Avlos Publishing House
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The Avlos-Verlag (also: Avlos publisher Thomas Frahm ) was a German small publishing house for literature , the beginning of the 1990s by Thomas Frahm was founded. The publishing house existed until the mid-2000s; the publishing house was last in Duisburg.
history
The book publisher was founded around 1993 in Sankt Augustin near Bonn by the German journalist, writer and translator Thomas Frahm. The publishing program mainly included intercultural literature (migrant literature ) as well as literary works by writers and poets from the Balkan region , especially Bulgaria . Another focus of the publishing work of Frahm, who grew up as a native of Homberger in the Lower Rhine region and was or is arrested, were works of "regional literature" by writers residing in the "Mythos Niederrhein", some of which he discovered and promoted.
Frahm, who was temporarily married to the Bulgarian-German writer Rumjana Zacharieva , also translated fiction texts from Bulgarian into German and published works by Bulgarian writers in German, sometimes together with his wife. Frahm also published some of these works in his own publishing house.
From 1995 to 2000 Avlos-Verlag ran the Bulgarian Library series , in which novels, essays and poems by contemporary Bulgarian authors were published, such as by Blaga Dimitrova , Ivajlo Petrov , Radoj Ralin and Konstantin M. Pavlov .
In addition to the aforementioned Bulgarian writers, the publishing house's authors included Wolfgang Bittner , Franco Biondi , Harry Böseke , Doris Distelmaier-Haas , Paul Eßer , Klas Ewert Everwyn , Husain Habaš , Mete İzgi , Britta Kanacher , Giorgos Krommidas , Hildegard Moos- Heindrichs , Fruttuoso Piccolo , Georg Schwikart , Ludwig Verbeek and Frahm's temporary wife Rumjana Zacharieva .
The publishing house was initially at the founding site, in Sankt Augustin; later in Siegburg , in Linz on the Rhine and in Cologne . The publishing house had been based in Duisburg since the early 2000s . The publishing house was dissolved around 2005.
literature
- Michael Hellwig: Migrantenliteratur: Background and Situation / Michael Hellwig in conversation with the publisher Thomas Frahm and the writer Rumjana Zacharieva. In: Die Brücke - Forum for Anti-Racist Politics and Culture , Issue 129, XXII. Volume, July-August-September 2003/3, ISSN 0931-9514 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Frahm: Book tip. Paul Eßer presented by Thomas Frahm ( Memento from May 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2007 ; Retrieved April 27, 2011.
- ^ Hermann Schlösser: A visit to Bulgarian writers and journalists. Ivan Vasov's heirs . In: Wiener Zeitung of November 25, 2005; Retrieved November 20, 2013.