Biography Viola Taube

Viola Taube was born in 1958 in Nordhorn (Lower Saxony) and trained as a bookseller at the “Buch Brader” bookshop in Oldenburg. After that, she worked at the Montanus Buchhandlung in Oldenburg and the bookshops Mayer’schen in Aachen and the “Galeria” in Paris. Since 1988, she has run her own independent Buchhandlung Viola Taube in Nordhorn which was awarded the title “Lower Saxony Bookshop of the Year 1999” by the Lower Saxony Science and Culture Ministry. Since October 2007 she has served on the board of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels – German Publishers & Booksellers Association – and has been its deputy chairwoman since November 2007.

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.