Atheneum Publishing House

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The Athenäum Verlag was from 1976 to 1982 a German publisher in the legal form of a GmbH with its registered office in Königstein im Taunus .

history

In the mid-fifties of the 20th century, the Athenäum Verlag was founded as a successor to the Junker & Dünnhaupt Verlag Berlin. After a checkered history and several changes of ownership, a new establishment took place in Kronberg im Taunus in 1976 by Dietrich Pinkerneil and the managing director Axel Rütters (born December 9, 1941). The shareholders were Franz Löffelholz and Michael Aloys Schillo, the shareholders of Anton Hain Verlag . In 1978, Athenäum took over the previously independent Jüdischer Verlag and continued it as a legally dependent subsidiary. The company went bankrupt in 1982 .

program

The publishing house has published monographs and series from the fields of literary studies , philosophy , history , social science and economics, as well as the book series Athenaeum pocket books . In addition, reprints of the magazine Die Weltbühne from the years 1918–1933 and its predecessor Die Schaubühne from the years 1905–1918 were published. After a conflict between the Munich Bertelsmann Verlag and the Authors Edition, the 1978 edition moved to the Athenäum Verlag. The last editors were Gerd Fuchs , Heinar Kipphardt and Uwe Timm .

Authors

The main authors included Karl Otto Conrady , Viktor Žmegač , Reinhold Grimm, Jost Hermand , Paul Michael Lützeler and Dieter Grimm .

Publishing program (examples)

  • Erich von Manstein : lost victories. Athenäum, Bonn 1955 (20 editions most recently by Bernard and Graefe in the Mönch-Verlagsgesellschaft, Bonn 2011,) Translated into many languages.
  • The Schaubühne. Complete reprint of the years 1905–1918. Athenäum Verlag, Königstein / Ts. 1978-1980
  • The world stage . Complete reprint of the years 1918–1933. Athenäum Verlag, Königstein / Ts. 1978.

See also

literature

  • Klaus Körner (author, 1939) : »Lost victories (II)«. The Athenäum-Verlag 1949-1989. In “Aus dem Antiquariat” supplement to the “Börsenblatt des Deutschen Buchhandels”, No. 2/2003, pp. 83-102.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curt Vinz et al. Günter Olzog: Documentation of German-language publishers . 8th edition. Olzog, Munich / Vienna 1983, p. 22 u. 164.
  2. ↑ Curt Vinz et al. Günter Olzog: Documentation of German-language publishers . 8th edition. Olzog, Munich / Vienna 1983, p. 201.
  3. ↑ Karl – Heinz Janßen , Die Zeit June 30th, 1978: A reprint of a former liberal republican fighting paper comes back onto the market - the "Weltbühne". Out of the left corner. The magazine of Ossietzky, Jacobsohn, Tucholsky - a German history book