Celebrating 75 Years of Suhrkamp

To mark the 75th anniversary of Suhrkamp Verlag, presenter Annika von Taube has produced a special episode of the podcast Dichtung und Wahrheit. For this episode, she takes listeners to a place where there are usually no microphones, into the offices of the publishing house in Berlin. She meets the people who are responsible for turning manuscripts into books, and for getting them into the hands of readers. She speaks with editors, with employees from the PR, production, events, marking, and foreign rights departments, as well as with the publisher, Jonathan Landgrebe, about their day-to-day, their perspectives on the publisher, and about recent developments in the publishing sector.

Who decides which manuscripts become a book? How do titles and cover designs come about? What are some of the current trends among readers, and how have these trends changed in recent times? And what is it that makes a book successful?

This episode offers a wide-ranging insight into the past and present of Suhrkamp Verlag and into the question of how literature is produced, disseminated, and stays relevant.

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