Hildegard Grosche

Hildegard Wilma Maria Grosche , b. Hildegard von Roosz (born June 21, 1913 in Recaş , Banat , † December 25, 2006 in Stuttgart ) was a German publisher and translator .

Life

Hildegard Grosche grew up as the daughter of a professional officer in the east of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, speaking German and Hungarian. After graduating from high school, she studied Finnish and Hungarian at the University of Münster and in Berlin , where she worked in the Hungarian seminary after completing her studies. In 1949 she founded the Steingrüben Verlag in Stuttgart together with Eugen Gerstenmaier , Otto Heinrich Fleischer, publisher of Christ und Welt , and Paul Collmer , named after a former flak barrack, where she found accommodation next to the editorial staff of Christ und Welt .

The publisher published non-fiction books on contemporary history, u. a. by Erwin Wickert , Jürgen Thorwald or Klaus Harpprecht , later also theological, fictional and humanistic works, including by authors such as George F. Kennan ( Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 1982), Paul Tillich , Ivo Andric ( Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961), Arno Schmidt or Emil Barth , from world literature Iwan Alexandrowitsch Gontscharow or Thomas de Quincey . Hildegard Grosche was the first German publisher of William Faulkner , Tibor Déry , Wolfgang Koeppen and Peter Härtling .

In the early 1960s, she also took over Goverts Verlag . At the beginning of the seventies, Steingrüben Verlag became part of the Holtzbrinck group .

Hildegard Grosche then devoted himself entirely to teaching literature and translating from Hungarian: István Örkény , Miklos Mészöly and, above all, Péter Nádas were among their authors. She was involved in a leading position in the Circle of Friends for the promotion of literary and scientific translations and was considered the "doyenne of the translators' guild".

Hildegard Grosche died in December 2006 at the age of 93 in Stuttgart.

literature

• Katharina Raabe: The exquisite room. Literature in Eastern Central Europe since 1989. In: Eastern Europe . Issue 2–3, 2009, accessed March 29, 2015
• Klaus Harpprecht : Hildegard Grosche. In: The time . 2, 2007 (obituary)
• CD: "We were full of hope.": An interview with contemporary witnesses of the 20th century. Red. Lerke von Saalfeld. The Hörverlag, 2016 ISBN 3844523332 . Conversations with Ilse Aichinger , Ruth Bondy , Wibke Bruhns , Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi , Margarete Davies, Inge Deutschkron , Margarete Dörr , Inge Feltrinelli , Margot Fürst, Swetlana Geier , Hildegard Grosche, Ülkü Gürkan, Agnes Heller , Maria Herrmann, Ruth Klüger , Monika Maron , Annemarie Pordes, Eva Rühmkorf , Dagmar Schipanski , Melitta Schnarrenberger , Waltraud Trümper, Anna Wang, Greta Wehner , Hiltgunt Zassenhaus . (25 CDs), 19 hours