Theo Schuster (publisher)

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Theo Schuster (born May 23, 1931 in Leer (East Friesland) ; † January 4, 2016 there ) was a North German publisher . In addition to his publishing house Schuster in Leer , he and his wife also ran the largest bookstore Leer, which his father Theodor Schuster had founded in 1929, until his death.

Beginnings

Since the mid-1960s, Schuster, who had initially trained as a bookseller, also worked as a publisher of Low German literature. Initially, speech records , such as the ambitious series of Low German Voices , also made up a large part of the publishing program. More and more the focus shifted to the Low German book publications.

Scientific cooperation

Schuster and his publishing house work closely with the Bremen Institute for Low German and also oversee its book publications, including standard works such as Low German dictionaries or the first Low German grammar.

Awards

In 1976 Theo Schuster was awarded the Quickborn Prize . In 1997 he was awarded the Keerlke Prize of the Oostfreeske Taal Association (East Frisian Language) for his publishing activities in the regional language.

In 2000, Schuster received the Fritz Reuter Prize from the Alfred Toepfer Foundation . Theo Schuster, as a “publisher personality and thus as a stimulator, sponsor, editor, folklore collector and critical lecturer, has helped shape northern German culture for more than three decades,” said the board of trustees.

In 2002 his publishing house was the first to be awarded the Lower Saxony Publishing Prize with an exclusively Low German publishing program . Theo Schuster's commitment was “not to be valued highly enough,” said the then Lower Saxony Minister of Education, Thomas Oppermann, in connection with the award by the state of Lower Saxony . The laudation was given by the publicist and writer Siegfried Kessemeier .

In 2005, Schuster was also the first recipient of the Low German Book of the Year award from the Carl Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg. The honored book, Anseen, Pastor! is a result of passionate folklore research and the collection of Low German sagas and the author's diligence in publishing. The East Frisian landscape has also awarded the publisher the Ubbo Emmius Medal for his services to the region.

His hometown Leer awarded Theo Schuster the Wilhelmine Siefkes Prize for the promotion of Low German literature in 2010 , because Schuster “as a collector, editor and editor of folk poetry and prose, as a lecturer and publisher, focuses on the Low German language and literature in a special way deserved and thus preserved cultural history ”, as it was said in the award explanation.

daughter

Theo Schuster's daughter Imke Schuster is also a bookseller and ran a bookstore in Berlin that deals exclusively with her city (berlinstory) and that won the bookstore of the year award from the magazine BuchMarkt in 2004 while she was running the company .

Publishing house and bookstore today

The bookstore and publishing house Schuster Leer continue to exist after Theo Schuster's death. The publisher mainly publishes East Frisian regionalia.

literature

  • Ulf-Thomas Lesle : Fritz Reuter Prize 2000 for Theo Schuster. Eulogy . Hamburg 2000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.ga-online.de/-news/artikel/174071/Verleger-Theo-Schuster-gestorben
  2. Theo Schuster. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 970, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
  3. www.oostfreeske-taal.de: Winner of the Keerlke Prize , accessed on February 28, 2012.
  4. had (= Johann Haddinga ): Theo Schuster honored in his hometown for his life's work , in: Ostfriesischer Kurier from January 25, 2010, available online as a PDF file (one page) on the homepage of the Dornum municipality (www.gemeinde-dornum .de), accessed on February 28, 2012.
  5. www.leer.de: Theo Schuster receives Wilhelmine Siefkes Prize 2010 , accessed on February 28, 2012.
  6. Website of the publisher