Metadata: Liepman agency
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- Archives of Contemporary History at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiv für Zeitgeschichte der ETH Zürich
- Postal address:
- Hirschengraben 62, CH-8092 Zurich
- Phone number:
- +41 44 632 40 03
- Web address:
- https://www.afz.ethz.ch/
- Email:
- afz@history.gess.ethz.ch
- Reference number:
- IB Agentur Liepman AG
- Title:
- Liepman agency
- Title (official language):
- Teilbestand Agentur Liepman AG
- Creator/accumulator:
- Agentur Liepman AG
- Date(s):
- 1994/2002
- Language:
- German
- English
- Extent:
- 0.5 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection comprises documents of the Agentur Liepman AG [Liepman agency].
- Archival history:
- The Binjamin Wilkomirski holdings of the Liepman AG business archive were partially transferred to the AfZ by Eva Koralnik. The entire archive was transferred to the Central Library in Zurich.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
The Liepman Literary Agency was founded in Hamburg in 1949 by Dr. Ruth Liepman-Lilienstein (1909-2001) and her husband, the writer and journalist Heinz Liepman. The Agency has been based in Zurich since 1961. In 1981, the sole proprietorship was transformed into a public limited company. In 2001, two longstanding employees, Eva Koralnik and Ruth Weibel, became the Agency’s sole proprietors. Since 2013, Marc Koralnik is the owner.
With the distribution of Binjamin Wilkomirski's manuscript, which was published in German by Suhrkamp Verlag in 1994 under the title ‘Bruchstücke. Aus einer Kindheit 1939-1948’, the agency became involved in a scandal. After the book had already been published in nine different languages, it turned out that the author’s childhood ‘memories’ of the Holocaust which he used in the book had been invented.
Binjamin Wilkomirski was born under the name Bruno Grosjean and was later adopted by a couple named Dössekker. His childhood in Switzerland can be entirely traced through evidence, as Stefan Mächler demonstrated in ‘Der Fall Wilkomirski’, published in 2000 on behalf of Liepman AG.
- Subject terms:
- Literature
- Access, restrictions:
- No open access. Subject to application.
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid is available.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://onlinearchives.ethz.ch/
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2019
