Günther Busch

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Günther Busch (born September 13, 1929 in Wermutshausen , Hohenlohe , today in Niederstetten ; † June 25, 1995 ) was a German publisher . From 1963 to 1979 he edited edition suhrkamp .

Life

Günther Busch was born as the third child of his parents. His father was a country school teacher and cantor in Wermutshausen. His mother Marie Busch, née Dürr, was the daughter of an innkeeper. The Buschs lived in "modest bourgeois circumstances". His father was a social democrat and, in addition to his teaching profession, he was also head of the local Raiffeisen bank. During the Nazi era, the father was arrested on the basis of a denunciation: as a cantor, he protested from the organ gallery against the local pastor's slogans to hold out.

Busch went to elementary school in Wermutshausen and then switched to high school for boys in Bad Mergentheim . In the local library, the librarian Bruno Diehm influenced him in dealing with books.

In 1949 he passed the school leaving examination in Bad Mergentheim. Busch studied from the winter semester 1949/50 at the University of Mainz : among other things, he took Protestant theology with Ernst Käsemann and philosophy with Otto Friedrich Bollnow . He also studied "across German, Romance and English". He left the university in the winter semester of 1953/54 without exams because he was "fed up with existentialism". In Franconia Sommerhausen he was assistant director then, where he Viebig judges met the actress Ingeborg, whom he married 1954th The family first moved to Stuttgart , where Günther Busch worked as a literary critic . The family moved to Munich as early as the summer of 1955, as Busch had been invited to work regularly for the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

During this time Busch wrote for the Frankfurter Hefte , the magazine Texte undzeichen and the magazine Merkur and worked for the Hessischer Rundfunk (evening studio) and the night studio editorial office of the Südwestfunk.

After this first activity as a literary critic and author, Busch embarked on a career as a lecturer. Herbert G. Göpfert, at that time chief editor at Carl Hanser-Verlag in Munich, recruited Busch for the Hanser-Verlag. After a year Busch moved to Frankfurt to Suhrkamp Verlag , where Siegfried Unseld had offered him the editing of the newly founded "edition suhrkamp".

Rebekka Habermas and Walter H. Pehle write about the meaning of the "edition suhrkamp" :

“Like no other, this series of books helped shape the zeitgeist of the sixties and into the seventies.” (...) “The cultural-political significance and impact of the" es "should not be overestimated at all. The fact that in those eventful years people occasionally spoke of "Suhrkamp culture" was not least due to the ubiquity of the small volumes. ""

In 1979 the concept of Edition Suhrkamp was changed. As the last volume, Busch edited volume 1000 of edition suhrkamp, ​​the two-volume "Keywords on the 'intellectual situation of the time'", which were edited by Jürgen Habermas .

In 1980 he moved to the European Publishing House , where he tried to set up a scientific program under difficult material circumstances, but this failed. In early 1983 Busch worked as a consultant for S. Fischer Verlag in Frankfurt am Main. In 1985 he finally took over the management of the science department of the Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag and the science editing of the S. Fischer Verlag in Frankfurt am Main.

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  1. ↑ In some cases his activity is noted in the volumes of Edition Suhrkamp and given as "editorial office".
  2. ↑ on this volume see http://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/site/40208164/default.aspx .
personal data
SURNAME Busch, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publishing editor
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Vermouths
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1995