The agency was founded by longstanding editor and publisher Marcel Hartges in Munich in January 2016. Ferdinand von Schirach, Alissa Walser, Jan Weiler, Volker Klüpfel & Michael Kobr, Albert Ostermaier and Anne Gesthuysen were among the first authors to join the agency’s books.
We represent authors of fiction and nonfiction books. In addition to sending manuscripts to publishers in Germany and further afield, another key area of our work is in representing our clients’ film rights. More background information is provided in this interview [German].
We cooperate with Kiepenheuer Bühnenvertrieb and the following agencies abroad:
Agence Sabine Fontaine
France & Belgium Sabine Fontaine
AnatoliaLit Agency
Turkey Merve Öngen
Andrew Nurnberg Associates
China, Taiwan & Russia Jackie Huang (China) Whitney Hsu (Taiwan) Olga Lutova (Russia)
Casanovas & Lynch
Spain, Portugal & Brazil Sarah Guilloret
Corto Literary Agency
Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Albania, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Hungary & Croatia Antonija Radić
Eastern European and Asian Rights Agency
Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan & Turkmenistan Tatjana Zoldnere
Graal Agency
Poland Tomasz Bereziński
Iris Literary Agency
Greece Catherine Fragou
Marianne Schönbach Literary Agency
The Netherlands Marianne Schönbach
Meike Marx Literary Agency
Japan Meike Marx
Momo Agency
Korea Geenie Han
The Deborah Harris Agency
Israel Geula Geurts
