Luxbooks

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Luxbooks
legal form GmbH
founding 2001
Seat Wiesbaden , Germany
management Annette Kühn and Christian Lux
Branch Book publisher
Website luxbooks.de

Luxbooks is a German independent publisher based in Wiesbaden .

history

The publisher's first program appeared in 2008; the publisher was founded by Annette Kühn and Christian Lux during their student days. Both met in 2001 while studying book studies at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. Both of them also worked for Suhrkamp Verlag until 2009 . Up to 2016 up to 14 titles appeared annually, including American poetry in bilingual editions. From 2013 to 2016, a program of prose and non-fiction by contemporary German and international authors was also published. As part of this new publishing division, the publishing house was converted into a GmbH together with a connoisseur and patron . After the current pause in publishing, further publications are not announced again until 2018.

reception

In 2011 Michael Braun stated in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung that Luxbooks is “currently the most powerful poetry publisher in German-speaking countries” .

In 2012, the literary critic Denis Scheck described the publishing house in his show Druckfrisch ( ARD ) as "one of the most spectacular start-ups in recent years".

program

The publisher publishes contemporary prose, non-fiction and poetry or poetry from past avant-gardes, pop-cultural studies, graphic novels. The publishers describe their position in terms of content by saying that pop modernity is both home and corruption for them. The different series at Luxbooks are:

  • Wing armchairs: short stories and novels of the present.
  • Airspace: political, socially critical non-fiction books
  • Americana: American poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries, bilingual.
  • Laboratory: young German poets
  • Latin: Latin American poetry, ed. by Léonce W. Lupette
  • Slavica: Slavic poetry.
  • Graphics: illustrated stories, poetry and graphic volumes

First editions and new translations by u. a. Tobias Amslinger , John Ashbery , Rae Armantrout, Jane Austen , Fabián Casas , Hart Crane , Tadeusz Dąbrowski , HD ( Hilda Doolittle ), Esteban Echeverría , Carl-Christian Elze , Angélica Freitas , Peter Gizzi , Juana Manuela Gorriti , Barbara Guest , Amy Hempel , Adrian Kasnitz , Simone Kornappel , Norbert Lange , Ben Lerner , Amy Lowell , Léonce W. Lupette , Sarah Manguso , Mary Jo Bang, George Oppen , Kevin Prufer , Arne Rautenberg , Andre Rudolph , Volker Sielaff , Jan Skudlarek , Thien Tran , Charlotte Warsen. The translations are mostly done by younger German poets.

literature

  • Michael Braun: Stubbornness and the art of improvisation. The publishers Roughbooks and «luxbooks» are testing innovative models for the publication of poetry. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of February 26, 2011
  • Florian Balke: Luxbooks-Verlag. If nothing works, everything has to be different. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine / Rhein-Main from January 6, 2013
  • Florian Balke: Luxbooks-Verlag. Poetry by default. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 17, 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Florian Balke: Luxbooks-Verlag. Poetry by default. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 17, 2008 , accessed on March 21, 2013
  2. ↑ a b Florian Balke: Luxbooks-Verlag. If nothing works, everything has to be different. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine / Rhein-Main January 6, 2013, accessed on March 21, 2013
  3. ↑ Michael Braun: Stubbornness and the Art of Improvisation The publishers Roughbooks and "luxbooks" are testing innovative models for the publication of poetry , NZZ , Zurich, on February 26, 2011
  4. ↑ a b c Michael Braun: Stubbornness and the art of improvisation. The publishers Roughbooks and «luxbooks» are testing innovative models for the publication of poetry. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of February 26, 2011 , accessed on March 21, 2013
  5. ^ Luxbooks website , accessed March 21, 2013.