Tropen Verlag
About Tropen
Tropen is a Klett-Cotta imprint. It specialises in fiction that is urbane, innovative and full of surprises, alongside titles that cover social, political and pop-culture topics.
We offer belles-lettres, non-fiction - and excitement! International as well as German writers. Major authors such as Simon Strauss and Luisa Neubauer, Booker Prize winners Anna Burns and Bernadine Evaristo, Pulitzer Prize winners Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, best-selling writers Halgrimur Helgason and Mons Kallentoft – not to mention powerful German-language writers such as the novelist Zaia Alexander and the essayists Marko Martin and Thomas Oberender.
Tropen was founded in 1996 by Michael Zöllner as one of Germany’s first independent publishers. Tom Kraushaar later joined the company as a partner. Tropen has been under the umbrella of Klett-Cotta since 2008. The German word ‘Tropen’ means ‘the tropics’, and as such conjures up images of steaming jungles, oppressive heat, impenetrable undergrowth; but it also means ‘tropes’, in the sense of a figure of speech whereby one thing is said but another is meant.
Tropen is a Klett-Cotta imprint. It specialises in fiction that is urbane, innovative and full of surprises, alongside titles that cover social, political and pop-culture topics.
We offer belles-lettres, non-fiction - and excitement! International as well as German writers. Major authors such as Simon Strauss and Luisa Neubauer, Booker Prize winners Anna Burns and Bernadine Evaristo, Pulitzer Prize winners Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, best-selling writers Halgrimur Helgason and Mons Kallentoft – not to mention powerful German-language writers such as the novelist Zaia Alexander and the essayists Marko Martin and Thomas Oberender.
Tropen was founded in 1996 by Michael Zöllner as one of Germany’s first independent publishers. Tom Kraushaar later joined the company as a partner. Tropen has been under the umbrella of Klett-Cotta since 2008. The German word ‘Tropen’ means ‘the tropics’, and as such conjures up images of steaming jungles, oppressive heat, impenetrable undergrowth; but it also means ‘tropes’, in the sense of a figure of speech whereby one thing is said but another is meant.
