
working as a teacher <strong>and</strong><br />
wrote a much lauded book<br />
called Klettern in der<br />
Großstadt [Climbing in the<br />
Big City] about the life of<br />
ordinary people in Berlin<br />
between 1933 <strong>and</strong> 1945.<br />
Celebrating Helmuth James<br />
von Moltke’s 100 th Birthday:<br />
this is the first comprehensive<br />
biography of<br />
the resistance fighter.<br />
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Werner Biermann non-fiction<br />
biography / politics<br />
352 pages<br />
542 / u 19.90<br />
Leo Müller<br />
general interest<br />
224 pages<br />
04505 / u 19.90<br />
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Strauß – Rise <strong>and</strong> Fall of a Family<br />
Without doubt, Franz Josef Strauß was one<br />
of the most controversial German politicians:<br />
A saint to some, a demon to others.<br />
The story of the Strauß family is a fascinating<br />
story of a rise to the top – from a<br />
butcher’s son to the uncrowned king of<br />
Bavaria, from a humble background to<br />
a ruling elite with dynastic claims to power.<br />
Werner Biermann describes the ambition<br />
of a family that in the end knew no bounds.<br />
We witness a political career that almost<br />
peaks with the post of chancellor – <strong>and</strong> is<br />
then tarnished by the exposure of corruption<br />
<strong>and</strong> nepotism: a burden that in the end<br />
crushes the Strauß-children.<br />
The book is based on extensive archive<br />
research <strong>and</strong> conversations with friends,<br />
colleagues <strong>and</strong> relatives of the Strauß family.<br />
non-fiction<br />
Ackermann’s World – The Facts<br />
Few managers have as much power <strong>and</strong><br />
influence as Josef Ackermann <strong>and</strong> few are<br />
as controversial as he is.The Chairman<br />
of Deutsche Bank represents a new generation<br />
of managers in the German speaking<br />
economy: he is among the few truly global<br />
operators.<br />
Who is this man who, in one breath, promises<br />
an equity capital return of 25per cent<br />
<strong>and</strong> then announces the redundancy of<br />
6,400 people? What do he <strong>and</strong> his kind st<strong>and</strong><br />
for – do the new front men of globalization<br />
still know what effect their decisions have<br />
for the rest of us?<br />
Leo Müller delivers a critical portrait of this<br />
economic leader. The details of his upbringing,<br />
his rapid rise in Zurich <strong>and</strong> New York,<br />
his triumph at Deutsche Bank <strong>and</strong> his part<br />
in the Mannesmann-Vodaphone deal:<br />
a close-up of Josef Ackermann <strong>and</strong> his world.<br />
<strong>Rowohlt</strong>·Berlin<br />
August 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Werner Biermann, born in 1945<br />
in Moers, was a reporter for<br />
Stern magazine <strong>and</strong> has been<br />
working as a freelance author<br />
<strong>and</strong> filmmaker since 1974.<br />
Recent publications include<br />
Der Erste Weltkrieg [The First<br />
World War] (with Christine<br />
Beil <strong>and</strong> others, 2004) <strong>and</strong><br />
Liebe an der Macht [Love in<br />
Power] (with Ulrike Brincker<br />
<strong>and</strong> others, 2005).<br />
<strong>Rowohlt</strong><br />
September 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Leo Müller, born in 1959,<br />
was an investigative journalist<br />
for the TV stations WDR<br />
<strong>and</strong> Stern TV, as well as for<br />
Stern magazine, where he<br />
contributed to the revelations<br />
of numerous political<br />
sc<strong>and</strong>als (Stasi-murders,<br />
illegal weapons exports<br />
etc.). For the last four years,<br />
he has been working for the<br />
Swiss economic magazine<br />
Cash.<br />
Peter Spork<br />
The Sleeping Book –<br />
Why We Do it <strong>and</strong> How We Do it Best<br />
Why do we spend about a third of our precious lives<br />
in a seemingly passive state? What made nature<br />
develop the phenomenon of sleep in the course of<br />
evolution? What is the secret blessing of slumber,<br />
without which all higher animals <strong>and</strong> human beings<br />
would expire? Peter Spork has collected a wealth of<br />
insights from sleeping laboratories around the world<br />
<strong>and</strong> creates an accessible, scientific <strong>and</strong> highly<br />
topical picture of modern sleep research.With the<br />
help of Spork <strong>and</strong> the many experts he speaks to, the<br />
reader is able to solve the great mystery of sleep.<br />
The surprising outcome is that without sleep, there<br />
would be no human consciousness. Body <strong>and</strong> mind<br />
need sleep so they can create memory.The reader<br />
also learns what sleep type they are <strong>and</strong> to what<br />
health / science<br />
320 pages<br />
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non-fiction<br />
Peter Spork was born in 1965<br />
<strong>and</strong> has a PhD in neurophysiology.<br />
Since 1991, he<br />
has been working as a<br />
freelance science journalist<br />
<strong>and</strong> author. He writes for<br />
numerous German publications<br />
including Die Zeit<br />
<strong>and</strong> Geo Knowledge. With<br />
<strong>Rowohlt</strong>, he has published<br />
Das Schnarchbuch [The<br />
Snoring Book], Das Uhrwerk<br />
der Natur [Clockwork Nature]<br />
<strong>and</strong> Höher-schneller-weiter<br />
[Higher-Faster-Further].<br />
sleeping disorders they are therefore prone – <strong>and</strong><br />
what the doctors recommend against the most common<br />
sleeping disorders.<br />
<strong>Rights</strong> to The Snoring Book have been sold<br />
to Holl<strong>and</strong> (ZNU) <strong>and</strong> Bulgaria (Uniscorp).<br />
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January 20<strong>07</strong><br />
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Tom Buhrow / Sabine Stamer non-fiction<br />
general interest<br />
288 pages<br />
0<strong>06</strong>49 / u 19.90<br />
Nadja Klinger / Jens König<br />
general interest / society<br />
224 pages<br />
552 / u 14.90<br />
My America – Your America<br />
Tom Buhrow <strong>and</strong> Sabine Stamer have spent<br />
over ten years in the USA.They are familiar<br />
with not only the official, but also the<br />
private side of America – all its lovable <strong>and</strong><br />
eccentric peculiarities <strong>and</strong> its often fierce<br />
inner contradictions.<br />
Why you shouldn’t think too long about the<br />
question «How are you?», why many believers<br />
are prepared to travel long distances to<br />
their church, why the car is the most important<br />
place on earth for American teenagers<br />
<strong>and</strong> why a visit to the cemetery can be a<br />
very short affair: the authors share their<br />
intimate knowledge of the United States.<br />
Customs <strong>and</strong> habits, liberties <strong>and</strong> unwritten<br />
rules, politics <strong>and</strong> private life are combined<br />
with personal experience, facts, data <strong>and</strong><br />
background information.<br />
A knowledgeable, original <strong>and</strong> entertaining<br />
portrait of today’s America – a country<br />
worth discovering <strong>and</strong> re-discovering time<br />
<strong>and</strong> again.<br />
non-fiction<br />
Simply Left Behind<br />
What is it like to live on 345 euros a month?<br />
Or when you are weighed down by 20,000<br />
euros worth of debt? How does a family of<br />
four survive on the lowest level of unemployment<br />
benefit? Nadja Klinger <strong>and</strong> Jens<br />
König’s real life case studies look at people<br />
who have been left behind by society.<br />
The gap between rich <strong>and</strong> poor is wider<br />
than ever before. There is now a stratum of<br />
society that is steadily on the increase:<br />
a new underclass of people without assets<br />
or education. It includes recipients of<br />
income support as well as failed entrepreneurs.This<br />
book gathers moving life stories<br />
<strong>and</strong> offers a sharp analysis of a social<br />
sc<strong>and</strong>al which, in the near future, is going to<br />
occupy our minds more than we would like.<br />
<strong>Rowohlt</strong><br />
August 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Tom Buhrow was born in<br />
1958 <strong>and</strong> was the US correspondent<br />
for German TV<br />
station ARD from 1994 to<br />
20<strong>06</strong> (with a two year break<br />
in Paris). In 20<strong>06</strong>, he went<br />
on to present the most prestigious<br />
German TV news<br />
programme: Tagesthemen.<br />
Sabine Stamer, born in 1956,<br />
started out as a freelance<br />
journalist, then worked on<br />
the news for regional TV<br />
station WDR. In 1994, she<br />
began working as an author<br />
in the USA. The two are married<br />
<strong>and</strong> have two children.<br />
<strong>Rowohlt</strong> · Berlin<br />
September 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Nadja Klinger was born in<br />
1965 in Berlin <strong>and</strong> works<br />
there as a freelance author.<br />
She writes mainly portraits<br />
<strong>and</strong> features. In 1997,<br />
she published her book<br />
Ich ziehe einen Kreis<br />
[I Draw a Circle].<br />
Jens König, born in Berlin<br />
in 1964, is head of the<br />
parliamentary department<br />
at the Berlin broadsheet<br />
tageszeitung (taz).<br />
Marc van Roosmalen / Lothar Frenz<br />
Among Spider Monkeys <strong>and</strong> Shamans –<br />
Exploring Evolution<br />
Marc van Roosmalen has been exploring the flora<br />
<strong>and</strong> fauna of Amazonia for the last 30 years –<br />
he is probably the scientist with the most intimate<br />
knowledge of this unique rain forest. Like Humboldt,<br />
Wallace <strong>and</strong> Darwin before him, he observes, draws,<br />
maps <strong>and</strong> logs behaviour <strong>and</strong> life cycles of plants<br />
<strong>and</strong> animals over long periods of time. Following the<br />
estuaries of the Amazon in his mobile home <strong>and</strong><br />
work place – a two-storey Amazon boat – van Roosmalen<br />
reaches areas that have never before been<br />
accessed by scientists. As a matter of course, he<br />
encounters creatures not yet registered in the annals<br />
of science.<br />
science<br />
256 pages<br />
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<strong>Rowohlt</strong><br />
January 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Marc van Roosmalen was<br />
born in 1947 in Tilburg <strong>and</strong><br />
is one of the world’s leading<br />
primatologists, botanists <strong>and</strong><br />
ecologists. He was included<br />
in Time magazine’s «Heroes<br />
for our Planet» gallery in<br />
2000 for his scientific <strong>and</strong><br />
ecological work in South<br />
America.<br />
Lothar Frenz, born in 1964<br />
in Mainz, is a nature filmmaker,<br />
writer <strong>and</strong> science<br />
journalist.<br />
Van Roosmalen <strong>and</strong> Frenz introduce the reader to<br />
the adventurous life of a natural scientist, allow him to<br />
explore the rain forest with them <strong>and</strong> share many<br />
unpublished new facts, insights <strong>and</strong> theories. A gripping<br />
book that reveals a true «terra incognita».<br />
12 13<br />
non-fiction<br />
Photo: Rol<strong>and</strong> Gockel Photo: Frieder Salm
Petra Gerster non-fiction<br />
general interest<br />
256 pages<br />
533 / u 19.90<br />
biography / music<br />
240 pages<br />
516 / u 19.90<br />
14<br />
Growing older gracefully –<br />
Women at the Age of 50<br />
In a woman’s life, the 50 th birthday is a shift<br />
<strong>and</strong> a challenge: You can’t help feeling that<br />
something untoward has happened when<br />
every single one of your well-wishers desperately<br />
tries to point out the positive<br />
aspects of your new age.<br />
Petra Gerster tackles the question of aging<br />
in a very personal way. She compares her<br />
