Hans Marquardt (publisher)

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Hans Marquardt (* 12. August 1920 in Simmatzig , County Schivelbein , Pomerania , † 11. November 2004 on complaints ) was a German publisher .

Life

After working as a radio editor at Sender Leipzig from 1946 to 1948, Hans Marquardt also studied German and journalism in Leipzig. In 1953 he was appointed editor-in-chief and in 1961 the responsible publisher of Reclam Verlag in Leipzig. He held this position until 1987.

Marquardt was considered one of the most important publishers in the GDR. For 26 years he was the director of the traditional Leipzig publisher Philipp Reclam jun. and in the meantime supervised almost 100 works as editor. Marquardt expanded the universal library, published the classics of the Russian avant-garde and developed the so-called "beautiful books" into the program. For this he received the Gutenberg Prize of the City of Leipzig in 1977 . At the Leipzig Book Fair , he organized popular readings with important authors from home and abroad.

He devoted his special attention to the publication of graphic portfolios with which well-known artists of the GDR (including Gerhard Altenbourg ), Czechoslovakia , but also personalities such as HAP Grieshaber , were made accessible to a wide audience. Original graphics at affordable prices - in continuation of the founding idea of Anton Philipp Reclam  - that was the motto of Hans Marquardt.

Marquardt worked as an unofficial employee of the Stasi . As IMB "Hans" he provided reports for years on, among others, Franz Fühmann and Günter Grass . The IM activity became known in 1996 through research by Joachim Walther , who also pointed out the ambiguity of an assessment: “In addition to these official and unofficial contacts with the MfS, Hans Marquardt was without a doubt a prominent GDR publisher who also managed to get titles through his publishing house that broadened the narrow ideological framework. The case shows how complicated and complex life in such a position in the GDR could be. ”In 1998 , the PEN-Club West then asked the PEN-Club East to exclude Marquardt as a precondition for the unification of the two PEN-Clubs. The PEN-Ost refused, was also supported by Günter Grass, and Marquardt finally became a member of the all-German PEN through the association. He resigned in 1999 to protest against the involvement of German soldiers in the Kosovo war.

Until his death at the age of 84 on November 11, 2004, Marquardt lived in his house in Putbus on Rügen. In 1998/99 he founded the Rügen Cultural Foundation and collected art for this foundation until his death.

Honors

1985: National Prize of the GDR, 1st class for art and literature.

2003: Culture Prize of the Rügen Cultural Foundation

Works

In August 1980 Philipp Reclam jun. Leipzig a bibliography with all editions for which Hans Marquardt had been responsible until then. A selection of books that Hans Marquardt published under his name:

  • Egon Erwin Kisch : Käsebier and Friedericus Rex. From the “Prague Pitaval”. Reclam, Leipzig 1953.
  • Breath of freedom. Anthology for young people. New life publishing house , Berlin 1959 (special edition for the small youth library).
  • Erich Weinert : And this world will be ours. Reclam, Leipzig 1959.
  • The naked model. Nordic artist stories. Henschel, Berlin 1961.
  • Vladimir Mayakovsky : I want - my pen in the weapons directory. Twenty-one poems. Reclam, Leipzig 1961 (German adaptations by Hugo Huppert ).
  • 100 years of Reclam's Universal Library 1867–1967. Contributions to publishing history. Reclam, Leipzig 1967.
  • Reclam. 100 years of the universal library. An almanac. Reclam, Stuttgart 1967.
  • The engagement. German love stories from six centuries. 4th edition. Reclam, Leipzig 1969.
  • Gottfried August Bürger : Wonderful journeys, campaigns and funny adventures of the Baron von Münchhausen in Russia. As he used to tell the same about the bottle among his friends. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1970.
  • Wondrous, adventurous, unheard-of stories and deeds of the Lalen zu Laleburg (commonly known as the Schildbürger ). Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1972.
  • French love stories from Nodier to Maupassant . Reclam, Leipzig 1989.
  • People in spring. Nordic love stories. Reclam, Leipzig 1968.
    • Licensed edition by: Fourier und Fertig, Wiesbaden 1977.
  • (with Wieland Herzfelde ) Watch out! Here comes Grosz. Pictures, rhythms and chants 1915–1918. With pictures by George Grosz . Reclam, Leipzig 1981.
  • The shining tree. Christmas stories from all over the world. Drei Linden Verlag, Leipzig 1982.
  • Nodier, Flaubert , Asselineau : Book madness. Three stories. With brush drawings by Josef Hegenbarth . Book publisher Der Morgen, Berlin 1975.
  • Sholem Alejchem : Tevye, the milkman. Book guild Gutenberg, Frankfurt / Olten / Vienna 1984 (From the Yiddish by Alexander Eliasberg and Max Reich. Licensed edition).
  • Somersault Mortale. Circus stories. Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1985.
  • Los Toros. Animal stories from all over the world. 4th edition. Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt 1987.
  • Jannis Ritsos : The tremendous masterpiece. Reclam / Büchergilde Gutenberg, Leipzig / Frankfurt am Main 1988 (transferred and provided with annotations and an interview by Asteris Kutulas ).

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sven Felix Kellerhoff , Uwe Müller: How the Stasi shaded Grass. In: Die Welt, August 23, 2006.
  2. ↑ Joachim Walther: Security area literature. Writer and State Security in the German Democratic Republic . Ullstein, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-548-26553-7 , pp. 939 .
  3. ↑ Under suspicion. In: Die Zeit , issue 16/1998 of April 8, 1998.
personal data
SURNAME Marquardt, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Simmatzig , Schivelbein district , Western Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 2004
Place of death to reprimand