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Nora Schramm receives the Kranichstein Literature Prize 2024 and the Mara Cassens Prize 2024 for her novel Hollow Spaces.

Levin Westermann receives the Lower Rhine Literature Prize of the City of Krefeld 2024 and the Basel Poetry Prize 2025.

Katharina Winkler is shortlisted for the Austrian Book Prize 2024 with her book Seven Mile Heart.

Marie Luise Knott has been awarded the Johann Heinrich Merck Prize for Literary Criticism and Essay 2024.

Jens Balzer has been shortlisted for the Tractatus Prize 2024 for his essy After Woke.

Onur Erdur made it to first place on the non-fiction best list by ZDF, Deutschlandfunk Kultur and DIE ZEIT for the month of June with his book School of the South. The Colonial Roots of French Theory.

Ivna Zic has been awarded the Swiss Literature Prize 2024 as well as this year’s Sponsorship Award from the Canton of Zurich.

Guillaume Paoli has been awarded the Günther Anders Prize for Critical Thinking 2024 for his book Mind and Garbage. 

Anne Weber has been awarded the Annette von Droste Hülshoff Prize 2024, the Solothurner Literaturpreis 2024 and the Joseph Breitbach Prize 2024.

Recent Sales

The Abuse of Property by Daniel Loick to French World (Éditions Sans Soleil)

The Long Shadow of the Guillotine by László F. Földényi to Spanish World (Galaxia Gutenberg)

The Utopia of Socialism by Klaus Dörre to Brazil (Boitempo)

Flies. A Portrait by Peter Geimer to French World (Éditions Macula)

The School of Seeing by Peter Betthausen to Russia (Garage Museum of Contemporary Art)

370 Riverside Drive, 730 Riverside Drive by Marie Luise Knott to French World (L'Arche)

Infocracy, The Transparency Society, Palliative Society and The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han to Uzbekistan (Nasim Kutub) 

The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han to Ukraine (Komubook)

Freud's Beasty Boys by Oxana Timofeeva to Norway (House of Foundation - H//O//F)

Surazo by Karin Harrasser: Spanish rights for Latin America (El Cuervo)

Pocahontas in Wonderland (vol. 1), The Book of the King’s Daughters (vol. 2), Why Cortés Really Won  (vol. 3) and “You Give Me Fever”. Arno Schmidt. Seascape Pocahontas (vol. 4 of the POCAHONTAS series) by Klaus Theweleit to English World (Rutgers University Press)

School of the South by Onur Erdur to English World (Polity) and French World (Éditions Arpa)

Ferns. A Portrait by Solvejg Nitzke to English World (Greystone)

Russia and the West by Katharina Bluhm to English World (Lynne Rienner Publishers)

The Yacht by Anna Katharina Fröhlich to Italy (Mondadori)

Ancestors by Anne Weber to English World (Indigo)

The Great Gopnik by Viktor Jerofejew to Czech Republic (Academia)

Macht und Entscheidung by Panajotis Kondylis to Russia (Ad Marginem)

The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han: Arabic (Wasm)

How Rational Machines Became Romantic by Philipp Schönthaler: Chinese Simplex (Orient Publishing Center)

Annette: An Epic Heroine by Anne Weber to Sweden (Faethon)

Freud's Beasty Boys by Oxana Timofeeva to English World (Polity)

Seven Mile Heart by Katharina Winkler to Spanish World (Periférica)

Against Nature by Lorraine Daston to Denmark (Forlaget Slagmark)

The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han to Taiwan, Chinese complex rights (Locus)

Banlieues. A Novel in Eighteen Forays by Anne Weber to Italy (Mondadori)

Manaschi by Hamid Ismailov to French World (Éditions Noir sur Blanc)

The Great Gopnik by Viktor Jerofejew to Finland (Siltala), Bulgaria (Janet 45) and Russian rights (ISIA Media Verlag)

Agony of Eros by Byung-Chul Han to Lithuania (Kitos Knygos)

Shadows on the Tundra by Dalia Grinkevičiūtė to Czech Republic (Argo)

Annette: An Epic Heroine by Anne Weber: Galician rights (Aira Editorial)

Infocracy by Byung-Chul Han to Albania (Berk)

The Hero and his Heater by Susanne Stephan to Italy (Del Vecchio)

Enlivenment. Towards a Poetics for the Anthropocene by Andreas Weber to Czech Republic (Obec širšího společenství českých unitářů)

Infocracy and Capitalism and Death Instinct by Byung-Chul Han to Russia (AST)

370 Riverside Drive, 730 Riverside Drive by Marie Luise Knott to Korea (Sanzini)

Sadism With and Without Sade by Iris Därmann to Spanish World (Katakrak)

The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han to Estonia (Loomingu Raamatukogu)

Die Hundegrenze by Marie-Luise Scherer to the Netherlands (Oevers)

Infocracy and Transparency Society by Byung-Chul Han to Mongolia (Tagtaa)

Nachtwache by Hanns Cibulka to Denmark (A Mock Book)

Matthes & Seitz Berlin is a German independent publishing house founded in 2004 by Andreas Rötzer. It was established in the tradition of Matthes & Seitz Munich, a publishing house founded by Axel Matthes and Claus Seitz in 1977. Matthes & Seitz Berlin publishes about 100 titles per year in fiction and non-fiction.

The fiction list includes contemporary authors from Germany, like Frank Witzel (winner of the German Book Prize 2015), Anne Weber (German Book Prize 2020), Esther Kinsky, Angela Steidele, and Philipp Schönthaler. Matthes & Seitz Berlin is not only known for German literature, but also for the translations of contemporary and classic French literature like Antonin Artaud, Emmanuel Carrère, Céline Minard and Éric Vuillard, the winner of the Prix Goncourt 2017. Among the strong list of Russian literature you find Warlam Schalamow, Iliazd, Alexander Ilitchevski and Alexander Goldstein.

Non-fiction has always had a central place in Matthes & Seitz's program, especially philosophy, political theory, and art and cultural studies. Translations from the French and English play a large part, as do prominent German authors like Jürgen Goldstein (winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2016). The series Fröhliche Wissenschaft (The Joyful Wisdom) with its short essays is a prominent stage for presenting audacious new philosophers. Its authors, who include Byung-Chul Han and Marcus Steinweg, have been translated into numerous languages.

In 2013 Matthes & Seitz Berlin established a new cornerstone in its program with the series Naturkunden (Natural Sciences), which publishes books whose design matches nature's beauty, bringing nature writing, movement, space, ecology, and humanity into focus. In order to stimulate German literary voices writing about nature Matthes & Seitz Berlin donates the "German Prize for Nature Writing".

To read more about Matthes & Seitz Berlin: Jürgen Boos in conversation with Andreas Rötzer