Nonfiction Rights List Fall 2011

GBO NONFICTION RIGHTS LIST FALL 2011
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Translation Funding and GBO Information ARTS AND LITERATURE Peter Geimer - Pictures by Accident. A History of Photographic Appearance HISTORY Norman Domeier - The Eulenburg Scandal. A Cultural History of Politics in Imperial Germany Fernando Esposito - Mythical Modernity. Aviation, Fascism and the Craving for Order in Germany and Italy Rebekka Habermas - Thieves in Court. The Development of modern Law in 19th Century Germany Michael Hagner - Private Tutor. Sexuality, Criminality and the Media around 1900 Michael Hampe - Tunguska or the Death of Nature Susanne Kuss - The German Military in Colonial Theaters of War. Escalation of Violence in the Early Twentieth Century Rolf-Dieter Mller - The Enemy is to the East. Hitlers Secret Plans for a War against the Soviet Union in 1939 Othmar Plckinger - Story of a Book. Adolf Hitlers Mein Kampf 19221945 Andreas Rose - Between Empire and Continent. British Foreign Policy before the First World War Dirk Rupnow - Anti-Jewish Research in the Third Reich. Scholarship between Politics, Propaganda and Ideology Dietmar Sss - Death from the Sky. War societies and the bombing campaigns in Germany and England Wolfram Wette - Karl Jger. Murderer of the Lithuanian Jews Karin Wieland - Dietrich & Riefenstahl. The Invention of the Modern Woman Manfred Wilke - The Way to the Wall. Phases of the History of Division Heinrich August Winkler - A History of the West, vol. 2: The Era of the World Wars 1914-1945
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PHILOSOPHY Ulrich Khne - The Dream of Reason. A Short History of Thought Experiments Martin Schulte - A Sociological Theory of Law Harald Wohlrapp - The Concept of Argument. On the Relations between Knowledge, Research, Belief, Subjectivity and Reason SOCIAL SCIENCES Heinz-Jrgen Voss - Making Sex Revisited. Deconstructing Sex/Gender from a Biological and Medical Point of View
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ARTS AND LITERATURE
PICTURES BY ACCIDENT
A HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHIC APPEARANCE
Often the history of photography is told as a success story of technical innovations. But this anecdote about the steady progress crosses another story about accidents: technology failed, photos melted, became discolored or disappeared behind unexplainable clouds and fog. Things that were supposed to stay invisible the medium of transmission itself appeared highly visible. Around 1900 people began to photograph the unseen radiation, phantoms, thoughts and suddenly nobody could say wether the pictures showed natural phenomena or effects of the photographic shot. Distant galaxies or dust on the lens? The image of Jesus or a coincidental phenomenon during production? The disturbance is the point, which initiates questions about the truth of photography.
PETER GEIMER
Bilder aus Versehen: Eine Geschichte fotografischer Erscheinungen Philo Fine Arts, Hamburg, 450 pages, 2010 Rights Contact: Birte Theiler theiler@philo-fine-arts.de
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PETER GEIMER IS A PROFESSOR OF NEW AND NEWEST ART HISTORY AT THE FREE UNIVERSITY BERLIN. GEIMER STUDIED ART HISTORY, GERMAN LITERATURE, AND PHILOSOPHY IN BONN, COLOGNE, MARBURG AND PARIS.
GEIMER NOT ONLY WRITES A PIECE ON THIS NEARLY UNEXPLORED HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY, BUT FURTHERMORE CONCENTRATES ON A CULTURE OF KNOWLEDGE AND SCIENCE THAT DEPENDS ON PICTURES. FAZ.NET PETER GEIMER HAS WRITTEN A BOOK THAT CONVINCES AND INSPIRES ENTHUSIASM FOR THIS TOPIC. PORTAL KUNSTGESCHICTE
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HISTORY
THE EULENBURG SCANDAL

A CULTURAL HISTORY OF POLITICS IN IMPERIAL GERMANY
The scandal surrounding Prince Eulenburg, the best friend and for a short time the counselor of Emperor Wilhem II, shook up the monarchy until 1906. Basing his research on numerous sources including over 5,000 press articles, author Norman Domeier delves into this scandal and provised a cultural history of politics in imperial Germany. Domeier shows that the scandal did not solely focus on the homosexuality of the prince, but it was the priming for contemporary, critical publicity in Germany. Additionally it became an opportunity to justify the pending World War not just politically, militarily and economically, but morally.
NORMAN DOMEIER
Der Eulenburg-Skandal: Eine politische Kulturgeschichte des Kaiserreichs Campus Verlag, Frankfurt, 344 pages, 2010 Rights Contact: Franziska Hildebrandt hildebrandt@campus.de

