Katharina Raabe

Katharina Raabe (born November 28, 1957 in Hamburg ) is a German publisher's editor .

Life

She grew up as the eldest daughter of the literary scholar and librarian Paul Raabe in Marbach am Neckar and Wolfenbüttel . First she studied violin and instrumental pedagogy at the State University for Music and Theater in Hanover (diploma 1981), worked as a violin teacher and completed a master’s degree in philosophy and musicology at the FU and TU Berlin in 1988 .

Since 1983 she has worked for various publishing houses, including Arche Verlag in Zurich . From 1993 to 2000 she was an editor at the Rowohlt Berlin publishing house . In 2000 she moved to Suhrkamp Verlag and took care of expanding the Eastern European program in Berlin . She looks after u. a. Yuri Andrukhovych , László Darvasi , Dževad Karahasan , Andrzej Stasiuk , Jáchym Topol , Tomas Venclova , but also younger writers like Joanna Bator , György Dragomán , Alissa Ganieva , Wojciech Kuczok , Julia Kissina , Serhiy Zhadan and Katja Petrovskaya , the winner of the Ingeborg Bachmann -Competition 2013. She also initiated publications on current affairs in Eastern Europe (see list of publications ).

Since 2001 she has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Fund for Central and East European Book Projects, Amsterdam.

Release

The great Berlin Book , ed. with Ingke Brodersen , Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 1998.
Last & Lost. An Atlas of Vanishing Europe , ed. with Monika Sznajderman, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt 2006.
Dance in chains. Translation as an interpretive art , ed. with Gabriele Leupold, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-8353-0276-1
Odessa transfer. News from the Black Sea , ed. with Monika Sznajderman, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt 2009. ISBN 978-3-518-42117-8
The exquisite room. Literature in Eastern Central Europe since 1989 . In: EAST EUROPE / 2-3 / 2009.
The wild life. East Side Stories , Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-518-46317-8
Test case Ukraine. Europe and its values , ed. by Katharina Raabe and Manfred Sapper . With a photo essay by Yevgenia Belorusets. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-518-07123-6
Neighborhoods at Risk - Ukraine, Russia, European Union , ed. by Katharina Raabe. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2015 (Valerio. The magazine of the German Academy for Language and Poetry; Vol. 17/2015). ISBN 978-3-8353-1323-1
Why read. At least 24 reasons , ed. by Katharina Raabe and Frank Wegner, Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2020. ISBN 978-3-518-07399-5

Editing (selection)

Srebrenica. A process , Julija Bogoeva / Caroline Fetscher (eds.), Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002. ISBN 978-3-518-12275-4
The war in the shadows. Russia and Chechnya , Florian Hassel (ed.), Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003. ISBN 978-3-518-12326-3
Real and imagined Ukraine , Mykola Rjabtschuk , Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005. ISBN 978-3-518-12418-5
Minsk. Sun city of dreams , Artur Klinau , Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006. ISBN 978-3-518-12491-8
Alphabet of Polish Miracles. A dictionary , Stefanie Peter (ed.), Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-518-41933-5
Kosovo. History of a conflict , Erich Rathfelder , Suhrkamp Verlag 2010. ISBN 978-3-518-12574-8
Totalniy Futbol. A Polish-Ukrainian football trip , Serhij Zhadan (ed.), Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2012.
Putin broken ?! Russia's new culture of protest , Mischa Gabowitsch, Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2013. ISBN 978-3-518-12661-5
Euromaidan. What is at stake in Ukraine , Juri Andruchowytsch (ed.), Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-518-06072-8
Test case Ukraine , Katharina Raabe, Manfred Sapper (eds.), Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-518-07123-6

2007 Federal Cross of Merit for her promotion and dissemination of Eastern European literature in Germany
2015 German Language Prize
2018 translator bar of the VdÜ

personal data
SURNAME	Raabe, Katharina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German translator, editor and editor
DATE OF BIRTH	November 28, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg