Gabrielle Spaeth

Gabrielle Spaeth (* 1939 in Hanover ) is a German bookseller and publisher dealing with the life and work of the universal scholar Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz .

Life

Gabrielle Spaeth was born in Hanover in 1939. At the age of 14, she read the Monadology of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and found through his writings and literature of their own life theme.

After attending school, Spaeth first trained as a bookseller, led seminars for creative writing and lived in Berlin , Karlsruhe , Soest , Hamburg , Hanover and Bad Münder. For a while she worked as a training manager at Schroedel-Verlag . After this school book publisher went bankrupt in 1981 and was taken over by the Holtzbrinck publishing group , Spaeth went into business for herself and founded her own publishing house, Leibniz Buchwarte , on February 22, 1985 in Bad Münder .

"I wanted to make Leibniz, who lived in Hanover for 40 years, accessible from another side,"

explained the publisher, whose books repeatedly made the life and work of the universal genius the subject of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung .

In 1990 the Norwegian educator and writer Jostein Gaarder offered her the manuscript for his novel Sophie's World for publication, which she referred to the larger Carl Hanser Verlag with his novel on the history of philosophy .

Gabrielle Spaeth with Burkhard Messer from the Berlin University of Applied Sciences on November 20, 2016

For 2016, the publisher announced her “[...] very last publication” with the title Leibniz und die Rosenkreuzer , after which the 70-year-old wants to get out of her more than three decades-old own publishing history.

With her life's work, the publisher gained a reputation as "[...] one of the great women of Bad Münder."

literature

Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of February 19, 2005, p. 19
Christoph Huppert: Bad Münder / A life for Leibniz and literature / The publisher Gabrielle Spaeth is celebrating the 30th anniversary of her Leibniz bookkeeper. But she is planning to publish her publisher's last book in 2016. on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from February 21, 2016, updated on February 23, 2015
Christoph Huppert: A haven for ships of thought / The Münderaner publisher Gabrielle Spaeth and her life for Leibniz and literature. In: Springer Yearbook 2015 for the city and the old district of Springe , ed. from the Friends of Springe eV's urban history, Springe 2015, pp. 133–137

Web links

Commons : Gabrielle Spaeth - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Gabrielle Spaeth: Leibniz bookkeeper
25 years of Leibniz bookkeeping , video clip of Linien Sprung from 2010 on Youtube .com; including interviews with Gabrielle Spaeth and the historian Annette von Boetticher and Elmar Schenkel during the 25th anniversary of the Leibniz bookkeeping

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Spaeth, Gabrielle in the database of Niedersächsische Personen of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library , edited on November 4, 2015, last accessed on November 19, 2016.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Christoph Huppert: Bad Münder / A life for Leibniz and literature / The publisher Gabrielle Spaeth is celebrating the 30th anniversary of her Leibniz bookkeeper. But she is planning to publish her publisher's last book in 2016. on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of February 21, 2016, updated on February 23, 2015, last accessed on November 19, 2016.
^ Hugo Thielen : Hermann Schroedel Verlag. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 288.

personal data
SURNAME	Spaeth, Gabrielle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German bookseller and publisher on the subject of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
DATE OF BIRTH	1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover

[GWLB-1] Spaeth, Gabrielle in the database of Niedersächsische Personen of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library , edited on November 4, 2015, last accessed on November 19, 2016.

[HAZ_21.02.2016-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Christoph Huppert: Bad Münder / A life for Leibniz and literature / The publisher Gabrielle Spaeth is celebrating the 30th anniversary of her Leibniz bookkeeper. But she is planning to publish her publisher's last book in 2016. on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of February 21, 2016, updated on February 23, 2015, last accessed on November 19, 2016.

[3] Hugo Thielen : Hermann Schroedel Verlag. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 288.