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1 Rights Guide Autumn 2013 S. Fischer Verlag Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag Fischer HC
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Rights Guide
Autumn 2013
S. Fischer Verlag Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
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Contents Page Author Title S. Fischer Fiction 3 Bovenschen, Silvia Nur Mut 4 Finsterwalder, F., Kracht, Christan Finsterworld 5 Hilbig, Wolfgang Das Provisorium 6 Kegel, Bernhard Das Ölschieferskelett 7 Kühn, Dieter Das Magische Auge 8 Mann, Thomas Fiorenza 9 Maron, Monika Zwischenspiel 10 Meyer, Clemens Im Stein 11 Mon, Franz Zuflucht bei Fliegen 12 Willemsen, Roger Es war einmal oder nicht S. Fischer Non-Fiction 14 Emcke, Carolin Weil es sagbar ist 15 Klee, Ernst Auschwitz – Täter, Gehilfen, Opfer und was aus ihnen
wurde 16 Minkmar, Nils Der Zirkus – Ein Jahr im Innersten der Politik 17 Rauchhaupt, Ulf In den Sternen 18 Renn, Ortwin Das Risikoparadox 19 Ullrich, Volker Adolf Hitler 20 Zimmer, Undine Nicht von schlechten Eltern S. Fischer History 22 Hirschfeld, Krumeich Deutschland im Ersten Weltkrieg S. Fischer Science / Humanities 24 Göttert, Karl-Heinz Abschied von Mutter Sprache 25 Klotz, Mahler, Müller, Nitsch, Pilcher Komödie – Etappen ihrer Geschichte von der Antike
bis heute 26 Seel, Martin Die Künste des Kinos 28 Contact Details
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Silvia Bovenschen Nur Mut Take Heart
Silvia Bovenschen Nur Mut Novel, 160 pages S. Fischer Verlag, July 2013
Silvia Bovenschen, born in 1946, is a literary scholar and essayist and lives in Berlin. In 2000 she was awarded the Roswitha Prize by the town of Bad Gandersheim and the Johann Heinrich Merck Prize by the German Academy of Language and Literature, followed by the Ernst Robert Curtius Prize for essay-writing in 2007. Her most recent books are Verschwunden (2007), Älter werden (2006), Schlimmer machen, schlimmer lachen (1990) and Über-Empfindlichkeit. Spielformen der Idiosynkrasie (2000).
Charlotte, Joanna, Leonora, and Nadine are awaiting a visit by Mr von Rungholt. Once he arrives, however, things get out of hand. The four old ladies speak freely, heed no law, make their peace with the world and themselves. They plan to go out with a bang, or at least with the pop of champagne corks. It all ends in a furious ballet of destruction. And then, out of nowhere, an odd party of late-comers arrives... Silvia Bovenschen combines philosophy, opera, orgy, and Edgar Wallace for a darkly comic romp. "While reading this kind of book, you want to slip a bookmark in every few pages, dog-ear every second page, and mark every third sentence in the margins." Gunhild Kübler, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (on Älter werden)
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Finsterwalder/Kracht
Finsterworld Darkworld
Frauke Finsterwalder / Christian Kracht Finsterworld S, 176 pages FTV, October 2013
Frauke Finsterwalder was born 1975 in Hamburg. After studying Literature and History in Berlin, she worked at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater and at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. She was also an editor for the Süddeutsche Zeitung before studying Documentary Film Direction at Munich's Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film. She lives in Eastern Africa with her family. Finsterworld is her first full-length cinematic feature. Christian Kracht was born December 29th, 1966 in Saanen, Switzerland. After high school he moved to the US to study Film, worked for several journalistic institution, and then began travelling – from Asia to Africa to the South Pacific. He is one of the most modern writers in German today, and his works have been translated into 25 languages.
Finsterworld weaves together irreverent, strange stories about how ghosts take possession of us. By turns absurd and amusing, delicate and destructive, director Frauke Finsterwalder draws loving portraits of her heroes even as they must make their way through today's Germany. In doing so, she has created a new genre of film – one that sabotages and subverts its own nostalgic longing for an idyllic home. The script was developed in collaboration with best-selling author Christian Kracht (Faserland, Imperium). Together they create a world of sleep-walk beauty, both enchanting and disenchanting, with devastating poetic impact.
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Wolfgang Hilbig
Das Provisorium For the Time Being
Wolfgang Hilbig Das Provisorium Novel, 336 pages S. Fischer Verlag, July 2013
Wolfgang Hilbig was born 1941 in Meuselwitz near Leipzig. In 1985 he relocated to West Germany and today lives in Berlin. He was awarded numerous literary prizes, including the Georg-Büchner-Preis 2002. Hilbig died 2007 in Berlin.
Germany in the mid-1980s: An author from Leipzig is given a special visa allowing him to leave East Germany for more than a year. Although the West remains alienating and his beloved desserts him, he does not return. Without any true connection to either his old home or his new environment, he slips into alcoholism and is plagued by writer's block. Lost and disoriented on the ever shifting sands of time, he stumbles into an otherworldly, ghostly terrain – that of his life, his very soul. An afterword by Julia Franck and unpublished materials showing the genesis of Wolfgang Hilbig's grand autobiographical novel further enrich this volume of the new edition of Hilbig's complete works.
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Bernhard Kegel
Das Ölschieferskelett
Just in Time
Bernhard Kegel Das Ölschieferskelett Novel, 480 pages FTV, November 2013
Bernhard Kegel, born 1953, has a Ph.D. in Biology and is a passionate jazz guitarist. The award-winning author of novels (Der Rote) and non-fiction lives in Berlin and Brandenburg.
Paleontologist Dr. Hartley Ax – known to his friends as "Hatchet" – is looking for fossils in the bituminous shale of the Messel pit. But what the world famous dig near Darmstadt yields this time shatters his scientific world view: he finds the petrified remains of a human being … wearing a wristwatch. Through what wormhole in space-time could the corpse have gotten from our world into oil shale formed 50 million years ago? Ax goes on a journey which leads him millennia back in time to the Eocene, a time in which humans are not thought to exist. But he is not alone … An extraordinary scientific crime novel about one of science's most exciting frontiers: Evolution.
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Dieter Kühn
Das Magische Auge The Magic Eye
Dieter Kühn Das Magische Auge Novel, 1300 pages S. Fischer Verlag, September 2013
Dieter Kühn, born in 1935, lives near Cologne. He has received countless awards for his novels, short stories, biographies and radio plays, including the Hermann Hesse Prize and the Literature Prize of the Bavarian Academy of the Arts.
As bombs drop on Cologne and neighbouring houses blaze, his mother Helen tells her six-year-old son: Look closely. And there is much to look at: first Herrsching on the Ammersee, to which the family flees, then Düren, hollowed out by the bombings. But Kühn does not simply watch and write, he participates: he enters rural politics, founds a German-Turkish organization, becomes a clerk in a juvenile court and nurse to a prisoner, works in drug treatment programs and a commission on genetic modification. For the first time, the man whose books have told the stories of countless historical figures tells his own story and that of his time – in a way which transcends traditional autobiography and makes Dieter Kühn's life's work our very own. "The greener the Magic Eye of our old radio, the better the signal was. Memory is receiving broadcasts now. The Eye is bright." Dieter Kühn
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Thomas Mann
Fiorenza Idyllen Gedichte Fiorenza Poems
Thomas Mann Fiorenza Idyllen Gedichte 150 pages S. Fischer Verlag, December 2013
Thomas Mann, 1875–1955, is among the most important writers of the twentieth century. He brought the modern German novel up to par with world literature. Mann’s complex and varied work was received exceptionally positively worldwide. He went into exile in 1933, first in Switzerland and then in the USA. Mann did not return to Europe until 1952, dying in Zurich in 1955.
Already at the age of fourteen Thomas Mann described himself as a "lyric-dramatic poet." The current volume of the Große kommentierte Frankfurter Ausgabe, the definitive edition of Thomas Mann's complete works, takes up this aspect of his writing and presents his complete poetry, writing for film, and most importantly, the Renaissance drama Fiorenza, which was published in 1905 and first performed in 1907.