gr<strong>and</strong>-mother’s <strong>and</strong> mother’s expectations<br />
of life with her own <strong>and</strong> talks frankly about<br />
her career in a male dominated world.<br />
Gerster not only discusses the more difficult<br />
issues of the second half of life, she also<br />
explores a newly found freedom: A woman<br />
of 50 has all the life experience she needs,<br />
she is more relaxed with her partner <strong>and</strong><br />
children <strong>and</strong> doesn’t have to prove everything<br />
to every-one anymore. Isn’t the time<br />
of 50+ the time to harvest? A profound <strong>and</strong><br />
humorous book about the challenges of<br />
growing older – <strong>and</strong> a plea for laid-back<br />
composure <strong>and</strong> confidence.<br />
Konrad Heidkamp non-fiction<br />
John Lennon – A Life<br />
John Lennon is the greatest of all rock<br />
legends – arguably bigger than Elvis Presley,<br />
Bob Dylan <strong>and</strong> Mick Jagger. Rising to world<br />
fame in the sixties with the Beatles, criticised<br />
<strong>and</strong> vilified for his relationship with<br />
Yoko Ono, ridiculed <strong>and</strong> admired for his<br />
«Bed-ins» <strong>and</strong> campaigns for peace, he withdrew<br />
from the music business in the midseventies.<br />
John Lennon saw his success as<br />
a sell-out of his ideals.<br />
What is this fascination with Lennon that<br />
has lasted so long? Konrad Heidkamp captures<br />
it vividly as he tells us the story of a<br />
rebel who, with his mixture of idealism <strong>and</strong><br />
cynicism, vulnerability <strong>and</strong> aggression, love<br />
for simple rock music <strong>and</strong> curiosity about<br />
the avant-garde, turned into a controversial<br />
icon.When Lennon was shot in 1980 in<br />
front of his house near New York’s Central<br />
Park, a dream seemed to die with him.<br />
Today – almost 30 years on – the world still<br />
sings «Imagine» <strong>and</strong> you hear that this<br />
dream is indestructible.<br />
<strong>Rowohlt</strong>·Berlin<br />
January 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Petra Gerster, born in 1955,<br />
started out as an editor for<br />
the daily paper Kölner<br />
Stadtanzeiger <strong>and</strong> for the<br />
TV-station WDR. Since 1989,<br />
she has been working for<br />
the German television<br />
station ZDF, first as a<br />
presenter for the women’s<br />
television programme Mona<br />
Lisa <strong>and</strong> since 1998 for the<br />
7 o’clock news. Her numerous<br />
prestigious journalism<br />
awards include The Golden<br />
Camera <strong>and</strong> the Bambi.<br />
Petra Gerster’s latest<br />
publication (together with<br />
her husb<strong>and</strong> Christian<br />
Nürnberger) was the bestseller<br />
Stark für das Leben<br />
[Strong for Life].<br />
<strong>Rowohlt</strong>·Berlin<br />
January 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Konrad Heidkamp was born<br />
in 1947 in Munich <strong>and</strong> is a<br />
music critic. He is also<br />
responsible for the youth<br />
literature page of the national<br />
weekly Die Zeit <strong>and</strong> is<br />
an audio book jury member<br />
for Hessischer Rundfunk<br />
broadcasting. In 1999, he<br />
published It’s all over now –<br />
40 Jahre Rock und Jazz<br />
[It’s All Over Now – 40 Years<br />
of Rock <strong>and</strong> Jazz] <strong>and</strong>, in<br />
2003, Sophisticated Ladies.<br />
Junge Frauen über 50<br />
[Sophisticated Ladies.Young<br />
Women over 50].<br />
Iris Alanyali<br />
general interest<br />
256 pages<br />
00<strong>07</strong>3 / u 16.90<br />
<strong>Foreign</strong> <strong>Rights</strong><br />
non-fiction<br />
Blue Travels – <strong>and</strong> Other Stories<br />
about my German-Turkish Family<br />
Her father is from Izmir, her mother from<br />
Hessia <strong>and</strong> the family has been living in<br />
Swabia for almost 40 years. At some point,<br />
Iris – the German girl with the Turkish passport<br />
– notices that Turkey means more<br />
to her than a nice place for a holiday …<br />
Iris Alanyani takes us on a journey of discovery<br />
through her German-Turkish family life<br />
<strong>and</strong> the country of her father.We learn how<br />
her dad fared after arriving in Germany at<br />
the beginning of the 1960’s; what it feels<br />
like when the Christmas celebrations end<br />
with belly dancing, or when Play Mobil<br />
figures end up on gr<strong>and</strong>mother’s prayer<br />
mat. We are introduced to Turkey’s Sylt <strong>and</strong><br />
Germany’s Istanbul, we meet Turkish<br />
Swabians, self appointed «sultan mothers»<br />
<strong>and</strong> sulking German butchers.<br />
With a light touch, wisdom <strong>and</strong> plenty of<br />
humour, the author describes what a pleasure<br />
life can be when you enjoy the best<br />
of two worlds.<br />
Dirk Sager non-fiction<br />
travel<br />
256 pages<br />
560 / u 19.90<br />
Berlin – Saigon. A Journey<br />
to the Other Half of the World<br />
Berlin – Saigon: more than 15,000 kilometres<br />
by train – the furthest journey possible by<br />
rail from the German capital. Dirk Sager<br />
embarks on an adventure that takes him<br />
across two continents <strong>and</strong> seven countries.<br />
Whilst travelling through breathtaking l<strong>and</strong>scapes<br />
<strong>and</strong> historical sites, he learns of<br />
medieval rulers <strong>and</strong> uncovers modern myths.<br />
In Russia’s Smolensk, Sager encounters the<br />
long shadows of Hitler <strong>and</strong> Stalin. On the<br />
Asian part of his trip, he meets itinerant<br />
vendors on the train <strong>and</strong> the fishermen of<br />
the dying Aral Sea. He follows the route<br />
of Marco Polo along the old Silk Road to<br />
China <strong>and</strong> is mesmerised by the magic<br />
of the Gobi desert. Along the Great Wall, he<br />
travels to Hanoi, learns about the ancient<br />
roots of Vietnamese civilisation – <strong>and</strong> finally<br />
discovers the secret of the bustling metropolis<br />
of Saigon. A travel adventure rich with<br />
fascinating Asian culture <strong>and</strong> history as well<br />
as the magical beauty of the East.<br />
<strong>Autumn</strong> & <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>06</strong>/<strong>07</strong><br />
<strong>Rowohlt</strong><br />
September 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Iris Alanyali was born in<br />
1969 in Sindelfingen,<br />
Swabia. After a number of<br />
years as an editor for the<br />
publication Literarische Welt<br />
[Literary World], she now<br />
works as an arts editor for<br />
the broadsheet Die Welt.<br />
She lives in Berlin. Previous<br />
publication: Gebrauchsanweisung<br />
für die Türkei<br />
[A Manual for Turkey] (2004).<br />
<strong>Rowohlt</strong> · Berlin<br />
November 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Dirk Sager, born in 1940 in<br />
Hamburg, is one of Germany’s<br />
best-known TV-journalists.<br />
He was the GDR,<br />
USA <strong>and</strong> Russia correspondent<br />
for the German television<br />
station ZDF <strong>and</strong> was<br />
head of their Moscow studio<br />
until 2004. He also presented<br />
their political journal<br />
Kennzeichen D <strong>and</strong> is now<br />
the ZDF’s special correspondent.<br />
He has received<br />
numerous awards for his<br />
work. In 2005, he published<br />
Russl<strong>and</strong>s hoher Norden.<br />
Eine Reise von St. Petersburg<br />
bis zum Polarmeer. [Russia’s<br />
North. A Journey from<br />
St. Petersburg to the Polar<br />
Sea].<br />
15
Konrad Adam non-fiction<br />
history<br />
192 pages<br />
553 / u 16.90<br />
Hilde Kammer / Elisabet Bartsch<br />
history / reference book<br />
384 pages<br />
562 / u 16.90<br />
The Ancient Greeks<br />
Ancient Greece is the cradle of European<br />
civilisation.To us, this world gone by – its<br />
philosophy, language, art <strong>and</strong> literature – is<br />
equally familiar <strong>and</strong> strange.<br />
Konrad Adam brings this epoch to life. He<br />
traces the fascinations of Greek philosophy,<br />
introduces us to the poet Homer <strong>and</strong><br />
explains the meaning of the divine myths<br />
<strong>and</strong> the precise logic of the Greek language.<br />
We take part in a ballot for the people’s<br />
assembly, listen in on Socrates’ conversations<br />
with his pupils <strong>and</strong> go to the theatre<br />
to see a tragedy by Aeschylus.We find out<br />
about Greek education, about who ran the<br />
first marathon – <strong>and</strong> how to use sophistry.<br />
We realize that ancient Greece is a lot<br />
closer to us than we imagined – <strong>and</strong> that<br />
we won’t underst<strong>and</strong> ourselves anymore<br />
if we forget Greek culture.<br />
An exciting journey into the ancient world –<br />
entertaining <strong>and</strong> enlightening.<br />
non-fiction<br />
Youth Encyclopedia<br />
of National Socialism<br />
Anybody learning about the time of the<br />
«Third Reich» will come across terms that<br />
are not easily understood today. Where<br />
does the term «Third Reich» come from for<br />
starters? What was a «Pimpf»? How was<br />
the Hitler Youth structured? And who was<br />
eligible for the «Mother’s Cross»? What did<br />
the Nuremberg Laws regulate? Who was<br />
declared a «Half-Jew» <strong>and</strong> with what consequences?<br />
What did «Aryanization» mean?<br />
And what did abbreviations like «BDM»,<br />
«SA» or «KLV» st<strong>and</strong> for?<br />
The Youth Encyclopedia of National<br />
Socialism answers all these questions <strong>and</strong><br />
many more. It simply <strong>and</strong> concisely explains<br />
terms used at the time, as well as how the<br />
institutions <strong>and</strong> organizations of the «Third<br />
Reich» worked. An essential reference book<br />
that became a classic soon after its initial<br />
publication in 1982.This is a comprehensively<br />
revised <strong>and</strong> updated version.<br />
<strong>Rowohlt</strong>·Berlin<br />
September 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Konrad Adam was born in<br />
1947 in Wuppertal <strong>and</strong><br />
studied ancient languages,<br />
history <strong>and</strong> jurisprudence<br />
in Tübingen, Munich <strong>and</strong><br />
Kiel. From 1979 to 2000 he<br />
was arts editor of the<br />
broadsheet Frankfurter<br />
Allgemeine Zeitung. Since<br />
then he has been chief<br />
political correspondent for<br />
Die Welt. He is the author<br />
of numerous books, mainly<br />
political.<br />
<strong>Rowohlt</strong>·Berlin<br />
September 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Elisabet Bartsch, born in<br />
1932 in Berlin, started out as<br />
a radio journalist <strong>and</strong> spent<br />
many subsequent years<br />
working for the German television<br />
channel ZDF.<br />
Hilde Kammer was born in<br />
1928 in Hamburg. She is an<br />
actor <strong>and</strong> worked for Arts<br />
Academy Berlin from 1977<br />
to 1997. This author duo<br />
previously published the<br />
extremely popular Jugendlexikon<br />
Politik [Youth Encyclopedia<br />
of Politics].<br />
Inge <strong>and</strong> Walter Jens<br />
travel / history<br />
160 pages<br />
05304 / u 19.90<br />
Margret Steenfatt<br />
young fiction<br />
13+<br />
21283 / u 5.90<br />
January 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Searching for a Lost Son –<br />
Hedwig Pringsheim’s South<br />
American Travels 19<strong>07</strong>/08<br />
Thomas Mann planned to write a sequel to<br />
his successful novel Felix Krull in which he<br />
would send his hero to Argentina.The travel<br />
diary of his mother-in-law was to<br />
help him bring the country <strong>and</strong> its inhabitants<br />
to life for his readers. Hedwig Pringsheim’s<br />
notes are indeed a fascinating read<br />
<strong>and</strong> this is the first publication of her gripping<br />
travel records.They were written in<br />
19<strong>07</strong>/08, when she travelled to Argentina <strong>and</strong><br />
Chile to visit her eldest son Erik – who had<br />
been banished to South America by his<br />
father. Hedwig Pringsheim describes the<br />
magnificent natural world, the intolerable<br />
strains of the journey, as well as numerous<br />
encounters with extraordinary people.<br />
This book reflects the experiences of a wise<br />
<strong>and</strong> educated woman who was ahead of<br />
her times in many respects. Hedwig<br />
Pringsheim writes in a lively, idiosyncratic<br />
style that impresses with its self-confident<br />
wit <strong>and</strong> astute judgments.<br />
fiction<br />
rororo rotfuchs<br />
Yours Forcefully<br />
14-year-old Frederika is fascinated<br />
by ice-cool Tessa. A sheltered<br />
childhood makes her long<br />
for excitement, so Frederika<br />
takes on Tessa’s dare to shoplift<br />
<strong>and</strong> even to blackmail their<br />
teacher. Only when she falls in<br />
love with 15-year-old Daniel <strong>and</strong><br />
Tessa ups the pressure on her<br />
«friend» in order not to lose her,<br />
does Frederika realize she’s got<br />
involved in a dangerous relationship.<br />
But now she can’t find<br />
a way out.<br />
<strong>Foreign</strong> <strong>Rights</strong><br />
<strong>Autumn</strong> & <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>06</strong>/<strong>07</strong><br />
<strong>Rowohlt</strong><br />
November 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Inge Jens, born in Hamburg in 1927, has<br />
worked on several cultural history research<br />
projects. In 1995, she was awarded the<br />
Thomas Mann Medal for editing Thomas<br />
Mann’s diaries.<br />
Walter Jens, born in Hamburg in 1923, taught<br />
classic philology <strong>and</strong> rhetoric at the<br />
University of Tübingen from 1962 to 1989.<br />
For the following eight years, he was president<br />
of the Berlin Academy of the Arts.<br />
<strong>Rights</strong> to Frau Thomas Mann have been sold<br />
to France (Jacqueline Chambon),<br />
Hungary (Europa), Pol<strong>and</strong> (Twoj Styl),<br />
Romania (Vivaldi) <strong>and</strong> Russia (BSG).<br />
16 17<br />
non-fiction<br />
Ulli Schubert<br />
young fiction<br />
13+<br />
21370 / u 6.90<br />
January 20<strong>07</strong><br />
fiction<br />
rororo rotfuchs<br />
Substitute<br />
Christoph is a footballer<br />
through <strong>and</strong> through. He has<br />
played a brilliant season so far,<br />
yet his trainer doesn’t put him<br />
in the team for the next, all<br />
decisive match. He is angry, disappointed,<br />
<strong>and</strong> deeply puzzled:<br />
Why wasn’t he allowed to play?<br />
When Christoph wants to have<br />
a heart to heart with his trainer,<br />
he makes a horrific discovery:<br />
he finds the trainer dead at<br />
home. As the police arrive,<br />
Christoph flees <strong>and</strong> starts his<br />
own search for the murderer. He<br />
discovers more than he would<br />
have liked …
Gerlis Zillgens<br />
young fiction<br />
12+<br />
192 pages<br />
21385 / u 6.90<br />
Renée Karthee<br />
young fiction<br />
12+<br />
192 pages<br />
21388 / u 6.90<br />
Hortense Ullrich<br />
young fiction<br />
12+<br />
192 pages<br />
21379 / u 6.90<br />
E Grade English – A Grade Kisses<br />
An E in English! That’s disastrous news.<br />
Mary will have to swot all summer to pass a<br />
final test. She is in tears when she thinks<br />
about her summer holidays.Wrong! Instead<br />
of being locked up with her books, she is<br />
sent off to Engl<strong>and</strong> on a language course.<br />
Mary has fantastically eventful days on the<br />
English South Coast with fast talking Laura,<br />
with François from France – very charming<br />
<strong>and</strong> good looking! – <strong>and</strong> with bitchy<br />
Heart Rivals<br />
Karla is so excited: her friend Amy from<br />
America, also mad about horses, is coming<br />
to stay for three weeks. No doubt they will<br />
be in the saddle until they drop <strong>and</strong> then<br />
chat through the night. Karla is looking forward<br />
to introducing Amy to her first serious<br />
boyfriend: Felix! To Karla’s surprise, a bitter<br />
rivalry between Amy <strong>and</strong> Felix ensues …<br />
A story about jealousy <strong>and</strong> the question of<br />
where dreams are sweeter: on the back of a<br />
horse or in the arms of the boy you love!<br />
1000 Reasons<br />
(not) to Write Love Letters<br />
Sanny is madly in love. According to her<br />
favourite magazine, writing love letters is all<br />
the rage again, so she plans to pen the most<br />
beautiful letter ever to her Hubertus. To her<br />
horror, Sanny reads that – according to a<br />
psychological test in the same magazine! –<br />
Hubertus isn’t her type at all.What now?<br />
Sanny’s twin brother Konny couldn’t care<br />
less about what those stupid tests say, he<br />
just launches into a wonderfully romantic<br />
letter to his Sarah. Unfortunately, it goes to<br />
fiction<br />
fiction<br />
rororo rotfuchs<br />
April 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Natasha.With all its highs <strong>and</strong> lows, this<br />
holiday teaches Mary a lot. By the end, her<br />
grades <strong>and</strong> kisses are much better!<br />
<strong>Rights</strong> to the author’s former books have been<br />
sold to Pol<strong>and</strong> (Nasza Ksiegarnia) <strong>and</strong> Russia<br />
(Amphora).<br />
fiction<br />
rororo rotfuchs<br />
March 20<strong>07</strong><br />
rororo rotfuchs<br />
December 20<strong>06</strong><br />
the wrong address.To get out of this<br />
embarrassment, Konny simply claims the<br />
love letter was written by Hubertus …<br />
<strong>Rights</strong> to the author’s former books have<br />
been sold to Czech Republic (Albatros),<br />
Hungary (Egmont), Italy (Disney), Lithuania<br />
(Alma Littera), Pol<strong>and</strong> (Dolnoslaskie) <strong>and</strong><br />
Spain (Ediciones B).<br />
Silke Kramer (ed.)<br />
young fiction<br />
12+<br />
21373 / u 6.90<br />
November 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Renate Ahrens<br />
young fiction<br />
10+<br />
21376 / u 5.90<br />
January 20<strong>07</strong><br />
fiction<br />
rororo rotfuchs<br />
On the Piste –<br />
Ready-Steady-Go!<br />
At the coldest time of the year,<br />
what could be better than to<br />
curl up with apple-cinnamonpunch,<br />
delicious biscuits <strong>and</strong> a<br />
romantic read? Not much. Here,<br />
you get all in one: the best<br />
winter stories of your favourite<br />
chaos-kisses-catastrophes<br />
authors <strong>and</strong> their yummiest<br />
biscuit recipes! With exciting<br />
news from Hortense Ullrich’s<br />
Kornblum twins.With endless<br />
embarrassments on a skiing<br />
holiday from Renée Karthee’s<br />
heroine Hanna.With icy kisses<br />
from Maiken Nielsen, scary<br />
winter walks through the moors<br />
from Angela Waidmann <strong>and</strong><br />
a special surprise from Gerlis<br />
Zillgens! Enjoy the read –<br />
<strong>and</strong> the biccies!<br />
fiction<br />
rororo rotfuchs<br />
Marie – Help Me!<br />
A German-English Story<br />
A brother! Marie’s Irish friend<br />
Claire should be over the<br />
moon when her parents adopt<br />
little Liam. After all, she has<br />
always wanted siblings. But<br />
Liam can be difficult <strong>and</strong><br />
Claire becomes increasingly<br />
jealous. She is really looking<br />
forward to Marie visiting her<br />
in the winter holidays. Claire<br />
pours out her heart to Marie –<br />
<strong>and</strong> her friend tries her best to<br />
mediate.When they go for a<br />
walk with Liam, a terrible accident<br />
happens: the little boy<br />
falls into a pool of freezing<br />
water. Claire suddenly realizes<br />
she can’t imagine a life without<br />
Liam anymore!<br />
<strong>Foreign</strong> <strong>Rights</strong><br />
Maiken Nielsen<br />
young fiction<br />
12+<br />
21377 / u 6.90<br />
February 20<strong>07</strong><br />
S. Schulz / D. Quinlan<br />
young fiction<br />
12+<br />
21378 / u 5.90<br />
February 20<strong>07</strong><br />
<strong>Autumn</strong> & <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>06</strong>/<strong>07</strong><br />
fiction<br />
rororo rotfuchs<br />
4 Hearts <strong>and</strong><br />
Croque Monsieur<br />
Wow – a castle in the south of<br />
France! A great place to chill,<br />
party <strong>and</strong> flirt.That’s what Alexa,<br />
Viviane, Inci <strong>and</strong> Nicoline<br />
figure anyway. All of Hamburg<br />
is going to be jealous of their<br />
holiday! If there weren’t just a<br />
few minor issues: Nicoline’s<br />
mum who tries to get over the<br />
separation from her husb<strong>and</strong><br />
with esoteric mumbo-jumbo;<br />
Gökhan, Inci’s brother, who<br />
shadows her everywhere to<br />
guard her virginity – <strong>and</strong> a<br />
ghost who haunts their noble<br />
holiday home.The fact that<br />
Alexa has fallen in love with the<br />
son of the castle owner seems<br />
almost the least exciting event<br />
of the holidays! A wonderfully<br />
chaotic novel about friendship,<br />
frustration <strong>and</strong> falling in love.<br />
fiction<br />
rororo rotfuchs<br />
See You Again –<br />
With a Pounding Heart<br />
At last! Britney is coming<br />
to Germany! Not a moment too<br />
soon for overjoyed Tobias,<br />
given that it’s already been<br />
three months since he was on<br />
a student exchange in Wisconsin<br />
<strong>and</strong> fell madly in love with<br />
the American. His joy is dampened<br />
when his friend Björn<br />
gets himself a little too close to<br />
Britney.Tobias is upset <strong>and</strong><br />
withdraws <strong>and</strong> one misunderst<strong>and</strong>ing<br />
follows another.They<br />
haven’t much time left together<br />
before the exchange culminates<br />
in a big US-German football<br />
tournament …<br />
The story is told from the<br />
perspectives of the two protagonists,<br />
alternating between<br />
English <strong>and</strong> German.<br />
18 19
Andrea W<strong>and</strong>el<br />
young fiction<br />
8+<br />
21381 / u 5.90<br />
April 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Olaf Fritsche<br />
young fiction<br />
8+<br />
21383 / u 6.90<br />
March 20<strong>07</strong><br />
20<br />
fiction<br />
rororo rotfuchs<br />
Happy Circus Frolics<br />
Upheaval among the show jumpers:<br />
At a big friendly tournament,<br />
Marie <strong>and</strong> her archenemy<br />
Irina face each other in<br />
a jump-off.Their ponies are to<br />
be allocated by drawing lots.<br />
Of all the horses, Irina ends up<br />
with Happy <strong>and</strong> Marie with<br />
Irina’s mad pony Challenger.<br />
How will the two get on with<br />
the ponies of their greatest rival?<br />
In the meantime, Marie’s<br />
brother Vitus <strong>and</strong> her friend<br />
Anna are planning a circus<br />
performance for Granny Otti’s<br />
birthday with a special appearance<br />
from her favourite animal,<br />
the giant donkey M. Hulot.<br />
But M. Hulot proves rather<br />
headstrong …<br />
fiction<br />
rororo rotfuchs<br />
The Secret Tunnel<br />
Leonardo’s Great Escape<br />
A secret tunnel! It’s a magic<br />
pathway to the past which Lilith<br />
<strong>and</strong> Magnus use to solve tricky<br />
challenges.The first volume<br />
takes them to the year 1499.<br />
Here, Lilith <strong>and</strong> Magnus meet<br />
the famous painter <strong>and</strong> inventor<br />
Leonardo da Vinci.When the<br />
genius has to flee from Milan<br />
<strong>and</strong> is chased by soldiers into a<br />
small village on the brink of a<br />
cliff, there is only one way out:<br />
build a flying machine <strong>and</strong> hold<br />
tight! Lucky that Lilith <strong>and</strong> Magnus<br />
are so full of good ideas …<br />
Andrea W<strong>and</strong>el<br />
young fiction<br />
8+<br />
21382 / u 5.90<br />
April 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Olaf Fritsche<br />
young fiction<br />
8+<br />
