Blanvalet Publishing House

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Blanvalet
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founding   1935
Seat   Munich , Germany
publisher   Britta Egetemeier
Publisher number   442, 7341, 7645
Publishing group   Random House
genus   Fiction , non-fiction
Website   www.randomhouse.de

Blanvalet is a German publisher based in Munich that was founded in Berlin in 1935 and is now part of the Random House publishing group . Blanvalet publishes titles of entertainment literature and non-fiction books as hardcover and since 1998 also paperback books . The publisher first became known to the general public with the Angélique series of novels . Newer authors include Charlotte Link , Marc Elsberg , Karin Slaughter , Diana Gabaldon and George RR Martin .

history

Lothar Blanvalet founded the "Buchwarte-Verlag Lothar Blanvalet", named after him, on April 1, 1935 in Berlin. The company was entered in the commercial register in 1937 as a sole proprietorship . The publishing program included humorous works, including books by Jonny Liesegang in Berlin dialect, which marked the fate of a family against the backdrop of war: Det occurred to me uff , Det struck me ooch still uff , since Musike is there and Family Pieselmanns' letters . Many of the titles appeared as field post editions and therefore achieved large print runs.

After the end of World War II , the publisher received a license to resume operations in January 1946. The program focused on fiction - especially crime and adventure novels - as well as art books and graphics . The first titles that were published by Blanvalet were In ! by the football player Hanne Sobek , Nueces and Shorty , Traces in the Cañon , The Golden Hell , The Black Mountains by Clarence E. Mulford and Land ohne Frau by Armin Otto Huber. In addition to German authors such as Albrecht Haushofer ( Moabiter Sonnets ), Lothar Blanvalet also published primarily American literature , for example William Maxwell with Young Leaf on the Tree or Ben Lucien Burman with The Great Stream .

In 1954, Blanvalet started a program under the name Blanvalet-Sport-Taschenbücher , which was discontinued after two editions due to a lack of success. On the other hand, the title The space is getting closer by Donald E. Keyhouse experienced greater demand . The Blanvalet Verlag recorded commercial success with the Angélique novels published from 1956 . The German version was published by Blanvalet before the French original, and by the end of 1963 the first four novels in the series had a circulation of over 680,000 copies. In 1965 a controversy developed between Blanvalet and Bertelsmann about the Angélique series : The company offered the novel as an advertising bonus for new members of the Bertelsmann readers' ring , which Blanvalet criticized as a surprising appropriation. The publishing house refused to cooperate with Bertelsmann since the late 1950s and granted licenses for novels by Anne Golon to competitors of the reading ring.

In 1973 Blanvalet began to issue licenses for his most successful paperback books , including to Rowohlt Verlag . In 1974, Lothar Blanvalet sold his company to the Bertelsmann publishing group for reasons of age, in order to ensure the "continuation of his life's work as a publisher". The publishing house had previously been relocated from Berlin to Munich. Lothar Blanvalet died on January 17, 1979 in Berlin. Together with the publishers Penhaligon and Limes , Blanvalet now forms a publishing unit within the Random House publishing group .

program

Angélique (1956)