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Monika Maron
Zwischenspiel Between the Acts
Monika Maron Zwischenspiel Novel, 192 pages S. Fischer Verlag, October 2013
Monika Maron was born in Berlin in 1941, grew up in East Germany, emigrated to the West in 1988 and now lives in Berlin again. She has won various awards for her literary work and essays, including the Kleist Prize (1992), the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize (2003) and the German National Prize (2009) and the Lessing Prize (2011).
Ruth, a woman who has passed beyond youth, is planning to drive to the funeral of Olga, her one-time mother-in-law and, after the divorce, simply a close friend for many years. Ruth is uneasy, however, about her impending meeting with her daughter's father, Olga's son. She feels weighed down by old guilt. Something about her eyes is bothering her, as well, and the world before her blurs like an Impressionist painting. She takes a wrong turn on her way to the cemetery and instead finds herself in a park, in which the dead and the living alike appear to her and the past and the present melt into one. A dog trots beside her as she meets the Honeckers, a married couple lost in the park and looking for shelter. She runs across Brian, a boyfriend of days long gone. And again and again, Olga appears by her side. By that evening, the world will seem as straight-forward and solid to Ruth as it always has – but for this one day, she is open to the impossible, the irrational, all that shines light into the dark and turns the accepted into the absurd. Monika Maron's epic new novel tells the story of circumstances we are born into and cannot escape, of decisions we make in our youth that, though we are glad in later life that we made them, terrify us in their brutality.
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Clemens Meyer
Im Stein Set in Stone
Clemens Meyer Im Stein Novel, 560 pages S. Fischer Verlag, August 2013
Clemens Meyer, born 1977, living in Leipzig. After high school he jobbed as a watchman, building worker and removal man. He studied creative writing at the German Literary Institute, Leipzig and was granted a scholarship by the Saxon Ministry of Science and Arts in 2002. His first novel “Als wir träumten” was a huge success and his second book, “Die Nacht, die Lichter”, a collection of short stories, he was awared the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2008.
A young woman stands at the window and looks out into the evening sky. It is January and business is not going at all well; thoughts whirl about in her head. "The horse fellow," a former jockey, is looking for his daughter. "The Bielefeld man" is cornering the market with his new business plans, investing in nightclubs and sex shops. "AK 47" lies in the street, blood seeping from a bullet wound. Clemens Meyer weaves these characters' stories, lives, and voices into a wild chorus of night, creating a blazing, monumental portrait of a city and of our time. Meyer "throws himself into his stories, he approaches his characters with a precise, curious, and almost tender gaze. [He] knows what he is writing about, knows the people, the settings, the scenes, the moods. … Particularly in their quiet moments, his stories unfold into an almost inhuman power and closeness." Jörg Böckern, KulturSpiegel (on Die Nacht, die Lichter)
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Franz Mon
Zuflucht bei Fliegen
Refuge With the Flies
Franz Mon Zuflucht bei Fliegen Collection, 448 pages S. Fischer Verlag, September 2013
Franz Mon, born May 6th, 1926, lives in Frankfurt am Main, where he works as a writer and artist. After studying History, Philosophy, and German Literature, he worked as an editor for a textbook publisher before teaching Graphics and Design in Kassel, Karlsruhe, and Offenbach until 2000. In 2003 he was awarded the Goethe-Plakette der Stadt Frankfurt am Main. In addition to numerous audio performances, essays, and collages, his most important works include the poetry collection artikulationen (1959), herzzero (1967), Nach Omega undsoweiter (1992), and Freiflug für Fangfragen (2004).
A pioneer in experimental literature Franz Mon connects words that might never otherwise have met. He presents the individual words in such a way that we can experience them fully and for themselves: as groups of very particular letters of the alphabet, rich in their own associations. This handsome volume – which includes never before published texts by Franz Mon collected from more than sixty years of his work – invites the reader to jump from word to word and page to page, all the while revelling in the surprise of cleverly and joyfully executed verbal combinatorics. It contains short commentaries by the author and is edited by poet and literary theorist Michael Lentz, who has also contributed an epilogue.
