Michael Zöllner (publisher)

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Michael Zöllner (* 1969 in San Sebastián , Basque Country) is a German publisher. Since 2007 he has been Managing Director of Klett-Cotta Verlag together with Tom Kraushaar . On July 31, 2018, Zöllner gave up his publishing activities at his own request in order to begin training as a psychoanalyst in Berlin .

Professional background

  • 1990 - 1994 studies of German, art history and philosophy at the University of Cologne
  • 1992-1996 studied liberal arts at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and at the Hague University of Art. Graduated from the art academy with artist certificate and master class diploma with Walter Nikkels .
  • 1996 Founding of the Tropen Verlag at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Since then he has worked as a publisher, editor, translator and typographer.
  • 2005 Foundation of Tropen Verlag GmbH together with Tom Kraushaar in Berlin.
  • 2006 Karl Heinz Zillmer Prize for special publishing merits.
  • Since the end of 2007 managing director of Klett-Cotta together with Tom Kraushaar .

Editorships

  • Ex-files. Settlements with the love of yesterday, together with Leander Scholz, Rowohlt Verlag: Hamburg, 2000.
  • Endless Summer - A Literary Surf Trip, ed. by Ralf Chudoba and Michael Zöllner, Tropen Verlag: Köln, 2001.
  • The Hashish Club - A Literary Drug Trip, ed. by Ulf Müller and Michael Zöllner, Tropen Published by Cologne, 2002.
  • Rebel Yell - A literary rebel camp, ed. by Ulf Müller and Michael Zöllner, Tropen Published by Cologne, 2004.
  • Imaginary Museum - A literary group exhibition, ed. by Johann Christoph Maass and Michael Zöllner, Tropen Publisher: Berlin, 2007

Translations

  • Carroll, Jim: Kleine New Yorker Oden, Gedichte, Tropen Verlag: Köln, 1996 (Living at the Movies / Penguin).
  • Carroll, Lewis: The game of logic, Tropen Publisher: Cologne, 1998 (The Game of Logic / Dover).
  • Gonzales, Mark: Broken Poems, Kurzgeschichten, Tropen Published by Köln, 1998.
  • Korine, Harmony: Wish list of a bastard, prose, together with Thorsten Krämer, Tropen Verlag. Cologne, 1999 (A Crack-Up at the Race Riots / Doubleday).
  • Madsen, Michael: Shooting, Gedichte, Tropen Verlag: Köln, 1999 (Burning in Paradise / incommunicado press).
  • Grand, David: Louse, Roman, Tropen Published by Köln, 2000 (Louse / Arcade Books).
  • Twain, Mark: NO. 44, The mysterious stranger, Roman, Tropen Verlag: Köln, 2000 (NR. 44, The Mysterious Stranger).
  • Lethem, Jonathan: Motherless Brooklyn, Roman, Tropen Published by Köln, 2001 (Motherless Brooklyn / Doubleday).
  • Lethem, Jonathan: When she climbed across the table, Tropen Verlag: Köln, 2002 (As she climbed across the table / Doubleday).
  • Lethem, Jonathan: The short sleep, Tropen Verlag: Cologne, 2003, translated by Biggy Winter, revised by Michael Zöllner (Gun with Occasional Music / Harcourt).
  • Lethem, Jonathan: The Fortress of Solitude, Tropen Publisher: Cologne, 2004 (The Fortress of Solitude / Doubleday).
  • Lethem, Jonathan: Menschen und Superhelden, Tropen Verlag: Berlin, 2005 (Men and Cartoons / Doubleday).
  • Lethem, Jonathan: You love me, you don't love me, Tropen Verlag: Berlin, 2007 (You don't love me yet / Doubleday).
  • Lethem, Jonathan together with Johann Christoph Maass : Chronic City, Tropen Verlag: Stuttgart, 2011 (Chronic City / Doubleday).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Zöllner leaves Klett-Cotta , buchmarkt.de, April 6, 2018, accessed on April 9, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Tax collector, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH San Sebastian , Basque Country