Rutger Booß

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Rutger Booß (born March 17, 1944 in Riga ) is a German author, publisher and founder of Grafit Verlag .

Life

Rutger Booß is the son of the lawyers Helmuth Booß and Thea Booß-Rosenthal. After graduating from high school in 1963, he studied in Tübingen, Vienna and Bonn until 1969 and graduated with state exams in the subjects of German, history and comparative literature. In Bonn Booß was a member of the student parliament and was an active member of the German studies department. He worked for the MSB Spartakus and joined the DKP , for which he was politically active first in Bonn and later in the Ennepe-Ruhr district . In 1990 he left the DKP. At the beginning of the 1970s he was deputy chairman of the Bonn branch of the Education and Science Union . In 1970 he married Ursula Ferres.

He completed his traineeship at the Aachen District Seminar, where he took his 2nd state examination in 1972. However, on the day of the radical decree (January 28, 1972) he was not accepted into the school service. In view of the politically motivated judgments of the administrative courts, the fight for acceptance into the civil service was legally unsuccessful.

In 1974 he was in Düsseldorf on the subject of views of the revolution, Paris reports by German writers after the July revolution in 1830, Heine, Boerne a. a. PhD.

1974 to 1980 he was a publisher's editor at the socialist-oriented Weltkreis Verlag in Dortmund, later he worked at the Brücken Verlag in Düsseldorf and as a publisher's editor at the Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag in Cologne, where he wrote the crime series with titles by the Ruhr area authors Leo P. Ard (= Jürgen Pomorin ), Werner Schmitz , Reinhard Junge a . a. supervised.

In 1989 he founded Grafit Verlag in Dortmund, which initially published hotel and travel guides in addition to the Weltkreis crime novels. The publisher later specialized in crime literature and published a. a. several Eifel crime novels by Jacques Berndorf . Booß also offered hitherto unknown authors a platform for successful debuts. Grafit discovered the Münster-based author Jürgen Kehrer and published his " Wilsberg " novels (some of which were filmed by ZDF), the trio of authors Leenders Bay Leenders from Kleve, Gabriella Wollenhaupt from Dortmund and the later Glauser Prize winner Horst Eckert and die Glauser debut laureate Lucie Flebbe .

In 2010 the Syndikat , the association of German-speaking crime authors , awarded him the honorary “ Glauser ” for his life's work. In 2010 Booß sold his publishing house to the previous editor-in-chief Ulrike Rodi and has since retired.

Fonts

  • Dialect peculiarities in Heine. In: International Heine Congress, Düsseldorf 1972. Lectures and discussions.
  • Empiricism and fiction. The July Revolution and the beginnings of Heine's Paris reporting. In: Heinrich Heine : Artistry and engagement. Edited by Wolfgang Kuttenkeuler. Stuttgart 1977.
  • Views of the Revolution: Paris reports by German writers after the July Revolution of 1830. Heine, Börne u. a. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1977.
  • with Willi Bredel : relatives and friends. Weltkreis-Verlag, Cologne 1981.
  • as ed. with Fritz Noll: history in stories. A German reading book. Weltkreis-Verlag, Cologne 1984. ISBN 3-88142-208-0 .
  • Overnight in Czechoslovakia: Hotel and Camping Guide. Grafit, Dortmund 1992. ISBN 3-89425-101-8 .
  • Telling license plates: from Augsburg to Zweibrücken. Grafit, Dortmund 1994. ISBN 3-89425-110-7 .
  • Telling car license plates: from Rügen to Lake Constance. Grafit, Dortmund 1998. ISBN 3-89425-118-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Note in: Sandra Pfister: David versus Goliath - A small publisher from Dortmund is the market leader for crime novels. In: Handelsblatt , October 5, 2001, accessed on July 18, 2016
  2. ↑ A jury of honor for Rutger Booß. In: Börsenblatt , February 23, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Booss, Rutger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, publisher and founder of Grafit Verlag
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga