Hot off the press

Television broadcast
Original title	Hot off the press - new books with Denis Scheck
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Year (s)	since 2003
Production ; company	Bayerischer Rundfunk ; Hessischer Rundfunk ; Norddeutscher Rundfunk ; Westdeutscher Rundfunk ; Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk
genre	Literary broadcast
Moderation	Denis check
First broadcast	February 9, 2003 on Das Erste

Fresh off the press is an ARD literary magazine moderated by Denis Scheck , which has existed since February 2003 and has been broadcast on the last Sunday of the month at 23:35 since the end of 2009. Andreas Ammer was responsible for the realization and design from the start . The show is a joint production by BR , hr , mdr , NDR and WDR .

Structure of the program

Moderator Denis Scheck usually opens every issue of the program with a greeting to the audience: “ Good evening and a warm welcome to the late night good book! "However, preliminary presents him an announcer from the off with the words:" And here he comes, your fighter for the good, the beautiful, true. “Scheck leads through the half-hour program, which is divided into episodes in reviews (monologue), interviews (dialogue with an author) and a quick review (monologue) of the top ten of a Spiegel bestseller list, alternately fiction and non-fiction. In addition, there are occasional section concepts that deviate from this, for example a "Denis Scheck recommends" section, in which he stands in a bookstore in the best bookseller fashion and recommends suitable books to individual customers based on their wishes.

The sequence of sections varies from broadcast to broadcast. A typical program composition is review – interview – top ten – interview. Between the episodes there are short transition sequences, accompanied by selected pieces of music; the music is explicitly listed on the website.

Review section concept

New literary publications and occasionally older works that are worth reading from Scheck's point of view are presented in a relaxed, humorous way. Usually, the reviewer is essentially filmed while walking by a camera showing him from the front. The recording takes place somewhere in the world that has some kind of thematic connection to the book, and is normally only used once as a filming location.

Interview section concept

Interviews are held with authors of current works. The dialogue usually takes place while sitting on two chairs facing each other or similar. Regularly recurring decorative elements are red and white flutter tape with fresh inscription and a fire extinguisher. The location of the interview is not fixed, but is usually not repeated.

Top ten section concept

Occasionally, accompanied by live music, in the warehouse of the same Cologne book wholesaler, a stack of books is run through at high speed, alternating from broadcast to broadcast from the top ten entries on the Spiegel bestseller list of non-fiction or fiction. Scheck gives his criticism to every book in a top-or-flop method and - if a book is not worth reading in his eyes - it throws it directly onto a roller slide leading to a garbage can .

Overview

Broadcast from
2020
05/24/2020	Denis Scheck recommends Klaus Vieweg : " Hegel . The philosopher of freedom (biography)" (CH Beck) Denis Scheck meets Jürgen Tautz : "Honey bees - mysterious forest inhabitants", with pictures by photographer Ingo Arndt, (Knesebeck) Guest musician: Alphorn blower Claudia Strenkert ( NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester ) on an outdoor terrace of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg Denis Scheck meets Niklas Natt Och Dag : "1794" (Piper), in the ballroom of the Munich Hofbräuhaus
04/26/2020	Denis Scheck recommends Ursula K. Le Guin : " Earth Sea . The First Trilogy", translation by Karen Nölle , (Fischer Tor) Denis Scheck skypts with TC Boyle : "Aren't we human?", Translation by Anette Grube and Dirk van Gunsteren , (Hanser) - Because of the corona pandemic , the interview took place over the Internet with a webcam Guest musician: Hackedepicciotto with the song "All are welcome" Poetry on the situation by Nora Gomringer Denis Scheck meets Ingo Schulze : "The righteous murderers", (S. Fischer)
March 29, 2020	On the occasion of the Corona crisis , Denis Scheck recommends his personal ten favorite books on the topics of epidemics and natural disasters, including the novel The Plague by Albert Camus , the Decamerone by Giovanni Boccaccio , the story Black Mirror by Arno Schmidt and the novel The Road from Cormac McCarthy . Denis Scheck meets Lutz Seiler : "Stern 111" (Suhrkamp) Guest musician: Fortuna Ehrenfeld with the piano song Bella Ciao Denis Scheck recommends Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa : " The Leopard ", new translation by Burkhart Kroeber , (Piper) Denis Scheck meets Hilary Mantel : "Mirror and Light", Tudor Trilogy Volume 3, (DuMont)
02/23/2020	Denis Scheck recommends Ulrich Becher : "Marble hunt" (Schöffling) Denis Scheck meets Bov Bjerg : "Serpentines" (Claassen) Guest musician: wedding chapel Denis Scheck meets Peter Bichsel : "Even the donkey has a soul" (Suhrkamp) Denis Scheck recalls Ror Wolf (interview excerpt from 2012)
01/26/2020	Denis Scheck recommends Karl-Heinz Ott : "Hölderlins Geister" (Hanser) Denis Scheck meets Dror Mishani : "Three" (Diogenes) Guest musician: Niklas Natt och Dag Denis Scheck meets Monika Helfer : "The Bagage" (Hanser)
2019
December 15, 2019	Denis Scheck recommends Gabriel García Márquez : "Love in times of cholera" (Kiepenheuer & Witsch), from the Spanish by Dagmar Ploetz Denis Scheck meets Richard Dawkins : "Atheism for Beginners: Why We Don't Need God for a Meaningful Life" (Ullstein) Guest musician: Joasihno with the piece "Wondrous Sibling" Denis Scheck meets Peter Stamm : "Marcia from Vermont. A Christmas story" (S. Fischer) Short visit to Nigel Slater : "Greenfeast: Spring / Summer" (DuMont)
11/24/2019	Denis Scheck recommends Karl Baedeker : "Handbook for fast travelers" (DuMont Reiseverlag) Denis Scheck visits Anita Albus in her Munich apartment for an interview about her natural history non-fiction book "Sonnenfalter und Mondmotten" (S. Fischer) Denis Scheck meets Dietmar Dath for an interview about his books "Neptunation" (Fischer Tor) and "Niegeschichte. Science fiction as an art and thinking machine" (Matthes & Seitz)
03/11/2019	Denis Scheck recommends Hans Magnus Enzensberger : "An expert review in 89 issues" (Suhrkamp) Denis Scheck meets Margaret Atwood in the Jimmy's Bar of the Grandhotel Hessischer Hof in Frankfurt am Main for an interview about her novel " Die Zeuginnen " (Berlin Verlag) Denis Scheck meets Michael Köhlmeier in the Märchenwald amusement park in the Isar valley in the Upper Bavarian town of Wolfratshausen for an interview about his book "Die Märchen" (Hanser)
October 13, 2019	Denis Scheck recommends Valeria Luiselli : "The archive of lost children" (Kunstmann) Denis Scheck meets Nora Bossong : "Protection zone" (Suhrkamp) Guest musician: Frank Schätzing Denis Scheck meets Michael Palin in the library of the Athenaeum Club in London to talk about his novel "Erebus" (Mare)
