Buchverlag Der Morgen
| Buchverlag Der Morgen | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Operation of the VOB upwards |
| founding | 1958 |
| resolution | 1990 |
| Reason for dissolution | liquidation |
| Seat | Seelenbinderstraße 152, 1170 Berlin |
| Branch | media |
Der Morgen was a publisher for fiction and popular science literature in the GDR .
history
The publishing house was founded in East Berlin in 1958 . It emerged from the "Morgen" -Druckerei und Verlag GmbH , in which the daily newspaper Der Morgen appeared. Like the newspaper publisher, the book publisher also belonged to the VOB Upward , which was owned by the LDPD .
The publisher published party material as well as fiction, biographies , memoirs and non-fiction . The publisher's program included contemporary socialist literature from the GDR, exile literature and foreign fiction as well as the “Large Series” and the “Small Morning Series” (bibliophile books), the “Märkisches Dichtergarten” and the LDPD series. The publishers' authors included Rudolf Agsten , Gerhard Bengsch , Uwe Berger , Manfred Bogisch , Gerhard Branstner , Günter de Bruyn , Manfred Gerlach , Gabriele Eckart , Gerhard Harkenthal , Friedrich Herneck , Dieter B. Herrmann , Stefan Heym , Heinz Knobloch , Ruth Kraft , Gisela May , Max and Ruth Seydewitz , Arne Sjöberg , Jens Sparschuh , Joachim Walther , Maxie Wander , Gerhard Wolf or Hedda Zinner . The number of titles published up to 1991 amounted to around 800 books, many of them in multiple editions. Richard Knauf, later Fritz R. Greuner and from 1968 to 1990 Wolfgang Tenzler acted as publishing director .
In 1990 the Treuhandanstalt converted the book publisher into Morgenbuch Verlags GmbH ; Vercon GmbH , the holding of the FDP , in which the LDPD (via the Bund Free Democrats ) had merged , became shareholders . While the newspaper publisher was able to be sold to Axel Springer AG , this project failed for the book publisher due to resistance from the authors, who protested with an open letter. Instead, the publisher went to the investor group Spiess, Arani, Haude & Spener ; the workforce was reduced from 36 to 6 employees. In 1995 there were no more employees at the publishing house. Books under the name Morgenbuch were published until 1999.
The morning book publisher went with the publishing group Spiess at the beginning of 2010 in the bankruptcy . In August 2010 the publishing house “Der Neue Morgen” was founded in Rudolstadt as an imprint publishing house , which became Priwet Litera Ltd. belonged to. The first books were published in the summer of 2011. No publications can be found after 2013.
The publisher's archive, which was believed to be lost, was owned by the Wissenschaftsverlag Volker Spiess until 2009 and was then sold to the University of Leipzig , where it is to document the history of the publishing industry in the GDR together with the Brockhaus and Reclam archives. Further archive material is stored in the Foundation Archive of the Parties and Mass Organizations of the GDR in Berlin and in the Archive of Liberalism in Gummersbach.
Web links
- Buchverlag Der Morgen on the pages of the Institute for Book Studies at the University of Leipzig
literature
- Eckhard Petersohn (edit.): Bibliography Buchverlag Der Morgen. 1958-1988. Book publisher Der Morgen, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-371-00133-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Book publisher Der Morgen . In: Federal Archives . Retrieved August 10, 2016.
- ↑ Michael Heinze: We don't let ourselves be hawked. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade . 158th Jg., No. 3, 1991, ISSN 1611-4280 , pp. 138 f.
- ↑ Lutz Lindner: "The Russians in Rudolstadt" by Dr. Frank-Eberhard Wilde appeared . In: Ostthüringer Zeitung . July 23, 2011. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
- ^ Archives of the GDR publishing house Der Morgen in Universität Leipzig . In: Book Market . August 5, 2009. Retrieved August 10, 2016.