Stern-Verlag (Düsseldorf)

Buchhaus Stern publishing house
legal form	GmbH & Co. KG
founding	1900
resolution	March 31, 2016
Seat	Dusseldorf , Germany
management	Klaus Janssen
Number of employees	last 113
sales	2001: 70 million euros
Branch	Bookstore
Website	www.buchsv.de

Stern publishing house on Friedrichstrasse in Düsseldorf

The Stern-Verlag was one of Ferdinand Studt in 1900 in Dusseldorf based book trade business , there has since been continuously in family ownership . On March 31, 2016, Klaus Janssen, the founder's grandson, closed “one of the largest bookshops in Europe”. The reasons were economic considerations in a market that had become more difficult in general and locally due to conversion , as well as the sole proprietor's age.

history

Stern-Verlag was founded in Düsseldorf in 1900. In 1927 the company moved from Graf-Adolf-Platz to its final location at Friedrichstrasse 26. During the Second World War , the office building was bombed out and completely destroyed. The building was rebuilt from 1948 to 1954.

Decades of expansion and expansion followed in the years 1961 to 2001. After the customer parking spaces were relocated to the opposite side of Talstrasse, which was parallel to Friedrichstrasse, the shop extended through the entire block of houses, sometimes over several floors, to Talstrasse. For years the largest bookstore in Germany was operated, with a total area of up to 8,000 m², of which 7,000 m² was sales area. There was also a branch at the University of Düsseldorf, which was also closed in 2016. In 2001 the estimated turnover was 70 million euros. In 2004 Horst Janssen died, after which his brother Klaus Janssen continued to run the company on his own. Until 2005 the company was called Stern-Verlag Janssen & Co. , from October 14, 2005 Stern-Verlag e. K. On September 15, 2014 it was renamed again, in Buchhaus Stern-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG .

After years of falling sales, the then 80-year-old Klaus Janssen announced in December 2015 that the bookstore would be closing at the end of March 2016.

On March 31, 2016, all business areas - including the branch at the University of Düsseldorf and the mail order business - were given up and the remaining 113 employees were compensated for the loss of their jobs with an extensive social plan . The Stern publishing house was sold to Motel One . The conversion into a hotel is planned for the business premises. ^{As of March 2018} The customers of the mail order and library business of Stern-Verlag were taken over in 2016 by the chain Mayersche Buchhandlung , who founded the subsidiary Mayersche B2B for this purpose. A new branch of the Mayersche Buchhandlung with a sales area of 400 m², which opened in spring 2016, moved into the opposite side of the Friedrichstrasse. In the spring of 2018, the specialist book retail chain Lehmanns Media moved to the premises on the premises of the University of Düsseldorf .