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Suhrkamp Verlag is a German publishing house, established in 1950 and generally acknowledged as one of the leading
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an
publisher
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s of fine literature. Its roots go back to the "arianized" part of the
S. Fischer Verlag.
In January 2010 the headquarters of the company moved from
Frankfurt
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to
Berlin
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. Suhrkamp declared bankruptcy in 2013, following a longstanding legal conflict between its owners. In 2015, economist
Jonathan Landgrebe was announced as director.
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Early history
The firm was established by Peter Suhrkamp
Peter Suhrkamp (full name ''Johann Heinrich Suhrkamp''; 28 March 1891, Hatten – 31 March 1959, Frankfurt) was a German publisher and founder of the Suhrkamp Verlag.
Early years
Suhrkamp was a farmer’s son from Kirchhatten, some south-east o ...
, who had led the equally renowned S. Fischer Verlag since 1936. As the censorship of the Nazi Regime endangered the existence of the S. Fischer Verlag with its many dissident authors, Gottfried Bermann Fischer in 1935 reached an agreement with the Propaganda Ministry under which the publication of the not accepted authors would leave Germany while others, the "aryanized" part, would be published under Peter Suhrkamp as managing director and, inter alia, the name "Suhrkamp" — including Nazi-oriented authors.
Nevertheless, Suhrkamp was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, but survived concentration camp
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imprisonment. Following a suggestion by Hermann Hesse
Hermann Karl Hesse (; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include ''Demian'', '' Steppenwolf'', '' Siddhartha'', and ''The Glass Bead Game'', each of which explores an individual's ...
, he left the Fischer publishing house, establishing his own in 1950. A majority of the writers associated with Fischer followed him. Among the first authors he published were Hesse, Rudolf Alexander Schröder
Rudolf Alexander Schröder (26 January 1878 – 22 August 1962) was a German translator and poet. In 1962 he was awarded the Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Preis für Übersetzung. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.
Career
Much ...
, Hermann Kasack
Hermann Robert Richard Eugen Kasack (24 July 1896 – 10 January 1966) was a German writer. He is best known for his novel '' Die Stadt hinter dem Strom'' (''The city beyond the river''). Kasack was a pioneer of using the medium broadcast for l ...
, T. S. Eliot, George Bernard Shaw
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and Bertolt Brecht.[Ingo Langer: ]
Wie Peter Suhrkamp sich seinen Verlag ergaunerte.
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'', 29. Mai 2013.
The Unseld period
Siegfried Unseld joined the firm in 1952, became part owner in 1957, and publisher on Suhrkamp's death in 1959. He led Suhrkamp Verlag until his own death in 2002.
Under Unseld's leadership, the publisher established itself within three major fields: 20th century German
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literature, foreign language literature and humanities
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. Suhrkamp books also gained acclaim for their innovative design and typography, mainly due to the work of Willy Fleckhaus
Wilhelm August Fleckhaus (21 December 1925 – 12 September 1983) was a German designer and art director, perhaps best known as art director of '' Twen'' magazine throughout its 1959 to 1970 existence. He was a prolific designer of book covers.
F ...
.
During Unseld's reign, Suhrkamp published some of the leading modern German language authors in addition to those already mentioned.
The post-Unseld period
After Unseld's death, the firm was shaken by inner strife. Today, it is led by Jonathan Landgrebe. However, some of its leading authors, such as Martin Walser
Martin Walser (; born 24 March 1927) is a German writer.
Life
Walser was born in Wasserburg am Bodensee, on Lake Constance. His parents were coal merchants, and they also kept an inn next to the train station in Wasserburg. He described the ...
, have left the publishing house.
Suhrkamp Verlag has 140 employees and an annual turnover of approximately 30 million €
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. Until January 2010, the company headquarters were situated in Frankfurt
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, Germany
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; after that, they moved to Berlin.
Authors writing in German
Jurek Becker
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, Jürgen Becker, Thomas Bernhard
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, Peter Bichsel
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Bichsel was born 1935 in Lucerne, Switzerland, the son of manual labourers. Shortly after ...
, Bertolt Brecht, Volker Braun
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, Paul Celan, Tankred Dorst
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Dorst lived and worked in Munich. His farces, parables, one-act-plays and adaptations were inspired by the theatre of the absurd and the works of Ionesc ...
, Günter Eich
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Life
Eich made his first appearance in print with some poems ...
, Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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, Max Frisch
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, Durs Grünbein
Durs Grünbein (born 1962) is a German poet and essayist.
Life and career
Durs Grünbein was born and grew up in Dresden. He studied Theater Studies in East Berlin, to which he moved in 1985.
Since the Peaceful Revolution nonviolently toppled ...
, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
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, Peter Handke
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, Wolfgang Hildesheimer
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Hildesheimer was born of Jewish parents in Hambu ...
, Uwe Johnson
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, Thomas Kling
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Life
Thomas Kling was born in Bingen am Rhein, grew up in Hilden and went to school in Düsseldorf. He studied philology in Cologne, Düsseldorf and Vienna and lived in Finland for ...
