Association of German Writers

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The Association of German Writers (BDS) eV was founded in 1997 with the declared aim of “primarily referring new authors who want to publish their first manuscript” to publishers . The seat of the association , which was probably dissolved at the end of 2014 and beginning of 2015, was Dietzenbach .

The president was Renate Stahl, formerly managing director of REFA Rheinland-Pfalz / Saar eV, Association for Work Design, Business Organization and Corporate Development, Saarbrücken. She was listed as an author for the right-wing journal Junge Freiheit , where she published a statement by the BDS in October 2001 against the government draft of a "law to strengthen the contractual position of authors and performing artists" by opposing the strengthening of author rights against pseudo-publishers in pronounced the draft law intended by the federal government.

Services

According to the information provided by the Association of German Writers, his main focus of work included the publication of a “register of unpublished works”, the entries for which the author was charged: “to cover costs” for the first year per registered work a fee of 15 euros for every additional year 10 euros. In addition, the association published a German Writer's Lexicon, in which authors could be entered with data on persons and works. The association also offered members free telephone advice and a "service for unpublished manuscripts", which the BDS then presented "during the book fairs in Frankfurt aM and Leipzig" in exchange for a crossed check for 187.50 euros.

BDS Literature Prize

The Association of German Writers has awarded the “BDS Literature Prize” four times in the past: 1997 to Ilse Pohl , 1998 to Anja Lundholm and the children's and young adult authors Max Kruse (1998) and Cornelia Funke (2004), both of whom later left distanced.

Criticism and judgments

Critics accused the BDS of connections to the controversial Frankfurter Verlagsgruppe , to which u. a. the pseudo-publishers August Goethe Verlag, Cornelia Goethe Verlag and Fouqué Verlag belong. This was later confirmed by both the BDS and the Frankfurter Verlagsgruppe and is also legally established. The Cologne Higher Regional Court stated: “The circumstances presented clearly point to such an affiliation with the BDS.” Because: “For this, it does not depend on existing connections in the corporate sense - such as corporate interconnection - but ... on whether the BDS is his According to its personnel structure or its corporate purpose, it is closely related to the plaintiff publishing group. "A lawsuit by the Frankfurter Verlagsgruppe against an article by the Autorhaus Verlag , the links between the publishing group and the Bund Deutscher Schriftsteller, the World Writers Association (WWA) and the Brentano -Gesellschaft Frankfurt mbH suggested, was also unsuccessful.

Dissolution of the BDS

After the association's own domain was no longer available from February 2015, the association was also deleted from the register of associations at the Offenbach am Main District Court on July 22, 2016 (Offenbach am Main District Court file number: VR 1740).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of the authors of Junge Freiheit ( Memento from January 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Reforming copyright law? Pro Contra.
  3. ↑ The Association of German Writers introduces itself ( memento from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), previously online at bund-deutscher-schriftsteller.de
  4. ^ Register of unpublished works ( Memento from August 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), previously online at bund-deutscher-schriftsteller.de
  5. ↑ German Writer's Lexicon ( Memento from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), formerly online at bund-deutscher-schriftsteller.de
  6. ↑ Presentation of manuscripts ( memento of August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), previously online at bund-deutscher-schriftsteller.de
  7. ^ Register of unpublished works ( Memento of August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), previously online at bund-deutscher-schriftsteller.de
  8. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung of July 6, 2010 ( Memento of July 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Regional Court Frankfurt am Main of May 17, 2005, Az .: 2-03 O 730/04
  10. ↑ Cologne Higher Regional Court of December 16, 2008, Az .: 15 U 116/08
  11. ↑ Association of German writers autoren-magazin.de,