Tom Lamberty

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Tom Lamberty (* 1961 ) is a German publisher and director of Merve Verlag .

Life

Lamberty studied in Berlin and learned to program. In the 1980s he was involved in various projects in the alternative scene, including as a program maker for the squatting cinema "Kino im KOB" in Potsdamer Strasse, as a co-founder of the Interfilm Festival and as a temporary co-owner of Ex'n'Pop in Mansteinstrasse. In the 1990s, he and Frank Wulf edited three books from the QRT estate at Merve Verlag . He worked as a personnel manager at Siemens . In 2002, the then publisher Peter Gente Lamberty brought Merve Verlag, where he has been working with Elisa Barth since 2004. In 2005 he presented merve.mobil, an early form of the e-book , at the Frankfurt Book Fair . The publishing house has been in Leipzig since 2017 . Lamberty also works for the telecommunications company Cisco Systems . He lives in Naumburg an der Saale and has three children.

Individual evidence

  1. 1998. In: heidi-paris. Retrieved October 29, 2019 (German).
  2. heise online: Kittler and Deleuze conquer the cell phone. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
  3. Jette Gindner: Merve managing director on new thinkers: "Theory with verve and affect" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . August 20, 2014, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed October 29, 2019]).
  4. Alexander Hagelüken, Jan Willmroth: Tom Lamberty: "A self-exploitation company". Retrieved October 29, 2019 .