Elisabeth Ruge

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Elisabeth Ruge (* 1960 in Cologne ) is a German editor , publisher and literary agent .

Life

Elisabeth Ruge is the daughter of Fredeke Countess von der Schulenburg and the journalist Gerd Ruge . Her grandfather was the resistance fighter of July 20, 1944 Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg . Due to her father's work at the ARD foreign studio in Washington, DC , she spent the first ten years of her life in the United States. Around 1970 the family returned to Germany ( Bad Godesberg ). Since the father traveled a lot, Elisabeth and her brother Boris went to the boarding school of the Odenwald School in Hesse. Elisabeth Ruge was married to the publisher Arnulf Conradi and they have two children together. She is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

education

After graduating from the Odenwald School, she attended the Pushkin Institute in Moscow. She first completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller at Claassen-Verlag . She then worked as an assistant editor at S. Fischer Verlag . At the same time, she studied English, American and Slavonic studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Publisher

In 1994 she founded together with her then-husband Arnulf Conradi and Veit Heinichen the Berlin Verlag . At first, Ruge's job was to help shape the program and take care of the authors, before she became the publishing director in 2005. She founded a children's book publisher as the imprint of Berlin Verlag. Also as an imprint, she founded Berlin Academic Verlag in 2010 (a science publisher that works according to Open Access principles and under Creative Commons licenses). The works that she has overseen at Berlin Verlag include the novels by Ingo Schulze , Zeruya Shalev , Elke Schmitter , Péter Nádas and Jonathan Littell . As her publishing role model, she named the then editor of the New York Review of Books, Robert B. Silvers .

Against the background of the centralization strategy of Bloomsbury Verlag , whose imprint was Berlin Verlag from 2003, Elisabeth Ruge left the publisher she founded on March 15, 2011 and became head of the Berlin office of Carl Hanser Verlag , the end Opened in 2011. At the end of 2013, Ruge left Hanser Verlag. In spring 2014, Ruge founded the Elisabeth Ruge Agency (ERA).

“A good translator has to meet many requirements, very clearly, he should be educated, well-read, meticulous and, if possible, punctual, he has to have knowledge of the language and a feeling for the language and always make many well-founded decisions and find the courage to do so. But all of this leads to little if, in addition to this large toolbox, he does not also have a big heart, a wide heart, one that opens and sharpens the view and enables knowledge and attitude, without always tipping into eternal, perceptual judgments . "

- Ruge, laudation for Frank Heibert on the occasion of the Helmut M. Braem Translator Award 2016, in Zeitschrift Translate , 2, 2016, published by the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works

Voices about Elisabeth Ruge

"Elisabeth Ruge is one of the most respected lecturers in this country."

- Tanja Langer : Die Welt , December 19, 1998

"Now Elisabeth Ruge [...] is one of the most influential publishers in Germany."

- Andreas Kilb : FAZ , July 29, 2005

"As the head of Berlin Verlag, Elisabeth Ruge [...] has earned a reputation as a determined advocate of sophisticated literature."

- Wieland Freund : Berliner Morgenpost , October 15, 2011

social commitment

On the occasion of the Homeless Day 2007, Elisabeth Ruge donated 4,000 euros to the Evangelical Homeless Aid. The sum came from the sale of the book for young people, Fuchs , written by Matthew Sweeney , which deals with the friendship between a child and a homeless person.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zeit-Magazin , August 30, 2012, p. 46
  2. ↑ a b book report May 16, 2013
  3. ↑ a b Tanja Langer: The editor and publisher Elisabeth Ruge is not afraid of difficult people. welt.de, December 19, 1998, accessed July 10, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Online
  5. ↑ Andreas Kilb: Publishers - If you want the whole thing, you have to be clear. faz.net, July 28, 2005, accessed July 10, 2015 .
  6. ^ Wieland Freund: Literature - Hanser Verlag in Munich opens an office on the Spree. Morgenpost.de, October 15, 2011, accessed on July 10, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Berlin Verlag transfers donation from book sales to the Evangelical Homeless Aid. buchmarkt.de, September 11, 2007, accessed on July 10, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Ruge, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne