Dorothea Rein

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Dorothea Rein (born March 18, 1945 ) is a German publisher. Since 1972 she has been head of the New Critique Publishing House .

Career

In 1972 Dorothea Rein joined the management of the Neue Critique publishing house. Before that, she studied Slavic Studies without completing her degree. Since the mid-1970s, when Hartmut Dabrowski, the last founding member to leave the publishing house, she has been in charge of the publishing house, supported by one or two employees.

Through her personal commitment and interest, Dorothea Rein continuously expanded the publisher's political-literary program to include translations of Eastern European literature. Since the early 1980s, among others, the works of the Czech journalist and resistance fighter Milena Jesenská , the Polish author Hanna Krall and the Russian-Jewish poet and singer Wladimir Semjonowitsch Wyssozki have been opened up for the German-speaking market. Dorothea Rein made Hanna Krall known in Germany and the publisher's most successful Polish author. She was able to win them over to the publisher by visiting the author at home and personally presenting the publisher's program to her.

The publisher also places texts on Jewish topics, German-Jewish history and the present, National Socialism and the Holocaust at the center of the publishing program.

Dorothea Rein introduced her own program area for historical and contemporary texts by women after taking over the management of the publishing house: in 1977 the first German translation of Una Donna , an autobiographical novel by the Italian writer and early feminist Sibilla Aleramo, appeared . This was followed by biographical texts on Phoolan Devi ( The Legend of an Indian Bandit , 1983) and the psychiatric patient Adalgisa Conti ( Im Irrenhaus , 1992).

The publisher also presents visual artists, for example in the illustrated books about the actress, photographer and revolutionary Tina Modotti , the sculptor Camille Claudel and the Czech artist Toyen . Dorothea Rein made important discoveries again and again: The volume Frida Kahlo by Raquel Tibol z. B. is the world's first monograph on the Mexican painter.

From 1995 portraits of “extraordinary women of the 20th century” appear in the series “apropos”: including women as diverse as the war photographer Lee Miller , the artist and writer Leonora Carrington , the philosopher Edith Stein , the communist and publicist Margarete Buber-Neumann , the cosmetics entrepreneur Helena Rubinstein or the singer Yma Sumac .

Key works on feminist theory and gender studies , such as the dissertation Die Liebe der Frauen by the sociologist Margrit Brückner and Not Ich by Christina von Braun , have also been published by the New Criticism publishing house .

Dorothea Rein is one of the signatories of the 2004 Frankfurt Appeal , which is directed against the 1996 spelling reform .

Award

In 2003 , Dorothea Rein and the New Critique Verlag received the Kurt Wolff Prize from the Kurt Wolff Foundation for their publishing achievements .

publication

  • "Biographical sketch". In: Milena Jesenská: Everything is life. Features and reports 1919–1930 . Dorothea Rein (ed.), New Critique Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, pp. 247-278, ISBN 978-3-8015-0192-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Gazette, Commercial Register / Manager Dossiers. Retrieved October 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ "Against the beautiful appearance" - history of the publishing house New Criticism. Retrieved October 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Hedwig Nosbers: Polish literature in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945/1949 to 1990. Book studies . In: Scientific articles from the German Book Archive in Munich . tape 63 . Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 978-3-447-04196-6 , pp. 156 .
  4. ↑ Edda Ziegler: Book women. Women in the history of the German book trade . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8353-1523-5 , p. 178-179 .
  5. ↑ "Against the beautiful appearance" - history of the publishing house New Criticism. Retrieved October 19, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Edda Ziegler: Book women. Women in the history of the German book trade . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8353-1523-5 , p. 178 .
  7. ↑ Ulrich Faure: “Program by chance with a system?” In: Börsenblatt . No. 158 , 1991, pp. 162 .
  8. ↑ Ulrich Faure: "The present moves a dozen words ...". (Interview with Hanna Krall) . In: Börsenblatt . No. 158 , 1991, pp. 165 .
  9. ↑ Edda Ziegler: Book women. Women in the history of the German book trade . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2014, p. 178 .
  10. ↑ "The Really Important Books". In: Frankfurter Rundschau. December 19, 2014, accessed October 19, 2019 .
  11. ↑ "Against the beautiful appearance" - history of the publishing house New Criticism. Retrieved October 19, 2019 .
  12. ↑ From the laudation for the award of the Kurt Wolff Prize 2003 by Prof. Dr. Klaus Wagenbach. (PDF) Retrieved October 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME In, Dorothea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1945