A COMPREHENSIVE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF THE EULENBURG SCANDAL WAS OUTSTANDING. THIS GAP IS NOW CLOSED...DOMEIERS BOOK IS A REWARDING READING EXPERIENCE ESPECIALLY FOR ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF THIS SCANDAL AND THE RISE OF MEDIA IN GERMANY. KULTUR KRITIK
NORMAN DOMEIER, PHD, IS A SCEIENTIFIC ASSISTANT WITHIN THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART.
HISTORY
MYTHICAL MODERNITY
AVIATION, FASCISM AND THE CRAVING FOR ORDER IN GERMANY AND ITALY
The incarnations of fascism in Italy and Germany were both a modern and an anti-modernist phenomenon. It marked the beginning of a new era, however, it was set determinedly against the modern liberal society. In both countries, aviation became a symbol for the departure and ascent into the new age. The aviator became a symbol of the New Man. In his book Fernando Esposito sees aviation as a metaphor for Fascism itself and shows its blueprint for a mythical, yet genuinely modern modernity.
FERNANDO ESPOSITO
Mythische Moderne. Aviatik, Faschismus und die Sehnsucht nach Ordnung in Deutschland und Italien Oldenbourg Verlag, Mnchen, 476 pages, 2011 Rights Contact: Cordula Hubert cordula.hubert@oldenbourg.de

AN IMMENSELY IMPRESSIVE WORK, BECAUSE OF ITS THEORETICAL STRINGENCY AND INDEPENDENT ARGUMENTATION...A REMARKABLE DISSERATION. PROF. DR. EWALD FRIE, UNIVERSITY TBINGEN THIS DISSERTATION CONTRIBUTES AN EMPIRICALLY ELABORATE AND METHODICALLY EXCELLENT INVESTIGATION OF THE PROBLEM OF NEW AND DIFFERENT CONCEPTIONS OF MODERNITY, WHICH IS CENTRAL TO FACISM. PROF.
FERNANDO ESPOSITO IS A LECTURER FOR CONTEMPORARY HISTORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TBINGEN.
DR. ANSELM DOERING-MANTEUFFEL
HISTORY
THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN LAW IN 19TH CENTURY GERMANY

The institution of public trials and modern criminal codes were established in Germany in the 19th century. Both were intented to care for equality within law. What was the reason behind this large scale change? Rebekka Habermas investigates these questions through the lense of thievery, which proved to keep the courts the busiest out of any other crime. Habermas not only reconstructs the logic of the reformers, but also the motives of thieves, the work of the police, and the search for evidence by attorneys as well as the contribution by criminologists and journalists to these cases. Through her resarch, Habermas shows how modern law was created from a diverse cast of protagonists and the equally important public, which felt entitled in judging the courts events according to their own criteria.
THIEVES IN COURT
REBEKKA HABERMAS
Diebe vor Gericht. Zur Entstehung der modernen Rechtsordnung im 19. Jahrhundert Campus Verlag, Frankfurt, 412 pages, 2008 Rights Contact: Franziska Hildebrandt hildebrandt@campus.de
REBEKKA HABERMAS, BORN IN 1959, IS A GERMAN HISTORIAN. SHE IS THE PROFESSOR OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN HISTORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GOETTINGEN AND THE DAUGTHER OF PHILOSOPHER AND SOCIOLOGIST JUERGEN HABERMAS.
HISTORY
THE PRIVATE TUTOR

SEXUALITY, CRIMINALITY, AND THE MEDIA AROUND 1900
October 1903. Bayreuth is the scene of a sensational trial. Andreas Dippold, a 23-year-old law student and private tutor to two brothers, is accused of beating his students so violently that one of them died of his injuries. Dippold insists that he was right to discipline his charges, to correct their wicked habit of masturbation. The boys well-to-do parents (the father is director of the Deutsche Bank) use all their influence to portray the accused as a sexually depraved criminal, a danger to society. The court has its own views and sentences Dippold to eight years imprisonment. Court observers and the general public are outraged by the apparently lenient sentence. The trial and its outcome spark a lively debate in the German press, with well-known writers and journalists joining the fray. Michael Hagner tells the story of the tutor, the boys and their parents leading up to the trial, drawing on contemporary sources and the court proceedings. He then analyzes the legal, medical and media practices of the time, which construed the complex events as a case model only partly based on the facts. The scandal was hotly debated in pedagogy, criminology, psychiatry and the sexual sciences, and eventually the term dippoldism entered the textbooks as a classic example of educatory sadism. In a style that confidently bridges the gap between storytelling and academic writing, Hagner paints a disturbing picture of the rigidity of child-rearing at the time. A shocking and uncomfortable story. A history lesson that still resonates today.
MICHAEL HAGNER
Der Hauslehrer. Die Geschichte eines Kriminalfalls Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin, 280 pages, 2011 Rights Contact: Petra Hardt hardt@suhrkamp.de
PROFESSOR MICHAEL HAGNER IS A PHYSICIAN AND SCIENCE HISTORIAN. HE CURRENTLY HOLDS THE CHAIR FOR SCIENCE STUDIES AT ETH ZRICH. IN 2008 HAGNER WAS AWARDED THE SIGMUND FREUD PRIZE FOR ACADEMIC PROSE BY THE GERMAN ACADEMY FOR LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.

A MASTERLY COMPOSITION OF ANALYSIS AND NARRATION. DIE ZEIT HAGNERS BOOK IS AN ILLUSTRATIVE INSIGHT INTO THE MENTALITY OF THE GERMAN BOURGEOISIE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU IN A MIXTURE OF LITERARY NARRATION AND SCIENTIFIC STUDY, THIS BOOK CARVES OUT THE HISTORICAL SYMPOMATIS OF THE CASE - AND THEREBY GAIN TIMELESS IMPORTANCE. DIE ZEIT
HISTORY
TUNGUSKA OR THE DEATH OF NATURE

Climate change, environmental destruction, nutrition: all of todays burning issues center around nature. Nature has also been a central philosophical issue for 2000 years. The ideas and arguments from the past are an invaluable contribution to the current debate. But what in fact do we mean when we talk about nature? What is it that we intend on protecting? Philosopher Michael Hampe presents some controversial answers. Four men a physicist, a philosopher, a biologist and a mathematician are adrift on a ship on the sea. In dense fog, they begin a discussion about the Tunguska event, which devastated a vast woodland area in Siberia through explosions and lightning in 1908. To this day, no one knows exactly what happened and the four scholars seem unable to agree on one explanation. Instead, the question of how the Tunguska mystery might be resolved by applying established natural laws results in a debate on the definition of nature itself. Perhaps it is the world as it was before the intervention of homo sapiens? Or merely a game of chance? Is it intrinsically good or evil? Are humans part of it or not? Or is it ultimately nothing but a brainchild spawned by mans imagination? Michael Hampe stages a fictional debate on a cohesive concept of nature, the meaning of which we are all convinced we know. Following his meditations on a perfect life, Hampe has further honed his art of philosophical dialogue: this book is guaranteed to give you plenty of food for thought as well as keeping you entertained.
MICHAEL HAMPE
Tunguska oder Das Ende der Natur Hanser Verlag, Mnchen, 320 pages, 2011 Rights Contact: Friederike Barakat barakat@hanser.de

MICHAEL HAMPE, BORN IN HANOVER IN 1961, STUDIED PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE, PSYCHOLOGY AND BIOLOGY AT HEIDELBERG AND CAMBRIDGE. HE IS CURRENLTY A PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AT ZURICHS ETH.
THIS IS GREAT PHILOSOPHICAL LITERATURE FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU IN HIS NEW BOOK, MICHAEL HAMPE NARRATES BOTH THE TUNGUSKA EVENT AND ITS STORIES IN SUCH A WAY THAT ONE CAN EXPERIENCE A FASCINATING REFLECTION ON THE END OF NATURE. NEUE ZUERCHER ZEITUNG
HISTORY
THE GERMAN MILITARY IN COLONIAL THEATER OF WAR

ESCALATION OF VIOLENCE IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
A basic international principle applied to colonial warfare: every form of violence, even against women and children, is acceptable as long as it serves a countrys war aims. Perhaps more important than judging military acts from a moral point of view, is attempting to understand how such acts of extreme violence could occur in the first place. conflicts the Boxer War in China, the Herero and Nama wars in German Southwest Africa, and the Majimaji War in German East Africa that the type and extent of violence was determined by the interplay of various local factors specific to each situation. Potential for genocidal violence always existed, however, it wasnt a foregone conclusion.
SUSANNE KUSS
Deutsches Militr auf kolonialen Kriegsschaupltzen Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin, 500 pages, 2011 Rights Contact: Johanna Links redaktion@christoph-links-verlag.de
With her theater of war concept, Susanne Kuss presents a new approach to analyzing unlimited violence in the context of war. She shows in her empirical investigation of the three great German colonial

SUSANNE KUSS, BORN IN 1965, STUDIED HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE IN FREIBURG AND BERLIN, EARNING HER PH.D. IN 1998. UP UNTIL 2008 KUSS HELD NUMEROUS POSITIONS WITHIN THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF ALBERT LUDWIG UNIVERSITY IN FREIBURG.
BECAUSE OF HER COMMITTED WORK WITH DOCUMENTARY MATERIAL, HER BOOK PROVIDES AN INSIGHT INTO IMPORTANT FACTORS OF WARFARE. ARNE ELIAS, H-SOZ-U-KULT
HISTORY
THE ENEMY IS TO THE EAST

HITLERS SECRET PLANS FOR A WAR AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION IN 1939
Rolf-Dieter Mllers book offers a new perspective on the prehistory of Hitlers campaign in Russia. The invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22nd, 1941 is considered by historians as the last phase of Hitlers step-by-step plan to conquer Germanys Lebensraum in the East. In his latest book, renowned military historian Mller challenges this view. Using previously overlooked sources, he shows that Hitler was contemplating the possibility of an imminent war of intervention against the U.S.S.R. since taking power in 1933. Hitler and the Wehrmacht began negotiations with Poland and even went as far as considering an alliance with Japan. With the war underway in September 1939, an immediate military engagement with the Red Army was still on the table. A look at events leading up to the campaign shows that there was neither a step-by-step plan for eastward expansion nor was Operation Barbarossa a pre-emptive war, as some scholars and journalists would have come to believe.
ROLF-DIETER MLLER
Der Feind steht im Osten. Hitlers geheime Plne fr einen Krieg gegen die Sowjetunion im Jahr 1939 Links Verlag, Berlin, 269 pages, 2011 Rights Contact: Johanna Links redaktion@christoph-links-verlag.de
ROLF-DIETER MLLER, BORN IN 1948, STUDIED HISTORY, POLITICAL SCIENCE AND EDUCATION IN BRAUNSCHWEIG AND MNSTER. CURRENTLY HE IS THE PROFESSOR FOR MILITARY HISTORY AT THE HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITT ZU BERLIN AND HAS WRITTEN NUMEROUS WORKS ON THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
ROLF-DIETER MLLERS STUDY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK TO COME OUT IN YEARS ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR. DIE WELT
HISTORY
STORY OF A BOOK
ADOLF HITLERS MEIN KAMPF 1922 - 1945
Othmar Plckinger takes a look behind the widely held belief that Hitlers Mein Kampf had a place in every German bookcase, but no one ever read it. By detailing the history of the books reception, Plckinger shows that this was by no means the reality. His innovative approach includes the analysis of various unconventional sources, such as the lending statistics at public libraries. Plckinger furthermore looks at the impact the book has had in foreign countries, especially those of Germanys subsequent opponents in the Second World War.
OTHMAR PLCKINGER
Geschichte eines Buches. Adolf Hitlers Mein Kampf 1922 - 1945 Oldenbourg Verlag, Mnchen, 632 pages, 2011 Rights Contact: Cordula Hubert cordula.hubert@oldenbourg.de

MORE THAN EIGHT DECADES AFTER THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF HITLERS MEIN KAMPF, OTHMAR PLCKINGER OFFERS THIS REMARKABLE ANALYSIS OF THE GENESIS AND EMERGENCE OF HITLERS BOOK AND THEIR OVERALL RECEPTION AND IMPACT. IT IS FIRST OF ALL A REMARKABLE PIECE OF RESEARCH.
MAGNUST BRECHTKEN, UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM OTHMAR PLCKINGER TEACHES HISTORY IN SALZBURG.
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HISTORY
BETWEEN EMPIRE AND CONTINENT

BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR
British foreign policy before the First World War has often been interpreted as a mere reaction to the aggressive policy of the German Kaiser. Andreas Rose shows the active quality of the British endeavour to break up the old system of alliances. The British government was driven by a bundle of factors: domestic, continental, and imperial.
ANDREAS ROSE
Zwischen Empire und Kontinent. Britische Auenpolitik vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg Oldenbourg Verlag, Mnchen, 650 pages, 2011 Rights Contact: Cordula Hubert cordula.hubert@oldenbourg.de

THE QUALITY OF THIS RESEARCH IS OUTSTANDING. THE AUTHOR HAS CONSULTED OFFICIAL PAPERS AND NEWSPAPERS IN BRITAIN, AS WELL AS ARCHIVES IN GERMANY AND AUSTRIA. HOWEVER, THE REAL STRENGTH OF THE BOOK DERIVES FROM THE EXHAUSTIVE RESEARCH IN PERSONAL PAPERS THROUGHOUT BRITAIN. WILLIAM MULLIGAN, UCD CENTER FOR WAR STUDIES
ANDREAS ROSE IS LECTURER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BONN.
HISTORY
ANTI-JEWISH RESEARCH IN THE THIRD REICH

SCHOLARSHIP BETWEEN POLITICS, PROPOGANDA AND IDEOLOGY
Rupnows text, situated at the intersection of Holocaust and Jewish Studies, contemporary and intellectual history, is the first comprehensive German-language monograph that focuses on anti-Jewish scholarship in the Third Reich; its aims, topics, and methods; its institutions and actors; its functions and practices within the coordinates of scholarship, propaganda, ideology, and politics; and its location within the broader frame of intellectual history and the development of antisemitism. It considers both, the beginning of anti-Jewish research as well as its repercussions and reception after 1945 (including the beginnings of Judaic and Jewish Studies in postwar Germany and Austria). The author devotes specific attention to the interaction between anti-Jewish scholarship on the one hand and anti-Jewish policies of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust on the other, as raising questions on the scholarly status of anti-Jewish research in the Third Reich. Rupnows analysis is based on original and comprehensive research in more than 40 archives in Germany, Austria, Poland, France, the USA, and Switzerland.
DIRK RUPNOW
Judenforschung im Dritten Reich. Wissenschaft zwischen Politik, Propaganda und Ideologie Nomos, Baden -Baden, 494 pages, 2011 Rights Contact: Ellen Victoria Hexges hexges@nomos.de

