Christoph Andreas Count of Schwerin von Schwanenfeld

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Christoph Andreas Graf von Schwerin von Schwanenfeld , also Christoph Schwerin (born August 2, 1933 in Prenzlau ; † December 30, 1996 in Paris ) was a German publisher , editor , translator , correspondent for Radio Bremen and memoir- author.

family

Christoph was the second of five sons from the marriage of Marianne, née Sahm (1907–1988), and Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld (1902–1944). He grew up on the family estate in Göhren (today part of the city of Woldegk ) and on the Sartowitz estate in West Prussia . After the failure of the assassination attempt against Hitler on July 20, 1944, in which his father Ulrich Wilhelm played a key role, the family was arrested and torn apart. Two of his brothers died in childhood; the other two brothers are the farmer and forester as well as the former president of Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe, Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld , and the historian and police chief a. D., Detlef Graf von Schwerin .

Paternal grandfather was the diplomat Ulrich Carl Wilhelm Graf von Schwerin (1864–1930), the grandmother Freda Elisabeth Helene Countess von Schwerin, born v. Bethmann-Hollweg (1876-1959). The maternal grandfather, Heinrich Sahm (1877–1939), was President of the Senate of Danzig until 1931. As Lord Mayor of Berlin, he was deposed by the Nazis in 1936 and sent to Oslo as envoy.

Christoph Andreas Graf von Schwerin was married for the first time; from this three children come. In his second marriage (since 1977) he was married to Gabriela, née Contreiras Nobre de Lacerda (* 1936).

Life

In the turmoil of the post-war period, Christoph Andreas von Schwerin attended the Schloss Salem school , from which he was thrown out twice for insubordinate behavior.

As a close collaborator of Rudolf Hirsch , Gottfried Bermann Fischer and his wife Brigitte Bermann Fischer , known as "Tutti", the daughter of the publisher's founder Samuel Fischer , Schwerin shaped the French program at S. Fischer Verlag and was involved in the re-establishment of Insel Verlag . In particular, he campaigned for Paul Celan , Eugène Ionesco , Henri Michaux and Piotr Rawicz , on whose novel Le Sang du ciel he worked as an editor. In addition to friendships with Theodor W. Adorno , Samuel Beckett , Thomas Bernhard and Christiane Zimmer , he maintained close contacts to the Parisian literary scene and won authors from the Editions Gallimard for German publishers.

Schwerin worked as a correspondent for Radio Bremen in Paris and for Die Welt in Bonn , and also wrote articles for the newspaper Le Monde . Schwerin also worked as a translator of works by the aforementioned authors Eugène Ionesco and Henri Michaux as well as Roger Martin du Gard and André Maurois . In 1997 his memoirs titled As was nothing was published posthumously .

See also

Works

  • The golden ratio: great storytellers of the Neue Rundschau 1890–1960 . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1960 (2 volumes).
  • As if nothing had happened. Memories . Edition Ost, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-929161-93-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schwerin von Schwanenfeld, Christoph Andreas Graf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwerin, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher, editor, translator, correspondent for Radio Bremen and author of memoirs
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Prenzlau
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1996
Place of death Paris