The program from Frankfurt Book Fair’s celebration of Linz’s 50 years in publishing.The program, side 2.April 1975: Werner Mark Linz, president of The Seabury Press, second from left, presents a copy of “The Common Catechism: A Book of Faith, ” to the Episcopal Church’s Presiding Bishop John M. Allin. From Episcopal Archives.February 1977: Seabury Press presenting a check for $1,000 to the Presiding Bishop’s Fund for World Relief, designated for hunger relief. From Episcopal Archives.
In 1996, Moftah, Dr. Margit Toth (left) und Dr. Mortha Roy signed an agreement with Mark Linz, director of AUC Press (standing) to publish the complete music of St. Basil’s liturgy.With Bahaa Taher.February 2000: On the 40th anniversary of AUC Press. Translator Humphrey Davies, authors Salwa Bakr, Idris Ali, Viola Shafik, and Galila El Kadi, with AUC Press Director Mark Linz at center.With pioneer Arabic-English translator Denys Johnson-Davies.2007: Linz, who founded the German Library, with the series editor Evander Lomke at the reception celebrating the imprint’s 25th anniversary.In 2010, presiding over the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature that he helped found.Photo from Michael Zaug. Used with permission.Linz standing in front of a sign on the way to Saqqara, which he used to proudly show to all his visitors. To his right stands his childhood friend Professor Erwin Haeberle. Used with permission.From a spring 2012trip to Weimar: at the monument to Goethe’s East West Divan. Mark gives the Leitmotiv of this poem the thumbs up. As publisher Barbara Schwepke, who took the photograph, notes: “It was his Leitmotiv as well.”The English translation: “Those who know themselves and others will recognize here, too, that the Orient and the Occident can no longer be separated.”
