Uwe Weitendorf

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Uwe Weitendorf (* before 1950; † 1996 ) was a German publisher . As the son-in-law of the publisher Heidi Oetinger , he led the Oetinger publishing group and founded the publishing house for children's theater .

Weitendorf took over the management of Oetinger-Verlag in the 1960s after Friedrich Oetinger's retirement . Weitendorf had been married to his wife Silke , the daughter of Heidi Oetinger, since 1966 and had three children with her. All three children later got into the publishing business themselves. From 1970 Weitendorf also ran the Chronos Verlag Martin Mörike , which he took over completely in 1982 and joined his publishing house for children's theater founded in 1973 . After his sudden death in 1996, his daughter Julia Weitendorf (now married Bielenberg) continued his business in the children's theater publishing house.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel, Volume 163, 1996
  2. ↑ The Empire of Happiness. taz, February 15, 2008, accessed August 19, 2015 .
  3. ^ Sybil Countess Schönfeldt: Silke Weitendorf on her 70th birthday. buchmarkt.de, April 10, 2011, accessed on August 18, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Stefan Neuhaus: The secret work: Erich Kästner's collaboration on plays under a pseudonym. Königshausen & Neumann, 2000, p. 68. ISBN 9783826017650
personal data
SURNAME Weitendorf, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH before 1950
DATE OF DEATH 1996