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Geoffrey Layton, great-great-grandson of the publisher's founder Leopold Ullstein, has been working as a dramaturge and director for a long time. He is discovering his "publisher's blood" again - it's his close confidant Luc Bondy's fault.
Without the publishing industry it will not work: Geoffrey Layton, great-great grandson of the founder of the publishing house, Leopold Ullstein, decided early for the theater and works since then as a dramaturge and director. Nevertheless, he later translated the book "Das Haus Ullstein", in which his great-great-uncle Hermann Ullstein describes the eventful history of the famous publishing house from American exile.
"My great-grandfather says that he was a very quiet person. When he drove with his brother, my great-great-uncle, to the publisher in a hackney and was asked something in front of the residential building in Grunewald, he sank into silence. Only when they arrived at the publishing house in today's Kochstrasse, he said very close: Yes. "
And right now, native New Yorker Geoffrey Layton rediscovers his "publisher's blood" and is working on a book about the late director Luc Bondy, whose close confidante he has been for over three decades.