Otto Sagner
Otto Sagner (born January 25, 1920 in Halbstadt , Czechoslovakia , † March 18, 2011 in Munich ) was a German bookseller and publisher .
Life
Sagner founded the company Kubon & Sagner in Furth im Wald in 1947 , which is primarily dedicated to the import and export of books to Eastern Europe and Russia. At the same time he published numerous books, mostly on Slavic studies and Slavic linguistics, in his Otto Sagner publishing house . The companies have had their headquarters in Heßstrasse in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich since 1957 . Sagner spoke Polish, Russian and Czech; Sometimes he exchanged books in the natural trade: he took over antiquarian books from Eastern European libraries and supplied new German literature for them.
In the 1950s, 1960s and "also in the 1970s he was the largest supplier of German publications to Eastern Europe". Sagner also worked as an association official: for over 35 years he was the auditor for the Association of Bavarian Publishers and Bookshops, of which he was a member for over 50 years.
Festschriften for Sagner
- Hans-Jürgen Löwenstein: Living with books: Festschrift for Otto Sagner on his 70th birthday , Marburg: Office for Scientific Information 1990.
- Dedicated to Otto Sagner on the occasion of his 80th birthday on January 25, 2000 , Munich: Sagner 2000 (series: Die Welt der Slaven - International Half-Year Publication for Slavic Studies, vol. 45, 1).
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Sagner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Obituary for Otto Sagner in the Börsenblatt des Deutschen Buchhandels by Klaus G. Saur
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Say, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bookseller and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halbstadt , Czechoslovakia |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 2011 |
| Place of death | Munich |