Stefan Lübbe

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Stefan Lübbe (born August 4, 1957 in Bergisch Gladbach ; † October 13, 2014 in southern France ) was a German publisher . Since 2006 he has been the sole shareholder of Bastei Lübbe Verlag (from 2000 to 2009 it was named Verlagsgruppe Lübbe ), one of the largest fiction publishers in Germany.

Life

Lübbe was the son of the publisher couple Gustav Lübbe (1918–1995) and Ursula Lübbe (1922–2016). After training as a banker and studying business administration from 1980 at the University of Cologne , which he continued in Fort Worth , Texas (USA) and completed his MBA in 1986, Stefan Lübbe worked from 1987 to 1996 in various executive editorial positions at what was then Bastei -Publisher Gustav H. Lübbe. After the death of his father, he moved to the management of the publishing house, first as a member of the advisory board, later as management spokesman and from 2002 as a member of the supervisory board .

After he had bought his sister's shares in the company and thus became the sole shareholder, he took over the chairmanship of the management at the turn of the year 2006/2007, the other managing directors Silvia Kuttny-Walser, Klaus Kluge, Thomas Schierack and Bodo Horn-Rumold (Baumhaus) the various The group's publishers. After the conversion of Bastei Lübbe GmbH & Co KG to Bastei Lübbe AG and the subsequent IPO of the publishing group in October 2013, Lübbe remained the majority shareholder, but left operational management to the group management board.

Stefan Lübbe was married and had a daughter. The family lived in Bergisch Gladbach near Cologne. Lübbe died of a heart attack during a trip in October 2014 at the age of 57 in southern France .

Engagement in the Ursula Lübbe Foundation

In addition to his publishing activities, Lübbe was chairman of the Ursula Lübbe Foundation . The initiative launched in 2003 by his mother Ursula Lübbe has made it its mission to promote education, art and culture, especially among children and young people. In cooperation with state and private institutions, the Ursula Lübbe Foundation supports projects that promote the communication of cultural content to a broad target group in an innovative way.

The cooperation between the Ursula Lübbe Foundation and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation also goes back to the initiative of Stefan Lübbes . As part of this collaboration, the "Project Paul" was created. Paul is a drawn character who introduces children to art, culture and history in a playful way. With the help of Paul, the two foundations want to arouse enthusiasm for art and culture in children and young people in an unconventional, imaginative way. Paul appears in brochures, books and films and also presents the children's culture magazine "KIKUMA", also published by the Ursula Lübbe Foundation.

Further cooperation partners of the Ursula Lübbe Foundation are the Foundation House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany and the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Stefan Lübbe Prize

In 2015, Cologne-based Bastei Lübbe AG donated the Stefan Lübbe Prize, a book prize and competition to promote talent that was to be advertised every two years on different topics in memory of its publisher.

Award winners

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Publisher and majority shareholder Stefan Lübbe (57) died unexpectedly. Bastei Lübbe , October 14, 2014, accessed on October 14, 2014 (press release).
  2. ^ Publisher Stefan Lübbe dies unexpectedly. Hamburger Morgenpost , October 14, 2014, accessed on October 14, 2014 .
  3. ↑ With Paul in the museum. (No longer available online.) Ursula-Lübbe-Stiftung and Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , archived from the original on November 28, 2014 ; accessed on October 16, 2014 . 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.mit-paul-im-museum.de
  4. ^ Stefan-Lübbe-Preis Kulturpreise.de
  5. ^ Stefan Lübbe Prize for debut authors boersenblatt.net
personal data
SURNAME Luebbe, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergisch Gladbach
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 2014
Place of death South France