Helge Malchow
Helge Malchow (born May 21, 1950 in Bad Freienwalde (Oder) ) is a German publisher , he was the publishing director of Kiepenheuer & Witsch from 2002 to 2018 .
Life
When Helge Malchow was three years old, his family fled from the GDR to West Germany . He grew up in Düsseldorf and Neuss . After graduating from high school in 1969, he studied German , social sciences and philosophy in Cologne . The state examination followed in 1975. From 1975 to 1977 he trained as a high school teacher . From 1977 to 1981 he was a teacher at the Helmholtz-Gymnasium Hilden in Hilden , later at the comprehensive school in Rodenkirchen . In 1981 Malchow resigned from school.
A stay abroad in Italy followed from 1982 to 1983. There Malchow worked on a doctorate in education , later literature . In 1983 he started as a trainee at Kiepenheuer & Witsch and in the same year became editor for the Kiwi paperback series. In 1984 he went to New York City as head editor for the publishing house . Since 2002 Helge Malchow has been a publisher at Kiepenheuer & Witsch; his successor has been Kerstin Gleba since January 2019 .
In 2005 Malchow was named Publisher of the Year ; the award initiated by the magazine Buchmarkt has been presented since 1994.
Quotes
- "Literature ... is the miracle of transforming reality into truth through the means of language and storytelling."
- "If you don't know the past, you can't find the way into the future."
Works
- with Hubert Winkels: The time after. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1989, ISBN 346202146X .
- with Hubert Winkels: enmity. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3462019503 .
- The beautiful abundance. Texts on the life and work of Uwe Timm. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3462034618 .
- Werner Lindemann : Mike Oldfield in the rocking chair. Notes from a father. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2020, ISBN 978-3-462-05466-8 (with a conversation between son Till Lindemann and Helge Malchow).
Web links
- Literature by and about Helge Malchow in the catalog of the German National Library
- Helge Malchow in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
- Helge Malchow at Kiepenheuer & Witsch
- WDR 5 (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) table talk. Culture of conversation with prominent contemporaries from March 13, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ 'Publisher of the Year 2005 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Helge Malchow: You should dance! , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from April 20, 2014, p. 34.
- ↑ "He didn't duck lower than the others". The biographer Frank Möller and the publisher Helge Malchow in conversation about Joseph Caspar Witsch . In: taz of December 9, 2014, p. 15.
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SURNAME | Malchow, Helge |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publisher |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1950 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Freienwalde (Oder) |