Biography Juergen Boos

After training as a publishing manager, Juergen Boos studied business management in Mannheim. He worked for several years as a sales director with Droemersche Verlagsanstalt, Literarischer Verlag, Carl Hanser Verlag and at Springer Verlag in Berlin where he went on to become director of international sales. In 1997, he moved to Verlag Wiley-VCH as executive director of marketing/sales/distribution. He has been president of the Frankfurt Book Fair since April 2005.

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.