Lothar Wekel

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Lothar Wekel (born April 30, 1958 in Hanover ) is a German book publisher in Wiesbaden .

Life

Wekel studied German and history at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller in the university bookstore of Bouvier Verlag in the early 1980s . He then worked for a few years for the bookstore Walther König, which specializes in art and art history, and worked for Gondrom before he became the catalog director of the Weltbild publishing group . After all, he worked as a publisher for Club Bertelsmann . In 2000, Rolf Heyne brought Lothar Wekel to Heyne Verlag . Lothar Wekel has been an independent publisher since 2002.

Act as a publisher

In 2002 Lothar Wekel and his wife Miriam Zöller took over from Günter Fourier the Fourier publishing house, which was specialized in Judaica at the time and had an attached large antiquarian shop. In 2004, Wekel and Zöller founded Marix Verlag , which has since concentrated on cultural and humanities topics as well as classics of world literature. Marix started the popular science book series “marixwissen” in 2006 with the Frankfurter Rundschau .

In 2008 Lothar Wekel took over Edition Erdmann , which is particularly dedicated to historical travel reports. In 2010 he acquired the Waldemar Kramer publishing house . In June 2014, Wekel brought its publishers together under the umbrella of “Verlagshaus Römerweg” in Wiesbaden. In the fall of 2014 sold Gottfried Honnefelder the Berlin University Press Lothar Wekel.

The Lothar Wekels publishers' program includes the authors Helmut Birkhan , José Casanova , Udo Di Fabio , Wolfgang Frühwald , Anton Grabner-Haider , Dieter Grimm , Ludger Honnefelder , Norbert Lammert , Klaus-Dieter Lehmann , Wolf Lepenies , Christoph Markschies , Viktor Mayer-Schönberger , Simon Conway Morris , Paul Nolte , Marcia Pally , Andrei Pleșu , Michael Sandel , Boualem Sansal , Wolfgang Schäuble , Werner Spies , Michael Tilly , Georg Stefan Troller , Martin Walser and Volker Zotz .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data according to: Knowledge, Enlightenment, Understanding of the World. Publisher Lothar Wekel on dreams, books and programs. In: exLibris 1/2014, pp. 5-7.
  2. ^ Sketched career after April 30th: Lothar Wekel (50). In: Book Market of May 7, 2008
  3. ↑ Verlagshaus römerweg founded in Wiesbaden as a “roof for beautiful books” In: Book market from June 18, 2014
  4. ↑ Lothar Wekel takes over Berlin University Press . boersenblatt.net , September 11, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Wekel, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German book publisher in Wiesbaden
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover