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Foreign Rights List Autumn 2008

… and other books by Esmahan Aykol · Paul FloraYadé Kara · Loriot · Walter Muschg · Ingrid Noll

Bernhard Schlink · Toni SepedaUrs Widmer & Tatjana Hauptmann

F. K.Waechter & Bernd Eilert and Tomi Ungerer

the debut by Benedict Wells

Diogenes

Beck’s Last Summer

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AwardsLoriot was awarded the 50th Cultural Prize ofthe City of Munich. The laudation was given byJoachim Kaiser.

Doris Dörrie’s new motion picture film ›CherryBlossoms – Hanami‹ was awarded the Bavarian FilmPrize. The leading actor Elmar Wepper received aBest Actor award. In German cinemas since 6 March2008.›Cherry Blossoms – Hanami‹ is also on the long-listfor the German Film Awards, namely in the catego-ries ›Best Picture‹, ›Best Actor‹ (Elmar Wepper),›Best Supporting Actress‹ (Hannelore Elsner, BirgitMinichmayr), ›Best Costume Design‹, ›Best Sound‹,›Best Script‹ and ›Best Direction‹. The winners willbe announced on 25 April 2008.

Tomi Ungerer was awarded the Saarland Orderof Merit on 27 February 2008 for his contributionto good German-French relations. On 26 February2008, Tomi Ungerer had already received the ZeraldaPrize for Illustrators.

For her translation of Hartmut Lange’s ›LeptisMagna‹, Monica Pesetti has received the German-Italian Translation Prize in the category ›YoungTranslators‹. The prize was for the first timeawarded in Rome on 21 February 2008.

Anthony McCarten’s novel ›Death of aSuperhero‹ has been nominated for the GermanYouth Literature Award 2008 in the segment›Books for Young People‹.

The readers of Buchmarkt have elected the Publi-shing House of the Year 2007. In the current rating,Diogenes is number 3. In the permanent list of toppublishing houses, Diogenes is number one.

TheatreLaura de Weck›Peer Pleasures‹

Euro Theater Central, BonnTheater an der Sihl, ZurichJunges Theater, GöttingenStaatsschauspiel, DresdenNational Theatre, MannheimTheatre BaselTheater am Sachsenring, Cologne

›SumSum‹Theatre ChurLandestheater, Tübingen

Doris Dörrie›Happy‹

Junges Theater Hürth, Bergheim

Friedrich Dürrenmatt›The Visit‹

National Theatre, BrünnLandesbühne Niedersachsen Nord,WilhelmshavenTheatre OberhausenVolkstheater, ViennaJózsef Attila Theatre, BudapestHabimah Theatre, Tel Aviv

Ivana Jeissing Loriot ChristianSchünemann

Reinhart Lempp

AnniversariesIvana Jeissing50th birthday on 6 October 2008

Reinhart Lempp85th birthday on 21 October 2008

Loriot85th birthday on 12 November 2008

Christian Schünemann40th birthday on 29 November 2008

ExhibitionsPaul Flora. Poets in the Soup. Centre Dürren-matt, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 18.5.–31.8.2008.www.cdn.ch.Also exhibition in the Thomas Flora Gallery,Innsbruck, 24.6.–6.9.2008.

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Bernhard Schlink. A film adap-tation of the story ›The Other Man‹,from the volume ›Flights of Love‹will be made with Oxford, Milan andLake Como as settings. Starring LauraLinney, Liam Neeson and AntonioBanderas. Director: Richard Eyre.Screenplay: Charles Wood, RichardEyre. Producer: Rainmark Films/Gotham Films. Theatrical release(UK): end of 2008.

Stephen Daldry will make a filmadaptation in Berlin and Görlitz ofthe novel ›The Reader‹. Starring KateWinslet, Ralph Fiennes as well asDavid Kross, Bruno Ganz, KarolineHerfurth, Volker Bruch, HannahHerzsprung. Screenplay: David Hare.Production: Mirage Enterprises/Studio Babelsberg. Distribution:Senator Film. Planned start inGermany: spring 2009.

CinemaMartin Suter. Filming of ›LilaLila‹ will continue until July 2008.With Daniel Brühl, Hannah Herz-sprung and Henry Hübchen. Direc-tor: Alain Gsponer. Screenplay:Alex Buresch. Producer: Falcom MediaGroup/Film I. Planned theatricalrelease: spring/summer 2009.

