Klaus Piper
Klaus Piper (born March 27, 1911 in Munich ; † March 25, 2000 there ) was a German publisher .
Live and act
Even as a child, Klaus Piper was allowed to take part in conversations between his father Reinhard Piper and authors. After graduating from the Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich, he completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller in the Christian Kaiser bookstore, just like his father once did. After stays in Italy, France and Vienna, he joined his father's Munich publishing house in 1932 (initially as an employee, later as a partner). At the beginning of his activity he was responsible for the entire technical production, later he increasingly took on other areas of responsibility. Reinhard Piper often left his son to negotiate with representatives of the National Socialist Propaganda Ministry , who had reserved important decisions for the publisher. For example, no book could be published without their consent and printing paper was only allocated with official approval.
Due to the air raids on Munich in 1943 the publishing house had to be relocated to a less endangered area. The publishing house on Georgenstrasse was damaged.
After the end of the war, father and son Piper were among the first German publishers to receive a license from representatives of the occupying forces to fully resume production in 1946 . Reinhard Piper died in 1953 and his son took over the sole management of the publishing house. Klaus Piper played a decisive role in the fact that the publishing house expanded its program, which was originally mainly dedicated to literature, art and philosophy, to include areas such as contemporary history, sociology and natural sciences. In 1960 he was one of the founders of the dtv paperback publishing house.
In 1994 Klaus Piper sold his shares in the publishing house to the Swedish media group Bonnier and stayed with the publishing house as a consultant until 1996. He died two days before his 89th birthday in Munich.
He is the father of Ernst Piper .
Awards
- 1963: Golden Culture Medal of the Republic of Italy
- 1970: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
- 1973: Ludwig Thoma Medal
- 1976: Bavarian Order of Merit
- 1976: Munich shines in gold
- 1979: Large Federal Cross of Merit
- 1982: Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria (1952)
literature
- Ernst Piper: Piper, Klaus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 463 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Klaus Piper , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 21/2000 from May 15, 2000, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- ZEIT online: Klaus Piper http://www.zeit.de/2000/14/Klaus_Piper
- Reinhard Piper: My life as a publisher R.Piper & Co. Publishing company. Munich, 2nd edition 1991
Web links
- Literature by and about Klaus Piper in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Piper, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 25, 2000 |
| Place of death | Munich |