Raimund Fellinger

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Raimund Fellinger (born October 1, 1951 in Dillingen / Saar ; † April 25, 2020 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German editor and editor .

Life

Fellinger grew up in Saarland, his father was a post office worker, his mother a housewife. After studying German , linguistics and political science, he began his doctorate. In 1979 he was hired by Siegfried Unseld as a lecturer at Suhrkamp Verlag . In 1980 he took over responsibility for edition suhrkamp . Since 2006 he has been chief editor of Suhrkamp Verlag and since 2010 also chief editor of Insel Verlag . He was editor and editor of the works of Uwe Johnson , Thomas Bernhard , Peter Handke , Christoph Hein and Peter Sloterdijk . As a board member of the Peter Suhrkamp Foundation, Fellinger was responsible for expanding the Wolfgang Koeppen archive at the University of Greifswald into a research center for modern literature. From the beginning of the 1980s he was in charge of Thomas Bernhard's work and was President of the International Thomas Bernhard Society until his death in April 2020. In 2019 he accompanied Peter Handke to the presentation of the Nobel Prize for Literature .

As chief editor, Fellinger shaped the Suhrkamp publishing house significantly. Fellinger's importance is reflected in the title of the obituary by Andreas Platthaus in the FAZ : “On the death of Raimund Fellinger: The man who was Suhrkamp”.

Awards

The Philosophical Faculty of the University of Greifswald awarded Raimund Fellinger an honorary doctorate on February 4, 2012 in recognition of his commitment to contemporary German literature and culture . The laudation was given by Peter Sloterdijk. Also in 2012 Fellinger was named “Chevalier” des Ordre des Arts et des Lettres .

Works (selection)

  • About Uwe Johnson. Frankfurt am Main 1992.
  • Peter Handke. Frankfurt am Main 1992.
  • A brief history of Edition Suhrkamp. Frankfurt am Main 2003.
  • “To be in love with success and with the means of success”. Siegfried Unseld in memory. Frankfurt am Main 2003.
  • The letter: work of art and communication. Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 2006.
  • Naturally, about people and nature, Thomas Bernhard. Frankfurt am Main 2008.
  • with Martin Huber (Ed.): Thomas Bernhard - Gerhard Fritsch . The correspondence . Correction Verlag, Mattighofen, Upper Austria 2013, ISBN 978-3-9503318-1-3 .
  • "Seismograph" - Kurt Wolff in context . (= Insel-Bücherei . 1332). Berlin 2014.
  • with Matthias Reiner (ed.): Siegfried Unseld - His life in pictures and texts. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-42460-5 .
  • Ed .: Anneliese Botond . Letters to Thomas Bernhard . Correction Verlag, Mattighofen, Upper Austria 2018, ISBN 978-3-9503318-8-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Süddeutsche Zeitung: Raimund Fellinger is dead: "The author is always right". Retrieved April 29, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Frankfurt faces: Raimund Fellinger. In: FAZ.net . July 15, 2005, accessed December 16, 2014 .
  3. ↑ www.suhrkamp.de
  4. ↑ faustkultur.de
  5. ↑ Andreas Platthaus : "On the death of Raimund Fellinger: The man who was Suhrkamp" , FAZ from April 27, 2020
  6. ↑ www.uni-greifswald.de ( Memento from February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Issue archive - reading samples :: Peter Sloterdijk :: homo collector, homo lector, homo corrector. For a brief history of the editing: SENSE AND FORM. Retrieved April 29, 2020 .
  8. ^ New "Chevaliers" in "l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres"  , suhrkamp.de, July 11, 2012, accessed on April 28, 2020
  9. ↑ Correction of something that cannot be corrected. In: FAZ . October 30, 2013, p. 26.
  10. ↑ Who would have wanted to be Thomas Bernhard's editor? It was this woman !. In: NZZ . July 15, 2018, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Fellinger, Raimund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor and editor
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Dillingen / Saar
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 2020
Place of death Frankfurt am Main