A1 publishing house
| A1 Verlag GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| Seat | Munich , Germany |
| Branch | Publishing |
| Website | a1-verlag.de |
The A1 Publishing is an existing in its present form since 1990, independent book publisher with a focus on international fiction and non-fiction. The publishing house is in Munich . The publisher has been in liquidation since February 2017 .
predecessor
The predecessor of A1 Verlag was the so-called action room 1 , a factory hall in which several visual artists (including Brus , Dibbets , Fabro , Gerz , Höke , Nitsch , HA Schult , Penone ) worked on their works from 1969 to 1970 .
In 1971, A1 Informations Verlagsgesellschaft GmbH was founded, under whose roof concepts for educational teaching models were designed. The first books, newspapers, magazines and posters were produced in the in-house print shop.
Founding of the publishing house and program
Albert Völkmann, Inge Holzheimer and Herbert Woyke founded the actual A1 publishing house in its current form in 1990. The program followed a predominantly fictional-literary orientation. Among the first authors were Adel Karasholi and Galsan Tschinag , who write in German as foreign authors. Both received the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize in 1992 . Since the mid-1990s, A1 has also been the house publisher of the German writer Günter Herburger .
In the mid-1990s, the publishing program was supplemented by the now completed series monAkzente , a series of volumes accompanying literary exhibitions, among others , published from 1995 to 2000 in collaboration with the Monacensia (the city of Munich's literary archive ) . a. about Gert Hofmann , Max Mohr or Grete Weil .
In 1998 the publishing house succeeded in achieving an international bestseller with Corinne Hofmann's book The White Massai , which was translated into thirty languages.
A number of internationally recognized writers and poets form an essential pillar of the publishing house. These include José Eduardo Agualusa (Angola), Dilip Chitre (India), Mahmoud Darwish (Palestine), Mohammed Hanif (Pakistan), Thomas King (Canada), Ray Loriga (Spain), Kiran Nagarkar (India), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Kenya), Ivan Vladislavić (South Africa).
Web links
- Publishing website
- The publisher at tubuk.com , platform for independent publishers
Individual evidence
- ^ A1 Verlag is being wound up , boersenblatt.net, June 27, 2017, accessed on June 27, 2017
- ↑ Antje Weber: End of a world tour. In: sueddeutsche.de . June 23, 2017. Retrieved October 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Hannes Hintermeier: When the niche becomes narrower. Of successes and mistakes: Why the Munich-based A1 Verlag, specialist in international fiction, is closing down. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 24, 2017, p. 11.