Biography Klaus-Dieter Lehmann

Born in 1940 in Wroc³aw, Klaus-Dieter Lehmann was appointed general director of the Deutsche Bibliothek in Frankfurt. After Germany’s reunification, he helped reorganise the national libraries in Leipzig and Frankfurt under the name of “Deutsche Bibliothek”. In 1999, Lehmann assumed the office of the president of the Preußischer Kulturbesitz foundation in Berlin. In April 2008, he took over the presidency of the Goethe-Institut from Jutta Limbach.

The members of the Academy

In September 2004, the board of the Börsenverein made its unique appointment of the German Book Prize Academy which is made up of eleven members.

With representatives from the book industry and the arts and co-sponsors of the Prize, the advisory committee’s most important task is the annual selection of the jury. Publisher Dr. Gottfried Honnefelder is president of the German Book Prize Academy.

From left to right: Juergen Boos, Jan Paschen, Dr. Gottfried Honnefelder, Viola Taube, Dr. Dirk Vaihinger, Prof. Dr. Jutta Limbach, Hubert Winkels, Wilfried Weber, Dr. Joachim Unseld. Not shown: Bernd Neumann.