, Wolfgang Koeppen, Karl Krolow
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Biography
Krolow came from a family of civil servants ...
, Andreas Maier, Friederike Mayröcker
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, Robert Menasse
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Menasse was born in Vienna. As an undergraduate, he studied German studies, philosophy and political science in Vienna, Salzburg and Messina. In 1980 he completed his PhD thesi ...
, Adolf Muschg
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Adolf Muschg was born in Zollikon, canton of Zürich, Switzerland. He studied German studies, English studies a ...
, Paul Nizon
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Biography
The son of a Russian chemist and a Swiss mother, after leaving school he studied history of art, classical archaeology and German language and literatu ...
, Hans Erich Nossack
Hans Erich Nossack (30 January 1901 – 2 November 1977) was a German writer. Among his works are ''Spätestens im November'' (1955), ''Der jüngere Bruder'' (1958) and ''Ein glücklicher Mensch'' (1975). In 1961 Nossack was awarded the Geo ...
, Ernst Penzoldt
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, Doron Rabinovici
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Overview
His first book, ''Papirnik'' ( Suhrkamp, 1994), was a collection of short stories, most of them set i ...
, Nelly Sachs
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, Arno Schmidt
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, Robert Walser, Ernst Weiß and Peter Weiss
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.
Foreign authors
Amongst non-German writing authors are Samuel Beckett, Octavio Paz
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, James Joyce
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, Marcel Proust, José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Clarín, Mercè Rodoreda, Jorge Semprún
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, Lídia Jorge
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Life
Lídia Jorge was born in the village of Boliq ...
, Agustina Bessa-Luís, Juan Ramón Jiménez
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, Amos Oz
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, Julia Kissina, Sylvia Plath
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, Eduardo Mendoza, and Clarice Lispector
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.
Latin American literature
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has become a special focus point for Suhrkamp Verlag, its catalogue includes names such as Pablo Neruda, Isabel Allende
Isabel Angélica Allende Llona (; born in Lima, 2 August 1942) is a Chilean writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the genre magical realism, is known for novels such as ''The House of the Spirits'' (''La casa de los espír ...
, Mario Vargas Llosa
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, Manuel Puig
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, João Ubaldo Ribeiro
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, Adolfo Bioy Casares
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, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Alejo Carpentier
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, Julio Cortázar, Osman Lins
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, José Lezama Lima
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, Juan Carlos Onetti
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and Octavio Paz
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, and Tuvia Tenenbom
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.
''Bibliothek Suhrkamp''
The book series ''Bibliothek Suhrkamp'' encompasses leading modern authors, including Ingeborg Bachmann
Ingeborg Bachmann (25 June 1926 – 17 October 1973) was an Austrian poet and author.
Biography
Bachmann was born in Klagenfurt, in the Austrian state of Carinthia, the daughter of Olga (née Haas) and Matthias Bachmann, a schoolteacher. Her f ...
, T. S. Eliot, Carlo Emilio Gadda
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, Federico García Lorca
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, André Gide
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, Ernest Hemingway
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, Yasushi Inoue
was a Japanese writer of novels, short stories, poetry and essays, noted for his historical and autobiographical fiction. His most acclaimed works include '' The Bullfight'' (''Tōgyū'', 1949), ''The Roof Tile of Tempyō'' (''Tenpyō no iraka' ...
, James Joyce
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, Franz Kafka
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, Vladimir Mayakovsky
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, Thomas Mann
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, Yukio Mishima
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, Cesare Pavese, Ezra Pound, Marcel Proust, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jean-Paul Sartre
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, Georg Trakl
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, Giuseppe Ungaretti
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, Paul Valéry
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and Marina Tsvetaeva
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.
Other book series
Other book series published by Suhrkamp Verlag have included:
* ''edition suhrkamp'' (1963– )
* ''suhrkamp taschenbuch'' (1971– )
* ''suhrkamp taschenbuch wissenschaft'' (1973– )
* ''edition unseld'' (2008– )
* ''filmedition suhrkamp'' (2009– ).
Academic authors
Social sciences and Humanities are represented by writers such as Theodor W. Adorno
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He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of criti ...
, Walter Benjamin
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, Ernst Bloch
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, Hans Blumenberg Hans Blumenberg (born 13 July 1920, Lübeck – 28 March 1996, Altenberge) was a German philosopher and intellectual historian.
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, Norbert Elias
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, Paul Feyerabend
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, Jürgen Habermas, Hans Jonas, Niklas Luhmann
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, Tilmann Moser, Gershom Scholem
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, Siegfried Kracauer
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, Helmuth Plessner
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Plessner had an itinerant education in Germany betwee ...
, Burghart Schmidt, Georg Simmel, Viktor von Weizsäcker, Joseph Weizenbaum
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Life and caree ...
and Ludwig Wittgenstein
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. A number of Suhrkamp's publications in this field are considered standard academic reading.
Archives
In 2010 "more than 2,000 boxes" of archives, described as material on the "history of ... Suhrkamp" and "the personal archive of Siegfried Unseld", were lodged with the German Literature Archive (''Deutsches Literaturarchiv'') in Marbach am Neckar
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.German publishing history
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