Berenberg Publishing House
The Berenberg Verlag was founded in 2004 by Petra and Heinrich von Berenberg-Gossler , a member of the banking family Berenberg-Gossler , based in Berlin founded. The publisher's focus is on (auto) biographical literature, essay literature and memoir literature. Since autumn 2010 the program has been expanded to include beautiful literature and poetry.
history
The first four books were published by Berenberg Verlag in autumn 2004. Part of the publisher's concept is to publish high quality books.
Before founding the publishing house, Heinrich von Berenberg-Gossler worked for 20 years as an editor and translator at the Klaus Wagenbach publishing house , for whom he a. a. Michel Houellebecq and Roberto Bolaño discovered. In 2010 he was awarded the Karl Heinz Zillmer Prize of the Hamburg Cultural Foundation for meritorious publishing. In March 2015, the publisher received the Kurt Wolff Foundation Prize, worth 26,000 euros . In September 2019 the publisher was awarded the German Publishing Prize.
program
Since autumn 2010, fiction titles have also been published. In August 2012, Berenberg Verlag also published poetry for the first time . The bilingual series opened with poems by the American Jeffrey Yang and the Argentine Sergio Raimondi .
Authors
Authors are u. a. Héctor Abad , Maike Albath , Perry Anderson , André Bernold , Léon Blum , Roberto Bolaño , Georg Brandes , Félix Bruzzone , David Cannadine , Gilbert K. Chesterton , Detlev Claussen , María Sonia Cristoff , Francine du Plessix Gray , Alicia Giménez Bartlett , Jean Giraudoux , Alma Guillermoprieto , Ben Hecht , Christopher Isherwood , Joachim Kalka , John Maynard Keynes , Paul Léautaud , AJ Liebling , Michael Maar , Pankaj Mishra , Ursula Muscheler , Franz Overbeck , Cristina Peri Rossi , Ricardo Piglia , Josep Pla , Mario Rigoni Stern , Sonia Simmenauer , Hilary Spurling , Lytton Strachey , August Strindberg , Damián Tabarovsky , Juan Pablo Villalobos , Géza von Cziffra , Georg von Wallwitz , Eliot Weinberger , Eugeni Xammar .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the publisher
- ↑ Interview with Heinrich von Berenberg. In: DER STANDARD , June 22, 2012
- ↑ Website of the Hamburgische Kulturstiftung ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Winner of the first German Publishing Award. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
- ^ Announcement on the website of the specialist journal Buchmarkt from June 24, 2012