21384 / u 6.90<br />
March 20<strong>07</strong><br />
fiction<br />
rororo rotfuchs<br />
Hard Times for Marie<br />
Marie can’t wait for the show<br />
jumping season to recommence<br />
<strong>and</strong> is very excited about the<br />
first training session with<br />
the new coach. Unfortunately,<br />
he turns out to be an old friend<br />
of her rival Irina’s father. He<br />
showers Irina with praise <strong>and</strong><br />
demotes Marie back to the<br />
B-squad. Marie is inconsolable<br />
<strong>and</strong> almost ready to give up<br />
show jumping for good.When a<br />
girl has to leave the top squad<br />
because she is moving, Marie is<br />
given a chance to replace her<br />
at an important tournament at<br />
short notice.Will she manage<br />
to get back into the squad?<br />
<strong>Rights</strong> to the author’s former<br />
books have been sold to<br />
Denmark (Tellerup) <strong>and</strong> Pol<strong>and</strong><br />
(Nasza Ksiegarnia).<br />
fiction<br />
rororo rotfuchs<br />
The Secret Tunnel<br />
Chasing<br />
the Trojan Treasure<br />
For their second adventure, the<br />
friends decide to help famous<br />
archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann<br />
with his excavations in<br />
Troy. Their time tunnel takes<br />
them to the year 1873, where<br />
Schliemann <strong>and</strong> his team are<br />
grateful for the kids’ help.Yet<br />
the treasure is barely unearthed<br />
when a few valuable pieces<br />
disappear. Who is the thief, who<br />
is jealous of the children’s<br />
success? A breathtaking treasure<br />
hunt ensues. But the<br />
culprit escapes through the<br />
open time tunnel into the<br />
present! From now on, the<br />
children have an enemy who<br />
will put them in danger<br />
in adventures to follow …<br />
Markus Osterwalder<br />
picture book<br />
2+<br />
21392 / u 10.–<br />
December 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Rüdiger Bertram<br />
young fiction<br />
6+<br />
21374 / u 6.90<br />
November 20<strong>06</strong><br />
fiction<br />
rororo rotfuchs<br />
The Great<br />
Bobo Dormouse Book<br />
Bobo Dormouse is the toddler’s<br />
favourite, they can’t get enough<br />
of him <strong>and</strong> his adventures in<br />
pictures.That’s why all three<br />
Bobo volumes are now available<br />
as an anthology to sit back,<br />
relax <strong>and</strong> read with mum <strong>and</strong><br />
dad.Whether at the swimming<br />
pool, the circus or on the farm:<br />
Bobo invites the wee ones to<br />
join him in his exploration of<br />
the great wide world. Given that<br />
Bobo needs a good snooze<br />
at the end of each adventure, it<br />
is the ideal goodnight-book<br />
for your tireless cheeky chops.<br />
One of Germany’s most successful<br />
picture book series ever.<br />
fiction<br />
rororo rotfuchs<br />
Five Miracles<br />
for Father Christmas<br />
Frederick has no parents anymore;<br />
instead, he has a mean<br />
aunt, a nasty uncle <strong>and</strong> a<br />
devious cousin.When they<br />
manage to forget him in the<br />
woods during their search<br />
for a Christmas tree, he meets<br />
the one <strong>and</strong> only – Father<br />
Christmas! The old man, however,<br />
is tired of the whole hustle<br />
<strong>and</strong> bustle <strong>and</strong> would love to<br />
chuck in the job. Frederick is<br />
shocked! They strike a deal: if<br />
Frederick can find five people<br />
by Christmas Day who still<br />
believe in Father Christmas, he<br />
will carry on. And the five<br />
miracles happen. In the end,<br />
even Frederick’s greatest wish<br />
comes true: Father Christmas<br />
adopts him!<br />
<strong>Foreign</strong> <strong>Rights</strong><br />
A. Bartram / J.-U. Rogge<br />
children<br />
4+<br />
21371 / u 6.90<br />
February 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Cornelia Franz<br />
children<br />
4+<br />
21375 / u 6.90<br />
November 20<strong>06</strong><br />
<strong>Autumn</strong> & <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>06</strong>/<strong>07</strong><br />
fiction<br />
rororo rotfuchs<br />
Small Heroes – Big Anger<br />
Stories which<br />
Make You Strong<br />
Little Rudi has had it! He<br />
always has to sit still when he<br />
wants to horse around, he has<br />
to go to bed when he’d rather<br />
stay up <strong>and</strong> play, he has to eat<br />
fruit when he craves chocolate.<br />
With all this anger, he hits the<br />
roof one day – <strong>and</strong> goes beyond<br />
the roof to a cloud where<br />
he meets the wise storyteller<br />
Jau-Jau, who helps him to deal<br />
with his anger. A book that<br />
shows parents <strong>and</strong> children<br />
how important anger can be,<br />
offering practical help with<br />
a myriad of stories.<br />
fiction<br />
rororo rotfuchs<br />
Luis & I <strong>and</strong> the Most<br />
Famous Man in the World<br />
Carlotta <strong>and</strong> Luis are really<br />
worried: will Father Christmas<br />
find them this year? After all,<br />
they’ve only just moved to the<br />
suburbs.<br />
Without further ado, the two set<br />
off to their old flat to leave him<br />
a note with their new address.<br />
But it all goes terribly wrong:<br />
they miss their tram stop, <strong>and</strong><br />
when they come out of the station,<br />
Carlotta can’t find her way<br />
at all. It’s snowing like mad <strong>and</strong><br />
when they warm up in a café,<br />
Carlotta notices to her horror<br />
that they haven’t got enough<br />
money to pay! How on earth<br />
are they going to get out of the<br />
café? And home? Thankfully,<br />
the door suddenly opens <strong>and</strong><br />
the real Father Christmas peeks<br />
in – a happy end is in sight!<br />
21
Erika Mann<br />
history / Third Reich<br />
24413 / u 9.90<br />
November 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Klaus Mann<br />
historical fiction<br />
24412 / u 8.90<br />
November 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Martin Walser<br />
essays<br />
24428 / u 9.90<br />
March 20<strong>07</strong><br />
22<br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
When the Lights Go Out –<br />
Stories From<br />
the Third Reich<br />
A small town in Germany at<br />
the end of the Thirties. A visiting<br />
American is expecting<br />
the romantic comfort of quiet<br />
cobbled alleys. Instead, he<br />
finds crunching boots <strong>and</strong> roaring<br />
loud speakers, the SA is<br />
marching <strong>and</strong> the Führer<br />
shrieks over the airwaves.<br />
In ten episodes, the committed<br />
antifascist vividly portrays<br />
daily life under the Swastika.<br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Alex<strong>and</strong>er –<br />
A Utopian Novel<br />
Klaus Mann tells the story of a<br />
Macedonian king who wants to<br />
create an empire of freedom<br />
<strong>and</strong> love.When the young king<br />
starts out on his victory trail,<br />
he is greeted with flowers <strong>and</strong><br />
songs of praise.Yet by the time<br />
his empire stretches from the<br />
Egyptian deserts to the river<br />
Indus, Alex<strong>and</strong>er brings his subjects<br />
nothing but oppression<br />
<strong>and</strong> misery.<br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
The Management<br />
of Nothing<br />
In seventeen closely linked<br />
essays, Martin Walser summarizes<br />
his position as a writer<br />
today: a philosophical, artistic<br />
<strong>and</strong> social evaluation unparalleled<br />
in its unerring perception<br />
<strong>and</strong> stylistic beauty.<br />
An interim judgement from<br />
one of the greatest living German<br />
authors.<br />
Klaus Mann<br />
autobiography<br />
24409 / u 12.90<br />
November 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Klaus Mann<br />
stories<br />
24411 / u 8.90<br />
November 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Martin Walser<br />
diaries<br />
24427 / u 12.90<br />
March 20<strong>07</strong><br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
The Turning Point –<br />
An Autobiography<br />
Klaus Mann’s «The Turning<br />
Point» is rightly considered one<br />
of the most beautiful autobiographies<br />
in German literature.<br />
Yet decisive passages are missing<br />
in the edition that has been<br />
available so far – eliminated by<br />
his sister Erika <strong>and</strong> his former<br />
editor. The full version is now<br />
being published for the first<br />
time, together with other previously<br />
unpublished material.<br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
The Twelve Hundredth<br />
Hotel Room<br />
Celebrating the 100 th birthday<br />
of the cult author, this book<br />
takes us on a journey through<br />
his extensive literary oeuvre.<br />
Klaus Mann was the most charismatic<br />
offspring of the «Mann<br />
Dynasty». In his short lifetime,<br />
he established himself as a<br />
brilliant chronicler of his time<br />
<strong>and</strong> this book is a perfect introduction<br />
to the wide-ranging<br />
work of one of the most important<br />
authors of exile literature.<br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Living <strong>and</strong> Writing –<br />
Diaries 1951–1962<br />
Martin Walser is a master of<br />
transforming life into literature.<br />
His novels are always suspected<br />
of being autobiographical,<br />
rarely with any foundation.<br />
Opening the diaries, the pages<br />
covered with drawings, we find<br />
that even they document his<br />
writing rather than his life.This<br />
is what makes them a truly<br />
distinctive work of art.<br />
See also page 6.<br />
Georg Klein<br />
contemporary fiction<br />
24431 / u 8.90<br />
April 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Jan Weiler<br />
contemporary fiction<br />
24263 / u 8.90<br />
September 20<strong>06</strong><br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Barbar Rosa –<br />
A Detective Story<br />
A romantic detective story<br />
mysteriously veering between<br />
the raw <strong>and</strong> the tender, between<br />
reality <strong>and</strong> illusion, between<br />
darkness <strong>and</strong> enlightenment.<br />
Precise <strong>and</strong> painfully topical,<br />
highly imaginative <strong>and</strong> without<br />
taboo: Barbar Rosa is a suspense<br />
novel penned by a literary<br />
magician.<br />
<strong>Rights</strong> sold to France (Denoel),<br />
Holl<strong>and</strong> (Ambo-Anthos) <strong>and</strong><br />
Pol<strong>and</strong> (Sic!).<br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Antonio in Wonderl<strong>and</strong><br />
The Italian guest worker Antonio<br />
Marcipane has achieved everything:<br />
he owns a semi-detached<br />
house, a nice car <strong>and</strong> four<br />
dozen ties – <strong>and</strong> his daughters<br />
married German men. Now he is<br />
looking forward to a laid-back<br />
life in retirement. If only there<br />
wasn’t one unfulfilled dream of<br />
his: America. Accompanied by<br />
his son-in-law!<br />
<strong>Foreign</strong> <strong>Rights</strong><br />
Angela Thompson<br />
biography<br />
24092 / u 9.90<br />
November 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Wolfgang Büscher<br />
travel<br />
24050 / u 8.90<br />
January 20<strong>07</strong><br />
<strong>Autumn</strong> & <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>06</strong>/<strong>07</strong><br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Germany, a Journey<br />
Wolfgang Büscher travels<br />
round Germany – on foot, by<br />
bus, by boat or hitching a ride,<br />
whatever is available. Over<br />
three months, he experiences a<br />
country that is infinitely more<br />
original <strong>and</strong> eccentric than<br />
we all imagine. A journey like a<br />
long forgotten dream – beautifully<br />
told <strong>and</strong> full of incredible<br />
discoveries.<br />
<strong>Rights</strong> sold to Denmark<br />
(Gyldendal), France<br />
(L’Esprit des Péninsules),<br />
Holl<strong>and</strong> (Atlas) <strong>and</strong><br />
Pol<strong>and</strong> (Czarne).<br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Always Stay by My Side<br />
Elfriede Richter gets married in<br />
Dresden in 1940. Pregnant with<br />
her third child, she flees the<br />
inferno with her two young<br />
daughters <strong>and</strong> her mother on<br />
the night of the bombing on<br />
February 13 th , 1945.This experience,<br />
the post war years <strong>and</strong><br />
her flight to the West leave<br />
her deeply scarred, but also<br />
strengthen her will to survive.<br />
A life, a century – Angela<br />
Thompson recounts the extraordinary<br />
life story of her<br />
mother. An unforgettable book.<br />
23
Martin Schacht<br />
suspense<br />
24362 / u 8.90<br />
March 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Seyran Ate¸s<br />
autobiography<br />
23803 / u 8.90<br />
December 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Sophie Andresky<br />
erotic fiction<br />
24415 / u 7.90<br />
November 20<strong>06</strong><br />
24<br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
M<strong>and</strong>alay Moon<br />
Bangkok in winter.The satisfaction<br />
of any desire is for sale<br />
here, but Tom is skint.Then he<br />
meets Christine <strong>and</strong> Victor: rich<br />
<strong>and</strong> bored, but with a plan.<br />
They want to travel to Burma to<br />
make a film about the legendary<br />
opium princess Olive<br />
Yang.Tom falls in love with<br />
Chris without Victor noticing,<br />
the journey becomes dangerous.Tom<br />
realizes far too late<br />
that he is part of a devilish<br />
plan cooked up by his lover …<br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Great Journey into the Fire<br />
As a six-year-old, Seyran Ate¸s<br />
moves to Berlin with her parents.<br />
She grows up under the strict<br />
rule of a Turkish family. At the<br />
age of 17, she runs away from<br />
home: a sc<strong>and</strong>al for her parents,<br />
a first step towards liberation<br />
for Seyran. She studies law <strong>and</strong><br />
speaks out for women’s rights,<br />
oblivious to the fact that she is<br />
risking her life. Born in 1963,<br />
Seyran Ate¸s now runs her own<br />
firm of solicitors.<br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Damp<br />
Women get what they want in<br />
these seductive stories: passion,<br />
devotion, <strong>and</strong> good sex.<br />
A young singer meets a man<br />
with a fantastic voice. A singleton<br />
catches her guy in the<br />
supermarket – dinner is served<br />
in the finest lingerie. And Iris<br />
<strong>and</strong> Gereon delve into a most<br />
stimulating work of art ... no<br />
one writes better erotic fiction<br />
than the award-winning author<br />
of «Deeper».<br />
Stefan Rehberger<br />
contemporary fiction<br />
24467 / u 7.90<br />
November 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Dani Levy<br />
film book<br />
24425 / u 8.90<br />
April 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Susanna Calaverno<br />
erotic fiction<br />
24397 / u 7.90<br />
April 20<strong>07</strong><br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Going Home for Christmas<br />
Roman, 29, left home straight<br />
after his A-levels. Everything felt<br />
far too small, too boringly conventional.<br />
He moved to Berlin<br />
<strong>and</strong> found a job. Yet every year<br />
when he goes home for Christmas,<br />
he has to face his parents’<br />
expectations.The old friends.<br />
The ex-girlfriend. Every year he<br />
promises himself that he’ll<br />
never go back home again at<br />
Christmas. Until his mum says,<br />
«Lovely you popped in.» An<br />
uproariously funny debut novel.<br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
My Führer – The Truly<br />
Truest Truth<br />
About Adolf Hitler<br />
The war is as good as lost, the<br />
Führer is a gibbering wreck, <strong>and</strong><br />
Goebbels knows that only one<br />
person can save the situation:<br />
Hitler’s old acting teacher.<br />
However, he is Jewish <strong>and</strong><br />
therefore locked up in a concentration<br />
camp.<br />
This book accompanying the<br />
German film of the year comprises<br />
the film script, interviews,<br />
<strong>and</strong> additional material.<br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Satin Fantasies<br />
Elvira <strong>and</strong> Marion run an erotic<br />
lingerie shop.When Elvira falls<br />
ill, she sends Marion to the Paris<br />
fair «Dessous Toujours». A little<br />
change of air suits shy Marion<br />
just fine. But she wasn’t expecting<br />
her exciting encounters to<br />
start on the night train to Paris.<br />
French flair <strong>and</strong> sexy underwear<br />
feature in this racy novel.<br />
Kirsten Fuchs<br />
contemporary fiction<br />
24084 / u 8.90<br />
January 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Anette Göttlicher<br />
contemporary fiction<br />
24435 / u 7.90<br />
February 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Mark Spörrle<br />
contemporary fiction<br />
24346 / u 7.90<br />
December 20<strong>06</strong><br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
The Titanic <strong>and</strong> Mister Berg<br />
A young woman – on income<br />
support – falls in love with a no<br />
longer young man: her case<br />
worker in the social security<br />
office.What follows is the sparky<br />
collision between two totally<br />
opposed worldviews. Of course<br />
catastrophe is looming, because<br />
she is the «Titanic», <strong>and</strong> his<br />
name is: Mister Berg …<br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Made with Love<br />
Living in a leafy suburb, Paula<br />
<strong>and</strong> Tom are married <strong>and</strong><br />
comfortably off.They’d always<br />
planned to start a family one<br />
day. «One day» should be now,<br />
thinks Tom, but Paula is suddenly<br />
having second thoughts:<br />
there is so much she’s been<br />
meaning to do! A journey to the<br />
other end of the world, for<br />
example. Or spend 1000 euros<br />
on clothes in a single day …<br />
Yet things don’t go according to<br />
plan at all!<br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Who Shrunk My Shirts?<br />
As all locksmiths are hideously<br />
overpriced – what on earth do<br />
you do when the door is shut?<br />
Or when packing before going<br />
on holiday proves to be a test of<br />
your relationship? When most<br />
communication during a sophisticated<br />
dinner with friends is<br />
done via the baby intercom? Or<br />
when shirts shrink for unfathomable<br />
reasons <strong>and</strong> it’s nobody’s<br />
fault? Life is so treacherous,<br />
pernicious <strong>and</strong> complicated – it<br />
could almost make you laugh.<br />
<strong>Foreign</strong> <strong>Rights</strong><br />
Alexa Hennig von Lange<br />
contemporary fiction<br />
23347 / u 7.90<br />
April 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Volkmar Nebe<br />
contemporary fiction<br />
24404 / u 8.90<br />
January 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Cristina Camera<br />
contemporary fiction<br />
24384 / u 8.90<br />
April 20<strong>07</strong><br />
<strong>Autumn</strong> & <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>06</strong>/<strong>07</strong><br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Why So Sad?<br />
Elisabeth <strong>and</strong> Philip are happily<br />
married. Just one problem: in<br />
their three years of marriage,<br />
the sexual attraction has dramatically<br />
deteriorated. He seems<br />
prepared to just live with this,<br />
whereas she is determined to<br />
rekindle the old magic. Elisabeth<br />
doesn’t know yet that the<br />
source of their problem lies in<br />
both their pasts.<br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Alone among the Mums<br />
Torben is an unsuccessful<br />
screenwriter in his mid-thirties.<br />
Apart from that he isn’t doing<br />
too badly. Until he hears that he<br />
is being made redundant <strong>and</strong><br />
is about to become a father.<br />
It’s pretty obvious then who is<br />
going to look after the sprog.<br />
However, Daddy Torben doesn’t<br />
just have to deal with his sweet<br />
if slightly tubby daughter. There<br />
are also the gr<strong>and</strong>parents,<br />
friends <strong>and</strong> the other mums in<br />
the playground …!<br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
The Lemon Baron<br />
Sicily in 1928: Anna Maria takes<br />
up the post of governess on the<br />
estate of the charismatic Barone<br />
di Leonardo. Soon, both fight<br />
against a love that must not be.<br />
When the Baron’s terminally ill<br />
wife Valeria dies, the path to<br />
their happiness seems free.Yet<br />
the non aristocratic Anna Maria<br />
is a thorn in the sight of the<br />
«lemon baron’s» family … a<br />
touching, bittersweet novel<br />
about love <strong>and</strong> conventions in<br />
the l<strong>and</strong> of lemon blossom.<br />
25
Renate Kampmann<br />
crime<br />
23949/ u 8.90<br />
April 20<strong>07</strong><br />
S<strong>and</strong>ra Lüpkes<br />
crime<br />
24408 / u 7.90<br />
April 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Jan Seghers<br />
crime<br />
24281 / u 9.90<br />
January 20<strong>07</strong><br />
26<br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
<strong>Foreign</strong> Body –<br />
A Leonie Simon Novel<br />
The mummified body of a woman<br />
is found in the attic of a<br />
Hamburg house.The victim of<br />
a brutal murder? Leonie Simon<br />
sifts for hints in the woman’s<br />
past.Yet Inspector Kaminski,<br />
preoccupied by a sniper case,<br />
has no time for any of this.<br />
So headstrong Leonie decides<br />
to investigate herself …<br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
The Sun Dew Child<br />
Tough Inspector Wencke Tydmers<br />
is struggling to make her<br />
job, her child <strong>and</strong> her au pair<br />
arrangements work. In her first<br />
case since maternity leave, a<br />
male Romanian au pair is found<br />
dead in the peat barn of Moosdorf.<br />
His guest parents suspect<br />
suicide, but Wencke’s nanny<br />
doesn’t believe this.The clues<br />
lead to Romania – <strong>and</strong> to a<br />
second murder.<br />
The Snow Bride<br />
A young dentist has been<br />
murdered.The killer has put<br />
her corpse on display in the<br />
most hideous way. Inspector<br />
Robert Marthaler can’t shake<br />
the uncomfortable feeling that<br />
this murder is only the beginning.<br />
And he is right …<br />
<strong>Rights</strong> sold to<br />
Holl<strong>and</strong> (De Geus).<br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Leenders / Bay / Leenders<br />
crime<br />
24199 / u 8.90<br />
April 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Boris Meyn<br />
crime<br />
24351 / u 8.90<br />
February 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Roman Rausch<br />
thriller<br />
24395 / u 8.90<br />
December 20<strong>06</strong><br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
The Castle<br />
A delegation from Kleve’s British<br />
twin town of Worcester is visiting.<br />
As part of the celebrations,<br />
a historical amateur dramatics<br />
group is to storm Swan Castle<br />
<strong>and</strong> recreate a battle from the<br />
Thirty Years War. Inspector<br />
Toppe attends the spectacle. As<br />
the event kicks off, a bomb<br />
explodes underneath the gr<strong>and</strong>st<strong>and</strong><br />
of the dignitaries …<br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Death in the Labyrinth<br />
A corpse is floating in the Elbe-<br />
Lübeck canal. It’s the wife of<br />
farmer Thor Hansen, who is considered<br />
a loser in the village.<br />
Shortly after that, another body<br />
is found with traces of torture.<br />
On the dead man’s voicemail,<br />
Inspector Jensen discovers the<br />
number of his colleague Herbst.<br />
He got the number from his<br />
underage daughter …<br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Code Freebird<br />
