Hans-Joachim Simm

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Hans-Joachim Simm (born December 8, 1946 in Braunschweig ) is a German writer and editor .

Life

After studying classical philology , German studies and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Simm from 1972 lecturer in classics editions and was literature in the Carl Hanser Verlag Munich . After graduating as Dr. phil. with Friedrich Sengle , Hermann Krings and Hans-Friedrich Rosenfeld and after teaching positions at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Simm moved to Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main in 1984 , where he was in charge of the library of German classics. In 1990 he took over the editing of the Insel Verlag , in 2001 the program management, in 2006 the publishing director and at the same time the management of the publishing house of world religions and the book series "edition unseld ". In addition, Simm took on teaching assignments at the universities of Frankfurt and Mainz , published numerous editions of works and anthologies, and wrote radio broadcasts on cultural-historical topics. Since the end of 2010 he has been working as a freelance writer.

Publications (selection)

  • Georg Büchner, Works and Letters, Munich 1980/1988, ISBN 3-423-12374-5 .
  • Literary Classics, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-518-38584-4 .
  • Abstraction and poetry. On the structural law of the history of literature, Bonn 1989, ISBN 3-416-01792-7 .
  • Von der Gelassenheit, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-458-33805-5 .
  • On Human Dignity, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-458-34245-1 .
  • German poems in one volume, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2000/2009, ISBN 3-458-17440-0 .
  • Goethe and religion, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-458-33900-0 .
  • Friedrich Nietzsche, formula of my happiness. From Nietzsche's works and estate, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-458-34451-9 .
  • Magic and miracles. The fairy tales of the world, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2002 / Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 3-15-010843-8 .
  • Teofila Reich-Ranicki, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, We're all on the same train, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-458-19239-5 .
  • The magic realm of imagination. The poets' fairy tales, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-458-17167-3 .
  • Word magician of the Orient. Arabic stories, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-458-17223-8 .
  • Between heaven and earth. Russian stories, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-458-17174-6 .
  • The book of miracles. Fantastic stories. With a foreword by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-458-17239-4 .
  • Von der Toleranz, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-458-17353-6 .
  • The religions of the world. An almanac for the opening of the Publishing House of World Religions, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2007, ISBN 3-458-72000-6 .
  • "And I saw a new heaven". Beyond conceptions in the religions of the world, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 3-8436-0202-6 .
  • Ballads of World Literature, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 3-86539-384-5 .
  • Praise of rural life, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 3-15-010945-0 .
  • (Ed.), Aspects of the Bible. Topics, figures, motifs, Freiburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-451-37504-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Suhrkamp / Insel website. Retrieved January 14, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Simm, Hans-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig