Jakob Horstmann Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

I offer consulting and coaching services in academic publishing, specializing in the humanities and social sciences, for publishers, authors, and research institutions.My clients include both UK and international presses. Most of my work for them consist in active commissioning, development editing, and copy editing. I also offer support with marketing, distribution, and contractual issues.I help individual authors with manuscript development and placement and offer editorial support for university projects.

London, United Kingdom

I write features and articles for both English and German media, specializing on sports, culture and society, travel, and just generally whatever takes my fancy. My articles were published e.g. in the guardian, spiegel online, Word magazine, Cicero, zeit.de, and many others.

London, United Kingdom

News and article writing on a freelance basis for various clients, ranging from London-based agencies to local and international private businesses and magazines.

London, United Kingdom

Commissioning of monographs for Pluto's list.

I work with transcript Verlag, one of the leading Germany based social science publishers, on the improvement of sales and distribution in the UK and Europe and on the growth of their English language list.

London

I represent the Germany based social science press ibidem Verlag in the UK and abroad, working as liaison to UK and US distribution channels and commissioning new titles with a focus on post-Soviet societies.

Management of CROP's publishing programme; consulting on CROP's publication and dissemniation strategy for maximum outreach.

London

I run the London office of social science press Budrich Academic, commissioning books and journals in the subject areas of Politics, IR, and Gender Studies. For Budrich I regularly tour the biggest international social science conferences and book fairs and help out with marketing, distribution and contractual issues as required.As part of Budrich Training I offer courses in academic writing for groups and individuals in both English and German, most recently for example at the University Zurich.

London

Commissioning Editor for academic books. My responsibilits included the signing and developing of 30 titles a year in the fields of Gender Studies, Develpoment Studies, Middle East, Asia and Environment.

Chief Editor of the monthly Journal, a bi-lingual business magazine in Romania, published in German and English language.

Co-running the local branch of the ADZ (www.adz.ro), the only German language daily newspaper in South-Eastern Europe in Sibiu/Hermannstadt, Romania. Reporting on various subjects from the political, cultural and business sector on a daily basis. Partially based in Bucharest at the ADZ main office.

Assisting the general editors at this English-language quarterly issued by the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) in Berlin, one of Germany’s highest-profile foreign affairs research institutes. Various tasks from editing, fact-checking and communication with the authors to the technical implementation.

Ma Politics, Security And Integration, School Of Slavonic And East European Studies

Ma, Philosophy, Linguistics

Dissertation topic: “Objectivity in Historical Science and Political Communication: An Investigation with Heinrich Rickert’s Philosophy.

Philosophy

Activities and Societies: Cafebabel.com, European Youth Web-Paper Paris Working at the Paris headquarters of this student-run.