Nikolaus Gelpke

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Nikolaus K. Gelpke   (born October 3, 1962 in Zurich  ) is a Swiss marine biologist and publisher . He is the publisher and editor-in-chief of the magazine mare in Hamburg .

Life

Gelpke is a son and two other siblings of the Basel architect and urban planner Wendel (in) Gelpke († 2001) and his German wife Christa († 2014), née Engelhorn. She was a photographer who shot portraits and reportages for magazines, including the cultural magazine Du . “The love for photography, which mare also reflects, naturally comes from my mother and from my years in the darkroom .” The parents divorced in 1965, their son Nikolaus grew up with his mother in Switzerland and later partly in Italy with his father on. At the age of 15 he made his first diving license . Before graduating from high school, he had “all diving licenses”.

In 1997 his mother became part of the heir to the German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Mannheim , which bequeathed her assets to a charitable foundation.

After graduating from high school in 1982, he lived with Elisabeth Mann Borgese in her beach house 60 kilometers outside of the Canadian coastal town of Halifax , where she was a professor of ocean policy at Dalhousie University . During his first stay, he stayed for a few months and "kept coming back for 20 years". Gelpke was deeply impressed by her commitment to a fairer international law of the sea , which had strengthened the sovereignty of states in the Third World . His “strict mentor” became “like a second mother” to him. Elisabeth Mann Borgese introduced him to several internationally known personalities, including a. also with Jacques Piccard . Gelpcke was later allowed to drive as the second helmsman in one of his submarines. At her suggestion, he studied marine biology and international maritime law at the University of Kiel from 1984 and graduated with a diploma as a marine biologist. Gelpke says about his mentor: "I actually owe her everything that I have and do today and all the opportunities I have today."

Jacques Piccards diving boat F.-A. Forel , with whom Gelpke dived.

He was a professional diver at a Canadian oyster farm, research diver for the University of Zurich and Greenpeace as well as in Jacques Piccard's mini submersible F.-A. Forel (after François-Alphonse Forel ). Gelpke wrote a dissertation on the influence of light on the availability of iron for phytoplankton for three years , which he also handed over, but he did not take the Rigorosum , the final examination.

Gelpke lives with his wife, the editor Katja Scholtz, who is jointly responsible for the program of the mare book program , and the children in Kiel directly on the Baltic Sea: "If I don't live on the coast, then I don't know where I am."

mare

At the same time as his dissertation, he had started to prepare the publication of the magazine mare . He cites the reading of the table of contents of the Hamburg magazine Der Spiegel in 1994 as the trigger . Its division of the world by subjectively chosen rubrics and the simultaneous claim to completeness challenged him to try the same with the inexhaustible topic of the sea. As far as he can remember, he first became aware of the thematic diversity of the seas after Elisabeth Mann Borgese's overloaded bookshelves tipped over, when he sifted through them and wanted to sort them again. “I had to completely rearrange them. Find a system for this huge collection. Almost all books were about the sea. "

Since April 1997 he has published the magazine mare . For this purpose he founded in 1995 in Kiel the Greenwood Publishing ( "because three-quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water") and moved with the appearance of the first issue the editorial office in the Hamburg free zone . The aesthetics of mare he describes as the "classic Magnum -Fotografie" - "a photograph, does not restrict where you pictures, mirrors, or otherwise manipulated." In 2001 he founded with Nicholas Hansen the marebuchverlag in its spending it as great value relies on an aesthetically sophisticated equipment. After Hansen left in 2007, both publishers were merged in 2008 to form Mare Verlag , based in the Speicherstadt Hamburg. In 2001 Gelpke started the documentary series mareTV on North German Broadcasting . In October 2018, on the occasion of the 250th mareTV report, a 90-minute anniversary edition was broadcast, a compilation sorted by topic, supplemented by experiences and knowledge of North German celebrities about the sea, including Gelpke.

More activities

Gelpke has owned and operated a trattoria in Hamburg since 2012 and a delicatessen store since 2014. He bought the trattoria, which had been his regular restaurant, spontaneously after the waiter in his regular trattoria had suffered a heart attack and the boss did not want to give him time off for the necessary recovery cure. Gelpke's father and his aunt Katerina's family Goldschmidt to this day have been running a 140 hectare farm in Tuscany , the Fattoria Corzano e Paterno , since 1972, where they produce “excellent” wine, olive oil and sheep's cheese. He sources many products for restaurants and shops from the Tuscan family farm.

In December 2017 he bought the 12-person expedition ship "MS Cape Race" for cruises in the polar sea for holiday guests. After a general overhaul at a shipyard in Iceland, the ship can be used from summer 2020 "for individual charter trips and scientific expeditions in the Arctic".

social commitment

Gelpke is committed to marine conservation and is president of two agencies founded by Mann Borgese, the International Ocean Institute and the Ocean Science and Research Foundation . He is the initiator of the World Ocean Review , which has been published annually for free since 2010. Gelpke is a member of the advisory board of the German Environmental Foundation and the evaluation team of the Cluster of Excellence Ocean of the Future in Kiel. He was also a member of the jury for the Elisabeth-Mann-Borgese Sea Prize , which the Schleswig-Holstein state government awarded from 2006 to 2009.

