Claudia Baumhöver

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Claudia Baumhöver (2014)

Claudia Baumhöver (born February 27, 1959 in Münster ) is a German publisher .

Life

Claudia Baumhöver was born in Münster in 1959. After training as a kindergarten teacher and studying social pedagogy , she initially worked as a freelancer for Münchner Merkurs and other media. She later took on a position as press officer at Taurus Film ( Kirch Group ). She then became director of public relations at Columbia Pictures , for which she later also worked in Moscow . Among other things, she was responsible for setting up the subsidiaries in what was then the Eastern Bloc . In the mid-1990s she took over the management of the Hörverlag , for whose growth she was largely responsible. With the purchase of Hörverlag by Randomhouse, Baumhöver also switched, which is why she took over the position of Publishing Director at Random House Audio from 2014 , which she held until the end of 2015. On January 1, 2016, she took over the publishing management of dtv Verlagsgesellschaft from Wolfgang Balk , who was retiring . At her own request, she left the Munich publishing house dtv in spring 2020 after four years as a publisher. Her successor there will be Barbara Laugwitz with effect from August 1, 2020 .

From 2002 to 2009 Baumhöver was a member of the supervisory board of the Bibliographisches Institut & FA Brockhaus . She was the first woman on this body. In 2005 she became a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Media and Communication Policy , which she chaired together with Jakob Augstein in January 2014. In addition, Baumhöver is a member of the board of trustees of the Human Sciences Center of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . and since 2011 member of the board of trustees of the Sparkassenfonds of the German Giro and Savings Bank Association.

In 2006 Baumhöver received the State Medal for special services to the Bavarian economy . In 2007 she was named “Publisher of the Year” by the specialist magazine Buchmarkt .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Biogram: Claudia Baumhöver . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 12, 2001, accessed on November 14, 2014.
  2. ↑ Claudia Baumhöver is 50 years old today . In: Buchmarkt , February 22, 2009, accessed November 14, 2014.
  3. ↑ Thomas Grasberger: In the ear of time Claudia Baumhöver led the Münchner Hörverlag to success . In: Die Welt , June 12, 1999, accessed November 14, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b Claudia Baumhöver is the head of the Hörverlag . In: Handelsblatt , May 6, 2003, accessed on November 14, 2014.
  5. ↑ Buss leaves, Baumhöver takes over the management . In: Börsenblatt , August 21, 2014, accessed on November 14, 2014.
  6. ↑ https://www.buchmarkt.de/mektiven/jetzt-ofiziell-claudia-baumhover- Follow-wolfgang-balk-als-verlegerin-des-dtv /
  7. ↑ Claudia Baumhöver leaves dtv , buchreport.de on March 27, 2020, accessed May 11, 2020
  8. ↑ Barbara Laugwitz leaves Ullstein , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on June 9, 2020.
  9. ↑ Andreas Langenscheidt new chairman of the supervisory board at Duden, Brockhaus and Meyer / new member of the supervisory board Claudia Baumhöver / back on the road to success . In: Buchmarkt , July 12, 2002, accessed December 27, 2014.
  10. ↑ Cut the wire to Munich . In: Buchreport , June 23, 2009, accessed December 27, 2014.
  11. ↑ Baumhöver and Augstein new chairmen of the board of trustees at IfM . ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Institute for Media and Communication Policy, January 24, 2014, accessed December 27, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / medienpolitik.eu
  12. ↑ Board of Trustees . Human Sciences Center of the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, accessed on December 27, 2014.
  13. ^ State medal for Hörverlag publisher Claudia Baumhöver . In: Buchmarkt , November 8, 2006, accessed December 27, 2014.
  14. ↑ Bettina Weiguny: A publisher without a book . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , December 9, 2007, p. 38.
personal data
SURNAME Baumhöver, Claudia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster