Christian Brandstätter Verlag

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Christian Brandstätter Verlag

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1982
Seat Vienna ,AustriaAustria
management
  • Christian Brandstätter (publisher)
  • Nikolaus Brandstätter (Publishing Director & Managing Director)
  • Franz Schaffer (Commercial Management)
Branch Book publisher
Website www.brandstaetterverlag.com

The Christian Brandstätter Verlag is an Austrian book publisher based in Vienna .

history

Christian Brandstätter
Nikolaus Brandstätter

Brandstätter Verlag was founded in 1982 by Christian Brandstätter in Vienna and is one of the "leading picture book and art book publishers in Austria."

The publisher's founder Christian Brandstätter (born September 21, 1943; lawyer) initially worked as a manager at the Fritz Molden publishing house in various departments from 1968 until he established his own illustrated book department there in 1973 , the Molden Edition Grafische Kunst . Following Molden's surprising bankruptcy in May 1982, the decision was made to found the Brandstätter Verlag.

The originally planned fall program of Molden Edition has been adapted and new Brandstätter Verlag published . Christian Brandstätter defines the publishing concept in the first program catalog: "The focus of our efforts is the beautiful, work-oriented book ... a product in which the form corresponds to the content [...]"

After a failed major project, Brandstätter Verlag had to file for bankruptcy after nine financial years in 1991 and was taken over by Österreichischer Bundesverlag (ÖBV) , to which the Residenz and Deuticke publishers were already affiliated in the form of a holding company . Christian Brandstätter remained active as managing director of the publishing house.

The Österreichische Bundesverlag (ÖBV) was bought by the Klett Group in early 2003 . At the instigation of the then Austrian State Secretary for Culture Franz Morak , the publisher Michael Klett undertook to secure the educational mandate of the ÖBV by "continuing the nationalized ÖBV daughters Residenz, Deuticke and Christian Brandstätter for five years."

In 2005, the Brandstätter Verlag was offered for sale by Klett and the publisher's founder was able to repurchase 50% of the company in a management buyout . Another 50% was taken over by Grasl Druck & Neue Medien , a family business that has existed as a printing company since 1905 and is based in Bad Vöslau .

Christian Brandstätter Verlag has held a 51% stake in the newly founded Thiele Verlag in Munich since 2007 . According to its own definition, it is an “independent, fine book workshop with a special demand for intelligent entertainment and sensual aesthetics”.

In 2011 Christian Brandstätter withdrew from the publishing house's business concerns and his son Nikolaus Brandstätter took over the operational management.

Publishing program

Brandstätter Verlag says it has published over 1,500 titles including international coproduction licenses since it was founded . Between 60 and 70 titles are published each year, 85 percent of which are sold through the distributing book trade . A total of around 600 titles are available (as of November 2012).

With publications on the Wiener Werkstätte and Thonet , the publishing house focused on the “rediscovery” of Vienna and the art and culture of the turn of the century and the early 20th century in its first program in autumn 1982 . A subject area that was further expanded in the following years with publications on Gustav Klimt , Egon Schiele , Kolo Moser and Oskar Kokoschka . Since the publishing house was founded, further segments in the program have been non-fiction books and illustrated books from various areas of art, culture and history.

Historical and contemporary photography was supported by publications on Austrian photography history and monographs by Franz Hubmann, Erich Lessing, Harry Weber , Barbara Pflaum , and others. a. established in the course of the 1980s as an additional thematic focus of the publisher. Despite efforts to the contrary and promising discoveries such as Christoph Ransmayr, the publisher was unable to gain a lasting foothold in the fiction sector.

Other areas of activity of the publisher include corporate publishing projects and the publication of exhibition catalogs , which are carried out in cooperation with museums and institutions such as the Kunsthistorisches Museum , the Leopold Museum , the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere , the Liechtenstein Museum , the Wiener Theater Museum, the Wien Museum , the Albertina and the Austrian National Library.

By expanding the publishing program to include cookbooks and culinary arts, living, gardening and lifestyle titles, the publisher reacted to declining sales figures in the art book sector in the course of the 2000s . After the turn of the millennium, the first books by Austrian gourmet critic Christoph Wagner and restaurateur Ewald Plachutta were published, the latter of which were sold over 114,000 times.

Well-known authors

Prizes and awards

Selection:

Picture agency

In order to reduce the cost of image rights , the publisher has built up its own photo collection . The archive includes the private photo collection of the publisher's founder, the picture archive of Molden-Verlag, which was taken over in 1982, as well as holdings of the historical Viennese press picture agency Schostal , the Viktor Frankl archive , the Sigmund Freud private foundation , the Schönbrunn Palace , the manuscript collection of the Vienna library in the town hall , etc. a. IMAGNO brandstätter images , an agency for historical image rights, was founded in 2002 for digital marketing . According to the publisher, the archive's holdings amount to around 1.5 million images, of which between 80,000 and 250,000 have been digitized .

Publishing series

  • The world of yesterday in color (since 2008)

The series The World of Yesterday in Color has been publishing since 2008 illustrated books with reproductions of colored glass slides and stereo images of the so-called imperial panoramas from the holdings of the Austrian Adult Education Center as well as the Munich City Museum and the German Historical Museum in Berlin. So far the volumes Vienna & Postcards Vienna , Mythos Alpen , Styria , Lower Austria , Bavaria , Berlin , Salzkammergut and Venice have been published.

  • Belle Époque (since 2005)

The series started in 2005 with the volume Vienna around 1900 . To date, historical pictorial biographies about Berlin, Paris , London , Munich , Moscow & St. Petersburg have been published. The volumes focus on the respective “ Belle Époque ” of these European cities. The content ranges from art to architecture to film.

  • Only in / Only in (since 2006)

In the bilingual series Nur in / Only in by the British travel writer , photographer and historian Duncan JD Smith , travel guides to bizarre and unusual sights of European metropolises have been published since 2006 .

  • Enjoy Italy (since 2009) by Gerd Wolfgang Sievers
  • How We Live (since 2006) by Stafford Cliff and Gilles de Chabaneix
  • Paths to Nature (1998–2002) by Friederun Pleterski , Renate Habinger , a. a.
  • Library of the Orient (1994–2000) by Walter M. Weiss and Kurt-Michael Westermann

Publications (selection, chronological)

  • photography
    • Inge Morath : Russian Diary (1991)
    • Franz Hubmann: Vienna - Metamorphoses of a City (1992)
    • Walter Vogel: Espresso - Cafè Bars in Italy (1993)
    • Alain Sayag: Brassai (2003)
    • Gerhard Roth: Atlas of Silence (2007)
    • Philipp Blom, Veronica Buckley: The Russian Empire - A Photographic Journey 1855–1918 (2012)

Web links

Commons : Christian Brandstätter Verlag  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Creating impulses for illustrated books - the Brandstätter Verlag ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Stuttgart Media University , May 2010, (accessed on November 19, 2012) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hdm-stuttgart.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Main Association of the Austrian Book Trade : The Beautiful Pages of Life ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (Interview with Christian & Nikolaus Brandstätter), October 8, 2012, (accessed on November 19, 2012) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.buecher.at
  3. ↑ a b c d e Brandstätter Verlag: Geschichte (accessed on November 19, 2012)
  4. ^ A b Publishing program autumn 1982, Christian Brandstätter Verlag & Edition GmbH, Vienna
  5. ↑ a b BuchMarkt : Christian Brandstätter Verlag goes through management buyout to the Brandstätter and Grasl families , December 21, 2004, (accessed November 19, 2012)
  6. ↑ BuchMarkt: Österreichischer Bundesverlag: Klett buys - and pays later: The sale of Austria's largest publishing group has been decided , December 20, 2002, (accessed on November 19, 2012)
  7. ^ Grasl Print & New Media: Christian Brandstätter Verlag GmbH: MBO by the Brandstätter and Grasl families, December 21, 2004 ( Memento from September 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ^ “Thiele Verlag”: Christian Brandstätter has founded a new publishing house , derstandard.at , April 16, 2007, (accessed on November 19, 2012)
  9. ↑ a b BuchMarkt: Christian Brandstätter , September 21, 2008, (accessed on November 19, 2012)
  10. ↑ Thiele Verlag: Imprint & Contact (accessed on November 19, 2012)
  11. ↑ a b Börsenblatt : standing leg, free leg, handing over the baton. No. 18, 2012
  12. ↑ Brandstätter Verlag: Licenses (accessed on November 19, 2012)
  13. ↑ a b Helga König in conversation with Nikolaus Brandstätter (accessed on November 19, 2012)
  14. ↑ buchhandel.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved November 19, 2012)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / buchhandel.de  
  15. ↑ Brandstätter Verlag: The publishing service for museums, companies and public bodies (accessed on November 19, 2012)
  16. ↑ HVÖB: Two times platinum for Plachutta ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , November 5, 2008, (Retrieved November 19, 2012) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.buecher.at
  17. ↑ IMAGNO brandstätter images: Archives & Collections , November 17, 2008, (accessed November 19, 2012)
  18. ^ Brandstätter Verlag: Wien | The world of yesterday in color ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (Retrieved November 19, 2012) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cbv.at
  19. ^ Brandstätter Verlag: Vienna around 1900 | Art and Culture - Focus of European Modernism (Accessed November 19, 2012)
  20. ↑ 'ONLY IN' GUIDES - Unique, hidden and unusual Europe , (Retrieved November 19, 2012)