Karl Dietrich Wolff
Karl Dietrich Wolff , often KD Wolff , (born February 27, 1943 in Marburg ) is a German publisher . After his commitment as SDS chairman in the 1968 movement , he made a name for himself as a publisher of historical-critical editions of the complete works of Hölderlin , Kafka , Kleist , Robert Walser , Georg Trakl and Gottfried Keller .
Life
Wolff was the son of a district judge who had been removed from office after the end of National Socialism until 1949. He attended grammar school in Biedenkopf and a high school in the USA, and in 1962 he was a temporary soldier in the German Armed Forces for two years . Wolff studied law at the University of Marburg , where he met the Nazi military lawyer Erich Schwinge , at the University of Freiburg and the University of Frankfurt . Like his younger brother Frank, he was involved in the student movement during his studies . Wolff was based in Freiburg i. Br. In the student parliament and in the AStA and was first chairman of the Socialist German Student Union (SDS) from 1967 to 1968 . After a year as a student senator at the University of Frankfurt (1968/69), Wolff began a tour of the USA in 1969 at the invitation of the Students for a Democratic Society . He was summoned to appear before the Committee on Un-American Activities . After he described the US Senator Strom Thurmond as a “racist bandit”, the US banned Wolff from entering the country. Wolff visited North Korea in 1970 at the invitation of the regime and reported about it in the course book .
1969 co-founder of Wolff was March publishing it . After differences with Jörg Schröder , he founded his first own publishing company, the Roter Stern publishing house, in the following year . In 1979 he founded Stroemfeld Verlag in Basel , which he also relocated to Frankfurt am Main in 1984. In 1993 the Roter Stern publishing house went bankrupt . From that year until 1997 Wolff was a member of the advisory board of the PEN Center Germany .
Awards
- 2002: Binding Culture Prize
- 2007: Kurt Wolff Prize for the publishing house
- 2009: Antiquaria Prize for Book Art in Ludwigsburg, together with Hölderlin publisher DE Sattler
- 2009: Federal Cross of Merit
- 2015: Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the University of Basel
Fonts (selection)
- Karl D. Wolff (Ed.): Georg K. Glaser . Witness of his time, blacksmith and writer. Guntersblum 1910–1995 Paris. [For the exhibition "Georg K. Glaser, Witness His Time" from 1. – 28. June 1997 in the Worms City Library .] Stroemfeld, Basel, Frankfurt am Main, 1997; ISBN 3-87877-621-7
Works published by Wolff
- Historical-critical Hölderlin edition (FHA) by DE Sattler in 20 volumes (1975-2008)
- Dahlem lectures by the Berlin religious philosopher Klaus Heinrich (since 1981)
- Historical-critical Brandenburg Kleist edition (BKA) by Roland Reuss and Peter Staengle in 20 volumes (1988-2010)
- Historical-critical Innsbruck Trakl edition (ITA) by Eberhard Sauermann and Hermann Zwerschina in six volumes (1995-2014)
- Historical-critical Gottfried-Keller- Edition (HKKA) under the direction of Walter Morgenthaler (since 1996, in connection with the publishing house of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung )
- Historical-critical Kafka edition (FKA) by Roland Reuss and Peter Staengle (since 1995)
- Critical Robert Walser edition (KWA) by Wolfram Groddeck and Barbara von Reibnitz (since 2008)
literature
- Doris Kern and Michel Leiner (eds.): Stardust. Mail for the workshop. KD Wolff for his sixtieth. Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main, Basel 2003, 431 S., Ill., Series: Roter Stern, ISBN 3-87877-960-7 , Festschrift
- Kurt Reumann : Book and Barricade. The organizer of the student revolt, KD Wolff, has become a guardian of the poet's word . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 29, 2001, p. 8.
- Kurt Reumann: The gentle revolutionary: 1968 and no end: The path of the publisher and former SDS chairman KD Wolff , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 5, 2018, p. 10.
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Dietrich Wolff in the catalog of the German National Library
- Stroemfeld Publishing House
- Reinhard Müller: KD Wolff: Rebel from the armory ; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 12, 2010
- Dieter Kassel: "33 exciting years": KD Wolff in conversation with Dieter Kassel , Deutschlandradio , September 9, 2008
- Jochen Hieber: New Holderlin Edition: What remains, the poet donates ; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 8, 2008
- Jan Süselbeck : Stroemfeld / Roter Stern: Hölderlin vom Roten Stern ; ( Memento of March 8, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Netzeitung , December 16, 2004
Individual evidence
- ↑ Noble gesture of the US ambassador ; Die Welt, November 28, 2009
- ↑ Wolfgang Kraushaar : The blind spots of the RAF. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-608-98140-7 , p. 265
- ↑ KD Wolff: Korea and Korea , in: Kursbuch 30, December 1972, pp. 119–128
- ↑ Significant publishing and literary work. Frankfurt publisher KD Wolff receives the Federal Cross of Merit ; ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Frankfurt-Live.com, December 12, 2009
- ^ University of Basel: Honorary doctorates in the Faculty of Philosophy and History
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wolff, Karl Dietrich |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wolff, KD |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publisher |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1943 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Marburg |