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27-513: The firm was established by Peter Suhrkamp , 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,

54-533: A Battalion Patrol Leader. For his contribution as an Assault Troop leader he won the Knight’s Cross of the Royal Order of Hohenzollern , awarded "with swords, for particular bravery”. Nevertheless, his experiences on the frontline led him to a nervous breakdown . After the war he studied Literature and linguistics at, successively, Heidelberg , Frankfurt and Munich . During his studies he also worked as

81-507: A freelancer with the Berliner Tageblatt (BT) , a leading liberal newspaper of the time, also working on the monthly magazine “Uhu” which was produced by the same publisher as the BT. During this time he was married three times: to Ida Plöger, a teacher, from 1913–1918, to Irmgard Caroline Lehmann from 1919–1923 and, more briefly, in 1923/24 to the opera singer, Fanny Cleve. In 1932 he joined

108-483: A serious lung disease, he was released. Several celebrities from the world of culture and the arts had approached members of the Führer’s inner circle, to urge Suhrkamp’s release. These included the sculptor Arno Breker , who had intervened with Albert Speer , the writer Gerhart Hauptmann , who had invoked support from Baldur von Schirach , and the writer Hans Carossa , who had approached Ernst Kaltenbrunner . After

135-1471: A special focus point for Suhrkamp Verlag, its catalogue includes names such as Pablo Neruda , Isabel Allende , Mario Vargas Llosa , Manuel Puig , João Ubaldo Ribeiro , Adolfo Bioy Casares , Guillermo Cabrera Infante , Alejo Carpentier , Julio Cortázar , Osman Lins , José Lezama Lima , Juan Carlos Onetti and Octavio Paz , and Tuvia Tenenbom . The book series Bibliothek Suhrkamp encompasses leading modern authors, including Ingeborg Bachmann , T. S. Eliot , Carlo Emilio Gadda , Federico García Lorca , André Gide , Ernest Hemingway , Yasushi Inoue , James Joyce , Franz Kafka , Vladimir Mayakovsky , Thomas Mann , Yukio Mishima , Cesare Pavese , Ezra Pound , Marcel Proust , Rainer Maria Rilke , Jean-Paul Sartre , Georg Trakl , Giuseppe Ungaretti , Paul Valéry and Marina Tsvetaeva . Other book series published by Suhrkamp Verlag have included: Social sciences and Humanities are represented by writers such as Theodor W. Adorno , Walter Benjamin , Ernst Bloch , Hans Blumenberg , Norbert Elias , Paul Feyerabend , Jürgen Habermas , Hans Jonas , Niklas Luhmann , Tilmann Moser, Gershom Scholem , Siegfried Kracauer , Helmuth Plessner , Burghart Schmidt , Georg Simmel , Viktor von Weizsäcker , Joseph Weizenbaum and Ludwig Wittgenstein . A number of Suhrkamp's publications in this field are considered standard academic reading. In 2010 "more than 2,000 boxes" of archives, described as material on

162-705: A teacher at the Odenwald School , a private boarding school in Heppenheim and at the prestigious Wickersdorf Free School Community . From 1921 to 1925 Suhrkamp worked as dramatic adviser and director at the Landestheater Darmstadt . Between 1925 and 1929 he returned to teaching at the Wickersdorf Free School Community where he had earlier worked while a student. He finally gave up teaching in 1929 and relocated to Berlin where he worked as

189-733: Is a German and Russian artist and writer. Julia Kissina was born in 1966 in Kyiv, Ukraine, to a Jewish family, and studied dramatic writing at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow, also known as VGIK . A political refugee, she immigrated to Germany in 1990, where she later graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . A longtime member of the Moscow Conceptualist movement and one of

216-694: The German surrender , on 8 October 1945 Suhrkamp received the first publishing license from the British Military Government in Berlin and began rebuilding the company. He cooperated with Bermann Fischer (who had operated as a publisher during the war in New York City), publishing some of his authors, under licence, in Germany. Suhrkamp and Fischer discussed a reintegration of the two businesses that had split when

243-481: The S. Fischer Verlag (a well established publishing house), initially as editor of the Neue Rundschau , a literary magazine. In 1933 he joined the company’s board. In 1935 he married Annemarie Seidel , who had started a career as an actress but been obliged to retire on health grounds. A year later the S. Fischer Verlag company was split when Gottfried Bermann Fischer moved (initially) to Vienna , taking part of

270-902: The Wadden Sea . In the years immediately following the war the Suhrkamps entertained eminent guests here, such as Max Frisch . However, in 1953 the holiday villa was sold to the energetic newspaper magnate Axel Springer and his wife for 45,000 Marks: Surhkamp invested his windfall in the German language publishing rights for Marcel Proust ’s works. Authors published by Suhkamp included Theodor W. Adorno , Samuel Beckett , Bertolt Brecht , T. S. Eliot , Max Frisch , Ernst Penzoldt , Rudolf Alexander Schröder , Martin Walser and Carl Zuckmayer . A small insight into his personal relationships with "his" authors comes in his volume Briefe an die Autoren ( "Letters to

297-543: 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 imprisonment. Following a suggestion by Hermann Hesse , he left the Fischer publishing house, establishing his own in 1950. A majority of the writers associated with Fischer followed him. Among

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324-677: The "history of ... Suhrkamp" and "the personal archive of Siegfried Unseld", were lodged with the German Literature Archive ( Deutsches Literaturarchiv ) in Marbach am Neckar . 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 . Suhrkamp was a farmer’s son from Kirchhatten , some ten miles (16 km) south-east of Oldenburg . The house where he

351-565: The "new“ Suhrkamp Verlag owed much to the initiative of Hermann Hesse who provided encouragement and moral support, and was also able to provide valuable contacts with investors, notably the Swiss Reinhart family. Authors who had remained with Fischer Verlag during the Nazi years were given a free choice as to whether to stay with the existing business, now under Bermann Fischer, or have their future works published by Peter Suhrkamp’s new concern. In

378-631: The City of Frankfurt . Honorary membership of the German Academy for Language and Literature (itself still less than ten years old) followed in 1957. Suhrkamp was an enthusiastic visitor to the Island of Sylt where his wife had retained a villa following the ending of her marriage to the wealthy (Dutch by origin) musicologist Anthony van Hoboken . (Annemairie remained on friendly terms with her first husband.) The villa had been constructed in 1929 directly on

405-448: The Moon) draws from her childhood in the 1970s Kyiv, exploring the tragic dynamic between surreal perception and bureaucratic despotism. Written in a similar style, her novel "Elephantinas Moskauer Jahre" (2016, tr: Elephantina’s Moscow Years) is a coming-of-age story about a young woman who moves to Moscow to explore the depths of the artistic underground in search of true poetry. Julia Kissina

432-497: The authors" ) Suhrkamp also tried his hand at authorship and at translation. His Bibliothek Suhrkamp ( Suhrkamp Library ) series was the first such series to feature works of twentieth century literature that combined literary merit with the new scientific spirit of the age. The “Suhrkamp culture” was vigorously underwritten by Siegfried Unseld who joined as the publisher’s senior editor in 1951 and, after Suhrkamp died in 1959, succeeded him as publisher in chief and sole owner of

459-713: The best known authors of Russian literary avant-garde, Kissina had been a regular contributor to the two of Russia's Samizdat literature journals, "Obscuri Viri" and "Mitin Journal". Her début short novel "Of the Dove's Flight Over the Mud of Phobia" (1992), became a cult hit of "Samizdat". Kissina's poetry and prose subsequently appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including the much-translated anthology of modern Russian literature, "Russian Flowers of Evil" (1997). Her first collection of stories in German "Vergiss Tarantino" (tr: Forget Tarantino)

486-593: The business with him. Part of the business had to remain in Germany, being purchased by Peter Suhrkamp, who would continue to lead it till he was accused of high treason and arrested by the Gestapo in April 1944. The legal process continued till early in 1945, when he was placed in “ protective custody " (a euphemism then much in vogue in Germany) in the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg . Two weeks later, suffering from

513-624: The business. Peter Suhrkamp died in Frankfurt’s University Clinic . He was cremated and his ashes were conserved in a suitable container on the Island of Sylt, at the church of St. Severin in Keitum . Suhrkamp had mandated in his hand-written will that his ashes were to be scattered in the North Sea from the coast of Sylt, but it turned out that this was against the rules. The placing of

540-1160: The company headquarters were situated in Frankfurt , Germany; after that, they moved to Berlin. Jurek Becker , Jürgen Becker , Thomas Bernhard , Peter Bichsel , Bertolt Brecht , Volker Braun , Paul Celan , Tankred Dorst , Günter Eich , Hans Magnus Enzensberger , Max Frisch , Durs Grünbein , Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht , Peter Handke , Wolfgang Hildesheimer , Uwe Johnson , Thomas Kling , Wolfgang Koeppen , Karl Krolow , Andreas Maier , Friederike Mayröcker , Robert Menasse , Adolf Muschg , Paul Nizon , Hans Erich Nossack , Ernst Penzoldt , Doron Rabinovici , Nelly Sachs , Arno Schmidt , Robert Walser , Ernst Weiß , Peter Szondi , and Peter Weiss . Amongst non-German writing authors are Samuel Beckett , Octavio Paz , James Joyce , Marcel Proust , José Maria de Eça de Queiroz , Clarín , Mercè Rodoreda , Jorge Semprún , Lídia Jorge , Agustina Bessa-Luís , Juan Ramón Jiménez , Amos Oz , Julia Kissina , Sylvia Plath , Eduardo Mendoza , and Clarice Lispector . Latin American literature has become

567-460: The end, 33 of the 48 authors in question, including Bertolt Brecht and Hermann Hesse , switched to Suhrkamp Verlag. Suhrkamp’s fourth marriage was lasting better than the first three, and his wife Annemarie Seidel also joined the firm, working as an editor and translator. Public recognition followed the commercial success of Suhrkamp Verlag, and in 1956 Suhrkamp received the Goethe Plaque of

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594-574: The first authors he published were Hesse, Rudolf Alexander Schröder , Hermann Kasack , T. S. Eliot , George Bernard Shaw and Bertolt Brecht . 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 literature, foreign language literature and humanities . Suhrkamp books also gained acclaim for their innovative design and typography, mainly due to

621-581: The political situation had obliged Fisher to leave Germany back in 1936. There was talk of refounding S. Fischer Verlag in Frankfurt am Main . In due course Fischer was re-established in Frankfurt, but there was a rift between Fischer and Suhrkamp over the future of the business. Following an out-of-court settlement, it was Bermann Fischer who recovered the Frankfurt publishing business that carried his name and Peter Suhrkamp who left to establish, in 1950, his own publishing house, Suhrkamp Verlag . The creation of

648-705: The urn containing his ashes in an aperture in the wall of the church cemetery was organised by Siegfried Unseld . Peter Suhrkamp died one or two days before his divorce from Annemarie was scheduled to take place. The marriage had been affected by Annemarie’s alcoholism in its final years and the divorce had been agreed upon between the parties by the time of Peter Suhrkamp’s death. Peter Suhrkamp predeceased his 91-year-old mother, but only by fourteen days. Their mother-son relationship has been described as an "ambivalent non-relationship” ( "ambivalente Nicht-Beziehung" ). Julia Kissina Julia Kissina (born 1966 in Kyiv ),

675-473: The work of Willy Fleckhaus . During Unseld's reign, Suhrkamp published some of the leading modern German language authors in addition to those already mentioned. 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 , have left the publishing house. Suhrkamp Verlag has 140 employees and an annual turnover of approximately 30 million €. Until January 2010,

702-524: Was born is still standing: in the town hall at Kirchhatten there is a bust of him by Johannes Cernota (2012) as well as a portrait, while a few of his works are exhibited at the local library. As a young man Suhrkamp was a candidate for the priesthood at the Evangelical seminary in Oldenburg . Like many of his generation, in 1914 he volunteered for the army where he would serve as an infantryman and as

729-566: Was published in 2005, the same year as her children’s book "Milin und der Zauberstift" (tr: Milin and the Magic Pencil). Her style, characterized by whimsical humor, precise observations of social conflicts and a distinct sense of the absurd, can be described as auto-fictional fabulism. An essential theme of her work is "civilization and its discontents". Despite intertextual experiments with words and subjects, her books are intricately plotted. Her novel "Frühling auf dem Mond" (2013, tr: Springtime on

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