Walter Boehlich

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Walter Boehlich (born September 16, 1921 in Breslau ; † April 6, 2006 in Hamburg ) was a German literary critic , editor , translator and editor. His niece was the politician Sabine Boehlich .

Life

Walter Boehlich was the son of the Silesian writer Ernst Boehlich . Because of his Jewish origins, the National Socialists discriminated against him in school. In the post-war period he studied philology with Ernst Robert Curtius , whose assistant he was from 1947 to 1951.

Boehlich was a literary critic for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit and for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and also from 1957 chief editor at Suhrkamp Verlag , which he left in 1968 in a dispute over a codetermination statute for editors. In 1965 he coined the term Berlin anti-Semitism dispute with a collection of sources he published .

He proved himself to be a decidedly socially critical publicist , not least in the cultural magazine Kursbuch , in which he wrote in 1968 - in a text entitled "Autodafé" which was enclosed with the Kursbuch as a poster and hung in many student shared kitchens - the literature and its impact in a historical -located social context:

“The criticism is dead. Which? The bourgeois, the ruling one. She died of herself, died with the bourgeois world to which she belongs, died with the bourgeois literature that accompanied her with a tap on the shoulder, died with the bourgeois aesthetic on which she based her rules, died with the bourgeois God, who gave her his blessing ... "

In addition to his work as an editor , he has translated from French , Spanish and Danish .

From November 1979 to January 2001 he wrote a political column for the satirical monthly magazine Titanic .

Walter Boehlich was a member of the Darmstadt German Academy for Language and Poetry until his death . He received the Johann Heinrich Merck Prize in 1990 , the Hessian Culture Prize in 1996 , the Jane Scatcherd Prize from the Heinrich Maria Ledig Rowohlt Foundation in 1997 and the Heinrich Mann Prize and the Wilhelm Merton Prize for European Translations in 2001 .

Works

  • 1848. Frankfurt am Main 1973.
  • Helmut Peitsch , Helen Thein (ed.): The answer is the misfortune of the question: selected writings by Walter Boehlich . With a foreword by Klaus Reichert . Fischer-Verlag, Frankfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-046325-8 .
  • Posthumously together with Karlheinz Braun, Klaus Reichert, Peter Urban, Urs Widmer: Chronicle of the Lectors. From Suhrkamp to the publishing house of the authors . Verlag der Authors, Frankfurt am Main 2011, 216 pages, ISBN 978-3-88661-345-8 .
  • No need to clean yourself. The Titanic columns (edited by Christoph Kapp and Helen Thein. With an afterword by Stefan Gärtner ). Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95732-383-5
Editing
Translations
literature
  • Helmut Peitsch / Helen Thein: Walter Boehlich (1921-2006). “If you didn't read, you didn't count” , in: Ines Sonder, Karin Bürger, Ursula Wallmeier (Ed.): “How would I be able to live and work without books?” Private libraries of Jewish intellectuals in the 20th century. vbb, publisher for Berlin-Brandenburg. Berlin. 2008, pp. 83-112. ISBN 978-3-86650-069-3
  • Helmut Peitsch, Helen Thein-Peitsch (ed.): Walter Boehlich - critic . Academy publishing house. Berlin. 2011. ISBN 978-3-05-005085-0

Web links

proof

  1. ↑ cf. Sandra Kegel: "Suhrkamp 1968 - Night of the Long Knives" in: FAZ from October 25, 2010, online
  2. ^ W. Benz, Anti-Semitism. Presence and tradition of resentment. Schwalbach 2015. p. 44.
personal data
SURNAME Worse, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary critic and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2006
Place of death Hamburg