Klaus Detjen

Klaus Detjen (* 1943 in Breslau ) is a German book designer and editor as well as professor emeritus for typography and design at the Muthesius Art College in Kiel .

Career

After studying printing technology , publishing and design at the Werkkunstschule Wuppertal (now the University of Wuppertal ), Detjen worked in a printing company and then switched to the Moritz Diesterweg publishing house in Frankfurt am Main as a manufacturer . In the summer of 1970 he joined Suhrkamp Verlag as a manufacturer . There he was entrusted with the development and production of the paperback programs. In 1972 Detjen became the main producer for Insel Verlag . Structure, design and production of the pocket book series “insel taschenbücher”, which was developed together with Willy Fleckhaus , were awarded a prize by the Book Art Foundation .

In 1974 Detjen moved to Carl Hanser Verlag Munich as production manager and book designer . In 1981 Detjen moved to Hamburg and worked as a freelance book designer and typographer for Ammann , Büchergilde Gutenberg , ECM Records , Hanser , Insel , Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Knaus , Paul List , Rowohlt , Steidl , Straelener Manuskripte , Suhrkamp and Wallstein , among others . He took on teaching positions in Hamburg (1981) and Bielefeld (1986) and was professor for typography and design at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule in Kiel from 1988 to 2009 .

Awards

• Gutenberg Prize of the City of Leipzig , 2017
• Antiquaria Prize for Book Culture , 2014
• Gold medal “ Most beautiful books from all over the world ”, 1996
• various awards in the competition “ The Most Beautiful German Books ”, including 2001, 2003, 2005

Release

"Typographic Library"

The series "Typographische Bibliothek", edited by Klaus Detjen, has been published since 1993; initially - from 1993 to 2005 - in the Göttingen Steidl Verlag (volumes 1 to 6), since 2011 in the Göttingen Wallstein Verlag (from volume 7). The book series "wants to offer the medium of typography a new and effective forum" in order to "re-interest readers in unusual or long-forgotten forms of design". The bibliophile volumes of the series each contain a variant of the text in reading typography as well as an artistically interpretive part in staging typography. In addition to an afterword, each volume also contains detailed information about the typographical design in the appendix.

• Volume 1: Elfriede Jelinek : Clouds. Heim., 1993 ( ISBN 3-88243-276-4 )
• Volume 2: Stéphane Mallarmé : Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard / Throwing the dice never eliminates chance , 1995 ( ISBN 3882433744 )
• Volume 3: Michel Leiris : Alphabet , 1998 ( ISBN 3882435321 )
• Volume 4: Jorge Luis Borges : The Library of Babel , 2001 ( ISBN 9783882437782 )
• Volume 5: Georg Büchner : Lenz , 2003 ( ISBN 978-3-88243-910-6 )
• Volume 6: Herman Melville : Bartleby the Scribe , 2005 ( ISBN 978-3-86521-009-8 )
• Volume 7: Edgar Allan Poe : A Fall into the Malstrom , 2011 ( ISBN 978-3-8353-0879-4 )
• Volume 8: Heinrich von Kleist : About the Marionette Theater , 2011 ( ISBN 978-3-8353-0941-8 )
• Volume 9: Franz Kafka : In der Strafkolonie , 2012 ( ISBN 978-3-8353-0979-1 )
• Volume 10: Jean Paul : The Airship Giannozzo Seebuch , 2013 ( ISBN 978-3-8353-1198-5 )
• Volume 11: Hugo von Hofmannsthal : A Letter , 2014 ( ISBN 978-3-8353-0980-7 )
• Volume 12: Hugo Ball : Tenderenda der Phantast , 2015 ( ISBN 978-3-8353-1670-6 )
• Volume 13: Novalis : Blüthenstaub , 2016 ( ISBN 978-3-8353-1669-0 )
• Volume 14: Danilo Kiš : The Encyclopedia of the Dead , 2017 ( ISBN 978-3-8353-0978-4 )
• Volume 15: Heinrich Heine : Germany. A winter fairy tale , 2018 ( ISBN 978-3-8353-3313-0 )
• Volume 16: Samuel Beckett : The Orphan , 2019 ( ISBN 978-3-8353-3552-3 )
• Volume 17: Allen Ginsberg : Das Geheul , 2020 ( ISBN 978-3-8353-3826-5 )

"Aesthetics of the Book"

The book series “Aesthetics of the Book”, edited by Klaus Detjen, has been published by the Wallstein Verlag in Göttingen since 2013 . Authors from various disciplines dedicate themselves to the unique aesthetic, cultural and perceptual psychological qualities of the printed book. The book, its look, feel and shape, its functions and effects, but also the tradition of typography and book design are discussed in essays, portraits and comments. This discourse on the book form and on the book as a form focuses on the sensual and reading-technical advantages of the medium and provides insights into the work on it.

