Author bookstore
At one author bookstore is next to the operating them booksellers writers as partners involved.
history
In the 1970s, an author's bookstore was opened in Berlin , Frankfurt am Main and Munich in order to counter the trend towards large bookstores and their product ranges aimed solely at mainstream and sales with “literature as art” and ambitious world literature . The writers who were already involved as shareholders when they were founded made a one-off financial contribution and are still associated with the author's bookstores today with "a lot of advice and action".
- In 1973, Martin Gregor-Dellin , Jürgen Kolbe , Michael Krüger , Fritz Arnold, Paul Wühr , Inge Poppe , Christoph Buggert , Günter Herburger , Tankred Dorst and Peter Laemmle founded the first cooperatively organized author's bookstore in Munich .
- In September 1976 an author's bookstore was officially opened in Berlin-Charlottenburg . In his speech, Günter Grass once again raised u. a. on the " City " as the location of author bookshops. Among the present writers and cultural workers were u. a. Hildegard and Reinhard Baumgart , Peter Bichsel , Heinrich Böll , Elias Canetti , Ingeborg Drewitz , Tankred Dorst , Marianne Frisch , Ernst Jandl , Urs Jaeggi , Uwe Johnson , Allen Ginsberg , Wolfgang Hildesheimer , Walter Höllerer , Elfriede Jelinek , Walter Kempowski , Brigitte Kronauer , Wolf Lepenies , Friederike Mayröcker , Margarete Mitscherlich , Oskar Pastior , Elisabeth Plessen , Gerlind Reinshagen , Klaus Staeck , Uwe Timm , Vicco von Bülow , Klaus Wagenbach , Martin Walser and Peter Weiss .
In 2008, the two original operators of the author's bookstore in Berlin retired and the authors elected two new ones. This was followed in 2011 by a move not far from the first location to “Else-Ury-Bogen” at the Savignyplatz S-Bahn station .
- In 1979 the last one to open was the authors' bookstore in Frankfurt am Main, which in 2001 joined forces with the Karl Marx bookstore and opened the Marx & Co branch specializing in fiction in Frankfurt's Westend .
As an event location
The author's bookstores have also established themselves as the venue for readings by well-known authors, especially in Berlin a. a. also with the participation of Isabel Allende , Heinz Berggruen , Alfred Brendel , Marica Bodrožić , Friedrich Christian Delius , Jacques Derrida , Thea Dorn , Umberto Eco , Lars Gustafsson , Wolfgang Kohlhaase , György Konrád , Michael Krüger , Sibylle Lewitscharoff , Gert Loschütz , Ulrich Plenzdorf , Hans Sahl , Ingo Schulze , Jorge Semprún , Susan Sontag and Hanns Zischler .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f autorenbuchhandlung.com On the history of the author's bookstores
- ↑ a b autorenbuchhandlung-marx.de on the history of the author's bookstore in Frankfurt am Main
- ↑ a b autorenbuchhandlung.de on the history of the author's bookstore in Munich
- ↑ Interview with the new operators of the Berlin authors' bookstore since 2008
- ↑ Alicia Lindhoff: Frankfurt-Westend: Good literature meets politics , Frankfurter Rundschau , January 22, 2015