Ingeborg Stahlberg

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Ingeborg Stahlberg , also known as Inge or Ingrid Stahlberg (* June 1921 in Morbach ; † December 1985 in Karlsruhe ) was a German publisher who is best known for founding and managing the Stahlberg Verlag and closely associated with the founding of Gruppe 47 in Connection.

Life

Ingeborg Stahlberg was born as the daughter of the mayor of Morbach. She passed her secondary school leaving certificate in a boarding school for girls at the Ursuline monastery in Brühl . There she received a humanistic-Catholic education, although her school days fell during the time of the Third Reich . Then she attended a grammar school in Bonn, where she passed her Abitur in 1941. She received a university place in Heidelberg and first studied economics , then switched to German and newspaper studies , but also attended lectures and courses in art history , theology and psychology . In 1945 she completed her studies with a doctorate . Her dissertation dealt with the illustrated press in the First World War .

After completing her studies, Ingeborg Stahlberg initially worked for the police department in Heidelberg in administration. In October 1945 she moved to the Badischer Buchverlag in Karlsruhe in the editing department . In 1946 she applied for her own publishing license to the American military authorities responsible at the time and received it. The money for founding the publishing house came from the sale of jewelry that Ingeborg Stahlberg's mother had owned and a mortgage on the family's house. The publishing house started work in November 1946 in the Karlsruher Kaiserallee as the company headquarters. The publishing house had very few employees in the beginning and the publishing work was borne out by the difficulties of the post-war period, such as B. lack of paper, embossed. The series Ruf der Jugend , published from 1947 onwards , showed the publisher's orientation towards contemporary literature. In this series, several members of the later group 47 published . In 1950 Stahlberg Verlag was converted into a GmbH . A few years later Ingeborg Stahlberg had to answer for her publishing activities in court. The former German diplomat Gustaf Braun von Stumm saw his personal rights violated by the portrayal of the protagonists "Ministerialrat R." and his wife "Margherita" in the 1951 novel Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte , and complained that the book should be discontinued. The legal proceedings resulted in a settlement and a declaration of honor in favor of Braun von Stumms by Stahlberg Verlag. In 1963 Ingeborg Stahlberg founded the Amadis publishing house, another publishing house that exclusively published French prose, including works by authors such as Denis Diderot , André Gide , Voltaire and Emile Zola .

In 1967 Ingeborg Stahlberg had to sell shares in her two publishing houses due to economic difficulties. The Stuttgart Holtzbrinck Group, today the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group , acquired significant shares. In 1971 Stahlberg Verlag and Amadis Verlag were officially taken over by S. Fischer Verlag , which was also part of the Holtzbrinck Group at the time. Ingeborg Stahlberg was subsequently employed as program director in the Stuttgart Book Association.

Ingeborg Stahlberg received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon in November 1978 for her services to the literature of the post-war period.

Publications

  • The German Illustrated Press in World War 1914-1918 , without location in 1945

literature

  • Georg Patzer: Seat in the province: Forgotten publishers (3): Stahlberg-Verlag , In: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel (Vol. 166, No. 69: 15-18), Frankfurt am Main 1999
  • Heima Hasters: Miss Doctor becomes a publisher: Inge Stahlberg , Frau und Zeit Verlag, Karlsruhe 1996, ISBN 3-926012-07-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Walter Leonhardt: Group picture after 30 years. Die Zeit, July 8, 1977, accessed April 1, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Malaparte's visions . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 1953, pp. 32 ( Online - Jan. 28, 1953 ).
  3. ↑ Der Spiegel reported ... In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 1954, p. 33 ( Online - Jan. 1, 1954 ).
  4. ↑ Ingeborg Stahlberg. Baden-Württemberg online archive, accessed on April 1, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Manfred Koch: Ingeborg Stahlberg. Stadtlexikon Karlsruhe, 2014, accessed on April 2, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Stahlberg, Ingeborg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stahlberg, Inge; Stahlberg, Ingrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH June 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Morbach
DATE OF DEATH December 1985
Place of death Karlsruhe