• Volume 1: Hans Andree : normal regular book roman. A contribution to the history of writing and typography , 2013 ( ISBN 978-3-8353-1354-5 )
• Volume 2: Günter Karl Bose : The end of a burden. The Liberation from Books , 2013 ( ISBN 978-3-8353-1355-2 )
• Volume 3: Gerd Fleischmann : Tschichold - so what? , 2013 ( ISBN 978-3-8353-1353-8 )
• Volume 4: Roland Reuss : ›The perfect reading machine‹. On the ergonomics of the book , 2014 ( ISBN 978-3-8353-1435-1 )
• Volume 5: Uwe Jochum : media body. Wall media - Hand media - Digitalia , 2014 ( ISBN 978-3-8353-1543-3 )
• Volume 6: Friedrich Forssman : How I Design Books , 2015 ( ISBN 978-3-8353-1591-4 )
• Volume 7: Hans Rudolf Bosshard : Rule and Intuition. The uncertainties and imponderabilities of design , 2015 ( ISBN 978-3-8353-1718-5 )
• Volume 8: Carlos Spoerhase : Line, Area, Space. The three dimensions of the book in the discussion of the present and the modern , 2016 ( ISBN 978-3-8353-1825-0 )
• Volume 9: Klaus Detjen: Outside Worlds. On the formal language of book covers , 2018 ( ISBN 978-3-8353-3225-6 )
• Volume 10: Walter Pamminger : Conceptual Book Design , 2018 ( ISBN 978-3-8353-3314-7 )
• Volume 11: Steffen Siegel : Photo story from the spirit of the photo book , 2019 ( ISBN 978-3-8353-3469-4 )
• Volume 12: Klaus Detjen (ed.): Typographers of Modernity. Stanley Morison, Eric Gill, Paul Renner , 2020 ( ISBN 978-3-8353-3660-5 )
• Volume 13: Thomas Boyken : Mediality of storytelling. The rediscovery of the book in the novel , 2020 ( ISBN 978-3-8353-3545-5 )
• Special volume: Jost Hochuli : Tschichold in St. Gallen , 2016 ( ISBN 978-3-8353-1590-7 )

Web links

• Klaus Detjen on the website of Wallstein Verlag
• Klaus Detjen on the Gutenberg Book Guild website
• Klaus Detjen on the Muthesius Kunsthochschule website [archived version]
• Klaus Detjen in the online database Discogs

Individual evidence

1. ^ David Marc Hoffmann: Laudation for Klaus Detjen on the occasion of the award of the Antiquaria Prize 2014 . In: From the second-hand bookshop. Magazine for antiquarians and book collectors . 12 (New Series), No. 2 , 2014, ISSN  0343-186X , p. 88-90 .
2. ↑ Lothar Müller: The codex of the typographer. Laudation for Klaus Detjen on the awarding of the Gutenberg Prize 2017, held on June 22, 2017 in Leipzig. (PDF) Retrieved March 26, 2018 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Silvia Werfel: From the sound of typography. About the book designer and typographer Klaus Detjen . In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade . tape 163 , no. 4 , 1996, ISSN  0940-0044 , p. 18-21 .
4. ↑ Kulturamt Stadt Leipzig: Previous winners of the Gutenberg Prize. Retrieved August 20, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Börsenblatt: 20th Antiquarian Prize to Klaus Detjen. July 3, 2015, accessed August 20, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Stiftung Buchkunst (ed.): The most beautiful German books 1995. Exemplarily designed in typesetting, printing, images and binding . Commission publishing house of the booksellers association, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7657-1951-X , p. [without pagination] .
7. ↑ Gutenberg Book Guild: The Library of Babel. Retrieved August 20, 2020 . 
8. ^ Gutenberg Book Guild: Lenz. Retrieved August 20, 2020 . 
9. ^ Gutenberg Book Guild: Bartleby the scribe. Retrieved August 20, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Klaus Detjen: The language that strides so resoundingly: The typographic library in Steidl Verlag . In: Typographic Monthly Pages. Journal for writing, typography, design and language . tape 68 [= 78] , no. 6 , 2000, ISSN  0041-4840 , p. 8-17 .
11. ^ Nana Badenberg: Typographical cohesion. Klaus Detjen designs Hofmannsthal's Chandos letter . In: sph contacts. Journal of the Swiss Paper Historians . No. 100 , 2015, p. 19-22 .
12. ^ Wallstein Verlag: Aesthetics of the book. Retrieved August 20, 2020 .