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Film Rights

Welcome to the Diogenes film rights website. We are proud to hold Film/TV rights to the works of authors such as Patricia Highsmith, Bernhard Schlink, Benedict Wells, Daniela Krien and many more. Numerous wonderful books of ours have been transformed into movies of international calibre and we are looking forward to making more film history possible. If you are interested in any of our titles, please contact us. 

Latest Books

Heaven's Gate
Daniel Faßbender
Heaven’s Gate
Crime Fiction / 304 pages
2026
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Grüne Welle
Esther Schüttpelz
Green Wave
Contemporary Literature / 208 pages
2026
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Können Sie mich sehen?
Martin Suter
Can You See Me?
Contemporary Literature / 208 pages
2026
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Gerechtigkeit
Bernhard Schlink
Justice
Nonfiction / 208 pages
2026
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Benny und der grüne Daumen
Tomi Ungerer & Millicent E. Selsam
Seeds and More Seeds
Children's Books / 64 pages
2026
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Jetzt sind Sie gefragt
Rolf Dobelli
Your Turn
Contemporary Literature / 320 pages
2026
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Samson und das Galizische Bad
Andrej Kurkow
Samson and the Galician Bath
Contemporary Literature / 480 pages
2025
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Vielleicht ist die Liebe so
Katja Früh
Perhaps That's How Love Is
Contemporary Literature / 304 pages
2025
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Fräulein Hedwig
Christoph Poschenrieder
Miss Hedwig
Contemporary Literature / 336 pages
2025
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Nachteule
Ingrid Noll
The Night Owl
Contemporary Literature / 304 pages
2025
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Himmel ohne Ende
Julia Engelmann
Where the Sky Never Ends
Contemporary Literature / 336 pages
2025
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Wut und Liebe
Martin Suter
Love and Fury
Contemporary Literature / 304 pages
2025
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Four ›Emmy Awards‹ for Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
The Netflix series Ripley was honoured with four ›Emmys‹. Diogenes publisher Philipp Keel accompanie [More]
TV series based on the Haritos novels by Petros Markaris to premiere on RAI 1
The TV series based on Deadline in Athens, Zone Defence and Che Committed Suicide by Petros Markaris [More]
Screen adaptation of Allmen and the Koi by Martin Suter to premiere on German public TV at prime time
Martin Suter's Allmen series conquers the small screen: The fourth instalment of the series is calle [More]
Gotham Award for Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley and nominations for Ripley as a series at the Television Critics Award
Andrew Scott received the Gotham TV Award in the category Outstanding Performance in a Limited Serie [More]
Sasha Filipenko's The Hunt presented at the Cannes Film Festival
Sasha Filipenko’s novel The Hunt has been selected as one of this year’s pitch titles at the lively [More]
Film rights for Joachim B. Schmidt's Kalmann series optioned to Kontent
The Reykjavík-based producer Kontent optioned rights of Kalmann and Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountai [More]