Ruth Kiesow
Publisher of KiRo-Verlag, BücherFrau des Jahres 1996 (BücherFrauen’s Woman of the Year in Books 1996)
Publisher of KiRo-Verlag, BücherFrau des Jahres 1996 (BücherFrauen’s Woman of the Year in Books 1996)
Founder and director of the women’s library MONAliesA, Leipzig, BücherFrau des Jahres 1997 (BücherFrauen’s Woman of the Year in Books 1997)
Publisher of the Feministischer Buchverlag, founder and editor of VIRGINIA, Zeitschrift für Frauenbuchkritik (journal of reviews of books by and for women), BücherFrau des Jahres 1998 (BücherFrauen’s Woman of the Year in Books 1998)
Founder and long-standing owner of the “Personalagentur für Verlage” (recruitment agency for publishers), BücherFrau des Jahres 1999 (BücherFrauen’s Woman of the Year in Books 1999)
Initiator and director of the database “Schriftstellerinnen in Deutschland nach 1945” (Women Writers in Germany after 1945) and of the Stiftung Frauen-Literatur-Forschung e. V., BücherFrau des Jahres 1999 (BücherFrauen’s Woman of the Year in Books 1999)
Founder and organizer of the LiBeraturpreis, BücherFrau des Jahres 2001 (BücherFrauen’s Woman of the Year in Books 2001)
Founder and editor of the series “Die Frau in der Gesellschaft” (Women in Society) published by Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, BücherFrau des Jahres 2002 (BücherFrauen’s Woman of the Year in Books 2002)
Germany’s first women’s publishing house, BücherFrauen des Jahres 2003 (BücherFrauen’s Women of the Year in Books 2003)
Author, editor and language critic, founder of FemBio, the database for research on women’s biographies, BücherFrau des Jahres 2004 (BücherFrauen’s Woman of the Year in Books 2004)
Literary agent, translator and bridge-building literary networker, BücherFrau des Jahres 2005 (BücherFrauen’s Woman of the Year in Books 2005)