Berthold Spangenberg

Berthold Spangenberg (born May 17, 1916 in Dresden , † January 16, 1986 in Munich ) was a German publisher . He also published under the pseudonym Jörg Junker .

Life

Spangenberg was a son of the bridge builder Heinrich Spangenberg and his wife, Elisabeth, née West. After graduating from high school, Spangenberg studied natural sciences and economics in Munich and Lausanne .

At the end of 1944 Spangenberg founded the resistance group "Bavarian Freedom Movement", which was directed against National Socialism . After 1945 he was a member of the Starnberg City Council for the SPD . In 1946 Spangenberg married Christa Jung, a daughter of the politician and publicist Edgar Jung, who was murdered by the SS in 1934 .

In 1946 and 1947, Spangenberg was the owner and head of the Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung in Munich as well as co-founder and co-owner of the Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv). In 1958 he was involved as an expert in the copyright reform.

The legal dispute with Gustaf Gründgens

In the early 1960s, on the initiative of Erika Mann , Spangenberg brought the first work edition of her brother Klaus' writings onto the market, to whose rediscovery he made a significant contribution, including the autobiography The Turning Point and the novel Mephisto - The novel of a career . In the case of the former, Klaus Mann's former companion, the actor Gustaf Gründgens , who felt himself to be incorrectly characterized, obtained a court order that corresponding passages relating to himself had to be deleted or softened. In the latter case, Gründgens' adopted son Peter Gorski tried through his lawyer Gerth Arras to prevent the publication of the Mephisto novel entirely, whereby Berthold Spangenberg (as managing director of the Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung) was defeated by the Federal Constitutional Court after two lower instances in 1971 . → Mephisto decision

Berthold Spangenberg's son Eberhard published the story of the Mephisto novel in 1982 under the title "Career of a novel. Mephisto, Klaus Mann and Gustaf Gründgens" by Heinrich Ellermann , which his parents had acquired in 1967. The father devoted himself to managing this publishing house, which otherwise specializes in the publication of children's books, until his death. In addition, Berthold Spangenberg worked as editor of the magazine Der Ruf .

literature

Eva Chrambach: Spangenberg, Julius Heinrich Berthold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 626 f. ( Digitized version ).
Eva Chrambach: Spangenberg, Christa Luise Frieda, née Jung. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , pp. 627 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

↑ Hans Werner Richter: Letters. Edited by Sabine Cofalla. On behalf of the Prussian Sea Trade Foundation and the Text Critical Office of the Free University of Berlin. Hanser, Munich et al. 1997, ISBN 3-446-19161-5 , p. 810.
^ Eberhard Spangenberg: Career of a novel. Mephisto, Klaus Mann and Gustaf Gründgens , Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek near Hamburg 1986 ISBN 3-499-15893-0 (p. 204 ff.)

personal data
SURNAME	Spangenberg, Berthold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Junker, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	May 17, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden
DATE OF DEATH	January 16, 1986
Place of death	Munich

[1] Hans Werner Richter: Letters. Edited by Sabine Cofalla. On behalf of the Prussian Sea Trade Foundation and the Text Critical Office of the Free University of Berlin. Hanser, Munich et al. 1997, ISBN 3-446-19161-5 , p. 810.

[2] Eberhard Spangenberg: Career of a novel. Mephisto, Klaus Mann and Gustaf Gründgens , Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek near Hamburg 1986 ISBN 3-499-15893-0 (p. 204 ff.)