Gerhard Joop

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Gerhard Joop (born March 17, 1914 in Konitz ; † February 25, 2007 ) was a German editor and author.

Life

At the age of six, Joop and his family moved from Konitz to Potsdam . There he completed his school education - with a particular interest in musical subjects. In 1933 he obtained his secondary school leaving certificate and then began training as a bookseller. After his apprenticeship, he worked briefly in the Berlin branch of the Westermann publishing house before he was drafted into the armed forces in 1935 . After Joop was released early due to illness, he mainly wrote as a cultural journalist for the daily press.

In 1942 he married Charlotte Ebert, their child Wolfgang , the founder of the fashion and cosmetics company JOOP! , was born in 1944. Towards the end of the Second World War he fought in the Volkssturm against the Allies and was taken prisoner by the Americans, from which he returned to Potsdam in 1946. There, Joop was arrested as an alleged American spy by the Soviet rulers and first imprisoned in the special camp Jamlitz , then in special camp No. 2 Buchenwald . In 1950 he was handed over to the judiciary of the GDR and sentenced to 15 years in prison in the course of the Waldheim trials .

In 1952 Joop was allowed to leave the Waldheim penitentiary after a pardon on the third anniversary of the GDR and moved with his family to Braunschweig in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1954 . There he got a job as editor at Westermann-Verlag, later rose to deputy editor-in-chief and most recently to editor-in-chief of the magazine Westermanns Monatshefte . During these years he worked with the writers Marie Luise Kaschnitz , Heinrich Böll , Peter Huchel , Dino Buzzati and the photographer Rosemarie Clausen , among others . In 1979 Joop, who also published several art books, ended his professional career for reasons of age. In 1995 he moved back to Potsdam. Gerhard Joop died in 2007 and was buried in the Bornstedter cemetery .

Publications

  • Japanese woodblock prints. Westermann, Braunschweig 1964.
    Dutch: Japanse kleurenhoutsneden. Kruseman, The Hague 1967.
  • Birds of paradise. Westermann, Braunschweig 1968.
  • with Hermann Boekhoff (ed.): Palaces, castles, residences: centers of European history. Westermann, Braunschweig 1971, ISBN 3-14-509080-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Joop, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Konitz
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 2007