Netflix has announced three literary serial projects - among them "Tyll" by Daniel Kehlmann - well coordinated with the beginning of the Frankfurt Book Fair. The bestseller of 2017, which sold more than 600,000 copies in Germany alone, is to be adapted by Baran Bo Odar and Jantje Friese, the showrunners of the Netflix hit "Dark".
Who should write the scripts, direct and take over the lead role of the legendary rogue Till Eulenspiegel, is not known. Netflix said only that the production should start soon. So far, Kehlmann's books have been filmed only for the cinema - from "fame" on "The Surveying of the World" to "Me and Kaminski", however, with manageable success.
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Queen of the night: "Tyll" at the Schauspiel KölnIn addition to "Tyll" are the film adaptation of Elif Shafak's hit novel "The Forty Secrets of Love" and the adaptation of "Folk med ångest" (English: "Anxious People"), the latest book by the Swedish author Fredrik Backman ("A man named Ove ") to the other Netflix projects.
For the latter series, it is already known that Camilla Ahlgren ("The Bridge") will serve as the head author, while Felix Herngren ("The Centenarian who rose and went out the window") will direct. There is no further information about the Shafak series. "The Forty Secrets of Love" was released in 2009 and sold more than 850,000 copies in Turkey alone. Shafak was recently nominated for the Booker Prize for her latest novel Unpopular Voices.