Remembering May 8th 1945
News05.05.2025
8 May 2025 marks 80 years since the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allies. The day is known as VE Day in some countries; in Germany, it is known as Liberation Day (Tag der Befreiung). To commemorate the same occasion 10 years ago, in 2015, we posted a selection of titles published by Suhrkamp over the previous 70 years that dealt – directly or indirectly – with the horrors of Nazi rule, the Holocaust, and the Second World War.
This year, we have picked out 10 titles published in the interceding years to once again draw attention to this important anniversary.
This year, we have picked out 10 titles published in the interceding years to once again draw attention to this important anniversary.
Year of Publication: 2025
Felix BohrYear of Publication: 2025
Before the Downfall
Hitler’s Years in the »Wolf’s Lair«
Not far from the East Prussian town of Rastenburg – Kętrzyn in today’s Poland – one of the central locations of the Second World War was hidden deep among the forest: the »Wolf’s Lair«. After...
Rights sold to:
English world rights (Polity), Italy (Mondadori), Netherlands (Arbeiderspers), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Poland (Otwarte), Hungary (Scolar)
Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (Hierax Medien)
Year of Publication: 2024
Nora BossongYear of Publication: 2024
Reichskanzlerplatz
Novel
In her new novel, Nora Bossong paints a double portrait of the woman who became Magda Goebbels, the »first lady« of Nazi Germany, and the young gay man who, for a brief moment, was her lover. Two...
Rights sold to:
France (Les Escales), Czech Republic (Argo), Hungary (Open Books), Azerbaijan (Alatoran)
Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (DAV), German radio reading (HR/NDR), German Book Club (Büchergilde Gutenberg)
Film rights optioned
Year of Publication: 2023
Durs GrünbeinYear of Publication: 2023
The Comet
A Report
»Now they were all mere playthings in the grasping arms of a state order such as had never existed before. An order that could only be destroyed from the outside by lightning and...
Rights sold to:
English world rights (Seagull), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People's Publishing House), Italy (Einaudi), Sweden (Ersatz)
Year of Publication: 2022
Rainer HerrnYear of Publication: 2022
For Love and for Sorrow
Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science 1919–1933
When Magnus Hirschfeld established his institute in Tiergarten, Berlin, in 1919, the future seemed to belong to the young discipline of sexology. Patients and visitors from all over the world were...
Rights sold to:
France (MSH)
Year of Publication: 2021
Svenja LeiberYear of Publication: 2021
Kazimira
Novel
A remote place by the Baltic Sea at the end of the 19th century. Kazimira brings her husband Antas washed-up amber from the beach beyond the dune. No one carves it as well as the simple turner....
Rights sold to:
English world rights (Seagull), France (Belfond), Lithuania (Alma Littera)
Year of Publication: 2020
Stefan ZweigYear of Publication: 2020
Letters on Judaism
Stefan Zweig, one of the most successful German-language authors, came from a wealthy Jewish family in which, however, Jewish tradition played only a very small role. His correspondence from 1900...
Rights sold to:
France (Les Éditions du Portrait), Italy (Giuntina), Israel (Carmel)
Year of Publication: 2019
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 2019
Aspects of Contemporary Right-Wing Radicalism
A Lecture
On 6 April 1967 Theodor W. Adorno gave a lecture at the University of Vienna as a guest of the Socialist Students of Austria, a lecture which, from today’s point of view, is not only of historical...
Rights sold to:
English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Taurus/PRH), Catalan rights (Afers), Brazilian Portuguese rights (UNESP), Portuguese rights (Edições 70), France (Flammarion), Italy (Marsilio), Netherlands (Octavo), Denmark (Klim), Sweden (Nirstedt), Norway (Cappelen Damm Akademisk), Finland (Vastapaino), Korea (Moonji), Japan (Horinouchi Shuppan), Poland (Znak), Czech Republic (Pulchra), Slovakia (HADART), Romania (Curtea Veche), Croatia (TIM press), Serbia (Karpos), Slovenia (Založba Sophia), Turkey (Metis), Greece (Nissos), North Macedonia (Artkonekt), Israel (Hakkibutz Hameuchad – Sifriyat Poalim)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Book Club (Büchergilde Gutenberg), German Audiobook (CC Live)
Year of Publication: 2018
Maria StepanovaYear of Publication: 2018
In Memory of Memory
Montpellier, 1908: the photograph of a young woman by an easel or »Grandma on the barricades«, as the family calls it. Pre-Revolution portraits, postcards from Venice, Montpellier, or...
Rights sold to:
USA (New Directions), Canada (Book*hug Press), UK & Commonwealth (Fitzcarraldo Editions), Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Chinese simplex rights (China CITIC Press), Brazilian Portuguese rights (WMF Martins Fontes), Portuguese rights (Relógio D'Água), France (Stock, Paperback Sublicense: Le Livre de Poche), Italy (Bompiani), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Denmark (Palomar), Sweden (Nirstedt/litteratur), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Finland (Siltala), Korea (Bokbok Seoga), Japan (Hakusuisha), Poland (Prószyński), Czech Republic (Akropolis), Hungary (Park), Bulgaria (Janet45), Romania (Humanitas), Lithuania (Alma Littera), Croatia (Fraktura), Serbia (Booka), Slovenia (Beletrina), Turkey (CAN), Greece (Vakxikon), North Macedonia (Bata Press)
Year of Publication: 2017
Robert MenasseYear of Publication: 2017
The Capital
Brussels. A panorama of tragic heroes, manipulative losers, involuntary accomplices. In his new novel, Robert Menasse spans a narrative arc between the times, the nations, the inevitable...
Rights sold to:
UK & Commonwealth (MacLehose Press), USA & Canada (W.W.Norton/Liveright), Spanish world rights (Seix Barral), Chinese simplex rights (People's Literature Publishing House), Chinese complex rights (Linking), Russia (Text), Portuguese rights (Dom Quixote), Arabic world rights (AFAQ), France (Verdier), Italy (Sellerio), Netherlands (Arbeiderspers), Denmark (Vandkunsten) Sweden (Weyler), Japan (Hosei UP), Poland (Noir sur Blanc), Czech Republic (Plus), Hungary (Geopen), Bulgaria (Lege Artis), Lithuania (Tyto Alba), Croatia (Fraktura), Serbia (Arhipelag), Slovenia (Cankarjeva založba), Turkey (Everest), Greece (Patakis), Albania (Dudaj), Georgia (Intelekti), Armenia (Antares), India/Hindi (Saar Sansaar)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Der Hörverlag), German Book Club (Büchergilde Gutenberg)
Year of Publication: 2016
Efrat Gal-EdYear of Publication: 2016
No One’s Language
Itzik Manger – a European Poet
This biography of one of the most important Yiddish poets, the first comprehensive one worldwide, is extraordinary in form and content. The life story of Itzik Manger (1901 – 1969) becomes intertwined with a lively depiction of the Eastern European Yiddish-secular culture in between the World Wars. And appropriately, Gal-Ed’s textual alignment follows the page layout of the Talmud: with a...
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