The auction, for the purchase of the rights to publish the political memoirs of the former Chancellor, would have reached nearly 400,000 euros.
Since she definitively left the political scene on December 8, Angela Merkel, 67, has devoted herself in particular to writing her political memoirs with her former adviser and close collaborator, Beate Baumann. In France, competition is fierce among publishers to win the publication rights of the work whose title is currently unknown. It would ultimately be Albin Michel, founded in 1902, who would have won the bet, according to the Sunday newspaper. “The auctions for the purchase of the rights reached colossal sums, nearly 400,000 euros“, according to the weekly.
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This writing project, which aims to explain the main political decisions taken by the former Chancellor during her 16 years in power, will last two years. Angela Merkel’s political memoirs will be published in the fall of 2024, announced Kiepenheuer & Witsch, the German publishing house which obtained the worldwide rights for this work and which will publish it in Germany. “I am happy to have the opportunity to report on the decisions and situations that have been at the heart of my political career in a book, which I wrote with Beate Baumann, and to explain them to a wide audience, while returning to my personal history“said Angela Merkel on the site of the German publisher.
Member of Parliament for more than 30 years, Angela Merkel, who at the beginning of the year declined a job offer at the UN, now has an office in the premises of the Bundestag.