What is Elmar Faber?
{{Infobox person | name = Elmar Faber | image = Elmar Faber 1987.jpg | alt = Faber in Leipzig, March 1987 | birth_date = 1 April 1934 | death_date = 3 December 2017 | nationality = [[Germans|German]] | occupation = Book [[publisher]] }} '''Elmar Faber''' (1 April 1934 – 3 December 2017) was a [[Germans|German]] [[book]] [[publisher]]. He was the head publisher of [[Aufbau-Verlag]] from 1983 to 1992. In 1990, he co-founded publisher Faber & Faber with his son Michael. He was awarded the [[Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]] in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.buchmarkt.de/meldungen/auszeichnungen/elmar-faber-mit-dem-bundesverdienstkreuz-1-klasse-geehrt/|title=Elmar Faber mit dem Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse geehrt|work=Buchmarkt|date=28 March 2007|access-date=5 December 2017|language=de|archive-date=20 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171220131622/https://www.buchmarkt.de/meldungen/auszeichnungen/elmar-faber-mit-dem-bundesverdienstkreuz-1-klasse-geehrt/|url-status=dead}}</ref> His [[autobiography]] was published in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&query=128496916|title=Elmar Faber|publisher=[[German National Library]]|access-date=5 December 2017|language=de}}</ref> He was born in [[Deesbach]], [[Thuringia]]. Faber died on 3 December 2017 in [[Leipzig]], at the age of 83.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.welt.de/newsticker/dpa_nt/infoline_nt/boulevard_nt/article171248072/Verleger-Elmar-Faber-gestorben.html|title=Verleger Elmar Faber gestorben|work=[[Die Welt]]|date=4 December 2017|access-date=5 December 2017|language=de}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} * [https://www.perlentaucher.de/autor/elmar-faber.html Elmar Faber] at ''Perlentaucher.de'' {{in lang|de}} {{Bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Faber, Elmar}} [[Category:1934 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:German autobiographers]] [[Category:German publishers