Foreign Rights

Welcome to Ullstein’s Rights Team.

We love books!

We love to make them travel around the world and see them being adapted for other media and formats. We are passionate about good stories and as a team, we handle domestic rights such as audio, special editions, and film & tv adaptations as well as foreign rights. With our growing national and international network, our goal is to find the perfect homes for our authors and their books.

On this page, you will find information on our titles and our contact details.

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Eine Auswahl der internationalen Bestseller der Ullstein Buchverlage

Translation Rights

Seeing our books read and appreciated around the world is what we are here for. From commercial to literary, contemporary to classics, Ullstein books have sold into 40 languages. Annette Hess’ »German House«, Johannes Krause’s and Thomas Trappe’s »The Journey of Our Genes«, and of course »Gut« by Giulia Enders have been international bestsellers. We attend all the major book fairs and industry events and take regular trips to match our books with the right foreign publishers. Please feel free to browse our exciting foreign rights catalogues and do not hesitate to contact us for more information or to order reading material. We look forward to hearing from you.

Download foreign rights catalogues

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Film & TV

We love to pave the way onto big and small screens for our authors. We pitch their stories at all major German and many international film festivals. A lot of our content has been adapted for the screen or is currently under option by producers in Germany and abroad. »Sonne und Beton« (»Sun and Concrete«) will premiere at the Berlinale 2023. Following »The Wall« (2012) and »The Silent Revolution« (2018), the film based on the autobiographically inspired book by Felix Lobrecht, is the third Ullstein adaptation to open at the Berlin International Film Festival. The content we represent is as varied and diverse as the entire Ullstein program. Please download our film rights lists below and get in touch. We will gladly provide you with reading material.

Download film rights catalogue