Wolfgang Tiessen

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Wolfgang Tiessen (born January 1, 1930 in Königsberg ; † October 26, 2017 ) was a German book designer and publisher and the editor of Edition Tiessen in Neu-Isenburg .

Life

After attending grammar schools in Königsberg, Berlin and Detmold, Tiessen met the book designer Gotthard de Beauclair in Detmold in 1947 . From 1949 to 1951 he trained as a typesetter with Scherpe in Krefeld . In 1952 he was typesetter in the in-house printer of the type foundry D. Stempel AG in Frankfurt am Main and from 1953 to 1960 he worked for de Beauclair for Insel-Verlag , D. Stempel and their Trajanus press .

In 1960 he was responsible for the book-making side of Insel-Verlag for one and a half years during the time when de Beauclair was its publishing director. In 1962 the mail order bookshop “Wolfgang Tiessen. Modern book art and graphics ”. Their catalog “Circular Letter for Friends of Modern Book Art and Graphics” appeared in a total of 36 issues. In 1963 he married Gisela Schwarz van Berk. In 1968 the bookstore moved to Neu-Isenburg; the first volumes of "The book illustration in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since 1945" appeared in the same year. Another four volumes followed, the last one in 1989. The first books of Edition Tiessen appeared in 1977, which, like all the following, were set by hand by the publisher from the original Janson Antiqua. In 1987 a last circular was published, the work now remained concentrated on the publisher. In 1995 the 80th and last print of Edition Tiessen was published. In 2007, the publishing archive was handed over to the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel. Wolfgang Tiessen lived in Neu-Isenburg.

Essays and speeches

  • Thoughts on the design of the book of books. (Some thoughts on the production of the Book of books.) United Bible Societies, London. 1961.
  • From service to the author and reader. About the design of my books. (Serving author and reader. About the design of my books.) Reprint from Edition Tiessen. 1987.
  • About my work. From a speech given on the occasion of the opening of an exhibition. Marginalia. Issue 132, 1993.
  • My way into the world of books. (The Compositor as Publisher.) Philobiblon. Issue 1. 1995.
  • A look back at my books and how Edition Tiessen came about. From the second-hand bookshop. NF 7 (2009) No. 1.
  • From typesetter to publisher or: From the end of Gutenberg's era. Imprimatur. A yearbook for book lovers. NF XXI. 2009.
  • The Insel-Bücherei and Edition Tiessen. An experiment on ways and means of typography. With 29 illustrations from title pages. Special print by Edition Tiessen. 2009.
  • My time at Gotthard de Beauclair. Memories of the fifties. From the second-hand bookshop. NF 9 (2011) No. 2.

Texts by other authors

  • Lothar Lang: The discipline of a well thought-out book body. A look back at Edition Tiessen. In: Edition Tiessen. 1977-1995. Verlag Wolfgang Tiessen, Neu-Isenburg 1996, ISBN 3-928395-14-9 , pp. 10-16.
  • Silvia Werfel: On a treasure hunt in the world of books. Wolfgang Tiessen's “Circular letters for friends of modern book art and graphics”. In: Imprimatur. A yearbook for book lovers. NF 21, 2009, ISSN  0073-5620 , pp. 101-114.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Tiessen, a life for the book , boersenblatt.net, November 15, 2017, accessed on November 16, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Tiessen, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 2017