Anthony McCarten. A filmversion of ›Endurance‹, the fourthnovel by the New Zealand author(Diogenes publication in the pipeline)was made by the writer himself star-ring Melanie Lynskey and Craig Hall.The film title is ›Show of Hands‹.Planned theatrical release: 2009.

Donna Leon. In the two newCommissario Brunetti film adapta-tions ›Wilful Behaviour‹ and ›Bloodfrom a Stone‹, Uwe Kockischinvestigates again. Also starring

›The Conformist‹Divadlo Na Zábradlí Theatre,PragueStaatstheater Kosice, Bratislava

›Hercules and the AugeanStables‹

Theatre, Buenos AiresThe Khan Theatre, JerusalemDivadlo Na Vihoradech Theatre,Prague

›Play Strindberg‹Companhia de Teatro de Sintra,LisbonUngelt Theatre, PragueNeomluvene Divadlo Theatre,PragueProa Produções Artisticas,São Paulo

›Romulus the Great‹Vychodocestke Divadlo Theatre,Pardubice

Ingrid Noll›Ladylike‹

Westfälisches Landestheater,Castrop-Rauxel

Karl Fischer, Annett Renneberg,Michael Degen and Julia Jäger.Actors appearing in individual epi-sodes include: Bettina Zimmermann,Axel Milberg, Mina Tander, HelmutZierl and Hannah Herzsprung.Director: Sigi Rothemund. Producer:teamWorx Television and Film GmbHcommissioned by ARD Degeto forDas Erste. This means that screenadaptations have been made of 14cases by Donna Leon. Planned broad-cast: November 2008 on Das Erste.

Martina Borger & MariaElisabeth Straub. In Hamburg,director Kai Wessel (›The Flight‹)adapted ›In the Ring‹. Screenplay:Martina Borger. Starring RobertAtzorn, Axel Milberg, JudithRosmair and others. A Typhoonproduction. Planned theatrical release:autumn 2008 on ZDF.

S¥awomir Mro‡ek›Out at Sea‹

GNM Szinitanoda Theatre,BudapestFaro Teatro, MadridNationaltheater, Szeged

›The Fox as a Philosopher‹National Theatre, Constanta City

›Emigrants‹Kenter Theatre, Istanbul

›Karol‹GNM Szinitanoda Theatre, Budapest

›Tango‹Gardonyi Géza Theatre, EgerBez Zábradlí Theatre, PragueAcademic Regional Dramatic TarasShevchenko Theatre, Ternopil

›Serenade‹National Theatre, Constanta City

›The Contract‹Theatergesellschaft Haupt, PragueJazekszin Theatre, Budapest

›Vazlav‹Terszinhaz Theatre, Prague

Martin Suter›Business Class‹

Casino Theatre, Winterthur›Above Things‹

Theater Rampe, Stuttgart

F. K.Waechter›The Devil with the Three GoldenHairs‹

Schauspielhaus, Nuremberg›Prince Hamlet‹

Theater Pfütze, NurembergTheater Waidspeicher, Erfurt

›The Match‹Theater der Jungen Welt, Leipzig


Benedict Wells was born in Munich in 1984 and ini-tially grew up in Switzerland. At the age of six beganhis journey through three Bavarian boarding schools.Following his graduation from high school in 2003,he moved to Berlin where he decided not to go touniversity. Instead, he devoted himself to his firstnovel. He made a living doing odd jobs, most recentlyworking for the editorial board of a talk show.

A novel about music, love and life – odd, witty, wise and touching.The debut of a 23-year-old author – a real discovery!

• A lovesick teacher,

• an eccentric German-African man and

• a musical child prodigy from Lithuania

together on the trip of their lifetime, from Munich through Eastern Europe to Istanbul,all under the protection of an aging rock star and his immortal songs.

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»But I was so much older then,I’m younger than that now.«

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Seventeen-year-old Rauli from Lithuania isan outsider in his class until his music teacherRobert Beck discovers that the boy is fantasti-cally talented: his voice and E-guitar playing aredivine. Beck, himself a failed musician, wantsto help the boy get on the fast lane to success.But it is not all pure altruism: as the man whodiscovered Rauli and as his manager, the thirty-seven-year-old Beck may yet find his way backinto the world of glamour. But as is the casewith Beck himself, Rauli too has his secrets.Other protagonists: young waitress Lara whois also in the process of conquering the worldand who tries hard not to fall in love with Beck.A Lithuanian family with a mysterious past.Anna Lind, the incarnate erotic dream of everyteacher and student. Colossal German-AfricanCharlie, Beck’s only friend who is a philoso-pher at heart and has just failed in his attemptto become a bouncer. And an ageing rock staras a guardian angel.All the figures are on a long road to discoverthemselves and they will arrive – though notnecessarily where one would expect.

Beck’s Last Summer is an artist’s novel, a roadmovie and an Odyssey through the onslaughtsof genius and mediocrity.

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»A novel about a vibrant multi-cultural city.«Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Praise for Yadé Kara’s first novel Selam Berlin:

»We have been waiting for the great ›fall-of-the-wall novel‹ for a long time,and finally a young Turkish woman has written it. A wonderful novel.«

Hamburger Abendblatt

»A felicitous portrait after the fall of the wall and a tragicomic novelabout love, identity, adolescence and home. A distressing debut.«

News, Vienna

»The novel describes a wide range of different ways of comingto terms with life in transit, but it is not restricted solely to human beings:

for it is also the portrait of a city undergoing major changes.«Die Welt, Berlin

Selam Berlin has been published by:E/O (Italy)

Inkilap (Turkey)

sold to:Vetrne mlyny (Czech Republic)

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Yadé KaraCafe Cyprus

Novel384 pages

September 2008



Yadé Kara was born in Cayirli in Turkey in 1965 andstudied English and German. She has worked as anactress, teacher, manager and journalist in Berlin,London, Istanbul and Hong Kong. She is currentlyliving in Berlin.Ph

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In the new novel Cafe Cyprus the protagonistHasan tops what has already been attested tohim by critics: »Dynamic, freaky, colourful!«(Brigitte, Hamburg)

In Selam Berlin, Hasan Kazan witnessed the fallof the wall. In Cafe Cyprus he tries to gain afoothold in London and is fascinated by themixture of different nationalities characterisingthe city.Khan and Betty, Kazim and Sukjeet, Ali andAyse are the friends with whom Hasan – apresent-day nomad – socialises in the Londonof the early nineties. In Green Lanes, NorthLondon, he works in ›Ali’s Supermarket‹. In›Cafe Cyprus‹, he waits on old Cypriots whostill engage in embittered discussions on the so-lution of the Cyprus conflict. He also sells Ke-babs with Kazim and clothes with Khan andBetty at Portobello Market, falls in love withHannah, takes his mom, on a visit from Istan-bul, and cousin Leyla to the city’s tourist high-lights, philosophises about Englishness, andcompares his experiences with Berlin and Istan-bul, the cities in which he grew up. No doubt –everything is one notch hotter and tougher inLondon.

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Bernhard Schlink’s books have been published in 43 languages.

Bernhard SchlinkThe Reader

Novel208 pages

first published in 1995


For the release of the film The Reader in 2009Diogenes is going to publish a special edition

of Schlink’s novel.

Director: Stephen DaldryScreenplay: David Hare

Cast: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes,David Kross, Bruno Ganz, Karoline Herfurth,

Volker Bruch, Hannah Herzsprung,Alexandra Maria Lara

Producers: Anthony Minghella,Sydney Pollack, Scott Rudin

Production: Mirage Enterprises/StudioBabelsberg

»Moving, suggestive and ultimatelyhopeful. The Reader leaps national boundaries

and speaks straight to the heart.«The New York Times Book Review

»A literary event.«Der Spiegel, Hamburg

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Stories320 pages

first published in 2000


Bernhard Schlink was born in 1944 in Bielefeld,Germany. A lawyer, Schlink resides in Berlin andNew York. He published his first crime novel, Self’sPunishment, with co-author Walter Popp. Followingthe publication of his prize-winning crime novelsThe Gordian Knot and Self’s Deception, Schlinkdeparted from the crime genre. His novel The Reader,published in 1995, has received both national and in-ternational prizes, and his collection of short stories,Flights of Love, published in 2000, established hisworld renown as a novelist. In 2007, Diogenes pub-lished his collection of essays Guilt of the Past.

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The story of a man whoonly fully grasps who his wife was –

and who he himself is –after her death.

Director: Richard EyreScreenplay: Charles Wood, Richard Eyre

Cast: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney,Antonio Banderas and Romola Garai

Producer: Richard Eyre, Frank Doelger,Tracey Scoffield, Mary Beth O’Connor,

David Richenthal, Michael DreyerProduction: Rainmark Films, Gotham Films

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Publication on the occasion of its screen adaptation:short story The Other Man by Bernhard Schlink,from the collection Flights of Love, in paperback.

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»Ingrid Noll is often referred to as Germany’s›Queen of Crime‹, and she fully deserves this title.«

The Sunday Times, London

Ingrid Noll’s books have been translated into 28 languages.

Hell Hath No FuryNovel, 1991

The PharmacistNovel, 1994

Head CountNovel, 1993

Red RoseNovel, 1998

Cold is the Breezeof the EveningNovel, 1996

RabenbrüderNovel, 2003

Blissfully WidowedNovel, 2001

LadylikeNovel, 2006

False TonguesStories, 2004

»Ingrid Noll writes books based in a deceptive no-man’s-landbetween the crime thriller and the family drama,between women’s literature and cosy horror.«

Der Spiegel, Hamburg

»The perfect mix of the middle-class dream and utter gloom.«Die Presse, Vienna

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Ingrid NollCuckoo’s Child

Novel352 pagesJuly 2008



Ingrid Noll was born 1935 in Shanghai, studiedGerman philology and art history in Bonn. She isthe mother of three adult children. After her childrenleft home, she began to write crime stories, which allbecame instant bestsellers. Head Count received the›Glauser Prize‹ and is just one of her novels whichhave been successfully adapted for the screen.

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Mama’s baby – papa’s maybe? Cuckoo’s Childis a story about three paternity tests, a preg-nancy test, a baby in a laundry basket, a fewdead persons and unconventional family blissin a nest which, though entirely unfamiliar, isnonetheless rather cosy.

A little house with a garden, a happy marriageand above all two children, those were my goalsin life, Anja, a teacher in her late thirties thinksto herself. Far from having reached her goals,she is stuck in a ›rat hole‹ as she calls the lodginginto which she fled following her divorce.When her colleague Birgit becomes pregnant,Anja can’t help suspecting the child was con-ceived by her own ex-husband. She persuadesBirgit’s husband secretly to undergo a paternitytest. The side effects are potentially dangerous…With an equal portion of humour and insightinto the slings and arrows of nest-building,Cuckoo’s Child depicts family constellationswhich are anything but boring and common.In the process she shows that the road to happi-ness is not always straight and smooth.

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Esmahan Aykol’s novels have been published in 6 languages.

Make way for the marvellous bookshop owner Kati Hirschel.

»A racy and witty novel that affords a brazeninsight into both Germans and Turks.«


»The first novel about the Istanbul ›scene‹to be translated into German. A declaration

of love to the metropolis of Istanbul.«Die literarische Welt, Berlin

»Let’s hope that Kati Hirschel will solvemany more cases after this successful debut

set in the buzzing city of Istanbul.«Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

»A wonderful novel about Istanbul!The Turkish lifestyle, the prejudices

of a man’s world, politics, corruption –Esmahan Aykol writes about it all

with ease and humour.«Petros Markaris

»Kati Hirschel – a name to remember!«Virgül, Istanbul

»From the first to the last pagea sheer joy for Istanbul lovers.«

Woman, Hamburg

»Kati Hirschel is back, ready to chatter,with priceless disrespect, about

the differences between Germans and Turks.Esmahan Aykol is a warm-hearted and

most of all well-informed writer:apart from the amusing protagonist-narrator

Kati, the metropolis of Istanbul takescentre stage. With great pleasure, one reads

the author’s affectionate yet ironicdeclaration of love to the city.«


»The many little stories about everyday lifein the narrow lanes of Istanbul make

this novel a particular pleasure to read.«Sonntag Aktuell, Stuttgart

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Esmahan AykolDivorce in Turkish

A Case for Kati HirschelNovel

336 pagesSeptember 2008

World rights are handled by Diogenes(except Turkish language).


Esmahan Aykol was born in Edirne, Turkey, 1970,now living in Berlin and Istanbul. While studyingtowards a degree in law, she worked as a journalistfor several Turkish newspapers and radio stations.Later she and a friend opened a bar, which went bustin no time. Her friend then opened a bookshop andEsmahan Aykol wrote a novel which became a best-seller not only in that bookshop, but throughoutTurkey: Hotel Bosporus.

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Kati Hirschel interferes for the third time.What she interferes with is, of course, none ofher business whatsoever.

Kebab is no longer hip, as Kati has discoveredthe advantages of a healthy diet. She hopesthat this will help her avoid botox injectionsand other artificial beautification procedures.She has recently taken to having lunch, togetherwith her fellow employee and friend Fofo, ina small eatery near her bookstore specialising incrime fiction. Every day, a beautiful woman sitsalone in front of her salad, diagonally oppositeher. When the news is all over the press thatthe daughter-in-law of an industrialist, CemAnkarahgil, has died, Kati immediately recog-nises the stranger from the restaurant in thephoto. This arouses her curiosity. Although thepolice believe it was an accident, Kati suspectssomething more sinister has happened.

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The Calli, Campi and Caffès which Brunetti frequentsall combined into city tours:

thirteen walks developed and tried by Toni Sepedathrough the Serenissima reveal the world of the Commissario.

And he knows Venice like no other: rich and poor,the present and the past, during daytime and at night.

This travel guide is provided with:• 13 city map excerpts• a map of the lagoon

»Donna Leon has a wonderful feel for the hidden evilsthat lie below the façade of the magical city.«

The Times, London

»What makes the Brunetti novels so special is their strong reference to the real worldwhich tempts tourists into looking for the Commissario at the scenes of his work.This means that Brunetti has a rival for the reader’s affection, a rival who is treated

with as much tenderness and love as the principal figure himself: the city of Venice.«Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

»The Brunetti novels abound in careful descriptions and discreterecommendations the quality and credibility of which cannot be surpassed

by any city, restaurant or shopping guide.Donna Leon leaves nothing to chance when it comes to choosing the restaurants

and bars frequented by Brunetti – and his adversaries.«Brigitte Woman, Hamburg

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Toni SepedaBrunetti’s Venice

Preface by Donna LeonWith 13 city map excerptsand a map of the lagoon

320 pagesNovember 2008


Toni Sepeda, born in 1942, has been teaching literatureand art history at the University of Maryland for morethan fifteen years, the same institution where DonnaLeon used to work. She has also given guided tours forboth individuals and groups through the Commissa-rio’s home city. They are the only tours authorisedby Donna Leon. She has co-authored an Americanguide to Venice. Her latest university lecture series isdedicated to Brunetti’s Venice.

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What happened, where and why? Toni Sepedaon the trail of Commissario Brunetti. A literarytravel guide. Even for armchair travellers.With a preface by Donna Leon.

Why does Commissario Brunetti in Friendsin High Places take a seat in the Torino and not,as is his habit, in the Rosa Salva?Author Toni Sepeda has meticulously retracedBrunetti’s paths through the alleys of Veniceand through the novels and carefully collatedeverything that is set in the vicinity of theQuestura, in San Polo or near the OspedaleCivile etc. Her tried and tested tours – inter-spersed with Donna Leon quotes – offer some-thing like Ariadne’s thread through the tangleof alleys. Brunetti’s Venice allows the reader,either at home or on site, casually to followBrunetti on his strolls through the City ofWater … Roaming about while letting yourthoughts wander, just as Brunetti does: this iswhat the book invites the reader to do.

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»We step into the world of Arabian Nights asif it was the seductive twilight of a covered bazaar.

We are lured from one tale to the next…«Iring Fetscher

»The tales of Arabian Nights are the Orient’s most beautiful gift to the world.«ZEIT-Bibliothek der 100 Bücher

Urs Widmer was born inBasel in 1938. He studiedGerman, Romancelanguages and history inBasel, Montpellier andParis. In 1966 he completedhis doctoral thesis onGerman postwar prose,and then worked as aneditor for Walter Publish-ing House in Olten, Switzerland, and for SuhrkampPublishing House in Frankfurt. In Frankfurt he stayed for17 years, though with Suhrkamp only until 1968. Togetherwith other editors he founded the ›Verlag der Autoren‹.Urs Widmer now lives and works as a writer in Zurich.

