Marcel Hartges

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Marcel Hartges (* 1961 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German literary and film agent, film producer and former publisher .

Marcel Hartges studied German, sociology, philosophy and Hispanic studies in Bonn and Berlin. He began his professional career as a lecturer at Rowohlt Verlag in Reinbek near Hamburg and was publishing director at Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag from 2000 to 2005. In 2006 he took over the management of DuMont Buchverlag in Cologne. In 2008 he published the novel Wetlands by Charlotte Roche there . The book sold more than two million copies in Germany alone and was at the top of the bestseller lists for eight months.

In April 2009, Marcel Hartges became managing director of the Munich-based Piper Verlag and was responsible for a wide range of fiction and non-fiction programs. In 2012 he also took over the publishing management of Berlin Verlag . The authors he published during this time included Ferdinand von Schirach , Zeruya Shalev , Hape Kerkeling , Volker Klüpfel / Michael Kobr , Rocko Schamoni , Andreas Altmann , Joël Dicker and Edward St. Aubyn .

In 2016 Hartges left Piper Verlag and founded a literature and film agency. The agency's first authors included Ferdinand von Schirach , Alissa Walser , Jan Weiler , Volker Klüpfel / Michael Kobr , Albert Ostermaier and Anne Gesthuysen . Hartges also worked as a producer for the first time in the film adaptation of Ferdinand von Schirach's The Collini Case .

Marcel Hartges lives with his family in Munich.

Works (selection)

Translations

Richard Dove, Ernst Toller. A life in Germany. Translated from the English by Marcel Hartges, Göttingen: Steidl 1993.

Release

Poetry! Slam! Texts of the pop group, edited by Andreas Neumeister a. Marcel Hartges, Reinbek: Rowohlt 1996.

Literary magazine. Pop, technology, poetry. The next generation , edited by Marcel Hartges, Martin Lüdke and Delf Schmidt, Reinbek: Rowohlt 1996 (24. Jg. H. 37).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] Angelika Klammer, Interview with Marcel Hartges: “Stendhal would probably have had it easier with a publisher”, in: Volltext , October 18, 2016, accessed on September 12, 2019.
  2. ↑ [2] NN, "Gottfried Honnefelder is leaving DuMont, Marcel Hartges will be his successor", in: book report , October 10, 2005.
  3. ↑ [3] Richard Kämmerlings, “Table talk: Marcel Hartges. Fish is his vegetable. The head of the Munich-based Piper Verlag chooses sea bass with bread salad ”, in: Die Welt March 3, 2012, accessed on September 12, 2019.
  4. ↑ [4] NN, "Marcel Hartges follows Wolfgang Ferchl", in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 15, 2008, accessed on August 20, 2019.
  5. ↑ [5] Claudia Voigt, "An average character", in: Der Spiegel 11/2012, March 12, 2012, accessed on September 20, 2019.
  6. ↑ [6] NN, "Marcel Hartges leaves Piper: Different views", in: buchreport , January 22, 2016, accessed on September 23, 2019.
  7. ↑ [7] NN, "Ferdinand von Schirach changes from Piper to Luchterhand: New publishing house for bestselling authors", in: buchreport , April 4, 2016, accessed on September 23, 2019.
  8. ↑ [8] website of the agency, accessed on August 20, 2019.
  9. ^ [9] NN, "Elyas M'Barek in 'Der Fall Collini': The film adaptation of the bestseller by Ferdinand von Schirach", in: tabularasa. Journal for Society & Culture , April 4, 2019, accessed on September 23, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Hartges, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publishing director
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchengladbach