Heinz Friedrich (publisher)

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Heinz Friedrich (born February 14, 1922 in Roßdorf (near Darmstadt) , † February 13, 2004 in Munich ) was a German publisher , essayist and author .

Life

Heinz Friedrich was a student at the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium in Darmstadt from 1932 to 1940 . Immediately after graduating from high school in March 1940, he was drafted into military service and deployed as a soldier in Königsberg until he was seriously wounded in 1945 . At the end of 1945 he returned home after being briefly captured by the Soviets. In 1946 he married Maria Maser; from this marriage there are two daughters.

Friedrich was one of the founders of Group 47 . In 1947 he became an editor in the features section of the Frankfurt weekly newspaper "Die Epoche". In 1948 he wrote his first book ("Die Strasse Nirgendwo"); This was followed by two volumes of poetry under the titles “Bänkelsang der Zeit” and “Your Sons, Europe”. Until 1961 Friedrich wrote as a theater critic for several newspaper and radio editorial offices.

From 1949 on he worked as an editor at the Hessischer Rundfunk and headed the evening studio there from 1954 to 1956 ; During this time he made recordings with Gottfried Benn , for example, and dealt with topics such as behavioral research , ecology and cultural anthropology . From 1956 to 1959 he was chief editor of the Fischer library at S. Fischer Verlag . Then he was program director at Radio Bremen until 1961 .

His life's work is the development of the Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag , for which he was a managing partner from 1961 to 1990.

Between 1962 and 1985 he was involved in committees of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels and the Bavarian State Association of Publishers and Bookstores. In 1966 he wrote the "Bücher-Baedeker" for Bayerischer Rundfunk , a companion to 34 episodes through literature. In 1972 the marginalia “Im Narrenschiff des Zeitgeist” appeared. In 1987 the titles "Tidying Up", "My Village" and "Life Without a Future?"

Heinz Friedrich is also known as the President of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts (1983–1995), to which he has been a member since 1977, as an honorary professor for recent German literature and book studies at the University of Munich, and as an essayist and cultural critic. From 1978 to 1984 he was a member of the jury of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade ; he also served as chairman of the advisory board of Langenscheidt KG .

Publications (selection)

  • In the ship of fools of the zeitgeist. Inconvenient marginalia. Munich 1972.
  • Cultural disaster. Obituaries of the Occident. Hamburg 1979, DNB 790766515
  • Cultural decline and environmental crisis. Plea for a change of thought. Munich 1982, DNB 820479411
  • Cleanup. Reports, commentaries, speeches, poems and glosses from forty years. Edited by Lutz-W. Wolff. Munich 1987.
  • My village. Berlin 1987.
  • Of the counter-happiness of the mind. Time and contemporaries. Munich 2002.
  • Learned profession: none. Memories of the 20th century. Munich 2006, DNB 974894648 .

Awards

literature

  • Björn Göppl (Ed.): Heinz Friedrich. Learned profession: none. Memories of the 20th century. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-423-24496-1 .
  • Sigrid Moisy et al. (Ed.): A life in the counter-happiness of the spirit. Heinz Friedrich (1922-2004). Publisher, author, president of the academy. Bavarian State Library, exhibition catalog No. 76. Munich 2005.
  • Wolfram Göbel (Ed.): 'Your letter came as it was called ...' Heinz Friedrich as publisher. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-423-11253-0 .
  • Claus Hinrich Casdorff (ed.): Christmas 1945 - A book of memories. Chapter: “Attempt to remember”. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1981.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curriculum vitae Heinz Friedrich. In: 'Your letter came just as requested ...' Heinz Friedrich as publisher. Edited by Wolfram Göbel. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1990, pp. 304–307.
  2. ↑ Heinz Friedrich: "I can't get louder ..." In: Encounters with Gottfried Benn. Taunusstein 1986, pp. 77-82.

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personal data
SURNAME Friedrich, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Roßdorf (near Darmstadt)
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 2004
Place of death Munich