List of Rowohlt's monographs

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This is a list of Rowohlt's monographs . Rowohlt's Monographs (abbreviated RM) is a German-language series of publications that has been published by Rowohlt Verlag since 1958 in Reinbek near Hamburg (since 2019 in Hamburg) . Kurt Kusenberg (1904–1983) was the founder and editor of the series . Klaus Schröter followed as editors in 1982 , and since 1989 Wolfgang Müller and Uwe Naumann . Also known as Rowohlt image monographs known Paperback series mainly dense covers held biographies of famous people "in / with personal testimonies and image documents." Personalities from literature, art, music, philosophy, politics, natural sciences and religions are particularly well represented. Translated biographies (from biographical series such as Éditions du Seuil or von Penguin) were revised for the German reader or provided with a documentary and bibliographical appendix, by Paul Raabe , among others . In addition, some other topics were introduced, such as B. Eternal supply of classical music on long-playing records or the jazz discotheque. Record guide with 150 picture documents . While initially about half a dozen volumes were published per year, the series grew rapidly later, especially in the 1990s. The series contained around 650 titles in 2008. It is aimed at a wider reading public. Many volumes appeared in multiple editions. The appearance of the first volumes of the series was based on the French book series of the publisher Éditions du Seuil (... par lui-même ) from Paris , from which some biographies were taken. Some biographies (Shakespeare, Mozart, JS Bach, Anselm Feuerbach) - written by other authors - are represented twice. In March 1999 the first color monograph on Kazimir Malevich was published as No. 465 with 160 pages; the last black and white illustrated monograph with 192 pages in February 1999 was described by Franklin-Delano-Roosevelt. In June 2015 the last biography in color about Pieter Bruegel the Elder was published. Ä., Since then the publisher has limited itself to the sale of existing stocks and reprints as unillustrated e-books .

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Individual evidence

  1. Kazimir Malevich
  2. Franklin-Delano-Roosevelt
  3. See the web links from Rowohlt
  4. katalogbeta.slub-dresden.de - accessed on February 13, 2018 (in addition to the author, the translator and / or editor was also given in some cases)
  5. cf. down (551)

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