Ian Bild

Ian Bild, born 1954 in London, studied Economic and Social History at Bristol University. He later worked as a publisher for Bristol Broadsides, part of the worker writer movement. He moved with his family in 1987 to Worpswede in north Germany. Together with his wife Ute Migge, he owns and runs the bookshop Worpsweder Antiquariat in the artists’ village. He also translates texts from German to English and has researched, written and directed television and radio documentaries for the BBC, NDR, SFB, Radio Bremen, Deutschlandradio etc. He has four children and three grandchildren.