Berlin publishing house

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The Berlin Verlag was founded in 1994 and is under the auspices of the Swedish today Bonnier belonging group Bonnier Media Germany is home.

history

The publishing house was founded in 1994 by Arnulf Conradi , Veit Heinichen and Elisabeth Ruge . The first books appeared in March 1995. In 1998 Conradi also took over the management of the Siedler Verlag . In the same year, Bertelsmann AG then took over the majority in Berlin Verlag. The management remained with Conradi. In addition, a buyback right was agreed, which was used in 2003. Shortly after the buyback was completed, the publisher was sold again, this time to the London publisher Bloomsbury . This enabled him to achieve his goal of entering the German book market. Since then, Berlin Verlag has acted as the central unit of Bloomsbury's German publishing group. In 2006 Conradi handed over the management of the publishing house to Elisabeth Ruge. After internal restructuring, Ruge left the publishing house on March 15, 2011. Birgit Schmitz was then in charge of the publishing house. From October 2013 until the end of 2016 Georg M. Oswald was the publishing manager. Since then, Felicitas von Lovenberg has been the publisher of Piper Verlag and Berlin Verlag.

In February 2012, Berlin Verlag / Bloomsbury Berlin was sold to the Swedish Bonnier Group and belongs to Piper Verlag within Bonnier Media Germany .

program

In addition to fiction , the publishing program also includes non- fiction books on topics ranging from politics and current affairs to the humanities and social sciences. International literature is a focus of the publishing house.

In addition, the publishing house focuses on German-speaking and international literary youngsters such as the current Ernst Willner Prize winner Leif Randt. In non-fiction books, the publisher relies on unusual knowledge transfer: The journalist and non-fiction author Mark Bowden , who has received the Science Writing Award, stages the global opportunities and risks of the Internet using the example of the worldwide hunt for the computer worm “Conficker”.

Authors

The authors of the Berlin Verlag include the Nobel Prize winners Nadine Gordimer and Elfriede Jelinek , Peace Prize winners Péter Esterházy and Péter Nádas , Margaret Atwood , Richard Ford , Matthew Sweeney and Ingo Schulze , Hölderlin Prize winners Jan Wagner , Kevin Kuhn and Andreas Schendel .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Conversation with Elisabeth Ruge on zeitonline.de
  2. ↑ "The combination was an irresistible offer". Tagesspiegel , June 28, 1998, accessed May 9, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Title not available. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; accessed on May 9, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.randomhouse.de
  4. ^ Elisabeth Ruge, editor and publisher, Berlin-Verlag Die Welt, October 16, 2005
  5. ↑ Börsenblatt
  6. ↑ Daily mirror
  7. ↑ Bloomsbury withdraws to English-speaking countries: Bonnier Group takes over Berlin Verlag - if the cartel office agrees . BuchMarkt February 29, 2012
  8. ↑ Berlin Verlag changes to Piper . Book report March 29, 2012
  9. ↑ Gerrit Bartels: Concentrated: Strategic Partnership? Piper buys Berlin Verlag . Der Tagesspiegel , March 1, 2012
  10. ^ Ijoma Mangold: Lost Distinction . Die Zeit , March 8, 2012