Bassermann publishing house

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founding   1843
Seat   Munich , Germany
publisher   Tilo Eckardt
Publisher number   8094, 87043
Publishing group   Random House
genus   counselor
Website   www.randomhouse.de

Bassermann is a German book publisher based in Munich . It was founded in Mannheim in 1843 and has been part of the Random House publishing group since 1998 . Today, Bassermann Verlag mainly publishes advice and entertainment literature. The most famous author of the publishing house is Wilhelm Busch .

history

Friedrich Daniel Bassermann (lithograph from 1842)

From 1833 to 1841 Friedrich Daniel Bassermann ran a drugstore in Mannheim. He sold this to his brother and founded a bookstore with Karl Mathy in 1843 . The Deutsche Zeitung , whose editor was Georg Gottfried Gervinus , developed into the most important title of the young publisher . Bassermann also published novels and non-fiction books by authors such as Hoffmann von Fallersleben . After Mathy left the publishing house, it was called Bassermannsche Verlagbuchhandlung from 1854. A year later, Friedrich Daniel Bassermann committed suicide. His widow employed Ludwig Aster as managing director and sold the publishing house to Aster and Otto Friedrich Bassermann in 1865 . Then the seat moved from Mannheim to Heidelberg . In 1867 Aster left the company so that it was now fully owned by Bassermann.

Bassermann won Wilhelm Busch for his publishing house, which he knew from his apprenticeship in Munich . From 1871/72 he published all of his works in the Bassermann publishing house. The first two titles were, for example, " Die fromme Helene " and " Bilder zur Jobsiade ". In 1878 Bassermann moved with his family and the company to Munich to facilitate the collaboration with his most important author Busch. The relationship between the author and the publisher was not free from tension: Due to disputes over the fee, Busch even hired a lawyer in 1884. In 1896 Wilhelm Busch finally sold all rights to his publications for a one-off payment of 50,000 guilders to Bassermann. In 1903 Bassermann gave up the Bassermannsche Verlag bookstore for health reasons.

After the Second World War , the Bassermannsche publishing bookstore was revived by Ernst Battenberg . He had previously founded the Battenberg Verlag, named after him, in Stuttgart and relocated to Munich in the early 1960s. In 1973 he sold the company to Frank Sicker, the owner of Falken Verlag from Niedernhausen . At this point in time, Bassermann had annual sales of 500,000 German marks . After the takeover, the Bassermannsche Verlagsbuchhandlung ceased operations and the program was fully integrated into the Falken Verlag. It was not until 1988 that Bassermann came back onto the market as an imprint of Falken, it was Falken's first daughter . The publisher mainly published guides for the modern second-hand bookshop.

In the 1990s, the Falken Verlag was solidly positioned with Bassermann according to media reports. Only after the takeover by the Random House publishing group in 1998 did economic difficulties become known, which is why austerity measures were subsequently introduced and employees made redundant. The Falken and Bassermann publishers continued to have their headquarters in Niedernhausen . At the end of 2001, the owners announced that the company would be sold to Gräfe und Unzer because the ambitious goals in the market for guidebooks could not be achieved. Since this project also failed, the Falken Verlag was closed. The Bassermann Verlag moved with some employees from Niedernhausen to Munich to the headquarters of the Random House publishing group. Bassermann is still an independent publisher of the company.

