Roman Markus’s Thingy, or Tomorrow we turn to dust is a »pretty good summer novel full of wit, drive and frenzied action.« (Jenaer Stadtmagazin)
In her debut novel, Karoline Therese Marth tells the story of growing up and coming of age in the noughties in a way that is powerful and raw, yet at the same time gentle and right from the heart of life.
Unusual views on the 20th century in Russia – a playful and sensible novel.
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2012: »Fantastic, how the big story is reflected in the little ones« says jury member Paul Jandl.
These poems talk about time, evanescence and about sense and nonsense, in the tradition of Daniil Charms and his friends.
Ilma Rakusa embraces Berlin and devotes an empathetic and multi-layered portrait to it.
»Rakusa’s poems are characterized by an artistic balance of pathos and casualness. This is the tone of the present, this is how life sounds today.« (Franz Schuh, WDR5)
No Day Without is a lyrical chronicle of the years 2020 to 2022 – personal, intimate and at the same time Ilma Rakusa’s most political book.
Encounters with people and places, temporary breaks from the loneliness, in Zurich and Graz, on Mont Ventoux and in the Slovenian karst are the central elements in these fourteen narratives.
Autobiographical stops from an author, who found her emotional home in music and literature.
A novel about the nagging feeling to always be missing out on the present.
In his first novel, Stefan Schmitzer takes the reader to troublesome spots in our cities, our social lives: hardship, violence, lack of perspectives – the perfect conditions for a very special action movie.
»This novel is staggeringly beautiful. It keeps soliciting the reader’s empathy and shows once more the complexity, and above all fragility, of the human soul.« (Gerlinde Tamerl, Der Standard)
»With the current novel Ocean Breeze the author succeeds in a masterpiece on a narrow space.« (Sylvia Treidl, Buchkultur)
»A grand document of literary disillusion, inebriated by language.« (NZZ)
»They are formulas which, in an uncomfortable way, are made up of language itself …« (Elfriede Jelinek)
Several theatre classics, translated into »Schwabian«.
A surreal chamber play in the far north, in which a promising cultural assignment becomes a bloody nightmare for a young woman.