Albino Publishing House

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The Albino Verlag was founded in 1981 publishing house based in Berlin . It existed until 1989, after which it was continued from 1992 to 1999 and again since 2015 as the imprint of the Bruno Gmünder Verlag . Since its takeover by Salzgeber Medien , Albino has been one of the three brands of the Salzgeber book publishers .

history

The publishing house was founded in 1981 by Gerhard Hoffmann (* 1946) and Peter Schmittinger. Gerhard Hoffmann and his friend Reinhard von der Marwitz (1946–1995) and Thomas Derra had the Schwuchtel , Germany's first political gay newspaper, as early as 1975 , and in 1977 with the Café Anderes Ufer on Hauptstrasse in Berlin-Schöneberg, Germany 's first open lesbian and gay café founded. The publishing program differed from other small gay publishers of the time in its focus on German first editions by renowned international authors. Joachim Bartholomae , managing director of the Hamburg-based Männerschwarm Verlag , classified the publisher as follows: “Albino was without question the fanciest gay publisher of the 80s; it wasn't about movement or politics, but about literature. "

The first book to appear in 1982 was the German first edition of Jean Cocteau's Das Weißbuch , translated by Karsten Witte . After Potency Clinic of Edward Field and Neil Derrick (under the joint pseudonym "Bruce Elliot"), which became one of the bestsellers of the publisher, followed by music of James Purdy ( Confined spaces and the millionaire on the spiral staircase cannibalistic relationships ) Copi ( The Snake in New York and the Samba War ) and Christopher Isherwood ( Mr. Norris changes and familiar faces as well as a revised version of the translation of The Loner, first published in 1964 ). The program also included a German translation of Ihara Saikaku's love stories of the samurai , two Zarah Leander biographies by Paul Seiler , the Elvis biography by RIAS presenter Barry Graves and an Ingrid Caven songbook. One of the publisher's last titles was Ein Mann für alle by Phil Andros in 1988 , which was first introduced to the German public in book form.

After initially a brief cooperation with the Berlin-based publisher Rosa Winkel at the end of the 1980s , Gerhard Hoffmann finally sold the publisher to Bruno Gmünder in 1992 . There Albino was continued as an imprint, still under Hoffmann's editorship. Published under the Gmünder imprint, alongside two other novels by James Purdy ( The Song of Blood and The Disclosure ) and even seven other titles by Phil Andros, whose complete works were now available in German translation, including works by Alfred Chester ( Die Sehnsucht der Man- Eater ), Felice Picano ( The Bait ), Robin Maugham ( Place of Temptation ), James Robert Baker ( Sex Rebels ), Matthew Rettenmund ( Boy culture ) and Christos Tsiolkas ( Under Power ).

After Reinhard von der Marwitz's death, Gerhard Hoffmann first sold the other shore and then gave up his publishing activities. By the time the publications were discontinued in 1999, a total of almost 40 titles had been published by the publisher or Imprint Albino .

In 2015, Imprint Albino Verlag was revived by Bruno Gmünder Verlag, after the latter had filed for bankruptcy in May 2014 and was bought back by the founder in November 2014. The new Albino Verlag sees itself in the tradition of the previous company. The program started in July 2015 with the German first edition of Edmund White's autobiographical novel City Boy. My life in New York in a translation by Joachim Bartholomae. The 2015 program also included new releases by Brent Meersman and "Julian Mars" (pseudonym), as well as new editions of Alan Hollinghurst's The Swimming Pool Library and James Purdy's The Song of Blood .

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  1. ↑ http://www.jearldmoldenhauer.com/german-gay-movement-bookstores/
  2. ↑ a b c d Joachim Bartholomae: Blurb - publishers, bookshops and magazines as the infrastructure of the gay movement . In: Andreas Pretzel , Volker Weiß (Ed.): Between Autonomy and Integration: Gay Politics and the Gay Movement in the 1980s and 1990s . Männerschwarm Verlag, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86300-159-9 , p. 80 ( Google Books ). See also the additions in: Joachim Bartholomae: Chronicle of the gay book trade and publishers 1975 to 1998 .
  3. ↑ Irene Bazinger: Come dance with me . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 31, 2007
  4. ↑ Matthias Oloew: Gerhard Hoffmann: innkeeper, publishers, talk show host. An all-rounder. And one of the founders of the gay and lesbian city festival . In: Der Tagesspiegel , June 16, 2000.
  5. ↑ Bruno Gmünder is buying back his publisher , queer.de, November 7, 2014
  6. ↑ http://albino-verlag.de/verlag/