Jürgen Knaack (printer)

Jürgen Knaack, printer and publisher in Berlin

Jürgen Wolfgang Albert Knaack (born September 11, 1954 in Parchim , Mecklenburg ) is a German printer and publisher .

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Jürgen Knaack was born as the son of master mechanic Wolfgang Knaack and tailor Inge Schulz. He grew up in Parchim until he was six, and in 1960 the family moved to Berlin. After completing the 10th grade, he started an apprenticeship as an offset printer at the Rudi Arndt vocational school . From 1974 to 1977 he did his military service with the NVA in a mobile printing company and received the qualification clasp military polygraph . Here he got to know the artists Christian Bonnet, René Rehfeldt and Volkmar Sebb, among others. Together they organized concerts with Bettina Wegner and music lectures by Werner Josh Sellhorn .

In September 1977 he began his studies at the engineering school for polygraphy in Leipzig , which he graduated in 1980 as a Dipl.-Ing. ( FH ) graduated. According to tradition, he was gautscht after his training, when he received his journeyman's certificate , and was thus accepted into the printer's guild . He then worked as a shift supervisor in a web and sheet-fed offset printing company in Berlin. In 1984 he moved to VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin, and worked as a production manager. In a two-year distance learning course, he continued his education at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig in the field of cultural studies (publishing). In 1989 Jürgen Knaack became production manager and member of the management team at VEB Verlage für Medizin und Biologie. The publishing group Volk und Gesundheit Berlin, Thieme Verlag and Barth Verlag in Leipzig and Gustav Fischer Verlag in Jena belonged to this publishing group . As production director, he was responsible for 70 periodicals and around 400 book titles per year. When the publishing group was taken over by Ullstein Verlag and Mosby London in 1992, the name was changed to Ullstein Mosby Wiesbaden, which also meant a change of work location to Wiesbaden. In 1995 Jürgen Knaack went back to Berlin as production manager for book and magazine production at Blackwell Verlag. The partial sale of Blackwell Berlin in 1998 required the step into independence with the establishment of the GbR Havel Spree Verlag. Larger productions of books and periodicals as well as own editions led to the foundation of NEUNPLUS1 - Verlag + Service GmbH, Berlin in 2000.

In addition, Jürgen Knaack worked from 1990 to 2004 on the board of the working group of Berlin manufacturers . Since 1994 he has been a member of the ERFA working group of production managers for specialist publishers in Germany. His penchant for music has made him support the radio station ROCKRADIO since 2008.

Publications (selection)

• Edition NEUNPLUS1: Christian Bonnet, Alexander Etz, Monika Janus-Sommer, Günter Kaden, Sabine Naumann, René Rehfeldt, Volkmar Sebb, Sabine Slatosch, Annette Tucholke , ed. by J. Knaack, NEUNPLUS1 Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-9807717-0-2
• Werner Josh Sellhorn: Jazz GDR facts. With a foreword by Manfred Krug, NEUNPLUS1 Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-936033-19-6
• Jürgen Knaack: From Abbreviation to subtitles. A Vademecum for the publishing and printing industry, NEUNPLUS1 Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-936033-32-8
• Jürgen Knaack: Publishing and printing terms. Publishing and Printing Terms , NEUNPLUS1 Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-936033-42-7

Web links

• Homepage NEUNPLUS1 - Verlag + Service GmbH

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christian Bonnet - Galerie & Atelier Louisenhof No. 2. Retrieved on January 21, 2019 (German). 
2. ^ Rene Rehfeldt - Prints. Retrieved January 21, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Detail page - Archivportal-D. Retrieved January 21, 2019 . 
4. ↑ NEUNPLUS1 - Verlag und Service GmbH. Retrieved January 22, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Erfa groups. Retrieved January 21, 2019 . 
6. ↑ rockradio.de. Retrieved January 21, 2019 .