Meinolf Wewel

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Meinolf Wewel (born April 24, 1931 in Paderborn ) is a German publisher .

Life

Meinolf Wewel grew up as the third of four children of the journalist and later publisher Erich Wewel and his wife Maria, nee. May, in and near Munich . There he graduated from high school in 1951. He then completed an apprenticeship in bookselling at his father's Erich Wewel Verlag . At the same time he studied philosophy , psychology , German literature and art history at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg with Martin Heidegger , Max Müller , Bernhard Welte , Wilhelm Szilasi , Erik Wolf , Robert Heiß , Walther Rehm and Kurt Bauch . In 1954/55 he took care of advertising and sales for Hermann Loeb at Holbein Verlag in Basel . Jan Tschichold had conveyed that. From 1956 to 1958 Meinolf Wewel headed the advertising department of the German Book Trade Association in Frankfurt am Main . Among other things, he introduced the “Buchschenkdienst”, the predecessor of today's “Buchschenkservice”, with the brochure “About not reading books” by Erich Kästner and Paul Flora (circulation 115,000). In 1957, over 11,000 children and young people under the age of 19 took part in his poster competition “Reading is fun”. It was then that the idea of ​​a reading competition was born. In the evenings Wewel attended seminars with Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer . 1959 Studied philosophy, German and pedagogy at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz with Gerhard Funke , Karl Holzamer , Fritz-Joachim von Rintelen , Friedrich-Wilhelm Wentzlaff-Eggebert and Theodor Ballauff, among others . From 1960 to 1969 Wewel worked for the educational publisher Schwann in Düsseldorf as head of advertising for the production of technical and school books, and from 1961 to 1963 also editor of pädagogik. Specialized catalog for teachers and educators , from 1965 also lecturer for pedagogy and representative of the publisher's director. 1968 PhD phil. at the University of Mainz with the work "The constitution of the transcendent something in the execution of seeing ".

Meinolf Wewel has been married to the bookseller Heike Fröbe-Wewel since 1981 and has three children and four grandchildren from his previous marriage to the late Irmgard Schneider. He has lived in Denzlingen near Freiburg i. Br. In 1995, Wewel retired. He traveled to Romania, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and the USA, among others. From 2007 to 2014 he also worked for Wikimedia and Wikipedia on the side. In 2004, Wewel moved from photography to creating images on the computer ( digital painting ); since 2014 he has also been creating photo and video videos , often accompanied by Michael Leuschner with classical piano pieces. Exhibitions: 2006 in the Denzlingen media library, since 2012 permanent exhibition in the Hess piano house in Malterdingen, 2013 with Meinolf Mandelartz in the Denzlingen town hall.

publisher

From the beginning of April 1969 until the end of 1994 Meinolf Wewel was managing director of the Karl Alber Freiburg / Munich publishing house . He saw it as an author publisher, not as a program publisher. Many authors were also advisors to him. In view of Wewel's primary interest in contemporary philosophy, his work can therefore best be characterized by naming some philosophers with whom he was friends or with whom he published several works: Karl Acham , Arno Baruzzi , Hans Michael Baumgartner , Walter Biemel , Heribert Boeder , Otto Friedrich Bollnow , Jan M. Broekman , Bernhard Casper , Hans Ebeling , Wilhelm K. Essler , Ferdinand Fellmann , Eugen Fink , Gerhard Frey , Ute Guzzoni , Alois Halder , Michel Henry , Norbert Hoerster , Wolfram Hogrebe , Harald Holz , Klaus Jacobi , Josef König , Bernhard Lakebrink , Rudolf Lüthe , Georg Misch , Max Müller , Severin Müller , Javier Muguerza , Ryōsuke Ōhashi , Ernst Wolfgang Orth , MAC Otto , Otto Pöggeler , Paul Ricœur , Frithjof Rodi , Kurt Röttgers , Heinrich Rombach , Richard Schaeffler , Claus-Artur Scheier , Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik , Hans Rainer Sepp , Ludwig Siep , Josef Simon , Ilmar Tammelo , Tōru Tani , Fridolin Wiplinger , Jean-Claude Wolf , Günter Wohlfart . The introduction of Emmanuel Levinas in German-speaking countries through translations of his main works and through secondary literature was a particular concern of Wewel.

