Association A

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Association A is a book publisher based in Berlin and Hamburg that mainly publishes non-fiction books on political topics. It emerged in 2001 from the union of the publishers Verlag Libertäre Assoziation , Hamburg and Verlag der Buchladen Schwarze Risse and Rote Strasse , Berlin. The publishers had already worked together before. The Hamburg publishing house has its roots in the 1970s. The publishing house sees itself in the tradition of the anti-authoritarian and undogmatic protest movements in Germany, which have their roots in the 1968 revolt . The publishers are Rainer Wendling (Berlin) and Theo Bruns (Hamburg). According to its own statement, economic interests are not in the foreground of the publisher's activities.

program

One focus of the non-fiction program is on historical questions, in particular on the resistance to National Socialism . Several books each deal, for example, with the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto or partisans in World War II. Another focus is on internationalist issues, especially with a view to Latin America .

The fiction program includes authors such as Nanni Balestrini , Paco Ignacio Taibo II , Luis Sepúlveda , Luiz Ruffato and Subcomandante Marcos . In the Noir series, works of the French roman noir have appeared for the first time in Germany . In 2015, Book 54 by the writers' collective Wu Ming was published .

The publisher became known to a wider public through the nationwide raids on the book Autonomous in Motion published by Association A in the run-up to the G8 summit in Heiligendamm in 2007 . The searches were subsequently declared unlawful by the Federal Court of Justice, and those affected were compensated.

literature

  • "Anarchism, a form of age wisdom". Association anarchy? An interview with the Association A publishers Rainer Wendling and Theo Bruns . In: Bernd Drücke (Ed.): Anarchismus Hoch 3. Utopia, theory, practice - interviews and discussions . 1st edition. Unrast Verlag, Münster 2016, ISBN 978-3-89771-219-5 , pp. 105–117 ( online - first published in Grassroots Revolution 397, March 2015).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ We are the publisher's description of Buchkoop Konterbande, accessed on August 11, 2011.
  2. ↑ Interview with the publishers , linksnet.de, accessed on March 12, 2015.
  3. ↑ G8 summit: Raids among left-wing autonomists across Germany , Focus , May 9, 2007, accessed on August 12, 2011.
  4. ^ G8 raid: Hamburg has to pay 425.57 euros , Hamburger Abendblatt , June 17, 2011, accessed on August 12, 2011.