Centaurus Publishing House
| Centaurus Verlag & Media
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| legal form | Entrepreneurial company (limited liability) |
| founding | 1983 |
| resolution | Late 2014 |
| Seat | formerly Pfaffenweiler, then Herbolzheim |
| management | formerly Petra Sanft, then Dieter Sanft |
| Branch | publishing company |
The Centaurus Verlag & Media UG (limited liability) was a German publisher who mainly scientific literature published from various fields and had its headquarters in Baden-Wuerttemberg. On January 1, 2015, Springer VS took over the publisher's book program.
history
The publishing house named after the mythical creature Kentaur was founded in 1983 in Pfaffenweiler as a specialist scientific publisher and moved to Herbolzheim in 2000 . The publishing house was bought by Viljem Mocnik, managing director of Primotec-Printware. After the German branch of Memento Verlag was closed at the end of March 2009 , Petra Sanft, the head of the marketing department there, took over Centaurus Verlag. Through the publisher she organized the sale of the Memento legal manuals. In addition, the publishing office moved to the Kaiser-Joseph-Straße in Freiburg , but the seat was still Herbolzheim. The publisher belonged to the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels and has been cooperating with the Social Science Open Access Repository as well as with the pedocs publication platform of the educational portal since 2011 . The publisher Petra Sanft died in 2013. On January 1, 2015, Springer VS took over the publishing house, the program will continue under the name Edition Centaurus .
program
The publishing program is divided into two areas. Once in the area of centaurus sciences , in which studies of law and economics, educational and social sciences, language, cultural and art studies as well as history and philosophy are transferred. Here the publisher specializes in scientific monographs, the publication of dissertations and habilitation theses, anthologies and conference volumes, as well as diploma, bachelor, master and theses. The magazine Sozialeprobleme has been part of the portfolio since 1990 .
On the other hand, non-fiction books, guides and essayistic literature are published under centaurus edition . In 2007, the series Lebensformen (edited by Ulrich Beer ) and, since 2011, the Centaurus Paper Apps appeared in this area .
In total, Centaurus Verlag publishes over 100 series. Centaurus collaborates with professors and university institutes as editors on many of these series. Marianne Kosmann, Katja Nowacki and Ahmet Toprak from the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences publish the series Gender and Diversity . Wolfgang U. Eckart from the University of Heidelberg also publishes the Modern History of Medicine and Science Series . In particular, the legal and criminological series, such as the studies published by Bernd Schünemann and Klaus Tiedemann on white collar crime, have made the publisher known. The publishing program comprised around 1,800 titles in mid-2011, and around 100 new publications are added each year.
Editors and authors
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Important editors and authors of the publishing house are and were u. a .:
- Jens Benicke (* 1975), political scientist
- Adelheid Biesecker (* 1942), economist
- Gerold Blümle (* 1937), economist
- Bodo von Borries (* 1943), history didactician and historian
- Ditmar Brock (* 1947), sociologist
- Johannes Feest (* 1939), criminal scientist and legal sociologist
- Erich Fromm (1900–1980), German-American psychoanalyst, philosopher and social psychologist
- Rolf Gröschner (* 1947), lawyer, professor for public law and legal philosophy;
- Carol Hagemann-White (* 1942), American sociologist who has lived and worked in Germany since 1964
- Christoph Hamann (* 1955), social scientist
- Eike Hennig (* 1943), political scientist and sociologist
- Matthias Jacobs (* 1965), legal scholar
- Astrid Kaiser (* 1948), educational scientist
- Heiner Keupp (* 1943), social psychologist, professor at the University of Munich
- Annette Kuhn (1934–2019), historian
- Siegfried Lamnek (* 1943), sociologist and textbook author
- Rüdiger Lautmann (* 1935), sociologist
- Friedrich Lösel (* 1945), psychologist and criminologist
- Maria Mies (* 1931), sociologist
- Frank Neubacher (* 1965), legal scholar and criminologist
- Hans-Jürgen Pandel (* 1940), historian and history teacher
- Lieselotte Pongratz (1923–2001), sociologist and criminologist
- Hans Ruh (* 1933), Swiss social ethicist and co-founder of the ethics fund "BlueValue"
- Fritz Sack (* 1931), sociologist and criminologist
- Barbara Schaeffer-Hegel (* 1936), educational scientist
- Albert Scherr (* 1958), sociologist and social work scientist
- Winfried Schulze (* 1942), historian and former chairman of the Science Council
- Klaus Sessar (* 1937), legal scholar and criminologist
- Rüdiger Voigt (* 1941), administrative scientist
- Michael Walter (1944–2014), criminologist
- Claudia von Werlhof (* 1943), political scientist
Web links
- Springer takes over Centaurus book program boersenblatt-net from January 19, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Springer takes over the program from Centaurus Verlag. Retrieved January 31, 2017 .
- ↑ Patrick Müller: Centaurus-Verlag in Herbolzheim - niche products since the 80s , Badische Zeitung from January 4, 2008, accessed on August 15, 2011.
- ↑ a b c Petra Sanft takes over Centaurus Verlag in: BuchMarkt , June 2009.
- ↑ Commercial register .
- ↑ ssoar.info: SSOAR cooperates with Centaurus Verlag: SSOAR , January 15, 2011, accessed on August 15, 2011.
- ↑ pedocs.de: Fachportal Pedagogik - Cooperation partners , accessed on August 15, 2011.
- ^ Announcement from Springer-Verlag .