Life At Bonnier - Germany

Ullstein Celebrates 108

By Bert Menninga on 2011-10-11
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Getting a jump start on the Frankfurt Book Fair, German publishing house Ullstein Buchverlage pulled out all the stops with the release of the Ullstein Chronik – the Ullstein Chronicle.

Siv Bublitz and John le Carré

Kicking off the Frankfurt Book Fair with a bang, German book publisher Ullstein Buchverlage celebrated the release of the Ullstein Chronik - the Ullstein Chronicle - with a lavish party with guests from around the world.

The party was not just for the book, a history of the venerable publishing house founded in 1903, but was a belated anniversary celebration. Originally planned for 2003, the anniversary was put off when the publisher was bought first by Random House and then Bonnier.

Pixi Hits the 200 Mark in Germany

By Bert Menninga on 2011-10-10
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Popular children's book series Pixi celebrates the 200th series with celebrity authors.

The popular children's Pixi book imprint, featuring small, very distinctive square books, reached a milestone earlier this year in Germany: the 200th series was published, with some 1,700 books published since the first came out in 1954.

To celebrate the series, publisher Carlsen Verlag did something special: Each of the books in the series was written by a famous German, from writers to chefs to TV personalities.

Meet Steffen Meier

By Bert Menninga on 2011-09-28
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GROW participant takes a chance to think differently.

Reflecting on life, making new goals, getting to know another way of living.

Meet Lindsey Atkinson

By Bert Menninga on 2011-09-27
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GROW participant bikes her way through Munich.

It's all a matter of rights, says Lindsey Atkinson. A photo librarian at Bonnier Corporation in Florida, Atkinson is used to dealing with photo rights. But for three months she is trading pictures for books, and Winter Park for Munich, Germany, where she faces new challenges at publishing house Piper Verlag.

Meet Kerstin Schöfisch

By Tora Bonnier on 2011-07-26
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Licorice, a chance meeting and new ways of working are three things GROW participant Kerstin Schöfisch will remember when she finishes a three-month stint in Helsinki.

What do flags and licorice have in common? They are both prominent in Helsinki, Finland, says GROW participant Kerstin Schöfisch.  "It looks like the Finns hang out their national flags in the streets every second day and I was always wondering what they were celebrating," she says. "Even my colleagues could not tell me. And the Finns seem to be crazy about licorice, as there is licorice ice cream, yoghurt, donuts, coffee, etc.

Meet Ursula Rogers

By Bert Menninga on 2011-05-31
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GROW participant from the U.K. looks at a different set of rights in Germany.

Even though Foreign Rights Executive Ursula Rogers of Templar Publishing didn't know a word of German, the prospect of seeing how a German company dealt with book rights issues was too tempting to pass up. "Working in foreign rights for a children's publisher in the U.K., I was eager to see how a rights department operates in a foreign company that publishes adult titles," says Rogers.

StadtLesen Gets City Dwellers Reading

By Bert Menninga on 2011-05-18
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Germany's Ullstein Buchverlag and arsEdition sponsor the huge book lounge tour StadtLesen with books.

StadtLesen - which means "city reading" - is a project started by an innovation agency in Austria in 2009. The event features packed bookshelves, beautiful reading spots in the open air, food and readings to pull in visitors to the cities visited on the tour.

Previously held only in Austria, this year the event will take place also in Germany and the few regions of Italy in the north with some German speakers. The bookshelves contents have also expanded: In the first year there were 2,000 books taken on tour to nine cities.

Spring Reading from Bonnier Media Deutschland

By Bert Menninga on 2011-05-06
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Looking for something to read this spring? Bonnier Media Deutschland has something for you.

Along with the flowers, sun and warmer weather of spring, Bonnier Media Deutschland has plenty of spring titles for Germans ready to make the most of the season.

From arsEdition, the gift book Ich hab dir ein Geschenk gepflanzt (I've planted you a gift), is the perfect present for that special someone who you want to show you care for them - complete with seed packets to plant your own flowers. By Monica Schöffman.  

Meet Pia Beltoft Nielsen

By Kim Oswell on 2011-04-05
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From Denmark to Germany and magazines to books, Pia Beltoft Nielsen is experiencing life in a whole new way.

Photo: Stefan Lingg

The exhilaration of starting from scratch all over again with a new job, a new apartment and new surroundings is what enticed Pia Beltoft Nielsen to the GROW program. Signing up for the work exchange program is one thing, but deciding to speak only German and taking language courses is quite another, which is exactly what Nielsen has done since she arrived in Munich almost two months ago.

Frank Ladd and the E-Future

By Bert Menninga on 2011-03-17
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Bonnier Media Deutschland's new CIO Frank Ladd talks about digititalization and the book industry.

Frank Ladd started on Feb.