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After more than 40 years of cooperation, S. Fischer Verlag parted ways with Monika Maron in October. Now it is known that you have found a new editor.
The Hamburg publisher Hoffmann und Campe announces a press release that the works of Monika Maron will appear there in the future. A new short story will be published in early December, an already planned volume of essays will follow in 2021 and, according to Hoffmann and Campe, Maron is also working on a new novel.
Editor Tim Jung is quoted in the press release with the words: “Monika Maron is one of the most important German-speaking writers of today, who with her work repeatedly gives important impulses to the social discourse that is essential for a living democracy.” . Maron himself speaks of the fact that the publishing house is run in the liberal spirit of Heinrich Heine.
Monika Maron has been awarded the Kleist Prize, the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize and the German National Prize, among others. It became known in 1981 with the novel “Flugasche” about the destruction of the environment in the GDR. Many of his novels are about people in the GDR or at the time of reunification who rebelled against social pressure to adapt.
However, for some years it has been attracting increasingly controversial statements. Susanne Dagen published a volume of Maron’s essays in the spring in the “Exil” series at the Loschwitz bookstore in Dresden. The book series is distributed, among other things, by the Antaios publishing house of the new right Götz Kubitschek, whose “Institute for State Policy” is supervised by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
Marron himself insists on not being right. In an interview with SPIEGEL, he said: “It cannot be that everything that is not on the left is automatically on the right. There must be something in between.”
