The Projectionists

• Shortlisted for the German Book Prize 2024
• Man Booker International nominations 2017 and 2023 for the English translations of Im Stein and Als wir träumten
  
• Film adaptations of Als wir träumten, Die stillen Trabanten and Die Nacht, Die Lichter
• Clemens Meyer is translated into English, French, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Turkish, Swedish, Croatian, Japanese, Serbian, Arabic, Macedonian, Tamil
• PODCAST: Listen to Katy Derbyshire's English translation on Catch of the Day - The S. Fischer Foreign Rights Podcast

English Sample Translation available

The new novel by Clemens Meyer: 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?

"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

"All in all, a simply impressive narrative achievement." - Süddeutsche Zeitung, Cornelius Pollmer

"Meyer conjures up ghosts in order to make them recognisable. [...] it would be a scandal if he didn't receive the German Book Prize for this hugely imaginative, magnificent novel" - NZZ, Martina Läubli

"Our novel of the year so far." - Spiegel

"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

"Meyer really manages to combine the really heavy fare with the light muse and you have a lot of fun with this book" - 3sat Kulturzeit, Katharina Teutsch

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

"A Book, an epic that only appears every decade." - Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, Christian Bos