Christoph Links

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Christoph Links

Christoph Links (born September 15, 1954 in Caputh ) is a German publisher , author and editor.

Life

Christoph Links is the son of Roland Links (1931–2015), who worked as an editor and publisher in the GDR .

From 1975 to 1980 he studied philosophy and Latin American studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Leipzig . He then worked for six years as the Latin America editor for the Berliner Zeitung . In 1986 he became assistant to the management of the Aufbau-Verlag .

On December 1, 1989, Links applied for a publishing license. He founded one of the first private publishing houses in the GDR, which focuses on politics and contemporary history of the 20th century. In Ch. Links Verlag published standard works for the Democratic Republic of the history of the Germans .

The publishing house has a turnover of 1.5 million euros. From 2020 he will also remain independent with the Aufbau publishing group until at least 2025.

Links received his doctorate in 2008 from Humboldt University with a study on the privatization of GDR publishers after the turnaround to become a Dr. phil. The work was published in 2009 under the title Das Schicksal der DDR-Verlage. Privatization and its consequences.

Since June 13, 2017, Left has been the spokesman for the freedom of opinion interest group in the German Book Trade Association (IG Freedom of Opinion).

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • with Hannes Bahrmann : Cons against Nicaragua. Origin, structure, and tactics of the armed counterrevolution. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1985
  • with Hannes Bahrmann: six times Central America. Conflicts in a region. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1985
  • with Hannes Bahrmann and Peter Jakobs: Killerkommando. Black Book: CIA and Cons. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1986
  • with Hannes Bahrmann: We are the people, the GDR on the move, a chronicle. Structure, Hammer, Berlin / Weimar / Wuppertal 1990, ISBN 3-87294-429-0
  • with Heinz Knobloch, Thomas Wenzel, Michael Richter (photographer): Berliner Geisterbahnhöfe / The Berlin Ghost Stations / Les gares fantômes. Links, Berlin 1994 ISBN 3-86153-072-4 (texts: German, French, English).
  • with Christian Härtel (Ed.): One can argue about our books: ten years of Christoph-Links-Verlag. Links, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-86153-200-X .
  • with Sybille Nitsche, Antje Taffelt, Annemarie Franke: The wonderful year of anarchy, of the power of civil disobedience 1989/90. Links, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-86153-333-7 .
  • The fate of the GDR publishers. Privatization and its consequences. Links, Berlin 2009, 2nd edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-595-9 (At the same time dissertation at the Humboldt University Berlin under the title The transformation of the East German publishing landscape in the process of German unity. 2008).
  • with Kristina Volke (Ed.): Inventing the future, creative projects in East Germany. Links, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86153-542-3 .
  • (Ed.): Surviving with links: 20 years of Christoph-Links-Verlag. Links, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86153-555-3 .
  • with Hannes Bahrmann: Chronicle of the Wende, the events in the GDR between October 7, 1989 and March 18, 1990. 12th edition. Links, Berlin 2009 (first edition appeared in 1994 and 1995 in 2 volumes), ISBN 978-3-86153-582-9 .
  • (Ed.): Interference desired. 25 years of Ch. Links Verlag . Links, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86153-800-4 .
  • (Ed.): 30 years of Ch. Links Verlag . Links, Berlin 2019, ISBN 396-2-89072-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sächsische Zeitung 11/12 January 2020 p. M4
  2. ^ Word and Freedom: Interest Group Freedom of Expression. Retrieved October 16, 2019 .
  3. ^ Federal Cross of Merit for Christoph Links. Press release from March 8, 2011 on berlin.de
personal data
SURNAME Left, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Caputh , Potsdam district , GDR