Tatjana Hauptmann wasborn in Wiesbaden in 1950.After attending the Werk-kunstschule in Offenbach,she worked as an appren-tice graphic artist at theWerkkunstschule in Wies-baden for three years, andshe was subsequently oc-cupied drawing ›Mainzel-

männchen‹ for ZDF television. In 1977, armed with a hugefolder of her work, she visited the Diogenes stand at theFrankfurt Book Fair. The folder included A Day in the Lifeof Petronella Pig, which was subsequently her first bookpublished by Diogenes. Ph

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Urs Widmer / Tatjana HauptmannThe Most Beautiful Tales From Arabian Nights

For all those who have always shied away fromthe sheer length of the original Urs Widmerhas carefully abridged the wonderful tales fromArabian Nights while preserving their orientalflavour. Highly vivid and amusing, he recountsthe six most famous tales of the immortalSheherazade: The Fisherman and the Jinni,Alibaba and the Forty Thieves, Aladdin andthe Magic Lamp, The Magic Horse, TheAdventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, and Sinbadthe Sailor.To ensure that the great collection of fairytalesbecomes »a source of infinite pleasures and therichest picture book in the world« (HermannHesse), Tatjana Hauptmann has collaboratedon the work, the artist to illustrate Orientallavishness and subtlety.

»Tatjana Hauptmann has retained a dreamyplayfulness and a sense of vital naivety.

Both qualities are reflected in her drawingsand account for her success with children

as well as young-at-heart adults.Stern, Hamburg

About Urs Widmer’s adaptation ofShakespeare’s King Plays:

»An excellent read. With their breath-takingpace, Widmer’s prose versions of Shakespeare’s

plays are true masterworks.«Basler Zeitung

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Friedrich Karl Waechterwas born in Danzig (nowPoland) in 1937. From1962, he has lived in Frank-furt am Main, working firstas a graphic artist and lateras a freelancer for variousnewspapers and magazines,including a number ofsatirical publications. In1966 he published his first volume of drawings and cartoons.His famous Anti-Struwwelpeter appeared in 1970.F.K. Waechter died in 2005 in Frankfurt am Main.

Bernd Eilert was bornin Oldenburg in 1949.He studied drama at theUniversity of Marburg.Eilert has authored textsand plays for radio, televi-sion and the satirical jour-nal Pardon. He was one ofthe co-founders of Titanicin 1979. In the 1980s he

co-authored, with Robert Gernhardt and Peter Knorr, textsand scripts for comedian Otto Waalkes, apart from a detec-tive novel and a volume of short stories. Bernd Eilert livesin Frankfurt.

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The Red Wolf has been awarded the›German Youth Literatur Prize‹ in 1999.

It has been published in 7 languages.

F. K. Waechter40 pages

first published in 1973re-editioned in 2006

We Can Do So Many Things Together has been awardedthe ›German Youth Literatur Prize‹ in 1975.

It has been sold to:L’Ecole des Loisirs (France)Lemniscaat (Netherlands)

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F. K. Waechter / Bernd EilertThe Crown Snatchers

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Easy to become king, being one the hardestthing. After numerous adventures and practicaltests, this is the insight gained by the childrenRobert, Moritz and Johanna, king Schwarte thepig, Charlie ›Tasso‹ Trunk the mouse and CarloSpannnagel the donkey, Miss Bellmouse the catand Dr Johannes Loy the owl. F. K.Waechterand Bernd Eilert lure the reader into a cheer-fully upside-down yet fundamentally goodworld.This rollicking book for children, parents andother demanding readers which was first pub-lished in 1972 crowns it all: apart from readingit, one can join in the fun with folding, guessing,rhyming, puzzling, painting, singing, and evenmaltreating it with a pair of scissors.

»I later bought a few of Waechter’s children’sbooks and posters for my little brother:The Crown Snatchers, which he wrote

together with Bernd Eilert, for example.With their masterful hatching, the drawings

came across as somewhat conventional at first,but they were completely new and fresh

in their mischievous and anti-authoritarianattitude, their celebration of nonsense and

in that they animated children to participatein the creation of the book, i.e. to drawinto the book, cut things out of it and

to invent their own stories.«Axel Scheffler

This book is a real surprise bag, brimful with jokesand wonder, full of tricks and fantastic deeds.

DieKronenklauer

von F.K.Waechterund Bernd Eilert

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Tomi UngererThe Sorcerer’s Apprentice

48 pagesfirst published in 1974

re-editioned in October 2008


The Sorcerer’s Apprenticehas been published in 9 languages.

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»One day, the wizard said to Humboldt, thesorcerer’s apprentice: ›Sorcerers and magi-cians from all over the world are invited to acongregation. I must meet them. Guard mycastle and assiduously discharge your duties.While I am gone, I expect you to wipe theglasses until they are crystal-clear, polish thebrass mortar, and there must not be even ahint of a stain anywhere on the floor by thetime I get back. And before I forget: the watertrough must always be full precisely to thebrim. I hope you don’t even think of restinguntil you have done all your work!‹The sorcerer then put on his cloak, mumbleda few incantations and – whiz! – disappearedin a cloud of pale blue powder which immedi-ately settled on all the furniture and floors.›As if I wasn’t busy enough as it is‹, Hum-boldt murmured to himself. ›He keepsdumping more and more work on me andreserves all the pleasure for himself. That’sunfair. While he, the master, rattles off a fewmagic words, I have to slave away like aservant. He has the power and the fun…‹«

Der Zauberlehrlingvon Barbara Hazen und Tomi Ungerer

Diogenes

After the famous poem byJohann Wolfgang Goethe

about a sorcerer’s apprentice whoconjures up ghosts he subsequently

cannot get rid of anymore.

Tomi Ungerer’s books have been published in 36 languages.


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Tomi UngererUseless Thoughts

128 pagesN0vember 2008


Tomi Ungerer was born in 1931 and comes from aStrasbourg watch maker family. He messed up hisUniversity Entrance examination, tramping throughEurope instead and publishing his first drawings inSimplizissimus literary magazine. In the mid 1950s hemoved to New York, where he achieved increasingsuccess as a painter, illustrator, children’s book authorand graphic artist. After spending a number of yearson a farm in Nova Scotia, Canada, he now lives withhis family in the southwest of Ireland and in Stras-bourg. Tomi Ungerer has been awarded the ›HansChristian Andersen Award for Illustration‹ in 1998.In October 2000, the Council of Europe appointedhim ›Ambassador for Childhood and Education inEurope‹. The Tomi Ungerer Museum opened its doorsin Strasbourg in November 2007.

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»One should always have a notebook handy,both at home and when out and about«,Tomi Ungerer says. Having followed his ownadvice for over thirty years he has, in passing,filled stacks of diaries and notebooks.»Ideas race through my head. I am like acomputer; it is as if someone pressed a button.That even applies to languages: French, Ger-man, English – I switch from one to the other,sometimes I use all three of them in onesentence«, Tomi Ungerer explains.Apart from ideas, sketches and drawings, TomiUngerer’s notebooks reveal his predilectionfor aphorisms, puns, and little stories. Fromthis reservoir, a book has been compiled forthe first time. It shows an unfamiliar part ofTomi Ungerer, although perhaps it is not thatunusual for him after all: »I am a note-taker.I draw what I write down, and I write downwhat I draw in order to express my thoughtsclearly and succinctly«, Tomi Ungerer says.

Tomi UngererNutzlose

Gedanken

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A Tragic Literary History

Rave reviews following the reissue of Walter Muschg’s A Tragic Literary History:

»One of the most essential books ever written.«Die Welt, Berlin

»Walter Muschg’s book is uncanny and fully deserves to be reprinted.A fascinating text on account of the big questions it raises, it enthrals the reader with

the sheer vigour and decisiveness with which it answers these questions.«Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

»With his Tragic History of Literature Walter Muschg belongs to the authors of classic workswho, in Lessing’s words would have deserved ›to be less elevated and read more‹!

Only two pages long, the afterword by Urs Widmer is a stylistic masterpiece which, basedon critical analysis, pays beautiful, subtle and befitting tribute to the author. It is recommended to all

readers as their next book, irrespective of whether they already know it or pick it up for the first time.«Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich

»Walter Muschg’s writing is overbearing in its toneand sharp in its judgements but also seductively brilliant.«

Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Walter MuschgTragische

LiteraturgeschichteDiogenes

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Aletheia (Poland)Fondo de Cultura Economica (Mexico)

A Tragic Literary History748 pages

first published in 1948re-editioned in 2006


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Walter MuschgSelected Essays

Walter Muschg was born in 1898 in Zurich. He wasprofessor for German literary history in Basel. Hisstudents, among them Max Frisch and Urs Widmer,revered him as an exceptional teacher. Walter Muschgdied in Basel in 1965.Ph

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An expert in the study of German languageand literature, Walter Muschg was originallytrained as a psychoanalyst, and it was from thisperspective that he gained profound and sur-prisingly modern insights into the subconsciousand mythical nature of literary texts. Theseinsights gave rise to original, often provocativebut invariably convincing, literary interpreta-tions. His collection of essays The Destructionof German Literature caused a sensation in1956, as Muschg was the first critic to draw at-tention to the ›burnt-out poets‹ of expression-ism after 1945.Compiled from this as well as other works byMuschg, the volume contains the critic’s mostimportant essays on ›his‹ authors Brecht,Döblin, Goethe, Hebel, Kafka, Barlach, Keller,Stifter as well as many others.

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Selected Essayson Barlach, Brecht, Döblin,

Dürrenmatt, Freud, Gotthelf,Kafka and others

352 pagesDecember 2008


Walter MuschgAusgewählte

Essaysüber Barlach, Brecht, Döblin,

Dürrenmatt, Freud,Gotthelf, Kafka

u.a.

Diogenes


Paul FloraFauna, Fables and Figures

62 new drawings80 pages

December 2008


Paul Flora was born in Glurns in Austria in 1922.He started working for the Münchener Neue Zeitungin 1949, and in 1957 he became the political caricaturistof the Hamburg newspaper Die Zeit. He drew over3500 political caricatures in fourteen years, as well asdoing innumerable ›free‹ drawings which have beenshown in collections all over the world. He lives inInnsbruck.

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LoriotChristmas with Loriot



Loriot alias Vicco von Bülow was born in Branden-burg in 1923, grew up in Berlin, is a member of theAkademie der Schönen Künste and lives at the Starn-bergersee, in Bavaria.Loriot was one of the first Diogenes authors: hishumorous writings in Stern and Quick fired theenthusiasm of publisher Daniel Keel – his booksbecame Diogenes’ first best-sellers.

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At long last it is possible to celebrate Christmaswith Loriot: with presents which are sure toplease (for example the game: ›Let’s build ourown nuclear power plant‹), with classic recipessuch as ›Dachshund in a nightgown‹ and ›Papamade of marzipan‹, with Loriot’s legendaryadvent poem and grandpa Hoppenstedt’s time-less verdict: »There used to be more tinsel!«and, last but not least, a number of edifyingNew Year’s resolutions.

A book for all those who can hardly wait forthe next Christmas season, but also for thosewho can hardly wait until the whole festive fussis finally over.

Weihnachtenmit

LoriotDiogenes


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»Those who think humour is about laughing at the expenseof others do not understand its nature. To be funny, one must first

and foremost expose oneself to ridicule.«Loriot

LoriotCollected Prose

752 pages2006


LoriotCollected Picture Stories



LoriotGesammelte

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LoriotGesammelte

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Loriot›Collected Prose‹ and

›Collected Picture Stories‹



»If there was no Vicco von Bülow, i.e. Loriot –›Oh… yes‹ – he would have to be invented.

You all know him from films, radio andtelevision: ›fa-bu-lous‹. The fact that he has been

refusing to appear in the circus ringin his own very personal way and live

in one way or another, well, who can hold itagainst him? If Diogenes now releases

Loriot’s Collected Prose, 750 pages thick,on a market already overflowing with books,

then you must buy it and moreimportantly read it! ›Ter-ri-fic‹!«

Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Schwerin

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Martin SuterThe Last Weynfeldtsold to:Christian Bourgois (France)Sellerio (Italy)Random House Kodansha (Japan)

Recently published /Recently soldAnthony McCartenThe English Harempublished by:Cicero (Denmark)

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Recently published /Recently sold

Tomi UngererThe Three Robbers

published by:L’Ecole des Loisirs (France)Lemniscaat (Netherlands)Kalandraka (Spain)Kalandraka Portugal (Portugal)Agra (Greece)Santillana (Mexico)Global (Brasil)Juvenile & Children’s Publ. (China)Zeltner (Israel)Kaisei-Sha (Japan)Si-Gong-Sa (Korea)Hsinex (Taiwan)

Amanda TaylorNobody Knowssold to:QuidNovi (Portugal)

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