Axel Matthes

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Axel Matthes (born May 18, 1936 in Berlin ) is a German publisher .

Life

Matthes studied law and sociology at the Free University of Berlin . He worked as an antiquarian , bookseller and editor before founding the Rogner & Bernhard publishing house in Munich in 1968 together with Klaus P. Rogner and Marianne Bernhard. There he was responsible for the program until 1976 and had to resign at the end of the year following a decision by the managing director Antje Ellermann . In 1977, Matthes founded the Matthes & Seitz publishing house in Munich together with the book manufacturer Claus Seitz . After Seitz left in 1983, Matthes continued the publishing house alone. It included the works of Antonin Artaud , Georges Bataille , Michel Leiris , Donatien Alphonse François de Sade and Rahel Varnhagen von Ense . Matthes worked as editor of the writings of André Masson and Salvador Dalí . From 1987 to 1995 he was the publishing yearbook Der Pfahl. Yearbook out of the no man's land between art and science . He published in the magazine Etappe . In 1997 he was named Chevalier des Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his services to French literature .

After a partner left in 1995, Matthes ran into financial difficulties. Negotiations about a takeover of the publishing house by Suhrkamp were not continued after the publisher Siegfried Unseld's death in 2002. In 2004, after financial difficulties, Matthes sold the book rights and the warehouse of Matthes & Seitz to Andreas Rötzer , who re-founded the publishing house under the new name Matthes & Seitz Berlin . In it, Matthes also published books by Bataille and Jürgen von der Wense .

Fonts

  • I allow myself the revolt , ed. v. Axel Matthes and Bernd Mattheus , Matthes & Seitz, Munich, 1985
  • The sacred in everyday life or From the swing of things , collected by Axel Matthes, Munich, Diederichs, 2012

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Axel Matthes must leave Rogner & Bernhard", in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 15, 1976, page 8
  2. ↑ The left-right game. Retrieved January 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Axel Matthes (80) | Book market. May 18, 2016, accessed on January 22, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Matthes, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin