Albert Christian Sellner

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Albert Christian Sellner (born May 23, 1945 in Litoměřice , Czechoslovakia ) is a German publicist, publisher, literary agent and antiquarian .

Life

Youth and Studies

Sellner was moved to Bavaria with his parents in 1946. He spent his school days in Furth i. Forest and Neumarkt / Upper Palatinate. There he attended the classical grammar school. From 1965 to 1969 he studied Eastern European history and church history in Erlangen. In Vienna he did research on Austromarxism and the Communist International . In 1971 he joined the left-wing book and publishing project Politladen Erlangen-Gaiganz , where he played a key role in shaping the program. Politically, after turning away from academic Marxism, Sellner was close to the spontaneous movement and its Frankfurt and Munich organizations. The Politladen also took over the printing and production of the We want everything , the mouthpiece of the Frankfurt Revolutionary Struggle ( Cohn-Bendit , Thomas Schmid , Matthias Beltz , Joschka Fischer and others). After an interlude in a Franconian rural commune - 1975 to 1977 - Sellner moved to Frankfurt, where he has lived and worked ever since.

In Frankfurt

In 1979 Sellner joined the editorial team of the satirical magazine Pardon . In 1981 he became editor (under the pseudonym Emil Non-Benefit ) of the Pflasterstrand published by Daniel Cohn-Bendit , the most important discussion body of the spontaneous movement. In 1986 Sellner founded the anti-zeitgeist magazine Joseph , of which a total of seven issues were published, and became editor and editor at Eichborn Verlag . In addition to many individual titles, he was in charge of the Scarabäus book series (including Matthias Beltz Schwarze Politik , Norbert Seitz Banana Republic and Gurkentruppe , Hermann Rotermund Heldinnen ), some literature and cartoon titles ( Rafael Seligmann , Dorothea Zeemann , E. Kmölninger, Linthaler / Fian, Mary Leunig), the Historica Collection , in which out-of-print texts by important historians have been reissued, political pamphlets ( Warnfried Dettling , Alexander Gauland , Peter Grafe , Udo Knapp , Thomas Schmid, Dan Diner ) and political conversation books with Richard von Weizsäcker , Heiner Geissler , Franz Vranitzky , George Soros . From 1995 Sellner worked as an editor, publishing agent, publicist and filmmaker ( Maria Modern - the Marian theme in modern art, 1997 at ARTE / ZDF). From 1996 he published an edition Zukunft (Metropolitan and ECON) with Matthias Horx , the most important work of which was Maxeiner / Miersch's Eco-Optimism . In 1999, Sellner founded Podprint Verlag together with Esther Sharell, which, in the trend of the New Economy, made use of the possibilities of publishing on demand. Over time, however, the focus shifted to the antiquarian book trade; The Sellner, Stein und Partner antiquarian bookshop specializes in the trade in books from the Die Andere Bibliothek series founded by Hans Magnus Enzensberger . The Sellner, Stein und Partner antiquarian bookshop ceased operations in July 2016 and carried out a clearance sale. Sellner announced that he would be working again as an author.

Literary activity

As an author, Sellner published articles in the daily press, magazines and anthologies, the books Everlasting Saints Calendar and Everlasting Popes' Calendar .

Publications

  • 1979 Contribution to Seifert / Nagel: Inflation of forms of therapy (rororo 7235)
  • 1981 William Blake-Essay in: The Return of the Imaginary (Trikont-dianus Verlag, ISBN 3-88167-080-7 )
  • 1983 Matthias Horx, Albert Sellner and Cora Stephan (eds.): Infrared. Against the utopia of total life. To deal with "fundamental opposition" and "new realism". (Rotbuch Verlag ISBN 3-88022-276-2 )
  • 1986 Locus occultus , essay on Freiburg, course book 86 "Esoterik", Rotbuch Verlag Berlin
  • 1988 For the Lexicon of Left Leading Figures (Edmund Jacoby) eight short biographies a. a. to Viktor and Friedrich Adler, Otto Bauer, Karl Renner, Ossietzky and Tito (Gutenberg Book Guild, 978-3-763230-28-0)
  • 1988 The so-called God (Ed. Sellner with contributions by Sellner, Gunnar Heinsohn, Micha Brumlik, Matthias Beltz, Dora Zeemann and others) (Eichborn Verlag ISBN 3-821804-21-1 )
  • 1993 Perpetual Calendar of Saints , Volume 103 in HM Enzensberger's Other Library (Eichborn Verlag, ISBN 3-821841-03-6 )
  • 1998 New edition of the perpetual calendar of saints (two thousand and one ISBN 3861502828 )
  • 2006 The Everlasting Popes Calendar , Volume 260 of the Other Library (Eichborn Verlag, ISBN 978-3-821845-75-3 )
  • 2015 Expanded and repositioned new edition of the book of saints under the title Rebels of God - Stories of the Saints for Every Day (Conte Verlag, ISBN 978-3-95602-014-8 )
  • 2019 From ancient paganism to Christian folk religion and veneration of saints , essay in the anthology Ingobertus: From pilgrims to patrons (Ed. Elke Sonn), Conte Verlag, ISBN 978-3956021893
  • 2019 The socialist tea generation , contribution in Go over! Revisited: An East-West Reader and its History (Ed. Frank Blohm), Lukas Verlag für Kunst- und Geistesgeschichte, ISBN 978-3867323260
  • 2019 The 'Sexual Revolution' and its Failure , Foreword to Pope Benedict XVI. em .: Yes, there is sin in the Church - On the abuse scandal in the Catholic Church , fe-medienverlag ISBN 978-3863572327

Film work

  • 1985 Text for the film Kandinsky by Georgia van der Rohe
  • 1995 Concepts for ARTE themed evenings (saints, Maria, places of worship, etc.)
  • 1997 Film for ARTE (with Jürgen Hille): Maria Modern - Magic, Art, Marketing

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ to the biography: Conte Verlag ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Antiquariat Sellner, Stein und Partner ( Memento from January 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Accessed January 9, 2016
  3. ↑ Tilman Spreckelsen: Altbücherland burned, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung July 28, 2016, page 9
  4. ↑ Guest commentary in Die Welt - January 30, 2009
  5. ^ Article in the Vatican magazine - May 2015 ( Memento from May 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Sellner, Albert Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist, editor, literary agent and antiquarian
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Litoměřice , Czechoslovakia