About us
Welcome to the Schlück Agency
The Schlück Agency, based in Hanover, was founded in 1973 by Eva and Thomas Schlück and is likely the largest literary agency in Germany. It represents German-language authors at home and abroad and handles German-language translation rights for international publishers and agencies. We represent a wide range of authors for our international clients. As of January 2011, we also have an office in Munich. For special projects outside our core business, we work with co-agents.
Our teams says hello!
Bastian Schlück
Having grown up on book boxes, Bastian Schlück joined the agency in 1998 after training as a banker and studying literature. In 2005, he was appointed managing director. He represents German authors as well as foreign publishers and agencies.
Kathrin Nehm
Kathrin Nehm did German studies and Sociology and completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller before deciding to enter the world of bookmaking even deeper. She joined the Agency in 2012 and represents German authors and foreign clients in children's and young adult’s fiction as well as in adult fiction. Her focus is on the genres Young Adult, New Adult and Fantasy. She likes to delve into the vast realm of her Netflix account and enjoys the way to work for audio book adventures; she visits the coffee machine more often than she probably should.
Martin Meyer-Maluck
Martin Meyer-Maluck studied English and politics to become a teacher at grammar schools. He is an agency pioneer and has been supporting the team with his ideas since 1992. He heads the accounting/human resources departments and assists his colleagues expertly whenever they face computer problems. He loves to spend time with his family and is enthusiastic about gardening, motorcycling, and Hannover 96.
Eva Schlück
Eva Schlück has accompanied the agency since its foundation, starting with a desk in the hallway. For many years, she took care of the illustration department, which has since been discontinued. Nowadays, she handles author's accounts.
Sarah Knofius
After completing her studies (linguistics, computational linguistics, German studies), training (technical editing) and traineeship (Schlück Agency), Sarah Knofius now represents German authors as well as foreign clients. In addition she's one of the agency's contract managers. She is always enthusiastic about anything to do with the fantasy genre, but not so much about summer, sun and sunshine. As long as the sky is grey, there is enough coffee and the internet connection is stable, nobody has anything to fear from her.
Beate Hönicke
"Long, long time ago“, she studied business administration in Dresden (and is thus the agency's "quota Ossi"), only to be hired in 2006 by the agency's accounting department after longer periods in the hotel and catering business. Since then, the accounting and distribution of money has been her favorite thing to do. After a day at the office, she has to move: cycling, jogging, playing tennis, and, of course, she loves reading! When she will change to the "leisure management department" in a few years, she plans to travel the world with her two grandchildren.
Thomas Schlück
Thomas Schlück, actually a bank clerk, started his own business as a translator and founded the agency with his wife Eva in 1973, in which can still be found wandering around from time to time
Franka Zastrow
After studying Roman Languages and English studies in Freiburg, Franka Zastrow went on to study book science in Munich. She joined the Schlück Agency in 2011, coming from Meller where she worked as an agent for 12 years. In 2022, she was appointed managing director. She manages the agency's branch office in the publishing city of Munich. Franka represents German authors as well as foreign publishers and agencies.
Tanja Heitmann
Tanja Heitmann studied political science and German studies. During her studies, she already worked at the agency, today she represents German authors.
Anja Kälberloh
Anja Kälberloh, gelernte Industriekauffrau und Bilanzbuchhalterin jongliert gerne mit Zahlen und liebt Excel – auch hier versteckt sich Poesie.In ihrer Freizeit findet man sie allerdings eher auf Pferdeweiden und bei Poetry-Slams. Außerdem wird jedes Buch verschlungen, das sie in die Finger bekommt.
Friederike Belder
As a child, Friederike Belder had a story read to her by Heinrich Hannover so often that she could retell it word for word. Later she did internships at publishing houses and studied history, English and German studies. Stories of any kind, whether in book form or as a film, are a passion of hers. She lived in Italy and Ireland for a long time and is now responsible for books for children and young people at the agency. She has a weakness for everything you can eat and likes to be and eat with people - especially when there is something to laugh about. Theoretically, she exercises, but after a day in the office and on the playground with her children, her sofa usually calls her to rest.
Caroline Hartge
Caroline Hartge is the agency's contract manager - sometimes contract fairy, sometimes contract grrrl, depending on the type of day and the general weather. On her desk you will find, among other things: Patrick Woodroffe's 'Mythopoetikon' (later translated into German by Thomas Schlück), a poster from the 'Lyrik unterwegs' campaign of Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG (Richard Brautigan's 'Der Hillary Expreß'), a signed copy of 'Alles über den Künstler' (‘Weiterdichten!') by Robert Gernhardt, the great Conrady and a bodice ripper (background: sailing ship): a conglomeration that depicts everything relevant here pretty accurately. - More can be found out over a latte at Wedekindplatz.
Nina Sievers
Nina Sievers was an intern at the agency in the summer of 2018. Since then she has been working as a student temp, and mostly runs around with a stack of papers. As a member of the "Generation Internship", she also worked for some time at a television station, an art society, a magazine, and at a literary festival. She mainly studies German philology and cultural anthropology/European ethnology at the University of Göttingen. Several liters of herbal tea, a good book, YouTube yoga and, if things go well, a few nice cats, make any day a good day for her.