09/15/2019	Denis Scheck recommends Christian Seiler : "All the best. The world as a menu" (real time) Denis Scheck meets Karen Köhler : "Miroloi" (Hanser) Guest musician: Thees Uhlmann with the song Thank you for the fear , a musical homage to the horror author Stephen King Denis Scheck meets Robert Macfarlane : "In the Unterland" (Penguin)
06/02/2019	Denis Scheck recommends Johan Harstad : "Max, Mischa & the Tet Offensive" (Rowohlt) Denis Scheck meets Zadie Smith : "Freedoms" (Kiepenheuer & Witsch) Denis Scheck meets Nell Zink : "Virginia" (Rowohlt)
05/05/2019	Denis Scheck recommends Daniel Mendelsohn : "An Odyssey - My Father, an Epic and I" (Siedler) Denis Scheck meets George RR Martin (compilation of two interviews with the author from 2012 in Martin's house in Santa Fe and 2014 in a hotel room in London ) Guest musician: Maxi Pongratz ( Kofelgschroa ) with the song "Leiden" Denis Scheck meets Charles Lewinsky (in a prison cell backdrop of the Bavaria Film Studios in Geiselgasteig near Munich ): "The Stutterer" (Diogenes)
March 17, 2019	Denis Scheck recommends Regina Dieterle : "Theodor Fontane" (Hanser) Denis Scheck meets Saša Stanišić : "Origin" (Luchterhand) Denis Scheck meets Andrea Wulf : "The adventures of Alexander von Humboldt" (C.Bertelsmann) Guest musician: Club of the Dead Poets
02/17/2019	Denis Schecks recommends Anselm Oelze : "Wallace" (Schöffling) Denis Scheck meets Yōko Tawada : "Sendbo-o-te" (bankruptcy book) Denis Scheck meets Leonardo Padura : "The impermeability of time" (Unionsverlag) Guest musician: Sir Tralala Closing words from TC Boyle
01/27/2019	Denis Schecks recommends Chinua Achebe : "Everything falls apart" (S. Fischer) Denis Scheck meets Julian Barnes : "The only story" (Kiepenheuer & Witsch) Denis Scheck meets Kenah Cusanit : "Babel" (Hanser) Guest musician: Fortuna Ehrenfeld
2018
December 16, 2018	Denis Schecks recommends the CD box "The Poets' Collection" (edited by Christiane Collario and Michael Krüger ) (Der Hörverlag) Denis Scheck meets Christoph Peters : "The year of the cat" (Luchterhand) Guest musician: Coconami Denis Scheck meets Makena Onjerika : "Fanta Blackcurrant" Alexander Gerst recommends Jules Verne : " The trip to the moon "
11/25/2018	Denis Scheck recommends Tania Blixen : "Africa - Dark World" (Manesse) Denis Scheck meets Rosemarie Tietze : "Lev Tolstoy - War in the Caucasus" (Suhrkamp) Guest singer: Leila Akinyi & Memoria Denis Scheck meets László Krasznahorkai : "Baron Wenckheim's return" (S. Fischer)
28.10.2018	Denis Scheck recommends David Foster Wallace : "The fun of it" (Kiepenheuer & Witsch) Denis Scheck meets Judith Schalansky : "List of some losses" (Suhrkamp) Guest singer: Thomas Meinecke Denis Scheck meets Andreas Eschbach : "NSA - National Security Office" (Bastei Lübbe)
07.10.2018	Denis Scheck recommends Nora Krug : "Heimat" (Penguin) Denis Scheck meets Dörte Hansen (for a walk through the Hoppenlau cemetery in Stuttgart): "Lunch hour" (Penguin) Denis Scheck meets Michael Ondaatje : "War light" (Hanser)
02.09.2018	Denis Scheck recommends Roberto Bolaño : "The Spirit of Science Fiction" (S. Fischer) Denis Scheck meets Jonas Jonasson : "The centenarian who came back to save the world" (C.Bertelsmann) Denis Scheck meets Natascha Wodin : "Somewhere in this darkness" (Rowohlt)
May 27, 2018	Denis Scheck recommends Svenja Flaßpöhler : "The potent woman: For a new femininity" (Ullstein) Denis Scheck meets Philip Roth (repetition of 2011 on the occasion of the writer's death) Denis Scheck meets Eva Meijer : "The languages of animals" (Matthes & Seitz) Guest musician: Fuck Yeah! with guitarist and publisher Markus Naegele Denis Scheck meets Hans Pleschinski : "Wiesenstein" (CH Beck)
04/29/2018	Denis Scheck recommends Hideo Yokoyama : "64" (atrium) Denis Scheck meets Hans Magnus Enzensberger : "Survival artists: 99 literary vignettes from the 20th century" (Suhrkamp) Guest musicians: Florian Werner and Martin Kaluza : "The wisdom of the guillemot: What we can learn from animals" (Blessing) Denis Scheck meets David Schalko : "Heavy bones" (Kiepenheuer & Witsch)
03/26/2018	Denis Scheck recommends Michael Chabon : "Moonglow" (Kiepenheuer & Witsch) Denis Scheck meets Felicitas Hoppe : "Prawda" (S. Fischer) Denis Scheck meets Madame Nielsen : "The endless summer" (Kiepenheuer & Witsch)
02/25/2018	Denis Scheck recommends Joan Didion : "South and West: Notes" (Ullstein) Denis Scheck meets Lucy Fricke : "Daughters" (Rowohlt) Denis Scheck meets Emanuele Coccia : "The roots of the world - A philosophy of plants" (Hanser)
01/28/2018	Denis Scheck recommends Flannery O'Connor : "Nobody can be trusted anymore" (Verlag Arche) Denis Scheck meets Fernando Aramburu : "Patria" (Rowohlt) Guest musician: Wolfgang Niedecken : "BAP - The logbook of the anniversary tour" (Hoffmann and Campe) Denis Scheck meets Angelika Klüssendorf : "Years later" (Kiepenheuer & Witsch)
2017
December 17, 2017	Daniel Kehlmann : Tyll Sabrina Janesch : The golden city Denis Scheck recommends: Peter Krauss : Does the bird sing, call or hit? Anka Muhlstein recommends Anna Karenina Louis Begley recommends Henry James
11/26/2017	Angela Steidele : Anne Lister: An erotic biography Denis Scheck meets Jan Wagner Denis Scheck recommends: PG Wodehouse
October 29, 2017	Juli Zeh : Empty hearts Anuk Arudpragasam : The Story of a Short Marriage Homage to the Nobel Prize winner for literature Kazuo Ishiguro Denis Scheck recommends: Frances Spufford : New York
10/01/2017	Jean Echenoz : Our wife in Pyongyang Jana Hensel : No country Denis Scheck recommends: Hergé : The Complete Works
09/03/2017	Salman Rushdie : Golden House Jürgen Neffe , Marx. The unfinished Denis Scheck recommends: Richard Ford : Between them
07/03/2017	Takis Würger , The Club Claudio Magris , proceedings closed Denis Scheck recommends: JRR Tolkien : Beren and Luthien
05/08/2017	Olga Grjasnowa , God is not shy Kat Menschik's great world of images Denis Scheck recommends: Cixin Liu , The Three Suns
03/19/2017	Christoph Hein , Trutz Hanya Yanagihara , A little life Denis Scheck recommends: Kanae Minato , Confessions
02/27/2017	Max Goldt , wipe your lips and smile Feridun Zaimoglu , Evangelio. A Luther novel Denis Scheck recommends: The Book of Mirrors
01/29/2017	TC Boyle , The Terranauts Mathias Énard , compass Denis Scheck recommends: Jonas Lüscher , Kraft
2016
12/12/2016	Denis Scheck recommends: JL Carr, A Month in the Country Michael Ondaatje recommends: Penelope Fitzgerald , Die Buchhandlung Nigel Slater , Eat well for a year Arno Schmidt , bibliography and new translation of Zettel's dream
11/20/2016	Denis Scheck recommends: Donald Ray Pollock , The Heavenly Table Andrea Wulf , Alexander von Humboldt Raoul Scrap , First Earth
10/30/2016	Denis Scheck recommends: Martin Mosebach , Mogador Christoph Ransmayr , Cox or the passage of time Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney , The Nest
09/25/2016	Denis Scheck recommends: Joost Zwagerman , Duell Katja Lange-Müller , revolving door Navid Kermani , Paris , so to speak
08/29/2016	Denis Scheck recommends: Jack Vance , The Azure Planet and, let's go, Jack Vance James Lee Burke , Foreign Land Christian Kracht , The Dead
05/22/2016	André Heller, The Book of the South Denis Scheck recommends: Neal Stephenson, Almathea Yann Martel, The high mountains of Portugal
04/24/2016	Dominique Manotti, black gold Josef H. Reichholf, My life for nature Denis Scheck recommends: Claudia Ott, A Thousand and One Nights
04/03/2016	Denis Scheck recommends: Joseph Fink / Jeffrey Cranor, Welcome to Night Vale Heinz Strunk, The golden glove Anna Katharina Hahn, my mother's dress
02/21/2016	Thea Dorn, The Unfortunate Abbas Khider, slap in the face Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence Denis Scheck recommends: Carl Schurz, Memoirs
01/24/2016	Michael Köhlmeier, The girl with the thimble Richard Price, The Untouchables Denis Scheck recommends: Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
2015
December 20, 2015	Denis Scheck recommends: What is blooming there? Martin Amis, area of interest Nora Gomringer, oh dear, and disease
11/30/2015	Ulrich Peltzer, The Better Life Robert Harris, dictator Denis Scheck recommends: Neil Gaiman, American Gods
11/01/2015	Jonathan Franzen, innocence Ilija Trojanow, power and resistance Denis Scheck recommends: Eudora Welty, The Robber Groom
04/10/2015	Salman Rushdie, two years, eight months and twenty-eight nights Jenny Erpenbeck, go, went, gone Denis Scheck recommends: JJ Abrams and Doug Dorst, S
07.09.2015	Helen Macdonald, H for hawk Denis Scheck recommends: Michael Fehr, Simeliberg Rafik Schami, Sophia or the beginning of all stories
06/14/2015	Andreas Maier, The place Johannes Willms, Waterloo - Napoleon's last battle Denis Scheck recommends: Michael Psellos, Life of the Byzantine Emperors (976-1075): Chronographia
05/10/2015	Steffen Kopetzky, risk Lea Linster, My Way to the Stars Denis Scheck recommends; Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems
04/13/2015	Peter Richter, 89/90 Amos Oz, Judas Denis Scheck recommends: Stefano D'Arrigo, Horcynus Orca
03/01/2015	Jan Weiler, Kühn is busy Gila Lustiger, The Guilt of Others Denis Scheck recommends: Julian Barnes, Levels of Life
02/08/2015	TCBoyle, tough Hermann Parzinger, The Children of Prometheus Denis Scheck recommends: Klaus Modick, concert without a poet
2014
12/14/2014	Jürgen Dollase, heaven and earth Denis Scheck recommends: Jack London, The Call of the Wild
11/23/2014	Hans Magnus Enzensberger, tumult Olga Grjasnowa, The legal blurring of a marriage Denis Scheck recommends: Reiner Stach, Kafka. The early years
10/26/2014	Lutz Seiler, Kruso Sofi Oksanen, When the pigeons disappeared Denis Scheck recommends: Horace Walepole, The Castle of Otranto
05/10/2014	Denis Scheck recommends: Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge Dave Eggers, The Circle
07.09.2014	Laline Paull, The Bees Denis Scheck recommends: Christian Kracht / Helge Malchow, Guide for British Soldiers in Germany 1944 Thomas Hettche, Pfaueninsel
06/01/2014	Denis Scheck recommends: Maike Albath, Rome, dreams Michael Chabon, Telegraph Avenue Durs Grünbein, Cyrano or The Return from the Moon
05/04/2014	Sabine Lewitscharoff, Killmousky Jörg Maurer, Felsenfest Denis Scheck recommends: Matthias Göritz, dreamer and sinner
03/30/2014	Denis Scheck recommends: David Foster Wallace, The Pale King Frank Günther, Our Shakespeare Carl Djerassi, The Shadow Collector
03/23/2014	Haruki Murakami, The Pilgrim Years of Colorless Mr. Tazaki Frank Schätzing, Breaking News TC Boyle, water music
01/27/2014	Denis Scheck recommends Arno Schmidt, Das große Lesebuch Ann Cotten, The Shivering Fan
2013
12/15/2013	Michael Krüger, change of time Denis Scheck recommends: Patrick Bahners, Duckburg. The whole truth Barbara Vinken, dressed
11/24/2013	Ted Chiang, Hell is the absence of God Stephen King, Dr. Sleep
27.10.013	Silvia Bovenschen, take heart Kurt Flasch, Why I am not a Christian Sabine Scho, animals in architecture
09/29/2013	Denis Scheck recommends: Ernst Jünger, In Stahlgewittern und Atlantische Fahrt Daniel Galera, high tide Oswald Wiener, The Improvement of Central Europe
09/01/2013	Monika Maron, interlude Peter Stamm, night is day Denis Scheck recommends Hans Pleschinski, Königsallee
05/26/2013	Denis Scheck recommends Adelbert von Chamisso to travel around the world Reinhard Jirgl, nothing of you on earth
04/28/2013	Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence Judith Schalansky, apples and pears Denis Scheck recommends: Hiromi Kawakami, See you next year in spring
04/07/2013	David Grossmann, Falling Out of Time Florian Weber, Grimm's heirs Denis Scheck recommends: Jeanette Winterson, Why happy instead of just normal?
02/24/2013	Denis Scheck introduces: Martin Walser Joanne K. Rowling Margaret Atwood Nuruddin Farah Jiro Taniguchi Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt
01/27/2013	Hilary mantle, falcon Gerhard Falkner, Pergamon Poems Denis Scheck recommends Douglas A. Anderson, The Great Hobbit Book
2012
December 16, 2012	Claudia Ott, 101 night Julian Barnes, Unauthorized Entry
11/25/2012	Nadine Gordimer, no time like this Christoph Ransmayr, Atlas of a Fearful Man Denis Scheck recommends: Jenny Erpenbeck, every day evening
October 28, 2012	Richard Ford, Canada Bodo Kirchhoff, Love in broad terms Denis Scheck Recommends: James Tiptree Jr., At a Price
09/23/2012	George RR Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire Ursula Krechel, Regional Court Denis Scheck recommends: Wolf Haas, Defense of the Missionary Position
08/26/2012	Denis Scheck recommends: Chad Harbach, The Art of Field Game Vea Kaiser, brass music pop James Sallis, Driver2
