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Angelika Taschen (born June 14, 1959 in Homberg (Efze) ; also Angelika (Herbert-) Muthesius ) is a German art historian and publisher .

Life

Angelika Taschen was born in 1959 as the daughter of Manfred and Ute Herbert, a couple who run a bookshop in Bonn. As a teenager, she received training as a classical ballet dancer with Carole Maré in Bad Godesberg and, at the same time, graduated from the Nicolaus-Cusanus-Gymnasium in 1978 . In the same year she got an engagement in the musical Sweet Charity in the small theater of her hometown. In 1979 she married the art historian Stefan Muthesius, great-nephew of Hermann Muthesius , with whom she has a daughter. From 1979 to 1985 she studied German and art history in Heidelberg . In 1986 she received her dissertation on stage and visual arts in futurism. Giacomo Balla , Enrico Prampolini , Fortunato Depero received their doctorates.

In 1987 she started working for her later second husband Benedikt Taschen , with whom she was married from 1996 to 2004. From 1990 to 2010 she was editor-in-chief and publisher at Taschen Verlag . Together they made bags a global brand with inexpensive art books for a mass audience and sold up to 20 million books annually. Angelika Taschen has published more than 150 books on design, art, photography and architecture, including the much discussed book Leni Riefenstahl in 2000 . Five lives and in 2008 an illustrated book about cosmetic surgery. In 1998 she and Benedikt Taschen acquired the Chemosphere House in Los Angeles , where they lived from 2000 to 2004.

In the magazine of the Süddeutsche Zeitung she wrote a monthly column from 2005 to 2007 and in Monopol from May 2009 to mid-2010. In 2007, she played a small supporting role in Nicolette Krebitz 's film The Heart is a Dark Forest . In 2010 she was named a “ Lifestyle Queen” by the Bild newspaper .

After it was announced at the beginning of 2010 that Angelika Taschen would join the management of the Fern Verlag , the decision was denied in the same year. Instead, she founded the Angelika Books publishing house in 2011, for which she acquired the royal court building depot at Klosterstrasse 47 as the publishing premises .

Since her divorce from Benedikt Taschen in 2004, the center of her life has been in Berlin . Taschen has a daughter from his first marriage and two grandchildren.

Works

as an author
  • (as Angelika Herbert-Muthesius :) Stage and visual arts in Futurism, stage designs by Balla, Depero and Prampolini (1914–1929). Univ. Diss., Heidelberg 1985.
as a publisher

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. a b c d e f g Angelika Taschen: I come from the old world. August 30, 2013, accessed on November 13, 2019 (German).
  3. a b c d e Melanie Amann : Angelika Taschen: Eine Berliner Kreative . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 23, 2013, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed May 30, 2016]).
  4. ^ German biography: Muthesius, Karl - German biography. Retrieved November 22, 2019 .
  5. ^ Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved November 22, 2019 .
  6. Ulrike Von Knöfel, Martin Wolf: "Wherever we can, we steal" - DER SPIEGEL 48/2001. In: www.spiegel.de. Retrieved May 30, 2016 .
  7. Wiebke Brauer: Riefenstahl Marketing: Leni sells! In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved May 30, 2016 .
  8. ^ Elisabeth Bronfen: Triumph of seduction . In: The time . October 19, 2000, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed May 30, 2016]).
  9. Annette Langer: Cosmetic Surgery: The Power of the Scalpel. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved May 30, 2016 .
  10. ^ Scott Timberg: Eight sides to this story. latimes.com. Accessed January 23, 2011.
  11. A house that makes you happy. In: www.welt.de. Retrieved May 30, 2016 .
  12. sz-magazin.sueddeutsche.de: Peking & Shanghai - Room Service - Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin , accessed on January 26, 2011.
  13. Henning Kornfeld: New look, fresh content: The "Monopoly" relaunch. kress.de, April 17, 2009, accessed May 30, 2016 .
  14. Double life with dire consequences. Retrieved November 14, 2019 .
  15. The heart is a dark forest, feature film, 2006-2007 | Crew United. Retrieved November 14, 2019 .
  16. bild.de: New illustrated book: 10 favorite hotels of the lifestyle queen Angelika Taschen. Bild.de. Accessed January 23, 2011.
  17. Hamburger Abendblatt- Hamburg: Christian Boros brings Angelika Taschen to Fern-Verlag. June 14, 2010, accessed on November 14, 2019 (German).
  18. a b The publisher Angelika Taschen keeps her distance. In: THE WORLD. Retrieved May 30, 2016 .
  19. Natalie Rigg: Angelika Taschen on the Ever-Changing Magic of Berlin. In: T Magazine. April 15, 2014, Retrieved November 14, 2019 (American English).
  20. All celebrities want to see Andy Warhol. Retrieved November 14, 2019 .
  21. ^ Reliefs from the Hofbaudepot. June 14, 2018, accessed November 14, 2019 .
  22. Dagmar von Taube: A Bag in Berlin , online presence of the world on Sunday , February 15, 2004