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Klaus Wagenbach (11 July 1930 in Berlin – 17 December 2021) was a German author and publisher.^[1][2] He was founder of Wagenbach Verlag.

In 1949 Wagenbach started an apprenticeship at editing house Suhrkamp/Fischer (at this time one company). Wagenbach did a Ph.D. about the work of Franz Kafka. When Fischer was sold toHoltzbrinck Publishing Group, the new boses fired Wagenbach. Wagenbach had complained about the arresting of GDR-puphliser at Buchmesse (book exebition).

as a rsult he founded his own publishing house in 1964 in West-Berlin. He published authors like Günter Grass, Hans Werner Richter, Ingeborg Bachmann and others.

Wagenbach stood for a culture of interference and democratic dispute. He was considered the prototype of the political publisher of the 1968 movement. Wagenbach verlag had seveal house searches, trials and convictions. Wagenbach saw himself as the most accused surviving German publisher. The lawyer at his side was Otto Schily, who later became the RAF lawyer and was later to become the German Federal Minister of the Interior.^[1]

Wagenbach also stood for lavishly made books; they should "last a hundred years," he said. Several books of Wagenbach where also published by the union-book club Büchergilde Gutenberg. In 2002 Susanne Schüssler took over the publishing house, Wagenbach's third wife. One of the greatest successes of Wagenbach Verlag in 2008 was Alan Bennett's "The Sovereign Reader".^[1]

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