Karl Dietrich Wolff Bio
Wolff, Karl Dietrich (b. 1943)
,
publisher (Verlag Stroemfeld/Roter Stern), former national chairman of
the Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund (SDS) in 1967-68.
- In October 2005 he e-mailed: "Just
having found your website, I would like to inform you that I will speak
on Herbert Marcuse in Starnberg on October 14, 2005. [see
entry on Events page]
I was Bundesvorsitzender (national chairman) of SDS /Sozialistischer Deutscher
Studentenbund/ in 1967/68 - and met Herbert Marcuse several
times. I founded a small publishing house in 1970, STROEMFELD/ROTER STERN,
that
still exists - we especially publish historical critical editions of German
language classics, printing facsimiles of the mss. together with transcriptions,
among others of Hölderlin, Kleist, Keller, Trakl, Franz Kafka."From a 1998
conference panel biography: "...
publisher of Stroemfeld Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main / Basel. He
studied law and was Federal Chairman of the Socialistic German Student
League (SDS) from 1967 to 1968, 38 criminal proceedings. In 1970 he founded
the publishing house Roter Stern (Red Star) and in 1979 the Stroemfeld
Publishing House. He is primarily a publisher of critical historical editions
including the Hölderlin edition of Frankfurt, the Kleist edition of
Brandenburg, the Franz Kafka edition, which were awarded several prizes
for their novel documentation of handwriting facsimiles by using typographical
inscriptions (partly with CD-ROM). KD Wolff is an executive member of the
German P.E.N. Centre."Publishing house websites: www.stroemfeld.com;
www.textkritik.de
- Dec. 2004 Netzeitung article "Hölderlin
vom Roten Stern"
