Ruhr story
The Ruhr-story was an agency in Gelsenkirchen that took on the commercialization of literary texts in magazines and newspapers for their authors.
The agency run by the couple Gunhild and Ernst-Adolf Kunz was active in the 1950s and 1960s and looked after authors such as Heinrich Böll , Siegfried Lenz , Paul Schallück , Milo Dor , Reinhard Federmann , Teofila Reich-Ranicki , Josef Reding , Josef Eberle , Günter Grass and Ilse Aichinger . Heinrich Böll was good friends with Gunhild Kunz.
Web links
- Ulrich von Bülow: In the network. Kulturstiftung.de ( Memento from August 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- Photo of a page on Siegfried Lenz in the "author account" of the Ruhr-Story agency: DLA Marbach ( Memento from August 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- Article literary agency
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Stephan Schlickau: Language and Literature on the Ruhr. Klartext, 1995, p. 206; see. also Walter Gödden (Hrsg.): Literature in Westphalia: Contributions to research. No. 9, F. Schöningh Verlag, 2008, p. 158; see. also Hugo Ernst Buyer, Klaus Scheibe: Reading symbols: selected essays, speeches and reviews from fifty years. Grupello, 2001, p. 226.
- ↑ Cf. for example Werner Bellmann : Classic German short stories. Reclam, 2003, p. 320.