Katharina Wagenbach-Wolff

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Katharina "Katja" Wagenbach-Wolff (born July 19, 1929 ) is a German publisher .

Life

Katharina Wagenbach-Wolff comes from a Russian bookseller family; her great-grandfather was the Petersburg publisher Moritz Wolff , her father Andreas Wolff .

She graduated from high school in 1948, studied French in Lausanne and did a book trade apprenticeship at Frankfurter Heften . With her husband at the time, Klaus Wagenbach , she founded the Klaus Wagenbach publishing house in West Berlin in 1964 and was part of his management team until the Rotbuch Verlag was split off in 1973.

In 1983 she revived the Friedenauer Presse founded by her father Andreas Wolff in 1963 and gave it a personal profile. Under her leadership, the publishing house published classic works of Russian, French and Italian literature and brought in impressive voices from the early 20th century. In 1988 she invented the winter books , each a long work by an author friend.

In 2006 the publishing house was awarded the Kurt Wolff Prize of the Kurt Wolff Foundation for its commitment . For reasons of age, Wagenbach-Wolff announced the closure of the Friedenauer press for the end of March 2017 . Matthes & Seitz stepped in, Friederike Jacob received permission from Wagenbach-Wolff to continue running the publishing house under the umbrella of Matthes & Seitz.

Katharina Wagenbach-Wolff has three children who were born between 1954 and 1964. In 2019 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st class by the Federal President .

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Individual evidence

  1. Andreas Wolff: Een boekverkoper in St Petersburg omstreeks 1860 over mijn grootvader . Mouette Press, Oxford 1969
  2. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Katharina Wagenbach-Wolff: A life in books , July 17, 2019
  3. a b Book Market: Katharina Wagenbach-Wolff (90) , July 19, 2019
  4. ^ Out after over 50 years: Friedenauer Presse will be closed at the end of March . buchmarkt.de, January 31, 2017; accessed on February 1, 2017
  5. Neue Heimat at Matthes & Seitz boersenblatt.net, March 21, 2017; accessed on September 22, 2018
  6. Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 71, October 1, 2019.