GALLEY 07 · JOB NO. 4471-CV COMP: K. BRANDT · SET 11/12 GARAMOND 1ST PROOF · 18.07.2026
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Erik Lehnsherr

Chief Proofreader · Frankfurt am Main

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Summary

I have read proofs for 22 years, the last 9 as chief proofreader at a scholarly press in Frankfurt. My desk clears about 14,000 pages a year across German, English, and Latin settings. I keep a personal error ledger; the 2025 column shows 3 misses in 11,400 pages. I still read the imprint page first, out of habit.

Experience

Chief Proofreader · Hallgarten Academic Press 2017–present
  • Direct a reading room of 6 proofreaders covering roughly 240 monographs a year; house error rate held under 1 per 40,000 characters since 2019.
  • Wrote the press's 84-page style protocol; author-query volume fell 31% within two production cycles.
  • Introduced a second-pass collation step for critical editions, catching 412 variant-reading faults across the 2023–2024 lists.
Senior Proofreader · Druckerei Falkenrath GmbH 2011–2017
  • Read first and revised proofs for legal and pharmaceutical clients, about 2,800galley sheets a year.
  • Cut average correction rounds from 3.2 to 2.1 by moving queries onto a single marked master proof.
Proofreader, then Copyholder · Setzerei Adler & Sohn 2004–2011
  • Trained under two compositors on hot-metal and photoset jobs; read aloud against copy for around 6 hours daily.
  • Passed the Chamber of Crafts proofreading examination in 2006, second in a cohort of 41.

Education & Certificates

Magister Artium, German Philology · Universität Marburg-Weststadt, 2003. Thesis on compositor error patterns in 18th-century Frankfurt imprints.
Certified Proofreader (Korrektor/in) · Chamber of Crafts, Frankfurt, 2006.
Latin paleography seminar · Herzogin-Amalie Library, 2014, 120 contact hours.

Proofing Competence

MARKSDIN 16511 and BSI 5261 correction marks; dual-marking for mixed German-English houses.
LANGUAGESGerman (native), English (C2), Latin (reading), French (B1, menus and footnotes).
SETTINGSHot metal, photocomposition, InDesign PDF proofs; blackletter and fraktur ligature checking.
REFERENCEDuden, Chicago 18, Oxford Hart's Rules; keeper of the house exception list, currently 318 entries.
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