Lutz Kroth

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Lutz Kroth , b. Reinecke, (born March  18, 1942 in Magdeburg ) is a German publisher and a co-founder of two thousand and one .

Live and act

Lutz Kroth's ancestors were booksellers. His grandfather Friedrich Reinecke founded a bookshop in Magdeburg in 1910 called Central-Buchhandlung und Antiquariat Friedrich Reinecke, publishing house, art and music store . In 1949, the year the GDR was founded, the family left Magdeburg and moved to Sarstedt in West Germany, where they again ran a bookshop. Reinecke's parents were also booksellers.

Reinecke also completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller. In 1960 he won a competition initiated by the Suhrkamp publisher Siegfried Unseld for the best-designed window in a bookstore. The prize was a visit to a Suhrkamp author, and Reinecke selected Hans Magnus Enzensberger in Norway. He was then hired by Unseld in his sales department. During the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1968 there was a demonstration by the APO against the award of the Peace Prize of the German book trade to Léopold Sédar Senghor . Reinecke, at that time sales manager, left the Suhrkamp stand, took part in the demonstration and was then dismissed by Unseld.

Then Reinecke initially worked for the satire magazine pardon . Here he became an assistant to Hans A. Nikel . Together with Walter Treumann - then managing director of pardon publishing house Bärmeier & Nikel - he developed a merchandising department, a pardon shop, from 1969 . When the pardon publishing house disbanded in 1971, Reinecke and Treumann spun off shipping as an independent company; the book mailing service two thousand and one was created . By buying up and reselling the remaining editions, it was possible to significantly undercut the fixed book price .

At the end of the 1970s, the contents of the program of two thousand and one changed. Reinecke married the photographer Eva Kroth in 1983, whose family name he adopted. His wife, whom he had already met in 1977, also helped set up the program. New focal points in the range were titles from the areas of ecology , feminism , self-help and esotericism . The anti-nuclear movements , the Greens and Greenpeace also received journalistic support. In 1997, two thousand and one made sixty percent of the annual turnover of 110 million DM through mail order and forty percent through its own eleven stores at the time.

After selling two thousand and one in 2006 to the Kölmel brothers ( Kinowelt ) for reasons of age , Kroth temporarily worked as a consultant. In 2008 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .

The couple has lived in Holstein Switzerland in the Plön district since the 1990s . Kroth has two children; his son from his first marriage to his wife Dorle is also active in the book trade.

Awards

literature

  • Mathias Bröckers : Two thousand and one. The shipping. 40 years later. Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-86150-999-8
  • Christoph Nettersheim: "Neckermann for intellectuals?" The history of the publishing and mail order company Zweiausendeins. Thesis, University of Mainz , 1999
  • Uwe Sonnenberg: From Marx to the Mole: Left book trade in West Germany in the 1970s. Wallstein, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-2934-8 , pp. 287-290

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Gazette : Kroth, Lutz. In: Genios , July 6, 2012, accessed October 28, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c Peter Unfried: Re .: Lutz Kroth. In: taz , December 23, 2006.
  3. ↑ Lutz Kroth founded the publishing house in 2001 25 years ago. For a long time he no longer feels obliged to the revolution, but to the circles in the grain: Drei Freshness as a publisher | TIME ONLINE. May 16, 2017. Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Guido Heinrich: Reinecke, Friedrich Karl Eduard. In: University of Magdeburg , March 4, 2005, accessed on October 28, 2019.
  5. ↑ Photos of the Central bookstore : Magdeburg before 1945 - Breiter Weg 135 and large view: Magdeburg - Breiter Weg 135. In: Flickr , accessed on October 28, 2019.
  6. ^ A b Holdings : Central bookstore and antiquarian bookshop Friedrich Reinecke, publishing house, art and music store, Magdeburg. In: State Archives Leipzig , accessed on October 28, 2019.
  7. ↑ Data record: Letter from Margarete Buber-Neumann to Central-Buchhandlung Friedrich Reinecke <Sarstedt>. In: Kalliope Association .
  8. ↑ a b Willi Winkler : Three freshness [sic!] As a publisher. ( Memento from May 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: Die Zeit , October 14, 1994.
  9. ↑ red.hanau: riots at the book fair, the street and in the courtroom in 1968. The peace prize to Léopold Senghor 1968. In: linksnavigator.de  / Swing , No. 155, November 4, 2008.
    Photo by Eberhard Seeliger: Frankfurt am Main, APO protest against the award of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade to Léopold Sédar Senghor. In: Museum for Art and Commerce Hamburg .
  10. ↑ a b c Peter Unfried , Mathias Bröckers: I sit on the bank of a river and wait. In: the daily newspaper , December 23, 2006, interview with Lutz Kroth.
  11. ↑ Sonnenberg, Von Marx zum Maulwurf , p. 287.
  12. ↑ Oliver Kobold and Jochen Wobser: Only with us. How the two thousand and one counterculture shifted. In: SWR2 , Radio-Feature , March 10, 2019, (PDF; 324 kB).
  13. ↑ Bröckers, Zweiausendeins , p. 5.
  14. ↑ Bröckers, Zweiausendeins , p. 59.
  15. ^ Wolfgang Frömberg: March publishing house. From practice to politics to the third root from P. In: Intro , 2004, published on October 29, 2007, a conversation with the publisher Jörg Schröder .
  16. ↑ Federal Gazette : Kroth, Lutz. In: Genios , July 6, 2012, accessed October 28, 2019.
  17. ^ Review by Sabine Rosenbladt: The photographer Eva Kroth: Views of women. ( Memento from January 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: Zeitmagazin , December 2, 1977.
  18. ^ Günther Stockinger: Triumph in the niche. In: Spiegel special , October 1, 1996, No. 10, and as ( PDF; 4.36 MB ).
  19. ↑ Bröckers, Zweiausendeins , p. 59.
  20. ↑ Manuel Hessling: 2001 + 8 = pfft. In: revierflaneur.de , February 3, 2010.
  21. ↑ Bröckers, Zweiausendeins , p. 62.
  22. ↑ Bröckers, Zweiausendeins , p. 62 f.
  23. ↑ Peter Kliemann : Homeopathy for the dog. In: Die Welt , October 28, 1997.
  24. ↑ Five committed Schleswig-Holsteiners were awarded the Cross of Merit on ribbon. In: Schleswig-Holstein State Portal , November 26, 2008.
  25. ↑ Bröckers, Zweiausendeins , p. 64.
  26. ^ Peter Unfried: Re: Lutz Kroth. In: taz , December 23, 2006.
  27. ↑ Generation change at two thousand and one: Robert Egelhofer, Fabian Reinecke, Frank Seibel and Dr. Till Tolkemitt take over management / Lutz Kroth withdraws from day-to-day business. In: BuchMarkt , October 10, 2005.
  28. ^ Wolfgang Frömberg: March publishing house. From practice to politics to the third root from P. In: Intro , 2004, published on October 29, 2007, a conversation with the publisher Jörg Schröder .
  29. ↑ Fabian Reinecke does sales and marketing for the Römerweg publishing house. In: BuchMarkt , June 15, 2015.
  30. ^ Hr2 best list: The audio books of the year 2004. In: BuchMarkt , November 25, 2004.
  31. ↑ Five committed Schleswig-Holsteiners were awarded the Cross of Merit on ribbon. In: Schleswig-Holstein State Portal , November 26, 2008.
  32. ^ Christoph Nettersheim: "Neckermann for intellectuals"? : the history of the publishing and mail order company Zweiausendeins . [O. J.], 1999 ( bsz-bw.de [accessed October 29, 2019]).
  33. ↑ Uwe Sonnenberg: From Marx to the mole: Left book trade in West Germany in the 1970s . Wallstein Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-2934-8 ( google.de [accessed October 29, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Kroth, Lutz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reinecke, Lutz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher, co-founder of two thousand and one
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg