Basic pressure
BasisDruck is a publishing company based in Berlin (Germany). His focus is on political non-fiction with the main themes of GDR and Eastern European history.
history
BasisDruck Verlag was founded in December 1989 by Stefan Ret and Klaus Wolfram as the first new publishing house in the GDR. From January 1990 the East German, opposition weekly newspaper the other appeared . The first book of the publisher's production I love you all! - Orders and situation reports of the MfS reached a circulation of 250,000 copies. Around 100 titles were published in the following years.
In 2000 the publisher ventured a new start with the “Pamphlete” series. "Texts appear here that combine a high level of linguistic power with social commitment and, in their own way, complement and expand the documentation and analyzes of the Eastern European upheaval, which will of course continue to appear at BasisDruck."
The cultural-political journal Sklaven was published monthly from 1994 to 1999, and the follow-up journal opponent from 1999 to 2013 . The magazine Abwärts! Has been published as a follow-up project since March 2014 . .
Well-known authors
The well-known authors of BasisDruck include
Quotes
“This is another way of reacting to the ongoing crisis in the left-wing publishing world: BasisDruck Verlag is launching a fiction program. The first title in the new Pamphlete series has it all. "