Paul Celan as a plant expert
Martin Heidegger was surprised: his guest knew more plants than he did. No wonder, because Paul Celan owned Rudolf Koch’s “Kleines Blumenbuch” (Insel Bücherei, 1933), … Read more
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Petra Hardt on German poets and thinkers on the world market
Mith the Frankfurt Book Fair, the physical marketplace for worldwide author rights will also be canceled this year. Petra Hardt, born in 1954, knows what … Read more
Book fair cancellation and the role of publishers
BWithin a week, the two major German book fairs (also the largest in the world in terms of audience approval) made two decisive decisions: First … Read more
About Elena Ferrante’s novel “The Lying Lives of Adults”
The protagonists of the series “My ingenious girlfriend”, which is based on the first novels by Elena Ferrante. Image: Magenta TV Everything is told here: … Read more
Male friends: How Brecht and Suhrkamp invented the Internet
Sascha Lobo has meanwhile let Brecht into the “digital commons” with his “Web 2.0 legacy”. However, Peter Suhrkamp, who can claim at least the same … Read more
From the estate of Hans Blumenberg: “Reality and Realism”
AThe estate of the philosopher Hans Blumenberg, who died in 1996, has since been published in a continuing manuscript. We now count about twenty volumes; … Read more
Catapult magazine: plagiarism against book publisher Hoffmann and Campe
economy Catapult Magazine “Anyone who copies us like this will get completely on their face” Status: 12:29 p.m. | Reading time: 2 minutes On the … Read more
Suhrkamp turns 70: When Siegfried Unseld was ashamed of Peter Handke
IIn Paris he met Samuel Beckett, the “only Nobel Prize for Literature who used the metro as a means of transport” – and this meeting … Read more