Gertraud Middelhauve
Gertraud Middelhauve (born July 23, 1929 in Opladen , today Leverkusen , † March 7, 2004 in Munich ) was a German publisher.
Gertraud Middelhauve studied literary history in Tübingen , Freiburg im Breisgau , Cologne and Berlin , completed a publishing apprenticeship with S. Fischer in Frankfurt am Main from 1959 to 1960 and then volunteered for six months at Allen & Unwin in London and Macmillan in New York .
Gertraud Middelhauve had her first business successes based on the founding of the company by her father. Her father Friedrich Middelhauve had founded two publishing houses in Opladen in 1947, the sociological West German publishing house and the aesthetic Friedrich Middelhauve publishing house .
The publication of Heinrich Böll's first short stories and novels proved to be a considerable initial success in her publishing career . Nevertheless, the Friedrich Middelhauve Verlag was put on hold in 1951/52 for economic reasons .
In 1961, she revived the publishing house and later renamed it Gertraud Middelhauve Verlag . It developed it into the leading publisher for modern children's and picture books. By Leo Lionni alone , she published a total of 20 picture books with a total circulation of 1.5 million copies in 15 years. She won the best authors, draftsmen and graphic artists for her vision. Since the eighties, Helme Heine has become a star with the title Na wait, said Schwarte .
In eight years she has published 18 picture book titles with him with a total print run of 600,000 copies. Gertraud Middelhauve has received numerous children's and young people's book awards and honors for individual books by her publisher and for her life's work.
In 1990 she sold her publishing house for reasons of age and moved to her own property in Mallorca . She gave most of the originals of her picture books to the Troisdorf picture book museum in Wissem Castle . Some of them could be seen in 2003 in a picture book exhibition of the Bavarian culture department.
Gertraud Middelhauve died after a serious illness in a Munich clinic in March 2004.
literature
- Gertraud Middelhauve . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 2004, p. 236 ( Online - Mar. 15, 2004 ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Gertraud Middelhauve in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Middelhauve, Gertraud |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 23, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Opladen , today Leverkusen |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 2004 |
| Place of death | Munich |