program

At the time Bassermann was taken over by the Random House publishing group, 1,500 book titles and videos were available on the subjects of advice and knowledge, food and drink, sport and fitness, garden and nature, creativity and hobbies, health, help in life and esotericism, and humor , Puzzles, calendar as well as culture, history and technology. In 2000 Bassermann founded the label Faktum for the exploitation of Bertelsmann lexicons . 2007 started Bassermann in cooperation with the magazine Food & Beverage by Gruner + Jahr , a cookbook series . From 2011 to 2016, titles on the subjects of creativity, enjoyment and garden were published under the Bassermann Inspiration label. Bassermann publishes around 140 novelties every year. The most famous authors of the publishing house include Hademar Bankhofer , Bob Ross , Johann Lafer and Lea Linster , in the area of ​​child employment Norbert Pautner and in the area of ​​puzzles Eberhard Krüger. To this day, a Wilhelm Busch album is always available in the Bassermann program.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heyne publisher Genzler leaves, Tilo Eckardt follows. In: book report. September 6, 2017, accessed June 18, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Address book for the German-speaking book trade. Marketing and publishing service for the book trade , accessed on January 18, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Ute Michels: Seven pranks by bad boys . In: Westfalen-Blatt . 3rd April 2015.
  4. ^ Friedrich Bassermann represented the region . In: Main-Post . November 26, 1998.
  5. ↑ Axel von Harnack: Friedrich Daniel Bassermann and the German Revolution of 1848/49 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1920, DNB  58009748X , p. 7 .
  6. ↑ Axel von Harnack: Friedrich Daniel Bassermann and the German Revolution of 1848/49 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1920, DNB  58009748X , p. 8 .
  7. ↑ Hoffmann von Fallersleben: My life . Awards and memories. Fourth volume. Hanover 1868, p. 74 .
  8. ^ Konrad Burger, Friedrich Hermann Meyer: Directory of the collections of the German stock exchange association . Exchange Association of the German Book Trade, 1897.
  9. ↑ The men at the top . In: Frankfurter Neue Presse . March 19, 1998, p. 1 .
  10. ↑ Erika Poettgens: Hoffmann von Fallersleben and the land of Dutch tongue . Waxmann, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-8309-8095-7 , pp. 52 .
  11. ^ A b Ernst Bassermann, Kurt Bassermann: Bassermannsche Familien-Nachrichten . No. 3 , 1909.
  12. ^ Alain Claude Sulzer: Picture book with child murder . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . 23 September 2015, p. 37 .
  13. ^ Herbert Günther: The hide-and-seek player: The life story of Wilhelm Busch . Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim 2002, ISBN 3-407-80894-1 .
  14. ^ Walter Pape: Wilhelm Busch . Metzler, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-476-10163-0 , pp. 43 .
  15. ↑ Wilhelm Busch Yearbook . No. 22-31 . Wilhelm Busch Society, 1956, p. 18 .
  16. ↑ a b c d Chronicle of Basserman Verlag. In: randomhouse.de. Retrieved September 20, 2016 .
  17. ^ Wilhelm Busch: The picture stories . Late work. Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hanover 2002, DNB  964913534 , p. 925 (historical-critical complete edition).
  18. ^ Eva Weissweiler : Wilhelm Busch: The laughing pessimist . A biography. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-462-03930-6 , pp. 303 .
  19. ^ Petra Grond: An indulgent moralist . In: Passauer Neue Presse . June 10, 2015.
  20. ↑ Börsenblatt for the German book trade . May 22, 1992.
  21. ^ Book market: publishers in the interest squeeze . In: The time . No. 51 , December 14, 1973 ( zeit.de ).
  22. ↑ Börsenblatt for the German book trade . April 1, 1990.
  23. ↑ For all situations . Niedernhausen Falken-Verlag celebrates 75 years. In: Allgemeine Zeitung . April 30, 1998 (feature section).
  24. ↑ Falken-Verlag: Good successes with advice literature . In: Handelsblatt . February 6, 1989, p. 10 .
  25. ↑ Nicola Prietze: Readable advice for all situations . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . May 2, 1998, p. 32 .
  26. ↑ Falken wants to lay off 70 employees . In: Wiesbaden Courier . October 2, 1998.
  27. ↑ 49 dismissals from Falken-Verlag . In: Wiesbaden Courier . October 24, 1998.
  28. ↑ Gräfe und Unzer takes over Falken Verlag from the Random House publishing group. In: buchmarkt.de. December 17, 2001, accessed January 18, 2016 .
  29. ↑ Carsten Dietel: The publisher is the pioneer . In: Wiesbaden Courier . December 19, 2001.
  30. ^ Carlo Rosenkranz: "Falcons" have flown out . The former building of the publishing house is almost empty. In: Wiesbadener Tagblatt . July 23, 2002.
  31. ↑ Address book for the German-speaking book trade. In: adb-online.de. Marketing and publishing service for the book trade , accessed on January 18, 2016 .
  32. ↑ Falken Verlag goes to Bertelsmann Buch . In: German printer . September 3, 1998, p. 4 .
  33. ↑ Bassermann founds a new label for the exclusive exploitation of Bertelsmann and chronicle encyclopedias. In: buchmarkt.de. April 18, 2000, accessed January 18, 2016 .
  34. ↑ Bassermann starts a new series of books. In: boersenblatt.net . December 21, 2007, accessed January 18, 2016 .
  35. ↑ Bassermann inspiration. In: randomhouse.de. Retrieved September 20, 2016 .
  36. ↑ Previews. In: randomhouse.de. Retrieved September 20, 2016 .
  37. ↑ The health advisor . In: Berner Zeitung . November 12, 2002, p. 9 .
  38. ↑ bestseller book . Bestseller guide. In: Focus . July 19, 2010, p. 67 .
  39. ↑ Insider tips from a jubilee . In: Small newspaper . February 14, 2007, p. 30 .
  40. ↑ bestseller book . Bestseller guide. In: Focus . December 14, 2009, p. 152-152 .

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