Levy – a criminal profiler – is<br />
examining post-traumatic stress<br />
disorders experienced by<br />
US-soldiers coming back from<br />
the Iraq war. In that capacity,<br />
he attends the premiere of an<br />
American film on the war<br />
shown at a military base in<br />
Frankfurt. A bomb explodes.<br />
Several high-ranking officers<br />
die. A terrorist attack? Levy’s<br />
second case, by the author of<br />
the Kilian crime best sellers.<br />
Enie van Aanthuis<br />
historical fiction<br />
24363 / u 8.90<br />
April 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Franka Villette<br />
historical fiction<br />
24331 / u 9.90<br />
December 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Karin Jäckel<br />
historical fiction<br />
24396 / u 8.90<br />
May 20<strong>07</strong><br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
The Tulip Queen<br />
Holl<strong>and</strong> in the 1630s: The country’s<br />
tulip mania is just about to<br />
peak. After her father's death,<br />
Mareikje is left with almost no<br />
resources. Marriage to the rich<br />
merchant’s son Antonius would<br />
give her financial stability. Yet<br />
Mareikje is passionately in love<br />
with painter Wim.Then she discovers<br />
that her father’s small<br />
inheritance includes a few tulip<br />
bulbs …<br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Odin’s Daughter<br />
Hela’s father was a Viking, her<br />
mother came from the Orient.<br />
Hela has inherited their restless<br />
blood. She leaves the cold north<br />
at her own peril. Captured by<br />
Arab pirates, she is sold into a<br />
Harem. Hela manages to flee<br />
<strong>and</strong> after a long odyssey, she<br />
reaches the edge of the medieval<br />
world: the Irel<strong>and</strong> of the<br />
Druids, where her destiny lies<br />
waiting.<br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Queen of the Buccaneers<br />
Irel<strong>and</strong> in the 16 th Century: no<br />
one dares to resist the English<br />
rulers. Only one woman rebels.<br />
Grace O’Malley fights at sea –<br />
with incredible courage.<br />
A whole fleet is under her comm<strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> no English or Spanish<br />
trade galley is safe from her.<br />
Queen Elizabeth I even offers<br />
a bounty of 500 pounds for her.<br />
A true story, grippingly told.<br />
<strong>Foreign</strong> <strong>Rights</strong><br />
Petra Schier<br />
historical crime<br />
24329 / u 8.90<br />
February 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Astrid Fritz<br />
historical fiction<br />
24405 / u 8.90<br />
April 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Fritz Müller-Scherz<br />
contemporary fiction<br />
24336 / u 8.90<br />
October 20<strong>06</strong><br />
<strong>Autumn</strong> & <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>06</strong>/<strong>07</strong><br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Murder<br />
in the Whorehouse<br />
Adelina has married her doctor,<br />
but is still running her father’s<br />
apothecary.When one respectable<br />
Cologne citizen after the<br />
other is found dead in the<br />
whorehouse, the councillor<br />
dealing with the case remembers<br />
that the clever doctor’s<br />
wife has been successful on a<br />
previous murder hunt. Too bad<br />
that Adelina soon ends up as<br />
the main suspect …<br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
The Duchess <strong>and</strong> the Maid<br />
Sabina, daughter of the Duke of<br />
Bavaria, was promised at a tender<br />
age to the Duke of Württemberg.<br />
She doesn’t consent – <strong>and</strong><br />
her marriage is hell. Ulrich<br />
oppresses his people <strong>and</strong> beats<br />
his wife.When he commits murder<br />
in a blind rage, Sabina flees,<br />
leaving her children behind.<br />
Meanwhile, Ulrich forces a peasant<br />
maid to be his mistress.<br />
Another woman whose life<br />
is threatened by the terrible<br />
duke …<br />
fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Pamir<br />
The sinking of the training ship<br />
«Pamir» in 1957 was the greatest<br />
naval catastrophe in post-war<br />
Germany. Almost the entire crew<br />
drowned during this traumatic<br />
accident. Half a century later,<br />
it is the subject of a classy<br />
TV-drama whose screenwriter<br />
wrote this gripping novel to<br />
accompany the film.<br />
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Helmut Schmidt<br />
politics<br />
62200 / u 8.90<br />
December 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Inge <strong>and</strong> Walter Jens<br />
biography<br />
61460 / u 9.90<br />
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Marianne Reißinger<br />
opera / biography<br />
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February 20<strong>07</strong><br />
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non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
En Route to German<br />
Unification – Retrospective<br />
<strong>and</strong> Perspective<br />
This book gathers ex-chancellor<br />
Helmut Schmidt’s seminal<br />
essays <strong>and</strong> speeches on German<br />
reunification: his analysis of<br />
the mistakes <strong>and</strong> consequences<br />
of that historical moment in<br />
time tell us more about the<br />
sources of Germany’s current<br />
economical <strong>and</strong> political<br />
problems than most topical<br />
political statements.<br />
Katia’s Mother<br />
Hedwig Pringsheim is recognized<br />
in literary history only as Thomas<br />
Mann’s mother-in-law.This<br />
is the first book to place this<br />
extraordinary woman, who<br />
fascinated her contemporaries<br />
with her wit <strong>and</strong> wisdom, at<br />
centre-stage.<br />
See also page 17.<br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
non-fiction fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Anna Netrebko –<br />
A Portrait<br />
This book tells the extraordinary<br />
success story of Anna<br />
Netrebko.This fascinating<br />
portrait of the new opera<br />
superstar is a close-up of an<br />
enchanting woman <strong>and</strong> gifted<br />
artist.<br />
Ulla Lachauer (ed.)<br />
general interest<br />
62204 / u 9.90<br />
January 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Martin Geck<br />
biography / music<br />
61445 / u 9.90<br />
March 20<strong>07</strong><br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
When the Germans Had<br />
Gone – What Happened<br />
After the Expulsion:<br />
East Prussia, Silesia,<br />
Sudetenl<strong>and</strong><br />
The expulsion of the Germans<br />
after 1945: this story has been<br />
told many times – but a certain<br />
chapter remains taboo; what<br />
actually happened after the<br />
Germans had gone? Drawing on<br />
photographs, witness accounts<br />
<strong>and</strong> unpublished source material,<br />
this book is devoted to a highly<br />
emotive issue.<br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Mozart – A Biography<br />
Martin Geck, award-winning<br />
writer <strong>and</strong> musicologist, paints<br />
a colourful picture of this extraordinarily<br />
gifted artist with his<br />
great passion for life – <strong>and</strong><br />
reveals the secrets of his genius.<br />
Dietrich Grönemeyer<br />
health<br />
62<strong>07</strong>4 / u 9.90<br />
March 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Christian Nürnberger<br />
general interest<br />
62<strong>06</strong>8 / u 8.90<br />
November 20<strong>06</strong><br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
The Bible – What You<br />
Really Need to Know<br />
The author recounts the most<br />
important stories of the Old <strong>and</strong><br />
New Testament <strong>and</strong> explains the<br />
revolutionary message of the<br />
bible, for Christians <strong>and</strong> non-<br />
Christians alike. A vivid introduction<br />
to a classic – the Bible –<br />
that is surprisingly relevant <strong>and</strong><br />
highly topical.<br />
<strong>Rights</strong> sold to France<br />
(City Éditions).<br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
The Little Medic<br />
This book takes its readers on<br />
an adventurous journey through<br />
the amazing world of the human<br />
body, without forgetting about<br />
the soul. Compact knowledge<br />
thrillingly presented, a fascinating<br />
read for young <strong>and</strong> old.<br />
Best-selling author Professor<br />
Dietrich Grönemeyer lectures in<br />
radiology <strong>and</strong> micro-therapy at<br />
Witten/Herdecke University <strong>and</strong><br />
is the founder of the Grönemeyer<br />
Institute for Micro-Therapy in<br />
Bochum.<br />
<strong>Rights</strong> sold to Taiwan (Business<br />
Weekly), China (Shanghai 99<br />
Readers), Denmark (Barylerne),<br />
Holl<strong>and</strong> (Elmar), Israel (Matar),<br />
Italy (Longanesi), Korea (Woongjin<br />
Thinkbig), Russia (Eksmo),<br />
Spain (Ediciones B) <strong>and</strong> Czech<br />
Republic (Euromedia).<br />
<strong>Foreign</strong> <strong>Rights</strong><br />
Herfried Münkler<br />
general interest<br />
62213 / u 9.90<br />
April 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Peter Spork<br />
health<br />
622<strong>07</strong> / u 8.90<br />
January 20<strong>07</strong><br />
<strong>Autumn</strong> & <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>06</strong>/<strong>07</strong><br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Empires – The Logic<br />
of World Domination<br />
from Ancient Rome<br />
to the United States<br />
Until recently empires were<br />
considered relics from the past.<br />
It came as a shock to Europe to<br />
see the USA demonstrate its<br />
supremacy so openly. Suddenly,<br />
urgent questions were asked:<br />
What characterises an empire?<br />
What risks does an imperial<br />
order bring? And what opportunities<br />
might it offer? Herfried<br />
Münkler shows how empires<br />
create stability <strong>and</strong> what dangers<br />
they face when they overstretch<br />
their powers.<br />
<strong>Rights</strong> sold to China (Central<br />
Compilation <strong>and</strong> Translation<br />
Press), Engl<strong>and</strong> (English world<br />
rights, Polity Press) <strong>and</strong><br />
Sweden (Daidalos).<br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
The Snoring Book –<br />
Causes, Risks, Antidotes<br />
When your larynx vibrates in<br />
your sleep, the noise in your<br />
bedroom can soar up to motorway<br />
levels. Night after night,<br />
relationships are put to the<br />
test.Yet who knows the real<br />
causes of snoring, knows how<br />
to stop it, or is able to judge<br />
the health risks for themselves?<br />
Peter Spork’s accessible scientific<br />
book has all the answers.<br />
<strong>Rights</strong> sold to Holl<strong>and</strong> (ZNU)<br />
<strong>and</strong> Bulgaria (Uniscorp).<br />
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Brigitte Steger<br />
general interest<br />
62194 / u 8.90<br />
March 20<strong>07</strong><br />
C. Prior / C. Thomann<br />
communication guide<br />
62214 / u 9.90<br />
April 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Wolfgang Schmidbauer<br />
self-help<br />
62208 / u 9.90<br />
February 20<strong>07</strong><br />
30<br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Inemuri – How the<br />
Japanese Sleep <strong>and</strong> What<br />
We Can Learn from Them<br />
A well-known image of Japan:<br />
people sleeping on trains, in<br />
parliamentary debates or on<br />
park benches. How come the<br />
Japanese can go to sleep wherever,<br />
whenever – to wake up a<br />
few minutes later with renewed<br />
energy? The secret is: Inemuri!<br />
Brigitte Steger reveals the fascinating<br />
mystery of the Japanese<br />
powernap.<br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Clarification through<br />
Counselling 3 –<br />
The Practice Book<br />
This volume documents a<br />
highly complicated conflict<br />
mediation, where methods<br />
