Alexander Verlag Berlin

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Alexander Verlag Berlin
legal form one-man business
founding 1983
Seat Berlin
management Alexander Wewerka
Branch Book publisher
Website www.alexander-verlag.com

The Alexander Verlag Berlin is a book publisher for theater, film literature and fiction in Berlin-Charlottenburg.

General

The publishing house was founded in 1983 by Alexander Wewerka (* 1959), a son of the architect and sculptor Stefan Wewerka , in West Berlin. The program focuses on are Theater Books (u. A. The empty space of Peter Brook or German editions of books by Keith Johnstone ). Authors and editors are u. a. Florian Malzacher , Alan Ayckbourn , Michael Caine , Susan Batson and Ivana Chubbuck , Claus Peymann , Falk Richter , Milo Rau . Since the 1990s, film books have also been published. a. by David Mamet , Robert McKee , Dominik Graf , Ingmar Bergman , Jean-Pierre Melville , Luis Buñuel , André Bazin , Robert Bresson , Aki Kaurismäki and Max Ophüls . At the same time, the publisher brings literary texts. B. the poems by Heiner Müller in a selection compiled by the author himself for the first time.

Detective novels have also been published since 2000, including by Charles Willeford and, since 2005, the Ross Thomas edition. A nine-volume Jörg Fauser edition was published from 2004 to 2009 . In 2013 Jens Johler published The Mood of the World. The Bach novel. There are plays by Johanna Adorján and Julian Pörksen .

In September 2019 the publisher was awarded the German Publishing Prize.

Alexander Wewerka is the editor of the nine-volume Jörg Fauser -Edition, the twenty-five-volume Ross Thomas -Edition, as well as the books "The Stranger Look - Roberto Ciulli and the Theater an der Ruhr " and the "Close-up Stefan Wewerka ", all published in Alexander Verlag Berlin.

Authors (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Maike Albath: The Alexander Verlag. A portrait. Deutschlandfunk, June 1, 2000 Download January 26, 2018
  2. Christoph Huber: The King of Carnage , in: Die Presse v. January 22, 2010
  3. ^ Wiebke Hüster: Playing with Memory and Fantasy , in: Deutschlandfunk Kultur v. February 10, 2011
  4. Jan Küveler: The Ghost of Freedom , in: Welt digital v. January 11, 2018
  5. Peter Krüger-Lenz: Longsellers as supporting pillars. Publisher Wewerka in the Literary Center . In: Göttinger Tageblatt of July 1, 2010 and official publisher's website.
  6. ^ Winner of the first German Publishing Award. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
  7. Authors / Ed. - Alexander Verlag Berlin. Retrieved January 20, 2020 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 40.4 ″  N , 13 ° 16 ′ 50.1 ″  E