Silke Weitendorf

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Silke Weitendorf (born April 10, 1941 ) is a German publisher. The daughter Heidi Oetinger and stepdaughter Friedrich Oetinger headed for many years the Verlagsgruppe Oetinger .

The biological father died shortly after her birth. Her mother took a job in 1948 at Friedrich Oetinger's recently founded children's and youth book publisher. In 1952 Heidi and Friedrich Oetinger married. From an early age, Silke Weitendorf worked in her stepfather's publishing house. For half a year she trained at the Rabén & Sjögren publishing house in Stockholm , where she worked with Astrid Lindgren . In 1966 she married Uwe Weitendorf . After Friedrich Oetinger withdrew from the publishing house at the end of the 1960s, mother Heidi took over the management, while Silke and Uwe Weitendorf supported her. At that time, Silke Weitendorf was working as an editor, her husband in the management of the publishing house. After Uwe Weitendorf's sudden death in 1996, Silke Weitendorf entered management and soon took over management, supported by their three children, Jan, Julia and Till.

Supposedly, Silke Weitendorf was the first child allowed to read the German translation by Pippi Longstocking , as her parents were Astrid Lindgren's German publishers and close friends of the Swedish author.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Portrait of Weitendorf on the website of the HARBOR FRONT Literature Festival Hamburg 2015. Accessed on September 30, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Publisher Heidi Oetinger died at the age of 100. n24, October 5, 2009, accessed September 30, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Lutz Wendler: Greetings, you dear little checkered children. Hamburger Abendblatt, November 13, 2007, accessed on September 30, 2015 .
  4. ↑ meeting point 01/2005. (No longer available online.) Hamburg Academy for Distance Learning, January 1, 2005, archived from the original on October 27, 2011 ; accessed on September 30, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schule-des-schreibens.de
  5. ↑ With 'Pippi' came the success. Welt am Sonntag, June 24, 2001, accessed September 30, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Weitendorf, Silke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oetinger, Silke (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg