Renate Reichstein

Renate Reichstein was born in 1954 in Hamburg, studied history, philosophy and English philology in Freiburg. Since 1989, she has been been working at the Oetinger Publishing Group in Hamburg, Germany’s second-largest children's publishing house. She took part in the creation of the Rights and Licenses Department in the publishing house and is currently heading it. Since 2005, Renate Reichstein has been organizing and moderating annual practical seminars for booksellers and publishers, as well as "rights and license exchanges" held during the Frankfurt Book Fair, which involves German publishers and publishers of the guest country. In addition, she makes reports on the situation in the market of children's and youth literature in Germany at various symposia in her country and abroad.