Thomas Sparr
Thomas Sparr (born June 23, 1956 in Hamburg ) is a German literary scholar and, together with Ulla Unseld-Berkéwicz and Jonathan Landgrebe, managing director of Suhrkamp Verlag and Insel Verlag, which has been part of Suhrkamp since 1963 .
Thomas Sparr studied literature and philosophy, he had lectureships at the University of Hamburg and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem . From 1990 to 1998 he headed the Jewish publishing house , was then chief editor of the Siedler publishing house and from 2006 until the transformation of the publishing house into a stock corporation at the beginning of 2015 he was the deputy publishing director of the Suhrkamp publishing house. In addition, he is authorized to represent the board of the Literaturbrücke e. V., the sponsoring association of the House of Poetry in Berlin.
Works
as author:
- Karl Wolfskehl . In: Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Edited by Andreas B. Kilcher . Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01682-X , p. 629, urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-201303269239 (for the 2nd, updated and expanded edition).
- Grunewald in the Orient. The German-Jewish Jerusalem. Berenberg, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-946334-32-3 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2018111910552943213882 .
- Death fugue - biography of a poem. Paul Celan 1920-1970. DVA, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-421-04787-8 .
as editor:
- with Ilana Shmueli : Paul Celan - Ilana Shmueli. Correspondence. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 3-518-41596-4 (collection of letters, 1967-1970).
- Gertrud Kolmar : love poems (= island paperback. 3601). Selected by Thomas Sparr. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-458-35301-0 .
- with Erika Hirsch : Jewish cityscape of Hamburg. Jüdischer Verlag, Frankfurt 1999, ISBN 3-633-54155-1 .
Web links
- Thomas Sparr on Suhrkamp.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sparr, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |