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Suhrkamp Verlag is a German publishing house, established in 1950 and generally acknowledged as one of the leading European publishers of fine literature. Its roots go back to the "arianized" part of the S. Fischer Verlag. In January 2010 the headquarters of the company moved from Frankfurt to Berlin.
The firm was established by Peter Suhrkamp, who had led the equally renowned S. Fischer Verlag since 1936. As the censorhip of the Nazi Regime endangered the existence of the S. Fischer Verlag with its many dissident authors, Gottfried Bermann Fischer in 1935 reached an agreement with the Propaganda Ministry under which the publication of the not accepted authors would leave Germany while others, the "aryanized" part, would be published under Peter Suhrkamp as managing director and, inter alia, the name "Suhrkamp" - including Nazi-oriented authors. Nevertheless Suhrkamp was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, but survived concentration camp imprisonment. Following a suggestion by Hermann Hesse, he left the Fischer publishing house, establishing his own in 1950. A majority of the writers associated with Fischer followed him. Among the first authors he published were Hesse, Rudolf Alexander Schröder, Hermann Kasack, T. S. Eliot, George Bernard Shaw and Bertolt Brecht.
Rainald Maria Goetz (born 1954) is a German author, playwright and essayist.
After studying History and Medicine in Munich and earning a grade (Ph. D. and M.D) in each, he soon concentrated on his writing.
With his first works, especially his novel "Irre" ("Crazy" or "Mad"), published in 1983, he became a cult author for the intellectual left. To the delight of his fans and the dismay of some critics he mixed neo-expressionist writing with social realism in the vein of Alfred Döblin and the fast pace of British pop writers like Julie Burchill. During a televised literary tournament in 1983, Goetz slit his own forehead with a razor blade and let the blood run down his face until he finished reading.http://bachmannpreis.orf.at/25_jahre/1983/start_1983.htm
Goetz made his name as an enthusiastic observer of media and pop culture. He embraced avant-garde[citation needed] philosophers like Foucault and Luhmann as well as the DJs of the techno movement, especially Sven Väth.
He can probably claim to be one of the earliest prominent bloggers, having written a daily diary on the web in 1998-99 called Abfall für alle ("trash for everybody"), which eventually was published as a book.
Samanta Schweblin was born in Buenos Aires in 1978. In 2001 she was granted her first award by the Fondo Nacional de las Artes (national Fund of the Arts). In that same year, her first book “El núcleo del Disturbio” (Planeta, 2002) garnered her the first prize of the Concurso Nacional Haroldo Conti. (National Contest Haroldo Conti). In 2008 she obtained the prize “Casa de las Americas” for her storybook “La Furia de las pestes”, soon to be published. She was included in the anthologies "Quand elles se glissent dans la peau d'un homme" (Éditions Michalon, Francia. 2007), “Una terraza propia” (Norma, 2006), “La joven guardia” (Norma, 2005), “Cuentos Argentinos” (Siruela, España 2004),among others. Some of her stories have already been translated into the English, French, Serbian and Swedish and published in magazines and other cultural forums. An English translation of her story "Killing a Dog" was published in the Summer 2009 issue of the London-based quarterly newspaper The Drawbridge.