Stefan Luebbe with his wife Birgit occasion of the IPO of the publisher’s Bastion Luebbe in October 2013, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
He was the guy who knew how entertainment goes. The an army of millions of readers conquered and held at the bar, with international bestselling authors such as Dan Brown (“Inferno”), Ken Follett (“The Children of Freedom”) and Jeff Kinney (“Greg’s Diary”). His German draft horses Sebastian Fitzek and Andreas Eschbach he used personally as a publisher. But an author he has misjudged and not shopped, that would have fit well in his program: Frank Schätzing, today at the Cologne neighbors Kiepenheuer & amp; Malevich sale reigns supreme.
The distinction E and U was not something that Stefan Luebbe has wasted endless thoughts. That in the entertainment industry it happens unlike the colleagues of the Nobel laureate publishers, has certainly not have surprised him; it has annoyed him but when was still spoken of as the dime novel Luebbe Verlag – only because his father, who founded the publishing house in 1953, was once successfully with Jerry Cotton Staple and cognate
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The booklet novels by Bastion-Luebbe established a separate market, the family earned magnificently. Even with women’s magazines such as “The golden leaf”, which was published from 1971 to 2003 by Luebbe, it was successful in the mass market. These were the decades in which the father had the final say in Bergisch-Gladbach. In a corporate headquarters with low ceilings and the faded charm of the seventies.
IPO and downsizing
Stefan Luebbe but had no intention of stopping. He wrapped his own extradition from, moved the publishing of fussy Bergisch-Gladbach into a hip Cologne Schanze quarter, pushing the company with an IPO decided towards multimedia future. A cultural break that he – according to the “Handelsblatt” – the nickname “Rambo” earned, and, fueled by external managers, a significant job cuts to result had
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In this case, he used the style of chunky-maker, who had survived his powerful father, and then noticed through years of bickering with his sister -. Until his publisher in 2007 was finally alone
preparation as car dealers in Texas
Legendary in the book industry is also Luebbe past as a car dealer in Texas, where he in 1986 in Fort Worth, an MBA was to steel himself for the book trade. The operations were Luebbe 2013 in the hands of an external management. The last was successful sales in the last financial year at 107.5 million euros, the shareholders received a dividend of 28 cents. Today, among the various companies of the Group Luebbe also games and gift items. And together with the Chinese app sales Kii, substances are being developed that reads the young clientele exclusively on smartphones, tablets and e-book readers.
A page patronage had also Luebbe, who flirted with it in an interview that he had now arrived at an age when “be funny in the men”. In the foundation of his mother, Ursula-Luebbe Foundation, he was committed to the promotion of the reading young. The Foundation also supports the annual “Festival of German Language” at the Goethe-Theater Bad Lauchstaedt. There are celebrated authors who are not at Luebbe in the program -. Goethe, Lessing and other classics
solitaire in the publishing landscape
Lubbe was considered a technology freak, and as a fan of fast cars, fear of contact with innovation have never been accused of it. Maybe he is therefore a solitaire in the German publishing industry have been: On Monday Stefan Luebbe has died unexpectedly at the age of fifty-seven years in the South of France. He leaves behind his wife and daughter; his wife Birgit Luebbe will take up his heritage of publishing.
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