www.rowohlt.de

Rowohlt Verlag publishes “well readable literature on a high level”. It represent, among others the historian Joachim Fest, well known for his Hitler-Biography (“Hitler”), drama-writer Rolf Hochhuth (“Der Stellvertreter”/”The Deputy”) and winner of the Geor-Buechner-Award 1998 Elfriede Jelinek. Rowohlt Taschenbuch (Rowohlt paperback). It is now also the publisher of Angela Sommer-Bodenburg, the author of “Der kleine Vampir” (“The Little Vampire”).

www.steidl.de

Steidl Verlag began as a printing house in 1968 and worked with international artists such as Joseph Beuys and Klaus Baeck. Art in all forms is published at Steidl, ranging from photography, paintings, books on sculpture to music and pop art. German artists such as fashion-designer Karl Lagerfeld and rock-musician Marius-Mueller Westernhagen as well as Nobelprize-winner Guenter Grass (“Die Blechtrommel”/”The Tin Drum”) are some of many famous authors from Steidl’s back list.

www.ueberreuter.at

Ueberreuter/Betz is an Austrian publishing house, which concentrates on the Austrian market whose back list includes mainly books about Austrian society and culture. However, it is also focused children’s and teenager books, which are written mainly by German-speaking authors. Famous figures among their authors are Gerhard Haderer, the satirist, who did not even stop from ridiculing Jesus Christ, Silke Leffler, who won Austrian book-prize for children’s and youths’ books 2004 and Wolfgang and Heike Hohlbein, one of Germany’s most prominent fantasy writers.

www.nagel-kimche.ch

Verlag Nagel & Kimche, publishes books of Swiss national authors and completes its backlist with German and other international authors. Its program is divided in a belletristic branch and a children’s book branch, both of which have excellent writers, like Gudrun Pausewang, who won the 1984 Gustav-Heinemann-Peace-Award and the 1988 German youth literature award and Werner Schmidli, winner of the Swiss Prize of the Schiller Foundation.

Verlagsgruppe Luebbe publishes mostly fictional literature, but has started to produce a series of books on arts, history and cultural heritages of the world recently. Their fiction books are translations of international bestsellers mainly, but on the backlist there are several German authors to be found, too. Josef Martin Bauer wrote “Soweit die Fuesse tragen” (“As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me”), the real story of a German POW, that sold million copies in Germany or Marie Louise Fischer, whose books have been translated into several languages and sold 55 million copies worldwide.