WITH NUMEROUS WORKS ON THE TOPIC, RUPNOW HAS MADE A NAME FOR HIMSELF AS ONE OF THE LEADING RESEARCHERS OF INSTITUTIONALIZED ANTI-SEMITISM UNDER THE NAZI REGIME. FRANK-RUTGER HAUSMANN RUPNOW ANALYZED AN IMPRESSIVE AMOUNT OF LITERATURE AND ARCHIVAL SOURCES...HE HAS STRINGENTLY DEMONSTRATED THAT SCIENCE DOES NOT EXIST WITHIN A VACUUM. THE RESERACH ON JEWS MUST ESPECIALLY BE UNDERSTOOD AS A NOTABLY DISTINCTIVE INTERSECTION OF PROPOGANDA, NATIONAL SOCIALIST IDEOLOGY, POLITICS AND SCIENCE. MARTIN MOLL, ZRG GA
DIRK RUPNOW WAS BORN IN BERLIN AND STUDIED HISTORY, GERMAN LITERATURE, ART HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY IN BERLIN AND VIENNA. CURRENTLY HE IS THE HEAD PROFESSOR AT THE INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY HISTORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK.
HISTORY
DEATH FROM THE SKY

Aerial warfare and the struggle for remembrance a new view of the history of violence of the 20th century During the Second World War, aerial warfare evolved into a means of imparting massive destruction upon cities and military sites. A combination of technical modernity and federal discipline, such warfare was the culmination of industrial war-making in the Age of Extremes. Popular morale during wartime was to become for both nations the adhesive of society. Yet what was actually meant by good or bad wartime morale, or by solidarity and perseverance?
WAR SOCIETIES AND THE BOMBING CAMPAIGN IN GERMANY AND ENGLAND

By researching the phenomenon of death from the sky, Dietmar Sss has attempted to answer the question of how Germany and England ethically, religiously, and politically legitimized the employment of weapons of mass destruction. What role did Christian churches play? How did concepts of the desire for revenge and a righteous or legitimate war form? In Death from the Sky, Sss shows how well after 1945 such questions remain unanswered and how the memories of death from the sky have remained fresh to present day. The author presents what war as a condition of society means and in what ways dictatorships and democracies control the militarization of the populace.
DIETMAR SSS
Tod aus der Luft. Kriegsgesellschaft und Luftkrieg in Deutschland und England Siedler Verlag, Mnchen, 720 pages, 2011 Rights Contact: Gesche Wendebourg gesche.wendebourg@randomhouse.de
DIETMAR SSS, BORN IN 1973, IS A MEMBER OF THE ACADEMIC STAFF AT THE PRESTIGIOUS INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY IN MUNICH. HE HAS BEEN GRANTED SEVERAL AWARDS FOR HIS WORK, INCLUDING THE LEIBNIZ PRIZE FOR THE PROMOTION OF YOUNG TALENTS IN 2002 AND, IN 2003, THE BAVARIAN UNIVERSITY LECTURER PROMOTION PRIZE.

DIETMAR SSS DESCRIBES THE HISTORY AND AFTERMATH OF THE AIR WAR VIVIDLY AND SUBTLY, AS NO ONE HAS BEFORE. AN EXCEPTIONAL RESEARCH ACCOMPLISHMENT AND AN ESSENTIAL BOOK. NORBERT FREI DIETMAR SSS DELIVERS A REMARKABLE DOCUMENT THAT CALMLY ASSESSES TOPICS SO OFTEN PRESENTED IN EMOTIONALLY TINGED DEBATES. DEUTSCHLANDFUNK AFTER READNG THIS BOOK, ONE WILL BETTER UNDERSTAND CURRENT WARS. FREITAG.DE
HISTORY
KARL JGER
MURDERER OF THE LITHUANIAN JEWS
As an SS-Standartenfhrer, Karl Jger led the murder of Lithuanian Jews, initially in the function of chief of Einsatzkommando 3 (EK 3) and later as commander of the Security Police and the Security Service (KdS) in Kaunas/Lithuania. In his activity report dated December 1st, 1941, Jger reported that his superiors ordered the execution of 137,346 Jews and later boasted that Lithuania was now free from Jews. This detailed report is a key document within the history of the holocaust. Who was this police officer from the second level of the SS hierarchy, who saw himself as a soldier? How could a sensitive musician and orchestrionmaker become one of the most efficient mass murderers of the Nazi era? Wette not only describes the German and Lithuanian war criminals, but also gives their victims a face. After the war, Jger initially lived undisturbed until he was arrested in 1959 and committed suicide in Hohenasperg penitentiary near Ludwigsburg. In his home town in south Baden where the author lives the revelation of Jgers crimes prompted horror, fear and defensive reactions.
WOLFRAM WETTE
Karl Jger. Mrder der litauischen Juden Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt, 288 pages, 2011 Rights Contact: Ricarda von Bergen ricarda.bergen@fischerverlag.de Agent: Markus Hoffmann markus@regal-literary.com

