Siegfried-Hermann Hirsch

Siegfried-Hermann "Sigi" Hirsch (born May 10, 1945 in Bad Salzuflen ; † June 3, 2019 in Bamberg ) was a German publisher and author .

Life

From 1964 to 1966, Hirsch completed a commercial apprenticeship at the publishing house and printing company Carl Schünemann in Bremen. During his apprenticeship he founded the literary magazine "total" and with Detlef Rohde the HIRO publishing house. In 1964, the post refused to send the magazine as printed matter. The reason was the insert from an English publisher, on the back of which various bottoms were depicted. In the federal press, Hirsch was referred to as “Germany's youngest publisher” when reporting.

In 1967 Hirsch moved to West Berlin near the total editorial manager Klaus M. Rarisch (co-founder of the literary reading stage “Das Massengrab”). In the same year he founded the “total-hirsch-verlag” (main author: Arno Reinfrank ) in the Jule Hammer gallery and entered into a cooperation with the PIT publisher ( Dieter Lenz ). With no. 17 the magazine “total” had to be discontinued for financial reasons.

"Total" authors were Dietrich Kittner, Wolfgang Neuss , Ingo Cesaro , Klaus M. Rarisch (total editor-in-chief), Raoul Hausmann ( Dadaist ), Ernst A. Rauter , Peter-Paul Zahl , Erich Fried , Richard Huelsenbeck (Dadaist), Dieter Hülsmanns , Allen Ginsberg , Aldona Gustas , Peter O. Chotjewitz and Walter Mehring (Dadaist). Graphics and art supplements came from Keith Simon (London), Thorsten Schnepel , Bernhard Verlage , Paul Wunderlich , Klaus Warwas , Uwe Haessler , Pit Morell (both Worpswede), Uwe Witt and Marwan.

In 1970, Hirsch founded the advertising agency LHW, Liepelt, Hirsch and Wirth with the publishing director at Kohlhammer Verlag, Volker Liepelt, and the art director of the Dorland advertising agency, Robert Wirth.

In 1975 Hirsch moved to Coburg and in 1981 became head of publishing at Coburger Tageblatt. At the end of 1981 he and an editor took over the "Albrecht'sche Hofbuchhandlung". The sons Philipp and Benjamin were born in Coburg by his second wife Pia.

The bookstore was closed in 1993 and Hirsch continued to run the antiquarian bookshop. In 1999 he found the album that Queen Victoria gave her governess Baroness Lehzen as a farewell. He moved the antiquarian bookshop from Coburg to Bamberg and concentrated on the history of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and European royal houses.

With Nora Gomringer, director of the Villa Concordia in Bamberg, he appeared as a poetry slammer . With his friend Frank Gundermann , he reached the finals at the German slam competition in Munich, he was there in Berlin and in the first season of “Poetry Slam” on television. With Frank Gundermann he moderated the reading stage “Word: Loud!”. Hirsch performed a cabaret performance with the play “Please don't kiss - Instructions for erotic dissatisfaction”. He wrote nonsense thrillers.

Works

• The Private Album of Queen Victoria's German Governess Baroness Lehzen. Hirsch Verlag, Bamberg 2001, ISBN 3-923700-10-5 .
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  • Volume 1: The Potato Murder. 2nd Edition. Book publisher Peter Hellmund, Würzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-939103-26-4 .
  • Volume 2: The Coat Murder. Book publisher Peter Hellmund, Würzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-939103-30-1 .
  • Volume 3: The Noodle Murder. artmedia verlag, Bamberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-9814237-2-3 .

• Poems and prose: Do you hear my secret calls. Wildleser Verlag, Erlangen 2013, ISBN 978-3-923611-48-5 .
• I'm so longing for violence. Criminal poems and stories. Book publisher Peter Hellmund, Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-939103-12-7 .
• The collaged me. (Collages, text by art historian Dr. Matthias Liebel), artmedie verlag, Bamberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814237-0-9 .
• Rita v. Wangenheim, Baron Stockmar. A Coburg-English story. Hirsch Verlag, Coburg 1996, ISBN 3-923700-08-3 .
• My meeting with Günter Grass . (From: 68 - There were not only demos), 2018, ISBN 978-3-922299-53-0 .

Web links

• Website from Sigi Hirsch
• Literature by and about Siegfried-Hermann Hirsch in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Commemorative page by Siegfried Hermann Hirsch. Retrieved July 19, 2019 . 
2. ^ Siegfried-Hermann Hirsch. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2018/2019. Volume II: PZ. Walter de Gruyter , 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-057616-0 , p. 391.