Lothar Blanvalet

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Grave site , Friedenstrasse 8-10, in Berlin-Wannsee

Lothar Blanvalet (born August 12, 1910 in Berlin ; † January 17, 1979 there ; pseudonym: Heino Willberg ) was a German publisher . In 1935 he founded the Blanvalet publishing house .

Life

Blanvalet came from a Huguenot family who had lived in Berlin since the 17th century. He wanted to become an actor and was involved in the staging of several plays as a teenager. Instead, at the request of his family, he took up an apprenticeship at a Berlin publishing house. In 1935 he founded the "Buchwarte-Verlag Lothar Blanvalet", named after him, based in Berlin. Among the first works that Blanvalet published were titles on the subject of football . During the time of National Socialism he was not allowed to continue his activity, but was able to resume after the end of the war. Blanvalet recorded commercial success in the 1950s with the series of novels "Angélique" . In 1974 Blanvalet sold his company to the Bertelsmann publishing group for reasons of age in order to ensure the "continuation of his publishing life's work". Blanvalet was also repeatedly politically active. In 1948 he organized an anti-communist demonstration in Berlin and published critical pamphlets on the occasion of the Berlin blockade .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In some sources the year 1980 is mentioned instead of 1979.
  2. ↑ a b c history and foundation. (No longer available online.) Random House Publishing Group, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on January 16, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.randomhouse.de
  3. ↑ Best piece . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1967 ( spiegel.de [accessed on January 16, 2015]).
  4. ↑ a b c A quick shot . In: Der Spiegel . No. 30 , 1954 ( spiegel.de [accessed on January 16, 2015]).
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Goldhan: Studies on the history of music in Berlin: An inventory . Henschelverlag Art and Society, 1988, p. 187 .
  6. ↑ a b Daniela Völker: The book for the masses . Paperbacks and their publishers. Ed .: Stefan Neuhaus. Tectum, Marburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8288-3353-1 , p. 196-197 .
  7. ↑ Hartmut Panskus: Anyone who says Angélique must also say Blanvalet . In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade . tape 157 , part 5, 1990, p. 709 ff .
  8. ^ Jan Philip Holtmann: Path dependency of strategic decisions . A case study using the example of the Bertelsmann Book Club Germany. Kölner Wissenschaftsverlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-937404-57-8 , p. 129 .
  9. ↑ The man of letters. Volumes 17-18, 1975, p. 282.
personal data
SURNAME Blanvalet, Lothar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Willberg, Heino (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 1979
Place of death Berlin