Ahriman Publishing House

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Ahriman-Verlag GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding 1982
Seat Freiburg in Breisgau
management Edeltraud Rudow and Ingrid Christel Frie Karfich
Branch Publishing
Website www.ahriman.com

The Ahriman-Verlag GmbH is a was established in 1982 publishing house based in Freiburg . The management consists of Edeltraud Rudow and Ingrid Christel Frieda Karfich.

history

The publishing house was founded on October 31, 1982 in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Relationship to the New Right

Ahriman already advertised in the right-wing conservative Junge Freiheit in the 1990s . The publisher also called for the election of the Republicans under Franz Schönhuber .

Before Annemarie Schimmel was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 1995 , there was a media dispute between the head of the German Book Trade Association and the Ahriman publishing house. Gerhard Kurtze accused the publisher of being close to the controversial Bund against Adaptation , whose magazine Heretic Letters - Message in a Bottle for Unadapted Thoughts appears in the publisher.

In 2014 the publisher was also a guest at the trade fair Zwischenentag around the new right-wing publicist Felix Menzel . At the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017, Ahriman was the only unaffected publisher to publish a declaration of support in favor of the new right-wing publishers such as Antaios or Manuscriptum, which were confronted with massive protests .

Book fairs

The Ahriman-Verlag exhibits regularly at the leading trade fairs in German-speaking countries and a. Buch Wien , Frankfurt Book Fair , Leipzig Book Fair , Karlsruhe Book Show and Stuttgart Book Weeks.

Name and signet

Its name comes from the Avestan term Angra Mainyu , which in Zoroastrian theology represents destruction or the destructive.

The publisher has had its logo since January 1983, based on a publisher's draft.

program

General

He sees himself as a publisher whose focus is on “classical psychoanalysis and orthodox Marxism ”. In the documentation of German-language publishers (2001) there is also talk of "uncompromising criticism of religion " and "consistent [m] anti-fascism ". Ahriman publishes series of books (including "Series of Unwanted Books on Fascism" and "Series of Unwanted Books on Church History"), magazines and loose-leaf works.

Authors

The authors include a.

Magazines

The Federation against Adjustment , which emerged from the anti-clerical working group of the Bunter List Freiburg, publishes the heretic letters in the Ahriman publishing house . It should be a documentation of the persecution of atheists and church critics . Issue no. 157/158 was indexed from 2010 to 2011 by the Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People (BPjM). A court ruling forced the authorities to remove the medium from the list of media harmful to minors.

Furthermore, the magazine System ubw. Journal for classical psychoanalysis published , which describes itself as "the only journal in the unadulterated tradition of Sigmund Freud".

literature

  • Dagmar Olzog, Johannes Hacker (ed.): Documentation of German-language publishers . 14th edition, Verlag modern industry, Landsberg am Lech 2001, ISBN 3-478-38764-7 , pp. 11-12.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Company Profile from AHRIMAN-Verlag GmbH with Dun & Bradstreet (20 March 2014).
  2. Wolfgang Purtscheller : Aufbruch der Völkischen. The brown network . Picus-Verlag, ISBN 3-85452-239-8 , p. 144.
  3. Quarrel between Ahriman-Verlag and Börsenverein . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , October 7, 1995.
  4. Cf. Lucius Teidelbaum: In the sign of the devil: The “covenant against adjustment” , haGalil. Jewish Life Online, November 13, 2016.
  5. Tomas Sager: New rights outside the door . Look to the right , July 24, 2014.
  6. apabiz eV New and Old Rights
  7. Barbara Mader: Book fair with wisdom, Austrofred and dates . In: Kurier , November 21, 2013.
  8. Archived copy ( memento from September 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ^ Dagmar Olzog, Johannes Hacker (Ed.): Documentation of German-language publishers . 14th edition, Verlag modern industry, Landsberg am Lech 2001, ISBN 3-478-38764-7 , pp. 11-12.
  10. Announcement No. 10/2010 on carrier media harmful to minors.
  11. Announcement No. 8/2011 on carrier media harmful to minors.
  12. ZDB -ID 381070-7 , evidence in the journal database