Reinhold Neven DuMont

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Reinhold Neven DuMont , also Reinhold Neven Du Mont (born November 12, 1936 in Cologne ) is a German publisher .

family

Reinhold Neven DuMont is a son of the newspaper publisher Kurt Neven DuMont and his wife Gabriele, née von Lenbach, daughter of the painter Franz von Lenbach . He has three siblings; the two sisters Silvia and Majella and the nine years older brother Alfred . He also worked as a publisher, took over and expanded his father's newspaper publisher and was chairman of the supervisory board of the M. DuMont Schauberg group . Reinhold Neven DuMont went to school in Cologne and Starnberg. His mother took him to her parents' house above Starnberg during the Second World War; they lived there from 1941 to 1949. During this time, their father stayed with the newspaper company in Cologne. After the currency reform, Reinhold Neven DuMont returned to Cologne in 1949.

Neven DuMont had married Annette, the eldest daughter of Joseph Caspar Witsch , in January 1959 . Two daughters passed away from the marriage.

education and profession

After graduating from high school in 1956, he studied sociology, history and literature in Munich and Freiburg; In 1961 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. Neven DuMont worked as a trainee at Kösel-Verlag and dtv until 1962 .

In 1963 Reinhold Neven DuMont began working for the Kiepenheuer & Witsch publishing house . He became the assistant of his father-in-law, the publisher Joseph Caspar Witsch, and took over the publishing house after his death in 1967. Two years later he acquired it completely.

Neven DuMont managed to retain most of the authors who until then had shaped the profile of the publisher, which was committed to the political and current social discourse. In addition, he opened the publishing program with new authors and their socially critical topics (e.g. Günter Wallraff , Charles Bukowski ). After the company had made a name for itself as an independent publisher with controversial authors ( Joseph Roth , Heinrich Böll , Dario Fo , Gabriel García Márquez ), it managed to survive for decades without the participation of major publishers. It was only in 1999 that the Stuttgart-based Holtzbrinck Group took over 45 percent of the shares, and in 2001 another 40 percent. Reinhold Neven DuMont assured Holtzbrinck that he would continue to be independent in the programming of the Kiepenheuer & Witsch publishing house.

After almost 40 years at the publishing house Kiepenheuer & Witsch - 33 of them as a publisher - Neven du Mont handed over the management of the publishing house to his former editor-in-chief, Helge Malchow ; Peter Roik became the commercial director.

His understanding of his work becomes clear with the following quote:

“ Books smell good, newspapers don't. People surround themselves with books, but I don't know anyone who likes to live with stacks of newspapers. The newspaper you read is thrown away, a book cannot be thrown away. "

In his retirement, Reinhold DuMont spends a lot of time in France; he wrote his first novel ("The Villa") and accepted teaching positions from universities. In 2011 his second novel "Der Maskensammler" was published by CH Beck Verlag .

Social and political engagement

  • In 1996 Neven DuMont founded the Cologne House of Literature with like-minded people and became its first and long-term chairman (until 2003).
  • In 1999, Reinhold Neven DuMont supported the candidacy of the green mayor candidate for Cologne, Anne Lütkes , who was also recommended for the runoff election by the SPD, but was defeated by the CDU candidate Harry Blum .
  • In 2002 Neven DuMont belonged to the "Kölner Kunsthalleninitiative", which opposed the demolition of the Cologne Kunsthalle, built in 1967, and its architecturally controversial new building within a museum center ("Kulturzentrum Neumarkt").

Honors

  • In 2008 Reinhold Neven DuMont was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his services to the literary scene.

Publications

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated August 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Experienced stories - CV at WDR5.de, March 28, 2004 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wdr5.de
  2. ↑ a b The right thing at the right moment ; managermagazin for the 70th birthday, November 12th, 2006
  3. ↑ A look back at the lucky catastrophe , Kölner Stadtanzeiger, March 2, 2009
  4. ↑ During the fight for Cologne, red-green mobilized all available forces for the OB candidate Anne Lütkes , taz.de, September 25, 1999
  5. ↑ Does anyone who says A also have to say B? - Protest about the demolition of the Kunsthalle , koelnarchitektur.de, October 14, 2002 ( Memento from May 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Honoring Reinhold Neven DuMont , Express online, March 12, 2009

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personal data
SURNAME Neven DuMont, Reinhold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neven Du Mont, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne