In this episode, translator Katy Derbyshire reads an English sample of Clemens Meyer’s »The Projectionists«.

World English rights of »The Projectionists« have been sold to Fitzcarraldo Editions. Clemens Meyer is translated into Arabic, Croatian, Danish, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Macedonian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil and Turkish.

»The Projectionists« is an epic tale about Europe's crises and the art of storytelling. From Leipzig to Belgrade, from the GDR to the People's Republic of Yugoslavia, from silver screen spectacles to adventure novels. Relentless and fast-paced, »The Projectionists« tells the story of our present being crushed by the past - and of incomparable characters: in the Velebit Mountains, a former partisan experiences the adventurous filming of Karl May's Winnetou film adaptations. Decades later, the brutal battles of the Yugoslavian wars take place in these very places - in the midst of it all, a group of young right-wing radicals from Dortmund experience the futility of their ideology. And in Leipzig, the texts of a former patient are discussed at a conference in a psychiatric clinic: How did he manage to disappear without a trace? Was he able to predict the future? And what links him to the world traveller Dr May, who was once also a patient at the clinic?

Praise for »The Projectionists«:

"Hit of the season" - Frankfurter Rundschau, Judith von Sternburg

"A storyteller like no other." - Andreas Platthaus, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

"'Projection', however, is the decisive keyword for this autumn's most ambitious [...] German novel" - Andreas Platthaus, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

"gripping anti-violence and anti-war novel. With its subject matter and the art of storytelling, it is a novel from a different literary league" - der Freitag, Michael Hametner

"An epic, an adventure novel" - SWR Kultur

"As powerful as it is magnificent" - Focus

"There's no question that Clemens Meyer has delivered a real masterpiece" - WDR 3 Kultur am Mittag, Mario Scalla

"This is truly great storytelling." - Radio 3 - rbb, Nadine Kreuzahler

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Credits

Text originally published as “Die Projektoren” by Clemens Meyer

Translated and read by Katy Derbyshire

Copyright © S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main 2024

Concept: Verena von Bassewitz, Martin Butz & Elisa Diallo

Production, Editing & Sound Design: Martin Butz

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