Giulio Einaudi (publisher)

Giulio Einaudi (born January 2, 1912 in Dogliani , † April 5, 1999 in Magliano Sabina ) was an Italian publisher and founder of the Einaudi publishing house .

family

Giulio Einaudi was born in Dogliani as the son of Ida Pellegrini and Luigi Einaudi , who later became President of the Republic of Italy (1948–1955). His son is the composer Ludovico Einaudi .

Life

Einaudi attended the Massimo d'Azeglio high school in Turin and studied literature with Augusto Monti, a committed opponent of fascism. Against his father's wish to complete a medical degree, he soon turned to journalism. In 1933 he and friends, all graduates of the Massimo d'Azeglio high school, founded the publishing house Giulio Einaudi Editore, based in Turin. He took over the publisher's emblem, an ostrich, from the magazine "Cultura", of which he was editor-in-chief when the magazine was banned by the fascist government in 1935. His friends at the time included Leone Ginzburg , Massimo Mila , Norberto Bobbio , Cesare Pavese and later Natalia Ginzburg , Leone Ginzburg's wife, and Giaime Pintor , journalist and writer, translator of German literature and resistance fighter against fascism. The newly founded publishing house soon attracted the attention of the secret police. On May 15, 1935 he was imprisoned with his friends for cooperation with the Turin group " Giustizia e Libertà " and then banished from Turin, but was able to resume publishing together with Ginzburg and Pavese from 1936. Among other things, he brought out the series "Poeti", edited by Eugenio Montale .

On September 8, 1943, the publishing work came to a complete standstill: Leone Ginzburg was arrested on November 20 in Rome, taken to the "Regina Coeli" prison, where he perished on February 5. Giaime Pintor, who was only 24 at the time, was also killed trying to join a group of partisans. Giulio Einaudi went to Switzerland for some time, where he made contact with American authors who were friends, but then returned to Italy and joined a resistance group in the Aosta Valley. In 1944 he was sent to Rome, where he first met Palmiro Togliatti . Contacts with other cadres of the Communist Party developed through Togliatti.

In 1945 Einaudi resumed publishing and initially brought out the magazine Il Politecnico , edited by Vittorini, which only existed for two years . Vittorini discovered and promoted many young authors whose first publication was arranged by Einaudi. The young Italian authors included a. Carlo Cassola , Beppe Fenoglio , Mario Rigoni Stern , Anna Maria Ortese , Lalla Romano .

Einaudi managed to tie many important authors, most of them anti-fascists, to his publishing house. He has published works by Elio Vittorini , Italo Calvino , Natalia Ginzburg and Luciano Foà . Between 1947 and 1951 he published Antonio Gramsci's Lettere dal carcere (prison letters ) and Quaderni (prison notebooks).

In 1949 Giulio Bollati joined the publishing house, who soon became co-director and then general director and who expanded the contacts between the publisher and authors to include Norberto Bobbio , Massimo Mila , Antonio Giolitti , Franco Venturi and Carlo Muscetta .

A second focus of his publishing house was the translation of international authors into Italian. Works by Bertolt Brecht , Jean-Paul Sartre , Thomas Mann , Jorge Luis Borges and Robert Musil have been published by Einaudi . In 1946 Einaudi published the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time in a translation by Natalia Ginzburg.

Today the publishing house belongs to the Mondadori group Silvio Berlusconis .

literature

• Maike Albath: The spirit of Turin. Pavese, Ginzburg, Einaudi and the rebirth of Italy after 1943. Berlin: Berenberg Verlag 2010. ISBN 978-3-937834-37-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biografia Giulio Einaudi ( Italian ) storiaxxisecolo.it. Retrieved May 29, 2013.
2. ↑ Giulio Einaudi Editori ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ La biografia di Einaudi Giulio ( Italian ) wuz.it. Retrieved May 29, 2013.

Web links

• Website of the Giulio Einaudi publishing house
• Biography (in italian)
• Giulio Einaudi (1912 to 1999) (obituary in Die Zeit from April 15, 1999)
• Died. Giulio Einaudi (obituary in Der Spiegel of April 12, 1999)
• Roland H. Wiegenstein : Maike Albath "The Spirit of Turin". Maike Albath describes in her book the rebirth of Italy after 1943. In: Die Berliner Literaturkritik . May 7, 2010 (review).