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Roger Willemsen
Es war einmal oder nicht
Once Upon a Time Or Not
Roger Willemsen Es war einmal oder nicht Travel Report, 256 pages S. Fischer Verlag, August 2013
Roger Willemsen had his first book published in 1984 and since then has worked as a lecturer, editor, translator, essayist and London correspondent.Since 1991, he has also been a television presenter, director and producer. He has won, amongst others, the Bavarian Television Prize and the Gold Adolf Grimme Prize. Today he takes to the stage in solo programmes, or in tandem with Dieter Hildebrandt. His novel “Little Lights” was filmed with Franka Potente in the leading role, and his film about the jazz pianist Michel Petrucciani has been shown in many countries. Willemsen is an Amnesty ambassador, patron of the Afghanistan Women's Society, and Honorary Professor of Literature at Humboldt University in Berlin. His bestsellers "A German Journey", "Good Days", "An Afghan Journey", "The Cracks", “Bangkok Noir”, and most recently “The Ends of the World” are published by S. Fischer Verlag and Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. They have been translated into numerous languages.
On his numerous trips to Afghanistan, Roger Willemsen has collected hundreds of children's drawings, letters, and essays – moving documents from young people whose everyday life is war. On his most recent journey, which took him from Kabul to the Panjshir Valley in autumn of 2012, Willemsen visited a number of these children. The story of his journey and the children's pictures and writing paint a vivid and often surprising picture of life in Afghanistan in its darkest and its most joyous moments. It is life which remains when international troops leave. "As touchy as I get when someone tries to exploit images of children to provoke sympathy, I could not help surrendering to the wisdom and maturity, the kindness and liveliness of these children." Roger Willemsen
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Carolin Emcke Weil es sagbar ist
Because We Can Say It
Carolin Emcke Weil es sagbar ist 256 pages S. Fischer Verlag, Oktober 2013
Carolin Emcke, born in 1967, studied philosophy, politics and history, including in London and Harvard. She has been reporting from war and crisis zones since 1998, among them Kosovo, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Gaza and Haiti, and has been a freelance journalist since 2007, mainly writing for Die Zeit. S. Fischer has published her books Von den Kriegen. Briefe an Freunde and Stumme Gewalt. Nachdenken über die RAF. Carolin Emcke has won a number of awards, including the Friedrich Ebert Foundation’s award for political books and the Ernst Bloch Prize for emerging philosophy writers. In 2008 she received the Theodor Wolff Prize, in 2010 the Otto Brenner Prize for critical journalism, the German Reporter Prize and was named ‘journalist of the year’.
How can we tell of violence? Why is it that violence so often leaves its victims silent? What does this mean for us, the unvictimized? For years, Carolin Emcke has travelled to countries torn apart by violence and war. Time and time again people have asked her to write down their stories. Are there limits to our ability to understand others' experiences? Limits to what can be said? What conditions must a society create for victims of violence to be able to speak out about what they have suffered? In her essays, Carolin Emcke confronts these questions with the conviction that it is not only possible but in fact necessary to tell of others' suffering – for the survivors as much as for the community in which we would want to live. She argues against "the indescribable" and in favour of an ethics of empathy and bearing witness. "Carolin Emcke ... works with an unparalleled clarity of words and ideas, and with intellectual courage which one cannot help admiring." Heribert Prantl
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Ernst Klee
Auschwitz – Täter, Gehilfen, Opfer und was aus ihnen wurde Auschwitz: Perpetrators, Helpers, Victims, and What Became of Them
Ernst Klee Auschwitz – Täter, Gehilfen, Opfer und was aus ihnen wurde 496 pages S. Fischer Verlag, August 2013
Ernst Klee, born in 1942, studied Theology and Social Education, initially publishing on the subject of marginal groups; 1982 Adolf Grimme Prize for his TV film on the life of a woman of restricted growth. His groundbreaking book ‘“Euthanasie” im NS-Staat. Die Vernichtung “lebensunwerten Lebens”’ was published in 1983. It was followed by ‘Dokumente zur “Euthanasie”’ (1985) and ‘Was sie taten, was sie wurden’ (1986) on the post-war careers of the Nazi ‘euthanasia’ doctors. His book ‘Auschwitz, die NS-Medizin und ihre Opfer’ earned him the Geschwister Scholl Prize. His most recent publications are ‘Deutsche Medizin im Dritten Reich’ (2001), showing how the medical perpetrators of Nazi Germany were courted after 1945 while their victims received nothing but derision, and 2003’s ‘Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945’, which provoked a great deal of media interest. Ernst Klee passed away in May of 2013.
The first ever biographical dictionary of Perpetrators, Helpers, and Victims in Auschwitz No one has documented as many Nazi war criminals and their post-war careers as Ernst Klee, who made this task his life's work. His latest and last work is a new and unique biographical dictionary. In nearly 4 000 biographies, he presents the entire staff of the Auschwitz concentration camp, from SS murderers to the inmates forced to aid and abet them. He also documents, wherever possible, their lives after 1945. Further, insight into individuals' characters is provided by witness statements where documents allow. For the first time, the entire personnel of a concentration camp is recorded in biography – an incalculably valuable pioneering effort, and a milestone in historical research which will remain unsurpassed for decades. "An tireless writer and historian who has never shied away from taboo themes." Committee awarding Ernst Klee the 1997 Geschwister-Scholl-Prize
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Nils Minkmar Der Zirkus – Ein Jahr im Innersten der Politik
The Circus: A Year Inside Politics
Nils Minkmar Der Zirkus – Ein Jahr im Innersten der Politik 220 pages S. Fischer Verlag, Oktober 2013
Nils Minkmar, born in Saarbrücken in 1966, holds German and French citizenship. He wrote his PhD in modern history in 1996, on conflicts of honour in early modern Colmar. He has been an editor for the talk show Willemsens Woche and a freelance journalist writing for Süddeutsche Zeitung, Geo and Merian. He was appointed an editor for Die Zeit in 1999, going from the arts to the knowledge section, where he was in charge of the media page. He has been an arts editor for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung since July 2001, and is a founding member of the German Montaigne Society.
A unique X-ray of the business of politics in Germany Politicians are celebrities. They are recognized, mobbed, given preferential treatment, and remembered long after they leave office. And yet our knowledge about the life and culture of the political elite is rife with urban legends and guesswork rather than informed by fact. Respected journalist and author Nils Minkmar follows Peer Steinbrück, a key figure in German politics, on a political campaign and is given exclusive access to important meetings and talks – and so succeeds in giving an unparalleled inside account of Germany's political system. Further, Nils Minkmar compellingly presents the dynamics of the media, the business of social networks, public opinion, and the greater historic context of a political campaign in Europe's strongest economy.
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Ulf Rauchhaupt In den Sternen Written in the Stars
Ulf Rauchhaupt In den Sternen 256 pages FTV, November 2013
Ulf von Rauchhaupt, born in 1964, studied physics and philosophy and worked at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics from 1993 to 1998. Following two years as a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, he moved on to the Deutsches Museum in Munich. He has been an editor for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung since 2001. In 2002 he was awarded the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Science Journalism and in 2006 the Journalism Award of the German mathematicians association.
A Portrait of the 88 Constellations. Humanity has always been fascinated by the countless stars illuminating the night sky. Since ancient times – possibly even earlier –, these stars have been woven into constellations for the sake of navigation. Ulf von Rauchhaupt describes them all, from Andromeda to Ursa Major, the Big Dipper. His brief, entertaining and informative portraits provide a fun introduction to the cultural and scientific histories of the constellation – an will make readers gaze in renewed wonder to the stars.
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Ortwin Renn Das Risikoparadox The Risk Paradox
Ortwin Renn Das Risikoparadox – Warum wir uns vor dem Falschen fürchten 256 pages FTV, December 2013
Dr. Ortwin Renn teaches Sociology of Technology and Environment at Stuttgart University and is director of ZIRN, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Risk and Sustainable Technology, at Stuttgart University's Centre for Culture and Technology Studies (IZKT). In addition, he chairs the Baden-Württemberg Sustainability Panel (NBBW) and heads the non-profit Dialogik Institute. He is an internationally respected risk scientist and has received numerous international awards. Among the works he has co-authored are: Leitbild Nachhaltigkeit and Risiko: Über den gesellschaftlichen Umgang mit Unsicherheit.
What the real threats are and how to face them Every day, the media offer more bad news: sky-rocketing crime rates, avian flu, electronic smog. Is our life really becoming more dangerous, uncertain, risky? Ortwin Renn, international expert on the science of risk, says: No. Average life expectancies are rising steadily, in many ways our lives are always improving. According to Renn, we are afraid of "false dangers" while closing our eyes to risks that actually are grave threats to us and our descendants. Renn shows us what these risks are, why we underestimate them, and how to face them responsibly with the goal of sustainability.
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Volker Ullrich
Adolf Hitler
Volker Ullrich Adolf Hitler Biography, 1000 pages S. Fischer Verlag, October 2013
Volker Ullrich, born 1943, studied Philosophy, Literature, and History, in which he also holds a doctorate. He writes for Zeit, is co-editor of the Zeit-Geschichte magazine, and lives in Hamburg. From 1990 to 2009 he headed the Hamburger Wochenzeitung's Political Book Review department. Ullrich has written numerous works on 19th and 20th century history, most recently Adolf Hitler: Die Jahre des Aufstiegs 1889-1989: Biographie, published by S. Fischer. For his work in publishing he has been awarded the Alfred-Kerr-Prize and an honorary doctorate from Jena's Friedrich-Schiller-University. Rights sold: France: Gallimard Netherlands: Arbeiderspers Poland: Prószynski United Kingdom: Bodley Head (World English rights)
No figure in German history has engendered more scholarship and speculation than the man who like no other has wrought terror and destruction: Adolf Hitler. But who was he really? What qualities marked his character and aided him in his rise to power? In this monumental biography, Volker Ullrich for the first time shows us the man behind the public "Führer" persona: his charming and repulsive traits, his talents and abilities, his deep-seated complexes and murderous drives. Ullrich has not only studied the vast and ever-growing amount of literature on his subject, he has also entered the archives once again and discovered hitherto unknown sources, many of them in personal bequests. Recollections of Hitler's early comrades are examined as thoroughly as accounts by contemporaries – admirers and detractors alike. On this basis, the renowned historian and publicist is able to correct clichés and add important facets to our picture of Hitler, particularly with regard to Hitler's private life, his relationships with women, and his social circle in Munich and on the Berghof. From early beginnings to the height of his power in 1939, this first volume traces the dictator's actually rather halting rise. A masterfully written biography which does not portray Hitler as a psychopath but as a master of seduction and guile – and in so doing, shows all the more clearly the horrors of which he was capable.
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Undine Zimmer
Nicht von schlechten Eltern My Welfare Family
Undine Zimmer Nicht von schlechten Eltern 256 pages S. Fischer Verlag, August 2013
Undine Zimmer, born 1979, studied Scandinavian Languages, Modern German Literature, and Publishing in her hometown of Berlin. After writing for Zeit, AVIVA-Berlin, and other publications, she now works as a free-lance journalist. Her essay "Meine Hartz-IV Familie" ["My Welfare Family"], published in Zeit, was nominated for the 2012 Henri-Nannen-Prize. She lives in Berlin and Reutlingen.
A memoir of a childhood on the fringes of society We are the sum of our experiences. For children whose parents are on welfare, however, the experiences they miss out on carry just as much weight: family vacations, field trips, music lessons, or even just the occasional ice cream cone. This was Undine Zimmer's reality. In a masterful style distinctly her own, she relates what that reality meant: her parents, considered "incompatible with current Human Resource requirements," teachers who pity her, out-of-touch case workers, fear of being humiliated and the constant feeling of exclusion. She goes beyond clichés and allows insight into a world which is often talked about, but which few actually know. A subtle and authentic report showing that equal opportunities and a society beyond class boundaries are still distant goals in Germany. "It takes courage to dream if no one gives you hope. And the fear that despite all my efforts I will fail and be forced to live my parents' life has never left me, not for one second." Undine Zimmer
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Hirschfeld / Krumeich
Deutschland im Ersten Weltkrieg
Gerhard Hirschfeld / Gerd Krumeich Deutschland im Ersten Weltkrieg 352 pages S. Fischer Verlag, Oktober 2013
Gerhard Hirschfeld (*1946) is a professor at Stuttgart University's Historical Institute. Until 2011 he served as director of the Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte in Stuttgart. Gerd Krumeich (*1945) taught Modern History at Düsseldorf's Heinrich-Heine-University. He is vice president of the International Research Centre at the Museum of the Great War in Péronne/Somme. Both are counted among the world's leading historians of the First World War. Together with Irina Renz, they are editors of the Große Enzyklopädie Erster Weltkrieg, published in 2003.
