Konrad Reich

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Konrad Reich (born June 29, 1928 in Magdeburg , † January 13, 2010 in Güstrow ) was a German author and publisher. He was the author or editor of a large number of books, mainly on maritime topics or the history of Mecklenburg . He also published works under the pseudonym Stefan Pätsch . For many years he was head of the Hinstorff publishing house in Rostock .

Life

As the son of an employee, he graduated from a training college for booksellers in Leipzig . He was also a participant in an evening university run by the SED . He then worked as an antiquarian and dealer in books and music. He lived in Rostock since 1953. He completed an external course in German at the University of Rostock . He ran bookstores in the people's book trade, a scientific antiquarian bookshop and later the people's book trade in the Rostock district .

In 1959 he became the youngest publisher in the GDR to take over the management of the Hinstorff publishing house there. In addition to the classic topics of the publishing house such as Mecklenburg homeland literature, the publishing program was expanded under Reich's direction to include focal points such as northern European literature and contemporary German literature, and the publishing house was thus known nationwide. Authors such as Ulrich Plenzdorf , Rolf Schneider , Jurek Becker or Franz Fühmann could be won for the publishing house.

In addition to publishing, Reich also worked as a publisher and author. As early as the 1960s, he published several books on local history. One of his most successful books is a biography of the writer Ehm Welk, first published in 1967 . A new biography by Reich about Welk was published in 2008. Reich also worked as a screenwriter, including for the film Kabelkran and Blauer Peter based on the book by Franz Fühmann and Die Gerechten von Kummerow based on the book by Ehm Welk.

When he was attacked by the SED functionary and chairman of the FDGB Harry Tisch because of public protests by authors of the publishing house against the expatriation of Wolf Biermann , he gave up the management of the publishing house in 1977. Since then, Reich has mainly worked as an author. Among other things, he published The Great Low German Picture Book , which was also published in what was then the Federal Republic.

After the reunification in the GDR, Reich founded his own publishing house in 1990, the Konrad-Reich-Verlag. The main focus was on illustrated books and calendars on regional topics, as well as fiction. On January 1, 2006, the Konrad-Reich-Verlag program was taken over by Hinstorff-Verlag and continued as Edition Konrad Reich . From 1990 he also ran bookstores in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

In 2006, together with Elmar Faber, Reich published a series of classics of GDR children's literature in his publishing house Faber & Faber .

In 2009 Konrad Reich initiated a new series of literature, the "Heiligendammer Literature Days", which he also moderated that year.

Konrad Reich was married for a second time after losing his first wife to illness. His wife, Lydia Reich, also works in the field of regional literature; among other things, she has been the editor of the traditional Land und Meer calendar of the Hinstorff Verlag since 2007 . On January 13, 2010 Konrad Reich died in a hospital in Güstrow after suffering from cancer .

Selected Works

  • with Martin Pagel: sky broom over white dogs. Words and idioms, stories and anecdotes. A reading book for half-men and grown-ups who want to get clearer terms from the ship's people and sea creatures, brought into conversation and explained. Transpress, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-86167-030-5 .
  • Ehm withered, stations of a life. Hinstorff, Rostock 1983.
  • The big Low German picture book. Hinstorff, Rostock 1986, ISBN 3-356-00038-1 .
  • Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: a portrait. (as editor), Konrad Reich, Rostock 2005, ISBN 3-86167-112-3 .
  • Ehm Welk, the heath of Kummerow; the time, the life. Hinstorff, Rostock 2008, ISBN 978-3-356-01236-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Publisher Konrad Reich died. ( Memento from December 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: Ostseezeitung. January 14, 2010.
  2. ↑ Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (ed.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 693.
  3. ^ A b Carsten Wurm:  Reich, Konrad . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  4. ↑ Hinstorff's face - publisher Konrad Reich died. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. from January 16, 2010
  5. ↑ Prisma-Online.de: The justice of Kummerow.
  6. ^ "Edition Konrad Reich" is published by Hinstorff Verlag / Hinstorff continues the Konrad Reich program. Press release from Hinstorff-Verlag, July 28, 2005 ( Memento from June 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
  7. ↑ Gunnar Decker : Cosmopolitan on the Waterkant - To the death of the great German publisher Konrad Reich. In: New Germany. January 15, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Reich, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 2010
Place of death Guestrow