Ammann Publishing House
| Ammann Publishing House
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| legal form | Limited partnership |
| founding | 1981 |
| resolution | 2010 |
| Seat | Zurich |
| management | Egon Ammann |
| Branch | Book publisher |
| Website | www.ammannverlag.ch |
The Ammann Verlag was a Swiss publishing house .
Ammann Verlag was founded in 1981 by Egon Ammann and his wife Marie-Luise Flammersfeld. The first three titles were Thomas Hürlimann's book of stories Die Tessinerin , his play Grandfather and Half- Brother and the dialect poetry anthology Mach keini Schprüch , edited by Dieter Fringeli .
Initially, other Swiss authors such as Hansjörg Schneider , Franz Böni , Helen Meier , Margrit Sprecher , Erika Burkart , but also the publicist Jürg Altwegg and the filmmaker Markus Imhoof were added. From 1985 world literature was also offered in new translations by authors such as Fernando Pessoa , Ossip Mandelstam , Les Murray , Wole Soyinka or Viktoria Tokarewa , Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt and Alejandra Pizarnik . Complete editions by Walter Dirks and Meinrad Inglin have been published. The publishing house caused a sensation in 1993 with Verbrechen und Strafe , the first volume of Dostoyevsky's novels newly translated by Svetlana Geier .
German authors such as Andreas Mand , Durs Grünbein , Bernhard Kegel , Friedrich Kröhnke and Navid Kermani were also part of the publisher's repertoire .
In 1996, Ammann Verlag made the move to the Internet with its own website - according to its own information, “as the first fiction publishing company in the German-speaking region” .
Dissolution of the publisher
On August 10, 2009 Egon Ammann announced the closure of the publishing house on June 30, 2010.
“The reasons for this decision lie in the advanced age of the publishers and in a market situation that is becoming increasingly difficult for literature. A publisher with the profile of Ammann Verlag is closely tied to the responsible persons and cannot continue without them. Marie-Luise Flammersfeld and I gave what we had to give. - "Everything has it's time""
The publisher's archive is located in the Swiss National Library . The publisher's patrons were Siegfried Unseld , George Reinhart and Monika Schoeller .
Web links
- Ammann Verlag website
- Film portrait ( memento of December 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) for the 25th anniversary of the publisher, in the Internet Archive
- "We are the ground crew and the authors are allowed to fly." A conversation with the two publishers, NZZ on July 17, 2006, accessed on March 29, 2019
- A big publisher is finished. Publisher Ammann in conversation with FAZ , August 10, 2009
- «I will remain a publisher to the grave» Interview with the publisher Egon Ammann (Glarean Magazin 2010)
- A publisher, what is that? brand eins 11/2010, accessed on March 18, 2012
- (New) Chronicle of Ammann Verlag by year, 1981 to 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ Haus der Weltliteratur , in FAZ of October 4, 2011, p. 36.
- ^ "Everything has its time" , Tagesschau of Swiss television, August 10, 2009, accessed on July 25, 2011
- ↑ Documents from the publisher in the Swiss National Library , accessed on November 17, 2016.