Ch. Links Verlag
The Ch. Links Verlag GmbH is a German non-fiction publishing . It was founded on December 1, 1989 in East Berlin by Christoph Links and registered in January 1990. A few weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall , this was one of the first private publishing houses to be founded in the still existing GDR . The peaceful revolution in the GDR and the resulting abolition of censorship had made it possible to found an independent non-fiction book publisher. On December 31, 2018, the publishing house became part of the Aufbau publishing group and in December 2019 it moved from the Kulturbrauerei in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg to the Aufbau Haus in Berlin-Kreuzberg . In May 2020 the publisher had eleven permanent employees.
program
The main concern of the publishing house was to deal with recent German history free from political constraints and to analyze the social conditions of the present. Various federal institutions and institutes such as the Federal Agency for Civic Education , the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin or the Foundation for the Processing of the SED dictatorship support the work of this publishing house, which continues to operate independently, on a title basis. In addition to books on politics and contemporary history (for example the biographical reference work Who Was Who in the GDR? ), The program also includes historical travel guides (book titles e.g. Baltic Sea Coast 1933–1945 , North Sea Coast 1933–1945 or PastFinder Berlin 1933–1945 ), country portraits , Sophisticated guides as well as large-format picture-text documentations on prominent places in German history (book titles e.g. Die Grenz - Ein Deutsches Bauwerk , Paradiesruinen - The KdF seaside resort of the Twenty Thousand on Rügen or Göring's Reich - self-portrayals in Carinhall ). The small-format book series “Places of History” by the association of the same name has been published by Ch. Links Verlag since 2014.
Another program area are illustrated books about the underground of German and foreign metropolises such as Paris , New York , Vienna , Hamburg or Berlin (book title: Dark Worlds - Bunkers, Tunnels and Vaults under Berlin ). Realistic forms of literature (essays, columns, portraits) and travel reports, such as those by the Dutch bestselling author Frank Westerman , round off the program.
Since 2001, a series of popular science books on German colonial history has been published (“Schlaglichter der Kolonialgeschichte”), which has since been expanded to include a scientific offshoot (“Studies on Colonial History”).
In 2016, the publishing house was awarded the Kurt Wolff Prize of the Kurt Wolff Foundation , as it "confronts Germans with their recent history and current role in global society with great consistency and without fear of explosive topics".
The publisher is a member of the German Book Trade Association .
literature
- Christoph Links (ed.): Interference desired. 25 years of Ch. Links Verlag. Links, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86153-800-4 .
- Christoph Links (Ed.): Surviving with links. 20 years of Ch.-Links-Verlag. Links, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86153-555-3 .
- Christoph Links, Christian Härtel (Ed.): One can argue about our books. Ten years of Ch.-Links-Verlag. Links, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-86153-200-X .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aufbau Verlag takes over from Ch. Links , boersenblatt.net, published and accessed on September 24, 2018
- ↑ New under construction / Ch. Links Verlag has moved. Retrieved May 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Ch. Links Verlag | Contact. Retrieved May 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Press release of the Kurt Wolff Foundation of December 3, 2015: Kurt Wolff Prize Winner 2016 announced , accessed on March 14, 2015.