described in volume 1 <strong>and</strong> 2<br />
are put to the test.The authors<br />
also include new techniques,<br />
outlines of tricky situations,<br />
warnings of pitfalls <strong>and</strong> pointers<br />
for getting out of seemingly<br />
hopeless situations.<br />
non-fiction fiction<br />
rororo<br />
The Helper’s Syndrome –<br />
Help for Carers<br />
When the state cuts down on<br />
support, people have to fight to<br />
make sure those who need<br />
help don’t go completely down<br />
the drain – increasingly exhausting<br />
themselves.Wolfgang<br />
Schmidbauer offers accessible<br />
help for carers.<br />
The best selling author is the<br />
founder of the Institute of<br />
Analytical Group Dynamics<br />
<strong>and</strong> runs his own practice in<br />
Munich.<br />
Jan-Uwe Rogge<br />
parenting<br />
61981 / u 8.90<br />
March 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Abbot Muho<br />
philosophy<br />
62203 / u 8.90<br />
January 20<strong>07</strong><br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Anger is Good –<br />
Why Children are Allowed<br />
to be Aggressive<br />
Anger is good – because aggression<br />
equals not only violence<br />
<strong>and</strong> destruction, but also a<br />
driving force for creativity <strong>and</strong><br />
personality development.<br />
Jan-Uwe Rogge shares practical<br />
tips for constructive prevention<br />
<strong>and</strong> intervention, so that parents,<br />
carers <strong>and</strong> teachers can deal<br />
effectively with patterns of<br />
aggression of any age group.<br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Zazen or The Path<br />
to Happiness<br />
Abbot Muho explores the question<br />
of what constitutes the<br />
essence of happiness. It is in<br />
our power to fill every moment<br />
of our lives with happiness.<br />
Taking as examples his own<br />
journey <strong>and</strong> many stories from<br />
his daily life in the Zen monastery<br />
Antaji, Muho explains how<br />
we can enrich our lives with the<br />
help of Zazen.<br />
Schmidt-Joos / Kampmann<br />
music<br />
62132 / u 12.90<br />
62133 / u 12.90<br />
May 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Ralph Caspers<br />
parenting / humour<br />
62212 / u 8.90<br />
April 20<strong>07</strong><br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Rock Encyclopaedia<br />
Volume 1 & Volume 2<br />
Half a century of rock music<br />
<strong>and</strong> the sounds of today: the<br />
stars, the pioneers, the outsiders.<br />
Zeitgeist icons <strong>and</strong> chart<br />
smashes: dates, facts, background<br />
info <strong>and</strong> CDs.<br />
«… a groundbreaking instant<br />
classic … <strong>and</strong> indispensable<br />
guide.» Der Spiegel<br />
«… the best researched <strong>and</strong><br />
most fun to read overview of<br />
rock music written in any<br />
language yet.»<br />
Westdeusche Allgemeine Zeitung<br />
«... fantastically useful for fans,<br />
specialists <strong>and</strong> amateurs alike.»<br />
Die Zeit<br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
«Don’t Do That»<br />
Parents love setting rules – <strong>and</strong><br />
children would love nothing<br />
more than to say «You’re wrong!»<br />
So just how sensible are parental<br />
wisdoms like «Don’t crunch<br />
your sweets with your teeth,<br />
or your fillings will come out»<br />
or «If you read in the dark,<br />
you’ll ruin your eyesight»?<br />
Ralph Caspers has put them to<br />
the test <strong>and</strong> explains with cheek<br />
<strong>and</strong> wit which of them make<br />
sense <strong>and</strong> which don’t. An<br />
entertaining <strong>and</strong> enlightening<br />
family read.<br />
<strong>Foreign</strong> <strong>Rights</strong><br />
Clint Witchalls<br />
science / health<br />
62175 / u 7.90<br />
April 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Nicole Kuhlert<br />
science / health<br />
62175 / u 7.90<br />
April 20<strong>07</strong><br />
<strong>Autumn</strong> & <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>06</strong>/<strong>07</strong><br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
The Pill <strong>and</strong> I – Man as<br />
a Hormonal Guinea Pig<br />
Clint Witchalls took part in a<br />
clinical trial to test the «Pill for<br />
Men» – <strong>and</strong> turned into a hormone<br />
riddled, emotional<br />
wreck. In his hilariously witty<br />
diary, this pioneer of equality<br />
talks about what he went<br />
through in his six months<br />
trial – <strong>and</strong> why he is never<br />
again going to dismiss PMS.<br />
Clint Witchalls works as<br />
a freelance journalist for<br />
the Observer <strong>and</strong> other<br />
publications. He <strong>and</strong> his<br />
family live in London.<br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Talking Dirty –<br />
My Life on the Chatline<br />
«Tanya», «Alexa», «S<strong>and</strong>ra» – the<br />
ladies with raunchy voices you<br />
get to talk to when you dial<br />
0900 – 6666. Nicole Kuhlert is<br />
one of them. As the boss of her<br />
own telephone sex agency, she<br />
knows about every secret male<br />
fantasy. In this book, she recalls<br />
how her initial curiosity turned<br />
into a numbers business <strong>and</strong><br />
how Nicole Kuhlert became a<br />
lady of lust.<br />
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Peter Zudeick<br />
political satire<br />
62198 / u 8.90<br />
December 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Wigald Boning<br />
WIGALD BONING<br />
Bekenntnisse eines<br />
NACHT-<br />
SPORTLERS<br />
humour / sports<br />
62192 / u 8.90<br />
April 20<strong>07</strong><br />
B. Esser / C. Wilde<br />
parenting<br />
62209 / u 8.90<br />
February 20<strong>07</strong><br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
What a Performance! –<br />
Impertinent observations<br />
on the State<br />
of the German Nation<br />
Peter Zudeick serves up<br />
deliciously vicious pickings<br />
from German political life.<br />
He recalls the highs <strong>and</strong> lows<br />
of German politics <strong>and</strong> society<br />
over the past year <strong>and</strong> offers<br />
a disrespectful <strong>and</strong> sharptongued<br />
insight into the<br />
hotbed of Berlin politics.<br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Confessions of a<br />
Nocturnal Sportsman<br />
In his inimitably humorous way,<br />
marathon runner <strong>and</strong> humorist<br />
Wigald Boning recounts his<br />
unorthodox training methods<br />
<strong>and</strong> bizarre training experiences,<br />
shares with us his heroic battles<br />
against his inner demons, garnishes<br />
it all with tips for runners<br />
<strong>and</strong> cyclists – <strong>and</strong> offers<br />
entertainment in bucket loads.<br />
non-fiction fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Montessori Schools –<br />
Basics, Practice,<br />
Parents’ Questions<br />
The Pisa Study has focussed<br />
parents’ minds on looking for<br />
possible alternatives to the<br />
st<strong>and</strong>ard schooling system. For<br />
many, the Montessori method<br />
has proved an attractive<br />
option.This book explains<br />
the essentials. It also offers<br />
in-depth answers to frequently<br />
asked questions <strong>and</strong> helps<br />
parents with their choices.<br />
Jule Philippi<br />
humour / politics<br />
62217 / u 5.–<br />
November 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Jan Weiler<br />
travel / humour<br />
62199 / u 9.90<br />
December 20<strong>06</strong><br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
The Wisdoms<br />
of Angela Merkel<br />
Jule Philippi has listened carefully<br />
to Germany’s popular new<br />
head of state Angela Merkel<br />
<strong>and</strong> has ended up with a collection<br />
of surprising wisdoms:<br />
Merkel’s thoughts on equality –<br />
«I don’t see any reason why<br />
men can’t achieve the same as<br />
women» – are as interesting<br />
as her refreshing realisation:<br />
«I think it’s plain to see that<br />
I am a woman …»<br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
In My Small Country<br />
Jan Weiler spent weeks <strong>and</strong><br />
months taking a good look<br />
around his country: from Borgholzhausen,<br />
where the trains<br />
stop by driving into the swollen<br />
udder of a cow, to Versmold<br />
whose inhabitants endearingly<br />
call it the «grease stain of Germany»,<br />
he saw it all. He has kept<br />
a witty <strong>and</strong> amusing record<br />
of his big <strong>and</strong> small adventures<br />
<strong>and</strong> concludes: Germany is<br />
worth a visit!<br />
Gabriela Z<strong>and</strong>er-Schneider<br />
health<br />
62189 / u 8.90<br />
October 20<strong>06</strong><br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Are You My Daughter? –<br />
Living with My Mother<br />
<strong>and</strong> Alzheimer’s<br />
At first there was just a certain<br />
forgetfulness.Then Gabriela<br />
Z<strong>and</strong>er-Schneider caught her<br />
mother going shopping in her<br />
slippers <strong>and</strong> hugging strangers.<br />
She sensitively <strong>and</strong> openly<br />
charts her mother’s gradual<br />
personality change, the long<br />
way to a diagnosis <strong>and</strong> the<br />
enormous challenges that a life<br />
with Alzheimer’s poses.<br />
Dietmar Bittrich<br />
Christmas / humour<br />
62<strong>07</strong>2 / u 7.90<br />
November 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Doris Burger<br />
sports<br />
61083 / u 9.90<br />
February 20<strong>07</strong><br />
<strong>Foreign</strong> <strong>Rights</strong><br />
<strong>Autumn</strong> & <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>06</strong>/<strong>07</strong><br />
32 33<br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
The Christmas-Phobia<br />
First Aid Book<br />
If the drone of «Silent Night»<br />
makes you freeze in horror, if<br />
you’d rather spend the family<br />
Christmas under the sofa <strong>and</strong> if<br />
you enjoy using Christmas<br />
tree decorations as snowball<br />
substitutes: this book is for<br />
you. It offers ingeniously malicious<br />
suggestions for Christmas<br />
with a difference – a distinct<br />
difference! With refreshing wit,<br />
Dietmar Bittrich shows how<br />
you can celebrate Christmas –<br />
<strong>and</strong> keep a smile on your face!<br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Power Nordic Walking<br />
Walking with sticks is the thing!<br />
Even joggers change to Nordic<br />
Walking <strong>and</strong> look for appropriate<br />
training programmes.Top<br />
expert Doris Burger presents the<br />
power version of Nordic Walking<br />
with training checks <strong>and</strong> with<br />
the ultimate walking techniques.<br />
Theo Herrlein<br />
Christmas<br />
62182 / u 9.90<br />
November 20<strong>06</strong><br />
T. Steffens / M. Grüning<br />
sports<br />
61<strong>06</strong>6 / u 9.90<br />
April 20<strong>07</strong><br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
The Christmas<br />
Encyclopaedia<br />
Where did the tradition of<br />
mistletoe come from? Who<br />
should or shouldn’t you be<br />
kissing under there? And<br />
where was the very first<br />
Christmas market held?<br />
Theo Herrlein’s Christmas<br />
encyclopaedia has all the<br />
answers. 3200 entries on<br />
Christmas <strong>and</strong> its varied<br />
traditions guarantee new,<br />
exciting insights for the<br />
whole family.<br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Runner’s World:<br />
The Running Book<br />
for Women<br />
This ultimate h<strong>and</strong>book<br />
contains everything you need<br />
to know about healthy,<br />
balanced running as a<br />
woman – a whole range of<br />
running <strong>and</strong> fitness programmes,<br />
ideal running techniques,<br />
tailored training<br />
rotas <strong>and</strong> specific diet tips,<br />
stretching routines <strong>and</strong> a<br />
guide to sports injuries.
