Status: 16.01.2024, 19:09 PM
By: Sven Trautwein
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The reading year 2024 also promises interesting topics in the non-fiction sector. We present four non-fiction books that will be published in January here.
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The literary year 2024 is still in its infancy. It remains to be seen whether there will again be such a long queue for an autograph at the Frankfurt Book Fair. In addition to the best-selling books of 2023, which are mainly limited to fiction, there have been and still are important non-fiction books that are worth more than just a look. We present four great non-fiction books to you here.
There are many new publications and books worth reading on the non-fiction market. We present four of the best non-fiction books. © Westend61/Imago/Malik (Assembly)
Dirk Liesemer "Café Megalomania"
What made coffee houses stand out at the turn of the century? Whether Vienna, Munich or Berlin. All the featured cities had their own charm. In "Café Megalomania", Dirk Liesemer lets the protagonists of the time themselves have their say. For all those who want to get an idea of the Belle Epoque and love coffee.
At the turn of the 20th century, young people are rebelling against old, prudish thinking. Against all odds, they want nothing less than to break out, enjoy life and realize themselves. Among them: Erich Mühsam, Else Lasker-Schüler and Arthur Schnitzler. In Vienna's "Café Griensteidl", Munich's "Café Stefanie" and Berlin's "Café des Westens", they love and argue with each other, forge alliances and discuss ludicrous visions of another, new world. Dirk Liesemer paints a portrait of the "Belle Époque" that is as fascinating as it is highly entertaining – a time in which centuries-old structures break up and which has always been able to surpass one's own megalomania many times over.
Blurb/Hoffmann and Campe
Dirk Liesemer "Café Megalomania"
2024 Hoffmann and Campe, ISBN-13 978-3-455-01656-7
Price: Hardcover 25 €, 383 pages
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Thomas Sparr "I want to live on, even after my death"
Thomas Sparr's book fills a gap in the history of the editing and reception of Anne Frank's diary, one of the most translated and widely read books in the world. The success story of the book is riddled with hurdles and setbacks – and remains largely hidden. With profound knowledge, Thomas Sparr reveals how it came about, how it spread, how it is received worldwide and why it still captivates us today.
Anne Frank dreamed of one day becoming a famous writer. Her father Otto Frank, who was the only member of the family to survive the war, wanted to fulfill his daughter's wish and made the distribution of Anne's diary his life's purpose. In 1947 "Het Achterhuis" was published in the Netherlands, and in 1950 the first German edition was published. Today, the diary is one of the most widely read books in the world...
Blurb/S. Fischer
Thomas Sparr "I want to live on, even after my death"
The Biography of the Diary of Anne Frank
2023 S. Fischer, ISBN-13 978-3-103-97545-1
Price: hardcover 25 €, 336 pages
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Wolfgang Matz "Rudolf Borchardt"
Wolfgang Matz sketches a fresh portrait of the paradoxical writer Borchardt in an era full of extremes. Rudolf Borchardt, a master of the essay and the socio-critical novel, is an outstanding figure in German poetry, an idiosyncratic historian and translator. However, his creative work was always marked by myths and controversies, erotic deception, autobiographical invention and political radicalism in the interwar period.
Borchardt was full of contradictions: a young man of the highest standards who hardly published, a polemicist of the Weimar Republic who spent his life in Italy, a German nationalist whom the Nuremberg Laws made a Jew, a voluntary exile who lived in forced exile from 1933 onwards. Was Borchardt really the eccentric that German posterity makes him out to be?
Blurb/Wallstein
Wolfgang Matz "Rudolf Borchardt"
2023 Wallstein, ISBN-13 978-3-835-35449-4
Price: hardcover 32 €, 342 pages
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Lucy Cooke "Bitch"
Biologist Lucy Cooke is beginning to debunk research traditions since the early 19th century as biased, cultural, and patriarchal. She shows that these cultural and often sexist influences are still often found today. An important and overdue book, even if it requires a basic knowledge of biology and genetics to be able to follow the vocabulary and content.
What does it mean to belong to the female gender? For a long time, the feminine in science was reduced to the maternal, the self-sacrificing, the passive. In her new book, Lucy Cooke takes a feminist look at the animal world that throws overboard outdated, patriarchal assumptions and redefines the feminine.
Blurb/Malik
Lucy Cooke "Bitch"
A revolutionary look at sex, evolution and the power of the feminine in the animal kingdom
2023 Malik, ISBN-13 978-3-890-29582-4
Price: hardcover 22 €, 439 pages
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