Olaf Irlenkäuser

Olaf Irlenkäuser (2012)

Olaf Irlenkäuser (born May 27, 1966 in Mannheim ) is a German publicist and publishing director.

Career

After training as a retail bookseller , Olaf Irlenkäuser studied Slavic languages , German and Eastern European history in Trier , Moscow and Cologne . He was initially lecturer for Eastern European languages ​​at Suhrkamp Verlag , later for German and international literature as well as for detective novels and non-fiction books at Rotbuch Verlag . He then worked as a freelance author and editor for numerous German publishers and institutions. a. for Hoffmann & Campe , Piper , Edition Körber-Stiftung , Murmann Verlag . In 2009 he became publishing director at Murmann Verlag (Hamburg), and since 2013 he has been co-managing director of Wachholtz Verlag / Murmann Publishers.

Irlenkäuser was and is a member of numerous juries, including a. Paul-Celan-Preis Darmstadt, Hamburg advancement awards for literature and literary translations, Lessing-Preis Hamburg, Neue Prosa Kiel.

For a few years he had a teaching position at the University of Hamburg , since 2016 he has been teaching at the University of Applied Sciences in Kiel in the field of journalism and media management. He published a. a. on Russian literature, on North German history and literature as well as on books in general.

Irlenkäuser is a volunteer member of the board of the Friends of the Schleswig-Holstein Foundation for Nature Conservation .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• Amsterdam. A literary pub guide. Hamburg 2001 ISBN 978-3-434-53078-7
• Russia in Hamburg. Hamburg 2007 ISBN 978-3-8319-0281-1
• Country houses & villas in Hamburg: Blankenese . Berlin 2008 ISBN 978-3-941092-11-2
• Building culture in the Lüneburg Heath . Berlin 2009 ISBN 978-3-941092-14-3
• Castles and mansions in Schleswig-Holstein from the air. Photographer Dirk Laubner. Neumünster 2014 ISBN 978-3-529-05345-0

Editorships

• Anna Akhmatova : I live from the moon, you from the sun. Love poems. Frankfurt am Main 2000
  • again under the title love poems . Insel taschenbuch, Frankfurt 2003 ISBN 978-3-458-20003-1
  • as well as udT I live on the moon . Insel-Bücherei , Berlin 2013 ISBN 978-3-458-34646-3
• Russian love stories. Hamburg 2003 ISBN 978-3-434-54515-6
• Hamburg. 69 poets and their city. Ed. together with Stephan Samtleben. Hamburg 2006 ISBN 978-3-455-50009-7
• Das Buch der Bücher Ed., Together with Rainer Vollmar. Hamburg 2006 ISBN 978-3-455-50008-0
  • Audiobook: voice Stephan Benson a . a., Hamburg 2006 ISBN 978-3-455-30477-0

Web links

• Literature by and about Olaf Irlenkäuser in the catalog of the German National Library
• Portrait at Hoffmann & Campe-Verlag
• Friends of the Schleswig-Holstein Nature Conservation Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Murmann Publishing Group: Olaf Irlenkäuser becomes Co-Managing Director at Wachholtz buchmarkt.de , January 8, 2013