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The Author and His Publisher / Der Autor und sein Verleger
Lectures Delivered in Mainz and Austin
»As head of Suhrkamp Verlag, a premier German publishing house, Siegfried Unseld is eminently qualified to write about the relationship between authors and their publishers – and he does so here with engaging partisan enthusiasm.
Long familiar with what he terms the Janus-headed nature of the publishing profession, Unseld considers the dual responsibilities of a publisher: in one direction, his responsibility for the material success of his firm; and in the other, his...
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»As head of Suhrkamp Verlag, a premier German publishing house, Siegfried Unseld is eminently qualified to write about the relationship between authors and their publishers – and he does so here with engaging partisan enthusiasm.
Long familiar with what he terms the Janus-headed nature of the publishing profession, Unseld considers the dual responsibilities of a publisher: in one direction, his responsibility for the material success of his firm; and in the other, his responsibility to the intellectual ideals and spiritual requirements of his authors.
Through close examination of four writers, Unseld shows how the author's personality can affect the publisher's dilemma. Hermann Hesse, by virtue of his loyalty and his desire for financial independence, enjoyed an exemplary relationship with his publishers. With Bertolt Brecht it was all confusion; with Rainer Maria Rilke, a one-author-one-publisher lifetime alliance; with Swiss poet Robert Walser, a mire of difficulties (»Each book printed,« he once said, was »a grave for its author«).« (book description of the Chicago UP edition)
1985, 356 pages
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Year of Publication: 2020
Siegfried UnseldYear of Publication: 2020
Travel Reports
Ten days after Siegfried Unseld took over as publisher of Suhrkamp Verlag on April 1, 1959, he travels to East Berlin to visit Brecht’s widow Helene Weigel. Once returned, he dictates the first of...
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Year of Publication: 2012
Peter Handke, Siegfried UnseldYear of Publication: 2012
The Correspondence
»I am happy to announce that after reading your manuscript closely, we have decided to pub-lish your work at Suhrkamp Verlag.« This letter in August 1965 was the start of a correspon-dence consisting of nearly 600 letters in which Peter Handke finally congratulated the pub-lisher on his 75th birthday.
In their letters that stretched a period of over 35 years, Peter Handke and Siegfried...
In their letters that stretched a period of over 35 years, Peter Handke and Siegfried...
Year of Publication: 2009
Thomas Bernhard, Siegfried UnseldYear of Publication: 2009
The Correspondence
»If anyone has been hoping for just one last undiscovered drama by Thomas Bernhard, here it is. Its title is Correspondence, its birth spanning from 1961 to Bernhard's death in...
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Year of Publication: 1991
Siegfried UnseldYear of Publication: 1991
Goethe and His Publishers
»Goethe and His Publishers organizes for the first time the myriad details of Goethe's career in print. Director of the German publishing company Suhrkamp Verlag, Siegfried Unseld...
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On the 20th Anniversary of the Death of Siegfried Unseld
On October 26, 2002, publisher Siegfried Unseld died in Frankfurt am Main.Just published