06/03/2012	Massimo Carlotto, Deadly Dust Ror Wolf, The virtues of darkness Denis Scheck recommends: Stephen Greenblatt, Die Wende
April 29, 2012	Georg M. Oswald : Among enemies Felicitas Hoppe : Hoppe Denis Scheck recommends Dave Eggers : Zeitoun
March 25, 2012	Michael Ondaatje : Cat table Christian Kracht : Empire Denis Scheck recommends Padget Powell : Roman in Questions
February 26, 2012	Nicholson Baker : House of Holes Jan Peter Bremer : The American investor Denis Scheck recommends Patrick Rothfuss : The name of the wind
January 29, 2012	Alexander Kluge : The fifth book TC Boyle : When the slaughter is over Denis Scheck recommends Herman Bang : Tine
2011
December 18, 2011	Antje Rávic Strubel : Days fall into night Martina Meuth and Bernd Neuner-Duttenhofer : In search of lost taste Denis Scheck recommends Nathan Myhrvold : Modernist Cuisine
November 27, 2011	Rolf Vollmann : The seducer of Dürer Jeffrey Eugenides : The act of love Denis Scheck recommends Frank Günther translates William Shakespeare : The merry women of Windsor
October 23, 2011	Sibylle Lewitscharoff : Blumenberg Philip Roth : Nemesis Denis Scheck recommends Dante Alighieri and Kurt Flasch : Commedia and Umberto Eco : The Cemetery in Prague
September 25, 2011	Mario Vargas Llosa : The Celt's Dream Kristof Magnusson : Instructions for Use for Iceland Denis Scheck recommends Boris Vejdovsky : Ernest Hemingway: His life in pictures and documents
August 28, 2011	Fritz J. Raddatz : The diaries in pictures Arthur Bollason : Saga Recordings Denis Scheck recommends Pete Dexter : Deadwood
May 29, 2011	Peter Kurzck : The evening before Hannelore Schlaffer : The intellectual marriage Indra Wussow : AfrikAWunderhorn
May 1, 2011	Friedrich Ani : South Michel Houellebecq : Map and Territory Denis Scheck recommends Malla Nunn : Let the dead rest
April 3, 2011	Per Olov Enquist : The Delivered Jochen Hörisch : Exchange, speak, desire Denis Scheck recommends Josef H. Reichholf : The Origin of Beauty
February 27, 2011	Denis Scheck recommends Paul Levitz : 75 Years of DC Comics. The art of creating modern myths. Abbas Khider : The President's oranges Kerstin Ekman : Diary of a Murderer
January 30, 2011	Magriet de Moor : The painter and the girl Aris Fioretos : the last Greek Kristin Rübesamen : Everyone is enlightened Denis Scheck recommends John Ashbery : A worldly country
2010
December 19, 2010	Ralf König : Antityp Mariam Kühsel-Hussaini : God in the grain of rice Denis Scheck recommends Samuel Pepys : The Diaries 1660–1669
November 28, 2010	Jonathan Franzen : Freedom Denis Scheck recommends Arno Schmidt : Zettel's dream Heinrich Steinfest : Batman's Beauty
October 31, 2010	John le Carré : traitors like us Richard David Precht : The art of not being an egoist Denis Scheck recommends Alain Schnapp : The discovery of the past
September 26, 2010	Erri de Luca : The day before happiness Hanns-Josef Ortheil : The Moselle Journey: A Child's Novel Denis Scheck recommends JRR Tolkien : The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
August 29, 2010	Günter Grass : Grimm's words Denis Scheck recommends Martin Mosebach : What happened before Håkan Nesser : The gardener's perspective
May 30, 2010	Arthur Brehmer : The world in 100 years Andrea Camilleri : The color of the sun Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre : Germans among the victims too
April 25, 2010	Arno Geiger : Everything about Sally Melanie Mühl : People on the mountain Denis Scheck recommends Laura Gemelli : The pre-Socratics
March 28, 2010	Ferran Adrià : A day in the elBulli Denis Scheck recommends Marie-Sabine Roger : The Labyrinth of Words Iris Hanika : The real thing Martin Walser : My beyond
February 28, 2010	Denis Scheck recommends Wolfgang Kubin : Under the Schnurbaum Javier Marías : Your face tomorrow Herta Müller : Lowlands
January 31, 2010	James Ellroy : Blood wants to flow Dieter Kühn : I was Hitler's guardian angel JD Salinger : The catcher in the rye Denis Scheck recommends Judith Schalansky : Atlas of the remote islands
2009
December 21, 2009	Eva Menasse : venial deadly sins Jade Y. Chen : The island of the goddess Denis Scheck recommends Johann Friedrich Naumann : Die Vögel Mitteleuropas
November 1, 2009	David Peace : Tokyo in year zero Urs Widmer : Mr. Adamson Herta Müller : Selected Works Denis Scheck recommends Kindler's literary dictionary
4th October 2009	For Dao : The Book of Defeat Leung Ping-kwan : Of jade and wood Frank Schätzing : Limit Recommendations in the bookstore: Ulrich Raulff : Circle without a master , Heinrich Steinfest : Thunderstorms over Pluto and Philip Roth Portnoy's complaints (new translation)
September 6, 2009	Sibylle Berg : The man is sleeping Denis Scheck recommends David Foster Wallace : Infinite Fun and Roberto Bolaño Rüdiger Safranski : Goethe & Schiller - Story of a Friendship
June 14, 2009	Denis Scheck recommends John Dickie : Delizia! The Italians and their cuisine Josef H. Reichholf : Raven-black intelligence. What we can learn from crows Harry Rowohlt : God's Blessing and Red Front - Letters not thrown away Roberto Saviano : The opposite of death , Rawi Hage : As if there was no tomorrow , TC Boyle recommends: Julia Schoch : At the speed of summer
May 3, 2009	Orlando Figes : The Whisperers Heinz Ott : tumult and grace. About Georg Friedrich Handel Harry Rowohlt : God's Blessing and Red Front - Letters not thrown away
April 5, 2009	Eoin Colfer : Artemis Fowl . The time paradox Recommendations in the bookstore: Monika Rinck : Bright confusion & Rinck's thing and animal life, Rawi Hage : As if there was no tomorrow , TC Boyle recommends: Kazuo Ishiguro : Everything we had to give Denis Scheck recommends Florian Werner : The Cow, Life, Work and Effect and Juli Zeh : Corpus Delicti
March 1, 2009	Daniel Zahno : The Beloved of Gelatiere (in Venice) Doris Lessing : Alfred and Emely (in London) Claudio Magris : A hippopotamus in Lund (in Trieste) Denis Scheck recommends Sibylle Lewitscharoff Apostoloff
February 1, 2009	Daniel Kehlmann : fame Jürgen Neffe : Darwin Claudio Magris : A hippopotamus in Lund Denis Scheck recommends Philip Roth Outrage and Saul Bellow The Adventures of Augie March
2008
November 2, 2008	Christian Kracht : I'll be here in sunshine and shade Arthúr Bollason : Iceland: A travel companion
October 5, 2008	Orhan Pamuk : The Museum of Innocence Siri Hustvedt : The sufferings of an American Reiner Stach : Kafka. The years of knowledge Denis Scheck recommends Patrick Rothfuss The name of the wind
September 7, 2008	Gerhard Polt : Trash Günter Grass : The box Denis Scheck recommends Alan Bennett The Sovereign Reader
May 4, 2008	Stephen Clarke : Survival Among the French Siri Hustvedt : The sufferings of an American Feridun Zaimoglu : love brand Denis Scheck recommends Thomas Pynchon Gegen den Tag
April 6, 2008	Ray Bradbury : Interview with the author of Fahrenheit 451 Raoul Schrott : Homer's home Sibylle Thelen : Istanbul - the city under power
March 2, 2008	Martin Walser : A loving man TC Boyle : teeth and claws
February 3, 2008	Hans Magnus Enzensberger : Hammerstein or The Stubbornness Gila Lustiger : Mr. Grinberg & Co. Cornelia Funke recommends The Bride Princess
2007
December 2, 2007	Jean-Claude Bourgueil and Thomas Ruhl : Typically German. News from the classic regional cuisine Cornelia Funke : Ink death
November 4, 2007	Joschka Fischer : The red-green years Burkhard spiders : all-around
October 7, 2007	Katja Lange-Müller : Bad sheep Fritz Stern : (about German history)
September 2, 2007	Andrea Maria Schenkel : Cold ice Martin Mosebach : The moon and the girl Jan Philipp Reemtsma (via Christoph Martin Wieland )
May 6, 2007	Gisbert Haefs : Caesar Ingo Schulze : Cell phone Keto from Waberer : Hugs
April 1, 2007	Dieter Richter : Vesuvius Petros Markaris : The major shareholder Donna Leon ( Donna Leon’s Favorite Record)
March 4, 2007	Martin Walser : The battered animal Ted Simon : Jupiter's dreams
February 11, 2007	Raoul Schrott : The Fifth World - A Logbook Louis Begley : Items of Honor Irene Dische : Love
2006
December 17, 2006	Peter Sloterdijk : Wrath and Time Wiglaf Droste , Nikolaus Heidelbach & Vincent Klink : Wurst (conversation with Vincent Klink)
November 5, 2006	Wolf Biermann : home Wolf Haas : The weather 15 years ago
October 1, 2006	Silvia Bovenschen : Getting older Thomas Hettche : What we're made of Felicitas Hoppe : Johanna
September 3, 2006	Zadie Smith : From the beauty Heinrich Steinfest : A thick skin Martin Walser : fear bloom
August 6, 2006 (Best Of)	Frank Schätzing : The swarm Günter Grass : Last dances. Poems and pictures. Michael Martin : The deserts of the earth
May 7, 2006	Péter Esterházy : Germany trip in the penalty area Nikolaus Heidelbach : Queen Gisela
April 24, 2006	/
April 2, 2006	Thomas Müller : Beast Human Ilija Trojanow : The world collector
March 5, 2006	Henning Mankell : Kennedy's brain Feridun Zaimoglu : Leyla
February 5, 2006 (25th edition)	Franz Xaver Kroetz : Blood & Beer Salman Rushdie : Shalimar the Fool
2005
December 18, 2005	Eginald Schlattner : The piano in the fog Leonie Swann : Glennkill
November 27, 2005	/
November 20, 2005	Matthias Politycki : Lord of the Horns Ingo Schulze : New Lives Dieter Wellershoff : Normal life
October 9, 2005	Cornelia Funke : ink blood Ben Schott : Schott's hodgepodge of food and drink Uwe Timm : The friend and the stranger
September 11, 2005	Paul Auster : The story of my typewriter Donna Leon : About Venice, music, people and books Jan Weiler : Antonio in Wonderland
May 1, 2005	Jenny Erpenbeck : Dictionary Jochen Missfeldt : Cliffs Hans Pleschinski : Light light
April 10, 2005	Leander Scholz : Fifteen wrong seconds Wilhelm Genazino : The dullness of love Minette Walters : The Outsider
March 13, 2005	Karen Duve : The kidnapped princess Orhan Pamuk : Snow Johannes Willms : Napoleon
February 6, 2005	Manuel Andrack : You have to hike. Without a stick and hat in the German low mountain range Michael Crichton : World in Fear Walter Kempowski : The echo sounder - swan song 1945
2004
December 5, 2004	Lars Gustafsson : The Dean Georg Stefan Troller : The happy grave on the Danube Péter Zilahy : The last window giraffe
November 7, 2004	Brigitte Kronauer : Desire for Music and Mountains and The Tricks of the Diva Harry Rowohlt : John Rock or the Devil (Illustrations by Peter Gut ) Peter Rühmkorf : Tabu II and when I say ME correctly
October 3, 2004	Michael Martin : The deserts of the earth Rafik Schami : The dark side of love Antje Rávic Strubel : Tupolew 134
September 12, 2004	Liane Dirks : fools of luck Umberto Eco : The Story of Beauty Hans Magnus Enzensberger : Humboldt Project
May 2, 2004	Franziska Gerstenberg : How many birds Ulrich Sinn : Ancient Olympia Klaus Theweleit : Gateway to the World - Soccer as a Reality Model
April 4, 2004	Robert Gernhardt & Klaus Cäsar Zehrer : Bright and Fast. 555 comical poems from 5 centuries Marjane Satrapi : Persepolis Frank Schätzing : The swarm
March 7, 2004	Paul Auster : Night of the Oracle Wibke Bruhns : My father's country Christoph Hein : Land grab
February 1, 2004	Anselm Bilgri : Find the right measure Ines Geipel : That's enough for today. Amok in Erfurt John Updike : How was it really
2003
November 2, 2003	Frederick Forsyth : The Avenger Manfred Krug : My beautiful life Herta Müller : The king bows and kills
October 5, 2003	Jonathan Franzen : The 27th city Peter Glaser : History of Nothing Uwe Timm : Using my brother's example
September 7, 2003	Prince Asfa-Wossen Asserate of Ethiopia : Manners Julia Franck : Campfire Günter Grass : Last dances. Poems and pictures
June 1, 2003	Katja Lange-Müller : The ducks, the women and the truth Cees Nooteboom : Philip and the others Leoluca Orlando : I should be next
May 4, 2003	Mario Adorf : The photographer from San Marco Jeffrey Eugenides : Middlesex Alexander Kluge : The art of making differences
April 6, 2003	Thomas Hettche & Pietro Aretino : Positions or from the beginning and end of pornography Herfried Münkler : The New Gulf War Martin Walser - Martin about Robert Walser
March 2, 2003	Hans Magnus Enzensberger : The story of the clouds Jonathan Safran Foer : Everything is enlightened Lea Linster : Simply brilliant
February 9, 2003	Wolf Haas : Eternal Life Verena Lueken : New York. Report from an old city Philip Roth : The dying animal Wendelin Wiedeking : The David principle

Awards

2011: German television award in the special performance category

Web links

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