After the death of his friend Roger Willemsen , Gelpke founded the Roger Willemsen Foundation in 2016   and bought his house for this foundation. Up to ten scholarship holders from several art fields should be able to work creatively in the Villa Willemsen every year . Gelpke was one of Willemsen's closest friends, who had not only helped him with business matters. Through him he met his wife and publishing partner Katja Scholtz. Willemsen was “one hundred percent” responsible for his professional and personal happiness: “Without him, this publishing house wouldn't exist and without him I wouldn't be so happily married. He had an incredibly big heart. "

Awards

Movies

  • Dedicated to the sea - Nikolaus Gelpke and the «mare» publishing house. TV report, Switzerland, 2015, 6:01 min., Script and direction: Markus Tischer, production: SRF , editing: Kulturplatz , first broadcast: June 24, 2018 on SRF Kultur, table of contents and online video by SRF Kultur.
  • Nikolaus Gelpke visits Julia Westlake. Documentary, Germany, 2018, 5:37 min., Moderation: Julia Westlake , director: Natascha Geier, production: NDR , series: NDR-Bücherjournal , first broadcast: October 24, 2018 on NDR television , summary by NDR, ( memento from 14 November 2018 in the Internet Archive ), online video from ARD . Gelpke in conversation about a classic of “Nature Writing”: The House on the Edge of the World by Henry Beston.

Web links

conversations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cress heads. Nikolaus K. Gelpke. In: kressreport , accessed on May 12, 2018.
  2. ^ Publisher mare Verlag. Gelpke, Nicholas. In: BR Fernsehen , April 25, 2012.
  3. ↑ Stefan Keller: "If you knew what to expect from the start, you might keep your hands off it." In: NZZ , July 21, 2001.
  4. ↑ a b story. Fattoria Corzano e Paterno. The Gelpke and Goldschmidt families. In: corzanoepaterno.com , accessed May 31, 2020.
  5. ↑ a b Profile: Christa Gelpke. In: Forbes , accessed May 31, 2020.
  6. ↑ Engelhorn family tree : Descendants of Johann Friedrich Engelhorn. In: theengelhornfamily.com , accessed on May 20, 2018.
  7. ↑ a b c d e f Matthias Hannemann: The diver in the store. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 16, 2008.
  8. ↑ a b Kerstin Zillmer: Magical moments. Editor-in-chief Nikolaus Gelpke has been speaking “mare” for 20 years. In: Float Magazin , May 26, 2017, interview.
  9. ↑ a b c d Nikolaus Gelpke, publisher, Mare Verlag, in conversation with Hans-Jürgen Mende. In: alpha-Forum , Bayerischer Rundfunk , broadcast on May 15, 2012 (PDF; 117 kB).
  10. ↑ a b Press release: Handout for the press conference with subsequent panel discussion at the launch of the "World Ocean Review". In: worldoceanreview.com , November 18, 2010, p. 4, (English), (PDF; 171 kB).
  11. ↑ Luca Aloisi: A Zurich fur seal in Hamburg. In: Lebensträume (= supplement to the Zürcher Wirtschaftsmagazin , edited by Zürcher Kantonalbank ), 2014, No. 2, pp. 4–9, here: p. 9, online at docplayer.org , (links are not desired in WP).
  12. ^ Astrid Ebenhoch: Nikolaus Gelpke and Elisabeth Mann Borgese with their dogs. In: Hounds & People , December 19, 2014, interview, accessed May 10, 2018.
  13. ↑ Sebastian Conradt: Elisabeth Mann Borgese: A life for the seas. In: Schweriner Volkszeitung , April 21, 2018.
  14. ↑ a b c Hans-Juergen Fink: Nikolaus Gelpke: The man and the "mare". In: Hamburger Abendblatt , March 6, 2012.
  15. ↑ a b c Florian Siebeck: A man and the sea. How the love of the sea made Nikolaus Gelpke a publisher. In: Friends of Friends , February 1, 2018, accessed May 31, 2020 (photo reportage).
  16. ↑ Katja Scholtz: An ideal friend. In: Hundredvierzehn.de - S. Fischer Verlag , February 22, 2016, speech at the funeral service for Roger Willemsen.
  17. ↑ Weber takes over the Mare program management. In: Buchreport , March 21, 2020.
  18. ↑ Daniel Haas: Roger Willemsen's villa: “Well, what is that?” In: Die Zeit , May 9, 2018, No. 20.
  19. ^ A b Anne Haeming: Always lust for the sea. In: Der Tagesspiegel , April 10, 2007.
  20. ↑ Oliver Gehrs : The roar of metaphors. In: taz , April 5, 1997.
  21. ↑ mareTV - the 250th! The big anniversary. In: NDR television , October 4, 2018.
  22. ↑ Stevan Paul : Local appointment Pastalozzi. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 31, 2015.
  23. ↑ Florian Merkel: Gastro-Test. The "Pastalozzi": An Italian among the Portuguese. In: Hamburger Morgenpost , September 28, 2015.
  24. ↑ Cape Race. In: mscaperace.com .
  25. ↑ Expedition ship MS Cape Race. ( Memento from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). In: polar-kreuzfahrten.de , 2018, accessed on May 10, 2018.
  26. ^ Mare ship MS "Cape Race". In: mare.de , accessed on July 5, 2019.
  27. ^ World Ocean Review.
  28. ^ Roger Willemsen Foundation.
  29. ^ Axel Schröder: "Villa Willemsen" opened. "Encourage people to do their art". In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur , May 3, 2018.
  30. ↑ Edgar S. Hasse : "Willemsen's death is the greatest loss in my life". In: Hamburger Abendblatt , May 30, 2020; with audio file, 17:41 min.
  31. ↑ Peter Intelmann: "Villa Willemsen". Roger Willemsen's house becomes an artist's villa. In: HAZ , May 3, 2018, with many photos and a video interview with Willemsen.
  32. ↑ si: DDC awards Grand Prix for Mare and 14 gold medals. In: horizont.net , December 8, 2008, accessed May 31, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Gelpke, Nicholas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gelpke, Nikolaus K.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss marine biologist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd October 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich