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After more than 26 years Marlis Gaemperli is retiring today. We thank her for her superb services and her laughter. We wish her all the best for the future.
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Imagine Charles Darwin and Karl Marx had met. Ilona Jerger’s novel «And Marx Stood Still in Darwin’s Garden» is a German bestseller. Its publisher Ullstein Verlag had two two-dimensional visitors at their stand at the Frankfurter Buchmesse. Translation rights: Ullstein Verlag All other: Mohrbooks
On 27 September 1970 Erich Maria Remarque died in Locarno, Switzerland. For millions of readers around the world, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (German original: Im Westen nichts Neues) is the quintessential antiwar novel. In addressing the horrors of war it has not lost any of its power since when it was first published in 1928. Remarque published fifteen novels. Many of them … Continued
UNORTHODOX by Deborah Feldman Agency: Simon & Schuster, New York German rights c/o Mohrbooks: Secession Verlag After having spent considerable time on the hardcover list, this memoir is back on the list with BTB’s German paperback reprint.
THE SOUL OF AN OCTOPUS by Sy Montgomery (Agency: Simon & Schuster/Gallery Books) German rights: c/o Mohrbooks sold to Mare Verlag Spiegel Bestseller #12 (Hardcover Non-Fiction)
We are excited that Hanser Verlag just published historian Philipp Blom’s new book The World Unhinged. He explains how climate change, industrial processes and migration correlated in the rise of the modern world during the Little Ice Age when Londoners walked across the Thames in winter to see a Shakespeare play. A thing of the past? The German edition entered Amazon’s bestseller list at number 75 (all … Continued
Nominated for 6 Academy Awards, LION is being released in German theatres. It is based on Saroo Brierley’s memoir A LONG WAY HOME. The German translation is available from Ullstein Verlag to whom we sold the rights on behalf of Penguin Australia.