Some of the better-known authors of the 1980s and 1990s include Sidney Sheldon , Ruth Rendell , Elizabeth George and Diana Gabaldon . Blanvalet initially published mainly hardcover . In 1996 the publishing house participated in the paperback publisher btb alongside Albrecht Knaus , Goldmann and Siedler , and since 1998 Blanvalet has also published paperbacks itself. In the book trade , Blanvalet Verlag and Blanvalet Taschenbuch Verlag are run as independent units with publisher numbers 442 and 7645 respectively. In 2014, Blanvalet was third among the largest German-language publishers in both the hardcover and paperback rankings. Today, Blanvalet's range includes all areas of fiction as well as entertaining non-fiction. The program is structured into the areas of “suspense”, “bestseller women's entertainment”, “historical novels”, “non-fiction” and “fantasy and science fiction”. Blanvalet has become known in recent years primarily with bestsellers by authors such as Charlotte Link , Marc Elsberg or Karin Slaughter, as well as Joanne K. Rowling , Nora Roberts , George RR Martin and Susan Elizabeth Phillips .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Britta Egetemeier takes over the management of Penguin Blanvalet. In: Book Market. March 31, 2020, accessed August 28, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Address book for the German-speaking book trade. Marketing and publishing service for the book trade , accessed on January 18, 2016 .
  3. ^ Thomas Lehning: The media house . Past and present of the Bertelsmann group. Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-7705-4035-8 , p. 93.
  4. ↑ The founding of Blanvalet Verlag ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.randomhouse.de 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. , accessed July 24, 2017 (Random House publishing group website).
  5. ↑ a b German and international stars , accessed on July 24, 2017 (website of the Random House publishing group).
  6. ↑ World and Word . Volume 1. Helepolis, Tübingen 1946, ISSN  0043-2571 , p. 286.
  7. ^ Commercial register of the Charlottenburg District Court . May 7, 1971, accessed June 4, 2014 (HRA 11256).
  8. ↑ Christian Adam : The dream of the year zero: authors, bestsellers, readers: The reorganization of the world of books in East and West after 1945. Galiani, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86971-122-5 , p. 295.
  9. ↑ a b Ursula Heukenkamp (Ed.): Under the emergency roof . Post-war literature in Berlin 1945–1949. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1996, ISBN 978-3-503-03736-0 , p. 131.
  10. ↑ a b c d e Daniela Völker: The book for the masses . Paperbacks and their publishers. Tectum, Marburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8288-3353-1 , pp. 196-197.
  11. ↑ A quick shot . In: Der Spiegel . July 21, 1954, accessed June 4, 2014.
  12. ↑ Hartmut Panskus: Anyone who says Angélique must also say Blanvalet . In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade . Volume 157, 1990, part 5, p. 709 ff.
  13. ↑ Bite the tassel . In: Der Spiegel . November 6, 1963, accessed June 4, 2014.
  14. ^ The fight for Angélique . In: Der Spiegel . August 18, 1965, accessed June 4, 2014.
  15. ↑ Blanvalet Publishing House . In: Library for Huguenot History , accessed on June 4, 2014.
  16. ^ Jan Philip Holtmann: Path dependency of strategic decisions . A case study using the example of the Bertelsmann Book Club Germany. Kölner Wissenschaftsverlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-937404-57-8 , p. 129.
  17. ↑ The man of letters . Volumes 17-18, 1975, p. 282.
  18. ↑ Commercial Register of the Local Court of Munich . July 7, 1998, accessed June 4, 2014 (HRB 53359).
  19. ↑ Special paperbacks . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , February 16, 1996.
  20. ↑ Sally Beauman: Angel made of stone . Blanvalet, Munich 1998, ISBN 978-3-442-35000-1 .
  21. ↑ Profile view: Blanvalet Taschenbuch Verlag . In: Address book for the German-speaking book trade. MVB Marketing and Publishing Service of the Book Trade, accessed on June 9, 2014.
  22. ^ Annual bestseller hardcover fiction . The HC fiction publishers. In: book report . January 2015, p. 61 .
  23. ↑ Annual bestseller paperback fiction . The TB fiction publishers. In: book report . January 2015, p. 61 .
  24. ↑ Charlotte Link also leads digitally . In: book report . March 15, 2012, accessed June 4, 2014.
  25. ↑ The "Knowledge Books of the Year" 2012 have been determined . In: BuchMarkt . November 21, 2012, accessed June 4, 2014.
  26. ↑ Evil rituals . A look at the current hardcover bestsellers. In: book report . September 26, 2008, accessed June 4, 2014.
  27. ↑ When JK Rowling calls ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: book report . December 2, 2013, accessed June 9, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.buchreport.de
  28. ↑ Golden bestseller autumn . In: book report . November 2, 2012, accessed June 9, 2014.
  29. ↑ Bestseller fiction . In: Der Spiegel . July 9, 2012, p. 141.
  30. ↑ Blanvalet launches website for bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips . In: BuchMarkt . August 24, 2009. Retrieved June 9, 2014.

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