A HORRIFIC AND FORMERLY WIDELY TABOOED CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF LITHUANIA DW WORLD JGERS REPORT HAS BEEN CITED AND PUBLISHED NUMEROUSLY, HOWEVER, NO STUDY ABOUT ITS AUTHOR EXISTED. THE HISTORIAN WOLFRAM WETTE BRINGS ITS AUTHOR TO LIGHT - A LATE TRIUMPH OVER THE CODE OF SILENCE IN THE POSTWAR PERIOD DIE ZEIT WITH THIS CLEAR AND BRIEF BIOGRAPHY, WETTE MANAGES TO WRITE A CRYSTAL CLEAR, TENSION FILLED ANALYSIS. DIE ZEIT
WOLFRAM WETTE, BORN IN 1940, IS PROFESSOR OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG, GERMANY.
HISTORY
DIETRICH & RIEFENSTAHL

THE INVENTION OF THE MODERN WOMAN
They were beautiful, famous and successful - and they projected a radical new image of womanhood. Ineffably feminine, fiercely independent, stunningly beautiful and in love with success: the archetype young women aspire to today was invented by two Berlin movie stars between the world wars. Berlin 1918: Germanys imperial period is in decline, the country is shattered by defeat. In this unlikely setting, two women who will only ever meet in passing share the same dream of success. Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl sense that their moment has come with the dawning of a new age. They want to go on stage and into the movies and because they are good looking, smart, clever tacticians and good dancers, success is not far off. Without role models or fixed ideas, they nonetheless have an unerring instinct for presenting themselves as modern women and the rapid expansion of the film industry and mass media provides the perfect breeding ground for their talents to prosper. With the ascent of the Third Reich, Hitler is only too well aware that the public craves idols, and Leni Riefenstahl gives him exactly what he needs. Meanwhile, Marlene Dietrich escapes to Hollywood where she rises to international stardom. Karin Wieland presents a surprising new perspective on 20th century culture and society. Not only does she make it clear why Dietrich and Riefenstahl have not lost their attractiveness today, but also how young women leading independent and successful lives owe far more than they realize to these two interwar lifestyle icons.
KARIN WIELAND
Dietrich & Riefenstahl. Der Traum von der neuen Frau Hanser Verlag, Mnchen, 632 pages, 2011 Rights Contact: Friederike Barakat barakat@hanser.de
KARIN WIELAND WAS BORN IN 1958. SHE STUDIED POLITICAL SCIENCE AT THE BERLIN FREIE UNIVERSITY. SHE IS A FULL-TIME AUTHOR AND LIVES NEAR BERLIN. HER BOOK, DIE GELIEBTE DES DUCE (DAS LEBEN DER MARGHERITA SARFATTI UND DIE ERFINDUNG DES FASCHISMUS), WAS PUBLISHED BY HANSER IN 2004.

IN A BRILLIANT DUAL-BIOGRAPHY, KARIN WIELAND NARRATES THE LIVES OF RIEFENSTAHL AND DIETRICH DIE ZEIT KARIN WIELAND DRAWS A PICTURE OF A NEUESACHLICHE BERLIN METOROPOLIS WITH THE KIND OF PRECISION THAT JAMES JOYCE MUST HAVE HAD IN MIND WHEN HE CLAIMED THAT ONE COULD USE ULYSSES FOR THE RECREATION OF DUBLIN. WELT AM SONNTAG
HISTORY
THE WAY TO THE WALL

PHASES OF THE HISTORY OF DIVISION
In reconstructing the international pre-history of the building of the Berlin Wall and the exact ballot between Chruschtschow and the leader of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, author Manfred Wilke was able to use for the first time transcripts of the conversations between Chruschtschow and Ulbricht transcripts which have not been accessible to researchers until now. The long jouney towards the building of the Berlin Wall started in 1945. Stalin commissioned the German Communist Party (KPD) in the Soviet occupation zone to take power. The three western powers safeguarded their sphere of influence at the same time. In 1949 two German states were born, though Berlin was still divided into four sectors. The city had become an eratic block and a window of the west, while existing in the middle of the GDR. After the Soviets had failed to drive out the Allies of West-Berlin by blockading the city in 1948/1949, the second crisis of Berlin followed from 1958 to 1960, when Moscow gave an ultimatum to the western powers to clear out Berlin and turn it into a free city. The decision to construct the border was made by Nikita Chruschtschow and was based on the increasing number of refugees from the GDR.
MANFRED WILKE
Der Weg zur Mauer Christop Links-Verlag, Berlin, 472 pages, 2011 Rights Contact: Johanna Links redaktion@christoph-links-verlag.de

MANFRED WILKE, BORN IN 1941, WAS ONE OF THE TWO ACADEMIC LEADERS OF THE FORSCHUNGSVERBUND SED-STAAT AT FREIE UNIVERSITY BERLIN. WILKE HAS WRITTEN NUMEROUS PUBLICATIONS ON THE CONTEMPORARY HISTORY OF POLITICS.
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HISTORY
A ERA OF THE WORLD WARS 1914THE WEST, VOL.2 HISTORY OF - 1945 THE
Wars, crises, catastrophes: The years from 1914 to 1945 strike many observers as a repetition of the Thirty Years War. They constitute the German chapter in the history of the West and one of the most terrible chapters in human history. Heinrich August Winkler offers a masterly account of these dramatic decades, from the outbreak of World War I to the German capitulation in May 1945 and the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki three months later. No other country broke so radically with the Western model of government and its norms as Germany did in the year 1933. After Hitler came to power the country became the greatest destabilizing factor in world affairs. In the end, the forces of democracy survived the war that the Third Reich had unleashed only with the help of the United States and Great Britain together with its dominions. But how had Western democracies come to be on the defensive in the 1920s and 30s? Why were most countries in Europe dominated by radical nationalist politics? Winkler investigates these and many other questions in this work, using a new approach that looks at the era through a transatlantic lense.
HEINRICH AUGUST WINKLER

Geschichte des Westens. Die Zeit der Weltkriege. 1914-1945 C.H. Beck Verlag, Mnchen, 1350 pages, 2011 Rights Contact: Susanne Simor susanne.simor@beck.de
HEINRICH AUGUST WINKLER, BORN 1938, IS ONE OF THE FOREMOST GERMAN HISTORIANS. HIS CELEBRATED WORK GERMANY: THE LONG ROAD WEST, A HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY FROM THE FRENCH REVOLUTION TO THE THIRD REICH, HAS BEEN TRANSLATED INTO SIX LANGUAGES AND SOLD OVER 80,000 COPIES. THE FIRST, A HISTORY OF THE WEST COVERING THE PERIOD FROM CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY TO 1914, APPEARED IN 2009 AND IS NOW IN ITS THIRD EDITION.

...ITS COMPREHENSIBLE FOR PEOPLE INTERESTED IN HISTORY WHO ARE NON-PROFESSIONALS AND WEEKEND-READERS. THE LANGUAGE IS NOT ACADEMIC, BUT RATHER NARRATIVE. DER SPIEGEL A HISTORY OF THE WEST AS IT IS TOLD HERE DID NOT EXIST UNTIL NOW. VOLKER ULRICH, DEUTSCHLANDFUNK THIS IS GREAT HISTORIOGRAPHY WERNER BIRKENMAIER, STUTTGARTER ZEITUNG SOVEREIGN ACUTENESS AND CONCISENESS, CHARACTERIZED BY COMPETENT KNOW-HOW AND WELL-BALANCED JUDGEMENTS AS WELL AS CALM AND DISCREET STYLE FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG
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PHILOSOPHY
THEHISTORY OF THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS DREAM OF REASON A SHORT

There is a phantom within the field of science - the phantom of thought experiments. Thought Experiments promise a gain in insight without the aid of empirical work - which before the selfconcept of modern natural science was impossible. Yet from the beginning the search for Thought Experiments has been a central theme in the long tradition of empirical science for scientists of the past (Stevi, Galileo, and Newton) and today. Ulrich Khne narrates the history of this ancient dream of mankind, by making natural laws accessible through rational arguments. Khne begins the book by engaging the optimism of natural philosophers Kant and rsted to combatting the Common Sense Theorists with their representations of abstract natural theories concerning relativity and quanta. The book focuses on one question: Wether in the rich history of concepts and methods, Thought Experiments will not only transcend illusory hopes, but also find a meaningful definition within natural sciences.
ULRICH KHNE
Die Methode des Gedankenexperiments Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin, 409 pages, 2005 Rights Contact: Petra Hardt hardt@suhrkamp.de
ULRICH KHNE, BORN IN 1966, STUDIED PHYSICS AND PHILOSOPHY AT BALLIOL COLLEGE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, LATER EARNING HIS PHD WITH ERHARD SCHEIBE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG. FOLLOWING AN ASSISTANT PROFESSORSHIP AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN, KHNE BEGAN WORKING AS A FREELANCE JOURNALIST AND BRIEFLY WORKED AS A NON-FICTION EDITOR FOR SDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG
AND A SCIENCE EDITOR FOR DER FREITAG. KHNE

CURRENTLY LIVES IN BERLIN.
PHILOSOPHY
A SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY OF LAW

A sociological theory of the law that is commited to Niklas Luhmanns Systems Theory must work around a definition of itself that is drawn from outside of the legal system (including legal practice, legal dogmatics, juristic methodology, legal philosophy and legal theory). From this background the book examines both concept and function, legal worth and efficiency, the difference between justice and injustice, as well as the relationship of law and fairness. The differentiation that exists within the legal system leads to question concerning its evolution, hierarchy and rationality. Furthermore the book analyzes the structural interconnections between the legal system and both politics and economics.
MARTIN SCHULTE
Eine soziologische Theorie des Rechts Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 244 pages, 2011 Rights Contact: Arlett Gnther guenther@duncker-humblot.de

PROF. DR. MARTIN SCHULTE, BORN IN 1959, STUDIED LAW, HISTORY, AND PHILOSOPHY IN MUNSTER. SINCE 1994 HE HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE LEGAL FACULTY AT THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY DRESDEN. PROF. DR. SCHULTE HAS TAKEN VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS AT SEVERAL UNIVERSITIES INCLUDING EMORY UNIVERSITY IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA AND THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN IN THE NETHERLANDS.
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PHILOSOPHY
THE CONCEPT OF ARGUMENT

The book develops a thoroughly revised and renewed concept of argument. Starting with a survey over the past and present approaches, the book engages in dealing with our present needs in the understanding of argument, i.e. the subjective perspectives and the dynamics of theory and knowledge. The renewal of the concept is based on the philosophy of pragmatism, modified with Hegelian Dialectics and the Dialogue Logic of Paul Lorenzen. There are several new basic distinctions developed: the pragmatic concept of theory, the orientation system, the frame structures
ON THE RELATIONS BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE, RESEARCH, BELIEF, SUBJECTIVITY AND REASON

in argument, the argumentative validity of a thesis and finally the principle of transsubjectivity. The relevant ideas are all explained and illustrated extensively with examples of daily life but also of scientific and cultural revolutions (Phlogiston Theory, Columbus voyage to India, The French Revolution). The connections between knowledge, research, belief and action are made transparent, and a concept of the growth of knowledge is developed which is not relativistic and socio-constructive but epistemic and philosophically supported.
HARALD WOHLRAPP
Der Begriff des Arguments Verlag Knigshausen und Neumann, Wrzburg, 520 pages, 2008 Rights Contact: Johannes Knigshausen koenigshausen@koenigshausen-neumann.de

ARGUMENTATION SCHOLARS RARELY SEE A WORK ADDED TO THE LITERATURE IN THEIR FIELD COMPARABLE IN MAGNITUDE AND MERIT TO HARALD WOHLRAPPS NEW BOOK. INFORMAL LOGIC 29 (2009)
HARALD WOHLRAPP, BORN 1944, IS A STUDENT OF THE GERMAN PHILOSOPHER PAUL LORENZEN (DIALOGUE LOGIC). BESIDES LOGIC HE MAINLY COVERED DIALECTIC PHILOSOPHY (PLATO, HEGEL) AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (DINGLER, FEYERABEND). AFTER THE MILLENNIUM TURN HE EXTENDED HIS WORK INTO PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND RELIGION.
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SOCIAL SCIENCES
MAKING SEX REVISITED

Judith Butler once critiqued binary approaches to biological sex on the level of the interpretation of signs, thus avoiding a discussion of actually existing organic structures and their possible binarity. By contrast, the following contribution is concerned with historical and contemporary biological theories about such structures. Tracing theories of preformation and epigenetics, Making Sex Revisited demonstrates that a focus on processes of evolution and differentiation leads to pluri-sexual approaches to biological sex. Organic structures develop individually and vary when
DECONSTRUCTING SEX/GENDER FROM A BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL POINT OF VIEW

various individuals are compared. The predominance of binary interpretations results from the distinction between two sexes and their unequal treatment, still prevalent in society.
HEINZ-JRGEN VOSS
Making Sex Revisited. Dekonstruktion des Geschlechts aus biologisch-medizinischer Perspektive Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 466 pages, 2011 Rights Contact: Christine Jchter juechter@transcript-verlag.de
HEINZ-JRGEN VOSS (DR. PHIL.) IS SCIENTIFIC STAFF AT THE DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL HISTORY AND ETHICS OF THE UNIVERSITY HALLE-WITTENBERG (GERMANY). HE STUDIED BIOLOGY AT THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DRESDEN AND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG AS WELL AS PHILOSOPHY, GENDER STUDIES AND SOCIAL POLITICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GOETTINGEN.
AN INNOVATIVE WORK, WHICH HOPEFULLY WILL HAVE A QUICK ENTRY INTO THE LITERARY CANON OF GENDER AND QUEER STUDIES. KATRIN KMPF, L.MAG DR. EWALD FRIE VOSS BOOK IS BASED ON THEORIES ABOUT GENDER MODELS THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND HE DOES IT ON A SOLID, WELL-INFORMED AND REFLECTED WAY. SO FAR THERE HAVE BEEN VERY FEW COMPLETE AND CRITICAL ATTEMPTS TO EXPLORE NEW MOLECULAR-BIOLOGICAL FINDINGS ABOUT SEX OUTSIDE THE FIELD OF PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE.
KERSTIN BISCHL, H-SOZ-U-KULT
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