Hans-Erhard Lessing<br />
monographs<br />
50594 / u 8.50<br />
January 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Uwe Naumann<br />
monographs<br />
5<strong>06</strong>95 / u 8.50<br />
November 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Volker Ullrich<br />
monographs<br />
5<strong>06</strong>46 / u 8.50<br />
December 20<strong>06</strong><br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Robert Bosch<br />
Often dismissed as an eccentric<br />
Swabian inventor, Robert Bosch<br />
(1861–1942) is actually one<br />
of the great founding figures of<br />
German industrial history.The<br />
multitalented technician was<br />
quick to recognize the car had<br />
a future: his invention of the<br />
spark plug initiated the success<br />
of his enterprising company. He<br />
was also the first to introduce<br />
the 8-hour working day, the<br />
5-day week <strong>and</strong> paid holidays.<br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Klaus Mann<br />
Klaus Mann started out as a<br />
literary enfant terrible. After the<br />
Nazis rose to power in 1933, he<br />
became an important representative<br />
of the Hitler-opposition,<br />
fighting against the Third Reich<br />
with self-published magazines<br />
<strong>and</strong> with novels like Mephisto<br />
(1936) <strong>and</strong> The Volcano (1939).<br />
His autobiography The Turning<br />
Point is one of the most impressive<br />
accounts of the Nazi era in<br />
German literature.<br />
non-fiction fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Napoleon<br />
Napoleon Bonaparte is one of<br />
the most fascinating <strong>and</strong> most<br />
irritating figures of world<br />
history. His rise from nowhere<br />
to become the Emperor of<br />
France <strong>and</strong> ruler of Europe <strong>and</strong><br />
his equally sudden fall <strong>and</strong><br />
ignominious end on the rocky<br />
isl<strong>and</strong> of St. Helena have captured<br />
people’s imagination <strong>and</strong><br />
provoke incessant disputes<br />
among historians.<br />
Reinhard Ermen<br />
monographs<br />
5<strong>06</strong>23 / u 8.50<br />
February 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Stephen Tree<br />
monographs<br />
5<strong>06</strong>71 / u 8.50<br />
March 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Gerd Presler<br />
monographs<br />
5<strong>06</strong>42 / u 8.50<br />
April 20<strong>07</strong><br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Joseph Beuys<br />
The life of Joseph Beuys<br />
(1921–1986) is surrounded by<br />
myth; his works are considered<br />
deeply meaningful <strong>and</strong> yet<br />
enigmatic. Indisputably one of<br />
the most important artists of the<br />
20 th century, his installations,<br />
sculptures, objects <strong>and</strong> drawings<br />
merge topical allusion <strong>and</strong><br />
biographical elements with an<br />
often esoteric underst<strong>and</strong>ing of<br />
nature.<br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Moses Mendelssohn<br />
An openly religious Jew from a<br />
poor background, small <strong>and</strong><br />
hunchbacked, Moses, son of<br />
Mendel from Dessau, or as he<br />
called himself: Moses Mendelssohn<br />
(1729–1786), became<br />
one of the leading thinkers of<br />
Berlin, Prussia <strong>and</strong> Europe.<br />
He was the child of a time in<br />
which the world <strong>and</strong> the German<br />
Jewry, from whence he came,<br />
changed significantly.<br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
The Bridge<br />
«The Bridge» wrote an exciting<br />
chapter of art history. From<br />
1905 to 1913, its members –<br />
among them Emil Nolde, Ernst<br />
Ludwig Kirchner, Otto Mueller,<br />
Max Pechstein, Karl Schmitt-<br />
Rottluff – challenged the arts<br />
establishment: their works, now<br />
precious exhibits in the world’s<br />
greatest museums, were met<br />
with incomprehension <strong>and</strong><br />
their spontaneous, dynamic<br />
style of painting was ridiculed<br />
as dilettantism.<br />
Beck-Bornholdt / Dubben<br />
science<br />
62196 / u 9.90<br />
November 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Wilhelm Tim Hering<br />
science<br />
62186 / u 8.90<br />
January 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Hugo Friedrich<br />
encyclopaedia<br />
55683 / u 16.90<br />
November 20<strong>06</strong><br />
<strong>Foreign</strong> <strong>Rights</strong><br />
<strong>Autumn</strong> & <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>06</strong>/<strong>07</strong><br />
34 35<br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
The Dog who Laid Eggs –<br />
Don’t Trust Statistics<br />
Statistics are endlessly pliable –<br />
<strong>and</strong> yet we willingly trust every<br />
new study circulated by scientists<br />
<strong>and</strong> the media. «Don’t<br />
believe anything!» is the credo of<br />
the authors who have a great<br />
time dissecting <strong>and</strong> disproving<br />
rash statistical statements.<br />
<strong>Rights</strong> sold to Korea (Indebook)<br />
<strong>and</strong> Hungary (Magyar).<br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
How Science Knows<br />
what It Knows<br />
The myriad reports about striking<br />
achievements <strong>and</strong> surprising<br />
new theories of natural science<br />
tend to give little information<br />
on how their facts were actually<br />
gathered.Wilhelm Tim Hering is<br />
the first to systematically –<br />
<strong>and</strong> humorously – explain the<br />
different methods, rules of play<br />
<strong>and</strong> verification procedures<br />
with which scientists gather<br />
their knowledge – <strong>and</strong> what<br />
impact this has on our lives.<br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
The Structure<br />
of Modern Poetry<br />
This book is looking at the characteristics<br />
of modern poetry<br />
beyond the personal <strong>and</strong> the<br />
rational. Hugo Friedrich’s critical<br />
expertise, his intellectual<br />
creativity <strong>and</strong> analytical language<br />
are considered exemplary<br />
for any examination of<br />
writing styles <strong>and</strong> interpretation<br />
of poetic œuvres.<br />
Fritsche / Mischak / Krome non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
science<br />
62190 / u 8.90<br />
April 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Klaus Amann<br />
encyclopaedia<br />
55685 / u 12.90<br />
March 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Riddle Me This –<br />
Mathematical<br />
Brainteasers<br />
Go on an entertaining journey<br />
to the tower-magicians of<br />
Hanoi, join the award ceremony<br />
of the brainteaser competition<br />
for oldies <strong>and</strong> become part of a<br />
special force in the republic<br />
of Mathemazumbia. Hard to<br />
believe how quickly even number-phobics<br />
will get hooked.<br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
Robert Musil –<br />
Literature <strong>and</strong> Politics<br />
This book features two<br />
speeches, one essay <strong>and</strong> several<br />
accompanying texts – which<br />
have not been analysed together<br />
before.They document<br />
Musil’s reaction to the political<br />
changes in the 1930s <strong>and</strong> the<br />
resulting personal consequences,<br />
as well as Musil’s contemplation<br />
of his role as a writer<br />
<strong>and</strong> the function of literature<br />
in the face of dictatorships of<br />
the left <strong>and</strong> right.<br />
Klaus-Michael Bogdal a.o.<br />
encyclopaedia<br />
55682 / u 10.90<br />
April 20<strong>07</strong><br />
non-fiction<br />
rororo<br />
BA-Studies<br />
German Literature –<br />
A Course Book<br />
This course book is structured<br />
to match the modules of the<br />
new BA courses. A systematic<br />
<strong>and</strong> historical introduction sketches<br />
the foundations of German<br />
Literature with its sub-disciplines.<br />
Exercises in working<br />
techniques used in German<br />
literature follow, the advanced<br />
modules deepen the knowledge<br />
of the students.
Martin Walser Highlight<br />
contemporary fiction<br />
<strong>07</strong>357 / u 22.90<br />
July 20<strong>06</strong><br />
contemporary fiction<br />
0814 / u 17.90<br />
July 20<strong>06</strong><br />
humour / reference<br />
543 / u 16.90<br />
July 20<strong>06</strong><br />
36<br />
Blossoms of Fear<br />
The phone rings. Karl von Kahn, an investment<br />
consulter in Munich, learns from his<br />
best friend’s wife, Gundi, that her husb<strong>and</strong><br />
has been paralyzed. Upon visiting the hospital,<br />
Karl is shaken to find his friend looking<br />
as though he is on death’s doorstep. After<br />
his visit, Gundi invites Karl to stop by at her<br />
house, where she asks him to sign a contract<br />
dealing with the sale of a business,<br />
claiming it is her husb<strong>and</strong>’s last wish. Ever<br />
the loyal friend, Karl does as she asks, but<br />
that same night, he learns that his friend<br />
has made a miraculous recovery. Has Karl<br />
Exhilaration<br />
There’s no problem big or small that<br />
doesn’t have its place in Linda’s life.<br />
It’s Friday evening, <strong>and</strong> Linda has no idea<br />
how she is going to get through the weekend<br />
– just as she has no idea how she’s<br />
survived the past six months. During that<br />
time she reluctantly left her boyfriend. She<br />
changed cities <strong>and</strong> jobs. She took a humiliating<br />
vacation in a resort for lonesome<br />
singles <strong>and</strong> received some worrisome predictions<br />
from a fortune-teller. Now she’s<br />
waiting for her lover to decide between her<br />
<strong>and</strong> his wife <strong>and</strong> has to save the life of a<br />
Lexicon of Superfluous Things<br />
Everyday life is full of things we don’t really<br />
need, consumer goods that only consume<br />
time <strong>and</strong> money, <strong>and</strong> reduce the quality of<br />
life. Mobile phones, for instance, have to<br />
serve as cameras, MP3 players <strong>and</strong> Internet<br />
portals – they do everything but the laundry.<br />
Sport utility vehicles that could cross Siberia<br />
clog every intersection, <strong>and</strong> you can’t<br />
prepare breakfast any more without using a<br />
dozen kitchen appliances.<br />
With ironic wit, Alex<strong>and</strong>er von Schönburg<br />
attempts to cut through the jungle of things<br />
we have but don’t need. His lexicon covers<br />
von Kahn become the victim of a clever<br />
swindle? His telephone rings again.This<br />
time it’s a request that he co-finance a film<br />
adaptation of Othello. Unable to resist the<br />
seductive charms of the young actress cast<br />
to play the lead, Karl agrees. But he can’t<br />
shake the suspicion that he is being duped<br />
again.<br />
Martin Walser’s latest novel is a gr<strong>and</strong> tale<br />
of deception.<br />
Martin Walser’s works have been translated<br />
into 30 languages.<br />
Ildikó von Kürthy Highlight<br />
love-sick gay friend she met after a mistake<br />
by a dating agency. It’s going to be one heck<br />
of a weekend in Berlin – but nothing can<br />
surprise Linda any more.<br />
Ildikó von Kürthy’s works have been<br />
translated into 20 languages.<br />
Alex<strong>and</strong>er von Schönburg Highlight<br />
everything from answering machines to<br />
electric toothbrushes to horoscopes to lava<br />
lamps to unnecessary conversational tics.<br />
This humorous reference work is a how-to<br />
guide for modern urbanites who want to get<br />
back to the basics.<br />
<strong>Rights</strong> in the bestseller The Art of Stylish<br />
Poverty have been sold to China (Hua Yi),<br />
Finl<strong>and</strong> (Atena), Italy (Mondadori),<br />
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Taiwan (Business Weekly).