A German perspective on the First World War, filled with pictures, documents, and eyewitness accounts How did soldiers and those who stayed behind experience the realities of the First World War? What caused the war and its expansion and radicalisation? Gerhard Hirschfeld and Gerd Krumeich, both renowned historians of the World Wars, have written a unique work based on countless letters, diary entries, official documents, and eyewitness accounts. They use these to provide an authentic picture of the First World War and new insights into the political, military, social, and cultural events of the period. From the July Crisis and the great battles to defeat and revolution, from the "home front" to propaganda and war time economics, they cover all aspects of a war that affects our lives to this day – and show that much about the war's features, its repercussions, and its significance has thus far gone unsaid.
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Karl-Heinz Göttert
Abschied von Mutter Sprache
Good-Bye, Mother Tongue
Karl-Heinz Göttert Abschied von Mutter Sprache 256 pages S. Fischer Verlag, August 2013
Karl-Heinz Göttert, born 1943, studied History and German at Cologne University, where he also wrote his doctoral dissertation and taught Pre-Modern German Literature until being made Professor Emeritus of the Institute for German Language and Literature in 2009. Among the more recent of his many acclaimed publications are Deutsch: Biographie einer Sprache (2010) and Alles außer Hochdeutsch: Ein Streifzug durch unsere Dialekte (2011).
The most comprehensive account to date of the role the German language plays in today's world! What is the state of the German language? Is it increasingly dominated by English idioms? Is it losing importance as a language of world politics and science? What role does it play in Europe and European governance? How important is German to business and economics? What might meaningful language politics look like? Karl-Heinz Göttert takes a comprehensive inventory of German: Informed by history, engaging with politics, and citing facts and statistics, he answers any and all questions related to German in an increasingly globalized world – and one question in particular: Should Germans be worried?
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Klotz, Mahler, Müller, Nitsch, Pilcher
Komödie Comedy: Stations in its History from Antiquity to Today
Andreas Klotz, Andreas Mahler, Roland Müller, Wolfram Nitsch, Hanspeter Plocher Komödie – Etappen ihrer Geschichte von der Antike bis heute 656 pages S. Fischer Verlag, October 2013
Volker Klotz is Professor Emeritus of Literature at Stuttgart University. Andreas Mahler ist Professor of English Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin Roland Müller is an editor for the Stuttgarter Zeitung. Wolfram Nitsch is Professor of Romance Languages at Cologne University.
A new history of Western comedy Theatre alone has elevated the funny to the distinct poetic genre of comedy. This book presents a history of that category: from antiquity to today, from Aristophanes to Yasmina Reza. Instead of attempting a universal history, however, the authors closely examine individual works by the most influential playwrights and from representative periods: What is ridiculed? Using what means? What kinds of responses are given to the state of the world? In what context is theatre placed structurally, politically, and poetically? Engagingly and informatively, the authors manage to discuss comedy with all its many facets and simultaneously define its quintessential features.
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Martin Seel
Die Künste des Kinos
Cinema Arts
Martin Seel Die Künste des Kinos 256 pages S. Fischer Verlag, August 2013
Martin Seel, born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein in 1954, is a professor of philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. His recent publications include Sich bestimmen lassen. Studien zur theoretischen und praktischen Philosophie (2002), Paradoxien der Erfüllung. Philosophische Essays (2006) and Die Macht des Erscheinens. Texte zur Ästhetik (2007).
What film can teach us about ourselves. From its very beginnings, film has adopted many practices of architecture, music, painting, theatre, literature, and other arts – but it does not leave them unchanged. Cinema can do the things it does because it adopts and adapts what other arts can do. In his new book, Martin Seel sets out to analyse this connection. In nine concise and elegantly written chapters, he explores the aesthetic potential unique to film and uses specific examples to demonstrate the many different ways this potential can be realized. Martin Seel has developed a new perspective on film and what it does to us once we are in the cinema.
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