Roland links

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Roland Links (born March 1, 1931 in Kotzman , Romania ; † March 31, 2015 in Leipzig ) was a German studies scholar and publishing director.

Life

Roland Links was born in 1931 as the son of a lawyer in the German settlement area of ​​Romania. The family moved to Germany in 1940. He graduated from high school in Wittenberge in 1950 , and then studied German, history and art history at the Brandenburg State University from 1950 to 1954 (later the Karl Liebknecht University of Education ). After graduating, he worked from 1954 to 1978 as an editor (most recently as head editor) at the Volk und Welt publishing house , where he was in charge of Klaus Schlesinger 's first novel ( Michael ) . As editor he was responsible for volumes on international literature of the 20th century, especially from Austria, Switzerland and the Federal Republic of Germany. He joined the SED in 1968 . From 1978 to 1979 he worked as a freelancer. He then headed the Kiepenheuer publishing group in Leipzig from 1979 to 1990, which included Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag , Insel-Verlag Anton Kippenberg, Paul List Verlag and the Dieterich'sche Verlagbuchhandlung . From 1990 to 1992 he was managing director of Insel-Verlag Leipzig . He was instrumental in ensuring that the Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhandels zu Leipzig joined the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels on January 1, 1991, based in Frankfurt am Main.

He was the father of the publisher Christoph Links .

Editing

  • Kurt Tucholsky: Among others in the Pyrenees (also afterword) 1963
  • Alfred Döblin biography (modified version 1980), 1964
  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Komödien (Ed. Together with Adam Kuckhoff ), 1965
  • Karl Kraus: Selected Works (Ed. Together with Dietrich Simon, Kurt Krolop ), 1971
  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Frank the Fifth. The Meteor (also afterword), 1972
  • Six-volume Tucholsky selection (also afterword), 1969–1973
  • Explorations. 35 German-speaking narrators from Switzerland (also afterword), 1974
  • Max Frisch (also afterword), 1975
  • Kurt Tucholsky: Letters (also afterword), 1983
  • Walter Matthias Diggelmann: 20 stories (also afterword), 1986

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Publisher Roland Links died at the age of 84 . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of April 2, 2015, p. 14.
personal data
SURNAME Left, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and publishing director
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Kotzman , Romania , today Chernivtsi Oblast
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 2015
Place of death Leipzig