Theater publisher

A theater publisher, also stage publisher or stage sales, is a service provider who looks after the authors of plays and tries to perform them on as many stages as possible .

The tasks of a theater publisher include

• the selection and editing of submitted pieces,
• advising the authors on the placement of pieces,
• the contact and negotiations with interested theaters and if necessary
• the conclusion of a contract for the performance, as well as
• the marketing of ancillary rights, in particular the exploitation in film, television and radio.

The theater publisher can therefore be viewed as a special form of literary agency. Publishing theater plays in book form is generally not one of the tasks of a theater publisher.

See also

• List of theater publishers in the German-speaking area

literature

• Werner Wüthrich: Theater publishers . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , pp. 1892-1894.

Web links

• Association of German Stage and Media Publishers (VDB)