Exempla classica

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The fisherman's library of a hundred books. Exempla classica is a German-language book series with a hundred classic masterpieces of Western literature , which are considered exemplary classics. It was edited by Walther Killy and has been published since 1960 in Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg in the Fischer library of S. Fischer Verlag in paperback format . The last volume of the series appeared in 1964, later prints of individual volumes also appeared afterwards.

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  1. ↑ The "Advisory Committee" (all designated as "Professor Dr.") were: Arthur Henkel , Uvo Hölscher , Golo Mann , Walter Pabst and Helmut Viebrock. In 1980 the ZEIT library of 100 books was published - not as a specific book project, of course, but merely as a reading recommendation and "orientation aid" - edited by Fritz J. Raddatz as the leader of a "jury", which also included Rudolf Walter Leonhardt , Hans Mayer , Rolf Michaelis , Peter Wapnewski and Dieter E. Zimmer belonged to; the individual works are presented briefly - by Rudolf Augstein , Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Oskar Negt and others. a. m.