page_title: Gürze Books
section_title: The Origin of "Gürze"
hierarchical_section_title: Gürze Books / Company history / The Origin of "Gürze"
caption_attribution_description: English: This is an image of two soft-sculpture dolls created and photographed by Lindsey Hall of Gürze Designs, later Gürze Books
context_page_description: Gürze Books, LLC is a Carlsbad, California based publishing company specializing on books addressing eating disorders and body image. It has been an imprint of Turner Publishing Company since 2018.
context_section_description: The word “Gürze” came to Lindsey in a dream in 1976 from which she awoke and wrote, “I met a woman whose name was Gürze. She had mink hair and was inhabited by seven animals.” Using original batik designs and surgical gauze, she created a soft-sculpture doll of Gürze, which led to the sales of more than 250,000 Gürze Designs dolls. The dolls were featured on TV shows, such as “The Price is Right” (December 12, 1979) and “Mork and Mindy” and were pictured in magazines with celebrities such as Robin Williams, Chaka Khan, and Arthur Ashe. Although Lindsey did not speak any languages that used an umlaut, she was told that in a remote region of Bavaria, “Gürze” is used as a greeting with the literal translation, “I greet the God in you.”
caption: Original soft sculpture dolls, Gürze featured on left
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