Ark Publishing House

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Ark Publishing House
legal form AG (according to Swiss law)
founding 1944
Seat SwitzerlandSwitzerland Zurich , Hamburg (branch office)
management Jan Weitendorf (Management), Frauke Schneider (Publishing Director ppa)
Branch Book publisher
Website www.arche-verlag.com

The Ark literature Verlag AG (Ark) was founded in 1944 in Switzerland. Arche is now a Swiss book publisher for fiction and non-fiction with headquarters in Zurich and a branch in Hamburg. Arche has been a W1-Media (Hamburg) company since 2016.

history

The Arche Literatur Verlag was founded in 1944 by Peter Schifferli as Verlags AG Die Arche in Zurich (from 1994 Arche Verlag GmbH, since 2008 Arche Literatur Verlag AG). The then 23-year-old student Schifferli received support from members of the literary regulars' table in the Zurich Café Odeon , including Ernst Robert Curtius , Jakob Hegner , Max Rychner and Emil Staiger . In 1953, Schifferli founded the Sanssouci publishing house for entertainment literature, which has belonged to the Carl Hanser publishing house in Munich since 1995 . After Schifferli's death in 1980, his sons initially took over the management of the publishing house. In 1982 the Zurich bookseller Regina Vitali and the German editor Elisabeth Raabe acquired Arche Verlag.

In 2008, the Hamburg publishing group Oetinger, to which Atrium Verlag already belonged in the adult book sector, also took over Arche Literatur Verlag AG. The Arche calendars were continued by the newly founded Arche Calendar Verlag GmbH (Hamburg). Nikolaus Hansen became the managing director of the two adult book publishers Arche and Atrium .

Since 2013 Jan Weitendorf has been the managing director of the two publishers, which are now managed separately. Ulrike Ostermeyer took over the editorial management of Arche Verlag. Since 2013 there has been a sales cooperation between Arche Verlag and Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (Munich), in which the Oetinger publishing group is involved through the publishers Verlag Friedrich Oetinger GmbH and Dressler Verlag GmbH . In 2016, the publishing house was incorporated into Jan Weitendorf's W1-Media. After Tim Jung was the publishing director from 2018 to 2019, she was taken over by Frauke Schneider in 2019.

program

The first book, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, was published in 1945 by Arche Verlag. Thornton Wilder had received the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for this novel in 1927 . In the 1940s the series 'Kleine Arche-Bücherei' (later 'The Little Books of the Arche') was launched. Initially conceived for German prisoners of war in English camps, the series developed into an integral part of the German-speaking post-war literature scene and reached a circulation of around two million copies. In addition, Arche Verlag has published texts by Gottfried Benn and Werner Bergengruen as well as complete editions by Georg Heym , Georg Trakl and Hans Carossa . Schifferli also acquired the distribution rights to The Little Prince from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for Switzerland and Austria.

The program continued to grow in the 1950s and 60s. Internationally renowned authors such as Ezra Pound , Gertrude Stein , EE Cummings and William Faulkner have been published by Arche Verlag . Schifferli also published texts by the Swiss authors Friedrich Dürrenmatt , Adolf Muschg and Hugo Loetscher .

From the 1980s onwards, the program under the direction of Elisabeth Raabe and Regina Vitali was shaped by a mixture of internationally known authors such as Margaret Forster , Natalia Ginzburg , Elsa Morante and Maarten 't Hart, as well as newly discovered German-speaking authors such as Peter Stamm , Jürg Amann and Viola Roggenkamp . The literary scholar and librarian Paul Raabe also published two autobiographical works in Arche Verlag (1992/2007).

Since the 1980s, there have been repeated publications of non-fiction books. The future bestselling author Stéphane Hessel started with his autobiography Dance with the Century . The Arche Literature Calendar has also been published annually since 1985 . In 1987 the series 'Arche Editions des Expressionismus' (edited by Paul Raabe) was founded.

From 2008 to 2013, the Arche program under the direction of Nikolaus Hansen focused on Anglo-American authors such as John Boyne , John Griesemer and Nick Flynn. The debut of the Australian author Eleanor Catton was published in 2010 under the title The Anatomy of Awakening . Catton was awarded the Man Booker Prize in 2013 for her second novel, The Luminaries . In 2011 the US bestseller novel Matterhorn by Vietnam War veteran Karl Marlantes was published .

The Arche Verlag also published German-language authors in these years, such as the Teilacher trilogy ( Die Teilacher , Machloikes and Herr Klee and Herr Feld ) by Michel Bergmann or Bettina Stangneth's book about Adolf Eichmann, Eichmann before Jerusalem. The undisturbed life of a mass murderer . From 2009, the literary critic Denis Scheck also published new editions of classics, works by previous Arche authors and well-known international authors such as David Foster Wallace and Marie N'Diaye in the 'Arche Paradies' series .

On the 100th birthday of Albert Camus on November 7, 2013, a new edition of his Algeria essays Wedding of Light and Homecoming to Tipasa was published (in a double volume under the title Wedding of Light ), with an afterword by Mirko Bonné .

In 2014, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the publishing house, a new appearance by Arche Literatur Verlag took place under the direction of Ulrike Ostermeyer. This includes a concentration of the program on the four areas of international and German-language fiction (literature and entertainment), narrative non-fiction and the rediscovery of classics, including new editions of earlier Arche titles. The relaunch of the publishing house means: With a new logo and under the motto »read live«, it is now a house for authors who talk about a modern way of measuring the world, about being on the move and the search for an inner and outer home.

Awards

The translator Eva Hesse received the 2013 Leipzig Book Fair prize in the translation category for the complete bilingual edition of Ezra Pound's Cantos published by Arche Literatur Verlag .

Bettina Stangneth was named Eichmann vor Jerusalem in 2011 for her book . The undisturbed life of a mass murderer was awarded the NDR non-fiction prize.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Verlagschronik Arche Literatur Verlag
  2. ↑ Portrait of the publisher on www.hanser-literaturverlage.de/verlage/sanssouci.html
  3. ↑ http://www.arche-kalender-verlag.com/
  4. ↑ http://www.boersenblatt.net/570971/
  5. ↑ http://www.boersenblatt.net/552218/
  6. ↑ Jan Weitendorf takes over Arche, Atrium and NordSüd. June 1, 2016, accessed April 28, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Top of the publishing house at Arche and Atrium will be filled. September 30, 2019, accessed April 28, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Program, Arche Verlag ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arche-verlag.com
  9. ↑ Matterhorn (Roman) ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.matterhorn-roman.de
  10. ↑ Ulrike Ostermeyer, Arche Verlag ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arche-verlag.com
  11. ^ Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair. Retrieved November 22, 2013 .
  12. ^ NDR culture non-fiction book award. Archived from the original on September 19, 2010 ; Retrieved November 22, 2013 .