Freibezug : Arno Schmidt als Rowohlt-Leser 1947-55 / Friedhelm Rathjen.

Südwesthörn : Edition Rejoyce, 2024.

110 pages ; 19 cm.

"From 1948 to 1955, Arno Schmidt was the author and translator of the Rowohlt publishing house. Happily he has rarely felt as such, but as a publishing author of a renowned house, he enjoyed quite advantages, and all the way to such practical things as free delivery with large parts of publishing production. Much of what was sent to him by Rowohlt did not find Schmidt's approval; he gave or sold most of the books - but often only after he had read it, and so some suggestion and some formulation from the books of other Rowohlt authors found entrance into Schmidt's own texts. The study "Freibezug" first gives an overview of Schmidt's non-free relationship with the publisher Rowohlt, in order to inventory in detail which books Schmidt received from the publisher and how he processed them in his own work. It turns out that it was hardly the big names that interested Schmidt - not Musil, but Kiaulehn, Kusenberg, Beheim-Schwarzbach and Erich Wildberger, not Faulkner, Wolfe and Hemingway, but James Thurber, Betty Mac Donald and Frederic Prokosch, not Gide, Camus or Sartre, but Anatole France, Marcel Aymé and Colette, hardly Jahnn and Kreuder, rather Dauthendey and Fallada, but especially - and this is pleasing - Tucholsky." -- Amazon website.

German

July 23, 2024

Includes bibliographical references.