AvivA Publishing House

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The Aviva Publishing was founded in 1997 by the literary scholar and art historian Britta Jürgs founded and has its headquarters in Berlin-Moabit . The publisher's program focuses on novels from the 1920s, works by women in art, and cultural history. The publisher is a member of the Kurt Wolff Foundation for the promotion of independent publishers.

program

As part of the re-discovered writers series, the publisher publishes first and new editions of works from the 1920s and 1930s by German-speaking, predominantly Jewish authors such as Victoria Wolff , Lili Grün , Alice Berend , Ruth Landshoff-Yorck , Alice Rühle-Gerstel , Maria Leitner , Christa Winsloe , Lessie Sachs and Vicki Baum . The autobiography "Ein Mensch wird" by the writer Alma M. Karlin (1889–1950), who toured the world for eight years from 1919, was published for the first time in the original German by AvivA Verlag, which also republishes the author's travel books. The works of the American undercover journalist and world traveler Nellie Bly (1864-1922), the British writer and playwright Shelagh Delaney , the French ethnologist and resistance fighter Germaine Tillion , the American writer Silvia Tennenbaum and the play Freshwater by Virginia Woolf have been published in first or new translations . Works by the Berlin writer Annemarie Weber from the 1960s and 1970s as well as texts by contemporary authors such as Esther Dischereit , Marina Neubert, Antje Wagner and the Georgian writer Salome Benidze complete the program. The artist series is dedicated to women from art and cultural history in portraits, biographies and anthologies.

Title (selection)

  • Vicki Baum: Pariser Platz 13 - A comedy from the beauty salon and other texts about cosmetics, age and fashion. Issued u. with an afterword by Julia Bertschik
  • Brigitte Beier / Karina Schmidt: This is where the music plays! Leading women in the classical music scene
  • Salome Benidze: The city on the water . Translated from Georgian by Iunona Guruli
  • Alice Berend: The director. With an afterword by Britta Jürgs
  • Regine Beyer: Evening dress and felt boots - The jazz pianist and Diseuse Peggy Stone
  • Susanne Beyer : Palucca - The Biography
  • Karla Bilang: Women in the "STURM". Modern artists
  • Nellie Bly: Around the World in 72 Days. The fastest woman of the 19th century . Edited by Martin Wagner, translated from English by Josefine Haubold
  • Nellie Bly: Ten days in the madhouse. Undercover in psychiatry. Edited and translated from English by Martin Wagner
  • Katrin Boese: Zelda Fitzgerald - 'Live so that I can breathe freely'
  • Shelagh Delaney: A Taste of Honey. Translated from English by Tobias Schwartz, edited by Tobias Schwartz and André Schwarck
  • Esther Dischereit: On the high holidays there was a whisper and rustling in the house
  • Hanna Gagel: So much energy - artists in the third phase of life
  • Ingeborg Gleichauf : So much imagination. Writers in the third phase of life
  • Lili Grün: Everything is jazz. Issued u. with an afterword by Anke Heimberg
  • Florence Hervé (ed.): Through the sand - women writers in the desert
  • Britta Jürgs (ed.): From salt shakers to automobiles: female designers
  • Alma M. Karlin: Becomes a person. On the way to becoming a world traveler. Issued u. with an afterword by Jerneja Jezernik, m. an introduction v. Britta Juergs
  • Ruth Landshoff-Yorck: novel of a dancer. First edition from the estate. Issued u. with an afterword by Walter Fähnders
  • Ruth Landshoff-Yorck: The girl with little horsepower. Features from the twenties . Issued u. with an afterword by Walter Fähnders
  • Marian Leitner: girl with three names. Reports from Germany and a little Berlin novel. Issued u. with an afterword by Helga u. Wilfried Schwarz
  • Alice Rühle-Gerstel: The upheaval or Hanna and freedom. Issued u. with an afterword by Marta Marková
  • Lessie Sachs: The capricious brain. Poetry and short prose . Issued u. with an afterword by Christiana Puschak and Jürgen Krämer
  • Iris Schürmann-Mock: Women are weird. Cabaret artists in portrait
  • Tobias Schwartz / Virginia Woolf: Bloomsbury & Freshwater. With the essay "Julia Margaret Cameron" by Virginia Woolf and an afterword by Klaus Reichert
  • Kristine von Soden: "And a strange wind is blowing outside". Across the seas into exile
  • Amelie Soyka (Ed.): Dancing and dancing and nothing but dancing. Modern dancers from Josephine Baker to Mary Wigman
  • Silvia Tennenbaum : Rachel, the rabbi's wife. Translated from English by Claudia Campisi
  • Annemarie Weber: Westend . With an afterword by Robert Weber
  • Christa Winsloe: Auto-biography and other feature sections. Edited and with an afterword by Doris Hermanns
  • Victoria Wolff: The white evening dress. Issued u. with an afterword by Anke Heimberg

Awards

The AvivA publisher Britta Jürgs was voted “Books Woman of the Year 2011” by the “BücherWrauen” branch network for her “commitment and enthusiasm (...) to give women the presence that their work and work are entitled to”.

In 2015 the volume “Mädchenhimmel!” Published by Anke Heimberg with poems and stories by the Jewish author Lili Grün received the Melusine Huss Prize . In September 2019 the publisher was awarded the German Publishing Prize.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Donors and supporters. In: kurt-wolff-stiftung.de. Archived from the original on May 26, 2008 ; accessed on May 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Britta Jürgs is "Book Woman of the Year 2011". In: BuchMarkt . June 20, 2011, accessed May 22, 2019 .
  3. ^ Winner of the first German Publishing Award. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .