Elisabeth Herrmann born in 1959 in Marburg, is a television journalist who lives and works in Berlin. Her first novel, Mondspaziergänge, was awarded the Frauengeschichten Prize. Other works by the author Mondspaziergänge, Lübbe, 1998 Die Siebte Stunde, Ullstein, 2007 Die letzte Instanz, Ullstein, 2009 Translation rights available from Ullstein Buchverlage Friedrichstr. 126 10117 Berlin, Germany Tel: +49 30 23456450 Email: pia.goetz@ullstein-buchverlage.de Contact: Pia Götz www.ullsteinbuchverlage.de Applications for assistance with translation costs - Germany Ullstein was founded in Berlin in 1903 by the famous family-owned Ullstein newspaper publishers. The company quickly rose to become Germany's leading book publisher. In 1934 Ullstein was expropriated by the Nazis. In 1952 the house reopened in Frankfurt and seven years later it was sold to the publishing group Axel Springer. In 2003 Ullstein's book division was bought by the Swedish media group Bonnier, who brought Ullstein back to Berlin in 2004. The Ullstein publishing group includes the imprints Ullstein, List, Claassen, Marion von Schröder, Tanja Graf Verlag, Econ, Propyläen and Allegria. The broad spectrum of titles includes bestselling authors such as Jo Nesbo, John le Carré, James Ellroy and Helene Hegemann in fiction; Shlomo Sand, Richard Dawkins, Natascha Kampusch and Timothy Ferris in non-fiction.