Karl Dietrich Wolff

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Karl Dietrich Wolff (1968)

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

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

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Noble gesture of the US ambassador ; Die Welt, November 28, 2009
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Kraushaar : The blind spots of the RAF. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-608-98140-7 , p. 265
  3. ↑ KD Wolff: Korea and Korea , in: Kursbuch 30, December 1972, pp. 119–128
  4. ↑ 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 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cms.frankfurt-live.com
  5. ^ University of Basel: Honorary doctorates in the Faculty of Philosophy and History
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Karl Dietrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolff, KD
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg