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Welcome to the Diogenes film rights website. We are proud to hold Film/TV rights to the works of authors such as Patricia Highsmith, Patrick Süskind, Bernhard Schlink, Friedrich Dürrenmatt and many more. Numerous of our wonderful books 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. 

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Das Lied des Geldes
Der Brand
Eine Freundschaft
Das Weiße im Auge
20. Juli
Das Stoffe-Projekt
Das satierische ABC
Warum den Igel keiner streichelt
Johannistag
Gerron
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Kastelau

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Rights quartet for Daniela Krien's The Fire before publication
We have just sold English UK rights of Daniela Krien’s latest novel The Fire to MacLehose Press, Ita [More]
Love in Case of Emergency by Daniela Krien praised by English-speaking media, to be published in 25 languages
British and Irish press are raving about the MacLehose edition of Love in Case of Emergency: »Highly [More]
Boy with a Black Rooster by Stefanie vor Schulte nominated for ›Klaus-Michael Kühne Prize‹
Stefanie vor Schulte's debut novel Boy with a Black Rooster is one of eight novels shortlisted for t [More]
French rights for Kalmann by Joachim B. Schmidt sold to Gallimard Noir
We have just sold French rights for Joachim B. Schmidt’s Kalmann to Gallimard’s noir series in an au [More]
Benedict Wells' Hard Land to be published in eleven languages
After launching Benedict Wells' Hard Land, the book shot straight to #1 of the Spiegel bestseller li [More]
Almost 40k copies sold of In the Middle of August by Luca Ventura
Up until the middle of December, we have sold almost 40’000 copies of Luca Ventura’s In the Middle o [More]