Life At Bonnier - Ullstein Buchverlage

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.

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.

Guerrilla Marketing for Empört Euch

By Bert Menninga on 2011-02-16
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Book publisher Ullstein's campaign for its recently published essay Empört Euch! takes the book's challenge head on.

When publishing house Ullstein Buchverlage put out Empört Euch!, a German translation of Stepháne Hessel's Indignez Vous!, it decided that the book called for no ordinary marketing campaign.

Silver Megaphones Awarded in Berlin

By Bert Menninga on 2011-02-14
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Jahrbuch der Werbung - the yearbook of advertising - gave out its silver Megaphone awards, with emcee Dieter Moor.

At the historic Moskau venue in Berlin, some 300 guests gathered  to celebrate this year's first major award show in advertising, hosted by the Jahrbuch der Werbung  (Yearbook of Advertising). The yearbook is published by Econ, an imprint of Ullstein Buchverlage.

Counting the Days to Christmas with Bonnier

By Bert Menninga on 2010-12-03
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Five advent calendar tips from Bonnier.

Photo by mawel (Flickr/CC-licens)
  1. At Norwegian BoligPluss site visitors can win interior decorating from the magazine's product partners.
  2. At Swedish Mama you can win children's books, DVDs and other kids' product.
  3. Swedish audiobook site Laudio has a weekly Christmas present rhyming contest at its blog and

Meet Shawn Woznicki

By Bert Menninga on 2010-10-25
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GROW participant Shawn Woznicki from Bonnier Corporation adjusts to longer texts, longer deadlines at Ullstein in Germany.

New York native Shawn Woznicki is fascinated by his new workplace, German publisher Ullstein Buchverlage in Berlin. "The people, the building, the location," says Woznicki. "Ullstein Buchverlage is in an amazing location. The building as well is quite impressive. It was once a school but now has been preserved as a historical building, modernized by British designer David Chipperfield."

Meet Pirita Hiltunen

By Bert Menninga on 2010-06-07
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Whether it's redesigning a website structure or taking yoga classes in German, this GROW participant stays busy.

Even if you don't know the German words for "drain" of "clogged" you can still manage to solve the problem of a clogged drain with your janitor in Berlin. GROW participant Pirita Hiltunen from MTV3 Finland is living proof that even after only a month at Ullstein Buchverlage in Berlin, you can get by easier than you think. "German yoga lesson instructions are slowly starting to make sense to me - as well as the chaotic Berlin traffic. With a bike," she says.

Meet Anna Nilsson

By Bert Menninga on 2010-03-18
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New perspectives and people inspire GROW participant Anna Nilsson.

When Resumé project manager Anna Nilsson, 28, talks about working as a GROW exchange participant at Ullstein Buchverlage in Germany, she says that the experience has exceeded her expectations. "What's best are the new perspectives you get and the new people you meet," she says.