Monika Schoeller

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Monika Schoeller (born September 15, 1939 in Stuttgart as Monika von Holtzbrinck , † October 17, 2019 in Filderstadt ) was a German publisher and patron . Together with her half-brother Stefan von Holtzbrinck , she was a partner in the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group , a member of the supervisory board and, from 1974 to 2002, head of the S. Fischer publishing houses in Frankfurt am Main .

Life

Monika Schoeller was the daughter of the publisher Georg von Holtzbrinck and his wife Addy, née Griesenbeck. Her siblings are Georg-Dieter and Karin, her half-brother Stefan . Monika von Holtzbrinck studied languages ​​in Munich , Vienna , Paris , London and art history and German in Zurich . Among other things , she worked in the publishing business at Artemis & Winkler .

She married the literary scholar Bernd Schoeller. Their daughter Christiane Schoeller was born in 1968.

Since the complete withdrawal of their brother Georg-Dieter von Holtzbrinck in mid-2006, Monika Schoeller and Stefan von Holtzbrinck each held 50 percent of the shares in the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group.

According to the list of the richest Germans , Monika Schoeller's fortune was estimated at 1.1 billion euros. This put it in 54th place in the ranking.

Publisher

In 1974 Monika Schoeller took over the publishing management of S. Fischer Verlage in Frankfurt am Main. In October 2002 she withdrew from the operational management of S. Fischer Verlage, but remained without a department chairperson of the management board.

Under her aegis, the so-called “Black Series” was launched and published at Fischer Verlag in 1977, among other things, which has made a name for itself in dealing with the “National Socialist Era”, the official title of the series. Another influential series that caused a stir in Schoeller's early years is “The Woman in Society”, which started in 1975 with Alice Schwarzer's The Little Difference and Its Big Consequences .

Their merit was the historical-critical complete edition of the works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the large commented edition of Thomas Mann in Frankfurt . 

As a result of their decision, the German Literature Archive in Marbach gradually received the S. Fischer Verlag archive, which was judged to be top-class, insofar as it was available despite losses due to emigration and during the Second World War; In addition, development and research were additionally financed in various ways.

Monika Schoeller was particularly praised for her discreet and tactful handling and her strong awareness of the literary legacy of Fischerverlag. She therefore placed particular emphasis on continuity and the continuation of the fishing traditions.

Until 2002, Schoeller ran the Coron publishing house in Zurich, which had been part of the Holtzbrinck Group since the 1970s and was criticized for the controversial sales of reprints of historical Bibles from the Württemberg State Library.

social commitment

Monika Schoeller established the S. Fischer Foundation in 2002 , today one of the most important cultural foundations in Germany. The purpose of the foundation is to promote cultural and scientific projects of national and international importance, with a particular focus on promoting translation. One example of this is the Traduki project , which was created in cooperation with the Goethe Institute and the Federal Foreign Office and is committed to a cultural exchange with and in Southeast Europe through funding for literature and translators.

Schoeller was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Frankfurt Literature House and the Kurt Wolff Foundation .

honors and awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Legendary publisher Monika Schoeller is dead . In: spiegel.de , October 21, 2019.
  2. ↑ Monika Schoeller (70) , BuchMarkt.de, September 15, 2009.
  3. ↑ Jörg Bong : Guardian on time. A memory of Monika Schoeller, who was S. Fischer's publisher for half a century. In: Die Zeit from October 24, 2019, p. 61.
  4. ↑ http://www.fischerverlage.de/ftv/historie/html/1977.html
  5. ↑ http://www.fischerverlage.de/ftv/historie/html/1975.html
  6. ^ Anne Bohnenkamp: On the happiness of meeting . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 14, 2019, p. 11.
  7. ^ Indexing of the S. Fischer publishing archive . dla-marbach.de, accessed on September 16, 2019.
  8. ↑ Silvia Bovenschen: Monika Schoeller on her seventieth - honor by avoiding fame in FAZ.net, September 15, 2009.
  9. ↑ Beautiful, noble, genuine . In: Der Spiegel 43/1970 of October 19, 1970, p. 242.
  10. ↑ monetas.ch , accessed on September 16, 2019.
  11. ↑ Merian Bible 1630. The Stuttgart copy . In: wlb-stuttgart.de , accessed on September 16, 2019.
  12. ↑ Outstanding services to the care of the literary heritage and the promotion of contemporary literature recognized ( Memento from August 2, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  13. ^ Claus-Jürgen Göpfert: Celebration of a patroness. In: FR.de (Frankfurter Rundschau). November 26, 2018, accessed October 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schoeller, Monika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holtzbrinck, Monika von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 2019
Place of death Filderstadt