RE: MALTE HERWIG'S THREAT TO SUPPRESS MARIE COLBINS REVIEW OF HIS BOOK

I want to make Random House/ Bertelsman - who claim to support, nay defend, the freedom of the press, etc. - aware of the sad fact that the ex-Spiegel reporter and  your subsidiary DTV [Deutsche Verlags Anstalt] author Malte Herwig & DTV threatened in 2010 the Austrian news service “nachrichten.at” with a 60,000 Euro law suit if “nachrichten at” did not withdraw their published and commissioned Marie Colbin review of Herwig’s Handke biography MEISTER DER DAEMMERUNG. The poor buggers at “nachrichten.at” at once submitted. Marie Colbin then turned to me who runs a complex of websites devoted to Handke’s work and you will find her review, a sound and thoughtful response to Herwig’s book, at the first of the three links above. As something of a Handke specialist I took the month of December off and produced a 30 K word analysis of Herwig’s work. {Link # 2}, and then published an open letter to “nachrichten.at” [Link # 3]

Both Colbin and I were in an excellent position to write about Herwig’s book. Herwig as a matter of fact interviewed Colbin at length, and DTV used some of her photos for the book. Herwig in me found the editor he obviously did not have to produce the kind of complex biography that Handke deserves.

I want to register my disgust with Herwig and DTV’s cowardly and heinous act of suppression, and of course of “nachrichten.at’s” spineless submissioon to the threat. 

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 Michael Roloff

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re: MALTE HERWIG & DTV threatening "nachrichten.at" with a 60 Euro lawsuit to withdraw Marie Colbin's review of his MEISTER DER DAEMMERUNG

http://artscritic.blogspot.com/2010/12/marie-colbin-review-of-herwigs-meister.html

http://handke-discussion.blogspot.com/2010/12/marie-colbin-review-of-herwigs-meister.html

http://handke-discussion.blogspot.com/2010/12/full-length-review-of-herwigs-handke.html

 http://artscritic.blogspot.com/2010/12/open-letter-to-nachrichtenat-re.html

Liebe/ dear Random House Bertelsmann Leut, lieber Bertelsmann Betriebsrat; 

 dear Dr. Gunter Thielen, Chairman; 

Andreas Grafemeyer; Markus Dohle(Chairman und Chief Executive Officer

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