Rachel Salamander

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Rachel Salamander (born January 30, 1949 in Deggendorf ) is a German literary scholar , bookseller entrepreneur and journalist .

Live and act

Rachel Salamander was born as the second child of Samuel Salamander and his wife Riva Salamander in a displaced persons camp for survivors of the Holocaust in Deggendorf. Rachel Salamander's parents had survived the Holocaust and wanted to emigrate to Israel. Her brother Borys became a doctor in Munich. The family was not allowed to enter Israel due to the mother's illness. The mother died in a hospital in Munich in 1953 . The family in which Yiddish was spoken lived in the Föhrenwald DP camp until it was dissolved in 1956 , then in Munich. After briefly studying medicine , she switched to studying philosophy , German and Romance languages at the University of Munich . Salamander soon became interested in German-Jewish literature and history. She did her doctorate in medieval studies on the concept of understanding.

1982 saw the opening of the “Literaturhandlung” in Munich, a bookshop specializing in Jewish literature and literature on Judaism. Today, in addition to a branch in Berlin, there are six branches throughout Germany. From 2001 to 2013 Salamander was the publisher of the Literary World , the literary supplement to the daily newspaper Die Welt . From October 2013 to September 2014 she was head of the FAZ Literature Forum. She is the chairwoman of the jury for the “Marcel Reich Ranicki Prize for Literary Criticism and Essay”.

With effect from December 10, 2015, she is on the supervisory board of the Berlin publishing house Suhrkamp, along with Ulla Unseld-Berkéwicz and Sylvia Ströher .

In 2020 Salamander received the Heinrich Heine Prize; The reason stated that it had made a significant contribution to the rebuilding of Jewish intellectual life in Germany after the Second World War . The works of Jewish authors who were burned by the National Socialists would have been brought back into the canon of German literature through their bookshops . In addition, she was committed to international understanding and against anti-Semitism .

Rachel Salamander has been married to Stephan Sattler , Editor-at-Large since 1990 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Hans Jonas : memories. After talking to Rachel Salamander. Suhrkamp, ​​2005, ISBN 3-51-845684-9 .
  • Rachel Salamander: The Jewish World of Yesterday 1860–1938. Brandstätter, 1990, ISBN 3-85-447301-X .
  • Jacqueline Giere / Rachel Salamander: A new life. The Robinson album. DP camp: Jews on German soil 1945–1948. Brandstätter, 2000, ISBN 3-85-447576-4 .

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rachel Salamander changes to FAZ , in FAZ from July 13, 2013
  2. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 26, 2014, p. 15
  3. ↑ A new era is dawning In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 10, 2015 : faz.net, accessed on December 10, 2015
  4. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Rachel Salamander awarded the Heine Prize. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  5. ^ Report on the Schiller Prize award ceremony for Rachel Salamander , FAZ November 11, 2013, accessed December 2, 2013
  6. ↑ muenchen.de: These are the new Munich honorary citizens. Retrieved January 26, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Publicist Rachel Salamander receives Heine Prize , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on July 13, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Salamander, Rachel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Deggendorf