Wewel continued the series of philosophical publications Symposion , founded by Max Müller, Bernhard Welte and Erik Wolf and published until 1975, from 1975 to 1994 under the editorship of Klaus Hemmerle , Alexander Hollerbach and Robert Spaemann and then passed it on to Maximilian Forschner and Ludger Honnefelder . In 1972 Wewel founded the Alber brochure philosophy and college philosophy series , and in 1974 the Fermenta philosophica series especially for innovative work that is not strictly subordinate to the rules of academic life . In 1975 the series Practical Philosophy , edited by Günther Bien , Karl-Heinz Nusser and Annemarie Pieper , was added. In the same year of took Ernst Wolfgang Orth on behalf of the German Society for Phenomenological Research published phenomenological research began. From manual philosophy that Wewel co-founded, was published in 1981 to 1996 under the editorship of Elisabeth Ströker and Wolfgang Wieland ten volumes. In 1993, Wewel started the international Orbis Phaenomenologicus series published by Kah Kyung Cho (Buffalo), Yoshihiro Nitta (Tokyo) and Hans Rainer Sepp (Prague).

Wewel also published many works for Alber in the fields of law, social science and history. The series Orbis academicus published by Fritz Wagner , an encyclopedia of the history of the sciences in documents and representations, was continued by him. a. with the two-volume work "Formen des Eros" by Annemarie and Werner Leibbrand , the three-volume "Pedagogy" by Theodor Ballauff and Klaus Schaller , the three-volume "Art Experience and Art History" by Heinrich Lützeler , the two-volume "Raum" by Alexander Gosztonyi and with five by Alfred Barthelmeß edited special volumes on the problem history of nature conservation, landscape management and human ecology . The Historical Anthropology took "legal traditions emergence and change", "social history of childhood," "tasks, roles and spaces for women and men", "killing in war," its beginning in 1978 with the theme "Disease, Medicine, Healing". In 1972 Wewel started the Alber brochure law and social sciences , which was followed in 1988 by the Alber law and social sciences series published by Ernesto Garzón Valdés , Hartmut Kliemt , Lothar Kuhlen and Ruth Zimmerling . Hans Mathias Kepplinger , Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann and Winfried Schulz published the Alber Brochure Communication series (20 volumes) from 1975 to 1995 , while Jan M. Broekman published the encyclopaedic series Kolleg Rechtstheorie from 1977 , which will not be continued beyond eight volumes because the legal theory subject did not gain the expected importance when the law course was reorganized .

In an interview with the Spanish magazine “Diálogo Cientificio” in 1994, Meinolf Wewel pointed out how much thinking is linguistically limited and therefore needs “ to be supplemented and corrected by thinking in other languages ​​and cultures ”. In this sense, he was particularly interested in publications from the Hispanic and Japanese cultures, but also from Russia, Italy, France and Romania.

Wewel himself once wrote: “I see my task as a publisher of humanities books and journals in providing a forum for scholarly discourse and thereby promoting it. I am guided by the basic conviction that the truth has many faces. That is why I can neither commit myself to thinking in one direction or school, nor in thinking in a particular nation, language community or culture. "

In 1987/1988 Wewel held three colloquia at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg on books and journals as a medium of scientific communication . For many years he was a member of the South Baden bookseller examination committee and for two electoral terms he was treasurer of the General Society for Philosophy in Germany .

In the foreword to the Festschrift for Meinolf Wewel “Facets of Truth” , the editors write about him: “His preference for phenomenology is not only reflected in the publication of numerous authors who pursue this philosophical direction. ... True to his open and impartial attitude, at Verlag Karl Alber he has also known how to promote the publication of authors who represent other directions that are remote from phenomenology, such as analytical philosophy or postmodernism . Authors such as Elizabeth Anscombe , Lewis White Beck, John Rawls , Michel Henry and Emmanuel Levinas were translated and published by Alber-Verlag, which made their reception by the German-speaking public easier, if not at all possible. "

Otto Pöggeler notes in the preface to the volume “Metamorphosis of Phenomenology” dedicated to the Wewel: “The hand of Meinolf Wewels… is evident in the fact that he has particularly helped younger researchers to introduce themselves through publications.” And in the afterword by Ernst Wolfgang Orth it says there: "In his practice, through which the authors are referred to their literary tasks, he was also a challenge to phenomenology: 'Objectivity', 'Seeing oneself' are only worth as much as in literary - textual and contextual - Communication can be redeemed. "

Publications

  • 1956 to 1961 numerous articles, reports and reviews on the subjects of books, book trade, youth literature and advertising in the Börsenblatt for the German book trade . Frankfurt am Main.
  • Suggestions and suggestions for the youth book week and other events . Published by the working group for youth literature. Munich 1959. 2nd edition 1961
  • The constitution of the transcendent something in the act of seeing . An investigation following the philosophy of Hans Lipps and dealing with Edmund Husserl's theory of the intentional correlate of consciousness . Düsseldorf 1968. ISBN 3-495-47528-1 * on Google
  • Giving shape to diversity. A conversation with Meinolf Wewel . In: Information Philosophy, 23rd year, issue 1/1995
  • To Wikipedia: With 80 ± . In: Everything about Wikipedia and the people behind the largest encyclopedia in the world. Edited by Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2011. ISBN 978-3-455-50236-7 . S. 182–185 [online version of the book as PDF:  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Allesueberwikipedia.pdf ]
  • Counteract the persistence of science . Meinolf Wewel in a written dialogue with Nina Hendl and Jascha Sommer. In: brink. Magazine between art and science. Brink, Bochum. Issue 2 (June 2012), ISSN  2193-4657 , p. 36 f. What is there to discover? Collage by Meinolf Wewel . P. 34 f.
  • Picture fantasies Meinolf Wewel 2005-2016 . 90 digital images. With Frédéric Chopin's “Preludes” 9 to 24, op. 28, played by Michael Leuschner. 2017.
  • YouTube channel Meinolf Wewel: 55 videos with pictorial fantasies and photos, mostly accompanied by classical piano pieces. 2015 to 2020

Editorial activity

  • 1975 to 1994 co-editor of the Orbis academicus book series . Problem stories of science in documents and representations . Verlag Karl Alber Freiburg i. Br. / Munich
  • 1975 to 1994 co-editor of the book series Practical Philosophy . Verlag Karl Alber Freiburg i. Br. / Munich
  • Since 1993 member of the editorial board of the Orbis Phaenomenologicus book series . 1993 to 2000 Verlag Karl Alber Freiburg i. Br. / Munich, from 2003 publishing house Königshausen & Neumann Würzburg

Festschriften

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel, Frankfurter Edition No. 73 of September 11, 1956, pp. 1267–1285; No. 24, March 22, 1957, pp. 386-394; No. 26 of April 1, 1958, p. 377 f.
  2. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung November 16 and 21, 1957.
  3. ↑ Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel, No. 91 of November 15, 1988, pp. 3406-3408 and No. 96 of December 2, 1988, pp. 3531-3532.
  4. ↑ Entrevista a Meinolf Wewel (Pregunta: Rafael Sevilla). In: Diálogo Cientificio. Vol. 3, No. 2, 1994, pp. 143-150.
  5. ↑ Quotation from the commemorative publication “Facets of Truth” (p. 10 f.) To justify the title. See Information Philosophy , Volume 23, Issue 1/1995, pp. 142–144.
  6. ↑ Facets of Truth , p. 9 f.
  7. ↑ Metamorphoses of Phenomenology , p. 13.
  8. ↑ Metamorphoses of Phenomenology , p. 315.
  9. ↑ Video
  10. ↑ YouTube channel Meinolf Wewel
personal data
SURNAME Wewel, Meinolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Paderborn