Siegfried Unseld
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Siegfried Unseld

Siegfried Unseld was born in 1924. From 1959 until his death in 2002 he was the publisher of Suhrkamp Verlag.

Siegfried Unseld was born in 1924. From 1959 until his death in 2002 he was the publisher of Suhrkamp Verlag.

PUBLICATIONS

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One Hundred Letters
Year of Publication: 2024
Siegfried UnseldYear of Publication: 2024

One Hundred Letters

For Siegfried Unseld, letters were not just part of his working life, they were a way of life in and of themselves. He used them to organise his thoughts. They were a constant and integral part of...
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Korea (Marco Polo Press)

Travel Reports
Year of Publication: 2020
Siegfried UnseldYear of Publication: 2020

Travel Reports

Ten days after Siegfried Unseld took over as publisher of Suhrkamp Verlag on April 1, 1959, he travels to East Berlin to visit Brecht’s widow Helene Weigel. Once returned, he dictates the first of...

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Greece (Potamos)

The Correspondence
Year of Publication: 2012
Peter Handke, Siegfried UnseldYear of Publication: 2012

The Correspondence

»I am happy to announce that after reading your manuscript closely, we have decided to pub-lish your work at Suhrkamp Verlag.« This letter in August 1965 was the start of a correspon-dence consisting of nearly 600 letters in which Peter Handke finally congratulated the pub-lisher on his 75th birthday.


In their letters that stretched a period of over 35 years, Peter Handke and Siegfried...
The Correspondence
Year of Publication: 2009
Thomas Bernhard, Siegfried UnseldYear of Publication: 2009

The Correspondence

»If anyone has been hoping for just one last undiscovered drama by Thomas Bernhard, here it is. Its title is Correspondence, its birth spanning from 1961 to Bernhard's death in...
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France (Macula)

Previously published in the respective language/territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Complices)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Der Hörverlag)

Goethe and His Publishers
Year of Publication: 1991
Siegfried UnseldYear of Publication: 1991

Goethe and His Publishers

»Goethe and His Publishers organizes for the first time the myriad details of Goethe's career in print. Director of the German publishing company Suhrkamp Verlag, Siegfried Unseld...
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English world rights (Chicago UP), Spanish world rights (Galaxia Gutenberg), Chinese simplex rights (Yunnan), France (Gallimard), Italy (Adelphi), Japan (Hosei UP)

The Author and His Publisher
Year of Publication: 1985
Siegfried UnseldYear of Publication: 1985

The Author and His Publisher

»As head of Suhrkamp Verlag, a premier German publishing house, Siegfried Unseld is eminently qualified to write about the relationship between authors and their publishers – and he does...
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English world rights (Chicago UP), Spanish world rights (Taurus), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai Reader), Russia (Libra; non-exclusive), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Guanabara), France (Gallimard), Italy (Adelphi), Korea (UUPress), Turkey (Norgunk)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Serbia (Ultimatum.rs)

DISCOVER

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On the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Siegfried Unseld

The publisher was born 100 years ago in Ulm, on 28 September 1924.
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On the 20th Anniversary of the Death of Siegfried Unseld

On October 26, 2002, publisher Siegfried Unseld died in Frankfurt am Main.